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Title: Television
Post by: liquidsilver on July 30, 2018, 12:01:38 PM
Discuss your favorite - and not so favorite - television programs.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: oilcan on July 31, 2018, 07:11:07 PM
Television will eat your brain.   
Title: Re: Television
Post by: FlyingVProd on August 06, 2018, 07:08:35 AM
Here is an episode on You Tube of The Loretta Young Show, this episode is called "Nobody's Boy," and it is about a club for boys who do not have anyone and so they help each other.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gugf4Su6mTk

I was thinking about writing a movie about a club for orphans, where they all help each other.

I met one foster youth who came out of the system without getting adopted, and the poor kid was 18 with a pregnant girlfriend, they lived in an old camper, and he was unemployed, and the poor kid did not even know who Abraham Lincoln was. His big break came when one of his friends from the system got a job managing a movie theater, and his friend hired him to work there. It was good that his friend helped him. There needs to be a club of boys helping each other.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: ffleate on August 08, 2018, 09:39:24 PM

 Babylon Berlin now available on Netflix.  German production, era Berlin 1929, fraught times, intriguing complex plot,  good characters,  superb sets & cinematography.  Worth a look.  Subtitles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_Berlin


Title: Re: Television
Post by: luee on September 10, 2018, 12:21:35 AM
Les Moonves is finally gone also hopefully the talentless Julie Chen.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: barton on September 24, 2018, 11:30:34 AM
The Night Of - excellent.  A story well-told (so far - 3 episodes in) that doesn't hurl social messages at you, and yet illuminates.  Barton Fi- er, John Turturro - is aces as a bottom feeder lawyer who stumbles way above his skill level into representing a murder suspect whose case seems open-and-shut and yet isn't.  Ditto Riz Ahmed as a young Pakistani-American in a heap of trouble, and Peyman Moaadi as his father. 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Itz ME! on October 04, 2018, 03:35:55 PM
Big ups for The Good Place in today's Grey Lady.

On Netflix there is "Norm Macdonald Has (Had?) A Show" E I E I O!

I don't want to spoiler, or build your hopes, butat least watch the first episode, with David Spade.

All I can say is that several times during the series (at least twice per episode on average) I was laughing uproariously!

To some extent, Norm is doing the Sasha Barron Cohen sort of thing that so many have co-opted. Where you interview some unsuspecting schlub, and the hilarity is when they allow you to make a fool out of them. (I'm not a fan of that kind of comedy, but I have laughed)

Norm is spoofing his guests, but he doesn't make them look or feel badly about what they have said or done. He's more self deprecating.

It's funny. and the season was about 7 eps, so it's not a lifelong commitment.

Saw the pilot for Green Acres last night. Just as I remembered it, and only marginally funny. Yet I do have very fond memories of later episodes. I don't think I'll be getting to those anytime soon. I'm happy with my memories, and apparently they are pretty good, given the way I remembered the pilot. (In all honesty, I might have seen the pilot twice, maybe three times. Once as the show began back in whenever it was, once, maybe, during Rerun season back then and again on Nick at Nite back in the '90s.)

I still remember my experience of seeing My 3 Sons from the beginning. That show was surreal for the first year(ish). Then I suppose there were "Notes" from upstairs, and the show got campier and more "Leave It To Beaver" and an all male cast of Donna Reed with a dash of Gilligan's Island. But it started out way more Dobie Gillis meets Ingmar Bergman. 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 15, 2018, 03:15:34 PM
Roy Clark Is Dead at 85; a Face of Country Music on ‘Hee Haw’

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/obituaries/roy-clark-dead.html

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Rest in Peace Roy Clark. He was great. I saw him live once when I was a child, at the Orange Show in San Bernardino, he performed with Buck Owens and Johnny Cash, it was awesome.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: FlyingVProd on November 27, 2018, 01:04:04 PM
NOCTURNAL

Color blind people can see better at night. The eyes have cones and rods, one detects color, the other detects light, so color blind people can see better at night. 

The military will not accept color blind people. But, I told them that color blind people could see better at night, so maybe color blind people would be good for special teams that operate at night under the cover of darkness. 

So, there could be a television show about a special team of color blind people who operate at night under the cover of darkness, and the show could be named "NOCTURNAL."

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on December 12, 2018, 11:03:25 AM
SAG awards nominations dropped.

Nominations for the 25th annual SAG Awards were announced on Wednesday.

Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s “A Star Is Born” led film nominations with four nods, including best actor for Cooper, best actress for Gaga, best ensemble, and best supporting actor for Sam Elliot. “BlacKkKlansman” and “The Favourite” followed close behind, both taking home a trio of nods.

On the small screen, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” and “Ozark” topped TV superlatives with a quartet of nominations apiece, followed by “Barry,” “GLOW,” “The Handmaid’s Tale,” and “The Kominsky Method,” scoring three nominations each.

Awkwafina and Laverne Cox announced nominations live from the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, Calif. SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris introduced the presenters, who revealed nominations for acting in television and film. Prior to that, SAG Awards committee chair JoBeth Williams and committee member Elizabeth McLaughlin revealed this year’s stunt ensemble nominees.


Full list of nominations found here:https://variety.com/2018/film/news/2019-sag-award-nominations-list-nominees-1203087472/ (https://variety.com/2018/film/news/2019-sag-award-nominations-list-nominees-1203087472/)

BTW, if you haven't seen "The Kominsky Method" on Netflix, you are missing a helluva good show.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: oilcan on December 14, 2018, 12:29:58 PM
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/business/media/cbs-bull-weatherly-dushku-sexual-harassment.html

I'm really split on this.  The comments to be Ms. Dushku, with the exception of the one from a crew member, seemed to consist in ad libs on the shooting script, where Mr. Weatherly was trying out some variations in presenting his roguish character.  But maybe they were also him getting in some kind of noxious flirtation.  She could be oversensitive, or she could be absolutely right.  It's hard to tell if they really wrote her off for confronting Weatherly about it.  Or if she would really have earned 9.5 million dollars if she'd stayed on for more seasons.  If sums of money like that are handed over every time an actress is made "uncomfortable" by what could have been a joke, or actorly excess, then I wonder if interesting ad libs by colorful characters will start to be contractually prohibited.  I do agree that an actress shouldn't be rated on her "sense of humor" if that rating is predicated on her ability to tolerate "threesome" jokes.

I guess what I'm really getting at, lacking all the facts, is what the hell happened to people apologizing and moving on?  Why not just fire the crew member who apparently did turn the ad lib into a crude advance?  And why has a good hard slap upside the head of a man gone out of style? 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: barton on January 12, 2019, 01:30:30 PM
Started watching a Canadian biotech thriller (a young woman discovers she is one of a group of clones, all leading quite separate and dissimilar lives) called Orphan Black. Actress Tatiana Maslany does a superb job playing multiple roles, and there are wonderful comedic touches and turns of plot that make this my most-likely-to-binge TV viewing.  (these comments are based on season one only)

Title: Re: Television
Post by: josh on January 15, 2019, 02:08:24 PM
Started watching a Canadian biotech thriller (a young woman discovers she is one of a group of clones, all leading quite separate and dissimilar lives) called Orphan Black. Actress Tatiana Maslany does a superb job playing multiple roles, and there are wonderful comedic touches and turns of plot that make this my most-likely-to-binge TV viewing.  (these comments are based on season one only)

I enjoyed the series quite a lot. I hope you enjoy the rest of the series!
Title: Re: Television
Post by: barton on January 16, 2019, 12:00:03 PM
Thanks.  Given the fraught ending of season one, there is little doubt I'll keep going into season two.  I love how, though each clone is a distinct personality, there are little pieces of the other clones in each of them.  Alison, though fussy and a bit OCD as a suburban mom, manages to channel something from the more "street" Sarah when she needs to.  Which makes for one of the funniest scenes of the first season.  Sarah, in turn, finds her way beyond mere punk-rock grifter and towards more responsible motherhood.  One thing I hope for, somewhere down the plotline, is a flashback to the real Beth and her final days before her rendezvous with Toronto's light rail system.  Not necessary, maybe, but it would be interesting. 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: HamiltonIII on January 16, 2019, 12:52:00 PM
There is no better show than this one: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5788792/ (https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5788792/)
Title: Re: Television
Post by: oilcan on January 18, 2019, 03:52:19 PM
Why Tatiana Maslany is not buried up to her neck in acting awards is beyond my comprehension.   It's a tour de force. 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Dowlingi_11 on January 19, 2019, 04:22:44 AM
Uh! I don’t know about the show that I don’t like but I love watching shows by Andy Yeatman (https://www.crunchbase.com/person/andrew-yeatman) on Netflix. These series are not only entertaining but educating as well. There is a lot to learn from it and I am glad that I found it online on time.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: oilcan on January 22, 2019, 12:56:45 PM
Above...appears to be spam.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: josh on January 22, 2019, 04:19:47 PM
Above...appears to be spam.

Not to me - Yeatman, up until recently, produced shows for Netflix. The link is real and not pornographic, and not selling anything, though it is less than enlightening.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/i-was-ousted-netflix-conversation-danny-masterson-accuser-guest-column-1073255
Title: Re: Television
Post by: barton on January 22, 2019, 06:35:45 PM
It's a coy technique for promoting a web service,  in this case Crunchbase.   The stilted prose is a clue. 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: josh on January 22, 2019, 07:32:40 PM
It's a coy technique for promoting a web service,  in this case Crunchbase.   The stilted prose is a clue.

Okay.

Have to say, having looked at the linked page, I don't think their providing it does them any favors.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: barton on February 07, 2019, 10:13:44 AM
Why Tatiana Maslany is not buried up to her neck in acting awards is beyond my comprehension.   It's a tour de force.

I'm up to season four, and have to say that her chameleon talents are staggering.  Though it's reached the point where I'm not sure the plot integrity can withstand adding any more new clones.  Loving Donnie and Alison as the suburban comic relief.   And i finally went and looked up the "lesbian Uhaul" meme.  Ha, never heard that one!  Nor had the character that Cosima mentions it to.   

One of the most enjoyable tropes is when one of the clones pretends to be another clone, often with hilarious effect.  Like Helena posing as Alison when the police drop by to inquire about the garage murders.  "Can I offer you breads?" 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 24, 2019, 07:30:37 PM
Tori Spelling needs to grow as a producer, she could bring back "Fantasy Island" and I am sure it would be a hit with the right team working on it. 

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Anniebarlett on February 25, 2019, 11:32:28 PM
I Love to watch television. It is the greatest source of entertainment.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: barton on February 26, 2019, 09:57:21 AM
What's it like, being a bot?
Title: Re: Television
Post by: josh on February 26, 2019, 08:36:27 PM
What's it like, being a bot?

But at least it's a bot that has posted twice without links to porn sites or promoting some bizarre product!
Title: Television: Luke Perry dead at 52
Post by: josh on March 04, 2019, 01:56:54 PM
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/luke-perry-dead-52-following-massive-stroke-180226534.html?.tsrc=fauxdal
Title: Re: Television
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 04, 2019, 05:02:25 PM
Rest in Peace, Luke Perry.

I met Luke the day that I auditioned for The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, I auditioned early, and on my way home I spotted a film crew, so I stopped to watch them shoot. It was Luke Perry and the cast of "Beverly Hills 90210" filming their show. I hung out with them all day, it was great, and the director discussed shots with me, it was awesome. They were all great, it was a great day, and they made the entertainment industry look fun, which it is, they had a great time while they filmed.

Luke Perry died way too young, I am sending up prayers for his family and friends.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: barton on March 08, 2019, 12:58:11 PM
Trebek announced Wednesday that he had been diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer, which carries a particularly low survival rate....

Nooooo!

Damn! 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: HamiltonIII on March 08, 2019, 05:17:31 PM
RIP, Jan Michael-Vincent.

Always remember him from this movie, back in the day, going up against "The Old Man" from "A Christmas Story":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7GCEpiEAA4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7GCEpiEAA4)
Title: Re: Television
Post by: oilcan on March 09, 2019, 10:20:39 AM
Yeah a career drunk and mediocrity who beat his girlfriend until she miscarried is way more important than Alex Trebek, the national icon of general knowledge and mental competition! 

Very sorry to hear about the cancer.   Hope Trebek can keep working, as he's said he wants to.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: HamiltonIII on March 10, 2019, 08:38:25 AM
Ahh ..no sympathy for Jan? After all, substance abuse is a disease, too?

Or do some diseases grade out as worthy of sympathy, and others worthy of scorn?

Didn't see you as being so narrow-minded, Boyd.

Guess we learned something here?

Guess your okay with Trebek's #MeToo stance, too?

Title: Re: Television
Post by: barton on March 10, 2019, 10:30:26 AM
Seems possible that when you go around the site trolling the crap out of everyone, eventually people will be more likely to reject any opinion you offer. 

Ironic that you, who so often are notably unsympathetic to addicts and like to make comments about how it was their bad choices and they're responsible, now suddenly rise to defend an addict and abusive partner.  Not sure how Oil's ranking of a very minor talent WRT to Alex Trebek constitutes "scorn," but clearly you want to provoke by twisting his words.  Which is the definition of troll. 

Title: Re: Television
Post by: HamiltonIII on March 10, 2019, 02:02:08 PM
Another of the cabal joins in. Amazing how none of you pussies ever fight your own battles.

Title: Re: Television
Post by: josh on March 10, 2019, 02:16:49 PM
Another of the cabal joins in. Amazing how none of you pussies ever fight your own battles.

Wah!!!

Everybody disagrees with me! It must be a conspiracy against me!

Wah!!!

Poor Piggy.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: oilcan on March 10, 2019, 04:17:33 PM
Another of the cabal joins in. Amazing how none of you pussies ever fight your own battles.

Amazing how you think everything involves a battle.  I gave your insult-post the attention, and the reply, that it deserved.

Title: ESPN
Post by: Kam on April 17, 2019, 02:24:00 PM
I don't like:

Sage Steele
Dianna Russini
Dan Dakich
Title: Re: Television
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 18, 2019, 07:18:14 PM
I saw a short documentary on PBS about a young lady in the Western Sahara who had her own pizza delivery company. She entered a cooking contest and she won the contest and she used the money to buy a pizza oven. She then started delivering pizzas to the refugees. She gave free pizza to a disabled man, which was very kind of her. She is successful, and she is opening her second restaurant and she is hiring all women to work for her. Her secret ingredient on her pizza is camel meat, she puts camel meat on the pizzas. Anyhow, I love PBS, and KCET, and I love the documentaries from around the world.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 29, 2019, 05:13:40 PM
When I was studying at the Academy, I had a teacher who was on "The Young and the Restless," and I would watch her on television in the morning, and then I would see her in class in the afternoon. It was awesome.

Her name is Karen Hensel. She is great.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0378088/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

And I had another teacher who was also on "The Young and the Restless."

Betty Karlen

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1023057/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

My friend and teacher Madonna Young Magee was also on "The Young and the Restless" from what I recall.

Those are good jobs.

Salute,

Tony V.


Title: Re: Television
Post by: barton on May 13, 2019, 09:34:20 AM
Never followed this series, but this article makes me wonder if I should have a look....

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/may/13/veep-series-finale-julia-louis-dreyfus

Anyone here into Veep? 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: barton on May 24, 2019, 09:40:55 PM
The spouse and I don't do much tube, but once in a while we prospect around for a series we can watch together.   So this fellow tells me that there's a show that is loosely based on the activities of Preet Bharara.  With Paul Giamatti.  What?  Where? I was all a-quiver and headscratching over how we could have missed it.
 "Billions" it's called.  So we're planning to have a look.  Anyone seen this? 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: josh on May 26, 2019, 03:17:29 PM
The spouse and I don't do much tube, but once in a while we prospect around for a series we can watch together.   So this fellow tells me that there's a show that is loosely based on the activities of Preet Bharara.  With Paul Giamatti.  What?  Where? I was all a-quiver and headscratching over how we could have missed it.
 "Billions" it's called.  So we're planning to have a look.  Anyone seen this?

Not I.

Enjoyed Veep, though.

Much to my surprise, I have been enjoying AMC's A Discovery of Witches.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: oilcan on June 04, 2019, 12:06:18 PM
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/03/arts/television/emma-boettcher-jeopardy.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage

Wow.  Holzhauer is dethroned, doesn't break Ken Jennings' record earnings.

Title: Re: Television
Post by: barton on June 07, 2019, 12:37:20 PM
I saw the last five minutes of last night's Jeopardy.  Holzhauer's vanquisher was herself defeated by confusing Arlo and Woody in answering what seemed like a pretty easy question.  Now that victor can boast that he defeated the champion who took down Holzhauer.  (I realize this sort of boast could turn into an absurdly long chain of regression, in the distant future....)

Title: Re: Television
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 05, 2019, 07:36:50 PM
If Tori Spelling produced a remake of "Fantasy Island," then who do you think should play Mr Rourke?

Me?

Johnny Depp?

Who?

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: oilcan on July 08, 2019, 12:21:11 PM
Benicio del Toro
Title: Re: Television
Post by: HamiltonIII on July 08, 2019, 06:47:31 PM
Another of the cabal joins in. Amazing how none of you pussies ever fight your own battles.

Wah!!!

Everybody disagrees with me! It must be a conspiracy against me!

Wah!!!

Poor Piggy.

Gee, Josh. Thought you liked minority opinions.
Heh
Title: Re: Television
Post by: HamiltonIII on July 08, 2019, 06:48:50 PM
If Tori Spelling produced a remake of "Fantasy Island," then who do you think should play Mr Rourke?

Me?

Johnny Depp?

Who?

Salute,

Tony V.

Cheech or Chong. Or both.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: barton on September 05, 2019, 11:25:24 AM
"Killing Eve" season one is a hoot.  Darkly funny spy actioner that subverts most of the usual tropes and cliches of the genre, with considerable wit, and Sandra Oh is terrific.  The show, and the cast, have been showered with awards and it's not hard to see why. 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: oilcan on September 17, 2019, 12:30:40 PM
https://beta.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/09/17/alex-trebek-is-resuming-chemotherapy-after-his-numbers-went-sky-high-he-said/

I think the beta page won't zap you with a paywall. 

I was impressed that he had any remission period at all - pancreatic cancer doesn't often allow even that.

Title: Re: Television
Post by: kiidcarter8 on November 15, 2019, 09:36:43 AM
Wow - is she kidding?  500K not enough for a D lister?
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/actress-mo-nique-suing-netflix-race-gender-discrimination-n1081436
Title: Re: Television
Post by: barton on November 18, 2019, 01:17:25 PM
Just a quick nod to David E. Kelley and yet another great series from him, "Big Little Lies."  It's remarkable how he takes themes and plot setups that could easily devolve into high-grade trash and makes real drama and social commentary bloom from them.  And with considerable help from the formidable cast, which includes Laura Dern, Shailene Woodleigh, Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman.  Though I was initially prepared to hate the show, I was quickly drawn in by Witherspoon's rendition of a suburban mom as Tracy Flick All Grown Up.  The tone starts out suggesting we are in for satirical comedy, but in the next four episodes darkens as we learn of the violence that lies in some of the characters pasts and present marriages.  There are still plenty of comedic moments, but the show moves beyond just poking fun at helicopter parenting and the rigors of affluence.  Great stuff.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: josh on November 18, 2019, 11:31:36 PM
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bjwexw/disney-and-the-mandalorian-are-driving-people-back-to-torrenting?utm_source=vicefbus&fbclid=IwAR1Uak4rqaS6jHydb-exd-fxN-ucEotYdxNUpx1vVm70HLXm6bhT-st96XY

Too steep a price for the casual watcher... but easily accessible by the casual techie watcher, who is their target audience. Oops..
Title: Re: Television
Post by: josh on November 18, 2019, 11:32:04 PM
Just a quick nod to David E. Kelley and yet another great series from him, "Big Little Lies."  It's remarkable how he takes themes and plot setups that could easily devolve into high-grade trash and makes real drama and social commentary bloom from them.  And with considerable help from the formidable cast, which includes Laura Dern, Shailene Woodleigh, Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman.  Though I was initially prepared to hate the show, I was quickly drawn in by Witherspoon's rendition of a suburban mom as Tracy Flick All Grown Up.  The tone starts out suggesting we are in for satirical comedy, but in the next four episodes darkens as we learn of the violence that lies in some of the characters pasts and present marriages.  There are still plenty of comedic moments, but the show moves beyond just poking fun at helicopter parenting and the rigors of affluence.  Great stuff.

Thanks. Sounds like it's worth a looksee!
Title: Re: Television
Post by: kiidcarter8 on November 22, 2019, 01:41:20 PM
Just a quick nod to David E. Kelley and yet another great series from him, "Big Little Lies."  It's remarkable how he takes themes and plot setups that could easily devolve into high-grade trash and makes real drama and social commentary bloom from them.  And with considerable help from the formidable cast, which includes Laura Dern, Shailene Woodleigh, Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman.  Though I was initially prepared to hate the show, I was quickly drawn in by Witherspoon's rendition of a suburban mom as Tracy Flick All Grown Up.  The tone starts out suggesting we are in for satirical comedy, but in the next four episodes darkens as we learn of the violence that lies in some of the characters pasts and present marriages.  There are still plenty of comedic moments, but the show moves beyond just poking fun at helicopter parenting and the rigors of affluence.  Great stuff.

Big Little Lies was a book adaptation

Kelley killed Robin Williams when The Crazy Ones wasnt a hit.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: barton on November 23, 2019, 10:02:45 AM
At least get the facts on Lewy body dementia before trolling.   CBS cancelled the series.  Williams' death was a result of LBD, not his last gig. 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: oilcan on December 09, 2019, 12:22:26 PM
Rene Auberjonois has shape-shifted for the last time.  RIP.

As well as his famous role as "Odo" on ST:DS9, he was the original Father Mulcahy in MASH.  And appeared in other Altman films.

Title: Re: Television
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 11, 2020, 07:22:54 PM
I watched a show in the middle of the night last night on PBS about 2 guys who made their own dugout canoe, they chopped down a tree and they made a canoe out of it, and they took it down the Amazon river, through the jungle. That would be a heck of a cool adventure. Maybe I will try it someday with a woman as a partner.

https://shaff.co.uk/shaff18/dugout

Salute,

Tony V.


Title: Re: Television
Post by: oilcan on March 18, 2020, 12:02:54 PM
I like the Mr Bean episode where he attempts to rescue a heart attack victim using jumper cables.   Actually,  I like all 15 of the Bean episodes,  as he channels variously Jacques Tati  and Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton.   True classics.   
Title: Re: Television
Post by: oilcan on March 23, 2020, 03:44:58 PM
Here you go "Lost" fans,  another reason to hate Kate Austen...

http://globalnews.ca/news/6707119/evangeline-lilly-dismisses-coronavirus/

Title: Re: Television
Post by: kiidcarter8 on March 25, 2020, 11:48:04 AM
That Ms Lilly has 2.3 million followers is the funny thing.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: barton on March 29, 2020, 09:03:02 PM
"Lost" was surprisingly popular.

Mr Bean is classic.   I liked the home remodeling episode with the exploding paint can.   Some of his Blackadder stuff was pretty good,  too.   

The Americans - suspense driven though it was,  I found it very rewatchable. 

Title: Re: Television
Post by: oilcan on March 30, 2020, 11:28:25 AM
Season 1 of Westworld is rewatchable.  Also fun to watch series with interesting period details that you can miss the first time through when you're more caught up in the plot.
Mad Men,  for example. 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: FlyingVProd on April 29, 2020, 05:06:06 PM
I watched a great segment on the evening news the other night about a retirement community for people from the entertainment industry, and they had a television studio for the retired people to work at. They are happy, they said that they are working more now than ever. So many people in the entertainment industry spend so much time unemployed while they search for work, that they are grateful to be able to work as much as they want. It is great.

I think that the Seniors should invite in the young people to be assistants so that they can teach the business to the young people. Our Seniors are our best teachers.

I know for my film, I would love to have old-timers teach young people and that would be a great way to make my movie.

Anyhow, I think it is great that their Senior center has a television studio, and there needs to be more of that kind of stuff for our Seniors.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: kiidcarter8 on May 01, 2020, 10:30:36 PM
Rewatching BILLIONS season 4, as Season 5 starts this weekend

Also came across AMC's Halt and Catch Fire - currently on Netflix.  Couple of female leads I hadn't seen before, once from Jersey (though b in NZ) and the other Vancouver, BC.  Aleksa Paladino from Boardwalk Empire also pops in.  Centers around the start of the PC age...
Title: Re: Television
Post by: FlyingVProd on May 05, 2020, 08:02:56 PM
One of the best television producers of all time was Aaron Spelling, he was great. His shows always had beautiful women, and good writers. And Aaron Spelling made sure that everyone who worked on his shows were paid well, everyone loved to work for Aaron Spelling.

I watched them shoot a couple of Spelling shows, "Beverly Hills 90210" and "Melrose Place" and everyone who worked on his shows were having a great time.

On the day that I auditioned for the AADA I stopped on my way home to watch them shoot "Beverly Hills 90210" and I ended up hanging out with them all day, I discussed shots with the director, it was great, they fed me, and it was great to meet all of the stars from the show.

Aaron Spelling was fantastic, it is sad that he is gone. But, a lot can be learned from him.

If you want to produce a hit television show and shoot it here in Anaheim, you need to hire the most beautiful women, and hire great writers.

Also for movies, hire the most beautiful women, and hire great writers.

Spelling lived the dream, and he set a great example for young people who want to grow up to be television producers.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Anyone watching Space Force on Netflix?
Post by: Kam on June 03, 2020, 09:13:28 PM
I just finished the season.  Wondering if others liked it.  I enjoyed it.  John Malkovich was great.
Title: Re: Anyone watching Space Force on Netflix?
Post by: josh on June 06, 2020, 04:02:12 PM
I just finished the season.  Wondering if others liked it.  I enjoyed it.  John Malkovich was great.

I watched the first episode. While there were parts I liked, I found it on the whole painful. A brilliant cast, but such an uneven script!

Does it get smoother/better?

I liked The Orville better, but it had a lot of the same unevenness and awkwardness.
Title: Re: Anyone watching Space Force on Netflix?
Post by: Kam on June 06, 2020, 04:20:08 PM
I just finished the season.  Wondering if others liked it.  I enjoyed it.  John Malkovich was great.

I watched the first episode. While there were parts I liked, I found it on the whole painful. A brilliant cast, but such an uneven script!

Does it get smoother/better?

I liked The Orville better, but it had a lot of the same unevenness and awkwardness.

I totally agree about episode 1.

The second and third episode are better.

The last few episodes the show really finds its stride.

I haven't watched The Orville yet. My dislike of Seth McFarlane has kept me away.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: barton on June 22, 2020, 09:40:25 AM
Any Black Mirror fans?   Started watching some episodes (selected from best-of lists) and was pretty gobsmacked.   San Junipero was great.   
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Kam on June 22, 2020, 03:57:17 PM
Any Black Mirror fans?   Started watching some episodes (selected from best-of lists) and was pretty gobsmacked.   San Junipero was great.

Yeah that's a favorite of mine.

My top 5 list would probably include

Hang the DJ
USS Callister (A delight for any obsessed Star Trek fan)
Bandersnatch (An interactive "Choose Your Own Adventure" movie)
Hated in the Nation
White Christmas 

Also liked:
Be Right Back
Rachel, Jack, and Ashley Too
Men against Fire
Playtest
Nodesive
Shut up and Dance

Most Black Mirror episodes don't have happy endings like San Junipero so it's hard to make a case to binge watch a bunch of episodes at once.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: barton on June 22, 2020, 06:21:24 PM
Thanks, Kam.   White Christmas is next for me,  as I just watched The Waldo Moment last night.  I've heard Hang the DJ is good from others,  so it's on the list.  I liked Be Right Back,  too (generally will take interest in an AI theme).   As for Nosedive,  I imagine anyone wanting to understand China's Social Credit System would find it a must-see.

You're right,  a lot of them are pretty dark,  so I wouldn't plan to ever binge out.   

Really appreciate you taking the time to offer some recommendations.   
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Kam on June 22, 2020, 08:42:11 PM
I'd love to hear your thoughts on them.  Be Right Back was the first Black Mirror episode I ever watched.  I watched Season 1 after Season 2 and i'm glad I did because i might not have kept watching if i had started with Season 1.  I like those episodes the least.   15 million merits was merely ok and the other two episodes were hard to watch.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: barton on June 25, 2020, 12:06:09 PM
White Christmas was excellent and also horrific, imagining a fresh kind of hell. 

Nosedive - Howard's performance blew me away.  Opie must be a proud dad.  I liked the story arc towards becoming an authentic human being, angry warts and all.  The scene with the rental car which turned out to only speak Czech and needed an adapter nobody had really cracked me up. 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: barton on June 30, 2020, 01:50:04 PM
Yes,  I'd put Hated in the Nation in a best-of list.  In its dark dystopian take on a technology that is currently being developed in laboratories  (artificial bees to replace real ones dying out from Colony Collapse Disorder), paired with the present trends in online shaming, it is the quintessential Black Mirror episode.   

Black Museum was a less successful episode, with an abundance of over-the-top and preposterous plot elements that sort of carry it along as black comedy until it collapses into horrific cruelty at the end.  I kept expecting William Davis (the villainous Cigarette Smoking Man in the X Files) to pop in and allude to black ops and secret government labs.   I did sort of enjoy the part with the husband who opts to have his comatose wife's consciousness loaded into the part of his brain "he isn't using."  It plays out somewhat predictably, but with some fiercely funny moments.   
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Kam on June 30, 2020, 02:38:41 PM
I will have to go back and watch Black Museum now.  I seem to recall that i liked it but can't remember specifics.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: oilcan on July 01, 2020, 12:55:43 PM
The one that really had me on the edge of my seat was the B/W filmed one with the robot guard dog chasing that poor woman.  Also the shortest episode, though it seem plenty long enough.  One of several that looks at the problem when AI is driven by cold logic and seems unable to attain a conscious understanding.  The reveal at the end is heart-wrenching. 

"Black Museum" has to be taken as comedy, otherwise it is just heart-breaking and sick. 

The terror in "Hated in the Nation" is just visceral.  The one most likely to give me nightmares.  It's plausibility was very high, which was why it was so effective.  I was looking suspiciously at bees for days afterwards.  The story played well off the fears raised a few years back about the Africanized bees in the western hemisphere.  That fear, cubed. 

The storyline of "Metalheads" (the robot dog one) made me think of several old sci-fi stories where civilization has fallen but stupid robots are pointlessly defending property/goods of owners who no longer exist. 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: barton on July 07, 2020, 09:08:52 AM
...made me think of several old sci-fi stories where civilization has fallen but stupid robots are pointlessly defending property/goods of owners who no longer exist.

"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury.   And the one with the huge robot that was meant to build highways (can't place author or title atm, but it's an oft anthologised classic)

I liked Callister,  hilarious and dark.  Lots of Easter eggs,  like the face blanking thing from Charlie X ep of the OS.

Saw what is possibly the sweetest BM ep last night,  Hang the DJ.   Might be my favorite,  so far.   No time this am but may rave later.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: oilcan on August 06, 2020, 09:26:53 AM
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/06/898545962/with-star-trek-lower-decks-a-venerable-franchise-loosens-up

This is what I've wanted the franchise to try for about 40 years.   Unfortunately, not interested in buying another streaming service.   
Title: Re: Television
Post by: barton on August 12, 2020, 09:33:31 AM
After two episodes of "Maniac" I am uncertain if I want to keep up with this bizarre retro-futuristic dramedy or not. On the one hand, it is beautifully filmed and has touches of sci-fi whimsy (we seem to be in an alternate 1980, which is sorta the future as imagined in 1980, with koala robots that play chess with you, and poop-scooping robots, and everyone drenched in advertising) and A list actors whose characters seem on the verge of interesting psychological breakdowns. OTOH, it's hard to make sense of all the ideas tossed out there, many having that patina of pseudoprofundity that suggests young writers in late night bull sessions who have lost their erasers. And it seems to be going in a Chris Nolan-y Inception-y direction that promises more of the same.

Has anyone seen this series?
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Echo4 on September 02, 2020, 05:36:52 PM
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/06/898545962/with-star-trek-lower-decks-a-venerable-franchise-loosens-up

This is what I've wanted the franchise to try for about 40 years.   Unfortunately, not interested in buying another streaming service.

I'll let you know what I think.

Meanwhile, you might try reading John Scalzi's Redshirts, which doesn't just go for "adult" humor by any means.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Echo4 on September 02, 2020, 05:37:27 PM
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2020-09-01/nbc-transplant-medical-drama-canada

The show that goes after anti-vaxxers and racists.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: barton on September 10, 2020, 03:20:20 PM
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/10/entertainment/diana-rigg-dead-avengers-gbr-intl/index.html

RIP Emma Peel! 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: josh on October 18, 2020, 08:39:19 PM
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Title: Re: Television
Post by: oilcan on October 18, 2020, 10:04:43 PM
A reference to the sixties series "Time Tunnel" ?  Or just sharing a love for trompe l'oeil tees?

Anyone here like "Travelers"?   Speaking of time travel shows.   

And,  while I'm here,  Barton have you caught a West Wing yet?   
Title: Re: Television
Post by: barton on October 18, 2020, 10:13:55 PM
Answers,  in order:  don't know, yes,  and no.   

Random obs:

The FBI agent's wife in "Travelers" has a sexy overbite.   

If you traveled to 1967 and could have dinner with Lee Meriweather or Julie Newmar,  who would be your first choice?
Title: Re: Television
Post by: josh on October 19, 2020, 01:50:53 AM
A reference to the sixties series "Time Tunnel" ?  Or just sharing a love for trompe l'oeil tees?

Anyone here like "Travelers"?   Speaking of time travel shows.   

And,  while I'm here,  Barton have you caught a West Wing yet?

The former.

I saw that and Time Tunnel was my first thought.

Travelers didn't hold my attention.

And a chicken farm where they all only have west wings is an odd image.
Title: Travelers
Post by: Kam on October 22, 2020, 01:58:56 AM
I loved Travelers.  And even though they didn't mean to end the show after three seasons, the ending was satisfying.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: barton on October 22, 2020, 10:09:39 AM
A well-done concept of time travel that I'd never encountered before,  which brought up some tough ethical questions.   The ensemble was good,  with clever ironies like the very old man who ends up in the body of a high school athlete.  Also a clever bit with the doctor who has to be "rebooted" and loses all the memories of her romantic relationship with the social worker (who handles it all amazingly well).    Given how many high-concept series falter after three seasons ("Lost" for example), I think maybe ending it was for the best.   
Title: Re: Television
Post by: oilcan on October 22, 2020, 01:38:03 PM
It was also clever to have a scholarly historian dropped into the body of a heroin addict.

And using children as brief telegrams.   Which I confess I couldn't entirely make sense of.   The logic of the "overwrite" technology seemed a little inconsistent.
Title: Star treks
Post by: Kam on October 23, 2020, 07:39:47 PM
Netflix has the Star Treks. 
I never much cared for the original with Capt. Shatner (The Original Series) "TOS"
or the sequel with Capt. Picard (The Next Generation)  "TNG"
or even Voyager with the female Capt. Janeway "VOY"

But last year I watched all five seasons of Star Trek Enterprise and thought it was pretty good. 
Voyager was a prequel to "TOS" right after Humans discovered the WARP drive engine.
The show features the first Starship Enterprise and it ends with the formulation of "The Federation"
It was gratifying to see a Star Trek prequel and they did it very well.

I just finished watching Star Trek Deep Space Nine. "DS9"  All 7 seasons @ 26 episodes per season!

This show takes place just after "TNG" (picard makes an appearance in the first two episodes) and at the same as "VOY" but Voyagers enterprise is accidentally stranded in a whole other part of the galaxy ... the "Delta" quadrant... and trying to get home to the Alpha quadrant where the other series take place and where Earth is.

DS9 doesn't really feature the Enterprise.  The premise of DS9 is that it's a backwater space station at the far reaches of the Alpha quadrant that no one really cares about except two warring races the Bajorans, and the occupying Cardassians who after 50 years of occupation and oppression are returning the planet Bajor to its native Bajorans.  Captain Benjamin Sisko. .. the first black Star Trek captain... is assigned to the post at DS9 as the Bajorans have requested the Federation to assist them as they try to get back on their feet.  The major twist the show throws us is that a stable wormhole gets discovered shortly after Sisko reaches DS9 changing it from an afterthought of a space station to the springboard to the whole new Gamma quadrant

I didn't really expect to like DS9. In fact all I remembered about it was that there were some strange almost alf-like aliens called the Ferengi who ran a bar on the station and who were obsessed with profits.  I thought i'd watch a few episodes and nothing more.  The first season was kind of campy and the characters seemed one-dimensional.  176 episodes later and I just finished the entire series.  The last season was one of the best last seasons of a series i've watched.  The writers knew it was ending and they did the ending justice.  It wasn't rushed like Game of Thrones but it had the same type of breadth and depth of GoT. 



TL/DR: Star Trek DS9 is my favorite Star Trek and it puts the competing Star Wars universe to shame.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: barton on October 26, 2020, 10:30:29 AM
I hadn't heard much about DS9.   Will sample some,  thanks for sharing your impressions.

It does seem funny to call it Star Trek, though,  if it's all taking place in a doughnut that just sits in one spot.   JK.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: oilcan on October 26, 2020, 01:50:06 PM
I watched a few DS9, and sort of liked the focus more on social issues (in their little microcosm of society) and gossip.  It didn't rope me in at that time, though, due to other time demands.

I liked the humor in the Voyager eps I saw - they bring back "Q" on several occasions, and the Doctor (AI) is also an amusing and likeable character. 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Kam on October 26, 2020, 05:39:48 PM
I watched a few DS9, and sort of liked the focus more on social issues (in their little microcosm of society) and gossip.  It didn't rope me in at that time, though, due to other time demands.

I liked the humor in the Voyager eps I saw - they bring back "Q" on several occasions, and the Doctor (AI) is also an amusing and likeable character.

There is one "Q" episode in DS9 as well.  Not my favorite "Q" episode but a "Q" episode nonetheless.
It's funny how Capt Picard deals with Q through logical reasoning and Capt Sisko just punches him in the face.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Kam on October 26, 2020, 05:42:00 PM
I hadn't heard much about DS9.   Will sample some,  thanks for sharing your impressions.

It does seem funny to call it Star Trek, though,  if it's all taking place in a doughnut that just sits in one spot.   JK.

It's true.  Exploration (outward) not the central focus -- but there is some of that.  Being the conduit to the Gamma quadrant on the other hand brings a lot of aliens to their doorstep.  First contact is established with a handful of species. 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: josh on November 10, 2020, 10:08:10 PM
It would explain sooo much!

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Title: Re: Television
Post by: barton on November 14, 2020, 10:07:39 PM
I'd recommend skipping Ratched, though it has a worthy ensemble (Sarah Paulson,  Corey Stoll, Cynthia Nixon) -- the plotting is over-the-top macabre and grisly and the characters pretty cartoonish with lots of scenery chewing.   The photography is gorgeous,  but often oversaturated,  as if to amplify every mood and wring out every bit of emotion you bring to it.   The opening theme is,  rather unsubtly,  "Danse Macabre," with a montage that makes sure you get that all things grotesque await you.   More annoying is the device of having 1940s characters use late 20th century profanity,  as if the writers are afraid we just won't get authentic forties cursing.   Worse,  there's just something so preposterous about the whole narrative that it's very hard to take any of the horrific events seriously and be properly appalled.   And finally,  Vince D'Onofrio,  who I'm starting to view as a menace to civilization on a par with melting polar caps, plays the governor of California.   It's 1947.  So that would be Earl Warren.   I don't think so.   
Title: Good read if you have the time
Post by: Kam on November 20, 2020, 01:15:10 AM
https://medium.com/maxistentialism-blog/star-trek-deep-space-nine-in-82-5-hours-10acde591fd2 (https://medium.com/maxistentialism-blog/star-trek-deep-space-nine-in-82-5-hours-10acde591fd2)

A little bit about Star Trek

Deep Space Nine was born out of the politics of the Next Generation writers’ room, which writer Tracy Tormé described as “an insane asylum.”
Gene Roddenberry, the utopian visionary/despotic lunatic creator of Star Trek, established a set of strict rules about how people would behave in the future. Roddenberry said that in the 24th century, there would be no money because futuristic technology would provide for people’s material needs. There would be no smoking, no piracy, no religion, and no prejudice. After Roddenberry cast Patrick Stewart as the captain in Next Generation, a reporter joked, “Surely they would have cured baldness by the 24th century!” Roddenberry replied, “In the 24th century, they wouldn’t care.”

Roddenberry also decreed that among the enlightened members of the Federation, there would be no interpersonal conflict. He banned “stories in which our characters do something stupid or dangerous.” The Next Generation writers hated these rules, because, to put it lightly, conflict and danger are traditionally considered important components of a good story.

Next Generation writer Ronald D. Moore (who would go on to write for DS9 and create Battlestar Galactica) said, “It was a constant problem that we just sort of gnashed our teeth about. It never made any logical sense or any dramatic sense. And we were always bitching and moaning about it. And my personal theory was that Gene sort of started to believe in himself as more of a visionary than a writer at a certain point. He started to believe the stuff that he was creating a utopian future and wanted the Next Generation universe to be reflective of the utopian universe that so many people had told him he had been creating for all these years.”

Here’s an anecdote that I love, from Next Gen writer (and future DS9 showrunner) Ira Steven Behr:
I created this planet called Risa, which was a pleasure planet. The captain was stressed out and needed a vacation. He went on this vacation and there was a holosuite there — or a holodeck — I guess a holosuite, we called it.

It said, “Face Your Greatest Fear!” and it was like a carnival place. And he thought, “Oh, cool, this is going to put me in a good mood. What I need is to fight some Klingons without thinking about the repercussions of it, or go after some Romulans or whatever it is.
And he goes into this holodeck, and it was all about the captain being promoted to admiral, and losing the Enterprise, and Riker being bumped up to captain of the Enterprise. Basically, though we never really hit it on the head, it’s about growing old. Not to grow old, but your time of life changing and suddenly you’re not going to be the guy going off on adventures, you’re going to be sitting at a desk somewhere, SENDING people on adventures. That’s his greatest fear.

Then it became a whole long story that I’m not going to get into now, but it got SLAMMED dead by Gene [Roddenberry]; it was my big ‘Gene meeting’, where he slammed me down with all kind of pronouncements about what Star Trek is and is not. It was like, “Picard fears nothing. If it’s time for him to grow old, to become an admiral, he becomes an admiral! He would not think about that, AT ALL. Picard is John Wayne!” Well, John Wayne had all kinds of fears and guilt and angers and bitterness in his best movies… “No. John Wayne is a hero, Picard is a hero, we are not doing this episode.” Even though I guess this had happened a lot on the show in the first couple seasons, it hadn’t hit us.
And that’s when Gene sat there, “…but I love the pleasure planet! Get the captain laid!”
Title: After Roddenberry passed away
Post by: Kam on November 20, 2020, 01:17:14 AM
After Roddenberry passed away, NBC president Brandon Tartikoff asked Next Gen executive producer Rick Berman and showrunner Michael Piller to make a new Star Trek series — the first without Gene Roddenberry. Tartikoff said he wanted this new show to have a classic western format: a man and his son arrive at a frontier town on the edge of known civilization.

Rick Berman started to work on the new show ( Deep Space Nine ) by grappling with what he called “Roddenberry’s Box.” Berman:

The problem with Star Trek: The Next Generation is Gene created a group of characters that he purposely chose not to allow conflict between. Starfleet officers cannot be in conflict, thus it's murderous to write these shows because there is no good drama without conflict, and the conflict has to come from outside the group.

What we wanted to do was something that was almost paradoxical — bring conflict but not break Gene’s rules. They still play paramount importance in what we’re doing. We created an environment where Starfleet officers were in a location that they weren’t happy about being in, and they were in a location where the people who lived there weren’t all that happy about them being there. We also created a situation where we had people who were members of our core group who were not Starfleet. So we have a lot of frustration and conflict.




DS9 is essentially a Western with an ensemble cast. Writer Robert Hewitt Wolfe said, “We had the country doctor, and we had the barkeeper, and we had the sheriff and we had the mayor, we had it all, it was all there. We had the common man, Miles O’Brien, the Native American, Kira.”

As the show begins, the militaristic Cardassians have recently ended a brutal 50-year occupation of the ancient, peaceful Bajorans. Bajor has petitioned to join the Federation (a kind of futuristic U.N. devoted to peaceful exploration) and our heroes head to a space station outside of Bajor (formerly a Cardassian military outpost) to oversee that process.

Most of the action takes place on the station, which is a remote outpost at the edge of Federation space. This naturally lent itself to a sense of continuity —

Ronald D. Moore said:
“The nature of the show itself was that it is a space station that doesn’t go anywhere so the storylines tended to stick around. The Enterprise could pull up to a planet and have an episode and keep going. With Deep Space Nine, anything that took place on the station, well guess what? Next week you are still on the station. And Bajor is not going anywhere. So really you had to keep playing those stories. You couldn’t make a big change in Bajor’s political structure in one week and then ignore it then next. You had to keep it going.”




What you should know going in

Deep Space Nine is a political show, and the politics are complicated. The show will ask you to care about many different political systems interacting with one another — it’s not confusing, but if you pay attention, it’s really fun to see how the Klingon, Bajoran, Cardassian, and Ferengi political situations change over time.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Kam on November 20, 2020, 03:41:19 AM
I'd recommend skipping Ratched,  

The actress who played the ORIGINAL nurse Ratched is one of the major antagonists in Deep Space Nine!
Title: Re: Television
Post by: josh on November 21, 2020, 11:49:40 AM
The notion of a Picard without the Enterprise and having a listless life lies at the heart of the Picard series, along with how he ended up in that situation.

We get variations on the pleasure planet theme, in particular the movie Generations.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Oilcan on January 23, 2021, 11:21:33 AM
https://apnews.com/article/larry-king-dead-391f55fabb843d14a2635a9bd55880d4
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Oilcan on February 13, 2021, 12:49:37 PM
Bit of a delay on Better Call Saul getting to Netflix.  Was going to be NOW,  but season five doesn't release until right before season six premieres on AMC,  and S6 is delayed owing to some covid slowdowns.   Maybe March.   

I am jonesing.   And understanding how these delays pump Blu-ray sales.

(this post prompted by mention of Saul in the Biden forum)
Title: Re: Crapa Pelada - the song that Gale sings in Break Bad
Post by: barton on March 06, 2021, 11:28:12 AM
How about this,  which David Costabile sings along with as his,  er, lab career is about to abruptly end in the season three finale of Breaking Bad...

https://youtu.be/qckWhsw-RZM

Been rewatching the series this winter,  noticing gleams of brillance I missed the first time through,  and generally deepening my sense of what Vince Gilligan has to say about the pure products of America.   

"Saul" fans may recall that Costabile ("Gale") also pops up in that series,  singing along with "The Elements" as he works in his lab.   If you haven't caught the Tom Lehrer song,  you've missed something. 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Oilcan on March 07, 2021, 11:22:30 AM
One of the best curtain drops in BB was when Hank notices that Gale,  a vegan,  has a Pollos Hermanos carryout sack on his table.   

Hope to see more of Costabile in BCS as the timeline of the prequel series advances towards the BB timeline.   

BCS can't run too much longer without weird reverse aging issues.   Mike, Jimmy,  Gus,  all getting noticeably older than they were in the original BB series, at a chronological point where they should be younger.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: luee on March 08, 2021, 09:34:42 PM
Checking out the the fight to succeed the great Alec Trebec on Jeopardy. I liked the latest, long lost Katie Couric.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Oilcan on March 25, 2021, 08:29:03 PM
 RIP Lucille Bluth.   
Title: Re: Television
Post by: barton on April 22, 2021, 03:05:38 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Annabelle_Wallis_%2834027166033%29.jpg/400px-Annabelle_Wallis_%2834027166033%29.jpg)

To see Annabelle Wallis,  as the barmaid/government op in "Peaky Blinders" is to fall in love.   It's generally a watchable dramatic series,  set between the world wars in Birmingham UK.   Sets and photography are outstanding, with a great cast that includes Cillian Murphy and Tom Hardy.   

I want Ms Wallis to take out a TRO against me now,  save foolish expenditures on airfare,  that sort of thing. 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on April 22, 2021, 05:03:40 PM
Wanker.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: barton on April 22, 2021, 07:13:00 PM
Ha.   Well,  it's over.   I learned she can't handle apostrophes....

https://mobile.twitter.com/wallisannabelle/status/305659733317140480

Have you seen PB, btw?   
Title: Re: Television
Post by: josh on June 08, 2021, 02:09:29 PM
From DUST:
Quote
Neil Gaiman’s Sandman adaptation on Netflix is stirring up controversy already.  In the past few weeks, Gaiman’s blog posts have rubbed some the wrong way, as characters in the beloved comic series drawn as White will now have Black actors playing the roles in the television series.  A few fans took to Twitter to express their outrage, but Gaiman stood his ground.  Never a dull moment when you’re dealing with Death, Dream, Desire, and Despair.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Holly Martins on June 23, 2021, 08:29:22 PM
This is the way civilizations end....

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/23/1009441409/sexy-beasts-is-coming-to-netflix-and-we-have-questions

Title: Re: Television
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 09, 2021, 02:16:34 PM
On the issue of "The Young and the Restless," they need to hire more young and restless people, all of the stars are getting old, they need more young people. And they need to deal with modern issues such as homelessness, the opioid epidemic, suicide, etc, and they can also have more diversity and they can have an immigrant from Colombia, and a Filipino, etc.

"The Young and the Restless" needs to hire more young and restless people and they need to address modern issues, with a cast which represents modern America.

Salute,

Tony V.



Title: Re: Television
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 13, 2021, 02:25:35 PM
Here is a soap for people who want to learn Italian...
 
Summertime on Netflix- a look at modern Italian teenage angst combined with today’s Italian pop sound. In Italian with subtitles. Good practice for fans of the Italian language and culture who are young at heart and love the soaps!

Link...

https://www.netflix.com/title/81004936

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: FlyingVProd on July 19, 2021, 01:49:55 PM
I thought of an idea for a new Super Hero, the name of the new Super Hero could be "The Professor" and he could be a brilliant college professor who is secretly a Super Hero.

It has potential.

Indiana Jones comes to mind, and the creators could have a guy like Harrison Ford in mind as they create the character.

He can find a medallion in Egypt that gives him super powers.

A team of good writers could create a new television show named "The Professor" in no time, and the show could be made at a studio in Anaheim and people can hire filmmakers from Orange County to make the show.

In a time when the villains are the heroes, we need to bring back a real classic hero, and having a brilliant college professor as a hero would be good for the kids, and it would be good for the world.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: josh on August 20, 2021, 02:15:17 PM
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/20/media/jeopardy-mike-richards-steps-down/index.html

He was the shortest serving official Jeopardy host ever.

Who was Mike Richards?
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 20, 2021, 03:04:43 PM
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/20/media/jeopardy-mike-richards-steps-down/index.html

He was the shortest serving official Jeopardy host ever.

Who was Mike Richards?
They should give Miyam Bialik the full time gig. She was the best of the hosts I saw - which admittedly did not include Burton.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Holly Martins on August 20, 2021, 04:35:21 PM
Mayim.

All our content is thru Roku these days,  on which I  find no access to Jeopardy,  so haven't seen the prospects.   Somewhere in the basement,  in a box of defunct cords and electronic misc might be an antenna. 

I think Sony should invest in max Bialik stock.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on August 20, 2021, 09:23:41 PM
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/20/media/jeopardy-mike-richards-steps-down/index.html

He was the shortest serving official Jeopardy host ever.

Who was Mike Richards?

TV host killed off before starting the job.

Wokies strike again.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: josh on August 20, 2021, 09:50:53 PM
Mayim.

All our content is thru Roku these days,  on which I  find no access to Jeopardy,  so haven't seen the prospects.   Somewhere in the basement,  in a box of defunct cords and electronic misc might be an antenna. 

I think Sony should invest in max Bialik stock.

Springtime for Richards and Jeopardy?!
Title: Re: Television
Post by: josh on August 20, 2021, 09:53:24 PM
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/20/media/jeopardy-mike-richards-steps-down/index.html

He was the shortest serving official Jeopardy host ever.

Who was Mike Richards?

TV host killed off before starting the job.

Wokies strike again.

Sexist prig re-announces his alliances to draw commentary.

Gets it.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: josh on August 20, 2021, 10:52:07 PM
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Title: Re: Television
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 20, 2021, 11:28:47 PM
Mayim.

All our content is thru Roku these days,  on which I  find no access to Jeopardy,  so haven't seen the prospects.   Somewhere in the basement,  in a box of defunct cords and electronic misc might be an antenna. 

I think Sony should invest in max Bialik stock.
My wife is of Bialystock stock.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Hairy Lime on August 20, 2021, 11:31:44 PM
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/20/media/jeopardy-mike-richards-steps-down/index.html

He was the shortest serving official Jeopardy host ever.

Who was Mike Richards?

TV host killed off before starting the job. facing the consequences for past sexist and bigoted comments.
fify, Forrest.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Holly Martins on August 21, 2021, 09:34:39 AM
...he confirmed he's now removed the episodes in which his attempts to be "funny and provocative were not acceptable."

In one 2014 episode of The Randumb Show, he calls his former assistant and co-host Beth Triffon a "booth ho" and "booth slut" because of a modeling job she had at CES.

Across multiple episodes he appears to make several comments about the appearance of women. In another conversation with Triffon, Richards says a picture of her friends in one-piece swimsuits makes them "look really frumpy and overweight."

Commenting on Triffon's height, he repeatedly uses the word "midget" to describe her, as well as actress Kristin Chenoweth.

In another episode, when a nonspecific comment is made about big noses, Richards says "Ixnay on the ose-nay. She's not an ew-Jay."

Richards also commented on the living conditions of his assistant Triffon, comparing her apartment to Haiti. During an episode where she is talking about problems in her apartment, Richards said: "Does Beth live, like, in Haiti? Doesn't it sound like that? Like, the urine smell, the woman in the muumuu, the stray cats."
(...)
Bloomberg's Justin Sink claims Richards "joked about the physical appearance of women, Jews, and Asians across series of podcasts he hosted" and brings up pregnancy discrimination lawsuits he faced at The Price is Right. Sink also points out that he wiped the entire podcast series from the internet when asked about it....


https://www.newsweek.com/what-did-jeopardy-host-mike-richards-say-terribly-embarrassing-podcast-1620913

If it had been just one of those remarks,  especially in the context of a show where old friends are bantering with each other,  I could see giving him some slack.  But the overall seems to cross the line,  especially with pregnancy discrimination and hurriedly deleting the evidence.   Also,  it's very difficult for midgets, people calling them "short arse" and like that,  many of them commit suicide...
Title: Re: Television
Post by: luee on August 21, 2021, 10:14:10 AM
just say no to Lavar? I found him white noise boring. Richards picking himself, so shameful.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Holly Martins on August 30, 2021, 08:49:03 AM
My memories of Ed Asner on TV are sprinkled with weirdness.   First time I saw him was when I was around ten,  on The Outer Limits,  where he's a cop investigating a weird being that escaped from a physics lab.   He was also on The X-Files, paired with Lily Tomlin playing a ghostly duo.   

He was so ubiquitous that I sometimes think I recall him in something he wasn't in,  like the Sidney Lumet version of 12 Angry Men.  I had to go look it up to convince myself that he was not in that movie,  because it sure seemed like he was.   
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Holly Martins on September 19, 2021, 01:43:31 PM
Glad to hear Bob Odenkirk has recovered from his small heart attack this summer (while on the set of "Saul").  At 58, he always seems slim and healthy,  so was surprised to hear of his collapse.  Now if they can just $@/*(!  release season five to Netflix - it's been nearly two years since it played on AMC.  Guess the covid hiatus has slowed down the season six release on AMC,  which in turns makes a longer wait for S5 on streaming.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 20, 2021, 04:59:03 PM
Fuck the Emmys
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Holly Martins on September 20, 2021, 07:50:10 PM
Never watch em.   Always struck me as the TV biz wanking itself off.   
Title: Re: Television
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 23, 2021, 09:27:34 AM
HBO re-running Sopranos from Season 1 ahead of the new prequel

"Too bad they don't have a telethon for fuckfaceitis, eh?  They find a cure yet"?

- Tony, to Junior's soldier

Heh - Season 1 ep 2.

(Of course on demand always has the entirety available)
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on September 23, 2021, 02:39:02 PM
What would make this person happy?

Maybe she doesn't get that Hollywood is about making money.

Representation, itself, feels like a distraction not just from the racist underpinnings of the industry but from the ways Hollywood very much exists within an imperial project that seeks to propagate false notions of reality. When reboots and the Black Recast wed, it can mask a practical issue central to the remake-industrial complex
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 23, 2021, 04:20:23 PM
What would make this person happy?

Maybe she doesn't get that Hollywood is about making money.
Actually, though you have provided no context, I expect she is not only aware of it she thinks it is the root of the problem.
Quote
Representation, itself, feels like a distraction not just from the racist underpinnings of the industry but from the ways Hollywood very much exists within an imperial project that seeks to propagate false notions of reality. When reboots and the Black Recast wed, it can mask a practical issue central to the remake-industrial complex
A more just society as reflected in our entertainment product? How does one know when you provide no context or link?
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on September 23, 2021, 04:48:53 PM
What would make this person happy?

Maybe she doesn't get that Hollywood is about making money.
Actually, though you have provided no context, I expect she is not only aware of it she thinks it is the root of the problem.
Quote
Representation, itself, feels like a distraction not just from the racist underpinnings of the industry but from the ways Hollywood very much exists within an imperial project that seeks to propagate false notions of reality. When reboots and the Black Recast wed, it can mask a practical issue central to the remake-industrial complex
A more just society as reflected in our entertainment product? How does one know when you provide no context or link?

Google it...link didn't work.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Holly Martins on September 23, 2021, 08:16:53 PM
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-wonder-years-and-the-emptiness-of-the-black-hollywood-recast

As for making money,  all products in a capitalist society seek a market.   But we don't assign value to commodities solely on the basis that they made profit.   If so,  the Ford F150 would be seen as the crowning glory of western civilization.  The writer is suggesting black auteurs have a shot at bringing something original and authentic to the larger market.   
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on September 24, 2021, 10:35:57 AM
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-wonder-years-and-the-emptiness-of-the-black-hollywood-recast

As for making money,  all products in a capitalist society seek a market.   But we don't assign value to commodities solely on the basis that they made profit.   If so,  the Ford F150 would be seen as the crowning glory of western civilization.  The writer is suggesting black auteurs have a shot at bringing something original and authentic to the larger market.

Then they should raise the capital necessary to prove they can do do.

The minority group who built Hollywood did just that.

Quit whining and get to work.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 24, 2021, 05:36:14 PM
To be clear: you attribute the disparity between Jews and Blacks to work ethic? I just want to make sure because there is a word people normally apply to anyone who categorizes black as lazy and shiftless.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Holly Martins on September 24, 2021, 06:03:55 PM

Then they should raise the capital necessary to prove they can do do.

The minority group who built Hollywood did just that.

Quit whining and get to work.

You are the one reducing the problem to just capital.   But the article also presents a case that the present system of networks and studios function as gatekeepers who turn back projects that black creators are more than eager to put their backs into.

And your comparison of 2021 to the early 20th century, when the biz was new and wide open,  strikes me as flawed.   Eastern Europeans,  many Jewish,  in the 1920s were in a quite different place than blacks are now with respect to financial backers and industry gatekeepers. 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Holly Martins on September 24, 2021, 06:08:27 PM
To be clear: you attribute the disparity between Jews and Blacks to work ethic? I just want to make sure because there is a word people normally apply to anyone who categorizes black as lazy and shiftless.

Title: Re: Television
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on September 24, 2021, 08:45:06 PM
Capital, capital, capital.

Or you can bitch that it ain't fair.

Ask Jay-Z about these things.

Title: Re: Television
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 25, 2021, 10:04:24 AM
Or Massive Genius

(cant get enough of this Sopranos rerun)
Title: Re: Television
Post by: josh on September 25, 2021, 12:31:46 PM
One of the deleted scenes from Firefly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FFO-QaBjoc

This scene explains the origin of the ship's name - and it is a shame this scene never made it in, because it changes the context of the whole show, IMO.

"We're not in there" is a haunting quote that could have been said countless times about countless histories.

And it should never have been so.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Holly Martins on September 25, 2021, 02:14:39 PM
"Once you've been in Serenity you never leave."  Yes,  that scene would have clarified a lot,  on that show.   Wow. 
Title: B5 reboot in the works
Post by: josh on September 28, 2021, 10:41:11 AM
https://www.space.com/babylon-5-reboot-in-development


Posted by JMS
To answer all the questions, yes, it is true, Babylon 5 is now in active development as a series for the CW.  We have some serious fans over at the network, and they are eager to see this show happen.  I am hip deep into writing the pilot now, and will be running the series upon pickup.  The network understands the uniqueness of Babylon 5 and is giving me a great deal of latitude with the storytelling.

As noted in the announcement, this is a reboot from the ground up rather than a continuation, for several reasons.  Heraclitus wrote,
Quote
You cannot step in the same river twice, for the river has changed, and you have changed.
  In the years since B5, I have done a ton of other TV shows and movies, adding an equal number of tools to my toolbox, all of which I can bring to bear on the question: if I were creating Babylon 5 today, for the first time, knowing what I now know as a writer, what would it look like?  How would it use all the storytelling tools and technological resources available in 2021 that were not on hand then?  How can it be used to reflect the world in which we live, and the questions we are asking and confronting every day?  Fans regularly point out how prescient the show was and is of our current world; it would be fun to take a shot at looking further down the road.

So we will not be retelling the same story in the same way because of what Heraclitus said about the river.  There would be no fun and no surprises.  Better to go the way of Westworld or Battlestar Galactica where you take the original elements that are evergreens and put them in a blender with a ton of new, challenging ideas, to create something both fresh and familiar.

To those who have asked why we are not just doing a continuation for a network series like this, it cannot be done because over half our cast are still stubbornly on the other side of the Rim.  How do you telling continuing story of our original Londo without the original Vir?  Or G Kar?  How do you tell Sheridan s story without Delenn?  Or the story of B5 without Franklin?  Garibaldi?  Zack? 

The original Babylon 5 was ridiculously innovative: the first to use CGI to create ships and characters, and among the very first to shoot widescreen with a vigorous 5.1 mix.  Most of all, for the first time, Babylon 5 introduced viewers accustomed to episodic television to the concept of a five-year arc with a pre-planned beginning, middle and end creating a brand new paradigm for television storytelling that has subsequently become the norm. That tradition for innovation will continue in this new iteration, and I hope to create additional new forms of storytelling that will further push the television medium to the edge of what is possible.

Let me conclude by just saying how supportive and enthusiastic everyone at the CW has been and is being with this project.  They understand the unique position Babylon 5 occupies both in television and with its legions of fans, and are doing everything they can to ensure the maximum in creative freedom, a new story that will bring in new viewers while honoring all that has come before.

And a long twitter thread
https://twitter.com/straczynski/status/1442621159221043202

apostrophes replaced in multiple words including G kar and two ellipses.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: kidcarter8 on September 29, 2021, 10:03:04 AM
Not as exciting as the black Wonder Years
Title: Re: Television
Post by: luee on October 01, 2021, 07:27:59 AM
Amazing is the stark difference among "jeopardy" winners. Present champ Matt Amodio wins so easily.

----------------------------------------
Jews and Blacks both have made tremendous contributions to the entertainment industry.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: josh on October 02, 2021, 01:30:47 AM
Not as exciting as the black Wonder Years

Your obsession with Blacks is amazing.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on October 02, 2021, 11:14:02 AM
Not as exciting as the black Wonder Years

Your obsession with Blacks is amazing.

To be fair, I watched the first episode.

It sucked after only 3 minutes in.

It would've sucked if anyone tried to redo that show.

When a show is done right the first time, it doesn't get better in a remake.

Try remaking The Lucy Show or MASH or updating Threes Company .

Maybe originate a show, instead of trying to re-engineer a gem.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: josh on October 02, 2021, 08:41:51 PM
Not as exciting as the black Wonder Years

Your obsession with Blacks is amazing.

To be fair, I watched the first episode.

It sucked after only 3 minutes in.

It would've sucked if anyone tried to redo that show.

When a show is done right the first time, it doesn't get better in a remake.

Try remaking The Lucy Show or MASH or updating Threes Company .

Maybe originate a show, instead of trying to re-engineer a gem.

I expect them to retry MASH or Threes Company, where a single individual is not affiliated. MTM and DVD are harder in that way. They are trying remakes because the track record with new shows is even worse than that of the remakes.

See also Babylon 5.

They could have gone for The Wonder Years, the Next Generation!

But no.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: kidcarter8 on October 03, 2021, 02:47:31 PM
Not as exciting as the black Wonder Years

Your obsession with Blacks is amazing.

To be fair, I watched the first episode.

It sucked after only 3 minutes in.

It would've sucked if anyone tried to redo that show.

When a show is done right the first time, it doesn't get better in a remake.

Try remaking The Lucy Show or MASH or updating Threes Company .

Maybe originate a show, instead of trying to re-engineer a gem.

exactly
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Holly Martins on October 16, 2021, 10:54:58 AM
 Sorta wish the Elba database hadn't gotten erased three years ago.   After eleven years, I decided to "go back to the island" and those old "Lost" chats we had here,  2007-2010, would be interesting to pay through.  I'm fifteen episodes into the first season,  and absorbing different things,  being reamazed at the layers of meaning and plot complexities that are starting to get assembled.   Happily,  Therese Odell's blogs, from the Houston Chronicle, are still extant and I've been enjoying her wit,  humor,  perception and willingness to dig deep into the unconscious of Lost.   

Edited to remove: bad link
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Oilcan on November 05, 2021, 04:57:43 PM
I often enjoyed Sawyer's wisecracks,  nicknames,  and general crankiness.   A favorite moment is at the start of season three,  when he and Kate (steaming epicenter of a Cool Hand Luke moment shortly after) are in bear cages and Sawyer is boasting how he figured out how to get the automatic feeder to dispense fish cakes.   His captor faux congratulates him then says "it only took the bears a couple hours. "  To which Sawyer replies,  rather crestfallen,  "Yes,  but how many bears were there?" 

Great series, esp the first three seasons.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Oilcan on November 10, 2021, 12:22:29 PM
https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/11/23/the-west-wing-castmember-who-quit-acting-and-went-into-politics/

This is pretty great.   Carole,  CJs righthand woman,  left the WW and went to real politics.   
Title: Re: Television
Post by: josh on November 13, 2021, 12:18:45 AM
https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/11/23/the-west-wing-castmember-who-quit-acting-and-went-into-politics/

This is pretty great.   Carole,  CJs righthand woman,  left the WW and went to real politics.

Quote
The characters didn't always agree on how to do things, but the 'why' was always the same: to make things better for all people. People go back to it because they are yearning for hope.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: josh on November 15, 2021, 06:40:41 PM
?

Fixed. I liked that quote from the story.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 02, 2021, 02:41:26 PM
Joe Mantegna and Francis Ford Coppola were on KCET public television last night promoting shows about Italy, it was very cool, I love Italy. Hopefully KCET shows many shows about Italy.

If I could have gotten a job in Rome when I was there in 2003 then I was going to stay in Rome.

Here is the Google Street Map of the street where I lived for six weeks in Rome, Italy, I lived on Via Urbana...

http://tinyurl.com/Via-Urbana-Rome-Italy

I lived right across the street from the Saint Louis College of Music.

It was cool.

It would be cool to live in Italy, and make films at Cinecitta, and have a night club in Rome.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on December 16, 2021, 04:05:04 PM
Mr. Big comes up small:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/chris-noth-accused-of-sexual-assault-1235063596/ (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/chris-noth-accused-of-sexual-assault-1235063596/)
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Holly Martins on December 16, 2021, 08:49:24 PM
I often enjoyed Sawyer's wisecracks,  nicknames,  and general crankiness.   A favorite moment is at the start of season three,  when he and Kate (steaming epicenter of a Cool Hand Luke moment shortly after) are in bear cages and Sawyer is boasting how he figured out how to get the automatic feeder to dispense fish cakes.   His captor faux congratulates him then says "it only took the bears a couple hours. "  To which Sawyer replies,  rather crestfallen,  "Yes,  but how many bears were there?" 

Great series, esp the first three seasons.

I recently was able to rewatch the later seasons, and was surprised at how much more I liked them, navigated the temporal shifts, and more fully grasped the Sideways World in season six.   I found it easier to handle the mystery of the Island, as a sort of big cork on a vast evil, and was a little more in tune with how moral and emotional layers were peeled off characters.  And our sense of where Purgatory is located is properly shifted from the island to LA.  I really wish Cuse and Lindelof had had another shorty season in which we could really see some of the Sideways characters work their shit out a little bit more before going into the church and its glowy portal.   And maybe have some glimpses at the island after Jack dies in the bamboo grove, and Lapidus & co. fly off to Guam or wherever.   The Island Slash Cork is now in Hugo's capable hands, and it would have been worthwhile to see how he got along and kept his Number Two in line. 

Maybe a reboot with a grown-up Aaron and Walt? 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Holly Martins on December 31, 2021, 04:17:26 PM
RIP Grande Dame of TV comedy, Betty White.   Eighteen days short of her one hundredth birthday. 

I thought she was eternal.  Still not quite convinced this isn't some Abe Vigoda-ish hoax. 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Holly Martins on January 03, 2022, 09:39:12 AM
Bot cleanup in aisle four!
Title: Re: Television
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 11, 2022, 03:56:44 PM
When I lived in Malibu I was a limousine driver for Gemstar and we were the official limousine service for the Jay Leno show. At the time they were going to create a new late show to run at night after Jay, and I told them that I would love to do it. But, it never happened, and the show never happened. I would have been great for a late night talk show, or for a show on MTV.

Here is a video that I shot here in my apartment of me interviewing my friend Jon for You Tube. Jon played guitar for The Red Hot Chili Peppers, and for Suicidal Tendencies, and for other bands, including Nasty Habits.

https://youtu.be/47YL7vd0pKQ

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Holly Martins on January 14, 2022, 12:32:39 AM
Your Honor, the first season, is an absorbing drama, with a failing moral compass that shares some features (as well as its lead role) with Breaking Bad.  A notable performance from Michael Stulbarg who plays a very serious man and New Orleans crime boss, whose younger son is killed in a hit and run accident.  A district court judge (Bryan Cranston) carefully buries the truth and chaos and carnage ensue.  Derivative in places, but it holds the attention in a firm grip.   
Title: Re: Television
Post by: kidcarter8 on January 21, 2022, 01:50:53 PM
Local Jersey chick plays the hot young teacher
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Oilcan on January 21, 2022, 06:45:49 PM
She is lovely.  I thought Cranston was a little too Walter White.  Everything that happens turns the dial way past believable. 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Holly Martins on January 21, 2022, 08:31:51 PM
First episode of Archive 81 is a compelling horror/noir in the Mysterious Old New York Building subgenre.  (Though the Stay-Puf Marshmallow man is absent)

I note that the lead is played by Mauritanian-American actor whose father was a refugee offered political asylum in the US. 


Title: Re: Television
Post by: Holly Martins on January 28, 2022, 05:49:51 PM
The Swedish limited series, Anxious People, is comedy that I believe fans of the Coen Brothers will find to their taste. 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on February 03, 2022, 01:48:23 PM
Ozark.

It is simply the best show on television, bar none.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Holly Martins on February 03, 2022, 05:37:39 PM
Season four is outstanding, even if it requires some stretches of belief.   Watching episode 7 tonight.  Hope they don't wait too long to stream the second half of the season.   Wondering if Ruth can somehow get away from there.   
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Holly Martins on February 07, 2022, 10:05:58 AM
Resident Alien is hilarious, well done comedy in the Fish out of Water genre.  Alan Tudyk is wondrous weird and funny. 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on February 07, 2022, 04:45:59 PM
Season four is outstanding, even if it requires some stretches of belief.   Watching episode 7 tonight.  Hope they don't wait too long to stream the second half of the season.   Wondering if Ruth can somehow get away from there.


OMG!

Ruth! What will she do now?

Navarro, "I would never go after your children, Wendy."  Hard to believe that one. He would at least let her think that he would.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Holly Martins on February 07, 2022, 07:19:15 PM
We're really down the rabbit hole, what with the insane deals the FBI is making, Javi going full Darlene on Darlene and Wyatt, Ruth unleashed as a Force of Nature (no idea what she's going to do but this is about kinfolk so I expect something drastic), and then the question mark the season opens with where the Byrdes roll over on the highway.

Title: Re: Television
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on February 07, 2022, 07:38:13 PM
We're really down the rabbit hole, what with the insane deals the FBI is making, Javi going full Darlene on Darlene and Wyatt, Ruth unleashed as a Force of Nature (no idea what she's going to do but this is about kinfolk so I expect something drastic), and then the question mark the season opens with where the Byrdes roll over on the highway.

I think the beginning of this season is how it ends.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 07, 2022, 10:56:07 PM
Season four is outstanding, even if it requires some stretches of belief.   Watching episode 7 tonight.  Hope they don't wait too long to stream the second half of the season.   Wondering if Ruth can somehow get away from there.
Only if they want to be ruthless...
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Holly Martins on February 08, 2022, 04:22:09 PM
Decided to go that direction, eh?  Then I should point out the central characters are the Byrde family, and we now wonder if they'll fly the coop.  We await with Bateman-d breath for the second half. 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Hairy Lime on February 08, 2022, 05:25:46 PM
Decided to go that direction, eh?  Then I should point out the central characters are the Byrde family, and we now wonder if they'll fly the coop.  We await with Bateman-d breath for the second half.
You think the FBI will flip the Byrdes?
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Oilcan on February 09, 2022, 10:01:19 AM
I feel Wendy has to perish in some way.  Like Darlene, she requires some karmic settlement.  Maybe the kids survive, there is some hope for them.  I could see some sort of deathbed reconcilement between Jonah and Wendy, so that he can maybe finish growing up.   Otherwise, Jonah will stay trapped (cough) in the belly of the beast that is Ozark. 

Title: Re: Television
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on February 09, 2022, 11:36:23 AM
Wendy is as much a sociopath as Javi.
So, yeah, she needs to meet a dark fate. I think we are going to learn more about Wendy and Marty's marriage, from Marty's POV, prior to their Ozark odyssey. They hinted at it. Knowing more about their relationship would help flesh out the narrative's conclusion.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on February 09, 2022, 01:25:57 PM
Showtime's "We Need to Talk About Bill Cosby" is a 4-part series that explores Cosby in surprisingly varied ways, and ultimately comes to what I call the correct conclusions regarding his legacy.

Worth your time.

Even for racists like Little Stevie in AZ.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Holly Martins on February 25, 2022, 09:42:35 AM
RIP Sally Kellerman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_No_Man_Has_Gone_Before

Title: Re: Television
Post by: kidcarter8 on March 21, 2022, 06:34:51 PM
Even if you dont like hoops the HBO show on the LA Lakers of the 70s/8s+ is great viewing.  Very well acted. John C Reilly as Dr Jerry Buss - and good to see Gabby Hoffman again.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Holly Martins on March 23, 2022, 11:21:38 PM
Netflix is now running the first season of Servant of the People.  Spouse and I watched the first ep.  I think you all will not be disappointed. 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Holly Martins on March 26, 2022, 07:13:49 PM
The Foo Fighters, who toured with Matt Santos campaign on The West Wing, have just lost their drummer IRL.  Taylor Hawkins died before a concert in Colombia, age 50.

Second time Dave Grohl loses a bandmate he is quite close to. 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: kidcarter8 on March 28, 2022, 11:09:07 AM
Started by smoking weed.  Gateway to what killed him.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: josh on March 28, 2022, 01:08:15 PM
Started by smoking weed.  Gateway to what killed him.

Except for every bit of science on the topic of gateway drugs, but why let facts get in the way of a good bit of attack.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Holly Martins on April 24, 2022, 12:48:47 PM
Russian Doll is terrific.  Like a dark and witty take on the theme of Groundhog Day which leaves no human pretense or foible unskewered.  Laced with literary and psychological references that will slip past you if you're not paying attention.  Natasha Lyonne is dark, damaged, astutely observant, and weirdly sexy. 

If anyone figures out what that....thing on the bathroom door is, please let me know.  Thank you.

Title: Re: Television
Post by: kidcarter8 on April 25, 2022, 12:51:27 PM
Showtime's THE BABY

All that need be said.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: kiidcarter8 on May 01, 2022, 07:27:17 PM
Showtime's THE BABY

All that need be said.

Edit -  its HBO.  My bad.

Episode 2 tonight

https://www.google.com/search?q=the+baby+hbo&oq=the+baby+hbo&aqs=chrome..69i57j46i131i433i512j0i131i433i512l3j0i512j0i131i433i512j0i512.6552j0j7&client=ms-android-tmus-us-revc&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

Title: Re: Television
Post by: Holly Martins on May 01, 2022, 08:40:15 PM
Wow, yes, want to see this.  Comedy-horror is hard to do well.  Looks like an HBO/Sky co-production.  Thank you for the heads-up.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Holly Martins on May 06, 2022, 09:49:39 AM
The series finale of Ozark is more cynical than I would have wished for, but at least the fade to black before a shot is heard gives me some hope that Mel might have had the sense to bring backup.  As for Wendy, well, move over Lady MacBeth.  Quite the chilling performance from Linney.  The series has been a showcase for female actors, with Julia Garner being amazing as Ruth. 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on May 06, 2022, 11:59:29 AM
Even if you dont like hoops the HBO show on the LA Lakers of the 70s/8s+ is great viewing.  Very well acted. John C Reilly as Dr Jerry Buss - and good to see Gabby Hoffman again.

Except it is considered to be highly inaccurate.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: kidcarter8 on May 06, 2022, 09:14:36 PM
Well, Pearlman is an idiot so I wouldnt be surprised if he took some liberties
Title: Re: Television
Post by: LarryBnDC on May 29, 2022, 11:03:17 AM
Counterpart on Prime is terrific!

J.K.Simmons is one hell of an actor.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Holly Martins on June 05, 2022, 12:34:52 PM
The Netflix series, The Lincoln Lawyer,  the first season an adaptation of Michael Connelly novel The Brass Verdict is watchable, with some good casting, but fans of the Micky Haller books (which start with The Lincoln Lawyer, and The Brass Verdict is the second in the series) may be disappointed that, because Amazon owns rights to the Harry Bosch character, Bosch is absent.  Bosch plays a prominent role in the book, helping Mickey with a high profile homicide case, and turning out to be Mickey's half-brother.  Somehow, that omission and other alterations (the movie mogul is now a game software CEO, Patrick Henson the driver is now a black woman) don't clash too much with the essence of the original story and I could enjoy the fresh take.

But really, Connelly is so page turningly readable that you could just as well go back to the book and make a nice movie in your head.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: josh on June 08, 2022, 04:44:48 PM
Television invades reality"

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Suspected-terrorist-and-ex-lover-of-NCIS-agent-17228546.php
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on June 09, 2022, 12:33:35 PM
The series finale of Ozark is more cynical than I would have wished for, but at least the fade to black before a shot is heard gives me some hope that Mel might have had the sense to bring backup.  As for Wendy, well, move over Lady MacBeth.  Quite the chilling performance from Linney.  The series has been a showcase for female actors, with Julia Garner being amazing as Ruth.

Poor Rachel. She never caught a break.

Great series, though, and a perfect and realistic ending in the sense that it aligns with who these demented people really are.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Holly Martins on June 09, 2022, 01:49:34 PM
Yeah, I hated the abandonment of Rachel, with no decent follow through for her whole character arc.  She is pulled back from a reasonable healthy opiate-free life in Florida and ends up drawn into murdering the cartel hitman and then stuck right back with the Byrdes and managing their big gala on The Belle.  And in another deal with the FBI, who you would think she would want nothing to do with.  I liked her character and wanted better for her.  The Byrdes turn everything into shit.  (Or guano?)
Title: Re: Television
Post by: FlyingVProd on June 17, 2022, 07:31:30 AM
A new idea for a Disney station would be "The Imagination Station" where kids can be inspired to dream and imagine and explore and discover, etc, etc, etc. They can have news for kids like "The Big Blue Marble" when I was a kid. They can travel, and explore, and experiment, etc, etc, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on June 28, 2022, 11:22:27 PM
You can watch the latest "Downton Abbey" movie on Peacock.

Title: Re: Television
Post by: kidcarter8 on June 29, 2022, 12:54:40 PM
IRMA VEP!!!!!
Title: Re: Television
Post by: josh on June 29, 2022, 04:57:36 PM
I have been enjoying "The Sound of Magic" on Netflix.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Holly Martins on July 09, 2022, 01:41:33 PM
Behind Her Eyes, the new Netflix limited series, an I - can't - stop - watching psychological thriller, has a compelling performance by Simona Brown, in the lead role.  Also notable is Eve Hewson, daughter of Paul David Hewson, a very famous rock star.   Look him up, you'll thank me the next time you join in a trivia contest.

And the junkie "Rob," absolutely convinced me that he played a young man in "Trainspotting," though he was in fact four years old when that film was shot. 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Holly Martins on July 10, 2022, 11:41:13 AM
https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-tv-theater-new-york-c476d7b63a3376ffe739d276224e3101

RIP Corporal Randolph Agarn , at 99.  Fort Courage will never be the same.

Title: Re: Television
Post by: Hamilton Samuels on July 10, 2022, 12:23:35 PM
https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-tv-theater-new-york-c476d7b63a3376ffe739d276224e3101

RIP Corporal Randolph Agarn , at 99.  Fort Courage will never be the same.

And Paulie Walnuts has joined him.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: NotYourAverageSockPuppet on July 31, 2022, 04:30:34 PM
Losing Bill Russell and Lt. Uhura on the same day pretty much sucks.  RIP and thank you for all your good works, on- and off-screen, Ms. Nichols.

Nichelle Nichols dead at 89
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/nichelle-nichols-dead-star-trek-lieutenant-uhura-1235189880/
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Holly Martins on July 31, 2022, 07:04:58 PM
What an interesting obit.  I didn't know about her recruiting stint with NASA. 

Or that MLK was a Trekkie.

Knew that she and Shatner broke the interracial kiss barrier, which required malign telekinetic beings to achieve but hey that's a start.

May her hailing frequencies always be open. 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: NotYourAverageSockPuppet on August 01, 2022, 07:21:18 PM
Some maintain that imitation is a form of flattery.  Still, argyle socks seem so.....
               [looks around, leans in, lowers voice}
                          average.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Holly Martins on August 01, 2022, 09:23:35 PM
I am recovering from that well landed blow as all average people do, listening to Taylor Swift's "Shake it Off" and eating a two-name brand of ice cream while I melt the polar ice caps tooling around the neighborhood in a Ford F150 with 2.43 pieces of cheap patio furniture in the bed and 1.3 Labrador retrievers in the extended cab. 

Let's round the Labs up to two, that 1.3 sounded a bit grisly. 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: josh on August 03, 2022, 12:51:21 AM
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Title: Re: Television
Post by: Holly Martins on August 08, 2022, 10:12:28 AM
Watching Bridgerton with the spouse.  The things we do for love!

Title: Re: Television
Post by: NotYourAverageSockPuppet on August 08, 2022, 08:31:09 PM
That is truly devotion.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: NotYourAverageSockPuppet on August 19, 2022, 06:12:47 PM
Caught up on Resident Alien, which is back for the second half of S2.  A lot of the supporting cast is so good, but Sara Tomko (Asta) is a real gem, so I'm glad she's getting some extra attention.  Strangely -- or maybe not so strangely, I don't know --  I like most of the supporting cast more than the star. 

Also starting S3 of Never Have I Ever at my earliest opportunity because I'm 12. 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Holly Martins on August 20, 2022, 07:21:32 PM
I don't stream whichever has RA, but I bought the DVD (very cheap) for the first season a while back and really enjoyed it.  May have commented here, or maybe at the Extra Orb website.  The way they play Outsider perspectives, both human and nonhuman, off each other is well done. 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 13, 2022, 03:52:46 PM
Just realized the actor playing Isuldur in the TLotR: TRoP, Maxim Baldry, played the kid who gets separated from his father in Les Vacances de Monsieur Haricot.

Far less embarrassing to admit I really liked that movie when I name it in French.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Holly Martins on September 13, 2022, 08:53:17 PM
Somehow missed Der Urlaub von Herr Bohne.  Also a less embarrassing rendition of the movie, though it sounds massively less fun than in either French or English.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Hairy Lime on September 14, 2022, 12:15:38 AM
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MCJcxb_RtII
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Holly Martins on September 25, 2022, 11:14:46 AM
Going back to the firehose of absurdity that is House of Cards to see the final sixth season was final confirmation that I suffer from some form of OCD.  And learning disability.  Either the show pads its episodes with pointless filler about characters and issues no one connected with, or it rushes through plot swerves that required more setup and time to digest.  Either way, anyone remotely likable will be murdered, and you're left with a fourth wall breaking psychopathic bitch who one can only assume is carrying the Antichrist in her womb.  AFAICT the show had two good seasons, with Kevin Spacey delivering an amusing anti-Bartlett in a dark and cynical inversion of The West Wing, then just fell apart like a.... there's a simile I'm looking for here, can't quite pull it up....
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Holly Martins on September 25, 2022, 11:19:37 AM
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MCJcxb_RtII

Har!  I showed my wife a clip where Monsieur Haricot tries to raise money by performing opera in the street and she said we might possibly negotiate some arrangement where she will watch with me if I consent to another season of Bridgerton. 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 12, 2022, 02:28:25 PM
Rest in peace Angela Lansbury. I never met her, but I worked at Universal when she was making "Murder She Wrote," and everyone at Universal loved Angela Lansbury, she was highly respected at Universal.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 12, 2022, 04:00:52 PM
Working at Universal Studios was a cool job, I just wish I could have earned enough money to live on, they were paying me minimum wage, I was working for a giant Japanese corporation at that time that owned Universal, Lew Wasserman was the Boss, but a Japanese corporation owned Universal then. The Japanese corporation was rich and they could have paid me enough money to rent an apartment and to buy food and to live on, and I had a college degree and years of work experience working with the public, and working with people in the Entertainment Industry, etc. If I was working for the Vatican to help orphans then I would work for free, but I am not going to work for free for a giant wealthy Japanese corporation.

I was skin and bones when I worked for Universal, they paid me minimum wage, and there was no reason for that, Universal was owned by a wealthy Japanese corporation. I should have earned enough money for food and shelter. I did not feel like I was respected at Universal, they show respect when they pay you well and when they treat you good, and they just paid me the bare minimum.

Universal is owned by Americans now I guess, I have not been keeping track of who owns the studios anymore. I guess the headquarters for Universal is in New York City.

After I quit Universal I kept training, and I attended the AADA after I quit Universal. I received my AA degree in 1992-1994, then I worked at Universal in 1995, and then I attended the AADA in 1996-1997. Then I did a student film at USC in 1998, my student film is on You Tube, it is cool that I am able to share it. Of course, I did lots of other stuff too, I was a limousine driver when I lived in Malibu, and I worked for Suzanne Pleshette at Empire West, etc.

If Universal would have paid me fair, and if they would have treated me well then I would have stayed there, and I would have loved to have been able to act and make movies and television shows at Universal, but it was a Japanese corporation that wanted cheap labor, they did not want to pay the workers enough money for food and shelter. I do not know how they expected me to survive on minimum wage, and I was a serious adult trying to earn a living, I was not working just for the fun of it.

But, Angela Lansbury was treated like a queen at Universal, the Japanese paid her very well and she was treated very well.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Holly Martins on October 18, 2022, 04:30:21 PM
Picard, first season.  Worthy addition to the Trek timeline.  Michael Chabons screenplays are a cut above the usual fare. 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 28, 2022, 01:57:08 PM
The Young and the Restless

2 hours

The episode today contains sensitive and potentially disturbing content for some audiences. Viewer discretion is advised.

If you are in a crisis, or want to talk to someone, Call 988. Trained counselors are available 24/7.

-----------

There are many issues which can be explored on The Young and the Restless, including homelessness.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 28, 2022, 08:31:00 PM
The day that I auditioned for the AADA I got to hang out on the set of the television show "Beverly Hills, 90210" and it was really cool, and one thing about the show 90210 is that the characters on the show used to volunteer to run the suicide prevention hot line at Beverly Hills High School on the show, and it was cool that the show had cool stuff like that on the show. I would have gladly worked on the show if I could have gotten a job working with them, all of the Aaron Spelling jobs were good jobs.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Oilcan on November 14, 2022, 12:33:41 PM
Dead to Me

Linda Cardellini (aka Don Draper's upstairs mistress in "Mad  Men") is terrific in this.  Darkly funny, with plot twists that you can accept with a delighted laugh in spite of their ridiculousness.  Christina Applegate is also notable as a cynical, angry, potty-mouthed widow.  A lesser version of this would be easily dumped in the category of "chick series," but this transcends it.  If there is such a thing as "quality guilty pleasure," this might be it.





Title: Re: Television
Post by: Oilcan on November 27, 2022, 12:29:55 PM
If there be any fans of either "Lost" or The Matrix still hereabouts, you may find "1899" to be fascinating and a subtly different (dark, German, period drama with eerie archetypes) take on the theme of Things Aren't What They Seem.  The sets are spectacular and gritty/grimy, and offer apt metaphors to get at our guilty memories and the unreliable quality of memory in general.  The dominant language on the immigrant coal steamer on which we supposedly find ourselves is English, used between the different European nationalities, so you won't be dependent on subtitles for everything.  The only minus, for me, are the scenes where two different nationals will try to converse each in their own tongue, say a Frenchie and a Dane, and seem to hope that some sort of intuition will get the gist across.  But it doesn't happen too often and is really a minor flaw.

Westworld fans may also get a few bones tossed their way. 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Oilcan on December 02, 2022, 09:17:37 PM
The German drama/sci-fi series "Dark," once you get a few episodes into it, reveals itself to be dauntingly complex and cerebral, but very rewarding even if you end up poring over charts and diagrams on the web to figure out all the convoluted relationships between characters that time travel can forge.  And, the wonder of it all is that you can just ignore the sci-fi element (wormhole) and enjoy as a compelling drama of estrangements and loss among four families in a small German city. 

Title: Re: Television
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 09, 2022, 09:43:56 PM
When I was a child there was a news show for children, starring children reporters, and the name of the news show was "The Big Blue Marble." It was a great show for children, and someone here in Hollywood should produce a new children news show like "The Big Blue Marble" for the children of today.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: FlyingVProd on December 29, 2022, 02:54:47 PM
"Tulsa King" is a great show, I expect it to win an Emmy.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: FlyingVProd on January 06, 2023, 03:07:10 PM
I watched the first episode of "Walker: Independence" last night, and it looks like a good show. I love Westerns.

I hope the show succeeds, and that people want more Westerns.

I wrote a short story that is a Western which can be turned into a television show about the Wild West, my show is named "Progress" and it is about a lawyer in the Wild West, the greedy railroad runs their family off their family ranch and the parents die in poverty, two of the three brothers become outlaws and they rob the railroads and they use their money to send the other brother to Law School in Boston to fight for justice in the West with the use of the law. His name is Jimmy Corvallis and he is as good with the law as he is fast with a gun as he fights for justice in the Wild West. It is like a mix between a Clint Eastwood Western and Perry Mason. We will see what happens. I have an Apple Laptop now to write, and I need to add Final Draft and other programs so that I can write television shows and movies and so that I can share my work in order to make money as a writer. I need to go to Chapman film school and see if I can find a partner who wants to write with me, and who can teach me how to use this Apple. My Nephew's Girlfriend Misty put my movie script onto my Apple by taking photos of my script, so I have that, but I have a lot of other ideas for writing, along with my poetry book and my movie script.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Oilcan on January 11, 2023, 12:56:31 PM
The Swiss actress Ella Rumpf is hypnotic, erotic, and rendered me simultaneously terrified and tumescent as I watch the 8 episode series, "Freud," which streams on Netlfix.  She plays Fleur Salome, the adopted daughter of Hungarian nobles living near Vienna who believe she has a supernatural power and try to exploit her for their political goals in the conflict between Austria and Hungary.  The portrayal of a young Freud, newly advancing some of his ideas and navigating heavy headwinds of scorn from the psychiatric community (this navigation aided by cocaine), is pretty over-the-top, but fun to watch. 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Oilcan on April 16, 2023, 10:46:18 AM
With sleazy/absurd touches reminiscent of Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen, and a pinch of Big Lebowski, "Florida Man" - at least episode one - promises to provide some humorous palmetto noir.   Absurd situations appear to draw upon the Florida man meme that started a decade or so back, so I hope the next six episodes of the miniseries can draw upon that without turning into a muddled puddle of vignettes. 
Title: Re: Television
Post by: Oilcan on April 28, 2023, 11:00:49 AM
Satisfying ending to Better Call Saul.  Nice touch, the penitentiary giving him work like his Cinnabon job.  I hope Kim gets the better life she deserves.  Also fun to see the old BB alums appear in the final episodes.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: FlyingVProd on October 29, 2023, 03:55:14 PM
So sad about Matthew Perry dying, my Mother was a huge fan of his work, and she was following along as he talked about his issues, etc. May he rest in peace.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: FlyingVProd on February 29, 2024, 07:00:22 PM
Ted Turner got rich from a television channel that he inherited, he made the channel successful and became very wealthy. Then he branched out into buffalo ranching, etc.

I think that Universal should buy Playboy and bring back the Playboy Channel, and they can make the Slocum Westerns, etc, and Beach Blanket Bingo movies, and Fun in Acapulco movies, etc. I think the Playboy Channel could be successful. And they can hire young geniuses from National Lampoon at Harvard to write for Playboy Magazine to save the Magazine.

54% of the modern services economy is streaming services including movies and television shows, and the Playboy Channel could succeed in the modern business climate.

People can make a lot of money from a television channel, and the Playboy Channel would be successful right now, Universal should buy Playboy and bring back the Playboy Channel.

Salute,

Tony V.
Title: Re: Television
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 10, 2024, 03:08:05 AM
Tim Allen is going to do a new show. That guy has my respect. He went to prison for selling cocaine, and he developed his comedy in prison as a defense mechanism. Then he did stand up at all the comedy clubs, before he hit the big time and did stand up comedy on television, and then he did "Home Improvement" and other shows, and movies, Tim Allen has helped to create a lot of jobs, and he has succeeded in a hard business, and he had all of the cards stacked against him, he was a convict with a prison record, and still he became a huge star, and is still successful with a new show on the way.

I might have met Tim Allen once, but I am not sure, there was a guy on a plane that I was on after the Cannes Film Festival in 2000, I was on a plane from Nice to Paris and I think Tim Allen might have been on the plane, I do not know though, I did not ask him if he was Tim Allen. Cannes was full of stars, and I have no idea who all I met on that trip. I meet people without knowing who I am meeting.

Anyhow, Tim Allen is doing a new show, and I am sure it will be a success, and he has made a whole career out of making people laugh, which is cool, and he succeeded against all odds, he went from prison to being a celebrity, and comedy is a hard career.

Salute,

Tony V.
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Title: Re: Television
Post by: FlyingVProd on March 10, 2024, 08:01:48 PM
"Tulsa King" is a great show, I expect it to win an Emmy.

Salute,

Tony V.

Sylvester Stallone has a beautiful family, and he seems so proud.

His Daughter Sophia has a degree from USC, and Sistine and Scarlet are in New York City right now. I think Sophia likes it here in Hollywood. And they all love Italy.

Sly is one of my heroes. He was so poor that he had to sell his dog to buy food before he succeeded with "Rocky" and then Rocky won every award. And Sly seems so cool and humble and he seems so grateful for his success.

There is a restaurant in Lancaster, California, named Crazy Otto's, and Sly eats there, and Sly is friends with the owner, Scott, they have a picture of Sly on the wall of the restaurant. Scott also opened a Crazy Otto's restaurant in New York City. Scott is a cool guy, I attended community college with him, in a creative writing class, we had a beautiful teacher that all of the students loved, Professor Janice Hall. Anyhow, I bet Sly eats at the Crazy Ottos in New York when he is in New York.

Also, Sly likes Florida, and Universal has a film and television studio in Orlando, Sly could work at the Universal Studios in Orlando if he wants to make movies and television shows in Florida.

Salute,

Tony V.