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wtf is that Joel McHale, but they cast the same other guy as the british version? Was this made as a joke or is it a real thing?
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Looks exactly like Big Bang Theory. Why wasn't it picked up? Could have been a huge hit.
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Dec 16, 2015 23:41
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The best/worst example of American pilot of British show is definitely the terrible American Red Dwarf.
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There were a lot of lovely British adapted shows in the late 90s / early 2000s, figuring out which one was the worst is quite the task.IRQ posted:Maybe you wanna take a look at Z Nation too ehhhhhhhh? I did catch an episode the other day where what I guess was the main cast was on an Indian reservation and some of them were captured by an offshoot of the tribe that lived in the hills, and some others were holed up in a casino, and The New Guy was off alone somewhere else fighting a zombie that looked like the Nemesis, and in the end they had to all come together and stem off a tide of zombies by lighting a giant wall of fire? It seems like a totally retarded show, but I'll have to see more to determine if it's my kind of totally retarded. raditts fucked around with this message at 00:45 on Dec 17, 2015 |
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Dec 17, 2015 00:43
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Do you think we could find an American television network brave enough to import/remake this British show? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf9jJx0NSjw I didn't watch very much of it but I'm assuming the theme song was the best thing about it.
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raditts posted:There were a lot of lovely British adapted shows in the late 90s / early 2000s, figuring out which one was the worst is quite the task. The giant wall of fire herded the zombies into the grand canyon, which they subsequently filled. If capital d Dumb is something you can appreciate then it should work for you.
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Pan Dulce posted:I feel like Emmys and Golden Globes never actually reflect what show and which actor/actress did their particular genre the best. Then vote in TVIV best shows of 2015 poll!
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My favorite rejected pilot would have to be Heat Vision and Jack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lWgXDOAJ5s
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Dec 17, 2015 01:38
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ugh, I have multiple shows I abandoned partway through earlier this year, not because they were bad, quite the opposite, really. They were just too stressful, so I tabled them for a later time, only I thought that time would be in a couple weeks, and now it's been 4-5 months and I still haven't finished Hannibal, Sense8, or Mr. Robot.  Sadbrains makes it hard to watch good TV. 
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Dec 17, 2015 02:14
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One thing I find kind of goofy about Childhood's End is their excuse for no aging make up where they state that nobody grows old any more. So that's why the main characters all look exactly the same 30 years later.
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Dec 17, 2015 03:01
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Has a show ever pulled off old age makeup before?
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Dec 17, 2015 03:15
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They don't even do token grey hair. Oddly enough I've seen more of the opposite where shows futz around making older people look young.
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muscles like this? posted:Oddly enough I've seen more of the opposite where shows futz around making older people look young.  
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muscles like this? posted:They don't even do token grey hair. That's not really surprising. Flashbacks are more common than flash-forwards. FlashForward was a really bad show. Not nearly as bad as The Event.
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Dec 17, 2015 03:29
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Peak TV is real.quote:In newly released figures from FX Networks' executive vp research Julie Piepenkotter, the number of scripted programs on broadcast networks, basic and pay cable networks and OTT services totaled 409.
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Dec 17, 2015 03:56
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Kaizoku posted:Supposedly one, and it was bad enough the production self-terminated. I really want that to leak as I have a friend that love Coach and I know it would be bad.
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Rarity posted:Then vote in TVIV best shows of 2015 poll! Just did and it was hard! TV has been really good this year.
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This also only counts American English-language "prime time" scripted shows too. There's even more when you think about adding reality, competition, children's, etc.
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Sober posted:This also only counts American English-language "prime time" scripted shows too. There's even more when you think about adding reality, competition, children's, etc. Yeah I knew there was a lot of shows but had no idea just how many...it's insane
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zoux posted:Has a show ever pulled off old age makeup before? I've seen it done well plenty of times.
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raditts posted:There were a lot of lovely British adapted shows in the late 90s / early 2000s, figuring out which one was the worst is quite the task. I haven't seen it myself but wasn't the American version of Coupling absolute garbage? Also I'm fairly certain that they tried a remake of Spaced that was total rear end because the people that made it work (Wright/Pegg/Hynes/Frost) weren't involved. The Americanized version of Doctor Who turned out awesome though. asecondduck fucked around with this message at 06:34 on Dec 17, 2015 |
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Dec 17, 2015 06:26
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Coupling is the British version of Friends.
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Mu Zeta posted:Coupling is the British version of Friends. which is why NBC remade it as Friends was ending.
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Dec 17, 2015 06:50
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Mu Zeta posted:Coupling is the British version of Friends. And it was a good show, probably because it only resembled Friends in the barest "a group of people who hang out together and gently caress" sense. The American version of the British version of Friends, on the other hand... And the less said about the British version of That '70s Show is the better.
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I tried to watch coupling again and it's insufferable. Wacky scottish guy is great but Jack Davenport the "Ross" equivalent has really annoying speeches.
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Mu Zeta posted:I tried to watch coupling again and it's insufferable. Wacky scottish guy is great but Jack Davenport the "Ross" equivalent has really annoying speeches. Really? That's a shame, I don't think I've seen it since it stopped airing. Although that weird abrupt final episode never really sat well with me even then.
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Dec 17, 2015 06:57
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Anyone else watch the sneak peek of The Magicians tonight? I have to say I'm decently intrigued. It's not light hearted whimsical fare like Syfy usually does with fantasy, but it's not super dark and gritty either and has a decent amount of humor.
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Dec 17, 2015 07:05
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I don't want to support Lev Grossman. He's gross.
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Does anyone think Legends is good? I like Sean Bean in general, but it seems real rough in the first episode.
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Second season good, but it's beyond bad timing. Muslims being angry in Paris....
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Coupling's a lot more like How I Met Your Mother in its willingness to play around with narrative structure.Mu Zeta posted:I tried to watch coupling again and it's insufferable. Wacky scottish guy is great but Jack Davenport the "Ross" equivalent has really annoying speeches. Davenport's character is based on the creator (also Jeff is Welsh).
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Mu Zeta posted:I don't want to support Lev Grossman. He's gross. What happened with that dude? I'm the worst at author debacles.
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He's not actually gross. I just hate his magazine articles.quote:Like a pebble that has been rounded over the centuries by the gentle splashing of the ocean waves, Halo 3 has become the perfect hardcore first-person combat simulator. By dint of painstaking labor on the part of its developer, Bungie, it has been refined over three installments to the point where it delivers only pure, unadulterated gaming bliss. Every combat is even-sided and complex and can be waged in multiple ways, using an arsenal of long- and short-range weapons, plus grenades and hand-to-hand moves. Every level is perfectly paced and balanced and graced with soaring architectural compositions. Plus it's graphically gorgeous. The epic storyline and the stirring score don't hurt either. In one of the greatest years video gaming has ever seen, Halo 3 is the very best of the bunch.
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X-O posted:I've seen it done well plenty of times. The DS9 episode "The Visitor" nearly won an Outstanding Makeup Emmy on behalf of such effort.
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Mu Zeta posted:He's not actually gross. I just hate his magazine articles. That's reasonable. I just never hear about this stuff in a timely fashion so I didn't know if he was Literary Hitler* or something. * I know that he isn't so long as Cline is still alive
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McSpanky posted:The DS9 episode "The Visitor" nearly won an Outstanding Makeup Emmy on behalf of such effort. It was beaten by loving Threshold. One of the best episodes of Star Trek lost an award to one of the worst.
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Banshee is on way too few people's top 10 lists for this year. I know it aired back in January but this past season was loving nuts.
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END ME SCOOB posted:That's reasonable. I just never hear about this stuff in a timely fashion so I didn't know if he was Literary Hitler* or something. Having not read Cline, nor really been interested in doing so, what's the deal? Or is he just "I love the '80s" the author?
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Internet people loving hate Ernest Cline.
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Kaizoku posted:Having not read Cline, nor really been interested in doing so, what's the deal? Or is he just "I love the '80s" the author? I asked this in a CD thread just the other day, and apparently it is the latter. ALFbrot posted:Family Ties, Heathers, John Hughes, Oingo Boingo, Robotron, Defender, Asteroids, Space Invaders, Ghostbusters, Billy Idol, The Muppet Show, Atari 2600, Zenith TVs, Adventure, Dungeons & Dragons, Apple II, Commodore 64, TRS-80, and Sesame Street are all pointlessly referenced in the first chapter of Ready Player One
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