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Finally started Shadow and Bone and lmao the baddie literally has a twirly moustache. I've a feeling this is going to be one of those ones that I enjoy, but I'm never going to be sure if that enjoyment is ironic or not.
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Gene Hackman Fan posted:brad davis or jay leno? Jay Leno, vague memories of him being wrapped in that poo poo that got Lady Osbourne kicked off her show. Or could have been some equally awful TV related imbroglio somewhere else, it all blurs together
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May 6, 2021 15:06
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Shageletic posted:Jay Leno, vague memories of him being wrapped in that poo poo that got Lady Osbourne kicked off her show. Sharon Osbourne defended Piers Morgan saying something dumb about Meagan Markle and Prince Harry, like "What color is your baby going to be?" and got into an argument with a The View co-host over it that brought her to tears and might've ended a ten-year friendship, then the network "investigated" for like a month and decided to fire her galenanorth fucked around with this message at 20:13 on May 6, 2021 |
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May 6, 2021 16:34
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Noted bastion of sanity, Sharon Osborne Holy poo poo, do you guys remember that The Osbornes was an actual thing that existed
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May 6, 2021 20:08
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I wish I didn't.
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May 6, 2021 20:31
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this is what i was talking about The most recent incident occurred in 2019 when Leno served as a guest judge on NBC’s America’s Got Talent and made a racist joke regarding Koreans eating dog meat. While the joke was cut from the variety show’s broadcast, it was included in a report examining Gabrielle Union’s complaints that the show fostered a toxic workplace culture during production of season 14 (The Hollywood Reporter confirmed the joke was uttered). Union was dismissed after one season on the competition series alongside fellow freshman judge Julianne Hough. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jay-leno-apologizes-for-past-racist-asian-jokes-in-my-heart-i-knew-it-was-wrong-4155454/
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May 6, 2021 20:39
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Oh yeah mainstream American comics have been making racist Asian jokes for decades and nobody cared. Chris Rock did one in the Oscars in 2016.
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May 6, 2021 20:45
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feedmyleg posted:I think he shot himself in the foot by going to a new network and making the same show. Like, he could drop the baggage of Late Night but... kept the terrible monologues and stiff canned interviews? He mixed it up a bit with pre-taped segments, but overall it felt more tired than innovative. Stuff like that was where he shined and its a shame he stuck with the talk show format for so long. His side content, like the office skits, and the world tour travelogues, became the most entertaining things he did by far. The rest was just a lot of standard late night fare you can see from anyone, he didn't really bring anything exciting to the table. When he scaled down his show majorly in the last year or show, the leather jacket era, that seemed like more then anything a sign it was either gut his budget or get cancelled, and he's probably retiring now because he's tired of fighting the network for money.
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Cactus posted:Finally started Shadow and Bone and lmao the baddie literally has a twirly moustache. I've a feeling this is going to be one of those ones that I enjoy, but I'm never going to be sure if that enjoyment is ironic or not. I think it's mainly nostalgia for me? Like it's so very One of These that it reminds me of a bunch of trash fantasy novels I read when I was younger. Like I'm positive I read the heartbender lady and barbarian witch hunter dude's arc before almost exactly. Also it really does look pretty and that goat was cute.
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May 6, 2021 22:30
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Ok so Prime has a series called Underground Railroad but it's not related to the WGN series of the same name? (also remember when WGN tried to get into original programming lol)
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May 6, 2021 22:43
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Nah it’s based on an excellent book and is directed by Barry Jenkins. I can’t wait
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if there's any consolation to be had, nobody has been able to make you bet your life work since groucho -- buddy hackett and bill cosby only got one season, richard dawson's never made it past the pilot. Shageletic posted:this is what i was talking about oh yeah. the before-times. i have to say the idea of jay leno of all people putting out an I aM bEiNg CeNsOrEd FoR mY cOmEdY comedy special isn't something i had ever considered, but if that wouldn't be evidence that camus was right and existence is absurd i'd like to see a better example. boomers would be just as loving stubborn enough to make it work that jay leno gets dredged along into the cultural cachet right into the very collapse of civilization as one last gently caress you from the dying lips of the remaining koch brother. alien archaeologists excavate some backwater planet in a distant arm of the galaxy and the conclusion they reach is that some dumpy loving denim-clad milquetoast dipshit car nut who was past his prime the first time he retired from tv was seen as some sort of demigod.
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zoux posted:Ok so Prime has a series called Underground Railroad but it's not related to the WGN series of the same name? (also remember when WGN tried to get into original programming lol) I'm guessing you never watched Manhattan, or Underground, or their version of Roots. Their shows were pretty drat good, sadly.
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May 7, 2021 00:26
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Isn't WGN only in Chicago or something. I don't know anyone that even heard of it.
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May 7, 2021 00:43
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Mu Zeta posted:Isn't WGN only in Chicago or something. I don't know anyone that even heard of it. WGN's biggest show was Salem, which wasn't very big (or very good). It did have Lucy Lawless though -- first as a magic spewing witch, and eventually as a magic spewing puppet. So yeah, not good. But fun. The entire channel shuttered its original content after about four years, sadly. I think only Salem had any closure. Real shame; they were doing an adaptation of Roadside Picnic with Tom Noonan and Mathew Goode, but it never got past pilot stage. It's still out there, somewhere, I think.
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WGN was supposed to be making a TV version of Roadside Picnic (the Russian novel that inspired the Stalker series) but nothing ever came of it.
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May 7, 2021 00:47
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WGN used to be a superstation that was carried by cable networks, just like TBS.
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Manhattan was great. I think I had WGN at the time on my mom's directv 1 billion channel package i was streaming from her house.
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Gene Hackman Fan posted:oh yeah. the before-times. i have to say the idea of jay leno of all people putting out an I aM bEiNg CeNsOrEd FoR mY cOmEdY comedy special isn't something i had ever considered, but if that wouldn't be evidence that camus was right and existence is absurd i'd like to see a better example. Republicans have tried to claim Leno for a while. It was a big talking point for Ted Cruz back when he ran for president. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fil6L3OqBKk
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Chairman Capone posted:Republicans have tried to claim Leno for a while. It was a big talking point for Ted Cruz back when he ran for president. you can't make me click that. however i'll take your word for it though; like cruz being the zodiac killer, it lines up exactly with what i've already concluded. Gene Hackman Fan fucked around with this message at 01:40 on May 7, 2021 |
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Shageletic posted:this is what i was talking about Leno is a racist, sexist rear end in a top hat who was still making Monica Lewinski jokes in like 2012.
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In case anyone hasn't been following the MST3K thread, the Kickstarter for season 13 ends tomorrow night and it is a couple hundred thousand dollars away from getting all 12 episodes funded. There have been a bunch of stretch goals added and met, including one that will get Joel back into the theater for at least one episode (most likely two with the way things are going.)
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Mu Zeta posted:Isn't WGN only in Chicago or something. I don't know anyone that even heard of it. WGN as a broadcaster is based in Chicago. WGN Superstation / WGN America was a cable channel that was available to something like 70 percent of U.S. households, and until 2014 carried a lot of Cubs games with its sister channel WGN-TV (the Chicago-based TV station). This is how the Cubs got so popular in the '80s and '90s, especially with Harry Caray calling games. Anyway, they had a run of maybe five or six years of pursuing original programming, I think? It's all moot, anyway, since WGN America doesn't exist anymore, it converted to a conservative-leaning news channel called NewsNation a few months ago. 
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Chairman Capone posted:Republicans have tried to claim Leno for a while. It was a big talking point for Ted Cruz back when he ran for president. I'm more surprised that Leno was not considered one of them all this time?
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Watching The Mosquito Coast. I was pretty leery to start it, as a) it's written by Neil Cross, who isn't great, and b) the novel is about counterculturalists. The series is pretty good (which is basically what I expected from Apple TV), though I'm wondering how it'll fair as an adaptation given that it's currently not even set in the same country. I assume it's a Preacher situation, and the show's using its first season to establish a baseline that later seasons will disrupt. But the series has drawn a considerably long bow, trying to connect its FBI manhunt operations in Arizona (material newly invented for the show) to missionary work in Honduras (what the novel's actually about). They've also aged up the kids and moved their roles around a bit, which I'm fine with, though this increased level of confidence and independence means they're going to have to get creative when adapting the later parts of the book. Michael D Fuller worked on the show, and he was a big part of Quarry, Damnation and Rectify. So I'm more willing to give the show a chance, even if Cross makes me leery.
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Cactus posted:Finally started Shadow and Bone and lmao the baddie literally has a twirly moustache. I've a feeling this is going to be one of those ones that I enjoy, but I'm never going to be sure if that enjoyment is ironic or not. I just started it and this show looks expensive as hell. Makes His Dark Materials look like a PBS show. Every single actor is too pretty. You'd think with the entire British cast they'd find some uggos for some roles. Heartrender Squaller Tracker Pekka kruge grisha What the gently caress are these things. Mu Zeta fucked around with this message at 06:45 on May 7, 2021 |
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Mu Zeta posted:I just started it and this show looks expensive as hell. Makes His Dark Materials look like a PBS show. Every single actor is too pretty. You'd think with the entire British cast they'd find some uggos for some roles. Heartrenders seem to be like blood manipulators Squallers are the wind mages Tracker is a person what tracks things Pekka is someone's first name Kruge is the name of the currency Grisha are the magic (sorry, science) users. A heartrender is a type of grisha.
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I think they introduce too much new vocab in the first 10 minutes. Though I appreciate that they don't have those awkward expositional dialogue about what these things are.
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Mu Zeta posted:I think they introduce too much new vocab in the first 10 minutes. Though I appreciate that they don't have those awkward expositional dialogue about what these things are. Yeah, I really liked how the show mostly avoided "as you know" dialogue to explain things. You eventually figure out what all those terms mean because people keep using them in conversations. It's nice for a YA show to give the viewer some credit.
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SimonChris posted:Yeah, I really liked how the show mostly avoided "as you know" dialogue to explain things. You eventually figure out what all those terms mean because people keep using them in conversations. It's nice for a YA show to give the viewer some credit. Yeah. It's the only thing I thought was stand out about the show. Well, that and casting Zoe Wannamaker and wasting her.
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May 7, 2021 08:12
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Starting to think this show needs its own thread!
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Mu Zeta posted:I just started it and this show looks expensive as hell. Makes His Dark Materials look like a PBS show. Every single actor is too pretty. You'd think with the entire British cast they'd find some uggos for some roles. Bloodbender Airbender Literally exactly what it says Wasnt that the rival mob boss? Money Benders .
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When it comes to sci-fi and fantasy I never bother learning names or words and it generally works out okay.
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I'm going to try on a different TV tonight just in case it's a weird glitch on my bedroom set, but holy crap is the stream they feed for That drat Michael Che on HBO Max utter garbage. So much digital noise for reasons I don't understand. It should not be hard to make a sketch show not look like complete poo poo.
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https://twitter.com/JoelGHodgson/status/1390688413167329291?s=20
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May 7, 2021 16:23
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I love Jean Smart, this looks like it might be good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE51pzVpwBg
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May 7, 2021 17:31
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Solid concept, looks fun. Like a less self-indulgent Funny People.
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Heard really positive things about Hacks already
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I just now got the joke behind the name the Android's Dungeon. I am 32 years old.
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