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CapnAndy posted:That's surprising. Where'd it fail in the translation, do you think? They cast it with all the same grace and synergy as a comedy central roast, then cut the show in half, then had Alex be the host with a really nice co-host in the role as TaskMaster, a role which requires a somewhat antagonistic character. Lisa Lampanelli is always a horrible time but hell, she'd be a better TaskMaster than Reggie, who would've been a fantastic guest. I also think in the UK being on these gameshows is kind of a civic duty or something and there's a much smaller pool of people who are more familiar with each other since there's less media and their whole country is so tiny.
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DurosKlav posted:I believe the UK version does well for CW on streaming It seems to have already unceremoniously disappeared from CWSeed, so nah.
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I still don't totally get CW Seed's purpose but hey Suburgatory is on it and I've been looking for another feel good sitcom to binge!
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Vincent posted:I know kids are played by people on their 20's, but come the gently caress on From pages ago, but this is one thing they really got right on Pen15. Dress the leads down, and then make the rest of the kids actual teenagers. And then in fun bonus Maya Erskine's show mom is played by Maya Erskine's actual mom.
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Vincent posted:The US is a disease and the world is infected. a real, honest-to-god show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPzhwQSsl7M also, you're making GBS threads me? Gene Hackman Fan fucked around with this message at 04:51 on Aug 18, 2021 |
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Noooooooo rip Sean Lock 
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:Noooooooo rip Sean Lock Sad day. Was really hoping to see him on Taskmaster one day
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That's so sad, I've been rewatching 15 Storeys High and he's so funny in it.
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DaveWoo posted:https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1427648439194722314 The guy can't do a british accent to save his life PittTheElder posted:From pages ago, but this is one thing they really got right on Pen15. Dress the leads down, and then make the rest of the kids actual teenagers. And then in fun bonus Maya Erskine's show mom is played by Maya Erskine's actual mom. Was that the show where literal adults played middle schoolers or soemthing equally weird
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Milo and POTUS posted:The guy can't do a british accent to save his life This...this is a joke yeah?
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Yeah his character on The Wire tries to do a British accent and it's funny because he's British
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they shouldn't do anything to make her look shorter. just have one tall rear end diana
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Aardvark! posted:they shouldn't do anything to make her look shorter. just have one tall rear end diana It's funny how in Tenet she plays opposite John David Washington and she just towers over him
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muscles like this! posted:It's funny how in Tenet she plays opposite John David Washington and she just towers over him That movie is so goofy: it's like if you made a trailer feature-length. 
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Every fantasy tv show/movie is just desaturated “people standing on a hill in Scotland/NZ and sometimes a soundstage dressed like a castle” now and it doesn’t interest me in the slightest. Give me the crazy interplanar poo poo my DM uses in our sessions.  ed: I’m stupid and just now realized I mistook this thread for the Streaming thread that’s talking about Wheel of Time right now. 
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Milo and POTUS posted:Was that the show where literal adults played middle schoolers or soemthing equally weird Yeah the leads are in their early 30s or something, playing their 13 year old selves.
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This is the point in child actor talk that I recommend I declare war.
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Speaking of ~cheap~ scifi, someone uploaded the 2000 Dune miniseries that SyFy (neê SciFi) made more than twenty years ago. The Dune miniseries also inaugurated the Syfy tradition of having an annual miniseries in the winter which lasted for like 15 years. Some good entries in those, like The Lost Room, Taken, Tin Man (even if that was pretty silly in places).
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Just started Homicide Life on the Streets. I like it but the AV quality is pig manure. Is that what I'm doomed to or is a quality version to be had?
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codo27 posted:Just started Homicide Life on the Streets. I like it but the AV quality is pig manure. Is that what I'm doomed to or is a quality version to be had? Homicide was shot with Super 16 handheld cameras. The cinematography improved a little bit as the series progressed, but there's only so much you can do with 16mm film, particularly the fast stock they used in order to be able to shoot at pretty much any time of day or night (edit: and to be affordable, too, as NBC was constantly loving with the show's budget and essentially giving Attanasio, Fontana and Levinson constant ulcers from the stress). Timby fucked around with this message at 00:55 on Aug 19, 2021 |
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The new "What If" is so fun that I wish it was a two-parter even if only to get some more Chadwick Boseman.
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Holy poo poo this season of The Good Fight has been utterly bugnuts, in the best loving way. Oh, and In The Dark continues to be a pretty good thriller, and still the best thing on the CW that no-one has ever heard of.
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TASKMASTER has picked up with Twitch streamers quite a bit given that pretty much all of it is available on YouTube. The American version was bad not just because of the running time (cutting the whole thing in half was a choice) but aside from Freddie Highmore and Ron Funches, no one wanted to get into the spirit of the thing. The contestants in the UK/NZ versions are fine with looking stupid sometimes whereas the Americans weren't. Everyone seemed to think the point was that they should be needlessly hostile to Alex too which, with no studio banter, made parts of it unpleasant. However, it's not the disaster the Spanish version was. That one was cancelled part way through the run so you never even saw who won it. There were 6 contestants instead of 5 and the episodes run nearly 2 hours because there's very little editing and it gets tedious to watch. Just reading out the task took over 5 minutes.
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:Noooooooo rip Sean Lock Noooooooo. Whyyyyyy? Noooooooo. Argh.
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zoux posted:Here's the Fellowship of the Rand I forsee lots of braid tugging. Is Rand on the far right, or next to Lan?
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zoux posted:Here's the Fellowship of the Rand Me seeing this pic right after watching the Eternals trailer: "You idiot, you captured their stunt doubles"
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Sumo posted:Me seeing this pic right after watching the Eternals trailer: Yeah, if that is the picture they chose to inspire excitement... they chose poorly.
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That's Wheel of Time right? (I typed Wheel of Fortune at first by accident, although now I'm down for a Vanna White cameo)
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Sumo posted:That's Wheel of Time right? (I typed Wheel of Fortune at first by accident, although now I'm down for a Vanna White cameo) Yes. They mostly look as how I imaged them from the books.
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Hughmoris posted:Yeah, if that is the picture they chose to inspire excitement... they chose poorly. THey're E first look photos they're meant to inspire clicks.
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...wait, what? Netflix has a second Masters of the Universe reboot on the way? When the new one is barely out?  I guess one is going for kids and one is going for adult nostalgia? I'm so confused 
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feedmyleg posted:...wait, what? Netflix has a second Masters of the Universe reboot on the way? When the new one is barely out? Actual link to the trailer -- which kind of sucks tbh -- for anyone who doesn't want to deal with soul sucking content repackaging "news" sites. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXApnj-ztIE Edit: Or accidentally click on the pretty cool Foundation trailer LOL. Open Source Idiom fucked around with this message at 16:01 on Aug 19, 2021 |
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I wonder if it's actually going to get to the fall of the empire stuff (which is pretty deep in the prequels) or if all the action shots in this are from flash-forward sequences. Foundation was always thought to be unadaptable because the original books were like - a few chapters following one flat, stock character - 60 year time jump - a few chapters following one flat, stock character - 30 year time jump It would be strange of them to start in the prequels, where there's more than one book of steady narrative and characters, and burn through that in a single season. Maybe it'll be a mix? Tell the story of the future at the same time as Selden?
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