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I liked watching hunters, but I recognize it was a very very harsh show and hard for it to get a broad audience.
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Oct 2, 2017 21:28
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Is The Magicians worth watching? gently caress yes it is. The first season isn't as great as the second, for the main character is kind of a loser, but it's a fun show.
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Oct 2, 2017 21:30
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Its trash but it can be entertaining trash. It can also be really grating trash as all the characters are utterly contemptible and wallow in it quite a bit. Its a toss up.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Is The Magicians worth watching? Yes, it's sort of a mess but the second season is really good.
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The Magicians is just good. Everything clicked for me about episode four. It's fun and funny and nasty.
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Open Source Idiom posted:The Magicians is just good. Everything clicked for me about episode four. Also he hilarity how the Chosen One ends up being a bumbling failure and has to constantly depend on his friends to bail him out of trouble. It also has Ros from Game of Thrones
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Is The Magicians worth watching? Penny.
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Alice.
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For some reason Syfy has decided to supplement their downtimes by getting nonexclusive rights to Futurama. Starting in November they're going to air 6 hours a night in order to run through the whole series.
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muscles like this! posted:For some reason Syfy has decided to supplement their downtimes by getting nonexclusive rights to Futurama. Starting in November they're going to air 6 hours a night in order to run through the whole series. xmas break. They have a enough content, I don't know why they don't rerun some of their own shows; or maybe they will.
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3 episodes into Blood Drive. Did these get shown on live tv?
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:3 episodes into Blood Drive. Yes, and it was glorious!
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The second half of BD was kind of mediocre compared to the first half, which was some of the best poo poo ever.
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It would have been perfect if they had just ended two episodes earlier.
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Van Helsing starts season 2 tomorrow night. Followed by GHOST WARS.
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New Happy trailer: http://tvline.com/2017/10/05/happy-trailer-syfy-chris-meloni-video-watch/ Plus a pilot screening at Hammerstein Ballroom this Saturday as a part of CC
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Apparently someone watched Roadhouse in preparation for Van Helsing season 2.
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muscles like this! posted:Apparently someone watched Roadhouse in preparation for Van Helsing season 2. Leaded, or Unleaded?
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i called it in the trailer that dropped months ago but wow they really ratcheted the gore up. Did syfy/canadian tv execs send them notes or something?
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Tokubetsu posted:i called it in the trailer that dropped months ago but wow they really ratcheted the gore up. Did syfy/canadian tv execs send them notes or something? Blood Drive did just lower the bar on acceptable TV content  .
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Oct 6, 2017 17:09
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Wait... Van Helsing got MORE violent and gory?
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I said earlier that I think the who point of blood drive was to reset content expectations on the network. Standards keep loosening on others as well. FX is allowing all the fucks on AHS this season after allowing tons with Taboo earlier.
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Oct 6, 2017 18:17
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Animal Kingdom was pushing nudity, even a couple flashes of nipple but so quick you would second guess. And of course Slink with his full frontal, so to speak.
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wormil posted:Animal Kingdom was pushing nudity, even a couple flashes of nipple but so quick you would second guess. I remember back in the last season of BSG in 2009, there were two or three instances of this, too.
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Chairman Capone posted:I remember back in the last season of BSG in 2009, there were two or three instances of this, too. Now that you mention it, that was Grace Park IIRC. If looking back that far, there was Charlotte Ross in NYPD Blue but I think we are seeing networks trying to push the boundaries farther out. I'm all for it. Personally I don't have any problem with a little nudity on tv if it isn't sexually explicit.
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Oct 6, 2017 21:23
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Just need more fat man rear end like NYPD Blue.
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Meanwhile I was watching Jurassic Park on CMT, and "God drat" and "Jesus" are apparently too intense to be used on that channel and were edited out.
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Chairman Capone posted:Meanwhile I was watching Jurassic Park on CMT, and "God drat" and "Jesus" are apparently too intense to be used on that channel and were edited out. What do you expect from Christian Music Television?
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wormil posted:Animal Kingdom was pushing nudity, even a couple flashes of nipple but so quick you would second guess. And of course Slink with his full frontal, so to speak. Game of Thrones set that standard years ago.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Game of Thrones set that standard years ago. That's HBO/premium cable. These other shows are TNT/FX/SyFy are all basic cable.
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STAC Goat posted:That's HBO/premium cable. These other shows are TNT/FX/SyFy are all basic cable. Sure, but my point is that kind of thing still filters down over time.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Game of Thrones set that standard years ago. HBO has shown nudity for at least 35 years, probably longer. So have most or all the other premium/pay channels. Means nothing to broadcast/basic cable tv.
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Yeah. HBO, Showtime, Cinemax have been doing nudity, sex, and language forever. In a lot of ways it made them distinct when they got into the original TV game since they were able to have broader limits. Sopranos definitely owes some of its success to being on HBO where it could hold nothing back vs if it had been on a network or basic cable. If the basic cable channels are starting to loosen the strings that's genuinely a change. To some extent its probably inevitable now that its not even "Premium Cable vs Networks vs Basic Cable" anymore but this huge pool of streaming service originals and traditional cable dying and making those lines that existed for so long. I doubt it gets too far soon but it makes sense if cable networks are seeing their competition as not just HBO and Showtime but also Netflix and Amazon that they figure they should loosen the handcuffs. Of course its happening in a political climate where conservatism is really pushing back and ostensibly in control of government so who knows how it plays out? But I doubt middle america grandmas are watching Blood Drive to get offended and call the FCC.
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It doesn't really matter. Cable TV is a private network and the FCC doesn't have the same say on content as they do with broadcast TV. It's really only a matter of what the advertisers want to be associated with and even that influence is waning as more and more revenue comes from carriage fees.
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True, at least in terms of the government stuff. I guess my thought process was just something like Animal Kingdom seems like it appeals to the sort of CBS cop show crowd that might overlap with the FCC calling grandmas. But odds are if you're still freaking out about nudity or cursing in a TV show in 2017 you're already pretty deep into your cultural/religious bunker.
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I like boobs.
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Second best invention ever Ghost Wars is AWESOME btw. Totally on board for this ride. Rocksicles fucked around with this message at 23:52 on Oct 7, 2017 |
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The problem with Ghost Wars is the name. I thought it was another stupid faux reality show like Ghost Hunters.
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GreenNight posted:The problem with Ghost Wars is the name. I thought it was another stupid faux reality show like Ghost Hunters. Yeah, totally. That's just a really bad marketing idea from a network that has a bunch of those shows in those time slots and should have expected people used to ignoring them would ignore this. Then again maybe they're hoping the Ghost Hunter fans stumble on the show and there's a reverse effect?
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