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Bones (Final Season) New Girl Family Guy Bob's Burgers The Simpsons Lucifer Rosewood Scream Queens Wayward Pines Cancelled Series Bordertown Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life Grandfathered The Grinder Minority Report Second Chance Fall 2015-16 Schedule (New programs in UPPER CASE; all times ET) MONDAY 8-9 PM — Gotham 9-10 PM — Lucifer TUESDAY 8-8:30 PM — Brooklyn Nine-Nine 8:30-9 PM — New Girl 9-10 PM — Scream Queens WEDNESDAY 8-9 PM — LETHAL WEAPON 9-10 PM — Empire THURSDAY 8-9 PM — Rosewood 9-10 PM — Bones FRIDAY 8-9 PM– Hell’s Kitchen 9-10 PM — THE EXORCIST SATURDAY 7-10:30 PM — Fox Sports Saturday: Fox College Football SUNDAY 7-7:30 PM — NFL ON FOX 7:30-8 PM — The OT / Bob’s Burgers 8-8:30 PM — The Simpsons 8:30-9 PM — SON OF ZORN 9-9:30 PM — Family Guy Midseason 2016-17 SCHEDULE (All Times ET/PT) MONDAY 8-9 PM — 24: LEGACY / Gotham (spring) 9-10 PM — APB / Lucifer (spring) TUESDAY 8-8:30 PM — New Girl / Brooklyn Nine-Nine (spring) 8:30-9 PM — THE MICK 9-10 PM — KICKING & SCREAMING / PITCH (spring) WEDNESDAY 8-9 PM — LETHAL WEAPON / SHOTS FIRED (spring) 9-10 PM — STAR / Empire (spring) THURSDAY 8-9 PM — Rosewood 9-10 PM — PRISON BREAK FRIDAY 8-9 PM — Masterchef Junior 9-10 PM — Sleepy Hollow SATURDAY 8-10 PM — Fox Sports Saturday SUNDAY 7-7:30 PM — Animation Encores 7:30-8 PM — Bob’s Burgers 8-8:30 PM — The Simpsons 8:30-9 PM — MAKING HISTORY 9-9:30 PM — Family Guy 9:30-10 PM — The Last Man on Earth New Series Special Series PRISON BREAK quote:Prison Break is back and ready for its biggest escape yet. In the thrilling new event series PRISON BREAK, original series stars Wentworth Miller, Dominic Purcell, Sarah Wayne Callies, Amaury Nolasco, Robert Knepper, Rockmond Dunbar and Paul Adelstein are reunited for an all-new adventure spanning the globe and featuring the signature thrills and cliffhangers that were hallmarks of the original series when it aired on FOX from 2005-2009. The original action drama centered on MICHAEL SCOFIELD (Miller, “The Loft”), a young man determined to save his convicted brother, LINCOLN BURROWS (Purcell, “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow”), from death row by hatching an elaborate plan to escape from prison. In the all-new event series, filmed on location in Morocco, clues surface that suggest a previously thought-to-be-dead Michael may be alive. Lincoln and SARA (Sarah Wayne Callies, Colony, The Walking Dead), Michael’s wife until he was assumed dead, reunite to engineer the series’ biggest escape ever, as three of Fox River State Penitentiary’s most notorious escapees, SUCRE (Nolasco, Telenovela), T-BAG (Knepper, Heroes) and C-NOTE (Dunbar, The Mentalist), are pulled back into the action. Prison Break was an immediate critical and ratings hit when it premiered on FOX in the fall of 2005, garnering Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Television Series – Drama and Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama (Miller). The original producing team, including series creator Paul T. Scheuring, Neal Moritz, Marty Adelstein and Dawn Olmstead, will return to executive-produce the new series, with Scheuring serving as showrunner/writer. SHOTS FIRED quote:Examining the dangerous aftermath of racially charged shootings in a small Southern town, SHOTS FIRED is a dramatic new event series that is a “why done it?” and a “who done it?” From Gina Prince-Bythewood (Beyond the Lights, The Secret Life of Bees, Love & Basketball) and Reggie Rock Bythewood (Beyond the Lights, Notorious), the 10-hour event series is an explosive look at the criminal justice system. When an African-American police officer kills an unarmed white college student, a small town in North Carolina is turned upside-down. Before the town has a chance to grapple with this tragedy, the neglected murder of an African-American teen is brought to light, re-opening wounds that threaten to tear the town apart. Leading the Department of Justice’s inquiry into these shootings is seasoned investigator ASHE AKINO (Sanaa Lathan, The Perfect Guy) and a young Special Prosecutor, PRESTON TERRY (Stephan James, Race, Selma), both of whom are African-American. As they start to pull back the layers of both cases, they suspect a cover-up that may involve some of the state’s most powerful people, including fiercely political North Carolina Governor PATRICIA EAMONS (Academy-, Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning actress Helen Hunt, “As Good As It Gets,” “The Sessions”). She’s in a tough re-election fight, and the recent shootings in her state are making it even tougher. Meanwhile, real estate mogul and owner of a privatized prison ARLEN COX (Academy- and Golden Globe Award-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss, The Goodbye Girl, Jaws, Madoff), is pulled into the case, as LT. ERIC BREELAND (Stephen Moyer, The Bastard Executioner, True Blood), a seasoned veteran in the town’s Sheriff’s Department, gets caught in the middle of the investigation. SHOTS FIRED tackles the racial divide from all perspectives. As Ashe and Preston navigate the media attention, public debate and social unrest that come with such volatile cases, they learn that everybody has a story, and that the truth is rarely black and white. Drama 24 LEGACY quote:The clock ticks again with 24: LEGACY, the next evolution of the Emmy Award-winning 24. From Emmy Award-winning executive producer Howard Gordon (Homeland, 24: Live Another Day), Academy Award- and Emmy Award-winning executive producer Brian Grazer (A Beautiful Mind, 24), writers and executive producers Manny Coto and Evan Katz (24, 24: Live Another Day), director and executive producer Stephen Hopkins (24) and executive producer and original series star Kiefer Sutherland, 24: LEGACY chronicles an adrenaline-fueled race against the clock to stop a devastating terrorist attack on United States soil – in the same real-time format that has propelled this genre-defining series. Six months ago in Yemen, an elite squad of U.S. Army Rangers, led by Sergeant ERIC CARTER (Corey Hawkins, Straight Outta Compton), killed terrorist leader Sheik Ibrahim Bin-Khalid. In the aftermath, Bin-Khalid’s followers declared a fatwah against Carter, his squad and their families, forcing them into federal witness protection. But a recent attempt on Carter’s own life makes it clear to him that his team is now exposed. To thwart further attacks, Carter enlists REBECCA INGRAM (Miranda Otto, Homeland), who quarterbacked the raid that killed Bin-Khalid. She’s a brilliant and ambitious intelligence officer who has stepped down from her post as National Director of CTU to support her husband, SENATOR JOHN DONOVAN (Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Jimmy Smits, NYPD Blue, The West Wing), in his campaign for President of the United States. Decades of sleepless nights and missed anniversaries landed her at the top. With the White House within their grasp, can she truly embrace a new role as First Lady? Or will her love of the action draw her back in? Together, in this fast-paced thrill ride, Carter and Ingram uncover a sophisticated terrorist network that will force them to ask: “Who can we trust?” As they battle Bin-Khalid’s devotees, they are forced to confront their own identities, families and pasts. APB quote:Police work isn’t rocket science. It’s harder. Inspired by true events, APB is a new police drama with a high-tech twist from executive producer/director Len Wiseman (LUCIFER, Underworld) and executive producer/writer Matt Nix (Burn Notice). Sky-high crime, officer-involved shootings, cover-ups and corruption: the over-extended and under-funded Chicago Police Department is spiraling out of control. Enter billionaire engineer GIDEON REEVES (Emmy Award and Golden Globe nominee Justin Kirk, Tyrant, Weeds). After his best friend is murdered in a botched attempted robbery, and the killer remains at large, Gideon demands justice. Putting up millions of dollars of his own money, he makes an unprecedented deal to take over the troubled 13th District – and reboot it as a private police force: better, faster and smarter than anything seen before. With cutting-edge technology created by Gideon himself, this eccentric yet brilliant outsider challenges the city’s police force to rethink everything about the way they fight crime. But the near-overnight transition to the city’s most advanced police district doesn’t sit well with all of its members. Gideon knows if he’s going to change anything, he needs an ally, whom he finds in OFFICER THERESA MURPHY (Natalie Martinez, Kingdom, Under the Dome), an ambitious, street-smart cop who is ready to embrace Gideon’s technological changes. With the help of Gideon’s gifted tech officer, ADA HAMILTON (Caitlin Stasey Reign), he and Murphy embark on a mission to turn the 13th District – including a skeptical SGT. NED CONRAD (Ernie Hudson, Grace and Frankie, Ghostbusters), and determined OFFICERS NICHOLAS BRANDT (Taylor Handley Vegas, Southland) and TASHA GOSS (Tamberla Perry Boss) – into a dedicated crime-fighting force of the 21st century. THE EXORCIST quote:Widely regarded as the greatest horror movie ever made, The Exorcist broke box office records and terrified audiences around the world. Now, more than four decades after the Academy Award-nominated film, THE EXORCIST returns as a TV series. Directed by Rupert Wyatt (Rise of the Planet of the Apes), THE EXORCIST is a propulsive psychological thriller following two very different priests tackling one family’s case of horrifying demonic possession. FATHER TOMAS ORTEGA (Alfonso Herrera, Sense8, The Chosen) is the new face of the Catholic Church: progressive, ambitious and compassionate. He runs a small but loyal parish in the suburbs of Chicago. He has no idea that his quiet life is about to change forever. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, another priest finds himself locked in a life-and-death struggle with evil. FATHER MARCUS BRENNAN (Ben Daniels, Flesh and Bone, House of Cards) is a modern-day Templar Knight, an orphan raised since childhood by the Vatican to wage war against its enemies. Father Marcus is everything Father Tomas is not: relentless, abrasive and utterly consumed by his sacred mission. Caught in the middle is the RANCE family, members of Tomas’ parish. On the surface, they’re a normal, suburban family, but all is not as it seems in this household. The patriarch, HENRY RANCE (guest star Alan Ruck, Spin City, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off), is slowly but surely losing his mind. Eldest daughter KATHERINE (Brianne Howey, SCREAM QUEENS) has become a recluse who refuses to leave her room. Her younger sister, CASEY (Hannah Kasulka, “The Fosters”), thinks she’s hearing strange noises coming from inside the walls. And mother ANGELA (Academy Award and Golden Globe winner Geena Davis, Commander in Chief, Thelma & Louise) has been plagued by recurring nightmares, each more frightening than the last. Angela believes there is something in the house, a demonic presence, growing stronger by the day. Desperate, she begs Father Tomas for help, unwittingly setting the naïve young priest on a collision course with Father Marcus. Separately, each faces an insurmountable task, but together they become the only hope against an evil force that has been mobilizing for centuries. LETHAL WEAPON quote:Combining action and drama with friendship and humor, LETHAL WEAPON reboots the hit movie franchise, as it follows classic cop duo Riggs and Murtaugh, who are working a crime-ridden beat in modern-day Los Angeles. Grief-stricken after the loss of his young wife and unborn child, ex-Navy SEAL-turned-detective MARTIN RIGGS (Clayne Crawford, Rectify) moves to California to “start over” at the LAPD. He’s paired up with ROGER MURTAUGH (Emmy Award nominee Damon Wayans, Sr., My Wife and Kids, In Living Color), who’s just coming back to the job after a near-fatal heart attack. Riggs’ penchant for diving headfirst into the line of fire immediately clashes with Murtaugh’s prudent, by-the-book technique. It’s clear from the moment they meet, this partnership could be lethal. But during their first case together, Riggs drags Murtaugh on a high-speed chase culminating inside the Long Beach Grand Prix and into a seaport shootout with drug dealers – and despite his protests, the older cop feels more alive than he has in years. Meanwhile, Riggs gets a glimpse of why Murtaugh is so determined to get home safely at the end of each day – he’s got a family and a newborn baby of his own. By the time their investigation ends, Riggs realizes he may have found something worth living for – a partner and friend like Murtaugh. And even Murtaugh figures this arrangement might just work out after all. If only Riggs doesn’t get them killed first… PITCH quote:From executive producers Dan Fogelman (Cars, Crazy, Stupid, Love.) and Rick Singer (Younger, American Dad), PITCH is the dramatic and inspirational story of a young pitcher who becomes the first woman to play Major League Baseball. A beautiful, tough and gifted athlete, GINNY BAKER (Kylie Bunbury, Under The Dome) is vaulted into instant fame when she’s called up by the San Diego Padres to make her Major League debut. Like any rookie, Ginny must prove herself to her teammates. Foremost among them is MIKE LAWSON (Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Franklin & Bash, NYPD Blue), the team’s ruggedly handsome star catcher. There’s instant chemistry between them, although neither dares admit it. After all, Mike is captain of the team and a few of his players don’t even want Ginny on the field. One of the players watching Ginny’s back is center fielder BLIP SANDERS (Mo McRae, Sons of Anarchy), an old friend from the minor leagues. Guiding her is her agent/confidante AMELIA SLATER (Ali Larter, Legends, Heroes). Amelia saw Ginny’s star potential early on and left her previous job as a Hollywood publicist to concentrate on the young phenom. Although groomed for this moment by her demanding father, BILL BAKER (guest star Michael Beach, Sons of Anarchy), the end of Ginny’s improbable journey is the beginning of an almost impossible one: representing her gender as she embarks on a successful baseball career under the glare of the white-hot media spotlight. It’s a goal hard enough for anyone to achieve – except this player is also a woman, who happens to be the most important historical figure in sports since Jackie Robinson. This season, Ginny Baker will be the other woman trying to break into one of the oldest, most exclusive men’s clubs in the country. STAR quote:Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee Lee Daniels – creator and executive producer of broadcast’s No. 1 series, EMPIRE – partners with Tom Donaghy (The Whole Truth) to pull back the curtain on music’s gritty and dark reality in STAR. Featuring a soundtrack of original music and stunning music performances, STAR follows three talented singers, desperate for a new start and with ambitions of stardom, as they navigate the cut-throat music business on their road to success. Meet STAR (newcomer Jude Demorest), a tough-as-nails young woman, who came up in the foster care system and decides one day to take control of her destiny. Star tracks down her sister, SIMONE (newcomer Brittany O’Grady), and her Instagram bestie, ALEXANDRA (newcomer Ryan Destiny), and together, the trio journeys to Atlanta to become music superstars. Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award, Grammy Award and Golden Globe Award winner Queen Latifah (Bessie, Bringing Down The House) plays CARLOTTA, a surrogate mother to the young crew. Emmy Award nominee Benjamin Bratt (24: Live Another Day, Law & Order) rounds out the cast as JAHIL, a down-on-his-luck talent agent looking to revitalize his career, who’s taken a certain shining to Star. The series will also feature guest star and Grammy Award winner Lenny Kravitz (Lee Daniels’ The Butler, The Hunger Games). Reality soon dawns on the girls’ fantasies, and they start to learn that ambition often comes at a cost. And sometimes that cost is too high. Comedy MAKING HISTORY quote:Produced by Phil Lord and Chris Miller (Lego Movie, 21 Jump Street), and written by Julius “Goldy” Sharpe (The Grinder, FAMILY GUY), the new comedy MAKING HISTORY follows three friends from two different centuries as they try to balance the thrill of time travel with the mundane concerns of their present-day lives. Two shows in one, it’s both a rollicking historical adventure, and a contemporary comedy about love, friendship and trying to fit in to an increasingly complex and impersonal world. DAN CHAMBERS (Adam Pally, The Mindy Project, Happy Endings), a computer science professor at a small Massachusetts college, recently discovered time travel and has been transporting himself back to the 1700s to spend time with the colonial woman he’s fallen for. In the present, Dan is an unpopular nerd. But by claiming song lyrics, lines from movies and stand-up bits as his own in the 18th century, he’s absolutely hilarious – he gets the girl and makes friends. But Dan’s actions in the past are messing up the present. That woman he’s dating is not just any woman. She’s Paul Revere’s daughter, DEBORAH (Leighton Meester, Gossip Girl), and Dan’s meddling in the past causes her father to delay his famous ride, which may have altered the outcome of the entire American Revolution. To set matters right, Dan enlists the help of his colleague, CHRIS PARISH (Yassir Lester, Girls, Key and Peele), a brilliant, polished and popular history professor, who’s now given the incredible opportunity to actually live the history he teaches. Can Dan, Chris and Deborah save America as we know it? Can a woman from 1775 adapt to life in 2016? Can the three intrepid time travelers improve the past, help the helpless, fight for justice and get rich? THE MICK quote:A no-holds-barred single-camera comedy that gives new meaning to the phrase “dysfunctional family.” MACKENZIE aka “MICKEY” (Kaitlin Olson, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) is a brash, two-bit hustler from Rhode Island who has spent her entire life shirking any semblance of responsibility. Lacking any drive, but in constant search of the next easy payday, Mickey is not without her charms. She’s smart, she’s fun, and despite all appearances, her head’s always in the game. She just needs a big win. That win kinda, sorta comes true when, looking for a handout, Mickey visits her estranged sister and billionaire brother-in-law in Greenwich, CT, but gets more than she bargained for, as this absurdly rich couple flees the country to escape federal fraud charges. In a surprising turn of events, Mickey must assume guardianship of their three high-maintenance and ill-parented children: SABRINA (Sofia Black D’Elia, The Messengers, Gossip Girl), an ambitious, 18-going-on-30-year-old who is a worthy adversary to Mickey; CHIP (Thomas Barbusca, The New Normal, Grey’s Anatomy), 13, an arrogant, entitled neo-con-in-the-making with an extremely punchable face; and BEN (newcomer Jack Stanton), seven, an adorably fragile nerd. The life that Mickey has wanted for so long now is within her reach – the mansion, the convertible, the swimming pool, the walk-in closet full of designer clothes. But as Mickey is well aware, nothing in life is free. The price? Transforming these outrageously spoiled children into honest, hard-working, decent members of society – something this foul-mouthed, debaucherous and completely out-of-her-element woman knows absolutely nothing about. Being a mother was never in Mickey’s game plan, but these kids desperately need a parent. And as irresponsible as Mickey has been her entire life, she may discover that responsibility and motherhood aren’t the buzzkill she always thought they would be. SON OF ZORN quote:Featuring the voice of Jason Sudeikis (THE LAST MAN ON EARTH, “Horrible Bosses,” “We’re the Millers”), SON OF ZORN is a new hybrid live-action/animated comedy about an animated warrior from a faraway island in the Pacific Ocean – where everything and everyone is animated – who returns to Orange County, CA, to win back his live-action ex-wife and teenage son. ZORN (Sudeikis), the Defender of Zephyria, Conqueror of the tribes of Agon, decapitator of the dark herdsmen of Grith, has fought in countless epic battles throughout his life, but may find the greatest challenge of all when travels back to suburbia to reconnect with his family. Once there, Zorn finds himself estranged from his son, ALANGULON or just “Alan” (Johnny Pemberton, 21 Jump Street), a 17-year-old with a mellow, P.C. attitude; and Alan’s mother, Zorn’s ex-wife, EDIE (Cheryl Hines, Curb Your Enthusiasm), a former wild child now living the life of an upper middle class mom. Zorn’s efforts to win them back are complicated by the fact that Edie is now engaged to CRAIG (Tim Meadows, Saturday Night Live), an online psychology professor and a stable presence in their lives. Nevertheless, to be a good dad, Zorn commits to remaining in Orange County for the long haul, renting an apartment and even working in the exciting field of industrial soap sales under his boss, LINDA (Artemis Pebdani, Scandal, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia), who likes his passion, but just wants him to rein it in at the office. As he adjusts to life in the suburbs, Zorn is the classic fish out of water, navigating his way through fatherhood, divorce and a boring office job. Sure, as an overlord of pain, he defeated glombeasts, wolf-bats and bloodthirsty arachnobots, but now he’ll go toe-to-toe with a new set of enemies: meter maids, dress codes and the DMV. X-O fucked around with this message at 23:00 on May 16, 2016 |
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muscles like this? posted:Son of Zorn sounds way too expensive to keep going for long. This looks both terrible and amazing.   I would say that's a concept that would only work 10 episodes at a time on cartoon network, but who knows with Fox.
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May 16, 2016 05:46
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The thing is even something as terrible looking as that has got to be expensive as hell.
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I'll watch the 24 one, of course, the baseball one, and the Prison Break one, although I don't know what they'll do that hasn't already been done. The original one went on like 2 seasons too long.
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kayakyakr posted:This looks both terrible and amazing. This looks like something that has maybe enough longevity for an SNL sketch.
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May 16, 2016 14:29
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APB was literally filmed next door to me, so I guess I'll have to watch it. Here's a pic of a guy who's mad at me for taking a picture of Future Cop Car.
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kayakyakr posted:This looks both terrible and amazing. I'm watching the gently caress out of this because it's an amazing trainwreak of a thing GigaPeon posted:APB was literally filmed next door to me, so I guess I'll have to watch it. Here's a pic of a guy who's mad at me for taking a picture of Future Cop Car. Get off my loving street rear end in a top hat, I'm trying to sleep
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raditts posted:This looks like something that has maybe enough longevity for an SNL sketch. I could see it as a funny digital short. Other than that, no thanks.
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Retail Slave posted:I could see it as a funny digital short. Other than that, no thanks. A limited run of 6-10 episodes where they mock various sitcom tropes; similar to "That's My Bush!" works for me. Then again, it's FOX.
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MisterZimbu posted:A limited run of 6-10 episodes where they mock various sitcom tropes; similar to "That's My Bush!" works for me. Fox gave us Allen Gregory. Never, ever forget that.
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Trailers added for all new shows.
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MisterZimbu posted:A limited run of 6-10 episodes where they mock various sitcom tropes; similar to "That's My Bush!" works for me. That's My Bush is a great example, since that is an existing case of "only enough humor for a comedy sketch, but stretched into a full series."
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Ross Angeles posted:24 without Jack Bauer seems like a bad idea I also really wish they would have a villain who is not an Arabic terrorist for once. I mean the best season of 24 had the POTUS as the big bad.
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May 16, 2016 23:39
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I actually think a lot of these shows look good. I kind of laughed at the idea of Lethal Weapon but even writing up the OP I failed to notice it was Clayne Crawford from Rectify as Riggs. I'll watch it for that reason alone.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Based on the trailer I would agree...it seems like for whatever reason they are doing a total break from everything in the previous seasons. Even though Sutherland is an executive producer on this. Yeah, 24 even with Kiefer Sutherland could get predictable and formulaic sometimes. I'm willing to try it out until the main character gets established and they get the ball rolling on the plot.
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I like Corey Hawkins, Jimmy Smits, Miranda Otto and 24 in general so I'm digging that trailer.
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drat Fox for cancelling The Grinder but I do like the conceit for Son of Zorn.
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I hated almost all the NBC trailers, but most of the Fox ones look pretty good. Barring terrible reviews I'll probably give The Exorcist, Lethal Weapon, The Mick, Making History, 24 Legacy and Son of Zorn a try. Lethal Weapon is clearly going for a "the first fifteen minutes of a LW film" vibe, rather than the tone of the whole films. Son of Zorn is stupid as hell and will probably run out of steam in three episodes, but what can I say, the trailer made me laugh.
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I'll definitely be in for 'Pitch' and I think it's great she's playing for an NL club because we'll have to see her hit; I wonder if that was intentional? Would've made more sense in a way for her to go to the A's and be some weirdo sabermetrics pick who then wouldn't have to hit Also Zorn looks incredible and looks like a show in the first wave of networks desperately grasping for Kimmy Schmidt ripoffs
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Wait a minute, APB is actually about a billionaire buying a police force? Seriously?
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Paradoxish posted:Wait a minute, APB is actually about a billionaire buying a police force? Seriously? My dream plot twist is that through all the positive spin it's slowly revealed that we're watching Robocop from OCP's perspective.
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FlamingLiberal posted:I also really wish they would have a villain who is not an Arabic terrorist for once. I mean the best season of 24 had the POTUS as the big bad. They did it a lot. Season 1 - Victor Drazen Season 2 - Peter Kingsley Season 3 - Stephen Saunders Season 4 - Marwan Season 5 - President Logan Season 6 - Papa Bauer Season 7 - Dubaku Season 8 - Russians
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Paradoxish posted:Wait a minute, APB is actually about a billionaire buying a police force? Seriously? I like the part where they show the tech people can just control any car they want to and it's treated like a good thing.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Based on the trailer I would agree...it seems like for whatever reason they are doing a total break from everything in the previous seasons. Even though Sutherland is an executive producer on this. A limited amount of time to stop a terrorist attack, looks pretty similar to the previous seasons to me.
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May 17, 2016 04:08
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I like Zorn because it moves Johnny Pemberton from Crackle Exclusives.
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So I wonder how APB would remotely work with the whole Bill of Rights thing, more then any other cop show in history. Son of Zorn doesn't look bad. I didn't hate Lethal Weapon beyond the wife rubbing her belly, why that got filmed I"ll never know.
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The Exorcist seems to be a pretty big departure from the themes of the movie and I'm not really sure it's for the better. The complex interactions of old spirituality and modern society appears to have been replaced with standard horror movie tropes. Of course, that's just impressions from a one minute trailer...
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Good riddance to Borders and Coopers. Sleepy Hollow is...the second part of the name is exactly what I feel while watching it and gearing up to go into next season. Like, even Fringe made sure to keep on its main characters... And I can't believe Bones is finally ending... For the new shows The Exorcist sounds pretty interesting, and I have always wanted to see an updated LW. Then again, I thought I'd love an updated Rush Hour and we all know how THAT turned out. The making history one though...can cultural jokes from ~200 yrs in the future really track with people in the past? Finally, The Mick looks pretty funny. I'm down with people from shows I love branching out, so hopefully it'll be cool.
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How is Michael still alive in Prison Break? Didn't he die of a brain tumor at the end?FlamingLiberal posted:Based on the trailer I would agree...it seems like for whatever reason they are doing a total break from everything in the previous seasons. Even though Sutherland is an executive producer on this. If you remember almost every season of 24, Arab terrorists were a cover for like 6 episodes and then the REAL villain was revealed, A Rich White Guy.
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I'm finding myself drawn to Exorcist even though it pretty clearly is going to be a less fun Supernatural at BEST. Also I'm going to be an idiot and hope that Lethal Weapon is good when I should know better. Pitch and Making History seem to have the most potential. I love sports drama and this seems like a really cool premise as long as the BURNING SEXUAL TENSION WITH THE HANDSOME CATCHER doesn't eat the show alive. The second one seems like Hot Tub Time Machine: The Series, and anyone who isn't down with that can fight me. I hope I'm not the only person who felt nauseous at the idea of APB. Yay, privatized police, this isn't a horrible dystopian nightmare, lets portray it as the coolest thing ever that saves Chicago from crime! When do they start sending out bills to the people they're protecting exactly? What episode do they ignore a domestic violence call because someone let their subscription lapse? Or is this going to be an A-Team thing where the mercenaries somehow never get paid?
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Sanguinia posted:I hope I'm not the only person who felt nauseous at the idea of APB. Yay, privatized police, this isn't a horrible dystopian nightmare, lets portray it as the coolest thing ever that saves Chicago from crime! No, this is definitely something right out of a nightmare of mine. Of course it is showing how the private sector with cool, slick toys makes everything a lot better than the old, dumb, public sector with their stupid red tape and rules. There are no overweight coffee-sipping doughnut eating lifers here, here only results matter, delivered by attractive, super-intelligent people and their magic technology. Includes even the strawman hard-rear end female skeptical cop, who will of course be slowly but surely be convinced by the results. But then we are probably only half a decade removed from Zuckerberg really buying the FBI or some poo poo. Decius fucked around with this message at 09:41 on May 17, 2016 |
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May 17, 2016 09:35
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Decius posted:No, this is definitely something right out of a nightmare of mine. Of course it is showing how the private sector with cool, slick toys makes everything a lot better than the old, dumb, public sector with their stupid red tape and rules. There are no overweight coffee-sipping doughnut eating lifers here, here only results matter, delivered by attractive, super-intelligent people and their magic technology. Includes even the strawman hard-rear end female skeptical cop, who will of course be slowly but surely be convinced by the results. But then we are probably only half a decade removed from Zuckerberg really buying the FBI or some poo poo. I often wonder where people who make these "Private Sector Provide A Basic Government Service Better Than The Goverment," fantasies believe the money for the fancy gadgets and hip MIT Honor Students with six figure salaries to operate them comes from. I decided to look it up, and 100 million bucks is less than two years of operating budget for a Chicago PD district (if you assume each district gets the same amount from the total CPD budget), and that's without the initial investment and continuing costs of new gear and cars and drones and uniforms and APB APP STAFF. Are we imagining that this Eccentric Billionaire will just continue to fund his private police force out of pocket as an altruistic service forever? Because unless that's the case, they have to get income, and a pretty quickly too. They're a private firm now, so they're not getting tax dollars, and even if the city was contracting them that's the same money they had the work with before and can't possibly cover the increased costs of all their Private Sector Perks, so they need to be making more money than they were through taxes anyway. If we assume the obvious nightmare scenario of Subscriptions are right out, are they making money through that dumb app? Advertisement and endorsements? Is it something like Drug Trials at a hospital, where they serve as a testbed for new Law Enforcement tech that the parent company makes a profit off selling elsewhere? Every one of those scenarios has at bare minimum considerable ethical baggage and very real potential for a large negative impact on the ability of citizens, especially poor citizens, to receive the "service," of law enforcement. I almost want to watch this show to see if its going to be like the original Robocop and subtly deconstruct its premise and the thinking that would allow one to imagine it working as it goes forward, or if its really a big an Randian Ubermensch Handjob as it seems on the surface. ... but I suppose I should save this for the thread if it ever gets one rather than the Upfront sticky.
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May 17, 2016 12:26
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sbaldrick posted:So I wonder how APB would remotely work with the whole Bill of Rights thing, more then any other cop show in history. Something something cops have a tough job and if you've never been one then who are you to judge.
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May 17, 2016 12:48
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APB sounds like someone watched just the middle of Robocop when he's cleaning up crime but not the beginning or the end.
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May 17, 2016 12:59
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Sanguinia posted:If we assume the obvious nightmare scenario of Subscriptions are right out, are they making money through that dumb app? Advertisement and endorsements? Is it something like Drug Trials at a hospital, where they serve as a testbed for new Law Enforcement tech that the parent company makes a profit off selling elsewhere? Every one of those scenarios has at bare minimum considerable ethical baggage and very real potential for a large negative impact on the ability of citizens, especially poor citizens, to receive the "service," of law enforcement. That's the kind of thing I'd like to see played out in APB. That's the interesting thing in the scenario, the ugly mess of politics and private business colliding head on. I want to know details like what the police union deals with it, what happens when they just displace activity to outside of their district, or what happens when the cost/benefit analysis demands something unpopular. Instead, the trailer presented it as "Silicon Valley disrupts the police! Hurray!" Damnit, the more I think about APB the more I think that there's a really awesome series buried in there that we won't get to see because it's a police procedural on network television. Even if they tried to take on the issues that privatizing just part of the police force raises, it has to be addressed in a pat, simplistic way in 44 minutes. Edit: I just realized CBS also has a "Silicon Valley disrupts one of the traditional television settings" show only they're using a hospital. Now we just need Silicon Valley to disrupt a law firm and we have the trifecta. Random Stranger fucked around with this message at 13:50 on May 17, 2016 |
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May 17, 2016 13:42
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muscles like this? posted:APB sounds like someone watched just the middle of Robocop when he's cleaning up crime but not the beginning or the end. They literally did this in Continuum on SyFy. Didn't turn out so well
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May 17, 2016 15:35
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I expected the Zorn trailer to be terrible but I really liked it. The cast is great.
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May 17, 2016 16:23
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I'm unreasonably giddy about Lethal Weapon. That dude that plays Riggs has really nice hair.
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