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2016-17 TV Cancellations Thread: TNT finds "Nothing can come of nothing."

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TheOddOne

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- Variety: Tensions Rise in Hollywood as Emboldened Writers Guild Renews Negotiations.
A strike would require all 12,000 WGA members to stop work immediately. It would cause an immediate blackout of late-night television programming, followed by delays in programming for the 2017-2018 season and scripted summer shows currently in production.
Sources have indicated that when negotiators last met, the two sides had been closing some of the gaps in the area of adjusting compensation terms for writers working on short-order series. WGA has been seeing lost income and long production timetables for many cable and streaming shows, which produce fewer episodes than the traditional 22- or 24-episode seasons for broadcast network shows.

The two sides are facing complex bargaining over the WGA health plan, which has run a deficit during most of the past few years given the spiraling cost of health care. Producers were believed to be offering to increase contributions by $60 million while the WGA was asking for around $80 million to $85 million.
 

maxcriden

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This was rumored recently but not confirmed. I am not psyched by this development.

Get ready for an entirely new Scream.

MTV announced today that Season 3 of the slasher series -- based on Wes Craven's big-screen bloodbaths -- will feature a fresh cast and creative reboot. In addition, the network revealed that the show's new flavor will be provided by some entertainment royalty.

Actress/rapper/mogul Queen Latifah, plus Shakim Compere and Yaneley Arty, will serve as executive producers for Flavor Unit Entertainment. The production company, owned and operated by Latifah and Compere, boasts big-screen credits including Bringing Down the House, Beauty Shop and The Perfect Holiday. For television, Flavor executive-produced HBO’s Life Support, which earned a Golden Globe for Latifah, and Bessie.

Also serving as an executive producer -- and the series' brand-new showrunner -- is Brett Matthews, whose credits include The Vampire Diaries and Supernatural. Harvey and Bob Weinstein continue to serve as EPs under the Dimension TV umbrella; additional executive producers are Craven, Tony DiSanto, Liz Gateley, Marianne Maddalena and Cathy Konrad. Matthew Signer and Keith Levine are producers.

http://www.mtv.com/news/3006298/scream-reboot-new-cast-queen-latifah/

We were in the middle of a story and there was only 6 episodes to go until likely cancellation. I don't know if this reboot is for 6 eps only as that's how many S3 was originally picked up for, but I (selfishly) feel they may as well have finished those and then done the reboot if they wanted. At least one double episode to wrap things up would have sufficed.
 

Pachimari

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Yeah, the reboot is still 6 episodes.

Was S1 and S2 any good? I've always wanted to watch it and is thinking of catching up very soon.
 

maxcriden

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Yeah, the reboot is still 6 episodes.

Was S1 and S2 any good? I've always wanted to watch it and is thinking of catching up very soon.

I personally thought it was very compelling, edge of your seat genre TV. It takes a couple eps to get going, as many shows do. But it was very good. There are 2 seasons and a recent Halloween special. Opinions were mixed on the second season but I thought it was just as good as the first. Interesting characters throughout with fun spins on the genre and a deserved modern day take on the meta trappings of the original Scream movie. (I imagine those extended to its sequels but I only saw the first one in full recently and haven't seen the others.)
 

morningbus

Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
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G0523

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Oh hey! More repeats on ABC and CBS! What are they doing here? What's that? They're doing better than new episodes of shows on Fox? Well, no one should be surprised by that.
 

Busty

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So weird, AoS was actually climbing in the ratings and then just kind of plummets

I am curious to see if it adjusts up

Perhaps as Quantico sinks into the cold, lonely, never-ending abyss it's frantically reaching out for anything it can cling onto for dear life and the only thing close to hand was AOS?
 

Pachimari

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I really think that this third act in Agents of Shield has dropped magnificently in quality. I've loved the show since Season 1 aired, and am a huge Marvel fan, but this last arc is just so damn boring, and they had so much potential to play around with but I feel like they haven't utilized it at all.

Guerrilla seems to be an interesting tv show having seen the first two episodes, but sometimes my attention goes elsewhere because of the slow pacing and me not being able to relate much to being in the minority, but it's still an interesting plot to follow for sure. I will keep watching it and see where it's going.
 

JeffZero

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SHIELD adjusting up is the second best news I've received all day.

For the record, #1 involved free pizza, but I place a high bar on free food.
 

jwk94

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What's redneck Game of Thrones?

This was rumored recently but not confirmed. I am not psyched by this development.



http://www.mtv.com/news/3006298/scream-reboot-new-cast-queen-latifah/

We were in the middle of a story and there was only 6 episodes to go until likely cancellation. I don't know if this reboot is for 6 eps only as that's how many S3 was originally picked up for, but I (selfishly) feel they may as well have finished those and then done the reboot if they wanted. At least one double episode to wrap things up would have sufficed.

Whoa, what? I just started season 2 (it's kind of a slog). What's going on here? Oh, and this really should've been an anthology series from the jump. Season 1 and 2 about different groups, then 3 about the survivors coming together.
 
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