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[kevin1025]

Orville looks worse then i imagined. Seth McFarlane has zero range doesn't he? and it's look a bad SNL set

You mean Seth Macfarlane telling an alien to step a few feet to the right for better centering in a threatening comms talk isn't hilarious to you?!

 

[Slayven]

We should start a pool for how quickly McFarlane makes Orville do a musical episode.

Show looks dreadful. It's Galaxy Quest with none of the wit or creativity.

You mean Seth Macfarlane telling an alien to step a few feet to the right for better centering in a threatening comms talk isn't hilarious to you?!

You can telegraph jokes a 10000 miles away, but by god make them worth the setup.

 

[firehawk12]

Ohhhh... That'd get me watching again just to see how someone finally kills the indestructible Gibbs.

Only show I watch out of the list is Elementary. They could kill Sherlock, actually. It'd be somewhat in-keeping with the source material, and, if it's the final season, would be a great way to wrap up character arcs.

They already "killed" Sherlock by having him become an addict again though.

We should start a pool for how quickly McFarlane makes Orville do a musical episode.

Show looks dreadful. It's Galaxy Quest with none of the wit or creativity.

I still think Orville might end up being better than Discovery. lol

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Just now realizing that Aubrey Plaza and Aisha Hinds both got snubbed at the Emmys... :/

 

[chadskin]

Just now realizing that Aubrey Plaza and Aisha Hinds both got snubbed at the Emmys... :/

100 pages of Emmys snubs incoming.

Freddie Highmore is probably the snub I'm the most miffed about. He was phenomenal all throughout the last Bates season.

 

[dead souls]

Just now realizing that Aubrey Plaza and Aisha Hinds both got snubbed at the Emmys... :/

The only problem with the Legion snub is that Fargo didn't get shut out too.

 

[PhoncipleBone]

We should start a pool for how quickly McFarlane makes Orville do a musical episode.

Show looks dreadful. It's Galaxy Quest with none of the wit or creativity.

Full episode or just a musical number?

 

[Grizzlyjin]

Full episode or just a musical number?

Full episode. He loves musicals. Although to be fair, he does have a nice voice.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

The only problem with the Legion snub is that Fargo didn't get shut out too.

Say what you will about Legion, but Aubrey Plaza definitely deserved to be nominated for her gonzo performance. It also should have gotten some sort of costume/set design recognition.

 

[Pixieking]

They already "killed" Sherlock by having him become an addict again though.

True, but not quite the same, so I still think they could actually kill him and pull it off. I'd be really interested in a Moriarty, Morland, Watson mexican standoff-style finale to the series.

 

[WaffleTaco]

It takes until about the 3rd episode, when they find out the meaning of a tattoo with just three or four hours to spare, to realize you have to suspend disbelief in a manner that simply goes beyond reasoning.

Edit - I should clarify that essentially every episode works this way.

This sounds awful.

Just now realizing that Aubrey Plaza and Aisha Hinds both got snubbed at the Emmys... :/

Emmys are weird this year. They snubbed The Americans, but included House of Cards. Not sure why they chose House of Cards even over Orange is the New Black either. They included Strangers Things and This Is Us, despite one being heavily liked due to nostalgia and the other being only considered so good because it's the best network television show in basically a decade...

 

[Karu]

Emmys are weird this year. They snubbed The Americans, but included House of Cards. Not sure why they chose House of Cards even over Orange is the New Black either. They included Strangers Things and This Is Us, despite one being heavily liked due to nostalgia and the other being only considered so good because it's the best network television show in basically a decade...

The Good Wife. Edit: And this is not a classic "What about my fav TV show?!" post lol

 

[Oddduck]

Emmys are weird this year. They snubbed The Americans, but included House of Cards. Not sure why they chose House of Cards even over Orange is the New Black either. They included Strangers Things and This Is Us, despite one being heavily liked due to nostalgia and the other being only considered so good because it's the best network television show in basically a decade...

I could be wrong on this, but aren't the emmy's based on the previous season, instead of the current season.

House of Cards was decent last year.

 

[Linkura]

Freddie Highmore is probably the snub I'm the most miffed about. He was phenomenal all throughout the last Bates season.

Yuuup. But they've screwed over everyone on Bates Motel for years, so it's not really surprising.

 

[kevin1025]

I could be wrong on this, but aren't the emmy's based on the previous season, instead of the current season.

House of Cards was decent last year.

House of Cards is for this year's, they put it out on a non-Friday (and the last day of eligibility) so they could compete.

 

[Cornballer]

Game of Thrones numbers:

Game of Thrones returned after its longest wait yet to the show’s biggest audience ever — by far.

The worldwide hit series delivered an incredible 16.1 million viewers for the highly anticipated kick off to its penultimate season across all HBO platforms (repeats and streaming and DVR).

That represents a whopping 50 percent increase from last year’s premiere — despite the show airing in the summer for the first time when the number of households watching television is lower than in the spring (which is why broadcast networks run most of their original programming from September to May).

Last year the season 6 premiere averaged 10.7 million viewers including streaming (7.9 million viewers without).

@GameOfThrones S7 opens to a massive linear audience of 10.1M viewers at 9 p.m. Sunday, up 27% vs. April 2016 S6 premiere

Including replays + digital views, HBO estimates audience for S7 @GameOfThrones opener already at 16.1M -- +50% vs 2016

 

[CrichtonKicks]

Not suprised by those GoT numbers. Anecdotally it feels like they really hit peak buzz with those last two episodes of last season.

 

[berzeli]

Game of Thrones numbers:

 

[firehawk12]

True, but not quite the same, so I still think they could actually kill him and pull it off. I'd be really interested in a Moriarty, Morland, Watson mexican standoff-style finale to the series.

I feel like the show is smart enough not to try to get too cute like Sherlock did in its third and fourth seasons.

Or maybe we'll get a scene where he falls off the Niagara falls lol

 

[Aiii]

despite the show airing in the summer for the first time when the number of households watching television is lower than in the spring

Even as it is debunked in practice, this myth proceeds to exist. I am sure it was true once.

 

[AngmarsKing701]

Not suprised by those GoT numbers. Anecdotally it feels like they really hit peak buzz with those last two episodes of last season.

Yep - Battle of the Bastards and The Winds of Winter really set the stage, and the buzz they've generated around these final 2 seasons (or 1.5 seasons if we're being technical) is really something. Watching GoT live has become an event, much like watching TWD live is an event.

Those two shows are the only things (besides sports) I watch live. Everything else can wait for DVR. Hell, I don't even want to open social media if I'm more than a minute behind getting started in case of spoilers.

 

[PHOENIXZERO]

Yeah... I limped through Blindspot's first season and the ridiculous tattoo deal, playing the show as a straight drama that we've seen a hundred times with the trying to hard to be "hip" and not playing to how ridiculous it all was didn't help. Oh and a mystery that they should've just left alone at mid-season or whatever instead of throwing more twist nonsense.

Gaddam at those GoT numbers.

 

[WaffleTaco]

The Good Wife. Edit: And this is not a classic "What about my fav TV show?!" post lol

I forgot about The Good Wife, I still need to watch it.

I could be wrong on this, but aren't the emmy's based on the previous season, instead of the current season.

House of Cards was decent last year.

Orange is the New Black for 2017 emmy's would be nominated for Season 4 (arguably considering a really strong season), and House of Cards is based off Season 5 (probably their worst season ever made, and a significant step down in terms of writing)

Game of Thrones numbers:

I'm honestly surprised it's not bigger. This show (should) will pass Walking Dead as the biggest/second biggest show this decade in terms of fandom.

 

[Linkura]

I'm honestly surprised it's not bigger. This show (should) will pass Walking Dead as the biggest/second biggest show this decade in terms of fandom.

WD is on basic cable, HBO requires a separate sub.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Mariah Carey Drama Series Based On Her Life In Works At Starz

We have learned that Starz is developing an untitled fictional scripted drama series based on the the music superstar' real-life experiences, with Carey executive producing alongside long-time friend Brett Ratner.

Written by Nina Colman (Mahogany), the drama is set in 1986 New York City and chronicles the rise of an ambitious bi-racial 16-year-old girl, an aspiring singer/songwriter who survived a difficult childhood to become the biggest selling female music artist of all time.

screaming tbh

 

[berzeli]

Mariah Carey Drama Series Based On Her Life In Works At Starz
screaming tbh

Is it about her struggle with polio?

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Is it about her struggle with polio?

She's been through a lot ok

 

[morningbus]

WD is on basic cable, HBO requires a separate sub.

Not to mention a lot of people either pirate or share a password to watch the show.

 

[WaffleTaco]

WD is on basic cable, HBO requires a separate sub.

I'm not sure what I was getting at tbh lol

Mariah Carey Drama Series Based On Her Life In Works At Starz



screaming tbh

Madonna and Rihanna have sold more than her.

 

[ZeoVGM]

Ego: The Series

 

[Stumpokapow]

From Skeet Ulrich's interview with the AV Club:
http://www.avclub.com/article/skeet-ulrich-talks-about-riverdale-scream-and-only-258027

... RE: Jericho

That series was just so compelling. I’ll never forget: It was right around the fourth episode, maybe, when we see the missiles launched across the sky, and North Korea was testing missiles two days prior to that. Now it’s nothing new, but at the time it was kind of unheard of. Kim Jong-il didn’t test that many, so the timing involved was really eerie.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t a show that was a CBS-type show. Now they have their summer miniseries that are sort of similar to it, but they had never really stepped outside of cops and lawyers and doctors, and they were scared of it. Lennie [James] and I spent a couple of hours every night rewriting it, and fortunately we were all on the same page: the producers and Carol Barbee, Lennie and I, and really, the whole cast.

I’ve done a lot of stuff in my career, and you hope you make friends while you’re doing things, and you hope you’ll keep in touch with a lot of people, but the way careers go, one person goes this way, another goes that way, and it’s hard to keep in touch. In fact, Alicia [Coppola’s] husband was over here yesterday. We talk, all of us, all the time. Tim Omundson just recently suffered a stroke, and producers and actors and everybody were showing up at the hospital and showing up at his house. That became a real family, that group of people, and I think it was felt from an audience perspective. You could feel that connection somehow. But plotwise it was just a really interesting notion of what this world could become and what do we do if it does?

We were close [to a third season] about four or five years ago. Karim Zreik, one of the producers, called me and said, “Netflix has a schedule, they have budget, they have locations. Are you in?” I said, “Absolutely, with one proviso: That first script back has to time-jump five years, and the world has devolved way lower than we could ever have imagined.” And they were on board with it. And CBS wouldn’t sell it. The deal wouldn’t work for them...

It’s so frustrating. Because the thing that killed that show was the marketing strategy that they had for it. Lost was in its fourth season when they split it into basically two 11-episode half-seasons, with a three-month hiatus in between the 11th and 12th episodes. But they had four seasons, and they had a following, and they did a massive amount of marketing when they broke between the 11th and 12th to let people know when it was coming back. And CBS wanted to use that model of marketing for Jericho. And it killed it.

I mean, we had a big fan base, but they didn’t do the marketing to let people know when it came back, and then when the numbers dropped, they blamed us. So it was really frustrating. I think, because we were such a family unit, we all wanted to come back and do those seven episodes [for a second season], but we were bitter about it. I mean, they cut our budget in half to do those seven. Our D.P. and most of the people that’d helped tell that story had gone off to other jobs. We typically shoot an episode in eight working days, and they made us do it in seven. So they brought us back, but they didn’t. It left a bad taste in my mouth, that whole experience. It seems like every series I’ve been a part of, there’s been some sort of frustration, business-wise.

 

[firehawk12]

I guess it's one of those situations where an IP owner would rather let it burn than risk the chance of someone else be successful with it. Much like all those dead game IPs that are just sitting in a drawer somewhere languishing in obscurity.

 

[strafer]

Jericho was awesome. Shame it got canned.

 

[Joni]

Fuck CBS even more now!

 

[Patryn]

I guess it's one of those situations where an IP owner would rather let it burn than risk the chance of someone else be successful with it. Much like all those dead game IPs that are just sitting in a drawer somewhere languishing in obscurity.

I think it's less the IP Owner and more the executives in charge of that IP Owner. They don't want to be the one who let a moneymaker out of the door.

 

[Aiii]

Claws is the fucking best show this summer and if you're not watching this show, you're dumb. It is fire.

 

[Mortimer Brewster]

Busty, you have the best hot takes.

No, they're not killing off Jamie Alexander on Blindspot.

I don't know, there were those rumors from the first season she was a diva terror on the set and tried to get various crew members fired including Stapleton. While they aren't likely to do so, if forced to make a choice of keeping her or Stapleton there is no doubt that they would keep Stapleton.

Also they need to bring back Archie. Her and Stapleton were electric together.

 

[Monocle]

Claws is the fucking best show this summer and if you're not watching this show, you're dumb. It is fire.

Oh good, I'd hoped it was as sassy as the preview.

 

[Aiii]

Oh good, I'd hoped it was as sassy as the preview.

Oh it is. Sassy and at times absolutely ridiculously hilariously bonkers.

 

[mm04]

I guess it's one of those situations where an IP owner would rather let it burn than risk the chance of someone else be successful with it. Much like all those dead game IPs that are just sitting in a drawer somewhere languishing in obscurity.

Yep, what a bummer. I really liked Jericho, too.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Claws is the fucking best show this summer and if you're not watching this show, you're dumb. It is fire.

This is what I've been trying to tell people! More people need to get on this crazy train~

 

[vypek]

I'm really upset with myself that I didn't set Claws as a series to record on my DVR. Missing some episodes now and I have to go "out of my way" to view them. I'm glad it is being received well (at least on here).

 

[ZeroX03]

@midnight #cancelled

 

[mreddie]

Wow, I know this was Hardwick's decision but still kinda sad a hit show just end.

 

[Slayven]

This is what I've been trying to tell people! More people need to get on this crazy train~

I don't feel bad i need to get on that shit. I think i will shotgun it tomorrow

 

[dead souls]

More time for Hardwick to host shitty "Talking *insert scripted drama title here*" crap I guess.

 

[Slayven]

I like Hardwick, and admire his passion. But I can not watch him anything for more then 5 minutes.

 

[ZeoVGM]

Hardwick is great and @midnight was legitimately one of the funniest shows on TV. Really disappointed about this.

 

[Claude Augario]

I like Chris Hardwick ¯\_(&#12484_/¯

 

[ZeroX03]

Hardwick isn't faking his enthusiasm for most things, he's just an earnest energetic dork which is fine in my books. Much more bareable in podcast form though, no mugging for the camera.