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2017-18 Season TV Cancellations/Pilots: E Corp does hostile takeover. Shuts down fsociety

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berzeli

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LionPride said:
Like, I like the show, mainly because of Angela Bassett, but like I laughed a lot at shit I know I should not laugh at
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Don't worry, no one in this thread will judge you for enjoying garbage TV. Lord knows I watched too many Lifetime/Hallmark White Lady Cosy Murder Mystery shows over the holidays and enjoyed them way too much, including laughing at very inappropriate times.
 
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Speaking of garbage TV;
ZDF Enterprises, Tuvalu Team for Female-Led Supernatural TV Drama 'One Bad Apple'
ZDF Enterprises, the commercial subsidiary of German broadcaster ZDF, is partnering with U.K. production banner Tuvalu Entertainment for One Bad Apple, a high-end female-led drama series billed as "Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Clueless meets Riverdale and The Omen, wrapped around Indiana Jones."
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that's a logline.
The drama, unveiled Thursday, was written by father-daughter duo Gavin Scott (The Young Indiana Jones, Small Soldiers) and Rebecca Scott (Discovery's Blood Relative, Murder Among Friends), and is set in and around a rural British boarding school after it takes in a new student: the Devil's own daughter. Enrolled at the school purposefully for its location near the burial place of The Holy Grail, which is preventing Satan's return to Earth, the new pupil – described as the "female equivalent of Darth Vader" – soon begins to spread her influence, but comes up against a plucky scholarship girl who, it transpires, comes from a long line of women sworn to defend the ancient artefact.
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Into my veins it goes.
 
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I was reading through Mike Schur's interview with Marketplace and found these two tidbits interesting:

- Marketplace: How the "The Good Place" creator Mike Schur found hell in Los Angeles
Ryssdal: When you finally came up with your pitch, because you're Mike Schur of "Parks and Rec" fame et cetera, et cetera. I imagine people said: "Yes, please come do the show with us."

Schur: Well you're very kind to say that. The actual situation was when "Parks and Recreation" ended, NBC asked me to do another show for them and sort of promised me that I could kind of skip the line as it were and just get a show on the air.

Ryssdal: "So, the answer to your question Kai, is yes."

Schur: Yes. Yeah. They basically said "we'll just give you a 13-episode guarantee," which is a very rare thing and I felt very fortunate. And so, I'm a hard worker, I would say, so I spent a lot of time crafting the idea because I want it to not feel like I was taking advantage of their generosity.
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Ryssdal: That's so funny, you have to fight for more money. I always just imagined that the for-profit land is like, here have as much money as you want!

Schur: No, no, no. No, the opposite. They are trying to minimize the amount of money that they spend on your product. And, by the way, let's take for example like a hiatus week. So, you shoot four or five episodes in a row, then you have a built-in hiatus week where the writing staff can sort of regroup and regenerate, and you have a little more time to relax. Those hiatus weeks are expensive because you have to pay to hold your crew across that week. So, those hiatus weeks are several hundred thousand dollars of money that's just being thrown away – not thrown away given to the crew to hold them.

Ryssdal: But not productively, yeah.

Schur: Right. So, what happens when they want to cut costs? Well, they start saying, "do you really need that hiatus week, or can it be three hiatus days?" So, you have to know everything about the way the economics of the show work, in order to be able to fight for the territory that you really need.
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Wednesday night's ratings. No one likes Howie Mandel. No one:

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SeanM

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Yikes at those X-Files ratings. I wonder how low it'll be by the end of the season. At least it doesn't seem to have hurt 911.
 
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I forgot to watch 9-1-1. I should start setting my DVR for real instead of one episode at a time lol.
 
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So apparently the TV creator of Happy! actually has plans for a season 2 if it can happen. I can't imagine that's at all possible with such low ratings and hardly any advertisers, but...

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Altered Carbon looks expensive as shit holy crap? O_o

Show itself looks... err I dunno ok? Kinda cliche, could be fun, ill probably watch it for those Deus Ex / Blade Runner style visuals alone.
 
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To celebrate their Golden Globe wins, Amazon is making the entire first season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel available free for streaming between Friday, Jan. 12 - Monday, Jan. 15.

It's a great series, so I highly recommend everyone check it out.
 

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Zoe said:
So apparently the TV creator of Happy! actually has plans for a season 2 if it can happen. I can't imagine that's at all possible with such low ratings and hardly any advertisers, but...
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Fuck. Hope no cliffhanger this season. We've been enjoying it so far. Thought it was doing well in the ratings (premiere, anyway).
 
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'The Wangs vs. the World' TV Series in the Works at Hulu
Jade Chang will adapt her novel about a wealthy but fractured Chinese immigrant family that had it all, only to lose every last cent — and about the road trip they take across America that binds them back together. Jon M. Chu (G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, Now You See Me 2 and the upcoming Crazy Rich Asians take from Warner Bros.) will direct should the script move to pilot at Hulu. Bridget Bedard (Transparent, Mad Men) will supervise.
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And in much stranger news:
BritBox Sets 'Bletchley Circle' Spinoff as First Original
BritBox, the streaming service from BBC Worldwide and ITV that provides a collection of British TV content in the U.S., on Thursday unveiled its first original, drama series The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco.

The spinoff of mystery drama The Bletchley Circle will be produced by Omnifilm Entertainment in association with BritBox and World Productions, the producer of the original show. Set to premiere later this year, it is formatted as four stories, each unfolding over two episodes.
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The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco picks up in 1956 and follows two of the original lead characters, Millie (Rachel Stirling) and Jean (Julie Graham), as they travel to America and join forces with two U.S. code breakers to tackle a string of new murder cases. "Using their unique skills and intellectual abilities, the four women solve complex mysteries that baffle local law enforcement," according to a show description.
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No. No. No. As someone who watched the original Bletchley Circle (because of course I did), taking two of the less interesting characters and moving them to the US is just a bad idea. Absolutely nothing about this sounds enticing, and I found the original series to be merely watchable (and the second series was a noticeable step down already).
 
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I'm glad The Middle continues to do well, as it deserves to and has been an underrated show since the beginning. This is Us' ratings are no surprise -- that show's great (and I'm happy to have it back). Kevin (Probably) Saves the World deserves a better fate, and The X-Files' low ratings are saddening.
 
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I like 9-1-1 but man, some of the scenarios are ridiculous and the young gun fireman having sex with every female is becoming a bit stale but the ending of last night's episode was just like geez, this show don't quit.


Also shout out to Bull, some of Michael Weatherly's best work. Looking forward to another season.
 
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HBO's premiering Succession in June. Sharp Objects was previously said to be coming then, too. Two dramas at once? The films Paterno and Fahrenheit 451 are also loosely scheduled for this spring.

Rychu said:
Once the Disney deal goes through and Disney has control over Hulu, I expect them to keep Hulu content on Hulu exclusively. Seems like a corporate thing to do to force people to stay subscribed to watch shows.
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Maybe. I think it's hard to predict what Disney will opt to do with Hulu, and whether other partners will want to hang around, given various priorities and the different types of content they current deliver (current network/cable content, catalog shows/movies, originals, etc). I would fully expect Disney to go hardcore walled off garden with its new family service and the shows developed for that, especially since most of that content will spring from their own internal IP.
 
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Various HBO shenanigans (via deadline):
  • Confederate (lol): "Dave and David are in production on Game of Thrones, they are still talking (about Confederate) but it's going to be a year year, year and a half before there is anything," Bloys said. "They have to finish GOT." He confirmed that the project's creative team, which also includes co-writers Nichelle Tramble Spellman and Malcolm Spellman, remains intact.
  • Deadwood: I think this is something we would do possibly next fall, fall 2018. Talks with the cast are currently underway, focusing on their availability.I'm waiting for a rewrite," Bloys said, "and we have to get the numbers right, but, assuming we can get everybody back together, I'm feeling optimistic about it."
  • The Comeback: There are no current plans for a third season
  • Big Little Lies: Deals with the rest of the cast beyond stars/executive producers Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon are "mostly done." Season 2 remains on track for a spring start.
  • Damon Lindelof's Watchmen pilot: "I've read the script, it's amazing. I'm thrilled, I imagine we'll shoot that this year.
  • Armando Iannucci's space comedy pilot: "The script is brilliant, really, really funny." It will be shot later this year.
  • Veep, whose final season has been delayed as star Julia Louis Dreyfus undergoes cancer treatment. "There is a plan to come back and do a final season."
  • Vice, whose parent company has been rocked by sexual harassment scandals. "There is nothing to report" on Vice's HBO programs.
 
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Hollywood Reporter says Westworld returns this spring...
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Kumail Nanjiani to Write and Star in 'My Beautiful Laundrette' TV Series
Hot on the heels of his tour de force with "The Big Sick," Kumail Nanjiani has attached himself as an actor and writer for an upcoming TV adaptation of "My Beautiful Laundrette" being developed at Turner-owned Super Deluxe.

Alec Berg ("Silicon Valley") and Hanif Kureishi (writer of the original "Laundrette") will executive produce with Stephen Gaghan ( "Traffic"). The serialization of "Laundrette" will be based on the Oscar-nominated 1985 indie film starring Daniel Day-Lewis. The film revolved around a young British man of Pakistani heritage and his white boyfriend, a former gang leader, who take on running a London laundromat owned by the British-Pakistani man's uncle. The film was lauded for its portrayal of the gay and immigrant communities. No network or streaming service has yet sealed a deal for the project.

Nanjiani, who will co-write and and star in the series in a yet unnamed role...
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Slightly OP, but can I ask where those TV rating charts come from which are posted all the time?
Reason I ask, I am currently writing my dissertation for uni and want to find stats which provide me when is best to show specific TV shows i.e. is a Action/Drama show best slot on a Sunday at 9pm etc
But I can't seem to find anywhere on the Nielsen site any of these types of rating/stats nor where the charts which are shown here are located.

Thanks
 
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Latest Swat episode had fucking Gideon Emery as a fucking baddie, didn't know he was a real actor, i just know him from his voice acting stuff.

Bloods Elves in World of Warcraft for example

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How is This Is Us doing this season? I'm thinking of finishing up the first season.
 
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So did anyone else watch the latest SWAT episode? What the hell was that ending? So did his wife die or what?
 
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Had no idea Armando had a new show for HBO in the works. Hyped for that and his latest movie

Sadly veep went to shit in his absence, most notably that last season. Jonah was still hilarious tho

Also wondering if kumail will still be around on silicon valley while juggling these other projects. Hopefully
 
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Gareth Edwards' Sci-Fi Feature 'Monsters' Being Adapted As Television Series
British sci-fi horror film Monsters is being turned into a television series by Vertigo Films for UK broadcaster Channel 4. The feature was the directorial debut of Star Wars spin-off Rogue One and Godzilla helmer Gareth Edwards.

I understand that Top Boy creator Ronan Bennett will act as showrunner with up-and-coming British writers Daniel Fajemisin-Duncan and Marlon Smith writing.
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I liked Monsters quite a bit, not sure how it will hold up as a TV show, but the premise isn't unworkable.

Daniel Dae Kim Developing TV Series Adaptation Of 'First Rule Of Ten' Book
Daniel Dae Kim's 3AD production company, which is behind breakout ABC drama series The Good Doctor, is developing First Rule of Ten, based on the successful books by Gay Hendricks and Tinker Lindsay, as a television series. Kim has partnered with Tony-winning playwright David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly) on the project
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Released by Hay House Visions in 2011, First Rule of Tenfocuses on a young monk, who after years spent struggling with the teachings of his Tibetan monastery, leaves to find his identity in the unlikeliest of places – Los Angeles. There, he's forced to reconcile the differences between the Buddhist teachings he's grown up with and the new fast-paced lifestyle filled with temptations. His path to self-discovery becomes further complicated when he witnesses a brutal crime and becomes inextricably entwined in its investigation.
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I hate this already
 
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