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'Disjointed': Chuck Lorre's Pot Comedy Canceled By Netflix After One Season
Netflix has opted not to renew pot-themed comedy series Disjointed starring Kathy Bates for a second season. The multi-camera workplace sitcom hailed from comedy heavyweight Chuck Lorre and former Daily Show head writer David Javerbaum and Warner Bros. TV. The studio is expected to explore shopping the series elsewhere.
Netflix will save i- Oh.

'Midnight, Texas' Renewed For Season 2 By NBC With New Showrunners, Two Cast Members Not Returning
It's taken awhile but NBC has given a second-season renewal to supernatural drama Midnight, Texas, which launched this past summer.

There will be a change at the helm of the series, from Universal Television and David Janollari Entertainment. Eric Charmelo and Nicole Snyder, who served as consulting producers on Season 1 under their overall deal at Uni TV, have been named executive producers and showrunners. They will succeed Monica Owusu-Breen who wrote the pilot and served as showrunner on Season 1. She is leaving to focus on other projects.

Additionally, two cast members from Season 1, Sarah Ramos and Yul Vazquez, will not be coming back as series regulars. The hope is for them to appear as guest stars, reprising their characters. Such cast trims are considered standard procedure when shows' budgets are trimmed for renewal.

edit: dammit Cornballer at least I had more context in my post
 

kevin1025

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Yeah, still the same production company as when it was announced but no mention of the BBC or Thorne as in the 2016 announcement.

Dude is insane, stuff he wrote in addition to what you mentioned: Wonder, an episode of Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams, he's been announced as the screenwriter for four upcoming films (The Aeronauts, The Secret Garden, Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout, and a unnamed Yusra Mardini biopic), and he's working on another TV series (The Virtues) with Shane Meadows (known for This is England)
lol. I had actually forgotten about the Curie film.

I really hope it's his version though. He's such a good writer.

Haha, jeez, that guy is unstoppable!

His episode of Electric Dreams was real great, easily one of the best of that season.
 

G_Shumi

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Gotta keep up with all the people watching it, and the critics, or you get spoiled.
I had the ending of One Day at a Time spoiled for me in a review that came out literally three days after Netflix dropped it. lol
I almost had that done to me too! I hate it when reviews do that. They should space them out at the very least. Give us viewers like a week or two to watch all the episodes.
 

RatskyWatsky

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Weekly episodes is clearly the superior method of content delivery. I love having a variety of shows to watch every week and find that Netflix/Amazon shows that I watch quickly kind of blur together and don't really stick with me.

Re: CW expanding taking Sundays back from the affiliates--give me six nights of DC shows week please Pedowitz, you know you want to.

Yep. All at once releases are a chore to get through more often than not and discussing them is nowhere near as fun and interesting.
 

Rhaknar

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there goes the "Netflix renews everything" theory. Well to be fair that went like last year, but people still keep saying it.

edit: also on the week to week vs dump thing, im sure a lot of you know, Netflix does a lot of week to week content in Europe lately, with the CW stuff, also Star Trek, Designated Survivor, Black List etc.
 

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I couldn't disagree with this more. Weekly episodes is clearly the superior method of content delivery. I love having a variety of shows to watch every week and find that Netflix/Amazon shows that I watch quickly kind of blur together and don't really stick with me.

I remember your posts going as far back as the Dollhouse threads on GAF.

And this is the first time I've ever agreed with you.

I'm buying you flowers.
 

Princess Bubblegum

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Nabbit

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For anyone in TVEra that hasn't given One Day at a Time a shot, I highly recommend it.

Also the co-creator is begging people to watch four episodes in the next few days. https://decider.com/2018/02/14/one-day-at-a-time-co-creator-please-watch-and-tell-your-friends/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site buttons&utm_campaign=site buttons

If Netflix doesn't renew it for a third season... ;_;
I saw the other day that Mike Royce is one of the co-creators. I enjoyed MOACA (men of a certain age) a ton. Is this in the same vein, i.e. a character-driven story focusing on people's everyday true to life issues? The laugh track was the main thing I was hesitant about.
 

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I like One Day at a Time. It's a really back to basics sitcom, in a good way. Of course if that's not for you it's going to seem extremely cheesy.
 

G_Shumi

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For anyone in TVEra that hasn't given One Day at a Time a shot, I highly recommend it.

Also the co-creator is begging people to watch four episodes in the next few days. https://decider.com/2018/02/14/one-day-at-a-time-co-creator-please-watch-and-tell-your-friends/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site buttons&utm_campaign=site buttons

If Netflix doesn't renew it for a third season... ;_;
I already finished the second season but I can have it on in the background again.
 

kevin1025

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I saw the other day that Mike Royce is one of the co-creators. I enjoyed MOACA (men of a certain age) a ton. Is this in the same vein, i.e. a character-driven story focusing on people's everyday true to life issues? The laugh track was the main thing I was hesitant about.

It's definitely that, an issue an episode that is driven by the characters and their viewpoints. A few of them can be a little hamfisted or don't work as well as some of the others can, but the characters and their heartfelt performances make up for that laugh track and the back to basics format that the show has. It's much better than I thought it would be.
 

Nabbit

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It's definitely that, an issue an episode that is driven by the characters and their viewpoints. A few of them can be a little hamfisted or don't work as well as some of the others can, but the characters and their heartfelt performances make up for that laugh track and the back to basics format that the show has. It's much better than I thought it would be.

Thanks so much for the detailed info and thanks SapphiCine and ZeroX as well! We're partway into the second ep and enjoying it very much already.
 

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I for one am looking forward superhero show #6 on Sunday nights.
Perferct time to finally make that Hellblazer show :)
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I like Disjointed but it was a mess, it didn't know what to do and the cast had little chemistry
 

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I have question and apologies if it has been answered before.

I just saw Money Heist (La casa de papel) is on Netflix now. I remember reading good things about it so I added to my list to check it out. Then I luckily landed up on the wiki page for the show and saw this

Netflix acquired the rights to stream the show and distributed the first part of the season on their streaming service on 25 December worldwide.[3] It is only on Netflix Spain that both parts are available to stream.[1] However instead of retaining the original number of nine episodes and the 70 minute runtime of each episode in the season, it was cut into 13 different untitled episodes. Each of the episodes has been limited to 40–50 minutes in length.[4]

So... is the season actually complete outside Netflix Spain? Can't really tell from this paragraph.
 
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Santiako

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I have question and apologies if it has been answered before.

I just saw Money Heist (La casa de papel) is on Netflix now. I remember reading good things about it so I added to my list to check it out. Then I luckily landed up on the wiki page for the show and saw this



So... is the season actually complete outside Netflix Spain? Can't really from this paragraph.

Two seasons have been aired in broadcast tv in Spain. Only the first one is currently on Netflix.
 

Zero315

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For anyone in TVEra that hasn't given One Day at a Time a shot, I highly recommend it.

Also the co-creator is begging people to watch four episodes in the next few days. https://decider.com/2018/02/14/one-day-at-a-time-co-creator-please-watch-and-tell-your-friends/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site buttons&utm_campaign=site buttons

If Netflix doesn't renew it for a third season... ;_;
I decided to throw it on in the background last night while I was doing other stuff and ended up watching half the first season, woke up this morning and finished it. It's way better than I thought it would be. Probably gonna start the second season later tonight.
 

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HBO Developing 'Stuxnet' Drama Based On Alex Gibney's 'Zero Days'
HBO is developing Alex Gibney's cyberwarfare project Stuxnet (w/t) as a mini-series with Downton Abbey producer Carnival Films.

I hear the Time Warner-backed premium broadcaster is working up the project as a limited drama with Stephen Schiff (The Americans) writing, and documentary Gibney set to direct as well as produce alongside Marc Shmuger. Carnival Films, the British production company run by Gareth Neame that is part of NBCUniversal International Studios, is working with Participant Media on the series.

Stuxnet is based on Gibney's cyberwarfare documentary Zero Days, which came out in 2016, and is the first time that the complete story of the phenomenon was captured on film.

The dramatic thriller will focus on the spread of a self-replicating computer virus developed by the West to disable and destroy nuclear facilities in the Middle East.

The drama will tell a tale of hackers, spies, nuclear secrets, and how one clandestine mission opens the Pandora's Box of cyber-warfare forever – a new era of global conflict without rules.
 

Zero315

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Wednesday night's ratings. Why are people watching Big Brother? Is Omarosa that big of a draw?:
I believe this is the first celebrity edition to be aired in the US. I would've been watching it if I hadn't completely forgot when it started and heard that they were truncating the season. Big Brother is a total guilty pleasure.
 

Rychu

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Wednesday night's ratings. Why are people watching Big Brother? Is Omarosa that big of a draw?:

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BB viewer here. No actually, Omarosa is probably one of the most boring personalities on that show. She's there for PR purposes so she hasn't caused any drama and she's been nice to everyone.

I love watching the show. Strategy, competitions, etc. Also Shannon Elizabeth is my favorite and she's really good at competitions. Her and James make a great team, too bad she's probably leaving the show tomorrow night.
 

Rychu

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I believe this is the first celebrity edition to be aired in the US. I would've been watching it if I hadn't completely forgot when it started and heard that they were truncating the season. Big Brother is a total guilty pleasure.
It's still watchable. Finale is next Sunday but they've only evicted two people so far.
 

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'Deadlier Than The Male' Thriller Drama Starring Lily Rabe Gets TNT Series Order
TNT has picked up to series suspense drama pilot Deadlier Than The Male (working title), starring Lily Rabe, Amy Brenneman and Hamish Linklater and produced by Bruna Papandrea's Made Up Stories and Turner's Studio T.

Created and written by Harriet Warner (Call the Midwife), Deadlier Than The Male is described as an intense, morally complex thriller. It centers on a trio of characters each with a mysterious and troubling past, including Emma (Rabe), a young woman who once looked into the eyes of a dangerous killer, John (Linklater), a former serial predator desperate to find redemption and Mary (Brenneman), a grieving mother obsessed with finding her missing daughter. As each of them is pushed to the edge, the truth about their pasts and motives grows ever murkier, blurring the lines between victim and perpetrator.
 

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It also helps that this Big Brother season has been far more enjoyable than the last at least for me. I was a little worried going into the season because I wasn't sure of how well the celebrities would play, but so far they've surprised me.
 

firehawk12

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I decided to throw it on in the background last night while I was doing other stuff and ended up watching half the first season, woke up this morning and finished it. It's way better than I thought it would be. Probably gonna start the second season later tonight.
It's surprising good given how unapologetically 80s it feels. I watched a few episodes of the original and a lot of the beats are the same. Except Canadian Schneider is not a creep and there isn't a man constantly pining over the main charactr.
 

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I just read that CBS All Access renewed their comedy series No Activity for a second season. Has CBS All Access cancelled ANYTHING? I thought for sure that show would get cancelled since the premise is two best friends being cops on a stakeout and nothing happens, just talking in a car waiting for something to happen.
 
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I just read that CBS All Access renewed their comedy series No Activity for a second season. Has CBS All Access cancelled ANYTHING? I thought for sure that show would get cancelled since the premise is two best friends being cops on a stakeout and nothing happens, just talking in a car waiting for something to happen.
They have renewed all their shows for a second season so far, then again this isn't uncommon with new players (see: Epix renewing everything for second seasons). If things get picked up for third seasons then we're talking (and I suspect that at least Star Trek and Good Fight will).
 

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For anyone in TVEra that hasn't given One Day at a Time a shot, I highly recommend it.

Also the co-creator is begging people to watch four episodes in the next few days. https://decider.com/2018/02/14/one-day-at-a-time-co-creator-please-watch-and-tell-your-friends/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site buttons&utm_campaign=site buttons

If Netflix doesn't renew it for a third season... ;_;
Would be a crying shame if this got cancelled, is funny and does a great job at talking some very serious subjects. I really love this show.
 
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