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kevin1025

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Show Me A Hero is real good!

David Simon and Dennis Lehane are involved in this, I'll be watching this miniseries/series for sure.
 
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Yeah this sounds nice...
Simon and Mediapro are seeking to raise the necessary funds both in the U.S. and Europe.
gets flashbacks to A Legacy of Ashes trying to get off the ground

I need something to cheer me up
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Ah yeah, that hits the spot
 

vypek

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Hm, I should check out Killing Eve. Barely saw part of a commercial for it but it did seem interesting.
 

Blitzrules240

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I just found out New Girl is doing a flashforward and going three years into the future for the final season.

Just found out...guess I was out of the marketing loop lol.
 

Pixieking

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People may be interested to know there's a 4 part adaptation of China Miéville's "The City & The City" just started airing on BBC UK. Presumably it'll make the jump to BBC Worldwide/America. Seems to have got some good reviews so far, and not seen anyone mention it - first I knew was a few minutes ago, when I saw a tweet about it:

 

Zoe

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For all the acclaim Killing Eve is getting, practically nobody is discussing it.
 
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Hm, I should check out Killing Eve. Barely saw part of a commercial for it but it did seem interesting.
It's the best new show of the year so far, and I'd be very surprised if it wasn't high on my top 10 by the year's end.
For all the acclaim Killing Eve is getting, practically nobody is discussing it.
Eh, it's getting pretty decent coverage if you look beyond the usual (mostly male dominated) TV sphere so you have the likes of Vogue is covering it, and Refinery29 is just straight up pushing it (review, interview, article on interview from another publication, thinkpiece, and I'm not including the paid content article they did where they have the first episode on the site). Vulture has a really good interview with Sandra Oh up that got some nice response:

And then you have the fact that it is in competition at the inaugural Canneseries (which is something I'll do a separate post on later).
So I think it's probably getting talked about more than any other BBC America original but maybe not on the same places that talked about Orphan Black.

Now, The Good Fight which has pretty much turned into essential TV this season is getting tragically overlooked, even by people in this thread. cc: RatskyWatsky
 

ZeroX

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God damn I need to catch up on The Good Fight. I was all up in there during S1. Blame the streaming service.

I assume they fixed the Maia stuff? That was the weak point of S1 by far.
 

Fuzzy

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Only reason I know of The Good Fight is because of y'all and that I've seen commercials for it since it airs on W Network in Canada. Doesn't mean I've watched it though because I never cared about The Good Wife.
 
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Spinoff to a show nobody watched and is on CBS All Access. You can't be overlooked if no one even knows you exist, can you?
pls dead souls. You know that at least Les Moonves is watching the show.
Only reason I know of The Good Fight is because of y'all and that I've seen commercials for it since it airs on W Network in Canada. Doesn't mean I've watched it though because I never cared about The Good Wife.
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Linkura

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It's the best new show of the year so far, and I'd be very surprised if it wasn't high on my top 10 by the year's end.

Eh, it's getting pretty decent coverage if you look beyond the usual (mostly male dominated) TV sphere so you have the likes of Vogue is covering it, and Refinery29 is just straight up pushing it (review, interview, article on interview from another publication, thinkpiece, and I'm not including the paid content article they did where they have the first episode on the site). Vulture has a really good interview with Sandra Oh up that got some nice response:

And then you have the fact that it is in competition at the inaugural Canneseries (which is something I'll do a separate post on later).
So I think it's probably getting talked about more than any other BBC America original but maybe not on the same places that talked about Orphan Black.

Now, The Good Fight which has pretty much turned into essential TV this season is getting tragically overlooked, even by people in this thread. cc: RatskyWatsky

The shit Asian and
Asian American actors have to go through is ridiculous.
 

Zippedpinhead

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I would watch the good fight if it was on CBS. I just can't justify all the over the tops when I already get TV (UVerse), Netflix and amazon.

Heck I caught up on the good wife through amazon prime.
 
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more important ratings:
Killing Eve opened to 0.423M viewers which is higher than any of the episodes in the two final seasons of Orphan Black, slightly under what Dirk Gently opened to but higher than any of the episode of its second season.

And I guess:
'NOS4A2' Horror Drama Based On Joe Hill's Book Gets AMC Series Order
AMC has given a 10-episode straight-to-series order to supernatural horror drama NOS4A2, based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Joe Hill. The project, produced by AMC Studios in association with Michael Eisner's Tornante Television, was created by Jami O'Brien (Fear The Walking Dead, Hell On Wheels) who will serve as showrunner.
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NOS4A2 introduces Vic McQueen, a young, working class artist who discovers she has a supernatural ability to track the seemingly immortal Charlie Manx. Manx feeds off the souls of children, then deposits what remains of them into Christmasland – a twisted Christmas Village of Manx's imagination where every day is Christmas day and unhappiness is against the law. Vic must strive to defeat Manx and rescue his victims – without losing her mind or falling victim to him herself.
Amazon In Talks For 'Sandstorm' Series On Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi
Amazon is in talks to develop Sandstorm, a series about notorious Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who seized power in a coup at the age of 29, and ruled Libya for more than four decades before his bloody demise at the hands of his own countrymen in 2011.

Carter Harris (Bloodline) will write, and Mohamed Diab (Clash) will direct.
 

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Apple Lands Isaac Asimov 'Foundation' TV Series From David Goyer & Josh Friedman

In a competitive situation, Apple has nabbed a TV series adaptation of Foundation, the seminal Isaac Asimov science fiction novel trilogy. The project, from Skydance Television, has been put in development for straight-to-series consideration. Deadline revealed last June that Skydance had made a deal with the Asimov estate and that David S. Goyer and Josh Friedman were cracking the code on a sprawling series based on the books that informed Star Wars and many other sci-fi films and TV series. Goyer & Friedman will be executive producers and showrunners. Skydance's David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Marcy Ross also will executive produce.
 
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btw this is your occasional reminder that Paramount Network hasn't even mentioned Heathers since February 28th, much less scheduled it for transmission.
 

kevin1025

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With Amazon making all of the big splashes lately for sci-fi, Apple goes for it, too. This could be awesome (if their PG/PG-13 goal doesn't compromise too much).

btw this is your occasional reminder that Paramount Network hasn't even mentioned Heathers since February 28th, much less scheduled it for transmission.

I wonder if it's full on gone, or will be a summer show.
 

RatskyWatsky

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Now, The Good Fight which has pretty much turned into essential TV this season is getting tragically overlooked, even by people in this thread. cc: RatskyWatsky

she's into videogames now


This was the more interesting show of the three they had in their last script-to-series program. The other two sounded pretty lame.


Apple going big!
 
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Paramount Network Developing 'I Know Who You Are' Drama Based On Spanish Format From Steven Kane & David Semel
Paramount Network has put in development thriller drama I Know Who You Are, based on the 2017 Spanish limited series Sé quién eres. The project hails from The Last Ship co-creator Steven Kane, director David Semel (Star Trek: Discovery) and CBS TV Studios.

Written by Kane and directed by Semel, I Know Who You Are is a missing-person thriller that follows a morally ambiguous celebrity journalist who awakens from a car accident as a suspect in the disappearance of his own niece.
BBC, Mammoth Gear Up YA Race Drama 'Noughts & Crosses' With 'Being Human' Creator, Director Kibwe Tavares
BBC One and Victoria producer Mammoth Screen have set rising UK filmmaker Kibwe Tavares to direct the first three episodes of anticipated drama Noughts And Crosses, I have learned. The producers have also brought on Being Human creator Toby Whithouse to oversee scripting. The team is gearing up to shoot the dystopian YA adaptation later this year as a 6x60min drama and there are discussions going on at the moment to potentially bring aboard a sizeable U.S. partner.

Overseas interest is understandable. Malorie Blackman's buzzed-about YA book series takes place in an alternate 21st-century Britain in which whites and blacks are segregated following centuries in which Africans had a technological and infrastructural superiority over Europeans who they made their slaves. The series, first announced in summer 2016, will chart the forbidden love story between 'Cross' Sephy, a member of the black ruling class and daughter of a prominent politician, and 'Nought' Callum, a white member of the underclass.

Writer Levi David Addai (Youngers) and Life On Mars co-creator Matthew Graham have moved on from the project which is now being script-led by Being Human creator and Doctor Who director Whithouse with Lydia Adetunji (Riviera) and Nathaniel Price (Five By Five).
I wonder if it's full on gone, or will be a summer show.
At this point I wouldn't be surprised if they burn it off in the summer. I don't really see the show working post-Parkland, then again I don't get why they'd even do Heathers post-Columbine. Even much less so when apparently the show is barking up the wrong tree with what it's trying to criticise.
she's into videogames now
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TheBeardedOne

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The Crossing seems to be doing okay for a mid-season filler show. I haven't watched last night's episode but did record it.

Kevin Can Wait was better last night. It's still not a good show though. If what happened plays out, they'll be shaking up the show a lot and losing a major set piece.

Man With a Plan is still much better.
 

PlanetSmasher

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Put bluntly, I just don't trust anyone associated with the Walking Dead (or its spinoff) to be able to handle a book like that and pull it off well.

It would really just need to be a miniseries with a set endpoint from minute one. No wasted time, no cheap plot ploys, no marketing-driven storytelling, no meandering nonsense.
 

kevin1025

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This book was positively terrifying, but I have absolutely no faith that AMC, of all networks, will be able to pull it off.

The Terror is pulling it off incredibly well on the same network, and the showrunner has a pretty good track record! Fear the Walking Dead hasn't fallen into the same trappings as the flagship show (so far).
 

RatskyWatsky

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Put bluntly, I just don't trust anyone associated with the Walking Dead (or its spinoff) to be able to handle a book like that and pull it off well.

It would really just need to be a miniseries with a set endpoint from minute one. No wasted time, no cheap plot ploys, no marketing-driven storytelling, no meandering nonsense.

The shows are all made by separate teams, so that's a really bizarre thing to say.
 

PlanetSmasher

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The third season of Fear the Walking Dead is considered the best "Walking Dead" season in years - she also wrote only two episodes.

She's still a producer on the show even if she only wrote two specific episodes herself.

That being said, if she manages to pull off the book well, I'll be glad. I just don't have any excitement for that kind of a combination. Nothing AMC's done in like three seasons has landed for me.
 
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