ABC ran a recap show of Flashforward last night. The show starts up again this Thursday at 8pm.
Also V starts again on the 30th. On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>wrote: > > > "Justified" was good. A bit deliberate in pacing, which is good. I liked > it, but frankly, I liked "Karen Sisko" better when that show premiered. Not > to say "Justified" isn't good. It still has that wryness to the leads that > Leonard's famous for putting in: where people almost seem to be about to > crack a smile, but instead they shoot someone dead. I like shows that go > anywhere other than NYC or LA, so the setting in Kentucky was cool. Kind of > a modern "In the Heat of the Night". A bit obvious that the first case he > takes deals with militant white supremacists, though. > Lots of potential, held my interest, I'll keep watching. > Still, seeing "Justified" made me miss "Karen Sisko" and even "K*ville" all > the more... > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Martin Baxter" <martinbaxt...@gmail.com> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 6:50:53 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Kurosawa and Elmore Leonard on TV Tonight > > > > D'oh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > After all the previews I've been catching on "Justified", I missed it (chin > deep in Kurosawa-san). Ditto for the repeat of that. Let me check the site, > to see if it can be viewed there. > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Keith Johnson > <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>wrote: > >> >> >> I mentioned "Samurai" on History Channel at 8 pm EST (Martin, it reruns at >> midnight). But there are a couple other things worth checking out tonight. >> >> First, Turner Classics is doing the second of its three Tuesday night >> Akira Kurosawa marathons. Movies run from 8 pm EST until around 7 or 8 >> tomorrow morning: >> http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article/?cid=290045&mainArticleId=290029 >> >> Then on FX, at 10 pm EST there's the premiere of the new series >> "Justified". This has me intrigued because it's based on Elmore Leonard's >> work. I've liked just about everything I've ever seen done on his works, >> including the criminally underrated TV series "Karen Sisco". The series' >> producers range the gamut, and consists of people who worked on great shows >> like "Sisco", "Boomtown", and "Sons of Anarchy" >> >> ***************************************************** >> >> http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/originals/justified/aboutTheShow.php >> >> JUSTIFIED is the story of Deputy U.S. Marshal RAYLAN GIVENS (Timothy >> Olyphant), a true-blue hero and something of a throwback, given to wearing a >> Stetson and cowboy boots, carrying his sidearm in a hip holster – a weapon >> he only draws when he has to, and when he does, he shoots to kill, because, >> as he sees it, that’s the purpose of a gun. >> >> Raylan was born and reared in the hill country of eastern Kentucky. It >> was in Harlan where he played ball, chased girls and dug coal. And it was >> from Harlan, at age 19, that he ran, determined to become a U.S. Marshal. >> Now, years later, after shooting a gun thug in a Miami hotel and thereby >> incurring the wrath of his Marshals Service superiors, Raylan has been sent >> in punishment (and by fate?) to the one place to which he vowed he would >> never return – Kentucky. >> >> The character of Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens was created by >> America’s pre-eminent crime novelist Elmore Leonard (Get Shorty, Out of >> Sight) and is played by Timothy Olyphant (Deadwood, Live Free or Die Hard). >> The Chief Deputy of the Lexington U.S.M.S. office is ART MULLEN, played by >> Nick Searcy (Cast Away, From the Earth to the Moon). Working alongside >> Raylan are fellow deputies TIM GUTTERSON – played by Jacob Pitts (The >> Pacific) – and RACHEL BROOKS – played by Erica Tazel (Life, The Office). >> Raylan, Art and the other deputies do what all U.S. Marshals do – chase down >> fugitives, protect witnesses, transport prisoners. >> >> But, being back in Kentucky, Raylan will also have to confront a past >> crowded with enough skeletons to choke a graveyard. There’s his old friend >> and fellow coal-miner, now fugitive bank-robber, BOYD CROWDER (Walton >> Goggins - The Shield). There’s AVA CROWDER (Joelle Carter - Monk, CSI: >> Miami), the cheerleader from his youth he always had a crush on. There’s >> ex-wife WINONA (Natalie Zea - Hung, Dirty Sexy Money). And, looming largest >> of all in Raylan’s past, there’s his career criminal father ARLO (Raymond >> Barry - Cold Case, Training Day). >> >> JUSTIFIED was developed for series television by Executive Producers >> Graham Yost (Boomtown, The Pacific), Michael Dinner (Karen Sisco, Sons of >> Anarchy), Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly (Kidnapped) and Elmore Leonard. >> The series comes from FX Productions and Sony Pictures Television. >> >> >> >> > > > > -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
