Too much technobabble and nothing fun about the premise. At the very least,
I hoped for an interesting mystery, but mostly it was just boring and
underacted. And from a technical standpoint, the shot composition was worse
than a freshman film school project.
Free on iTunes:
I saw a featurette at the movies on this, and immediately thought
Andromeda Strain. Are there any similarities?
--Dave Sikula
On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 12:09:50 AM UTC-8, Kevin M. (RPCV) wrote:
Too much technobabble and nothing fun about the premise. At the very
least, I hoped for an
If this weren't the last season, I'd've bailed, but I'm in this deep -- and
I want to see how Sorkin ends it.
--Dave Sikula
On Monday, January 13, 2014 1:43:16 PM UTC-8, Kevin M. (RPCV) wrote:
Dave has one more season of hatewatching to do.
And Toby from The Office has been added to the
I wouldn't be surprised if this is the way all the nets go within the next
couple of years. Less financial commitment, less trying to squeeze 13
episodes' worth of material into 22 slots, more original programming to try
to attract viewers,
--Dave Sikula
On Monday, January 13, 2014 12:12:43
On the one hand, it felt like they wrapped it all up at the end of the
second season, but on the other hand I really enjoy this series. The razor
sharp snappy dialogue reminds me of the best screwball comedies - notably
His Girl Friday. I do appreciate that HBO seems to be mostly be giving
proper
Oh, and I'm really hoping for a Peter Finch-style Mad as hell... ending!
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Adam Bowie a...@adambowie.co.uk wrote:
On the one hand, it felt like they wrapped it all up at the end of the
second season, but on the other hand I really enjoy this series. The razor
I'm pretty sure that's what they were going for in the *first* episode, with the blow-up at the sorority girl.Doug FieldsTampa, FL
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Good point. And the problem is that while in 1976, Mad as hell... might
have seemed shocking, in an age where until relatively recently someone
like Glen Beck had a show, it's probably impossible to mock reality. We're
more than twenty minutes into the future as the original Max Headroom
pilot had
Among the reports: Contenders will spend all of two days with now-mentor
Randy... selected contestants who never got to Hollywood will get a
second-chance week... Rush Week, in which the final 15 battle over
*three*nights and only two will go home... and a first-time look into the
chamber,
Doug Eastick, to Mark Jeffries:
I suck at girls is a funny book.
As was Sh!t My Dad Says, though Halpern (finally?) admitted to TCA the
latter series sucked.
http://www.thewrap.com/justin-halpern-admits-dad-says-series-sucked/
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Reporter: Seth's PBS venture could attract very creative nerds... Seth
considers himself one of them, and replied, grinning, Hey, you! It
didn't stay that tense...
http://www.thewrap.com/seth-macfarlane-cosmos-fox-tca
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The court for DC affirmed that the FCC has the right to regulate the
Internet, but in a complicated ruling that will probably go to the Supreme
Court stated that it doesn't have the right to make decisions on what web
sites or material broadband ISPs can give preferential (or no) treatment,
The new version's on Fox. Yes, Fox (with a director's cut repurpose on
NatGeo).
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On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Bob Jersey bob.in.jer...@juno.com wrote:
Reporter: Seth's PBS venture could attract very creative nerds... Seth
And now TWC has officially gone dark on DirecTV (as of midnight ET Monday
night):
http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/73263/the-weather-channel-gone-from-directv
TWC's CEO accused DirecTV of putting profits ahead of public safety and
said they wanted a deal that allows for continued investment
On one hand, they do seem willing to blow out those reality shows when
there is severe weather out there (just a couple of hours ago they were
pre-empting reality shows for live coverage). On the other hand, the old
Weather Channel, for all of its tackiness and geekiness, had a genuine
interest
Oh yeah. This one's going to SCOTUS. No question at all.
On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 1:28:33 PM UTC-5, Mark Jeffries wrote:
The court for DC affirmed that the FCC has the right to regulate the
Internet, but in a complicated ruling that will probably go to the Supreme
Court stated that it
Even if he ain't, it's a great resemblance...
http://www.nj.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2014/01/conan_dad_james_keating_nj.html
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Even tho feature work has been rising modestly every year since 2009, while
TV work rebounded in '13 after three straight years of slight drops... both
are still noticeably under peaks of 1996 for feature and 2007 for telly.
FX chief Landgraf said at TCA, “We [him, exec Graham Yost and Raylan
Givens, aka Tim Olyphant] talked about it a year ago and they felt that the
arc of the show and what they had to say would be best served by six years,
six seasons… and so I accepted their decision.
Samberg / Taccone / Schaffer may have planned this long before *Brooklyn
Nine-Nine* won a Golden Globe... through a new venture, they will supervise
development of comedy projects starting in online venues and eventually
planned for any of the TCF-owned channels...
The artist variously known as Little Steven and Silvio Dante had claimed as
much a month or so to *Rolling Stone*.
http://www.thewrap.com/netflix-bringing-back-lilyhammer-third-season/
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On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:29 AM, Dave Sikula dsik...@yahoo.com wrote:
I saw a featurette at the movies on this, and immediately thought
Andromeda Strain. Are there any similarities?
It was derivative of so many outbreak genre films and TV shows that to
try to narrow it down to one is tough.
Columbo with an English accent on an island paradise.
The new DI actually turned and said ... just one more thing...
He might as well have been wearing a trenchcoat.
Was it a ripoff or an homage, I wonder?
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