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They were doing a Parks & Recreation binge-a-thon on FXX yesterday. I think I blew about 4 hours watching it.

Chris Pratt is pretty great.
 
adgy-san said:
They were doing a Parks & Recreation binge-a-thon on FXX yesterday. I think I blew about 4 hours watching it.

Chris Pratt is pretty great.
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Any time spent basking in the greatness of Ron Swanson can never be described as time you "blew".
 
FX spin-off FXX debuts with Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The League & Totally Biased

The way the new channel is launching, though, is odd. The three transplanted shows all aired on Thursdays on FX, but will now launch on Wednesday, with ?Always Sunny? and ?The League? debuting directly opposite a new episode of FX?s own ?The Bridge.? The idea is to move the comedies away from Thursday night NFL games, which dented their ratings a year ago, but viewers are already being inconvenienced by having to find the new channel (or finding alternate viewing methods if they don?t get FXX), and now they?re on a new night, and opposite another show from the FX family. As FXX expands, and as FX ads more original programming to replace the shows that have moved to the new channel, it?s inevitable for their shows to compete, in the same way TBS and TNT originals go against each other. But on the very first night?

Where TBS and TNT have a very clearly delineated comedy/drama split, what differentiates FX and FXX isn?t yet clear. The first three shows are comedies, but the goal is for FXX to have dramas as well, and for FX to keep some of its comedies. Landgraf and other FX executives have laid out the difference as a demographic one, with FXX skewing slightly younger than FX. But ?Always Sunny? is a ?young? show only relative to, say, ?Louie,? as it?s entering its ninth season and more and more of the episodes are laced with jokes about how old the gang is getting and how much sadder their behavior is now than a decade ago.

FX can point to detailed demo numbers to say why some shows are moving and some are staying, but if you don?t have those numbers handy, it?s hard to say what defines one channel versus the other, and which show belongs where. ?Archer,? with its Adult Swim style and creative team, would seem like a younger-skewing show headed for FXX, but its support among 18-49-year-olds is broad and strong enough that it?s staying put.

In time, this will all be cleared up. FXX will have a fuller schedule, and viewers will know exactly what?s staying and what?s moving, and what sort of originals to expect on each channel. (We?ll also know whether ?Totally Biased? can sustain the schedule of a ?Daily Show? or ?Colbert Report? without burning itself out.) And the FX development team has such a strong track record over the last 11 years that they?ve more than earned the right to put on more shows, in more places. This first night, though, feels more like an empire staking out new territory and worrying later about how best to use it.

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Also learned from this article that HOP John Landgraf passed on Breaking Bad. Ok, the man is not perfect as I previously thought.
 
Barring a strong ending I am a little disappointed with what The Bridge has become. Just a little implausible. It was nice to see Mexico Badhu finally meet the wrong end of a pitch fork.


AND POTENTIAL SPOILERS



I think they tipped their hand a bit when a)Sonia's boss/Ted Levine insisted on sending the text from the son's phone AFTER insisting they all hear what he had to say after his father dismissed it. Could be wrong...but we shall see.
 
Bizarre 'American Psycho' Sequel Series In Development At FX | The Playlist

The new series isn't set in the '80s like the original (the novel, published in 1991, was one of the seminal accounts of the decade, second only to probably Tom Wolfe's "Bonfire of the Vanities"), but instead takes place in present day. Instead of just shifting the actions of the book to the here and now, they've decided to focus the show on an older Patrick Bateman (now in his fifties). Old Man Bateman, it seems, is training a prot?g?, according to the release "a next generation American Psycho." Jeez.

"American Psycho," the series, will be produced by Allison Shearmur and written by Stefan Jaworski, and while it could be cool, there is seemingly nothing to distinguish this from something like Showtime's serial killer thriller "Dexter." The emphasis seems to have shifted from the satire of the book and original film, to the murders themselves, which not only makes the killings more concrete (they were always left in a speculative no man's land before, something Ellis recently said makes the material unadaptable) but makes the entire premise seem sort of boring. Plus, the last time the network adapted a movie we ended up with the Charlie Sheen-led "Anger Management," for an amazing 100 episodes.
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Archer Live! Tour tickets in Los Angeles at Club Nokia on SAT, Nov 9, 2013

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The Archer Live! Tour, featuring the all-star cast and producers of FX’s hit original animated comedy series, is coming to Club Nokia on Saturday, November 9th at 8:00pm. The Archer Live Tour is a must-see for every Archer fan!
Archer Live! features a moderated discussion, a live reading of classic scenes from the Emmy? Award nominated series, and an audience Q&A with the all-star cast where fans will have a chance to get the inside scoop on their favorite show. Talent appearances include H. Jon Benjamin as Agent Sterling Archer, Aisha Tyler as Agent Lana Kane, Amber Nash as Pam Poovey, Lucky Yates as Krieger, and executive producer Matt Thompson. Schedule and talent participation is subject to change.

Archer is an animated, half-hour comedy that revolves around the International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS) and the lives of its employees. Although their work of espionage, reconnaissance missions, wiretapping and undercover surveillance is daunting and dangerous, every covert operation and global crisis is actually just another excuse for the ISIS staff to undermine, sabotage and betray each other for personal gain.
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adgy-san said:
Really? I'm still enjoying it, though I'm not loving it.
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I had such high hopes for it being something special. And it started out terrific. But now...to have the 'faked-his-own-death' guy chasing down improbable coincidence after etc. it is just so ordinary. If Matthew Lillard is dead, well, that's all she wrote. The future of the show resides in his character and the female reporter, and the budding ex wife crime boss. It's terribly disappointing the giant plot holes and logic flaws they keep trying to force feed. And people bitched about the Killing.
 
jerseydevil said:
I had such high hopes for it being something special. And it started out terrific. But now...to have the 'faked-his-own-death' guy chasing down improbable coincidence after etc. it is just so ordinary. If Matthew Lillard is dead, well, that's all she wrote. The future of the show resides in his character and the female reporter, and the budding ex wife crime boss. It's terribly disappointing the giant plot holes and logic flaws they keep trying to force feed. And people bitched about the Killing.
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I didn't like how the gold digger wife all of a sudden became a cold blooded killer. Also generally people with asperger's dont suddenly become great with people and consoling.
 
KingsOvAllKings said:
I didn't like how the gold digger wife all of a sudden became a cold blooded killer. Also generally people with asperger's dont suddenly become great with people and consoling.
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I think they could have handled the transformation better, but she has been painted as someone who is an opportunist. And she lost everything but the house and the tunnel in the will...reluctant or not...she is a survivor. And yeah, I am sure that doctors everywhere are bristling at their portrayal of Aspergers. The Starman turns alone threw me. If she were that bad she would either be institutionalized or medicated to the point that she would have no ability to hold a job. So disappointed in what this has turned into. Remember the initial episodes where they hinted at the machinations of Mexican law enforcement and had all the different threads running. Now it has devolved into a one note show with a ridiculous big bad. The season pretty much jumped the shark when Marco inexplicably jumped into bed with the widow. All subtlety and shade has been removed since then. Just one big convoluted conspiracy that EVERYONE has had a hand in.
 
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