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Bryan Fuller Offers Update on Adaptation of Neil Gaiman's "American Gods"

“The first two scripts have been written and we have been working with illustrators designing the world,” the “Hannibal” creator told Den of Geek, “so we’ve got these fantastic illustrations of Jack’s Crocodile Bar, the Bone Orchard and Zorya’s rooftop with all the telescopes looking up at the bear constellation.

“There are also some new things that are going to be unique to the series and weren’t in the book,” he continued. “We are going to do a visual presentation to Starz, who are very happy with the two scripts that they received, and then we go from there.”

However, even after Starz gives “American Gods” a greenlight, it may be a while before we learn who’s been cast in those roles, as Fuller said Gaiman is pushing to keep the details under wraps until a big reveal can be made: “That’s his plan. He’s saying ‘I don’t want to make any casting announcements, I want to announce the cast in full when they walk out on stage at a Comic-Con.'”
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Pam Anderson Shares A Most Bizarre David Hasselhoff Story From Their ‘Baywatch’ Days
http://uproxx.com/tv/2015/05/pamela-anderson-david-hasselhoff-story-baywatch/

What’s the craziest/funniest thing David Hasselhoff has ever said to you?

Well, I think when he gave me a calendar of himself?

And a CD of himself?

And a postcard of himself, coming out of the water, dripping, and said “Thank you for supporting my musical career” and I didn’t know he HAD a musical career!

I think this was a Christmas gift to everybody on the set of Baywatch.
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Bruce Campbell Tweets Bloody Face To William Shatner
http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3347551/bruce-campbell-tweets-bloody-face-to-william-shatner/

Horror icon Bruce Campbell isn’t shy about showing off his bloody face, although he is being a bit understated about it. In a response to a tweet from Star Trek alum William Shatner, who asked, “How is everyone?“, Campbell responded with a photo of his face, bloodied and cut, complete with a simple message: “Frankly, Bill, I’m a little sticky…”

Campbell is busy filming the upcoming STARZ series “Ash Vs. Evil Dead“, which is shooting in New Zealand.

The show’s synopsis read:

Campbell will be reprising his role as Ash, the stock boy, aging lothario and chainsaw-handed monster hunter who has spent the last 30 years avoiding responsibility, maturity and the terrors of the Evil Dead. When a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind, Ash is finally forced to face his demons –personal and literal. Destiny, it turns out, has no plans to release the unlikely hero from its “Evil” grip.
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Hannibal showrunner: 'We are not making television. We are making a pretentious art film from the 80s'

The show does appear to be intent on one-upping its own visual invention. Natali, who has become Hannibal’s go-to guy for sex scenes (including a hallucinatory five-way), filmed another one for the sixth episode of the season, which is apparently even more unsettling. He recounts Fuller’s directive: “You’ve got to do something that tops the previous ones, and you’ve got to do something that shocks people, and pushes the boundaries of what is showable on network television.”

These shifts have happened for a reason – Fuller claims that the changes and challenges happen to “prevent my own internal boredom of storytelling” – but where do you go from something like a man eating his own nose? If the new episodes are any indication, the answer is “deeper, darker and weirder”. While the contortions of the deceased human form are old hat by now for the man who directed the “horse birth” scene from last season, Natali kept busy by creating a new (and far grosser) manifestation of the stag that represents Hannibal in Will’s mind (what Fuller describes as “a skinned, antlered thing that is more of a nightmarish ablution of what he experienced in the first two seasons”).
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Tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 


I know I wax on a LOT. But this show really is wonderful. Sad, meditative but somehow beautifully hopeful. The first season should be on Netflix still. Fairly short too. Give it a try...you will know if it's for you pretty quickly.

Full disclosure: Your 'umble narrator...me, has been known to get...'weepy' real easy.Just THINKING about this show has me reachin for the kleenex.
 
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So apparently my On Demand that I used to watch True Detective has the full run of pretty much every HBO show from the last 20 years, plus Cinemax and Showtime even though I don't subscribe to them. So the question is, what do I watch?

From various people's yappings, I think I am most interested in Band Of Brothers, Boardwalk Empire, Deadwood, The Pacific, The Sopranos, Banshee, House Of Lies, and Penny Dreadful. There are also a few shows on Starz, but they only have the second season of Black Sails. Yes, I never saw the Sopranos, but I am leaning away from it because it has 100 episodes or something. Feel free to go off the board, but no shows where nothing happens and especially no shows about quartets of annoying NYC ladies led by a ghastly uggo.

I also can alternate my drama back and forth with Curb, Eastbound, or Entourage.
 
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