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roenick said:
And yet again ...

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So I watched the show from the beginning and while it had a decent start it immediately jumped the shark. Talk about stretching to find an audience to help NBC ... this show doesn't need a reboot ... now if you want to talk "Blindspot" I would be interested. Talk about a new and interesting concept ... something Hollywood has seemed to forget how to do ...
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I agree with you 100% on Zeroes, but as for Blindspot....


INT. HOLLYWOOD STUDIO - EXECUTIVE OFFICE - DAY

A man in his 40s, dressed like a slovenly college student, enters: PITCHMAN.

PITCHMAN: "It's like Prison Break, if he lost his memory, meets The Blacklist."

The STUDIO EXECUTIVE looks up from the mirror he is snorting cocaine from just long enough to nod his head.

STUDIO EXECUTIVE: "Sure, why not. Dick Wolf won't have Chicago: Municipal Waste ready until midseason."
 
Last night I got through half an episode of Banshee before my brand new PS4 finally finished updating. Today I go to the On Demand so I can finish the episode and watch Penny Dreadful, and apparently my cable company figured out that I probably shouldn't get shows from networks I don't pay for, so I was locked out. So, Boardwalk Empire it is.

I can't watch Mr. Robot because it is called Mr. Robot.

Graceland starts tomorrow.

Someone at the CBS reality competition show casting department fell asleep, because the first batch of Big Brother contestants is almost uniformly likeable. Now if they could just do something about the contestants making lazy gender-based alliances (which is much worse on Survivor, but still).
 
Save This Show: HANNIBAL Season 4; Bryan Fuller Weighs In
http://collider.com/hannibal-season-4-save-this-show-bryan-fuller-weighs-in/

There are hundreds of takes on this topic floating about, but this is the most complete I have read as far as what CAN happen and what MIGHT happen. I don't want to overpost on this because I don't think a ton of folks are interested. Mainly me and Adgy. But long story short...Amazon owns the rights to s 1-3 exclusively. The deal prohibits another streaming service like Netflix to buy in. But that's irrelevant because without the anchor of a stateside television network, the foreign backers may pull their funding. Fuller talks about how the ideas for s4 could be folded into a movie, and that seems the most likely option at this point. The comicon panel should be fascinating just because of the timing of all this.
 
KingInTheWest said:
I can't watch Mr. Robot because it is called Mr. Robot.
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"Don't get me started." -Tommy Shaw.

KingInTheWest said:
Someone at the CBS reality competition show casting department fell asleep, because the first batch of Big Brother contestants is almost uniformly likeable. Now if they could just do something about the contestants making lazy gender-based alliances (which is much worse on Survivor, but still).
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I haven't heard of anyone who liked the double HOH, yet they're doing it again. They're doing the twin thing again. They brought in people we've already seen on The Amazing Race. It's as if they're trying to annoy us as much as possible. And we're supposed to get excited about the Game Changer? They played the stupid music, everyone screamed and ran around, then Phil appeared on the monitor and basically said nothing. What a game change! I can't believe I watch this crap every summer. I'm such a loser.
 
makemelaugh said:
I haven't heard of anyone who liked the double HOH, yet they're doing it again. They're doing the twin thing again. They brought in people we've already seen on The Amazing Race. It's as if they're trying to annoy us as much as possible. And we're supposed to get excited about the Game Changer? They played the stupid music, everyone screamed and ran around, then Phil appeared on the monitor and basically said nothing. What a game change! I can't believe I watch this crap every summer. I'm such a loser.
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The double HOH thing is awful, but it allows them to have another challenge, and clearly they want a challenge in every single episode, so challenges must equal ratings. The other thing they do is create more drama because not only does a second person have to nominate two more people, but both those people stay in the house, which means we go from one miffed remaining contestant to three. Drama equals conflict which must equal ratings.

The twin thing was a disaster the first time. The only thing this one had going for it was that it seemed like they were going to keep the identity of the twins a secret from us at home, but RoboChen is going to reveal who it is on Sunday. Can't let anything get in the way of two-person diary room interviews.

I just felt bad for Phil, having to slum it on Big Brother. The man has Emmy awards and here he is on a show where some of the yearly highlights are something called Zingbot and a player having to wear a unitard for a week. Way to bring on two people I barely remember from the Race. At least have the crazy blonde who yelled at her partner nonstop.

The reason we watch this crap is because it really is the best game of any of these shows. People on Survivor have to worry about food and shelter, then have a vote every three days. People on Big Brother have an entire week to do nothing but plot and scheme for a vote that happens every seven days. Like any of these shows, it would be better with consistent rules, or at least ones where people didn't have 50 ways to be saved and could even come back after being voted out.

The other reason we watch this crap is because the over-the-top cheesiness, intentional or not, is hysterically funny.

CBS saved the awful and annoying people for the second batch of contestants. If that midget version of Peewee Herman lasts more than two weeks, I may have to start hitting my head against a wall. When does the poker dealer recognize the poker player? That's just too much of a casting coincidence.
 
Holy crap, Steve the nerd on Big Brother has just completely fallen apart. He is so worried everyone is going to see him as Ian the nerd mastermind who won a previous season that he has no idea he is a creepy stalker nerd. I do not think DaVonne was the first woman he accidentally dropped an "I love you" on.

Three episodes in and people are already talking about what "the house" wants. Ugh.

I like how everyone on Graceland is just fine with what Paige did in the season finale last year. I want Serinda Swan on my TV as much as anyone, but her character should be in a prison cell, a pine box, or an insane asylum.

Watching True Detective now, but that goes in another thread.
 
Dexter said:
As a loser live feeder, Audrey is cray cray.
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I never would have suspected that one.

Are the 'play-by-play announcers' of American Ninja Warrior doing a parody of horrible play-by-play announcers, or are they just trying to take the crown? Jim Hill thinks they are beating the obvious to death. I also like how it is clearly 90% taped afterwards when they know what is going to happen. What I wouldn't give for some guy yelling mostly in Japanese except for the names of obstacles in English. I lost whatever channel has the original version of the show a few years ago, so I don't even know if my boy Shingo Yamamoto ever made it back to the final.
 
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