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Dana Carvey returns to TV with USA reality series
Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/news/dana-carvey-returns-to-tv-with-usa-reality-series#LSdlty0wpUkkIvxE.99

USA is bringing Dana Carvey back to television with a reality competition series called "First Impressions."

No doubt, Carvey is one of the best impressionists out there. Even now, several years out of the "SNL" spotlight, he pops up on late night shows from time to time to show them off. He'll serve as a mentor for the amateur impressionists. Like Tim Gunn, but instead of helping contestants with fashion designs he'll be helping contestants sound like Tim Gunn.

This also means that, come Thanksgiving when your annoying uncle whips out his lame Bill Clinton impression for the eighteenth year in a row, you can tell him there is a new reality series just for him, and that he should save his talents for that.

According to TVLine, each week's winner will be decided by viewer votes. The premiere date has not been announced.

Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/news/dana-carvey-returns-to-tv-with-usa-reality-series#LSdlty0wpUkkIvxE.99
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Oh sweet Christ that sounds horrible. Just 'orrible.
 
As if I needed more DVR clutter...

Esquire Network's brilliant 'Spotless': Family man meets scary mob guys
http://www.philly.com/philly/entert...otless___Family_man_meets_scary_mob_guys.html

The first scripted series from the basic-cable channel, the French-British co-production - which first played in March on Canal+ in France - has its U.S. premiere at 10 p.m. Saturday with a 10-episode first season.
Described as a black comedy, Spotless plunges an ordinary family man into a blood-soaked nightmare involving heroin traffickers, mobsters, and murder. But don't expect slapstick from this brilliantly written little opus: The humor is drier than the Mojave, and the darkness so pitch-black it all but swallows up the comedy.

Marc-Andr? Grondin (C.R.A.Z.Y.) stars as Jean Basti?re, the French-born proprietor of a successful crime-scene cleaning service in London. Happily married to an artist named Julie (Miranda Raison) with whom he has two kids, Jean gets a shock one day when his ex-con brother, Martin (Denis M?nochet), shows up out of the blue.

The children of abusive, violent parents, the duo haven't seen each other in seven years. Growing up, Martin routinely bore the brunt of their parents' punishment to protect the smaller Jean. A series of flashbacks reveal the great, grave, murderous ends Martin went to keep little Jean safe. Now it's Martin who needs help. Inside a meat freezer in his van lies the body of a drug courier. The corpse contains a stash of heroin that belongs to some crime boss who, Martin insists, owes him a lot of money.

Martin comes up with a simple, foolproof scheme: Jean will extract the drugs and destroy the corpse, Martin will sell the dope, and they'll get rich.

Trouble is, Martin isn't the sharpest criminal around. He offers to take Jean and Julie's kids for an outing and ends up taking them to a meeting with a pair of potential buyers (the two Scary Mob Guys mentioned above). Then he blurts out the whereabouts of the drugs before offering to sell the heroin to a rival gang.

Esquire has shaved off several minutes from each episode and edited out the nudity and profanity from the version that played on French TV. Despite the cuts, Spotless is great fun. Intelligent, well-written, and beautifully photographed, it has a remarkably sharp satirical edge.

Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/entert...meets_scary_mob_guys.html#2GVbJZ66xxJMDtQv.99
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Syfy Greenlights Two Seasons of Channel Zero from Max Landis and Nick Antosca
http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/139899/syfy-greenlighd-nick-antosca/

Dipping its toes back into the horror genre for a change, Syfy announced today that it has greenlit new limited anthology series “Channel Zero.” The series hails from Nick Antosca (“Hannibal,” Friday the 13th (2017), “Teen Wolf”) and Max Landis (Chronicle, American Ultra).

Universal Cable Productions will serve as the studio for this twelve-hour order, which will air on Syfy in two self-contained, six-episode seasons in fall 2016 and fall 2017 as the centerpiece of the channel’s annual “31 Days of Halloween” programming event.

The first installment of “Channel Zero” is set to debut with the six-part “Candle Cove,” based on an unnerving tale written by Kris Straub which gained notoriety online as a popular “creepypasta” (user-generated horror stories that are published and passed around the internet). “Candle Cove” centers on one man’s obsessive recollections of a mysterious children’s television program from the 1980s – and his ever-growing suspicions about the role it might have played in a series of nightmarish and deadly events from his childhood.
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LetTigerIn said:
Fred Ward, too, please.
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Fred Ward is like Scott Glenn. Why oh why isn't he in more stuff. That being said...Man, Madoff must've fleeced the Bacons. Kevin Bacon has never worked harder than he has the past few years...doing tv, foreign commercials...lot of nut to make up I guess. Sad.
 
jerseydevil said:
Fred Ward is like Scott Glenn. Why oh why isn't he in more stuff. That being said...Man, Madoff must've fleeced the Bacons. Kevin Bacon has never worked harder than he has the past few years...doing tv, foreign commercials...lot of nut to make up I guess. Sad.
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Now that I have Fred Ward on the mind, I guess I'll make it a Fred Ward holiday weekend. Gonna put on Remo Williams, Secret Admirer and The Right Stuff, for a start. Heck, I can even get some Scott Glenn in, then.

I didn't know Bacon was among Madoff's victims. That part sucks. Your theory about why he is so busy, though, reminds me of Michael Caine explaining his roles in The Hand and Jaws: The Revenge. It was something along the lines of: The Hand = moving to Los Angeles during a housing boom; and Jaws 4 = moving back to London during a housing boom.
 
They should bring back the father from Family Ties on that Tremors tv series. I like the movie, the sequels, and that one show that they had in the ScyFy channel, which they sorta aired out of order, lol.

Tremors isn't a movie, it's a way of life!! :grin:
 
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