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Amazon Prime UK has nabbed the John Wick prequel The Continental! Starts 22 September.
Nabbed is one way of putting it; it was produced for Starz/Lionsgate Plus, but after seeing it they decided they didn’t want it and sold it to Peacock in the US and Prime internationally.
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Prime Video to Add Commercial Breaks, Offer Ad-Free Tier at Additional Charge
Commercials are coming to Prime Video.
Amazon’s streaming service will begin including ad breaks in movies and TV shows in early 2024, Variety reports. The change will first take effect in the U.S., the UK, Germany and Canada, followed by France, Italy, Spain, Mexico and Australia later in the year.
Those who wish to maintain an ad-free viewing experience will have to pay an additional $2.99 per month, on top of their annual Prime subscription cost of $139.
Prime Video already features commercial breaks during Thursday Night Football — but this will be the first time subscribers are subjected to ads during original series like The Boys, Reacher and The Wheel of Time.
Alas, the change is part of an industry-wide trend. Disney+, Hulu, Max, Netflix, Paramount+ and Peacock already offer ad-supported tiers at a reduced rate.
Sorry, but I’m not paying an extra $36 per year for something I watch infrequently at best. I think the only thing I watch regularly are The Boys and its upcoming spinoff, Generation V. I can suffer those commercial breaks on those series.
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Yeah, Prime Video is definitely not in a position to be doing “fuck you, pay more” given that for a lot of people it’s just a fringe benefit of Prime.
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Quite impressed with Cera’s voice acting here.
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Yeah that looks like fun.
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Quite impressed with Cera’s voice acting here.
I’m actually kinda stunned by how non-Michael Cera he sounds.
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See, this is why this’ll actually work better than the movie.
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Only Murders season 4 confirmed, as expected: https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/only-murders-in-the-building-renewed-season-4-hulu-1235742772/
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Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the 50 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century (So Far)
We each have feelings about things that are missing from the list or things that the list could use more of. Short version: Needs more British TV! Needs more animation! Needs more reality TV!
So, enjoy reading the list and getting worked up about what we got right and what we got wrong.
OK, fine: We did have fun making it.
Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order): America to Me, Arrested Development, Bob’s Burgers, The Good Wife, The Great British Bake-Off, Happy Valley, Harley Quinn, It’s a Sin, Justified, The Office (U.S.), Sense8, Somebody Somewhere, This Country, Up, Watchmen
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As with all these lists, it’s hugely subjective. Even in terms of influence Survivor was a huge reality hit in the US ignored in Europe as Big Brother was the thing. Besides that how do you easily compare a sitcom with a reality show with a serious drama?
What they do well is remind you there are lots of good things out there, after finishing my Peaky Blinders binge yesterday I’m going to tackle Better Call Saul next.
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I’m going to tackle Better Call Saul next.
Enjoy! It’s great.
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Oh hey, there’s a new season of Fargo coming! Yay!
This also made me look up what’s going on with Hawley’s Alien series. They’d already started filming when the strike started, so hopefully they’ll be back on track soon and the release not toooooo far in the future.
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Huh. In Germany, S4 is available (with subtitles) on amazon prime.
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This also made me look up what’s going on with Hawley’s Alien series. They’d already started filming when the strike started, so hopefully they’ll be back on track soon and the release not toooooo far in the future.
The Alien series wasn’t affected by the strikes AFAIK. It was filming in Thailand with Equity actors, not SAG-AFTRA.
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The strike is back on because the execs want to keep all the money, got to get that quarterly stock boost no matter what, so what if the house burns down, the property value still went up.
Other serious issues is AI and the use of actor appearance and voice.
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Reacher Season 2 trailer is out.
Releases 15 December on Amazon Prime and looks gloriously bonkers.
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So Rob Grant is working on a Red Dwarf prequel novel and TV show, about young Rimmer and Lister first becoming bunkmates and getting into trouble during shore leave on Titan.
Remember, no matter what happens, it will be better than the American pilot episode.
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Remember, no matter what happens, it will be better than the American pilot episode.
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Law & Order Shocker: Jeffrey Donovan Not Returning for Season 23 (Exclusive) – TV Line
Jeffrey Donovan will not be returning for Season 23 of Dick Wolf’s venerable NBC procedural, TVLine has learned exclusively. The search is currently underway for a new series regular to fill the void left by Donovan’s Det. Frank Cosgrove.
NBC declined comment, but sources close to the show tell us that Donovan was let go for creative reasons. TVLine has reached out to Donovan’s camp for comment.
…more in link
Law & Order is set to return with a shortened 13-episode Season 23 in early 2024.
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Speaking of which, that new Dead Boy Detective series caught me unawares.
It looks alright. Kinda funny that there are now two TV versions of the Dead Boy Detectives out there though.
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‘Alien’: Noah Hawley’s FX Series Looks To Resume Filming Early 2024; Creator Provides Update – Deadline
Noah Hawley‘s FX series Alien will be heading back into production early next year in Bangkok, Thailand, the Fargo creator told Deadline at the season 5 premiere in LA last night.
Alien shutdown due to the SAG-AFTRA strike back in late August after a July 19 start in Bangkok’s The Studio Park. Sets continued to be built during the actors’ downtime.
“We’re getting back into production as quickly as possible,” Hawley told us. A January or February start is being eyed.
“We’re shooting in Bangkok, a half a world away; shooting again in the New Year,” he added.
Providing an update, Hawley said, “I got some footage. Some of the first hour was shot before we had to shutdown. It’s stuff to play with and edit.”
“I’m excited to get back in there.”
All the scripts for Alien were completed before the WGA strike was called in May.
Executive produced by Ridley Scott, the new Alien series is set in a time period before Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley and is the first story in the franchise that takes place on Earth, roughly 70 years in the future.
The cast is led by Sydney Chandler along with Alex Lawther as a soldier named CJ, Samuel Blenkin as Boy Kavalier, a CEO, as well as Essie Davis as Dame Silvia and Adarsh Gourav as Slightly. Kit Young plays a character named Tootles.
Production on Alien began in July without American Chandler, who is a SAG-AFTRA member. Filming continued for more than a month with the rest of the cast who were Equity members affiliated with the British trade union.
Disney/20th Century Studios also has a new Alien feature from filmmaker Fede Alvarez that’s currently scheduled for theatrical release on Aug. 16, 2024. The pic stars Cailee Spaeny, Isabela Merced, Archie Renaux, David Jonsson, Aileen Wu and Spike Fearn. Logline: Young people from a distant world must face the most terrifying life form in the universe.
Hawley also told us yesterday that more seasons of Fargo are in store past this season’s 5. Decades yet to be explored by the limited series based on the multi-Oscar winning Coen Brothers movie are the 1960s, 1980s and 1990s.
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‘Black Mirror’ Renewed for Season 7 (EXCLUSIVE) – Variety
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Hmm, I thought the Babylon 5 Complete Series was out today.
But Amazon.ca sent me an e-mail saying my pre-order now has an updated shipping estimate of Thurs. Dec. 21st
Bastards!
I’ve never seen and looking forward to it.But I do have ST:SNW S2 arriving today, so that’ll tide me over.
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I think this belongs in the Sports thread.
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The Criminal TV series is actually happening! https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/ed-brubaker-criminal-tv-series-amazon-1235782238/
Nearly a year since it was first put in development, the retail giant and streamer has handed out a formal series order for the drama series based on the interlocking world of crime stories from the comic book powerhouse.
Brubaker, whose TV credits include Westworld and Batman: Caped Crusader, will serve as showrunner alongside crime fiction author Jordan Harper (Hightown, Gotham). Sean Phillips, who co-created Criminal alongside Brubaker, will also exec produce alongside Brubaker and Harper as well as Sarah Carbiener and Phillip Barnett. Legendary Television will also be credited as an exec producer. Amazon MGM Studios is the studio.
“Sean and I have been building this world in our books for over a decade, and now to be able to bring it to life for Amazon is just incredible. And to have Amazon support the project the way they have and show so much faith in my and Jordan’s vision for the show is even more incredible,” Brubaker said.
A timeframe for the premiere of Criminal has not yet been determined. The series is one of a few that Pepper, sources say, spent the past couple months fast-tracking as he looks to make his mark at Amazon. Criminal joins a scripted slate at Amazon that also includes The Boys, Jack Ryan, Reacher and more.
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Oh Brubaker’s show-running too? My interest has increased.
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I am honestly unsure how well Criminal will work for me outside of the realm of comics. I think what makes it special is the mixture of Philips’ art and a strong narrative voice. In the absence of both of that, I’m a bit worried it’ll just be a film noir pastiche that’ll feel rather generic. But it’s good that we’ll get a chance to find out.
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New Cunk:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2024/philomena-cunk-quest-for-meaning/
This is going to be great.
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CBS Developing the First Black Daytime Soap Opera in 35 Years
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Oh, just seen this.
The Goes Wrong Show | BBC axes slapstick sitcom
The news was buried on page 23 of a report on the future of the BBC, which you can read here.
The full quote reads as follows:
“We will continue to shift funding away from content primarily aimed at broadcast channels. We have already cut 1,000 originated hours on television. That has meant tough decisions on long-running titles like Holby City, Doctors, A Question of Sport and Autumnwatch, and newer titles like I Can See Your Voice, Freeze the Fear, King Gary, The Goes Wrong Show and The Witchfinder“.
I had rather assumed, given it had been so long since season 2 with no news, but sucks to get confirmation in such a low key way.
Doctors ending is a bit of shame too. Not that I particularly like it, but it’s an institution for giving screen roles both to people just out of drama school and those in the, er, twilight of their career. I was looking through its IMDB page recently and it gave first or early screen appearances to Emilia Clarke, Jodie Comer, Eddie Redmayne, Pearl Mackie, Sally Hawkins, Natalie Tena, Claire Foy, Charity Wakefield, Richard Armitage, Ruth Negga, Jodie Whittaker, Vicky McClure, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lashana Lynch and presumably more men. And it’s given work to the likes of Sylvester McCoy, Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Mary Tamm, Louise Jameson, Frazer Hines, Maureen O’Brien, Martin Jarvis, Tony Selby, Brian Blessed, Lisa Bowerman, Gareth Hunt, Philip Madoc, Caroline John, Nicholas Courtney. (I may have been making a list as UK TV Drama has been showing the series from the beginning and has it everything they’ve shown so far on their catch up series, so I’m going to cherry pick some episodes).
I thought the intention was to replace it with something that would fulfil the same role, but that report sounds like it’s just being cut as a drive to make less TV.
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Cost is probably a big thing, because the scope and scale of the books gets bigger and bigger from here. But the characters end up on wildly divergent paths and it’ll be hard to keep the show’s cast together without changing things around a lot.
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‘300’ TV Series In The Works At Warner Bros. TV – Deadline
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That’s a lot, they should start with just a few.
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Charlie Hunnam To Lead Ed Brubaker’s Prime Video Series ‘Criminal’ – Deadline
Oh yeah, that’s pretty good. Cool.
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I just guessed it would be 3 seasons since there’s 3 books, but good to know there’s a plan and that we’ll get the whole thing. I’m hoping they’ll film it all together so it won’t take an age to see it wrap up.
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It’s very cool that Umbrella Academy got four seasons. Loved all of them, and am very much looking forward to the conclusion.
(And maybe then I’ll finally read the comics beyond the first trade one of these days…)
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‘Spider-Noir’: Lamorne Morris Joins Nicolas Cage In Amazon’s Marvel Series As Robbie Robertson – Deadline
Actor-comedian Lamorne Morris (Fargo) has been tapped as a series regular opposite Nicolas Cage in Spider-Noir, the upcoming MGM+ and Prime Video live-action series based on the Marvel comic Spider-Man Noir. On the Sony Pictures TV-produced series, which has been renamed from its original title Noir to highlight its Spider-Man universe lineage, Morris will play the character Robbie Robertson.
Spider-Noir, from executive producers/co-showrunners Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot, tells the story of an aging and down on his luck private investigator (Cage) in 1930s New York, who is forced to grapple with his past life as the city’s one and only superhero.
More in link…
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Lamorne Morris (Fargo)
And more importantly, that one guy from New Girl.
I did like his performance in the latest season of Fargo a lot, especially given that it was an entirely serious one.
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Emilia Clarke to Star in Amazon Crime Drama Series ‘Criminal’ (EXCLUSIVE) – Variety
Emilia Clarke has been cast in Amazon Prime Video‘s upcoming series adaptation of the “Criminal” graphic novels in a lead role, Variety has learned exclusively.
Clarke will star alongside previously announced cast members Charlie Hunnam, Richard Jenkins, John Hawkes, Adria Arjona, Logan Browning, Kadeem Hardison, Pat Healy, Taylor Sele, Gus Halper, Aliyah Camacho, Michael Mando, Marvin Jones III, Michael Xavier, Dominic Burgess.
The graphic novels were created by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. The official description states the series is “an interlocking universe of crime stories.”
Clarke will appear in the role of Mallory, described as “a slick and daring armed robber, as quick with a gun as she is with her wits. Part of a heist crew with Ricky Lawless (Halper), who she’s in a passionate Bonnie-and-Clyde-like affair with. Mallory is a woman on the edge, living on the wrong side of the law and hiding secrets that will bring her and her entire crew into the danger zone.”
Clarke is of course best known for playing Daenerys Targaryen in the megahit HBO series “Game of Thrones” throughout its eight season run, receiving four Emmy Award nominations in the process. Her other recent TV credits include the Marvel-Disney+ series “Secret Invasion.” Clarke’s film credits include “Me Before You,” “Last Christmas,” “The Pod Generation,” “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” and “Terminator Genisys.” She made her West End debut in 2022 in Anya Reiss’ adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull.”
She is repped by CAA, Range Media Partners, Hamilton Hodell, Narrative, Hansen, Jacobson
Brubaker will serve as co-showrunner and executive producer on “Criminal” along with Jordan Harper. Phillips also executive produces, as does Sarah Carbiener and Philipp Barnett. Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden will direct the first four episodes. Legendary Television will also serve as an executive producer. The series is produced by Amazon MGM Studios.
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Judith Light, CCH Pounder Join AMC’s ‘The Terror’ – Hollywood Reporter
Stephen Root, Aasif Mandvi and Marin Ireland are also among a dozen actors joining the anthology.
The third season of AMC‘s anthology The Terror has filled out is principal cast with some big names.
Season three, subtitled Devil in Silver, will star Dan Stevens as a man who’s wrongly committed to a psychiatric hospital and finds himself fighting a supernatural force. The series has added a dozen actors to its cast, filling out the regular cast as production gets underway.
The new additions are Emmy winner Judith Light, CCH Pounder (Rustin, The Shield), Chinaza Uche (Dickinson), Hampton Fluker (Shades of Blue), b (You), Aasif Mandvi (Evil), John Benjamin Hickey (The Big C), Stephen Root (Barry), Hayward Leach (Tom Swift), Michael Aronov (The Americans), Marin Ireland (Justified: City Primeval) and Phillip Ettinger (First Reformed). Details on their roles are being kept quiet for now.
The Terror premiered in 2018; a second season aired in 2019, but the anthology lay dormant until AMC picked up a third season in February. The six-episode Devil in Silver is based on a novel of the same name by Victor LaValle.
Chris Cantwell (Halt and Catch Fire) and LaValle are writing and executive producing The Terror: Devil in Silver, which comes from AMC Studios. Karyn Kusama will direct the first two episodes and is an exec producer along with Stevens; Ridley Scott and David W. Zucker of Scott Free Productions; Alexandra Milchan and Scott Lambert of Emjag Productions; Guymon Casady of Entertainment 360; and Brooke Kennedy. The six-episode season is slated for a 2025 premiere on AMC and AMC+.
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‘Homicide: Life on the Street’ Finally Gets Streaming Home at Peacock – Hollywood Reporter
The drama starring Andre Braugher, Richard Belzer and Kyle Secor is also remastered for HD and 4K viewing
One of the more critically acclaimed dramas of the past 30 years has at last found a streaming home.
Starting Aug. 19, Peacock will feature Homicide: Life on the Street. All seven seasons and 122 episodes of the former NBC show, as well as the series-wrapping Homicide: The Movie from 2000, will be available, remastered for HD and 4K viewing.
Homicide was based on David Simon’s book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets and created by Paul Attanasio; Tom Fontana was the showrunner and executive produced with Barry Levinson, Henry Bromell and Jim Finnerty. The series followed detectives in Baltimore’s homicide unit and was praised for its acting and a more realistic depiction of detective work — including some cases that don’t get solved — than on many other network crime dramas.
Over the show’s seven seasons, the cast featured Andre Braugher — who won his first Emmy 1998 for playing Detective Frank Pembleton — Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Yaphet Kotto, Melissa Leo, Giancarlo Esposito, Daniel Baldwin, Jon Polito, Clark Johnson, Kyle Secor, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Peter Gerety, Isabella Hofmann, Toni Lewis, Michael Michele, Max Perlich, Jon Seda and Callie Thorne.
The series had several crossovers with NBC’s Law & Order franchise, and Belzer would continue his character of Detective John Munch on Law & Order: SVU for more than a decade after Homicide ended.
Simon, who worked as a writer and producer on the series, hinted at a streaming announcement in June: “Word is that NBC has managed to finally secure the music rights necessary to sell Homicide: Life on the Street to a streaming platform,” Simon wrote on X. “Andre, Richard, Yaphet, Ned, and so many others who labored on that wonderful show on both sides of the camera will soon regain a full share of their legacy.”
Universal Television produced Homicide. NBCUniversal Global TV Distribution distributes the series in the U.S., and Fremantle handles international distribution.
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I do like having new cast members every season.
Maura Tierney Boards ‘Law & Order’ for Season 24 – Hollywood Reporter
Two-time Emmy nominee Maura Tierney is joining the NBC drama’s ensemble in the fall, playing an NYPD lieutenant. Her casting comes after Camryn Manheim departed the series after three seasons of playing Lt. Kate Dixon.
Tierney is the second new(ish) castmember on the long-running crime procedural; Tony Goldwyn joined L&O midway through last season after the departure of the show’s longest-serving castmember, Sam Waterston.
The actress has starred in two NBC series previously: NewsRadio from 1995-99 and ER from 1999-2009. She earned her first Emmy nomination for playing Abby Lockhart on ER in 2001. She also has a history, albeit a brief one, with Law & Order, having guest-starred in an episode of the show’s second season in 1991.
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Ooo, I really like Tierney. That’s an interesting choice for what is, to be honest, a slightly unrewarding role most of the time. I’m still only on s22 (which is airing over weekly at the moment over here).
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‘Battlestar Galactica’ Reboot No Longer in the Works at Peacock (EXCLUSIVE) – Variety
The long-gestating reboot of “Battlestar Galactica” is no longer in development at Peacock, Variety has learned exclusively.
The project was first announced back in 2019 ahead of Peacock’s official launch as part of the streamer’s initial slate of original programming. It was never formally ordered to series, though, and has been in development ever since. Exact story details never emerged, but the show was said to be set in the same continuity as the 2003 “Battlestar Galactica” series.
The reboot was a passion project for Sam Esmail, who was executive producing via Esmail Corp. under the company’s overall deal with studio UCP. Chad Hamilton of Esmail Corp. was also an executive producer. Michael Lesslie had originally come onboard as the writer of the reboot in 2020, but it was reported that he left the project in 2021. Most recently, it was reported in January that Derek Simonds was attached to serve as writer, executive producer, and showrunner.
According to an individual with knowledge of the situation, UCP will shop the project to other outlets.
Peacock has aired very few sci-fi series to date. The NBCUniveral streamer has previously found success with shows like the mystery-of-the-week series “Poker Face” starring Natasha Lyonne (which is prepping it second season), a prequel series to Seth MacFarlane’s “Ted” films (also prepping its second season), and the live-action take on the “Twisted Metal” games (again, prepping a second season). On the horizon, Peacock has shows coming like “Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist,” which boasts an all-star cast that includes Kevin Hart, Samuel L. Jackson, Taraji P. Henson, and Don Cheadle.
The original “Battlestar Galactica” was created by Glen A. Larson and featured cast that included Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, and Maren Jensen. It aired for one season in 1978 on ABC, which was followed by a short-lived continuation called “Galactica 1980.” The original also inspired a series of comic books, novels, and both board and video games.
Ronald D. Moore and the Sci Fi Channel (now Syfy) then rebooted the series back in 2003 with a three-hour miniseries, whose cast included Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, and Katee Sackhoff. The success of that project led Syfy and Sky Television to commission a new series with the cast of the miniseries returning. That show proved incredibly popular, running for four seasons and also spawned two TV movies, wrapping up in 2009. A prequel series, “Caprica,” aired on Syfy for one season in 2010.
In “Battlestar Galactica,” humanity has been engaged in a devastating war with a race of sentient robots known as Cylons. After the Cylons destroyed much of the human population living in a series of colonies in a distant star system, survivors aboard civilian ships and the titular battleship strike out to find a long forgotten colony called Earth.
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Bizarrely, the UK version of Jeopardy is coming back for a second series. I thought it had tanked, so that’s quite surprising. Also, ITV are reviving Deal Or No Deal, to be hosted by Stephen Mulhern. Very few people could feel like a downgrade from Noel Edmonds, but they’ve found one.
EDIT: oh apparently that Deal Or No Deal already happened it’s getting a second season. Shows how much attention I pay to ITV.
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Bizarrely, the UK version of Jeopardy is coming back for a second series. I thought it had tanked, so that’s quite surprising. Also, ITV are reviving Deal Or No Deal, to be hosted by Stephen Mulhern. Very few people could feel like a downgrade from Noel Edmonds, but they’ve found one.
EDIT: oh apparently that Deal Or No Deal already happened it’s getting a second season. Shows how much attention I pay to ITV.
The tabloids really hated Stephen Fry. I liked the show, glad it’s coming back.
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Bizarrely, the UK version of Jeopardy is coming back for a second series. I thought it had tanked, so that’s quite surprising. Also, ITV are reviving Deal Or No Deal, to be hosted by Stephen Mulhern. Very few people could feel like a downgrade from Noel Edmonds, but they’ve found one.
EDIT: oh apparently that Deal Or No Deal already happened it’s getting a second season. Shows how much attention I pay to ITV.
The tabloids really hated Stephen Fry. I liked the show, glad it’s coming back.
I found it too slow to be honest. I enjoyed the first episode but lost interest in the second and then promptly forgot all about it.
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I missed this being announced at SDCC (further proof that it’s mad to announce anything but big movie news there): there’s going to be two more seasons of The Toys That Made Us. It’s been so long since season 3 I figured it was finito.
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Ice T shut down a recent accusation that “Law & Order: SVU” has strayed too far from its origins and “started to go woke.” The rapper and actor has played detective Odafin Tutuola on the NBC crime procedural series since 2000, making him the show’s longest-serving male cast member. He’s currently in production on the show’s 26th season.
A fan responded to an “SVU” set photo Ice T posted on X (formerly Twitter) by asking the star: “Did they write ‘SVU’ back to normal yet? It started to go woke.”
“What the F is woke?” Ice T asked in a post that has gone viral with more than 4.5 million impressions and counting. “Lol. Like I give a fuck.”
Ice T is returning for “Law & Order: SVU” Season 26 alongside franchise mainstay Mariska Harigtay. Cast updates for the next run include Kevin Kane as newly-promoted series regular and newcomer Juliana Aidén Martinez joining the cast. Peter Scanavino will be back as ADA Dominick “Sonny” Carisi Jr. as well.
Speaking to Variety about his role last year, Ice T reminded fans that “I’m not a cop. I’m the furthest thing from a cop.” He also acknowledged that playing a law enforcement officer on television has become “difficult” in recent years.
“People have said that our television shows are police propaganda, making the police look good. I understand that argument,” Ice-T said. “The cop I am on our show is an SVU detective…When I got the job at ‘SVU,’ Dick Wolf said to me, ‘Ice, you don’t like cops, right?’ I told him that during my criminal past, I didn’t hate cops — they were my opponents. [He asked,] ‘But you admit we need them, right?’ I said, ‘Yeah.’ So, Wolf told me to play the cop that we need. And if I play the cop that we need, I won’t have any problems with it.”
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Looking around for new Fall TV shows. Think I’ll give Grotesquerie a try.
Starts Wednesday September 25th on FX.
10 episodes.‘Grotesquerie’ Trailer: Travis Kelce Makes Acting Debut in Ryan Murphy’s Gory Murder Mystery Series – Variety
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Yeah, that looks fun. And you can very much feel Ryan Murphy’s influence – although that may be them playing that up by making the trailer similar to an American Horror Story one.
I’ll give it a shot, but I hope it stays a bit more serious and avoids the camp.
American Horror Story started out decently but has descended into total camp. This past season, Delicate, was practically unwatchable. I ended up fast forwarding through 95% of it. Having Kim Kardashian in it didn’t help either. It was Rosemary’s Baby stretched out over 9 hours. I think Ryan Murphy tried to course-correct with Season 11 NYC, but it really didn’t come together.
I hope Grotesquerie is good.
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With AHS, it’s always over the top, and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. I couldn’t get into Coven, that one was too campy for me, but I loved the camp in Hotel. Roanoke and NYC, the camp was relatively dialled back and they were both fine, but Asylum was very campy and one of the best seasons for my money.
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Legend of Vox Machina season 3 release schedule
Prime Video will release 3 episodes every Thursday on October 3rd, 10th, 17th, and 24th for a total of 12 episodes.
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I really enjoyed the series. It was a lot of fun.
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