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‘Night Court’ Sequel In Works At NBC With John Larroquette As Dan Fielding, Harry Stone’s Daughter As Focus & Melissa Rauch As EP
‘Little House On The Prairie’ Reboot In The Works By Anonymous Content, Paramount TV Studios
Can a Night Court/Little House crossover event be far behind? I’m guessing a Christmas Special in 2021!!
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His Dark Materials Renewed for Third and Final Season at HBO
Looks like HBO is committed to adapting Philip Pullman’s full trilogy: His Dark Materials has been renewed for a third and final season, TVLine has learned.
The fantasy series’ second season concludes Monday, Dec. 28, at 9/8c. Season 1 dealt primarily with the events of Pullman’s The Golden Compass and centered on the adventures of Lyra, a little girl living in a universe similar to our own. Season 2 has chronicled the events of The Subtle Knife, Book 2 in Pullman’s three-novel set, which follows what happens as Lyra and a boy named Will are pursued by both friends and foes between parallel universes.
In Book 3, titled The Amber Spyglass, the danger following Will and Lyra comes to a pinnacle. (And yes, readers, these are incredibly simplified synopses of what happens in the books.)
“Bringing Phillip Pullman’s epic, intricate and culturally resonant body of work to television has been a tremendous privilege,” Francesca Orsi, Executive Vice President of HBO Programming, said in a statement. “We thank our incredible partners at the BBC and the entire Bad Wolf team, led by the indefatigable Jane Tranter, for their exceptional work on the first two seasons. We look forward to completing the trilogy with this final chapter in Lyra’s journey.”
Added executive producer Jane Tranter, “His Dark Materials has been a truly global TV experience and a personal career highlight. The creative team at Bad Wolf in Cardiff made the impossible possible and brought Philip Pullman’s worlds into vivid life. To see that hard work and dedication applauded and embraced by fans around the world has made all the hard work worthwhile. None of this would have been possible without the wonderful commitment and conviction of the BBC and HBO. I am excited, thrilled and honoured to be making the third part of Philip Pullman’s trilogy with their support and encouragement.”
Season 2 saw the addition of several new cast members, including Terence Stamp (the Superman films), Simone Kirby (Peaky Blinders), Jade Anouka (Turn Up Charlie) and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who provided the voice of the daemon (or animal embodiment of a person’s soul, for those who are unfamiliar) belonging to John Parry, played by her Fleabag co-star Andrew Scott.
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A ‘Sex & the City’ Reboot Without Samantha Is Coming & Kim Cattrall’s Reaction Is Surprising
Curiously, her reaction wasn’t surprising at all.
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Just got an email from Disney+ confirming they’ll be adding their Star (non-kids) content on Feb 23.
Still no real word on movies/TV shows they’ll have, and the only show mentioned in the email is Big Sky, a fairly mediocre show about human trafficking. The most notable thing about the show is that characters occasionally mention the pandemic, so it’s set in the present day, but they never once show anyone wearing a mask or anything like that.
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characters occasionally mention the pandemic, so it’s set in the present day, but they never once show anyone wearing a mask or anything like that.
Must take place in Texas or Florida.
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Must take place in Texas or Florida.
I know this is a joke but…
Big Sky=Montana which is among the most stupid states in terms of covid. pretty much most of the NW are that way. top 6 are in the northwest and 9 of the top 11 are in NW.https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/public-health/states-ranked-by-confirmed-covid-19-cases-july-1.html the link says 7/1 but stats are from 12/30.
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John Dillermand has an extraordinary penis. So extraordinary, in fact, that it can perform rescue operations, etch murals, hoist a flag and even steal ice-cream from children.
The Danish equivalent of the BBC, DR, has a new animated series aimed at four- to eight-year-olds about John Dillermand, the man with the world’s longest penis who overcomes hardships and challenges with his record-breaking genitals.
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DR responded to the latest criticism by saying it could just as easily have made a programme “about a woman with no control over her vagina” and that the most important thing was that children enjoyed John Dillermand.
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a programme “about a woman with no control over her vagina”
So any woman living in a GOP controlled state of the US?
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The Danish are weird.
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Crossword puzzles and the Country?
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Menopause and the Metropolis
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Botox and the Boroughs
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‘Saved By The Bell’ Star Dustin Diamond Battling Stage 4 Cancer
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Exclusive: Sam Esmail on What to Expect from the New ‘Battlestar Galactica’, Including an Experimental Release Strategy – Collider.com
Note: I only copied the quoted paragraphs, nothing from the guy who wrote the article. – SR
“We’re still working on the pilot. Look, it’s a big universe, it’s a big world, I want to respect the Ronald Moore Battlestar. I spoke to him before I even took on the project to make sure that it’s all kosher with him, because the last thing I want to do is step on his toes, and the one thing we both agreed on is that it won’t be a reboot of what he did. Which I think we both wanted.”
“It’s still in the early phases of trying to figure out the world via the pilot. I think we’ve got the basic construction of the type of story we want to tell, the part of mythology that we’re gonna explore – because Battlestar does have a rich mythology and again I have to give Ron a lot of credit for that – and so now we’re sort of closing in on what that pilot’s gonna look like.”
“The expansion of [Mr. Robot] into a series feels easier than when you take a concept like Battlestar, which is inherently an ensemble cast of characters, where you’re not telling just one story but you’re kind of jumping into the lives of multiple characters and their arcs. So there’s a bigger canvas that you’re playing with. I think what we’re doing is we’re gonna work out some of the construction of where, thematically and sort of the mythology, of what type of story within that time span and within that part of the mythology we’re gonna tackle, what we’re gonna explore in this series. But I don’t know specifically – and again we’re still early – I don’t know specifically if we’re gonna work out every beat of how it’s going to end in the same way that I did with Mr. Robot. It’s very different because of how personal and singular Mr. Robot was in its story.”
“When I spoke to Peacock about it, and Mike Lesslie who’s an amazing writer – he’s the one who’s showrunning and writing the pilot – the one thing we got excited by is do we release an episode a week, [release all at once]? For me it was like let’s get in there and tell the right story and it will tell us how many episodes. We may dump three episodes in a row because it’s a three-episode-long battle sequence that needs to be dropped in a row even though they’re three signifying chapters, and maybe each chapter is switching a point of view within that battle sequence. There may be a 20-minute episode that’s the backstory of one of the characters that gets dropped right after that.”
“So we’re gonna really experiment with form on this one because Battlestar, again given the rich mythology that’s in there already, we want to hit every nook and cranny and because of the format, because of Peacock and streaming – and they’ve been such great partners with us in trying to experiment – we want to get in the writers room and let the story tell us how it wants to be released.”
“So I can’t tell you the number of episodes, but it’s also kind of a little meaningless because I think we’re gonna look at it as sort of like a spider web where we can plot and point and say, ‘Well this isn’t chronologically after Episode 1 or Episode 2, it’s the backstory of someone, but let’s release that so audiences can check that out if they want or they can just jump into the battle sequence’. We’re really gonna experiment with form in that way, and again I think with a property like Battlestar it lends to that.”
“Mike is writing the pilot and he would be the showrunner, and I would just produce… I felt like for me, in terms of that specific hard sci-fi… it’s probably a level one too deep for me, and I didn’t think I’d be the perfect candidate. But I know what I like about Battlestar so that’s why I think I’d be better in more of an EP role on this show, and again Mike who’s tackling it is doing a fantastic job.”
“I want to shoot later this year. Again a lot of that is up in the air given COVID and just the lay of the land in terms of where the world is and where we can even shoot it. The other thing is this is gonna require a big production just to even start up production and build the sets and start getting the VFX fine-tuned. One of the things I always attribute to the Ron Moore Battlestar is the VFX is just outstanding and pretty groundbreaking… it will be tough to get it off the ground this year, but that’s my goal. I’m pretty impatient, again I’m a fan of this show so I want to see it as soon as possible, so I’m gonna push for 2021.”
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‘Peaky Blinders’ To End With Now-Filming Season Six; Story Will Continue “In Another Form”
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We may dump three episodes in a row because it’s a three-episode-long battle sequence that needs to be dropped in a row even though they’re three signifying chapters, and maybe each chapter is switching a point of view within that battle sequence. There may be a 20-minute episode that’s the backstory of one of the characters that gets dropped right after that.”
Well that sounds like a terrible plan. Bamboozle your audience by never having them know when the next episode is released or how many there’ll be! If it’s a three-episode long battle that needs to be released together, that surely just means it’s one episode they’re arbitrarily cutting up?
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David Lynch is working on a new Netflix series called “Wisteria” and people are speculating that this is secretly a new season of Twin Peaks.
Fine with me either way; I’d also be happy about an entirely new Lynch TV project.
Is David Lynch’s upcoming series code-named “Wisteria” Twin Peaks Season 4?
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Bamboozle your audience by never having them know when the next episode is released or how many there’ll be!
Do the series creators have a background in comics?
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David Lynch is working on a new Netflix series called “Wisteria” and people are speculating that this is secretly a new season of Twin Peaks.
Fine with me either way; I’d also be happy about an entirely new Lynch TV project.
Is David Lynch’s upcoming series code-named “Wisteria” Twin Peaks Season 4?
Wisteria is surely going to be a dark, Lynchian remake of Desperate Housewives?
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David Lynch is working on a new Netflix series called “Wisteria” and people are speculating that this is secretly a new season of Twin Peaks.
Fine with me either way; I’d also be happy about an entirely new Lynch TV project.
The main evidence against this is that Mark Frost has said he’s not involved in the new series.
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Wisteria is surely going to be a dark, Lynchian remake of Desperate Housewives?
I thought Desperate Housewive was a light, sex-and-the-city remake of Twin Peaks?
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Just imagine, for a moment, if David Lynch had been put in charge of WandaVision.
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Just imagine, for a moment, if David Lynch had been put in charge of WandaVision.
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It’s time to play the music. Heck, let’s light the lights, too, because The Muppet Show is finally making its streaming debut!
Disney+ announced Tuesday that all five seasons of Jim Henson’s circa-’70s classic variety series starring Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear and Gonzo (to name just four) will begin streaming on Friday, Feb. 19.
“It’s going to be great to welcome back longtime fans, and to give a new generation of fans a chance to see how we got our start, how Miss Piggy became a star and so much more,” said Kermit in a statement. “And as for Statler and Waldorf… I can only add: ‘Sorry, guys, but… here we go again.’”
Premiering in 1976, The Muppet Show ‘s 120-episode run ended in 1981. Among the showbiz luminaries that popped in during those five seasons were Steve Martin, Elton John, Liza Minelli, Alice Cooper, Julie Andrews, Bernadette Peters, Diana Ross, Gladys Knight, Gene Kelly, and Mark Hammill.
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Well that sounds like a terrible plan. Bamboozle your audience by never having them know when the next episode is released or how many there’ll be! If it’s a three-episode long battle that needs to be released together, that surely just means it’s one episode they’re arbitrarily cutting up?
You make a very good point on the 3 episode thing, just make one long one.
I think some of the thinking could be supported by a streaming platform though. Netflix by default uses the series dump approach but when they don’t I get little push notification when the latest episode of say Star Trek Discovery has dropped because they can see I’ve been following it. They also manage that accurately across 4 different user accounts. I wouldn’t be averse to the idea of that informing me of a more random schedule.
Saying that Amazon are my other main streamer and they are way behind, it is touch and go if it ever remembers which episode you last watched. It keeps sending me back to episode one of the current series of The Expanse when I click on it and then have to navigate to the specific episode.
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Yeah, I can see how that mitigates it a bit, but if you’re avoiding the mass dump release system (which I really think more people should) having a regular release schedule really helps build anticipation.
Sure. Personally, I wouldn’t mind a third way though – what they describe with their idea for Re-BSG is basically releasing chapters, if you will. Sometimes, it’s just one episodes, sometimes it’s two or three because they belong together and it makes more sense to binge them in one go if you have the time. It’d be a content driven format, which I like as an idea.
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Yeah I mean it’s never been new for me that I find many formats, especially in the US, really rigid. Their comics were always one size, one frequency, one page count. The anarchists in the UK had no standards, all different sizes, some monthly, some weekly, some had articles and comics and no two the same.
Sometimes it makes sense but often it’s just tradition. I was so excited in 1996 when the BBC allowed Our Friends in the North to run at variable run times, based on what the story demanded, and the sky didn’t fall in. They don’t carry ads so apart from ease of scheduling they could always have done that but didn’t.
If you have a genuine global platform and a notification system then you can really create any schedule you want. That’s essentially what everyone under a certain age is used to with Youtube, you like a channel, you subscribe, it tells you when a new video comes out and you watch it and it’ll be as long as they wanted it to be. Streaming TV moving to what my kids are adjusted to is not radical, it’s maybe a step ahead.
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‘Game of Thrones’ Prequel ‘Tales of Dunk and Egg’ in Early Development at HBO (EXCLUSIVE)
A series adaptation of “Tales of Dunk and Egg,” a prequel to the events of “Game of Thrones,” is in early development at HBO, Variety has learned exclusively from sources.
The one-hour show would be based on the series of fantasy novellas by George R. R. Martin, which follow the adventures of Ser Duncan the Tall (Dunk) and a young Aegon V Targaryen (Egg) 90 years prior to the events of “A Song of Ice and Fire.”
Martin has published three novellas in the “Tales of Dunk and Egg” series to date: “The Hedge Knight” in 1998, “The Sworn Sword” in 2003, and “The Mystery Knight” in 2010. The three novellas were then collected and published together as “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” in 2015.
No writer or talent is currently attached to the project, but sources say it is a high priority for HBO as the premium cabler looks to build on the success of “Game of Thrones.”
Reps for HBO and Martin declined to comment.
Should the project go to series, it would be the second “Game of Thrones” prequel to make it to screen. The network is currently prepping the series “House of the Dragon,” which is slated to debut in 2022. That show will document the buildup to the Targaryen civil war in Westeros that is known as the Dance of Dragons.
Fans have been calling for a “Tales of Dunk and Egg” TV series for some time now. There were hopes that when HBO announced a number of “Game of Thrones” spinoffs were in the works back in 2017 that the novellas would be among the contenders for a series pick up, but Martin later said that there were no plans to adapt the books at that time.
Of course, just because the series is in development does not necessarily mean it will move forward. Another “Game of Thrones” prequel written by Jane Goldman and starring Naomi Watts went to pilot at HBO but was ultimately passed over in 2019.
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Ah, they’ve finally arrived at the obvious, have they?
Could be good if it happens, the stories are very strong.
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Ah, okay, I didn’t know or had forgotten this was happening. I wonder if they’ll be able to keep the big twist from the comics out of the trailers, or whether they’ll give in to the temptation of showing that to draw people in.
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Inside No. 9 news:
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It’ll probably vary by region, depending on what Hulu stuff has been sold off, but the initial UK/Ireland line-up for Disney+’s Star is up: https://whatsondisneyplus.com/disney-star-uk-and-ireland-launch-lineup-announced/
Almost no exclusives, but I get to bug everyone to watch Terriers again! Some good movies in the line-up too.
That Die Hard 2 is in the collage only draws attention to the likelihood that they don’t have the rights to Die Hard.
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Some odd things in there. Die Hard 2 but no Die Hard. Deadpool 2 but no Deadpool. The Cocoon sequel but not the original. Buffy but no Angel.
Yeah, I assume some of it is rights issues: Angel’s on All4, Deadpool’s on Netflix, Die Hard’s on Sky.
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Some odd things in there. Die Hard 2 but no Die Hard. Deadpool 2 but no Deadpool. The Cocoon sequel but not the original. Buffy but no Angel.
Yeah, I assume some of it is rights issues: Angel’s on All4, Deadpool’s on Netflix, Die Hard’s on Sky.
Yes, but Die Hard 2 dies harder, so that’s cool.
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I hadn’t heard that Meloni was back for this (nor that they were doing this at all, really). Could be interesting. I wonder if they wanted a safe name in Meloni anchoring it in case they need to wind down SVU soon?
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Nice seeing Meloni back, but how many organized crime storylines are there?
SOPRANOS lasted six seasons. And that one only focused on the Italian mob in New Jersey; organized crime includes Colombian cartels, the Russian mob in Brooklyn, maybe the remnants of the Irish Westies in Hell’s Kitchen.
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BKV is doing a Buck Rogers TV series starring George Clooney:
George Clooney Eyed to Star in ‘Buck Rogers’ Revival at Legendary
An old-man Buck Rogers reminds me of Millar’s Starlight; there’s been no update on that movie since 2015.
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I didn’t know Flint Dille was related to the (sort of) creator of Buck Rogers.
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‘Hannibal”s Mads Mikkelsen says show’s popularity on Netflix has “revitalised” fourth season talks
Hannibal actor Mads Mikkelsen has said the show’s popularity on Netflix has “revitalised” talks about a possible fourth season.
The show, based on Thomas Harris’s 1981 novel Red Dragon that sees Mikkelsen play Hannibal Lecter, was cancelled by NBC in 2015 after three seasons. It was added to Netflix in June last year.
“[Since the series] has found a new home on Netflix, the talks have been revitalised,” Mikkelsen told the Happy Sad Confused podcast. “I don’t think you’d find a member of the cast that is still alive that would say, ‘No, thanks.’ We all enjoyed it tremendously.”
I loved that show. If you haven’t watched, give it a try.
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I like the idea of a Buck Rogers reboot. That one’s kind of overdue really. (So is Flash Gordon, come to think of it.)
And I am also glad that Clooney isn’t doing it; I’d rather see a young Buck Rogers. This show should be at someone being constantly amazed at the world he has been propelled into, but also adapting to and enjoying it.Brian K. Vaughan (“Under the Dome,” “Y the Last Man”) will write the series.
Oh, neat!
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‘Hannibal”s Mads Mikkelsen says show’s popularity on Netflix has “revitalised” fourth season talks
Hannibal actor Mads Mikkelsen has said the show’s popularity on Netflix has “revitalised” talks about a possible fourth season.
The show, based on Thomas Harris’s 1981 novel Red Dragon that sees Mikkelsen play Hannibal Lecter, was cancelled by NBC in 2015 after three seasons. It was added to Netflix in June last year.
“[Since the series] has found a new home on Netflix, the talks have been revitalised,” Mikkelsen told the Happy Sad Confused podcast. “I don’t think you’d find a member of the cast that is still alive that would say, ‘No, thanks.’ We all enjoyed it tremendously.”
I loved that show. If you haven’t watched, give it a try.
I was a big fan of Hannibal. I’d love to see it return.
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I was a big fan of Hannibal. I’d love to see it return.
Yeah, me too.
All the more so reading a bit about what Fuller would want to do with it:
Tell me about your vision for Season Four. You used the term “rebranding” to describe how the relationship between Will and Hannibal might evolve.
It was not so much about a rebranding as [being] able to go back to earlier dynamics through a brand new prism, which was Hannibal and Will getting to know each other from a different state of mind. I’d want to play point-of-view in a dramatic way. I think I’ve said that season four is Inception meets Angel Heart. And that means that there’s going to be considerable mind-palacing and obfuscating of reality, or at least the perception of reality. And the thing that I’m most excited about is, because there’s going to be such a mental landscape to explore, that means actors who play characters who have previously died can manifest in the mess of Will Graham’s brain.It’s a shame that, prospective fourth season of Hannibal aside, Fuller has apparently turned his back on TV. Understandable though, after Discovery and American Gods.
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‘Law & Order: Organized Crime’: Tamara Taylor Joins NBC’s ‘SVU’ Spinoff
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Days of Our Lives: Entire Cast Released From Contract — Is the End Nigh?
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Days of Our Lives: Entire Cast Released From Contract — Is the End Nigh?
That article is from November 12 2019.
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I saw a news report today about the Red Dwarf co-creators now being involved in a big dispute involving their joint production company that looks pretty acrimonious and is probably going to stop any forward momentum for future episodes.
It’s in the Daily Mail so I won’t link to it but it’s easily googlable. It’s always a bit sad when creative partnerships and friendships turn sour like this.
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