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Felt like Gerart talked more in this trailer than in the whole of the first season.
Ha, I said the same thing to my wife when we watched it. An honest trailer should be just him grunting at people repeatedly (followed by a topless woman running away from a monster while a minstrel sings about it all).
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Classic ’80s TV Show ‘Silverhawks’ Being Reanimated By The Nacelle Company
Hey @Martinsmith if they are doing this maybe Visionaries is next
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I guess HBO needs to save their money for another Game of Thrones spin-off that nobody wants.
Or not…
https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/game-of-throness-reported-flea-bottom-spinoff-cancelled/
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Rumor Report: New G.I. Joe Animated Series May Be In The Works
Aside from well-known figures such as Duke, Hawk, Slip Stream, Cobra commander, and The Baroness, a post on the forum Yo Joe! claims there are at least 528 characters in the franchise.
One of those characters is not like the others.
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Rumor Report: New G.I. Joe Animated Series May Be In The Works
Aside from well-known figures such as Duke, Hawk, Slip Stream, Cobra commander, and The Baroness, a post on the forum Yo Joe! claims there are at least 528 characters in the franchise.
One of those characters is not like the others.
No, I know who Slipstream is, but there’s no way he’s a top tier, fan-favourite character to be mentioned in the same breath as Duke, Scarlett and the Baroness. It’d be like saying “iconic Avengers such as Captain America, Iron Man, Silverclaw and Thor”.
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True, he only had one spotlight episode, “In The Presence Of Mine Enemies.”
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My favourite Joes are
Cartoon: Shipwreck, Alpine, Beachhead.
Comics: Stalker, Scarlett, Hawk, Breaker.
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My favorite Joes:
Flint
Stalker
Lady Jaye
Scarlett
Roadblock
Snake Eyes
Doc
Beachhead
Mainframe
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My favourite Joes:
Quesada
Tribbiani
Pesci
Least favourite Joes:
Biden
Goebbels
McCarthy
Honorable Mention
Stalin (he’s on both lists)
Well this explains a conversation
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Bone creator Jeff Smith got his ‘dream team’ for Netflix animated series
https://www.polygon.com/comics/2021/7/24/22589309/netflix-bone-animated-series-jeff-smith-update
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Bone creator Jeff Smith got his ‘dream team’ for Netflix animated series
Well cool but WHY IS THIS FUCKING TAKING SO LONG???!!!
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https://www.tmz.com/2021/07/27/bob-odenkirk-hospitalized-after-collapsing-on-set-better-call-saul/
Bob Odenkirk collapsed on the set of Better Call Saul yesterday, while he was filming the final season of the tv series, and has been hospitalized. It’s been about ten hours since this was divulged, and there have been no updates on his condition.
Really hope he’s okay, but the lack of any kind of information is troubling.
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Looks like the reboot we’ve all been waiting for is finally on the way.
‘Waterworld’ Sequel TV Series In The Works
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Looks like the reboot we’ve all been waiting for is finally on the way.
‘Waterworld’ Sequel TV Series In The Works
Can the long-awaited sequel to THE POSTMAN be far off? Fingers crossed!!
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He always rings twice…
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Fox teases new drama ‘Our Kind Of People’ starring Yaya DaCosta, with first trailer
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Shhhhh just mentioning Sanjay and trailer puts him in danger
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Doom Patrol is coming back and it looks brilliant.
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May be old news to some, but I just learned What We Do In The Shadows will start season 3 on September 2nd!
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‘Jeopardy!’: Mike Richards To Host Syndicated Show, Mayim Bialik To Host Primetime & Spinoff Series
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‘Jeopardy!’: Mike Richards To Host Syndicated Show, Mayim Bialik To Host Primetime & Spinoff Series
Shouldn’t this be included in the Sports Thread
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More than 27 months (!) after The Orville aired its Season 2 finale, filming has wrapped on its third season, which as announced long, long ago will premiere on Hulu.
“And that is a wrap on season 3 of The Orville!” series creator and on-screen captain Seth MacFarlane announced Wednesday on Twitter.
MacFarlane also squelched any cynical speculation that Season 3 would be the sci-fi adventures series’ swan song, by adding: “Thank you to our incredible cast and crew for all their tireless and brilliant work, and I sincerely hope this is not the last time we all go to space.”
More in link…
_________________________________________________so searching for any news on the re-reboot of BSG, I found this link about the previous series…
Dr. Kevin Grazier is a planetary dynamicist who served as science advisor on Battlestar Galactica, as well as the series Eureka and films Gravity and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. He appeared in the Hollyweird Science virtual panel for this year’s Comic-Con@Home event, and he shared a particular scene from a particularly game-changing episode that got his seal of approval despite not making any scientific sense. Grazier explained:
When I first got the script for ‘Exodus Part 2,’ the fourth episode of Battlestar Galactica’s third season. There’s that part where Galactica does ‘The Adama Maneuver,’ or the belly flop, when it literally plummets through the atmosphere of New Caprica.
And what I said, in my notes, was ‘There’s nothing about this works. Galactica would break up. I don’t care what it’s made of. Since we’re going to real science, no really weird materials, it would break up. It would break up. When the Vipers tried to launch, you would slam into that plasma sheath and they would just get shattered.’ All the details – it would tumble. There’s no amount of thrusters that’s gonna keep it from tumbling. I went into all the details.
And then I finished with ‘Owing to the extreme coolness of this, go for it, because I want to see that.’
And do you know how many people complaints we got online? Zero. One of the worst science moments we had, but it was cool. And so people gave it a pass because it was cool.
More in link, including a video of the scene in question…
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Everyone who hated MOTU: Revelation will probably hate this one, too.
Cartoon aimed at children fails to find traction with adults. Oh no!
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Cartoon aimed at children fails to find traction with adults. Oh no!
Wait, are you talking about Revelation? That wasn’t aimed at children was it?
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Ah, alright. Yeah, and I can honestly see this one finding an audience much more easily. It’s a bit like the Troll Slayer things in tone.
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Mike Richards out as Jeopardy Host Amid Cascade of Scandals
Oops, thought I was in the Sports thread…
Anyways, is there anyone without skeletons that the hoards will leave alone?
My mom just texted me saying Crosby, Weinstein, and any other criminal activity is one thing, but things have gone a little too far.
Me, well, I’m excited that Geordie LaForge gets another chance.
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Mike Richards out as Jeopardy Host Amid Cascade of Scandals
Oops, thought I was in the Sports thread…
Anyways, is there anyone without skeletons that the hoards will leave alone?
My mom just texted me saying Crosby, Weinstein, and any other criminal activity is one thing, but things have gone a little too far.
Me, well, I’m excited that Geordie LaForge gets another chance.
Pretty much the only choice now.I’ve not paid much attention to this but it does seem to be spurred by the fact he decided to give himself the presenting job, despite pretty much no-one wanting him to have it (I’m sure he spent a lot of time working out who the best person for the job would be and was as surprised as anyone when he discovered it was him 😒).
And if you are going to do something as blatantly as self-aggrandising as that, well, you better have covered your back, frankly.
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Well, Revelation was aimed at people who haven’t matured much since 1988, but this new one is clearly aimed at kids.
Do kids even care about He-Man?
Seems like most of these 80s toy line revivals — He-Man, Transformers, GI Joe, whatever — are aimed at nostalgic adults in mid-life crisis mode. Most kids I know seem more interested in stuff like Minecraft, Pokemon, and Fortnite than they do about hoarding action figures. Give a kid money for his birthday, and he’s more likely to spend it on in-game purchases than toys.
Even the Star Wars toys… with a 3 3/4″ scale X-Wing retailing for $100 and a same-scale Millennium Falcon for $400, those aren’t being sold to children.
The only big n0n-video game IPs kids seem interested in these days are Marvel and Disney; at Halloween I think half of the costumes I see on trick-or-treaters are Captain America, Iron Man, or Black Panther if they’re boys, or a Disney Princess if they’re girls.
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despite pretty much no-one wanting him to have it
I tried to watch as many of the guest hosts as possible and I thought his performance was very close to Alex’s so I was not disappointed at his selection. What surprised me was the support for Geordi. Did you watch his episodes? The runner up was Amy from BBTheory so I think she gets the main gig. I saw one tweet about the whole mess asking if we really need Jeopardy to continue? I hope his reasoning was it was Alex’s thing maybe it is best to let it die with him. Despite an outcry from Fantasy Football and Packer fans I would not have been averse to see Rodgers get the job.
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despite pretty much no-one wanting him to have it
I tried to watch as many of the guest hosts as possible and I thought his performance was very close to Alex’s so I was not disappointed at his selection. What surprised me was the support for Geordi. Did you watch his episodes? The runner up was Amy from BBTheory so I think she gets the main gig. I saw one tweet about the whole mess asking if we really need Jeopardy to continue? I hope his reasoning was it was Alex’s thing maybe it is best to let it die with him. Despite an outcry from Fantasy Football and Packer fans I would not have been averse to see Rodgers get the job.
While I do not watch Jeopardy! with any kind of regularity, I don’t think it should end. I don’t think Alex Trebek would have wanted that.
It used to be that you had a generation or so of people (pretty much white men) whose primary career was hosting game shows. When game shows fell out of favor, there was no new generation who was groomed to take up those mantles. Pat Sajak is probably the last of the old generation. In the last few years where game shows are making a comeback, they are pretty much being hosted by actors and comedians who do the game show thing as a lucrative side job. For the most part, they do an okay job though they seem to want to be the center of attention. What the classic hosts understood was that they weren’t the stars, the contestants and guests were. While a host may have had a moment, they did not overshadow the players. That is what is missing from some of the contemporary game shows I’ve watched.
Mike Richards may not have been the right person, but was the right direction. Find an “unknown”, or least not. Find someone who is personable, relatively young, and competent. You want someone who won’t overshadow the players or the game itself. The job is not inherently difficult. You want someone who will be a cog in a well-oiled machine.
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Looks like Mayim Biyalik is taking over as full host of Jeopardy now… wait until people realise that despite being a Neuroscientist she shills some dodgy alternative medicines and is an anti-vaxxer
She’s not though. At least not entirely. She’s said she has gotten both the covid and flu shots this year and that her kids are, at least to some degree, vaccinated for example. I don’t know what vaccines she had her kids skip back in the day, but it wasn’t all of them.
I’m not saying her stance is the right stance, just clarifying that she’s not technically an anti-vaxxer. She just maybe has some questionable takes on the subject.
That’s a distinction without a definition. By the exact same logic you can say she technically is an anti-vaxxer, and if the last two years have taught us anything, it should be that any vaccine hesitancy is really dangerous.
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I never realised people paid so much attention to Jeopardy.
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I never realised people paid so much attention to Jeopardy.
Despite it being a game show, it is held in high regard due to the level of difficulty. Most quiz-based game shows are not that hard and usually have some additional gimmick. Jeopardy is a purely mental game where you have to know your shit. It’s a show that when you play along at home and get correct responses, you feel smarter.
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Looks like Mayim Biyalik is taking over as full host of Jeopardy now… wait until people realise that despite being a Neuroscientist she shills some dodgy alternative medicines and is an anti-vaxxer
She’s not though. At least not entirely. She’s said she has gotten both the covid and flu shots this year and that her kids are, at least to some degree, vaccinated for example. I don’t know what vaccines she had her kids skip back in the day, but it wasn’t all of them.
I’m not saying her stance is the right stance, just clarifying that she’s not technically an anti-vaxxer. She just maybe has some questionable takes on the subject.
That’s a distinction without a definition. By the exact same logic you can say she technically is an anti-vaxxer, and if the last two years have taught us anything, it should be that any vaccine hesitancy is really dangerous.
I don’t disagree. But I’m just pointing out that she has since come out and said she’s not anti- vaccine and while she delayed vaccinations for her kids they are currently vaccinated. She’s certainly said some stupid stuff worth calling out. And not just about vaccines. But if we’re going to focus on her vaccine hesitancy from the past I think it’s fair to also focus on her more recent words. If she’s someone that dumb parents used to help reenforce their anti-vaxxer position then it’s important to point out that she and her kids have been vaccinated and she does think vaccines are valuable and important. Just calling her anti-vax isn’t really true and doesn’t help the overall conversation about vaccine hesitancy. I’d think that seeing a person with previous vaccine hesitant history embrace the Covid vaccines is important. But maybe that’s just me. That said, since she was foolish enough to make her family’s personal crap public without prompt, this is all on her.
Still, as far as Jeopardy goes, it’s impressive that they managed to go with two hosts with controversial backgrounds instead of just choosing Ken Jennings and/or LeVar Burton. They’ve made a needless mess out of it all.
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it’s impressive that they managed to go with two hosts with controversial backgrounds instead of just choosing Ken Jennings and/or LeVar Burton.
I guarantee that if Jennings or LeVar were picked, somebody somewhere would reveal an internet tweet or Facebook post or high-school-yearbook-comment that is considered inappropriate in some way. We all have skeletons; but that doesn’t make us horrible demons, just imperfect humans.
Bialik had early misgivings about vaxxing her kids, but has rectified that. In a society that elected (and almost re-elected) Donald Trump and put Bret Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, it’s more than a little hypocritical and over-the-top to lambaste Mayim as a potential Jeopardy host, don’t you think?
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It’s hard to think of celebrities who don’t have something to get lambasted over these days. Maybe the Muppets?
Oh, I’ve got some bad news about Uncle Deadly…
(Joking aside, maybe we should hold people in positions of power and responsibility to higher standards, not let them develop skeletons in the first place?)
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maybe we should hold people in positions of power and responsibility to higher standards, not let them develop skeletons in the first place?
Why, that’s crazy talk! CRAZY TALK, I tell ya!
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It’s Team LeVar for me. No, I didn’t see any of his episodes, but damn do I like that in theory.
I was on Team LeVar, too.
Then I saw his episodes. And they were… not good. Cringeworthy. Probably the worst guest host of the bunch.
The best ones were Mike Richards, Buzzy Cohen, Mayim Bialik, and Joe Buck (which surprised me).
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(Joking aside, maybe we should hold people in positions of power and responsibility to higher standards, not let them develop skeletons in the first place?)
Joking aside, I think it’s appalling that society allows “actor” to be a position of power and responsibility.
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Joe Buck (which surprised me).
Aaron Rodgers was the big surprise for me. He had the right personality, the right vocal tone, and actually seemed at ease in the job (unlike Ken Jennings, who looked like he was ready to run offstage at any moment).
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He did a pretty killer audition here:
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It used to be that you had a generation or so of people (pretty much white men) whose primary career was hosting game shows. When game shows fell out of favor, there was no new generation who was groomed to take up those mantles.
What I always find interesting about it is it isn’t a game show, it’s a quiz show.
The differentiator there is game shows, like The Price is Right or Wheel of Fortune or Deal or No Deal have a high level of luck involved. Deal or No Deal is actually comical in the way it suggests there’s strategy in what is really just blind guesses and luck.
Quiz shows, based on knowledge, are rare in the US but very popular in the UK where they don’t necessarily last as long as Jeopardy has but get recycled constantly in various formats with several running at a time. The Chase, Pointless, Mastermind, Eggheads etc.
I know there have been others, The Weakest Link and Who Wants to be a Millionaire imported from the UK and died out, but it is an interesting division to look at. You can play along with any quiz show, with a spinning wheel you can’t. Is Jeopardy the only quiz show alive in the US and therefore why it retains its appeal for nerds watching along that want to show they can answer the questions?
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Mike Richards Fired as Executive Producer of Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune
In another timeline I dont know this guys name or give a hoot about what he’s done.
Then he tries to give himself a good job (and even more money than he already had) and me and the whole world (most of) want him to burn in hell.
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Sean beat me to it.
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Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist Wrap-Up Christmas Movie Officially a Go at Roku
Santa is bringing Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist fans an extra special gift this holiday season: Roku has officially ordered a feature-length wrap-up movie for the cancelled NBC musical dramedy, TVLine has learned.
Titled Zoey’s Extraordinary Christmas, the project begins production this month in Vancouver, with Jane Levy (aka Zoey), Skylar Astin (Max), Alex Newell (Mo), John Clarence Stewart (Simon), Andrew Leeds (David), Alice Lee (Emily), Michael Thomas Grant (Leif), Kapil Talwalkar (Tobin), Mary Steenburgen (Maggie), Peter Gallagher (Mitch) and Bernadette Peters (Deb) all reprising their roles.
The film will debut for free exclusively on The Roku Channel in the U.S. this holiday season, as well as on Roku in Canada and the UK. Additionally, all 25 episodes of the series will be available to stream for free on the service in the U.S. later this fall. As we previously reported, we hear if the pic performs well, Roku could potentially order additional episodes.
“I am so extremely grateful to The Roku Channel for helping us get Zoey to sing again,” creator Austin Winsberg, who will write the movie, said in a statement. “I can’t think of a more appropriate time to hear someone’s heart song than the holidays. And Zoey’s Extraordinary Christmas will be an opportunity to provide the fans and new viewers alike a chance to all tap their toes and get in the holiday mood. This show has always been about empathy, compassion and the triumph of the human spirit. The Roku Channel has sure lifted mine and I hope that our film can have the same effect on viewers everywhere.”
“Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist is the kind of show that doesn’t just entertain people, it speaks to them,” Colin Davis, Roku’s Head of Original Scripted Programming, added. “The show has a healing power about it, which is brought to life by the incredibly talented cast through music and dance. That connection with the audience is what makes bringing a holiday-themed film like Zoey to life with the original cast so special. We are absolutely thrilled to call Zoey’s Extraordinary Christmas our first Roku Original film and make it available to both longtime fans and new ones on The Roku Channel this holiday.”
As for what Zoey’s Extraordinary Christmas has in store for its characters, Roku’s description only offers that “the film picks up where Season 2 left off, continuing Zoey’s journey as she navigates work, family, love, and everything in between.” (If you need a refresher on how Season 2 wrapped up, check out our finale post mortem Q&A with Winsberg.)
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I was just looking around the L&O universe and noticed the spin-off “For The Defense” is not going ahead.
Looks like Dick Wolf will only have 8 hours of TV in a week (3 FBI’s on Tuesday, 3 Chicago’s on Wed, and 2 L&O on Thurs.).
Poor guy.‘Law & Order: For The Defense’ Not Moving Forward; New ‘L&O’ Spinoff In Works At NBC – Deadline from July 15th
Law & Order: For the Defense, which had been slated for a fall 2021 launch with a straight-to-series order, has been scrapped by NBC. The legal drama, which was supposed to be part of an all-Law & Order Thursday lineup alongside Law & Order: SVU and Law & Order: Organized Crime, will be replaced on the schedule by veteran The Blacklist, which will relocate from Fridays to the Thursday 8 PM berth for its ninth season.
Dick Wolf had partnered with Carol Mendelsohn on Law & Order: For the Defense, which received a straight-to-series order in early May. The project, which took an inside look at a criminal defense firm, had progressed to the casting stage, with offers made to name actors over the past two months.
I hear a decision ultimately was made to not proceed with the show, though NBC, Wolf and Universal Television — the studio behind the Law & Order franchise — are already developing a new series under the Law & Order banner. Details still are scarce, but the network and the producers are believed to be moving in another creative direction with an offshoot that is not a legal drama.
NBC similarly gave a straight-to-series order to and then shelved Law & Order: Hate Crimes several years ago. The prospective spinoff had remained in development on the back burner; it is not believed to be the new L&O series that is being fast-tracked right now.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, starring Emmy winner Mariska Hargitay, remains strong after 22 seasons, having broken the record for the longest-running live-action series in television history. SVU offshoot Law & Order: Organized Crime, starring Chris Meloni, scored the top series debut from any network in 2½ years (excluding NFL lead-ins) when it premiered April 1.
The Law & Order brand launched in 1990 with the original Emmy-winning Law & Order, which ran for 20 seasons on NBC.
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