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‘Maury’ Canceled: Syndicated Talk Show To End After Three Decades
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Talk of a black James Bond over on the other thread reminded me — Sarah Michelle Gellar recently said that if Buffy the Vampire Slayer was rebooted (not that anyone has ever claimed it will be) then she would want to see Zendaya play Buffy.
Now, I don’t think anyone should play Buffy apart from SMG, and a reboot is a terrible idea. A Buffy:TNG approach would be a better idea, and the show has a built-in mechanism for that: “In every generation a slayer is born…”. Zendaya would be a terrific slayer for the 2020s generation.
Some people might complain about a black actor in the role, but people like that aren’t real Buffy fans so they don’t count.
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Didn’t we already have a black actress play a slayer in Buffy anyhow? Kendra, was it? They already set up the mechanism for legacy heroes of all different nationalities and races within the original show, so I can’t see the concept being a problem.
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We’ve seen two black slayers. Kendra, but also the “first” slayer was black, presumably because back at the dawn of humanity we were all black.
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back at the dawn of humanity we were all black
Except Krishna, he was blue.
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Wasn’t there talk of a Buffy sequel/reboot with a new Slayer?
Ah. Yeah, there was:
According with the reports, Monica Owusu-Breen has been hired to pen the adaptation and serve as a showrunner, while original creator Joss Whedon will be an executive producer of the series. They are working together on the pilot script, with Gail Berman (who had produced both Buffy and Angel series), Joe Earley, Fran Rubel Kuzui, and Kaz Kuzui serving as additional executive producers.[1]
No official script has been ordered, and the casting for the central role is yet to be determined, but the producers intend to hire a black actress to step into the role. The new version, which will be pitched to streaming and cable networks summer 2018, will be contemporary, building on the original mythology.[1]
The announcement to reboot Buffy comes a few months after Fox and 20th TV chairman and CEO Gary Newman hinted that the title could soon find itself into the studio’s development pipeline. “[Buffy] is the most ripe show we have for bringing back, it’s something we talk about frequently,” he said in March, noting that the choice to do so ultimately was up to Whedon.[2]
Responding to the online backlash, Monica Owusu-Breen seemed to imply that the reboot will involve new characters in place of the originals. In Twitter, she shared the statement:
“For some genre writers it’s Star Wars. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is my Star Wars. Before I became a writer, I was a fan. For seven seasons, I watched Buffy Summers grow up, find love, kill that love. I watched her fight, and struggle and slay. There is only one Buffy. One Xander, one Willow, Giles, Cordelia, Oz, Tara, Kendra, Faith, Spike, Angel… They can’t be replaced. Joss Whedon’s brilliant and beautiful series can’t be replicated. I wouldn’t try to. But here we are, twenty years later… And the world seems a lot scarier. So maybe, it could be time to meet a new Slayer… And that’s all I can say.”[3]
https://buffy.fandom.com/wiki/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer_(reboot)
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Never met any Buffys. Also never met any Willows, Angels, Spikes, Dawns, Xanders, Cordelias, Harmonys, Ruperts, Taras, Ozs, Faiths, Anyas, or Drusillas.
I knew a Joyce once. Nice woman.
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Cordelias
I know a Cornelia. It’s indistinguishable from Cordelia when her nose is blocked.
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I have never heard of anyone called ‘Buffy’ outside that TV show. Anyone ever met a real life Buffy?
Never met a Buffy, but as a wee child I had a crush on a TV character named Buffy from a sitcom called FAMILY AFFAIR. I looked up the name of the actress (Anissa Jones) and discovered that she died of a drug overdose at age 18. I’m shattered…
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I still think the main issue with Game of Thrones (TV version) was impatience. Everything they did was set up logically but I think they’d signed a stupid money contract with Netflix and rushed to finish it.
It remains to be seen of these showrunners are as good writing, all the stuff I liked best in GoT was the character and dialogue stuff.
“There is no cure for being a cunt’ for me is probably the peak.
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Saving the world means getting along first. #PaperGirls comes soon to @PrimeVideo pic.twitter.com/BiXPxC8BiT
— Paper Girls on Prime (@PaperGirlsPV) May 7, 2022
I just re-read the comic in the one-volume collection. It’s ridiculous how much happens in that series when it’s objectively set across one night. It gets a bit repetitive towards the end, but overall is a lot of fun.
I assume they’ll change some stuff so that there’s some downtime between events.
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Law & Order renewed for Season 22, as is L&O: Organized Crime Seadon 3 (SVU previously renewed for season 24 two years ago.
They join Dick Wolf’s 3 Chicago and 3 FBI shows to make 9 scripted dramas (across two networks) for the 2022-23 TV season.
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‘Black Mirror’ Returns: New Series in the Works at Netflix
A new series of “Black Mirror” is in the works at Netflix, Variety can reveal.
It’s been almost three years since Season 5 of the dystopian drama premiered on the streaming service in June 2019, but sources indicate that a new anthology series of “Black Mirror” is shaping up, and casting is now underway.
While details about specific stories are being kept under lock and key, Variety understands that Season 6 will have more episodes than Season 5, which comprised of just three instalments and starred Andrew Scott, Anthony Mackie, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Topher Grace and Miley Cyrus.
A source close to the production tells Variety that the latest season is even more cinematic in scope, with each instalment being treated as an individual film. This is, of course, in line with recent seasons of “Black Mirror,” for which episodes usually exceeded 60 minutes and had incredibly high production values.
The new season of “Black Mirror” is the first to emerge since creator Charlie Brooker and his creative partner Annabel Jones left their production company House of Tomorrow, which was backed by Endemol Shine Group, in January 2020. It wasn’t long before the pair set up shop under new production banner Broke and Bones, and Netflix quickly invested in the company through a mega deal in which it acquires parts of the business over a five-year period, for a sum that could reach $100 million.
When Brooker and Jones left House of Tomorrow, however, the rights to “Black Mirror” stayed with parent company Endemol Shine Group, which was ultimately acquired by Banijay Group in the summer of 2020. That arrangement effectively prevented Brooker and Jones from producing any more seasons for Netflix until a deal was hammered out with Banijay, and fans worried that that would be the end of the show.
Brooker himself threw doubt on “Black Mirror’s” future two years ago, telling the U.K.’s Radio Times magazine at the height of the pandemic that, “At the moment, I don’t know what stomach there would be for stories about societies falling apart, so I’m not working away on one of those. I’m sort of keen to revisit my comic skill set, so I’ve been writing scripts aimed at making myself laugh.”
Evidently, a deal was finally reached, and Banijay Rights — the distribution arm of the company that holds both the format and finished-tape rights to “Black Mirror” — has licensed its hit show to Netflix.
Brooker has kept a relatively low profile since joining the Netflix fold. Known for his pithy BBC review formats “Weekly Wipe” and “Screenwipe,” Brooker applied a similar spin to his Netflix year-in-review show “Death to 2020,” which brought in a stable of celebrities to add some star power and deliver Brooker’s jokes themselves. Netflix followed up last year with a “Death to 2021” special. In between that period, he also executive produced the special “Attack of the Hollywood Clichés!”
In February, the streamer launched Brooker’s clever animated interactive short, “Cat Burglar,” which asked viewers to answer trivia questions in order to advance the story of a cat named Rowdy who’s trying to steal art from a museum. The show was a tribute to cartoonist Tex Avery, who helped to create iconic cartoon characters such as Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.
Yet, two years on from joining Netflix, Brooker is still virtually synonymous with “Black Mirror,” and it makes sense that the streamer wants it back on the platform.
Though the show began life on U.K. broadcaster Channel 4, where it aired for two seasons, the format was rendered a global sensation on Netflix with big-budget, celebrity-laden episodes such as “San Junipero” and “USS Callister” taking the dark heart of the show to dizzying heights and picking up a cornucopia of awards in the process.
Netflix and Banijay Rights declined to comment for this story.
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I felt that Evil lost its way a bit in S2, I didn’t enjoy it as much as S1. But I’ll be here for another season.
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The BBC has announced a raft of cost-cutting measures, including:
- Merging the UK version of the News channel with the international one
- scrapping BBC 4
- scrapping Radio 4 Extra
- merging Radio 4 LW with the regular one
- moving CBBC to the iplayer
Some of those make sense. Rolling the international News channel into the UK one might even improve the latter, if it cuts down the sheer amount of inane rolling news content. BBC 4 has been solely repeats for a few months now (with BBC2 supposedly taking its remit of arts and science programming, but I’m not too convinced that’s happening) so fair enough ditching that if everything can be on the iplayer instead. Same with 4 Extra.
The CBBC one is less convincing though. The reasoning given is that kids go to streaming services rather than live TV, but that only accounts for well-off families with decent broadband, let alone subs. This is the same logic used to shunt BBC Three online a while back and that worked so swimmingly it’s bow back on TV. Getting rid of the channel I guess is a way to disguise commissioning less content (and to not have in-studio continuity), but if they’re ditching the channel they should bring back to morning and afternoon slots on BBC 1 and 2. They’re mostly filled with repeats and simulcasts of the news channel anyway.
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Is it based on Chris Claremont’s sequel novels?
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I watched the first half of the first season of that. It was the dullest, most up it’s own arse show I’ve ever seen. I’m surprised it even got a second season.
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Well, the picture is amazing.
I am very nervous about this whole thing. The picture shows they know what they’re going for, and so does the first teaser, which looks very good, and of course Gaiman is in a key position, but… well, given his involvement with American Gods, that doesn’t have to be a good thing.
I really want this to be good. It’ll hurt if it’s crap.
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https://www.looper.com/884275/the-worst-and-weirdest-superhero-tv-shows-that-actually-existed/
I loved Man from Atlantis as a kid (which I still think was a genuinely good and unique show), and liked M.A.N.T.I.S. and Street Hawk. Both of which were, like, fine.
The list is missing my eternal favourite, though, Misfits of Science, which took a kind of adventure comedy approach and actually in its own way did a lot of the revisionist stuff that came to TV only decades later.
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Well, since we now have trailers for the movie trailers, it’s not that surprising that they are announcing the date they will announce the date…
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I just wish they’d made an announcement for that, just so I can be sure not to miss the announcement of the announcement.
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Hey, Netflix: I already knew that you are making a Sandman series. How about a release date?
It’s being announced Monday, at the very specific time of 1:08PM ET.
It’s Netflix, so they’ll probably announced the series has been cancelled at 1:09pm as well, just to save us the bother of watching it.
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I am very nervous about this whole thing.
As the saying goes, I have a bad feeling about this.
Sandman the comic does a lot of things brilliantly, but it’s to quite a large extent reliant on the medium for the stuff that works I think. The recent audio adaptation showed that when you have actors voicing these roles and acting the part, what works in comics can seem terribly creaky and hoary when you have actual humans trying to bring it to life.
Obviously I hope it’s good, but everything I’ve seen of it so far evokes countless slightly naff fantasy adaptations of the past, with nothing that makes me think they’re going to capture the magic of the comics version on screen.
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https://www.looper.com/884275/the-worst-and-weirdest-superhero-tv-shows-that-actually-existed/
Hey, there’s no way Supergran belongs on a “worst” list
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https://www.looper.com/884275/the-worst-and-weirdest-superhero-tv-shows-that-actually-existed/
Hey, there’s no way Supergran belongs on a “worst” list
It’s “worst and weirdest,” actually. It may not qualify for the former, but maybe the latter.
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I am a little surprised that Disney+ is releasing Ms. Marvel while Obi-Wan Kenobi is still going. Up until now, Marvel and Disney series did not overlap. There would normally be a break between series. I am sure there is some crossover with people watching both Star Wars and Marvel. I wonder if this is to get people to stay in the service longer during a viewing session. Mayne as more content is generated from each IP, this will be more common.
It just seemed unual to me.
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It’d be a long old gap between the end of Moon Knight and whenever it is Obi-Wan finishes to not have a Marvel series running, which given how many they’re doing just doesn’t seem practical long term. And if you’re like me and don’t give a toss about Star Wars, would be pretty annoying.
Releasing them both on the same day does seem a little short-sighted though.
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I am a little surprised that Disney+ is releasing Ms. Marvel while Obi-Wan Kenobi is still going. Up until now, Marvel and Disney series did not overlap. There would normally be a break between series. I am sure there is some crossover with people watching both Star Wars and Marvel. I wonder if this is to get people to stay in the service longer during a viewing session. Mayne as more content is generated from each IP, this will be more common.
It just seemed unual to me.
There was always going to be crossover, as there’s not enough weeks in the year otherwise (Andor is going to run for almost three months, at the same time as She-Hulk).
I’m surprised they’re releasing both at the exact same time. I’d have stuck with Fridays for one of them.
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On a network you’d get, what, 20+ shows starting the same week? I’m not paying for Disney+ until they can give me at least that amount
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It’d be a long old gap between the end of Moon Knight and whenever it is Obi-Wan finishes to not have a Marvel series running, which given how many they’re doing just doesn’t seem practical long term.
Obi-Wan ends in two weeks, so it wouldn’t have been long. I think there’s still going to be about a month between the end of Ms. Marvel and the start of She-Hulk without either franchise, so I suspect the “release two at once” strategy is partly about data-gathering, to see how it affects viewership of both shows, which people watch first, etc.
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‘Law & Order’: Mehcad Brooks Cast As Detective In Season 22 – Deadline.com
Mehcad Brooks is joining Law & Order in season 22 of the NBC drama. He will help fill the void left by Anthony Anderson, who opted not to return after reprising his role in season 21 as Detective Kevin Bernard from the series’ original run.
No character name or description is available yet for Brooks, who was most recently seen in the feature film Mortal Kombat and Tyler Perry’s A Fall from Grace. Other film credits include Nobody’s Fool, In the Valley of Elah, Glory Road, Just Wright, and About Last Night. On TV, he recently starred in Supergirl.
Brooks joins Sam Waterston, Jeffrey Donovan, Camryn Manheim, Hugh Dancy and Odelya Halevi on the Dick Wolf show. Rick Eid, Arthur Forney and Peter Jankowski are executive producers. Law & Order is produced by Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.
Based on linear and digital viewing, the revival premiere of Law & Order that aired on Feb. 24, 2022 has totaled nearly 13 million total viewers. Like the original, it examines “The police who investigate crime and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders.”
Brooks is repped by Verve, Artists First and Brecheen Feldman Breimer Silver & Thompson.
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The Wendy Williams Show to End After Nearly 14 Years
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2 dead in Mexico after Netflix series cast, crew van crashes
MEXICO CITY – Two actors on the Netflix series The Chosen One were killed and six other cast or crew members were injured after the van they were riding in crashed near Mulege on the Baja California Sur peninsula.
Local media reported the crash occurred Thursday, and said the van flipped after running off the road in a desert area. The crew had apparently been working in the nearby Santa Rosalia area at the time.
The Baja California Department of Culture said Friday that Raymundo Garduño Cruz and Juan Francisco González Aguilar died.
Netflix describes The Chosen One this way: “A 12-year-old boy learns he’s the returned Jesus Christ, destined to save humankind. Based on the comic book series by Mark Millar and Peter Gross.”
According to casting calls, the series is being taped by an independent production company.
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I think there’s been a name change. Before when I Googled it Netflix had a placeholder page for American Jesus. Now if you do the same search it says ‘about The Chosen One’ at the bottom.
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2 dead in Mexico after Netflix series cast, crew van crashes
MEXICO CITY – Two actors on the Netflix series The Chosen One were killed and six other cast or crew members were injured after the van they were riding in crashed near Mulege on the Baja California Sur peninsula.
Local media reported the crash occurred Thursday, and said the van flipped after running off the road in a desert area. The crew had apparently been working in the nearby Santa Rosalia area at the time.
The Baja California Department of Culture said Friday that Raymundo Garduño Cruz and Juan Francisco González Aguilar died.
Netflix describes The Chosen One this way: “A 12-year-old boy learns he’s the returned Jesus Christ, destined to save humankind. Based on the comic book series by Mark Millar and Peter Gross.”
According to casting calls, the series is being taped by an independent production company.
Production Suspended on Netflix’s ‘The Chosen One’ After 2 Dead, 6 Injured in Car Crash
UPDATED STORY (06/18/2022):
Production has been temporarily suspended on Netflix‘s The Chosen One following a car crash in Mexico that left two actors, Raymundo Garduño Cruz and Juan Francisco González Aguilar, dead and six more cast or crew members injured.
The injured cast members are in stable condition, per Deadline. Redrum, the series’ production company, halted production following the accident, which reportedly took place while the passengers were driving to a nearby airport on June 16. Netflix has not yet commented on the accident.
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This isn’t real, but I wish it was.
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The full trailer.
I enjoyed the comics so I’m already pre-sold on watching this. But the trailer is a bit lacking. Hopefully the actual show won’t be.
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The more I see of this, the less I think of it. Not sure what that meteor is supposed to be. I’m inclined to guess it’s Sauron or Melkor taking a physical form. I sure as fucking shit hope it’s not some outer space bullshit that they’ll forge the rings from.
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Yeah, I think it looks pretty awful and utterly bland. I’m not quite sure how you can spend so much money on something and the trailer turn out so uninspiring.
It is Lord of the Rings…
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Yeah, I think it looks pretty awful and utterly bland. I’m not quite sure how you can spend so much money on something and the trailer turn out so uninspiring.
It is Lord of the Rings…
How much do you want to bet that every other review in September is headlined “Bored Of The Rings”?
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Was that a teaser teasing a teaser?!?🤨.
Yes, and it would have been nice to have had some prior indication that it was coming.
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How much do you want to bet that every other review in September is headlined “Bored Of The Rings”?
If they do, can Doug Kenney sue them?
Bored of the Rings is a 1969 parody of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. This short novel was written by Henry Beard and Douglas Kenney, who later founded National Lampoon. It was published in 1969 by Signet for the Harvard Lampoon, and, unusually for a parody, has remained in print for over 40 years. It has been translated into at least eleven languages.
The parody steps through The Lord of the Rings, in turn mocking the prologue, the map, and the main text. The text combines slapstick humour with deliberately inappropriate use of brand names.
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If they do, can Doug Kenney sue them?
I have some terrible news about Doug Kenney: he’s been dead for over forty years. (There’s a Netflix movie about him.)
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Law & Order: Organized Crime crew member shot and killed on set.
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Law & Order: Organized Crime crew member shot and killed on set.
Criminal? Check. Organized? Eeeh.
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A Sandman clip. Have a hankerchief handy.
Ummm…that was pretty much perfect. It sets a high bar for the rest of the show.
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Well. That was pretty much perfect.
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