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Joramun posted:Ruben Studdard as Elphaba. I'm in. I'll even buy the DVD.
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I guess all you need for high ratings is just to have a bunch of people singing and dancing.
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Mu Zeta posted:I guess all you need for high ratings is just to have a bunch of people singing and dancing. Works for Monday Night RAW.
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I just heard someone say that he loves the original but "Underwood sang and acted it better than Julie Andrews, hands down." How can someone be so wrong.
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The live Sound of Music was pretty cool from a production standpoint and the music is still classic. Underwood and the rest of the cast performed the songs masterfully. I look forward to the next live musical and I look forward to the inevitable trainwreck of the one after that.
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Mu Zeta posted:I guess all you need for high ratings is just to have a bunch of people singing and dancing. Live. Glee's getting 1.1s for its singing and dancing efforts.
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xeria posted:Live. Glee's getting 1.1s for its singing and dancing efforts. Yeah, Community's musical Christmas episode wasn't ratings gold either despite prominently featuring Allison Brie's cleavage.
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Joramun posted:All starring American Idol winners. Prepare yourself for Taylor Hicks as Jean Valjean and Ruben Studdard as Elphaba. I'd watch Kris Allen and Adam Lambert do something like Guys and Dolls. Or Amy Poehler and Tina Fey in Wicked to keep it more NBC Thursday night traditional!
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Irish Joe posted:Yeah, Community's musical Christmas episode wasn't ratings gold either despite prominently featuring Allison Brie's cleavage. America doesn't want breasts, it wants wholesome family musicals. Sorry. Wholesome family musicals performed LIVE.
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I hate living in this puritanical religious tyranny. As soon as I save up enough cash, I'm moving to a country that appreciates boobies as much as I do.
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I've been a fan of Underwood since she was on Idol and she's the reason decided to I watched it :shame: HOWEVER, I really liked the whole thing. I saw the movie as a kid but don't remember much besides whatever cultural osmosis refreshed.
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Irish Joe posted:I hate living in this puritanical religious tyranny. As soon as I save up enough cash, I'm moving to a country that appreciates boobies as much as I do. What are things a 15yo would say? TVIV for 2000, Alex.
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Irish Joe posted:Yeah, Community's musical Christmas episode wasn't ratings gold either despite prominently featuring Allison Brie's cleavage. Community's Christmas episode loving rules, screw the naysayers 
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Irish Joe was clearly talking about the birds.
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Terry Brooks's "Shannara" fantasy novels might be getting a a TV series on...MTV?  quote:In one of MTV‘s most ambitious moves on the scripted side since Susanne Daniels became president, the network has given a script-to-series commitment to Shannara, a drama series based on Terry Brooks’ popular fantasy books. The project, from Sonar Entertainment and Farah Films, has Iron Man helmer Jon Favreau on board to direct and will be written by Smallville creators Al Gough and Miles Millar. The trio will executive produce with Brooks and Dan Farah (The Crow remake). If MTV likes the script, it is expected to give the project a straight-to-series order.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Terry Brooks's "Shannara" fantasy novels might be getting a a TV series on...MTV? While the main Shannara books are just Tolkien knock offs I actually really like the prequel stuff he put out, the "Word and Void" series and the one that bridged those two series. Actually the "Word and Void" series would make a fine TV show. Mostly because the basic premise is about a guy empowered by the forces of good to travel around stopping demons, every night when he goes to sleep he lives in the future where good has lost and evil is in charge. He uses this to find situations where he might be able to change the future. Also while the Word has given him powerful magic abilities he's limited in them because every time he uses his powers in the present he loses them for one day in the future. All in all a pretty TV friendly setting/premise. Edit: Just read the article and they're doing it off of the crappy Tolkien-esque rip off books. Blah. muscles like this! fucked around with this message at 20:59 on Dec 6, 2013 |
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Hold on, hold oh, hold on. Why are they remaking The Crow?!
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I just watched Carnivale. Good stuff.
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The Gunslinger posted:What's the alternative though? He was really psychic? Ironic thing to say in the context of that scene Search me. I'm saying that based on what the show told us, Jane didn't make up a list and left it lying around. As best as I can remember, here are the clues that Jane had when he started composing the list: - Jane shook Red John's hand - Red John was in law enforcement or had a lot of pull with law enforcement - Red John had no alibi for all of the confirmed Red John murders - Red John was at that Visualize farm ages ago, when he painted his logo on the barn. A non-psychic Red John would have trouble figuring out the first one, the second one was pretty clear, and the last two would eliminate a bunch of suspects, and Red John had the resources to check on those two. I'm sure that Jane also used CBI resources to check the alibis of his large pool of suspects to whittle them down to seven. How exactly Red John got exactly the same seven, no more or less, I couldn't say.
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EL BROMANCE posted:I'm sure I'm not the only person watching, but Eagleheart: Paradise Rising has been absolutely amazing so far. Better than both Childrens Hospital and NTSF. Eagleheart is probably the best TV comedy I've ever seen.
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Postal Parcel posted:A 4.6 is near 5x the demo NBC gets on Thursdays(Usually, they get 1s and .9s. Well that ensures I'll never watch NBC thursdays again.
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NBC could do Oaklahoma, Hugh Jackman would probably do it if you gave him $5 and lunch.
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:A non-psychic Red John would have trouble figuring out the first one, the second one was pretty clear, and the last two would eliminate a bunch of suspects, and Red John had the resources to check on those two. I'm sure that Jane also used CBI resources to check the alibis of his large pool of suspects to whittle them down to seven. How exactly Red John got exactly the same seven, no more or less, I couldn't say. At some point, a guy broke into Jane's loft and took pictures of everything before meticulously putting it back in place. I assumed that was how Red John got Jane's list.
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New Terminator series in development http://variety.com/2013/tv/news/terminator-tv-series-in-development-with-x-men-writers-1200926394/ Skydance Prods. and Annapurna Pictures — the shingles behind Paramount’s 2015 “Terminator” reboot — have teamed to develop a fresh “Terminator” television series, hiring “X-Men: First Class” scribes Zack Stentz and Ashley Miller to write and exec produce. TV project is said to follow a critical moment from the first “Terminator” film — where the film’s story goes one way, the upcoming television show will take that same moment in a completely different direction. Skydance and Annapurna expect the new “Terminator” TV series and rebooted “Terminator” film franchise to have intersecting narratives, as well. Megan Ellison of Annapurna will produce the “Terminator” TV series with David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Marcy Ross of Skydance. Laeta Kalogridis and Patrick Lussier are on board as exec producers. And Marvel has confirmed that Drew Goddard will direct the first episode and be the showrunner on Daredevil. lomzus fucked around with this message at 23:06 on Dec 6, 2013 |
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That DICK! posted:I just watched Carnivale. Good stuff. Carnivale is awesome. I think that along with Deadwood are the "best" looking shows that HBO ever made. I know they have way more expensive productions like Rome but I've always found the CGI stuff to look lovely. The massive battles are also filmed way too close like in Game of Thrones and looks more like a stage theater production. Carnivale and Deadwood should have been huge.
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Mu Zeta posted:Carnivale is awesome. I think that along with Deadwood are the "best" looking shows that HBO ever made. I know they have way more expensive productions like Rome but I've always found the CGI stuff to look lovely. The massive battles are also filmed way too close like in Game of Thrones and looks more like a stage theater production. Carnivale and Deadwood should have been huge. I've definitely had Deadwood on my mind through the whole way, both because the untamed western setting is really reminiscent of it and because I knew it was cancelled before its time. I had a foreboding sense of doom that nothing was going to really payoff and everything would exist in a sort of limbo just like when Deadwood was cancelled. It got a better ending than Deadwood did I think, but there was still obviously so much more they wanted to cover. What's been a relief to me is that the creator of Carnivale is not at all a douche like David Milch seems to be. He felt really bad for the fans that it got cancelled and understood why HBO did it, and did his best to explain where all of the characters were supposed to end up and what was supposed to happen. Really shows the contrast between te two.
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Writer Cath posted:At some point, a guy broke into Jane's loft and took pictures of everything before meticulously putting it back in place. I assumed that was how Red John got Jane's list. That was Bob Kirkland, the Homeland Security guy (and one of the seven real suspects). An early episode this season revealed that the list Bob got was of seven fake suspects Jane planted, exactly because he suspected that someone would break into the loft to look for it.
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Mu Zeta posted:Carnivale is awesome. I think that along with Deadwood are the "best" looking shows that HBO ever made. Nah, that's Boardwalk Empire.
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The best thing about Carnivale is that you can actually infer how the show would have ended if it went on and be more or less in line with what actually would have happened according to its creator. There are definitely enough hints dropped that, while certain aspects of some characters' stories will leave you frustrated, at least you have some closure on the big picture. There are certain shows I wish had been abruptly cancelled at a point when my theories were much better than the actual ending.
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precision posted:Hold on, hold oh, hold on. They've discovered a novel new way to extract money from dead celebrities and they've decided to test the process on Brandon Lee's corpse. Exhumation begins Monday.
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IRQ posted:Well that ensures I'll never watch NBC thursdays again. Wait i'm confused by this post, do you not like musicals?!?
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precision posted:Hold on, hold oh, hold on. Same reason they ever made those lovely "sequels?" Or lovely comics? In other words, Hot Topic still exists, and there isn't a lot of stuff these days to sell there--last I knew, they still had Invader Zim merch. New Crow stuff could revitalize the entire chain.
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I would watch musicals live on Thursdays. Every time I see a Fathom Events commercial for the Met Operas at the movie theater, I wish they were also doing Broadway shows for those of us who live so, so far away from any big city where the plays tour.
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precision posted:The best thing about Carnivale is that you can actually infer how the show would have ended if it went on and be more or less in line with what actually would have happened according to its creator. There are definitely enough hints dropped that, while certain aspects of some characters' stories will leave you frustrated, at least you have some closure on the big picture. I've said it before- but it's the show Lost tried to be. The second season answered 90% of the show's mysteries. It definitely felt like it had a "gameplan" of some sort.
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precision posted:There are certain shows I wish had been abruptly cancelled at a point when my theories were much better than the actual ending. CaptainHollywood posted:I've said it before- but it's the show Lost tried to be. The second season answered 90% of the show's mysteries. It definitely felt like it had a "gameplan" of some sort. Precision that was masterful.
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A lot of crazy stuff being revealed on this page. A Tolkein rip-off that nevertheless I have a weird soft spot for (the series is about a nuclear war creating trolls and elves you guys. Middle school Shag loved that poo poo). A new Terminator show is happening. But the biggest surprise... Community is still on?! Did it get good again? EDIT: Still haven't seen the last couple of episodes of Carnivale (same with FNL). I just don't wanna it to be over...
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As for the Crow, I suppose there is technically room for an actual Crow story about the comic version which is....different to say the least. A lot of the basic ideas are there, but it's very much more of a psychological examination of loss than a dude going all Punisher blasting away. I'm just not sure why you'd *want* to make that movie, as it's a lot harder to convey and I don't know that it translates super well.
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Shageletic posted:Community is still on?! Did it get good again? Time will tell, since it doesn't return until January, but the original showrunner is back in control, and they've announced a lot of great guest stars for this season, so I'm hopeful, at least! However, Chevy Chase is no longer in it, and Donald Glover will only be in 5/13 episodes this season. 
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