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Mu Zeta posted:Any fans of Newsradio? It's my favorite sitcom and the creator, Paul Simms, has joined the writing staff of Girls. So that's something. Newsradio is my go to "best Sitcom of all time." And no one will convince me otherwise. That being said, I wouldn't watch Girls if my life depended on it.
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I kinda liked NewsRadio when I watched it a couple years ago - saw the first season and a handful of episodes of the second - but....well, there wasn't anything wrong with it, it just felt like the TVIV hivemind had overrated the absolute hell out of it. Being told it's the best sitcom ever, with the best cast who work better with each other than in any other sitcom, is not a good way to introduce someone to that show, considering that the bits I saw at least were barely above average for the era. Maybe it gets better though.
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It might also be a show that worked in a certain time and space. I grew up with it, and was fortunate enough to rewatch it in my late teens and early 20's. It really had a large part in shaping my sense of humor and sensibilities. So I'm admittedly, very biased.
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Small spoiler about that seemingly massive Hannibal promo spoiler people were referencing: That's going to be the opening scene of Season 2, then the season is about how we get to that point
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GraPar posted:Small spoiler about that seemingly massive Hannibal promo spoiler people were referencing: That's going to be the opening scene of Season 2, then the season is about how we get to that point Oh yeah, I was going to mention this myself. I was incredibly angry when I saw that one clip, thinking it was a massive spoiler and a terrible thing to put in a trailer, but this explains it well.
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What spoiler are yall talking about? I thought you were talking about the promo that MuZeta posted but the only spoiler there is that Korean TV is nuts.
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The Korean thing is months old. They're talking about the season 2 trailer that came out more recently.
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Bown posted:barely above average for the era. Maybe it gets better though. I don't think you remember how bad that era of television was. If you're too lazy to click that link, here's a short run down of shows airing at the same time as Newsradio: Jenny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5dRHLbKNEE Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_4L7spua4s Fired Up (TRIGGER WARNING: 90s as gently caress) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_roOi1PFbo Hitz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxAlYyixMoE Meego https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl0yyUFOyOU You Wish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ae1BkYWptk Yes, Newsradio may have been diminished by the shows that came after it (AD, 30 Rock, etc), but at the time it was a loving masterpiece. It also still holds up amazingly well for a show that's nearly 20 years old.
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Irish Joe posted:I don't think you remember how bad that era of television was. Dear god those are some terrible shows that I've never heard of.
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hahahaha holy gently caress those are so terrible! I was referring to things like Just Shoot Me. Oh my god these are just incredible.
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Bown posted:Oh yeah, I was going to mention this myself. I was incredibly angry when I saw that one clip, thinking it was a massive spoiler and a terrible thing to put in a trailer, but this explains it well. It's such a shame to see Hannibal falling onto lazy story telling like this. It makes me worry that the first few episodes aren't very good if they need this hook to keep viewers.
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PriorMarcus posted:It's such a shame to see Hannibal falling onto lazy story telling like this. It makes me worry that the first few episodes aren't very good if they need this hook to keep viewers. Well, if you believe Bryan Fuller (and you really don't have to, I'm just saying), he says that he was so excited about the ending he came up for Season 2 that he just couldn't wait to show it. I don't know, to me he's one of those "If anyone could pull it off..." writers. Also, FWIW, anybody who's seen the first two episodes of Hannibal will say that it's back with a vengeance.
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I used to watch Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher... oh god (In other news, I've gotten hooked on Bob's Burgers and it's easily my favorite comedy of the past few years already. Holy poo poo at The National covering the thanksgiving song from this season!)
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PriorMarcus posted:It's such a shame to see Hannibal falling onto lazy story telling like this. It makes me worry that the first few episodes aren't very good if they need this hook to keep viewers. Maybe...just maybe....this is a tad premature.
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hope and vaseline posted:I used to watch Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher... oh god They also covered the Thanksgiving song from last year too.
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raditts posted:Is Leverage on Netflix or anything? That's another show I forgot about, because it seemed like it came on at a different time every week. I never did get to see how it ended. Yes, the entirety of Leverage is on Netflix streaming. Whoever called it a combination of The A-Team and Ocean's Eleven was pretty spot-on, but it's more 75% Ocean's and 25% A-Team. The cast is solid and has really great chemistry, which surprised me -- Timothy Hutton is generally a complete non-starter for me. Some of the plot contrivances to pull off each heist get a little hokey sometimes, but it's always a lot of fun. I can't think of a single genuinely bad episode in its five-season run, and they always managed to get some excellent guest stars: Wil Wheaton, Mark Sheppard, Goran Visnjic, and several more.
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Irish Joe posted:I don't think you remember how bad that era of television was. Why did everyone's apartment in the '90s look exactly the same? Also, using clips from UPN shows is just plain cheating.
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raditts posted:Why did everyone's apartment in the '90s look exactly the same? Is it because of camera angles and how they had to be placed and whatnot? And everytime someone says UPN, I think of Drew Carey and his wonderful, fantastic burns from Whose Line. Wayne constantly being threatened to be shuffled off to UPN if he acted up.
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Mu Zeta posted:UPN was such a bad idea. It never felt like a real network. Let's structure a whole channel around Star Trek! And wrestling! Now lets combine the two...
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hope and vaseline posted:I used to watch Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher... oh god I don't know if I'd buy it, but give it a few more years and I bet we get a Bob's Burgers soundtrack released of all the songs they use in the show, sort of like that Simpsons' one. I found myself humming around that "It's not magic, it's tragic! Somethingsomething straightjacket!" song from the magic show episode all last week. Even songs like the other Thanksgiving song where Linda is singing something like, "Kill the turkey!" just make me grin.
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Apropos of nothing, I watched a video of all the Eurovision song contest winners since 1956. I've come to a few conclusions: 1) White people are fired from making music forever. 2) Ireland winning 4 out of 5 from 92-96 is bullshit. 3) If Israel gets to be in then so should the US 
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JediTalentAgent posted:I found myself humming around that "It's not magic, it's tragic! Somethingsomething straightjacket!" song from the magic show episode all last week. Did you watch Lucy Daughter of the Devil? Each opening title song was different, and it was amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCCQ7sfkZBw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkqaML4zKMw http://video.adultswim.com/lucy-the-daughter-of-the-devil/holding-hands.html Edit to clarify: Loren Bouchard is a genius. VorpalBunny fucked around with this message at 20:48 on Jan 27, 2014 |
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UPN was still a far more interesting network than The CW has ever been. I remember watching Lars Von Trier's Dancer in the Dark on UPN back in the day. The CW has never shown anything nearly that interesting. The one good thing The CW has done is air new episodes of Whose Line Is It Anyway?
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I know I"m getting old because I would rather watch anything on CBS than ever watch The CW.
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So I'm watching Don't Trust the B- in Apt. 23 in the order posted by Dreama Walker (as was suggested to me in this thread) and I have a question. In season 2, why do they recommend watching the Halloween episode after the Thanksgiving one? That seems like somewhere that Fox made the right call.
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Why's there no 24 thread yet? Or am I just blind? BBC has an article up with some casting news, and Digital Spy have some on set photos. Casting spoilers: Stephen Fry as the British PM! William Devane as The Plus Chloe as Lisbeth Salander 
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Carpet posted:Casting spoilers: Haha, no loving way. This makes me more excited for the new season than ANYTHING else I've heard about it so far.
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It's probably too early for a 24 thread, the show isn't due until May and there wouldn't be that much to discuss yet. I'm excited as hell for new 24 though, hopefully having only 12 episodes will stop any retarded time-wasting plots like amnesia or Marwan escaping CTU 86000 times.
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Ironic that the only perimeter that ever truly caught anybody was the one set up in the last episode for Jack. That said, PRESIDENT DEVANE AND PM FRY gently caress YES
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Paradox Personified posted:Is it because of camera angles and how they had to be placed and whatnot? How ironic that Whose Line is now on the channel that evolved from UPN.
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Mu Zeta posted:UPN was such a bad idea. It never felt like a real network. Let's structure a whole channel around Star Trek! Well, in the early 90s, the channels that would become UPN were just UHF stations that got bought out by Paramount. For example, WDCA-20 where I lived in Maryland became "Paramount 20," I can't remember if that was before or after TNG started airing but I'm pretty sure it was a couple years after, and aside from the Star Trek shows they were pretty much the same stations they always were. When they changed it over to UPN in the mid-90s, that was when they started trying to branch out to other, non-Star Trek things with such memorable programs as The Secret Diaries of Desmond Pfieffer and Homeboys in Outer Space. I'm not sure but I think UPN was also partly owned by Fox. I remember going to the UPN station once to pick up screener tickets I won for X-Men 3 from one of those things where they show the Secret Word during a commercial break and you call in with it, and it was the same building as the local Fox station. I think the Fox-owned ones were the stations that evolved into MyTV instead of CW. raditts fucked around with this message at 00:59 on Jan 28, 2014 |
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Deadline is reporting that Jonathan Banks will be a series regular on the Breaking Bad spinoff.
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http://deadspin.com/sources-espn-first-take-boss-in-talks-with-nbc-to-prod-1509995051 NBC keeps digging a deeper hole for itself. In case you're not a sports fan, First Take is like your average cable news channel debate segment where two people argue with each other, but for sports. Also, they spend too much time talking about Tim Tebow to this very day. This is the guy that NBC wants to take over what used to be the number one morning show. Things aren't going to get any better for NBC any time soon.
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Y-Hat posted:http://deadspin.com/sources-espn-first-take-boss-in-talks-with-nbc-to-prod-1509995051 Well, the Today Show is and has been garbage dump television for years anyway, so might as well see how he could possibly make it worse.
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Bown posted:I kinda liked NewsRadio when I watched it a couple years ago - saw the first season and a handful of episodes of the second - but....well, there wasn't anything wrong with it, it just felt like the TVIV hivemind had overrated the absolute hell out of it. Being told it's the best sitcom ever, with the best cast who work better with each other than in any other sitcom, is not a good way to introduce someone to that show, considering that the bits I saw at least were barely above average for the era. Maybe it gets better though. I don't know how anyone could see the Cane episode and then not consider NewsRadio one of the best comedies ever just on the basis of "Bill...I stole your cane." and "THIS CANE DISPLEASES ME."
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