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Sober posted:Isn't South Park on the very very very extreme? Like the dudes literally put the episode together the day it's supposed to air? Sounds interesting either way. Yeah, it's an extreme edge case, but 6 Days to Air is one of the few cases where we can see how the sausage is made. And the South Park guys don't just fart them out, they have a fairly brutal schedule trying to get them to Viacom in time for the next episode. thrakkorzog fucked around with this message at 10:36 on Mar 30, 2016 |
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South Park has been a weird case because of how it's all animated in house using computers and how small the voice cast meant they could push things to an extreme that other shows couldn't. Although in the last couple of seasons they've changed how they do stuff, they leave it open to adding some recent events but are focusing more on planning out season long arcs.
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Mar 30, 2016 13:12
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Sober posted:Isn't South Park on the very very very extreme? Like the dudes literally put the episode together the day it's supposed to air? Sounds interesting either way. For what kind of show it is, yes, but live or nearly so scripted comedies are often done on a tight schedule like that. There was a documentary on how SNL gets made in a week that came out in the last year or so that was pretty good.
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Mar 30, 2016 14:00
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IRQ posted:For what kind of show it is, yes, but live or nearly so scripted comedies are often done on a tight schedule like that. There was a documentary on how SNL gets made in a week that came out in the last year or so that was pretty good. Definitely recommended viewing if you've ever been a fan of SNL. It's called Saturday Night, and it was shot and directed by James Franco. It featured a week in 2008 where John Malkovich hosted. It was cool to see what happens to pitches that don't make it vs. ones that do and how they get developed into what you see during the live broadcast. EDIT: I believe it's on Hulu
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Gonz posted:Not Safe is one of the best new shows on TV in general. That whole thing where they feed the lines to porn stars through an earpiece while they're loving is something that everyone should view. It's a super-under apperacted show that should have a bigger following.
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The Teachers pilot is pretty drat mediocre. Does it get any better?
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xcore posted:The answer is always going to be "it depends". But a general overview would be, the showrunner has an idea of the stories they want to tell in the episode. The writers will all collaborate to flesh out the episode, decide on story beats and episode arcs, then the head writer for the episode will go off and write the episode. First draft will be complete and they will all meet up to tear the script apart. Rinse and repeat. There's some good writer blogs (including an article by the guy who ran the Middlemen and was a writer for Lost, forgot his name) that really get into it, but different shows have different approaches. X-Files, for example, had a pretty loose structure that allowed writers to basically produce their own episodes, from initial idea to casting to being on set during shooting to even editing. Then there are shows that are way more controlled by the showrunner, Mathew Weiner basically putting his fingerprints on every episode of Mad Men for example. Vince Gilligan apparently would have a summit with writers where different things they would want to see would be put up on a whiteboard. Gilligan would then sketch out a vague arc to the season, then collaborate for each individual episode, assigning one writer to outline and flesh out a draft of an episode based on the input of the writers room. Then Gilligan would check it out, and send it back, and repeat. But its all a very fluid process.
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Mar 30, 2016 17:34
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Dan Harmon described the writing of an episode of Community as basically, he would write the script, then take it to the writer's room, where the other writers would put in the jokes.
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Mar 30, 2016 17:38
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boom boom boom posted:Dan Harmon described the writing of an episode of Community as basically, he would write the script, then take it to the writer's room, where the other writers would put in the jokes.
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Mar 30, 2016 17:46
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Might make a thread for The Path if nobody else does soon. Hulu drama about a cult starring Aaron Paul, Hugh Dancy, and Michelle Monaghan. First episode was very interesting despite some meh dialogue.
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Mar 30, 2016 17:53
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I heard that show is real bad
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Mar 30, 2016 17:54
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jesus that was fast anyway I like episode 1 but it was directed by Mike Cahill who is a talented dude so maybe later episodes will be less good? but I'm totally down for now.
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Mar 30, 2016 17:55
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Yeah every review I read for it seems to state that it's a boring cliched slog, which is all the more disappointing cause it's got Aaron Paul, one of my favorite actors ever
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Mar 30, 2016 18:02
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Toxxupation posted:Yeah every review I read for it seems to state that it's a boring cliched slog, Actually those were reviews of your posts. Escobarbarian posted:Might make a thread for The Path if nobody else does soon. Hulu drama about a cult starring Aaron Paul, Hugh Dancy, and Michelle Monaghan. First episode was very interesting despite some meh dialogue. Are they doing the weekly release sked or is it all up?
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Mar 30, 2016 18:06
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The first two are up now but it's going to be weekly.
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Mar 30, 2016 18:17
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I never thought I'd be saying this after how fantastic seasons 8 and 9 were, but... I think Trailer Park Boys jumped the shark.
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Mar 30, 2016 18:52
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Did Sunday's episode of Quantico drop the f-bomb? "You're not a Muslim, you're a gently caress!" It didn't sound like she was saying "fake", so was that some Arabic word which only sounded like gently caress? Also, I'm not sure if the complete anticlimax of "12 terrorists with automatic weapons breach the gate lock everything down!" / "They were all rounded up during the commercial break" was dumb or smart (because that place should indeed have massive security and not be vulnerable to just 12 guys shooting their way past the first gate).
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Mar 30, 2016 20:59
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:Did Sunday's episode of Quantico drop the f-bomb? "You're not a Muslim, you're a gently caress!" It didn't sound like she was saying "fake", so was that some Arabic word which only sounded like gently caress? Thug.
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Mar 30, 2016 22:08
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Ironically, the Thugs were Muslim. This has been your useless fact of the day.
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Mar 30, 2016 22:15
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There will be a live production of A Few Good Men airing on NBC early next year. Aaron Sorkin will produce and re-adapt his own play.
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LORD OF BUTT posted:I never thought I'd be saying this after how fantastic seasons 8 and 9 were, but... I think Trailer Park Boys jumped the shark. I don't know if I'd call it a "jump the shark" moment, but I couldn't really get into Trailer Park Boya anymore once they turned Leahey into a villain actively working against the boys again. I just liked the dude and his seasons' long build to redemption to just see them hit the reset button on him and it just soured me on the whole show from that point on. Escobarbarian posted:jesus that was fast I haven't seen it yet, but I love cult stuff and I really don't care what reviewers say, a lot of them seem to just parrot whatever the early prevalent opinion is and just run with it from there. Unless something is an obvious trainwreck or soulless cash in, I just ignore what critics say
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savinhill posted:I don't know if I'd call it a "jump the shark" moment, but I couldn't really get into Trailer Park Boya anymore once they turned Leahey into a villain actively working against the boys again. I just liked the dude and his seasons' long build to redemption to just see them hit the reset button on him and it just soured me on the whole show from that point on. Give the new season a shot, I like what they did with him
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Mar 30, 2016 23:49
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Dunno if it's been on there a while but Hulu just recommended me the full series of In the Thick of It so if you haven't seen it yet, watch it.
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Mar 31, 2016 00:02
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At least a little while because I wanted to watch it a couple years ago and got through the first 2 seasons and specials that way.
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Mar 31, 2016 00:06
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In The Thick Of It's awesome. I knew absolutely nothing about the British political process, but you don't need to know, or even care, about that stuff to enjoy it and find it hilarious.
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Mar 31, 2016 00:17
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Yes, Minister is a good primer on the English tv parliamentary system.
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Mar 31, 2016 00:26
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Did they rename The Thick of It for the US, or did you guys just get the name wrong? Spoiler: main dude got locked up irl for paedophilia related charges, so no Huw Abbott after series 1
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Toxxupation posted:Yeah every review I read for it seems to state that it's a boring cliched slog, which is all the more disappointing cause it's got Aaron Paul, one of my favorite actors ever Reviews I read were favorable, noting the highlights were its use of imagery and Aaron Paul over dialogue and early plotting fwiw.
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Danger posted:Reviews I read were favorable, noting the highlights were its use of imagery and Aaron Paul over dialogue and early plotting fwiw. Yeah, almost done with episode two, it's not amazing, but it's not terrible either. Aaron Paul is definitely the highlight.
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Mar 31, 2016 01:38
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EL BROMANCE posted:Did they rename The Thick of It for the US, or did you guys just get the name wrong? I think there's The Thick of It, and In The Thick Of It, and one is a movie and one is a series based mostly on the movie but with some new characters and some old ones changed around. Malcom Tucker is eternal.
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Mar 31, 2016 01:41
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EL BROMANCE posted:
drat that is method as hell.
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Mar 31, 2016 02:07
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How in the god damned gently caress do people watch shows with frame interpolation on. And they don't even notice. I'm like "hey, frame interpolation is on, that's why everything looks like poo poo" and they are like "what? it is? who turned it on?" "How the gently caress should I know dad, I turned it off last time I visited over a year ago"
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bring back old gbs posted:I think there's The Thick of It, and In The Thick Of It, and one is a movie and one is a series based mostly on the movie but with some new characters and some old ones changed around. Malcom Tucker is eternal. I don't know if that's what it's renamed as or if you're just confused. In The Loop was the name of the film.
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a good civil servant but a bad doctor
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Mar 31, 2016 02:38
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Also watching Fringe with frame interpolation on makes it look like some lovely British scifi show.
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Mar 31, 2016 02:40
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It makes it look like the 100? Man that's some extensive frame interpolation
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Mar 31, 2016 02:50
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The 100 isn't British.
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Mar 31, 2016 02:53
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BSam posted:I don't know if that's what it's renamed as or if you're just confused. In The Loop was the name of the film. I was absolutely confused, you are correct.
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Snak posted:How in the god damned gently caress do people watch shows with frame interpolation on. And they don't even notice. I don't even kno what Frame Interpolation is
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It's an animation style where they draw a reduced number of frames and have a computer fill the frames in between them for the look of motion, as opposed to creating more frames of animation Sorta like how they fill the space between opening and end credits with garbage and call it "an episode of the 100"
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