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The Black Stones posted:Anyone remember a Sci-Fi show from the 90’s called Space Above and Beyond? I remember really liking that one as a kid. On a similar note, I remember liking the few episodes I saw of Harsh Realm. It was a Chris Carter show but failed to thrive despite being from the same creator as The X-Files. Does Police Squad! count as a failed or forgotten show? I know everyone knows The Naked Gun series, but I've found most people hadn't hear of Police Squad!.
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I actually didn't mind Boston Public which actually ran for quite some time on Fox but nobody remembers it. It had a great cast and apparently made it four seasons. The theme song was truly awful though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf0ndTV5tSQ On the flip side, two awful shows that come to mind. The Black Donnellys was about Irish petty crime brothers in NYC. It had a young Olivia Wilde. It didn't even make it a full season before NBC moved it to like a web series, in 2007 nonetheless. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anjRkzHEtyU And Over There on FX from Steven Bochco which was about a US infantry division in Iraq and aired in 2005. It had Rami Malek in one of his first roles and also an episode where Zack Morris (Mark Paul Gosselar) played a journalist who gets decapitated in a failed hostage situation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=030t0jeZcng Kid Nation has a lot more thinkpieces about it now in retrospect because it was insane and hosed up, like this one: https://www.avclub.com/bonanza-city-revisited-the-pioneers-of-kid-nation-rem-1842153606 Basically, 2007 reality show where they threw literal children into a town to fend for themselves Lord of the Flies style. A bunch of kids accidentally drank bleach. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kON8qdWdho4 E: poo poo I forgot the three animated ones I can think of Gary and Mike. UPN claymation road trip buddy comedy that lasted one season in 2001. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhN2nE_k10E 3-South. Early 2000s MTV animated college comedy with a Flaming Lips song as the intro. Lasted literally 2 months. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbZOAujsdzA Probably the most infamous. Father of the Pride on UPN. The show came about because Jeffrey Katzenberg, the guy who made the complete scam streaming service Quibi, visited Siegfried & Roy's garden. It took over 2 years to animate 10 episodes and was extraordinarily expensive and a complete flop. The series is about the lives of the lions owned by Siegfried & Roy for their Vegas show, and was in the middle of production when one of them almost killed Roy IRL, so needless to say people weren't super into it when it finally came out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJkRA_9WhdE Tim Whatley has a new favorite as of 23:41 on Aug 30, 2021 |
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Fresno, the 1986 CBS 5-part mini-series about a wealthy family and their raisin empire in Fresno, CA. A lot of recognizable faces in the cast. I remember watching this on TV and not getting that it's satire. Not sure how it holds up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmBpVWVM2y8
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Sep 11, 2021 03:52
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Spider-Man the new animated series that was on MTV for a single season after the first Toby Maguire Spider-man movie. It had Neil Patrick Harris as the voice of Peter Parker and I loved the fact that it was having him be in college instead of all the newer shows (and movie) that always have a younger Peter Parker in high school. It was all CGI and honestly did not look the best however I loved the look of the show at night. Overall I thought it was a pretty decent version of Spider-Man and I just wish it was on some other channel other than MTV, as I can't think of a single animated MTV show that was on long besides the obvious B&B and Daria. The intro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIkH3V3wUiM
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Terra Nova, where an overpopulated future earth sends people back in time to start a colony back in dinosaur times. I thought it was rad as hell, but it only lasted one season (or less?) It had dinosaurs, stephen lang, a conspiracy I think as well, with the future trying to mess things up somehow iirc.
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One I still think about to this day is Journeyman from 2007. It's like Quantum Leap, but much more complex and nuanced. Dan is a reporter in San Francisco, when one day, he zaps back to 1997. He's not sure what in the hell is going on, but he manages to save someone from committing suicide by trolley. Dan zaps back to the present realizing he's changed history. However, he's also realizes that he's been gone for a period of time (and it doesn't quite line up with the amount of time he spent in the past). Dan begins to understand that he's being sent to the past to make the present better, but he also has to manage his personal life. You also learn later that he battled gambling addiction in his past which he confronts on occasion. Plus, his brother's late wife (which used to be Dan's girlfriend) can also time travel and, as their jumps intersect, she ends up showing Dan the ropes of time travel. I cannot recommend this show enough. The drama was well done. The "mystery box" element wasn't overdone at all and balanced out the episodic format pretty well. Unfortunately, it only lasted one season because of the writers' strike. The only trailer I could find looks like it was recorded by a potato. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtIqfdLntwE
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I remember this show! It was great! I’m a bit of a nerd for these kinds of timeline-changing shows (Quantum Leap as you mentioned but also Early Edition)
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Sep 13, 2021 00:55
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IIRC it had problems going to streaming because of all the period music the show used.
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Biplane posted:Terra Nova, where an overpopulated future earth sends people back in time to start a colony back in dinosaur times. I thought it was rad as hell, but it only lasted one season (or less?) Terra Nova was one of those shows that I loved the poo poo out of despite it being godawful on just about every level because I was enamored with the premise. And because it was a hoot seeing Stephen Lang and Jason O'Mara fighting dinosaurs and having a pre-historic bromance. Also that tease for the second season that never got made was pretty cool too. Apparently it was actually a ratings hit but it was literally too expensive to keep making so Fox killed it because that's what Fox does with fun kooky sci-fi shows: it kills them.
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muscles like this! posted:IIRC it had problems going to streaming because of all the period music the show used. Could they not do what they did with the DVD release of Daria where they replaced all the music with free-to-use tracks that sounded similar but that ruined the entire show because there were several jokes that relied on the original songs that now weren’t funny anymore?
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Poo In An Alleyway posted:Could they not do what they did with the DVD release of Daria where they replaced all the music with free-to-use tracks that sounded similar but that ruined the entire show because there were several jokes that relied on the original songs that now weren’t funny anymore? God drat do I loathe copyright law
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Sep 13, 2021 04:45
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Milo and POTUS posted:God drat do I loathe when companies don't want to pay artists
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Sep 13, 2021 04:49
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its extremely stupid that song copyrights for media expire
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Sep 13, 2021 05:26
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You're absolutely right and that small payday probably would be a huge boon to a number of these bands and artists at this point but if your song choice is integral to the jokes your show or movie you're watching, it's loving lame as poo poo that they can just lapse and go into a legal limbo cf Beavis and Butthead and the music video bits
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I’d never heard of Kindred: The Embraced before now. I’m marveling about how bad the title is. It can only work as a cheeky self-reference within the universe of Vampire: The Masquerade, and seems completely inscrutable to anyone unfamiliar with it.
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Better Off Ted was a great show that only had two seasons and was dropped during the Writer's Strike. Potato quality video but it shows how it could hit comedic beats like no other and Portia should have won awards for her role. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMy5YpJysy4 It even has a forums gang tag, one of the early ones. 
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Sep 13, 2021 21:41
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Human Target is one that I forget about. The first season was very solid but then it felt like the network went "hey, this show is ok, but it needs better scores across all demographics" so they added in a plucky young female sidekick and the new boss lady that would be the payroll. It was one of those shows where the quality felt like it walked off a cliff from season 1 to 2. Hell, the first season into was scored by Bear McCreary and was great, so of course they replaced it with some electric guitars for season 2. Season 1 Intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCkHqoEzoMc Season 2 Intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tol5333xgUs It never got a 3rd season.
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Poo In An Alleyway posted:Could they not do what they did with the DVD release of Daria where they replaced all the music with free-to-use tracks that sounded similar but that ruined the entire show because there were several jokes that relied on the original songs that now weren’t funny anymore? That's why they made brand new in-house music for Clone High. It's also why finding original versions of Beavis and Butthead is difficult due to when they would just sit on the couch and watch videos and now MTV doesn't have the song rights anymore.
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Sep 13, 2021 22:16
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CannonFodder posted:Better Off Ted was a great show that only had two seasons and was dropped during the Writer's Strike. I always found it too sitcommy for my taste, but as far as sitcoms go it's definitely choice.
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CannonFodder posted:Better Off Ted was a great show that only had two seasons and was dropped during the Writer's Strike. That was incredible, that show. Like the one where they install proximity sensors on all their equipment, that fails to recognise black staff members. Which is then corrected by issuing black staff members with offsiders who can trigger doors, drinking fountains etc. for them.
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nonathlon posted:That was incredible, that show. Like the one where they install proximity sensors on all their equipment, that fails to recognise black staff members. Which is then corrected by issuing black staff members with offsiders who can trigger doors, drinking fountains etc. for them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh7Nz4bIwss
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Melondog posted:The first was a live action sci fi thing from the 90s that had a mechanism somewhat reminiscent of the matrix; the protagonist was able to enter people's minds using a land line telephone. I don't think it ran more than one season and ended on a cliffhanger. VR5
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CannonFodder posted:Better Off Ted was a great show that only had two seasons and was dropped during the Writer's Strike. Linda Bagel is something special. Portia Abernathy,s talents are criminally under utilized. She was deadly funny in Arrested Development.
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ToxicToast posted:Overall I thought it was a pretty decent version of Spider-Man and I just wish it was on some other channel other than MTV, as I can't think of a single animated MTV show that was on long besides the obvious B&B and Daria. Does Celebrity Deathmatch count? It was claymation, but it ran for 75 episodes before being canceled, then got revived almost a decade later for another 16.
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Sep 14, 2021 03:02
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Side note: i can not loving believe they only made 19 episodes of Eerie, Indiana, feels like i must have watched dozens of episodes back in the day. 
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CannonFodder posted:Better Off Ted was a great show that only had two seasons and was dropped during the Writer's Strike.
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Buttchocks posted:Fresno, the 1986 CBS 5-part mini-series about a wealthy family and their raisin empire in Fresno, CA. A lot of recognizable faces in the cast. I remember watching this on TV and not getting that it's satire. Not sure how it holds up. I was old enough to get that it was satire and think that it was the funniest poo poo ever. Not sure if I would still think that, and not keen to find out
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I remember it being hilarious when I saw it, but I doubt it would hold up without knowledge of the Rich White People dramas it was parodying; Dallas, Dynasty, Falcon Crest, Santa Barbara, et al.
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nonathlon posted:That was incredible, that show. Like the one where they install proximity sensors on all their equipment, that fails to recognise black staff members. Which is then corrected by issuing black staff members with offsiders who can trigger doors, drinking fountains etc. for them. ...is this meta
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The Last Train was a show that ran for a single series on the British channel ITV in 1999. This show had a pretty wild concept, even by today’s standards: passengers on a train from London to Sheffield are cryogenically frozen in the midst of a train accident when a gas canister being illegally transported by a passenger bursts. They unfreeze thinking they’ve only been frozen for a few minutes, but exit the train tunnel to find that the civilisation had completely collapsed, realising that several weeks have passed and humanity is sparing and scattered. They later realise that they’ve been frozen for 52 years. This show was super creative with how it set up the establishment of new human colonies and how the destruction of humanity was portrayed. Sadly it never got a DVD or Blu-Ray release and was never broadcast in the US. https://youtu.be/AUWYg6GSgCY
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Poo In An Alleyway posted:The Last Train was a show that ran for a single series on the British channel ITV in 1999. This show had a pretty wild concept, even by today’s standards: passengers on a train from London to Sheffield are cryogenically frozen in the midst of a train accident when a gas canister being illegally transported by a passenger bursts. They unfreeze thinking they’ve only been frozen for a few minutes, but exit the train tunnel to find that the civilisation had completely collapsed, realising that several weeks have passed and humanity is sparing and scattered. They later realise that they’ve been frozen for 52 years. They must have had a pretty dim view of humanity and civilisation to think it could all collapse in a matter of weeks.
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There's a series of books I like called "Top Secret Recipes" and it's basically exactly what it sounds like, copycat recipes for well-known food and drinks. If you want to recreate a TGI Friday's appetizer or something in your kitchen, good news! So back in 2011, CMT, of all channels, thought "yes, this is a premise that can sustain a TV show," and made a single season of episodes (dropping the terminal "s" from the original title, for some reason) in which this cookbook author "has just three days!" to reverse-engineer some sort of famous food item and have his copycat pass a blind taste test. It is extremely scripted, and honestly, it's also quite stupid, but it knows it's stupid and it loops around into being fun and agreeable. This is Sunday afternoon basic cable bullshit and I enjoyed it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgs4-LHlIwI
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CombatBonta-kun posted:Human Target is one that I forget about. The first season was very solid but then it felt like the network went "hey, this show is ok, but it needs better scores across all demographics" so they added in a plucky young female sidekick and the new boss lady that would be the payroll. It was one of those shows where the quality felt like it walked off a cliff from season 1 to 2. Hell, the first season into was scored by Bear McCreary and was great, so of course they replaced it with some electric guitars for season 2. The funniest part about this is that the character they brought in to try to raise ratings was named Poochie. It was actually Pucci but close enough. Better Off Ted was also incredible and it's a drat shame it didn't last longer. Another short-lived show was Ghosted starring Craig Robinson and Adam Scott in a comedy about an agency investigating the paranormal. It only lasted 1 season, probably because it was somehow not at all funny.
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Ghosted also got almost completely retooled in the middle of its only season. When it started the characters were going out on missions to investigate stuff for the secret government agency. Then halfway through there are no more investigations and they spend all their time just hanging out in the office.
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muscles like this! posted:Ghosted also got almost completely retooled in the middle of its only season. When it started the characters were going out on missions to investigate stuff for the secret government agency. Then halfway through there are no more investigations and they spend all their time just hanging out in the office. Well, that sounds... affordable
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I have two I always thought deserved more seasons. Wonderfalls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp24yShlF7U A clerk at a gift shop starts hearing voices from inanimate objects telling her help people. It had a super cast and the visual effects were great for a TV show at the time. It was created by Bryan Fuller, and fits into his not entirely related trilogy of shows: Wonderfalls, Dead Like Me, and Pushing Daisies. Misfits of Science https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcXYrODO8UI A group with various super powers solve a random assortment of crimes and mysteries. It starred the dad from ALF and a young Courteney Cox. Honestly, the main thing I remember about it was being really hooked on it when I caught it on Sci-Fi Channel reruns in the 90s. It seems to have completely been forgotten since that.
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torgo posted:I have two I always thought deserved more seasons. Wonderfalls is definitely worth seeking out, mainly because it’s the rare scenario where the network were so confident in the formula of the show taking off that only a handful of episodes were ever broadcast but they actually filmed the whole first season.
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Tree Bucket posted:Well, that sounds... affordable It was a mix of that and trying to make the show more Office like.
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torgo posted:Wonderfalls
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torgo posted:A clerk at a gift shop starts hearing voices from inanimate objects telling her help people. It had a super cast and the visual effects were great for a TV show at the time. It was created by Bryan Fuller, and fits into his not entirely related trilogy of shows: Wonderfalls, Dead Like Me, and Pushing Daisies. It directly ties into Hannibal, through the shared character of Gretchen; the same episode, "Amuse-Bouche", has a Mushroom expert character named Stamets. Hannibal had a fun salute to Dead Like Me too, They have a character played by Ellen Muth, who has Cotard's Syndrome, a rare disorder in which people hold a delusional belief that they're dead, who's named Georgia Madchen. I really like crossovers in my fiction, it's a terrible thing.
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