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zoux posted:Irish Joe had another bravura performance in the TVIV Top Show Poll Thread. "Your top ten shows can be anything you want, as long as they are the same as mine" If you want to go down that road, we should be having a discussion about why The Americans is 19th and why Peaky Blinders didn't crack the top 50.
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zoux posted:Hmm let me check my reference list and...yeah I have you listed under Mega Bad Opinions Guy. Just because Peter Pan Live was on my top 10 list doesn't mean you have to get all personal. 
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Jan 2, 2015 19:16
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Ravane posted:^^^ Wait Wasn't Annakie creating the OP for Galavant? I asked for it. e: I'm dumb. Baronash fucked around with this message at 22:07 on Jan 2, 2015 |
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Jan 2, 2015 21:43
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Leverage's finale was pretty great.
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Jan 5, 2015 06:54
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I feel dumber having read this article. The shows might not be trash, but the AV Club's writers certainly are. Baronash fucked around with this message at 21:31 on Jan 5, 2015 |
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Jan 5, 2015 21:28
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timp posted:This was posted in GBS but I feel like it will be appreciated here too. I watched a few of them, and as a whole they're pretty lovely and one-note. It does remind me that The West Wing is probably the only show that could drape the American flag over the entire credits sequence without it seeming grossly patriotic.
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Jan 6, 2015 06:14
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Hopefully with all the episodes being aired in full, people will actually realize that even the most memorable casts struck out as much as they hit it out of the park.
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Jan 14, 2015 23:08
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Ariza posted:What article? Is Top Gear disappearing too? I thought that was one of the (if not the most) popular shows in the world, but I'm not sure if that makes it more or less likely to go away. I just started watching Season 1 again and I was hoping to get caught back up. Variety claims that most of Top Gear will be disappearing, with only seasons 17-20 remaining on Netflix. I'm kind of bummed that Spooks/MI-5 is going away. Baronash fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Jan 18, 2015 |
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Jan 18, 2015 00:35
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Mo0 posted:I don't care how many places people find where they cheated and didn't actually do it in one shot, that is a tense as poo poo scene. I *love* long tracking shots like that. I hate long tracking shots, especially for action scenes. The angles are always lovely and you end up with a bunch of small (but noticeable) mistakes in the choreography that nobody wants to correct. It's a bad gimmick. That shot from 19-2 is a great example. Because of the refusal to cut, you've got three people who just crawl right towards the gunman with no good explanation as to why. Baronash fucked around with this message at 02:08 on Jan 21, 2015 |
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Jan 21, 2015 02:00
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Ravane posted:They crawled to the hero because he pointed the gun at them and wanted them as hostages. That's the problem though. They sacrificed clarity and coverage, and all they got in return was a fairly dull shot. This episode of Flashpoint covers a similar situation and does it in a far more interesting way, mostly because cutting allowed them to keep the tension up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUSr7HCxdNY (9:55-11:30 for a short example)
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Jan 21, 2015 03:01
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The Nightly Show will hopefully learn from the mistake it made with putting Godfrey on a panel. You need people who are politically knowledgeable and/or able to be funny on a panel, neither of which applies to Godfrey.
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Jan 24, 2015 03:25
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hcreight posted:A lot of people don't care for the first few episodes but you should know by episode 7 whether the show is for you or not. But this thread has told me that I can't make a decision to stop watching a show unless I've seen every episode!
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Jan 24, 2015 20:35
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I didn't even know cancer was still a thing.
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Jan 29, 2015 00:24
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FactsAreUseless posted:"When does Cold Case come out on DVD" is not a sentence I thought I would ever hear. Cold Case owns. I'm sorry you hate fun.
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Jan 29, 2015 22:54
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I think Royal Pains might have the most egregious product placement, though White Collar's proselytizing of Ford comes in a close second. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFIrmOAMqxg
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Feb 27, 2015 05:11
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Aphrodite posted:Right, I'm just curious if an actual TV show tried to justify them or something. Besides Fox and Friends. The closest I can think of off hand is Low Winter Sun.
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Mar 2, 2015 07:49
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blunt posted:I like Man Seeking Woman but the fact that it's getting another season when Legit didn't is crazy. Legit not getting another season was the right decision. FX realized how important it is to keep DJ Qualls' dumb face off television. Baronash fucked around with this message at 02:09 on Mar 4, 2015 |
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Mar 4, 2015 01:53
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GreenNight posted:You can watch his dumb face in Z-Nation too. Some networks still haven't gotten the message. SciFi is one, Amazon is another. I'm hoping he's quickly dispatched in The Man in the High Castle.
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Mar 4, 2015 02:23
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hcreight posted:Couch Chat, I have found your kryptonite: Something should never be described as a charity marathon unless it involves a lot of running.
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Mar 5, 2015 00:01
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Shageletic posted:Is there a second season of Married happening? Unfortunately. It's even staying on FX.
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Mar 5, 2015 00:16
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How much of a presence is Tracy Morgan on 30 Rock? I've seen a couple episodes, and would like to watch it in earnest, but I've always been turned off by having to put up with someone as unfunny as Tracy Morgan.
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Mar 9, 2015 04:16
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Jingleheimer posted:I remember a while back in the last thread someone posted a site that you could calculate how much time you've spent watching television. Does anybody have a link to it for it? I want to show someone how much time they spend watching tv. http://tiii.me
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Mar 10, 2015 04:11
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VDay posted:You're Ravane'ing pretty hard here, Jonathan Frakes is plenty famous and has done a ton of directing work in TV since TNG. Ah yes, the director of Thunderbirds and Clockstoppers. How could I not have heard of him?
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Mar 12, 2015 19:13
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muscles like this? posted:Frakes is popular in the TV industry because he's an efficient director . He even has a nickname because of it, "Two Takes Frakes." I'm honestly interested in what makes a good TV director. Last night, The Americans was directed by one of its stars, Noah Emmerich, and it really just felt like an episode of The Americans. Really, how important can the job of a director of a random television episode be? The showrunners/writers are in control of the episode's story, the cinematographer is in control of the look of the show, and the actors all know their parts better than the director could hope to. Do they have much influence in anything?
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Mar 12, 2015 23:30
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GreenNight posted:I'd watch a show called Everybody Hates Christ. It's called Seinfeld.
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Mar 14, 2015 04:01
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Aphrodite posted:Usually it's the Castle channel. TNT always has the best reruns. Watching old episodes of Las Vegas is always fun. Also, since the OTA thread died a premature death, does anyone know of an inexpensive, no-contract DVR that can connect to an antenna? Preferably one that allows you to easily move files to a computer.
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Mar 19, 2015 02:44
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Deadpool posted:Who cares about Game of Thrones when things like this are about to exist. Fox is ordering a show where Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini team up to solve supernatural crimes. My NaNoWriMo novel is going to look even less original than it did before. 
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Mar 20, 2015 08:42
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Junkenstein posted:Haven't finished Kimmy Schmidt yet and Daredevil is on in a few weeks. We seem to be reaching the point where there will always be new Netflix Original content for me to watch. That seems to be Netflix's plan. quote:All told, the company this year expects to launch 320 hours of new and returning original series, as well as films, documentaries and stand-up comedy specials, which is three times the amount of original programming Netflix released in 2014, they said.
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Mar 20, 2015 15:09
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thrakkorzog posted:Are there any CW shows left that are actually focused on teenagers? They killed off Starcrossed, so not really. I think ABC Family stole the "alleged teenagers and their problems" focus from the CW, which is perfectly fine with me.
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Mar 21, 2015 06:29
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Malt posted:Does The Newsroom pick up past season 1? The show stays basically the same from season 1 to season 2, so there isn't much point continuing if you're not into it.
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Mar 23, 2015 03:15
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Gapey Joe Stalin posted:Ahaha, Sutter's new programme sounds like absolute poo poo. Official Show Thread!
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Mar 25, 2015 17:18
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raditts posted:They did order it to (a very short-lived) series though, didn't they? I'm almost positive I turned the channel away from it a couple times around 2006-2007, but it was so forgettable that I'm not 100% sure. Yes
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Mar 27, 2015 05:26
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Gapey Joe Stalin posted:Vice's coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been absolutely stellar. Infinitely better than anything from the established western TV news. For one thing, they actually have reporters reporting from the front That's because Vice's reporters are people who get their jollies dressing up in body armor and being ~IN THE poo poo~ in some war zone. It's dumb, and they're going to get someone killed.
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Mar 27, 2015 16:28
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Deadpool posted:I'd much rather see people actually in the middle of things they're reporting on than doing well lit two minute remotes 10 miles away and then answering the dumbest questions the anchors back at the studio can think of. But that's just me. Even if it means that people die for those relatively unimportant location shots? Vice's guy in Ukraine isn't even that good. Sure, he gets some interesting shots every once in a while, like the surrendering of Ukrainian tanks, but for the most part it's pretty middling. He is terrible at tying what he is seeing to any greater theme or action regarding the conflict as a whole, which is honestly the important part of delivering news. His reporting about the implications of the conflict is nothing you couldn't find on the website of any half decent regional news outlet, he just happens to deliver it standing in front of a tank.
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It's funny you mention short attention spans, since the practice of sending reporters to get shot at on camera only came into existence because people wanted excitement in their news.
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Mar 27, 2015 17:44
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zoux posted:What? Are you saying that foreign correspondents don't antedate televised news? Foreign correspondents existed —and continue to exist— because they are knowledgeable about the region, know the local language, and have sources in the area that they can tap. That is what makes correspondents useful, not their willingness to stand next to a rebel on the frontline. There is a pretty big difference between a foreign or war correspondent and some dude making a vlog in Donetsk. Baronash fucked around with this message at 17:54 on Mar 27, 2015 |
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Mar 27, 2015 17:52
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Deadpool posted:Hey if you'd rather watch Jon Stewart make fun of CNN for getting sketchy reports from reporters that were barely even half-assing their jobs more power to you. Some people would rather watch reporting from reporters that are actually more interested in reporting important stories than breaking them the fastest. This is a dumb post. I don't even know how it relates to anything I've said.
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Mar 27, 2015 18:10
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zoux posted:I don't think anyone knows wtf you are saying. It's not that hard to understand. I don't like it when news agencies ask reporters to put themselves in harms way to serve as window dressing for the news. You can describe the recent developments of a conflict without having someone shooting a gun in the background. Hundreds of reporters cycled through Iraq, and yet the quality of their work did not depend on whether or not they left the Green Zone. That's why I called Deadpool's post dumb, because how the gently caress does wanting to keep journalists safe mean that I'm polishing CNN's knob?
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EL BROMANCE posted:Except they both do it better. I agree, Tosh and Jeselnik are both very good at being unfunny shock comics.
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