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BooDooBoo posted:I really like crossovers in my fiction, it's a terrible thing.
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Athanatos posted:Another one of those "It's set in Seattle" that was crazy popular for a while. This is way back on page 1, but it's because they're filmed in Vancouver but setting a show in Canada would cause Americans to hulk out, so they use Seattle since they're the same thing and you don't have to hide the climate.
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Sep 16, 2021 18:32
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Tiggum posted:I'm generally pretty indifferent to crossovers when they actually happen, but I really like the Tommy Westphall Universe theory where, thanks to crossovers and references, everything from M*A*S*H to Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Star Trek can be linked together into a single shared universe - and a surprisingly large number of connections are directly related to Richard Belzer's character Detective John Munch (best known from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) who turns up in more shows than you'd expect.  I love randomly finding out that some weird movie or TV show I’m watching is connected to the Tommy Westphall universe in some obscure way.
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Sep 16, 2021 18:51
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Poo In An Alleyway posted:
It's usually Munch.
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Sep 16, 2021 19:35
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American Gothic from the mid-90s, criminally canceled after one season. Gary Cole as a corrupt small-town sheriff who may be (or be in league with) the devil. Young Lucas Black as the main protagonist. Very nice and creepy.
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Sep 16, 2021 20:49
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I'm surprised anyone has heard of Dead Like Me, my Uncle found it in like 2011 and we pretty much binged the whole thing. No one I've met has heard of it, only the existence of google has confirmed that it is real and I'm not crazy.
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Sep 16, 2021 21:41
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Groke posted:American Gothic from the mid-90s, criminally canceled after one season. Gary Cole as a corrupt small-town sheriff who may be (or be in league with) the devil. Young Lucas Black as the main protagonist. Very nice and creepy. That was good. The sheriff manipulating all the town folk, lots of Dutch angles, a possible angel hanging around, creepy atmosphere. My one complaint would be that it felt like there were several scriptwriters involved, who weren't talking to each other. One episode would be very suggestive, the next would go full on with the supernatural, etc.
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Sep 16, 2021 22:02
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Hrvstmn31 posted:I'm surprised anyone has heard of Dead Like Me, my Uncle found it in like 2011 and we pretty much binged the whole thing. No one I've met has heard of it, only the existence of google has confirmed that it is real and I'm not crazy. Dead Like Me was surprisingly popular in the UK
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Sep 16, 2021 22:17
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Groke posted:American Gothic from the mid-90s, criminally canceled after one season. Gary Cole as a corrupt small-town sheriff who may be (or be in league with) the devil. Young Lucas Black as the main protagonist. Very nice and creepy. Lucas Black, poo poo. The man's local to where I'm from. Weird hearing the accent on the big screen. Deepwater was a fun ride, kinda Lynchian.
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Sep 16, 2021 22:30
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Anyone else remember Kings from the late aughts? They tried to do the biblical story from Kings set in modern day which led to some really funny decisions (David vs. a GOLIATH tank) while also scrubbing most of the Jewish language out so you had the prophet Saul as a Reverend who was dressed in modern protestant trappings. Mostly notable for having Ian McShane just giving it his all and having the time of his life playing a biblical King in modern Not-Ameroca
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Sep 16, 2021 23:26
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Groke posted:American Gothic from the mid-90s, criminally canceled after one season. Gary Cole as a corrupt small-town sheriff who may be (or be in league with) the devil. Young Lucas Black as the main protagonist. Very nice and creepy. Someone's at the door....
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Sep 16, 2021 23:42
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Zore posted:Anyone else remember Kings from the late aughts? They tried to do the biblical story from Kings set in modern day which led to some really funny decisions (David vs. a GOLIATH tank) while also scrubbing most of the Jewish language out so you had the prophet Saul as a Reverend who was dressed in modern protestant trappings. Reverend: You cannot win a war against God. King: At least he'll know I'm angry. This was also one of Bucky Barnes first roles, as the closeted prince Jonathan.
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Sep 17, 2021 01:17
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Zore posted:Anyone else remember Kings from the late aughts? They tried to do the biblical story from Kings set in modern day which led to some really funny decisions (David vs. a GOLIATH tank) while also scrubbing most of the Jewish language out so you had the prophet Saul as a Reverend who was dressed in modern protestant trappings. Oh yeah, completely out of my memory until this very moment, I was pretty bummed when it was canceled. I can't even remember if it went a full season or just got cut off.
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Sep 17, 2021 01:41
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Zore posted:Anyone else remember Kings from the late aughts? They tried to do the biblical story from Kings set in modern day which led to some really funny decisions (David vs. a GOLIATH tank) while also scrubbing most of the Jewish language out so you had the prophet Saul as a Reverend who was dressed in modern protestant trappings. It’s incredibly funny how that show was screwed by the network. NBC didn’t want to either offend religious audiences or drive away non-religious viewers so they refused to let the show use the words “King David” and forbid marketing from mentioning the religious/spiritual aspects.
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Sep 17, 2021 02:02
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I loved Dead Like Me. I learned how to pirate in in 2004 so I never accumulated much of a DVD collection but that's one of 5 series I actually own.
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Sep 17, 2021 05:35
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Poo In An Alleyway posted:Dead Like Me was surprisingly popular in the UK That just makes it even more strange. Caedus posted:I loved Dead Like Me. I learned how to pirate in in 2004 so I never accumulated much of a DVD collection but that's one of 5 series I actually own. I own two, Kolchak I got because of a pretty small podcast and Aeon Flux. I watched it when I was 13 and it sorta stuck around in the back of my head. It also BSoDs my boyfriend like Panty & Stocking did, so that's cool.
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Sep 17, 2021 12:55
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Hrvstmn31 posted:That just makes it even more strange. What’s even stranger is that there was a feature-length episode released in 2009, a full 5 years after the show ended.
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Sep 17, 2021 12:59
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Caedus posted:I learned how to pirate in in 2004 so I never accumulated much of a DVD collection but that's one of 5 series I actually own. Hrvstmn31 posted:I own two, Kolchak I got because of a pretty small podcast and Aeon Flux. I had read about Kolchak for years, but had no way of watching it until some kind soul digitized the episodes they'd taped off of a long-defunct cable channel called Trio. (It's a great show, by the way.) There was a really interesting time to be alive, as an old media junkie, between the advent of BitTorrent and the serious influx of fan-uploaded out-of-print TV to YouTube, where people were just digitizing whatever they had taped and bundling it into torrents, and I think there were probably three straight years or so during which I was never not downloading things and offloading them to external media just as fast as I could. A torrent could be seeded one day and dead the next, and some people got really possessive and weird about "I have this and you don't, so here are some hoops for you to jump through before I'll consider sharing it [again]". Almost all the media I gobbled up eventually got nice, clean DVD releases or showed up on one streaming service or another, making those old rips basically obsolete — but they were like treasure at the time.
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Sep 17, 2021 13:09
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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. Ghosted was picking up by the end of the season and I maintain if they'd done another they'd have found their footing
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Sep 17, 2021 13:16
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If, like me, you watched the 2003 baseball playoffs, some small part of your memory will always be filled by ads for “Skin.” HER FATHER IS THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY!
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Sep 17, 2021 13:42
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Profit. A show well ahead of its time. “Jim Profit works for a multinational company and isn't above using any means necessary to get ahead, which includes bribery, blackmail, intimidation, extortion, and even murder. Everyone at the company, including the president, Charles Gracen, are oblivious to his dark side.” According to Adrian Pasdar there is a reboot in the works. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5kUPGS3gEZqK4dQBtb2s7x8KQR2fLwFT
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Sep 17, 2021 14:17
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Poo In An Alleyway posted:What’s even stranger is that there was a feature-length episode released in 2009, a full 5 years after the show ended. And it was HORRENDOUS.
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Sep 17, 2021 14:52
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Recently came across Lookwell, a 1991 Conan O'Brien / Robert Smigel pilot that stars Adam West as a delusional actor who thinks his prior roles qualify him to be a real-life crime fighting detective. Sharp writing (as expected given the creators) and West's performance is a beautiful self-satire. As with many things, too beautiful for this world and slightly ahead of its time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IraqNhvvpUU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lookwell
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Sep 17, 2021 15:28
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YMB posted:Recently came across Lookwell, a 1991 Conan O'Brien / Robert Smigel pilot that stars Adam West ... That reminded me that Andy Richter Controls the Universe was a show which I absolutely loved.
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Hrvstmn31 posted:I'm surprised anyone has heard of Dead Like Me, my Uncle found it in like 2011 and we pretty much binged the whole thing. No one I've met has heard of it, only the existence of google has confirmed that it is real and I'm not crazy. check out pushing daisies its made the same guy in the same style. it also was cancelled =( the cancelled tv show im the most mad about is santa clarita diet. great show with a meh netflix trailer and meh name that they cancelled and didnt even give them a couple episodes to idk not end on a cliff hanger.
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snergle posted:check out pushing daisies its made the same guy in the same style. it also was cancelled =( SCD is one of those shows where every episode has at least one scene that has me just absolutely losing it laughing. The improvement from season to season was huge, too, which says a lot when it started really good.
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Sep 17, 2021 16:59
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AFewBricksShy posted:That reminded me that Andy Richter Controls the Universe was a show which I absolutely loved. Loved both this and Wondershowzen, which I associate with each other but have trouble remembering if it’s because they were in the same time block on MTV2 or if there’s some writing connection between them.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:SCD is one of those shows where every episode has at least one scene that has me just absolutely losing it laughing. The improvement from season to season was huge, too, which says a lot when it started really good. The first couple episodes kinda sucked but they set up a very steady, continuous rising action where every single episode for the first two seasons gets bigger and better. The season two finale was incredible TV. The third season didn't quite manage to keep it up but it still plateaued at a very nice place. If we're bitching about Netflix cancellations, Friends From College is my favorite comedy of the last decade that never took off. I think it had some issues of not quite knowing what it was supposed to be but what it wound up being was hilarious. The second season got retooled somewhat after the first season got panned and wasn't quite as tight, but still had a lot of great bits.
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A one season show from a couple of years ago that I liked was Making History. It starred Adam Pally as the janitor of a small New England college who discovers that his father invented a time travel duffel bag. He uses it to go back to Revolutionary War times and just kind of hang out and make himself look big by stealing modern day pop culture and pretending he invented it. He's joined by a history professor and Paul Revere's daughter and they just kind of screw around in time meeting historical figures played by comedians.
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Pastry of the Year posted:I had read about Kolchak for years, but had no way of watching it until some kind soul digitized the episodes they'd taped off of a long-defunct cable channel called Trio. (It's a great show, by the way.) There was a really interesting time to be alive, as an old media junkie, between the advent of BitTorrent and the serious influx of fan-uploaded out-of-print TV to YouTube, where people were just digitizing whatever they had taped and bundling it into torrents, and I think there were probably three straight years or so during which I was never not downloading things and offloading them to external media just as fast as I could. A torrent could be seeded one day and dead the next, and some people got really possessive and weird about "I have this and you don't, so here are some hoops for you to jump through before I'll consider sharing it [again]". That was basically Good Eats for me, last I looked there's no good way to either own it for a less than absurd amount of dosh or watch earlier episodes in more than 240p. snergle posted:check out pushing daisies its made the same guy in the same style. it also was cancelled =( Unanswered cliffhangers are the bane of my existence.
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AFewBricksShy posted:That reminded me that Andy Richter Controls the Universe was a show which I absolutely loved. And that reminds me of Andy Barker, P.I. Created by Conan O'Brien, Andy Richter plays an accountant who gets mistaken for a P.I. and ends up taking and solving the case. It was only 6 episodes long but I remember it being pretty enjoyable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dowkUOlQokE
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Hrvstmn31 posted:Unanswered cliffhangers are the bane of my existence. That's one of the reasons I really liked Bojack Horseman and Kidding: both of those shows were cancelled but the showrunners were given enough notice that they managed to wrap up all the major (and minor, in the case of BH) plotlines before the end.
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Sep 17, 2021 20:18
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Poo In An Alleyway posted:That's one of the reasons I really liked Bojack Horseman and Kidding: both of those shows were cancelled but the showrunners were given enough notice that they managed to wrap up all the major (and minor, in the case of BH) plotlines before the end. Bojack had been winding down for a season even before the cancellation. I’m pretty sure that it only would have gone for one more season tops if it hadn’t ended with 7.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Bojack had been winding down for a season even before the cancellation. I’m pretty sure that it only would have gone for one more season tops if it hadn’t ended with 7. They had planned for 8 seasons AFAIK, but were only given one season after 5 to wrap up 3 seasons worth of plot that had already been planned out.
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Poo In An Alleyway posted:They had planned for 8 seasons AFAIK, but were only given one season after 5 to wrap up 3 seasons worth of plot that had already been planned out. jfc I like Bojack but I can't imagine stringing it out that long would have been any good
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Yeah it ended pretty quick but I don't really feel like it needed a lot more space than it got.
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Yeah, the final season was right as it was getting to the “alright, let’s wrap this up” point. I don’t know what they could have added that wouldn’t have been dragging everything else out.
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Was watching an old Bojack Horseman episode yesterday and saw them referencing a show called John From Cincinnati. Looked.....eh. Was shown directly after The Sopranos, but flopped and was cancelled after just 10 episodes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_from_Cincinnati Also randomly remembered that Cavemen existed, a show similar to Wonderfalls in that most of the recorded episodes went unaired: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavemen_(TV_series)
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[quote="Poo In An Alleyway" post="517851726"] Was watching an old Bojack Horseman episode yesterday and saw them referencing a show called John From Cincinnati. Looked.....eh. Was shown directly after The Sopranos, but flopped and was cancelled after just 10 episodes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_from_Cincinnati The reason I remember John from Cincinnati is it directly led to Deadwood being cancelled so Milch could work on it instead. We finally got a Deadwood movie but it was fantastic and should have kept going at the time.
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I really enjoyed reading the thread and learning about some of the more  things that made it to air. Here are a couple of contributions:Automan: a reverse Tron (from the creators of Tron) with a "hologram" cop created in our world. Apparently cost $1M per episode in 1983, starring... the son of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz? Sure, why not. I think it may have actually looked good at the time, but the ratings weren't exactly great and it went away after 12 episodes. There's an overview here, but I suggest watching the first few minutes of this instead to get a feeling for it (super-low volume warning): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH5TDoOXKvU Návštěvníci (The Visitors): this one's probably more forgotten than failed, mostly because it was an early 80s Czechoslovak sci-fi series. Watch the first few minutes of the show here for a mix of Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica,  , and few brief  nudity shots added because ???https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wm3UTVutDI I barely remember the show myself (I only caught it in reruns in 90s  and completely out of order) but the Wikipedia synopsis is great:quote:In the 25th century — more precisely, in the year 2484 — people live in a peaceful world. Thus, mankind is horrified when CML (Central Brain of Mankind), the main supercomputer managing the fate of humankind and Earth, announces an upcoming disaster. It has spotted a huge space object on a collision course with Earth. The impact is unavoidable, and the prediction is that a significant part of the Earth will be destroyed. Just in case you decide to... uh, learn Czech and track down and watch the entire series, I'll spoiler the post-time travel shenanigans resolution: quote:Mr Drchlík notices the Central Brain standing asymmetrically and fixes this with a wooden wedge, and suddenly the Central Brain realizes an error in its calculation. The whole expedition had been unnecessary. I love it.
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