TV News Thread

[RoninFox]

Honestly, if they can find a good writing crew, I'll be all for it.
https://geektyrant.com/news/warner-bros-is-developing-an-reboot-of-the-classic-sitcom-alf

gritty reboot wherein the first episode is all about cats disappearing en masse from cities. final scene is a very blood-soaked alf screaming in rage as he chases yet another cat.

The actual last episode of ALF was dark and disturbing enough, thank you.

[Darth Geek]

Honestly, if they can find a good writing crew, I'll be all for it.
https://geektyrant.com/news/warner-bros-is-developing-an-reboot-of-the-classic-sitcom-alf

gritty reboot wherein the first episode is all about cats disappearing en masse from cities. final scene is a very blood-soaked alf screaming in rage as he chases yet another cat.

The actual last episode of ALF was dark and disturbing enough, thank you.

I remember that. When he was captured by the government. I never knew if that was an intentional fuck you to the studio for cancelling the show, or if they had specific plans for another season based around that setup.
I remember they did an ALF TV movie a while afterwards that followed up on that.

[Edward J Grug III]

Honestly, if they can find a good writing crew, I'll be all for it.
https://geektyrant.com/news/warner-bros-is-developing-an-reboot-of-the-classic-sitcom-alf

gritty reboot wherein the first episode is all about cats disappearing en masse from cities. final scene is a very blood-soaked alf screaming in rage as he chases yet another cat.

The actual last episode of ALF was dark and disturbing enough, thank you.

I remember that. When he was captured by the government. I never knew if that was an intentional fuck you to the studio for cancelling the show, or if they had specific plans for another season based around that setup.
I remember they did an ALF TV movie a while afterwards that followed up on that.

I watched that movie once, on youtube while bored at work. It is... not good.

[Darth Geek]

Honestly, if they can find a good writing crew, I'll be all for it.
https://geektyrant.com/news/warner-bros-is-developing-an-reboot-of-the-classic-sitcom-alf

gritty reboot wherein the first episode is all about cats disappearing en masse from cities. final scene is a very blood-soaked alf screaming in rage as he chases yet another cat.

The actual last episode of ALF was dark and disturbing enough, thank you.

I remember that. When he was captured by the government. I never knew if that was an intentional fuck you to the studio for cancelling the show, or if they had specific plans for another season based around that setup.
I remember they did an ALF TV movie a while afterwards that followed up on that.

I watched that movie once, on youtube while bored at work. It is... not good.

Yeah, I remember not being impressed by it.

[Russoguru]

When it comes to Alf, I'm pretty sure I watched the animated series more often.

[Edward J Grug III]

https://deadline.com/2018/08/bourne-offshoot-cia-drama-treadstone-straight-to-series-order-usa-network-amazon-1202447044/

[MartyS (Gromit)]

Netflix still hasn't figured out how to do weekly shows, both "The Break with Michelle Wolf" and "The Joel McHale Show" have been cancelled.

I liked the Joel McHale show, was meh about Michelle Wolf's show, it made me laugh once in a while.

Also, it looks like when we get the next six episodes of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt they will be the last, it has also been cancelled.  But they may do a movie as a wrap up.

[Edward J Grug III]

I preferred the Break, but I was watching both. I knew the writing was on the wall when the last batch of Joel McHale Show eps dropped at once instead of weekly.

[The Lurker]

RIP Stefan Karl Stefansson (aka Robbie Rotten from Lazytown).

[Variety of Cells]

The End of the Fucking Workd is getting a second season. Most of me is very excited about that because I loved the show and it’s characters. But it was a perfect contained arc by itself. I guess if the new season is rubbish I can always just ignore it’s existence.

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Plus this means the male protagonist probably isn’t dead, which makes me feel good from an emotional standpoint, but does kind of diminish the impact of finale of the first season.

[The Lurker]

[Edward J Grug III]

https://news.avclub.com/black-ish-creator-kenya-barris-is-rebooting-bewitched-1828560687

[LucasM]

That said, by and large, people seem to like the DC shows (Supergirl and the Flash in particular).  This, however, looks like a misfire.  A dreary misfire.  No one says that their favourite thing about the Teen Titans is how unfun they are.

I have tried three of those shows that people love and... people are wrong.

I agree.  Arrow and Gotham are particularly unwatchable for me (the others to a lesser degree).

I think it is partly because the DC TV (and film) is like DC comics: they are plot-driven, not character-driven.  Marvel (both comics and TV/film) are character-driven, with plots present, but what is going on with the characters internally and in their lives at the forefront.  I don't care for plot-driven, because I am interested in people, not 'events' per se.

There have actually been two DC shows I enjoyed.  Both were cancelled.  The two were Human Target, and Constantine (though I've only seen the latter once - not yet re-watched).  I am, as yet, unsure whether I will continue watching Black Lightning.  It is, of the current DC shows, the one that is most interesting to me, as the characters themselves are important.

Of course, it could also be the DC/Marvel 'dark'/lighthearted aspect that is at issue with the shows and films.  It seems that since 'Watchmen' and 'The Dark Knight Returns' were originally published, DC seems to think that success can only come from 'dark and gritty'... which makes them often unreadable/unwatchable (as this looks).  Human Target and Constantine also had more 'genuine' humor in them than the current Supergirl/Flash/Arrow/Legends/Gotham batch.

[The Lurker]

The Flash does supposedly eventually get better.

[Darth Geek]

The Flash and Supergirl are the only ones I like, and they are lighthearted (most of the time) and very character driven. Legends of Tomorrow also had really good characters, but I got sick of it because the writing was just so stupid.