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Eh, Kevin Williamson churned out the Scream franchise, and he's been involved with some truly hideous stuff.

 

Writers are inconsistent. If Thomas can save this, good for him. But, yeah, I just don't get "Veronica Mars, only as a zombie" hitting it big.

Williamson also created DAWSON'S CREEK. On the SCREAM side: he wrote 1,2,& 4. He only wrote an outline for 3. The original was the only good screenplay.

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This might be my favorite season of Survivor ever. These people are playing the game. I love how some of the challenges must have cost like 200 bucks to put together. No wonder this is season 28 as it's gotta be a tremendous cash cow.

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I still can't believe she turned down a show about Faith and Spike on motorcycles doing a Kung Fu riff in order to do Tru Calling instead.

 

I've never heard this.  Someone (Whedon) wanted to do a Spike/Faith spin-off?

 

At the time, I would have been all over that.  Doesn't sound that interesting now, but my Buffy fandom has waned considerably over the years.  It hasn't held up for me.  The middle seasons of Angel have aged considerably better, imo.

 

Following writers from project to project tends to be a dubious investment unless it's a Sorkin type who is hands-on every day and doing most of the writing himself.  I'd have to look, but I'd be willing to be that most every writer/showrunner I'd want to follow has gone on to create a bomb of some sort.  Case in point: I was a big fan of Rome.  Creator went on to create the Mentalist, which was a fairly average (at best) show.

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“iZombie” - From writer-producer Rob Thomas (“Cupid,” “Veronica Mars,” “Party Down”). A med student-turned-zombie takes a job in the coroner's office to gain access to the brains she must reluctantly eat to maintain her humanity, but with each brain she consumes, she inherits the corpse's memories. With the help of her medical examiner boss and a police detective, she solves homicide cases in order to quiet the disturbing voices in her head.

 

A crime-solving zombie might be up there with Accidentally Artificially Inseminated when it comes to wacky premises.

 

 

Bah, if they're gonna do adaptations of comics where the characters gain the memories of things they eat, I'd rather they did Chew.

 

 

/internet curmudgeon

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    In the new animated comedy series Mike Tyson Mysteries, Mike Tyson is taking the fight from the boxing ring to the streets… by solving mysteries! Armed with a magical tattoo on his face and a trusty associate by his side — a talking pigeon — if you have a problem that needs solving, Iron Mike is in your corner. The series incorporates live-action appearances featuring Mighty Mike himself, and the gloves come off as the former heavyweight champ and his fowl-mouthed partner gear up for weekly adventures as they put unsolved mysteries — like how to defeat a super computer at chess or why a famous author/werewolf can’t finish his novel — down for the count. Animated quarter-hour from Warner Bros Animation.

    

    This sounds like the greatest show in human history. It's Adult Swim. And I don't particularly care for Mike Tyson as a person either.

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So the previous Buffy talk has made me want to chime in. Hillary and I have been watching it on netflix and neither of us have seen it before. We have both gotten a kick out of it in different ways, but we are up through the middle of season five, and we are having trouble. The woman who plays Glori is probably the worst actress I've ever seen, and I spent my teens watching El Santo movies and B Horror. It's almost unfathomable how truly terrible she is. What is her deal? Is she a daughter/cousin/girlfriend of someone important? It doesn't help that she is basically the only character in the show to have long monologues, which invariably fall flat. I can't be in the minority with this opinion, right?

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Claire Kramer had a fairly decent career, although I don't have a clue what she's done lately.

I've never really seen anyone single her out as especially bad, that I recall.

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She actually was at Emerald City Comic Con in seattle a couple months ago. She hosted all of the celebrity panels in the main hall. They mentioned some kind of website she's affiliated with now, but I forget it.

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CBS picked up CSI: Cyber (which sounds like a softporn show you'd see on cinamax or something) and have apparently passed on How I Met Your Dad spin off:

 

 

 

 

NCIS: New Orleans: The NCIS New Orleans office handles cases from Pensacola through Mississippi and Louisiana to the Texas panhandle. New Orleans with its rich setting of music, fun, and debauchery is a magnet for military personnel on-leave. And with fun comes trouble. It is a natural backdrop for a unique character driven spin-off. Cast: Scott Bakula (Special Agent Dwayne Pride); CCH Pounder (Dr. Loretta Wade).

 

Madam Secretary: About the personal and professional life of a maverick female Secretary of State as she drives international diplomacy, wrangles office politics, and balances a complex family life. Cast: Tea Leoni (Secretary of State Elizabeth McCord); Tim Daly (Henry McCord); Bebe Neuwirth (Nadine Tolliver).

 

Stalker: Psychological thriller centered around a pair of detectives who handle stalking incidents for the Threat Management Unit of the LAPD. Cast: Maggie Q (Detective Beth Davis); Dylan McDermott (Detective Jack Larsen).

 

Scorpion: An eccentric genius and his international network of super-geniuses form the last line of defense against the complex threats of the modern age. Cast: Robert Patrick (Agent Cabe Gallo); Eddie Kaye Thomas (Toby); Katharine McPhee (Paige).

 

The Odd Couple: A half-hour multi-camera comedy pilot based on Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple. Cast: Matthew Perry (Oscar Madison); Thomas Lennon (Felix); Wendell Pierce (Teddy).

 

McCarthy's: multi-camera comedy about a sports-crazed Irish-Catholic family that shares a three decker house in Boston and the one member that dares to move out on his own

 

Not keen on anything, although Scorpion sounds OKish. Stalker sounds like CBS are really scraping the barrel with the crime procedurals now.

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CBS has apparently passed on How I Met Your Dad spin off:

 

 

Pretty much confirming once and for all how terrible that finale really was. If people actually liked it, it would have been a no-brainer, despite it being a stupid idea anyway (and yes, that is how TV works.)

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The NCIS franchise: Where creativity goes to die.

 

I mean, I'm not terribly fond of the CSI franchise, but at least they could be campy fun, especially with Caruso hamming it up. NCIS and its ilk seem to go out of their way to be as bland and cookie-cutter as possible.

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The backdoor pilot for CSI: Cyber might have been my least favorite hour of tv this season.  It was pretty bad.  Impossible to tell what the series will be like.  They really only introduced one character.

 

Maggie Q might be the least likely "cop" ever.

 

I doubt it will be anything exceptional, but NCIS: New Orleans kinda interests me.

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CBS has apparently passed on How I Met Your Dad spin off:

 

 

Pretty much confirming once and for all how terrible that finale really was. If people actually liked it, it would have been a no-brainer, despite it being a stupid idea anyway (and yes, that is how TV works.)

 

 

I was actually warming up to the idea, especially after watching Frances Ha a couple of days ago.

It would have been a HIMYM spin-off in name and basic premise only. It could have turned out to be a very different show than HIMYM.

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Madam Secretary sounds like a straight up rip-off of VEEP.

 

Yeah, but the casting is solid.

 

I wonder if they'll tone NCIS: NO down from the backdoor pilot.  I enjoyed the two parter which introduced the New Orleans cast, but they went overboard trying to make everyone "regional".  Seemingly every local character had some quirk.  Forensics expert who played the keyboard to help him think.  Dreadlocked female coroner who talked about crawfish and the like.  Heavily NU ORLEENS accents.  Parties in every other scene.  It was a rather stereotypical portrayal of New Orleans.

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Maggie Q might be the least likely "cop" ever.

 

 

Maggie's OK. Although it depends what she's in. IMO, the real problem is Dylan McDermott. He's pretty bland.

 

Madam Secretary sounds more like a House of Cards rip off than anything.

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Mathew Perry as Oscar Madison though?

Now Artie Lange would almost be perfect... get Josh Molina as Felix and you'd have a winner... at least Artie self-destructs

 

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