General Television Thread 2022

[gunnar hendershow]

My wife loves Umbrella Academy and had she not plowed through the whole show without me I'd probably also be a fan.

[Bobfoc]

The BBC is bringing back Gladiators. I hope it's better than the rubbish Sky reboot.

[Colly]

They're covering it on Breakfast now. Lightning's in the studio selling it, but they've got Sharon Davies on zoom telling them how much she didn't like it. I think they might be overdoing the BBC balance thing.

[Lineker]

14 hours ago, Bobfoc said:

The BBC is bringing back Gladiators. I hope it's better than the rubbish Sky reboot.

Colleague's friend is on the production team. It sounds great tbh.

[Benji]

For the whoever it was made it past the first ten minutes of that awful Resident Evil TV show, it's now been cancelled.

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

Ha, my boss was hyping that show up to me saying he was enjoying it, I'm convinced now he's watched something else and got the name wrong.

[Lint]

Started to watch The Sandman and, despite not knowing the source material at all, I'm really liking it!

[gunnar hendershow]

Have we talked about the brilliance that was this past week's What We Do in the Shadows yet?

[LL!]

7 hours ago, damhausen said:

Have we talked about the brilliance that was this past week's What We Do in the Shadows yet?

Truly was. It was very well done. 

[Josh]

It was a particularly brilliant episode among many others. A series highlight.

[GhostMachine]

Whoever selects the Catergories and songs for BEAT SHAZAM needs to be drug tested.

This season, they've had Def Leppard a few times under the category `hair band', which you can sort of maybe just barely justify. But the latest episode had a Heavy Metal category (if not the first time, its at least been a few seasons), and once again it was Def Leppard. "Armageddon It", off the Hysteria album. That song is far from Heavy Metal.

Then during the actual "Beat Shazam" round, they had the category 'Guitar Gods'.....and the song was "Always" by Lenny Kravitz. When it comes to Guitar Gods, he's not even remotely in the discussion.

*edited to add* Also, spoiler for the next season of THE GOLDBERGS, which signals to me the show's death knell:

Spoiler

Since Jeff Garlin was fired from the show, they're going to kll Murray off. He's supposed to have been dead for several months in the season opener, apparently. That show might as well have ended when George Segal passed away.

 

Edited August 31, 2022 by GhostMachine

[K]

there's a TV show based on the shazam app??

[GhostMachine]

3 hours ago, K said:

there's a TV show based on the shazam app??

Yes. Its on season 5. Hosted by Jamie Foxx. October Gonzalez (wife of NFL legend Tony Gonzalez) was the DJ/co-host for the first season, then Jamie's daughter Corinne took over. The grand prize is $1,000,000, but 

Spoiler

Its only been won about 3 times so far.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Shazam

Edited August 31, 2022 by GhostMachine

[FLiam]

The Lord of the Rings show is very, very meh.

[Mx. Canadian Destroyer]

38 minutes ago, FLiam said:

The Lord of the Rings show is very, very meh.

Oh really? I loved it. I thought it was visually incredible and had enough stuff to keep me wanting more. That being said, I'm very LOTR casual. 

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

I'm in the "meh" boat, I'm just entirely not bothered by it having watched both episodes.

[FLiam]

I’m not a huge LOTR fan anyway to be fair - but nothing really grabbed my attention. Sure, it is visually very, very impressive but it’s probably not for me. 

[Hellraiser]

I'm in the same boat. A visually very impressive show that is lacking in substance. And the episodes go on for too long. You could cut both episodes down to half an hour and would loose nothing of importance.

On certain aspect I find heard to believe is that

Spoiler

both Galadriel and Elrond would be treated with such little respect by the other elves.

 

[fourstarfizzle]

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared finally debuting on Channel 4 on Sept 13th. It's been a long road...
 

 

[Lint]

Been watching Welcome to Wrexham and...you know what, I'm a fan.  Both of the show and the team.  Been looking for a soccer team to latch on to and become a fan