General Television Thread

[TKz]

Wait, what, why are they? That just seems really stupid.

[Benji]

So they can start their own streaming service, and force people to pay more money for an even less streamlined place to get their stuff from.

[TKz]

I take it that means any show that's produced by them? That sucks a bit. I download all my shows, but there's some good stuff in their list. Supernatural, Suburgatory, The OC, Veronica Mars, Smallville, Friends, Chuck, Fringe, The US Shameless (which is amazing) and Arrow. Plus a bunch of other shows that're big but I can't say I personally care about (Vampire Diaries, The Voice and so on.)

It's going to be like Netflix for teenage girls in 2005. And me.

[livid]

From what I can tell it's just classic shows and movies that are being removed, newer ones should be fine.

[apsham]

All that matters is that they're taking god damn Spongebob away. Bastards.

[LL!]

Didn't they already get rid of what they were gonna get rid of?

[Baddar]

Well apparently, seasons 1-15 of South Park are being removed.

[livid]

So The Rock is teaming with Mark Wahlberg on a pilot for HBO. It basically sounds like Entourage for athletes but fuck it, who cares?

Kind of surprising though, given how busy he is already, that he even has the time to do a(nother) show.

[TKz]

HBO show is probably a lot quicker to get done than most, surely?

[livid]

That's true but when it gets picked up (I'm not even pretending it isn't a lock), that's going to carve out a lot of his free time and the dude's schedule is already jam-packed. Just kinda surprising, is all.

[KONGO]

Why would an HBO show be quicker than a show on another network?

[TKz]

Usually there's only ten episodes as opposed to 22-24.

[livid]

10 episodes (13 max but 10 is their number lately) vs 22 on a network show.

[KONGO]

Ah, okay.

[TheSqauredCircleMessiah]

Is he going to act in it or is he just a "producer?" Also, whatever happened to that wrestling in the 70s show that was supposed be on NBC?

[livid]

He's doing both. Wahlberg is just producing.

No word on that, likely still being developed since I know The Rock has stated he's getting into producing more so we probably haven't seen the last of that idea.

[Ant]

Love or hate him, you can't say The Rock don't like working.

He hates sleeping and wakes up at 3am to do cardio.

[Colly]

The rebooted version of Catchphrase is good, but it's not right.

The problem is that when these shows are rebooted they tend to forget that the naff concepts for many of them were counterbalanced by the hosts. Look at 80s and 90s game shows and they're all hosted by either standups (Roy Walker, Bob Monkhouse, Les Dawson, the fella from Crosswits...) or generally funny variety types like Michael Barrymore, Les Dennis or Brucey. When ITV bring them back they stick charisma vacuums like Vernon Kaye on, and it just doesn't work.

[MalaCloudy Black]

CBS is making a Baker Street Irregulars web series to go with Elementary.

Speaking of, quite liked last night's episode.

[Baddar]

Touch is still so good.

The rebooted version of Catchphrase is good, but it's not right.

The problem is that when these shows are rebooted they tend to forget that the naff concepts for many of them were counterbalanced by the hosts. Look at 80s and 90s game shows and they're all hosted by either standups (Roy Walker, Bob Monkhouse, Les Dawson, the fella from Crosswits...) or generally funny variety types like Michael Barrymore, Les Dennis or Brucey. When ITV bring them back they stick charisma vacuums like Vernon Kaye on, and it just doesn't work.

I want Strike it Lucky/Rich back!