General Television Thread

[livid]

Is there some big sporting event or American holiday this week? How come there's no Flash AND Agents of SHIELD?

Election coverage.

[Jimmy]

Utopia the Channel 4 show?

That one is being turned into an HBO show written by Gillian Flynn and directed by David Fincher.

Phew.

Channel 4 cancelled this as well

[Benji]

Ed Miliband faces TOTP countdown on this week's Revolution Will Be Televised may be the funniest thing I've seen all year. Tremendous.

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

Don't know if this has been posted, but Lemony Snicket's 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' has been picked up by Netflix and will be adapted into a TV show.

As a fan of the series when it first came out, this intrigues me greatly.

[Benjamin]

I am super into that. I love the books, and I loved the movie.

Shit, if they can somehow get Jim Carey that would be perfect.

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

If they got Jim Carrey to be Count Olaf again it would be pretty high on my list of best things ever. He made that movie great, as evidenced below.

[Benjamin]

That movie was just awesome. My top 3 favourite Carey performances ever, definitely.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Nb7VTuGv-Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIUnmZAHY3Q

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

I need to rewatch that film now, can't believe it's ten years old in December.

Part of me is sad that they never made films for the rest of the series.

[Benjamin]

The fact that Emily Browning is tiny in that movie scares me.

[GoGo Yubari]

That movie has one of the best director's commentary tracks ever, because he does it with Lenony Snicket in-character.

[livid]

Selfie has been cancelled.

http://deadline.com/2014/11/selfie-cancelled-abc-1201277382/

A bit of a shame since I really like John Cho but something tells me he'll be alright.

[Jimmy]

Selfie was alright for a bit of easy watching. It wasn't very good, but Karen Gillian is great, even though none of the characters are really all the developed or interesting.

[Jimmy]

Don't know if this has been posted, but Lemony Snicket's 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' has been picked up by Netflix and will be adapted into a TV show.

As a fan of the series when it first came out, this intrigues me greatly.

I'm actually really excited for this. As a fan of the books when I was a kid, I felt the film was a huge missed opportunity, so I'll definitely be having a look. It seems Netflix have a lot of stuff coming out soon, and I read they were thinking about doing their own bigger budget feature films, which skip the cinema entirely.

Marco Polo comes out next month too which looks interesting.

[Benji]

The Bloodlines episode of Supernatural was the show's worst ever. Glad that didn't get picked up as a show itself. Awful stuff.

Speaking of Supernatural - is Dominion worth trying? This show sounds like a rip-off of Supernatural's ninth season, but is apparently based on that terrible Legion film. I love the concept but part of me said to ignore it, but now it's got a second season I dunno whether to give it a go.

[GoGo Yubari]

oh my god I'm so happy The Comeback has a second season

[Maxx]

Anyone watch the Simpsons/Futurama crossover? Is it worth looking up? I assume if the Futurama writers handle it, then yes.

[GoGo Yubari]

I'm gonna watch it in twelve minutes because I don't have that much better to do.

EDIT: It's not that good.

[Maxx]

Thank you GoGo

[Benji]

Season 9 of Supernatural...

Oh man, I loved this season, just great up and down except for that terrible Bloodlines episode. I know some people don't think Supernatural is as good as it once was (the Leviathan season in particular was massively weak), but this season totally did it for me, and that ending with The Demon

Kane Dean was stupendous. Can't wait to start watching season 10.

My only downer is that I liked Gadreel and felt he could've become a fantastically interesting and complex character, and I thought his redemption should've been becoming the new leader of the angels since Cas was so reluctant, but c'est la vie.

Intrigued to see where Crowley fucking with time sends things too, and Mark Sheppard continues to prove he's such an amazingly strong actor to have around.

[phatman]

Benji, don't watch Dominion... Holy hell did I think that show was horrible...

Give it a shot if you must but you probably won't get through the first ep lol