2013 TV Thread: Winter, Spring, definitely Summer - pimp your new finds/threadless wonders here!

I'm gonna catch up soon. Heard good things.

ok well guillermo diaz did smile this week.

astrid!!!

torn between disliking the president or his wife more.

oh here you go: Shonda Rhimes and Kerry Washington are mired in a political tv show SCANDAL

Enjoying – if that’s the right word – the Hannibal series. Moody and stylish, occasionally grisly; it’s quite David Fincher-esque, and it’s more like Se7en: the Series than a TV Silence of the Lambs. And Mads Mikkelsen is effectively creepy as the title character (though not currently the show’s main character). Surprisingly good, anyway.

Also: Orphan Black - twisty-turny thing about a woman who discovers she's one of many clones. I'm now three episodes in, and it's okay, will prob stick with it.

Defiance, SyFy's sci-fi western. The acting and dialogue is a bit daytime-soapy, but it's alright if you like this sort of thing.

I tried watching the first episode of Defiance because the concept sounded promising, but it was just so poorly thought out and executed. And yeah, the acting and dialogue was pretty bad too.

Defiance, like a lot of hourlong shows these days, did a 2 hour pilot that by the time it was over had totally sapped me of any desire to watch another minute. pilots should leave 'em wanting more!

Re: Defiance, once I saw the interview where the male lead was talking about the tie-in video game and saying how you played the game would affect the show's plot, I figured I had enough information to skip this show

game kinda sucks

I had no idea about the game, that's pretty cheesy.

Also: Orphan Black - twisty-turny thing about a woman who discovers she's one of many clones. I'm now three episodes in, and it's okay, will prob stick with it.

I'm only one episode in. Catching up when time permits. I like it so far, and it's good to know that it's already been given a second season.

I'm all caught up with Orphan Black now. HOLY SHIT.

I can't imagine 1600 Penn airs for much longer.

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, January 19, 2013 12:16 AM (3 months ago)

I think all its episodes actually aired? That's crazy to me, but at least the nightmare is over. Cancelled!

crazy day for TV news! Whitney, Up All Night, and Guys With Kids also canceled

lol @ Up All Night

Probably the finest self-destruction of a tv series I can recall.

i never saw an episode of the multi-cam version. did they go through with it?

No, Christina Applegate quit before those even got off the ground.

on continuum does rachel nichols shoot the fugitives back into the future with an electronic door-lock keychain??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Trax

Go On has been cancelled sorry Matthew Perry

I didn't like it as much as Mr. Sunshine, and I only kind of liked Mr. Sunshine.

I kept meaning to check out Go On and kept forgetting. I liked Mr Sunshine

Goon had some moments here and there were it was really hilarious, but they were fleeting

They really should have marketed the show as GOON.

otm

i mainly wanted to see it for Brett Gelman who I love

GoOn was a good show, sorry to see it go.

GAWN

I guess it won't Go On.

Also, Chicago Fire is getting a spinoff, because Dick Wolf.

I keep hoping that Dick Wolf is married to a woman named Pussy Lion

I want it to be the Air Wolf spinoff

This is my favorite quote from the comments of the Go On cancellation story on TV Line:

“NBC HAS LOST HIS MIND!!!”

Hahaha

lol

Smash canceled just now. Add that to The New Normal, Go On, Whitney, and a ton of other NBC shit I didn't watch...what's left besides Hannibal? And will that survive? It appears NBC is going into the fall with about 80% freshman content. Jack Donaghy tanked it!

pretty amazing that Community lived to see another day

(✿◠‿◠) i guess we're not in the darkest timeline! (◡‿◡✿)

'mr sunshine' was funnier, but meaner. lots of dopey awkwardness-comedy on 'go on'. both shows' premises were too limited.

what is the 'chicago fire' spinoff going to be about? arson investigators? arsonists? burn unit nurses? fire code inspectors??

i was wondering on the law & order thread a few weeks ago about tv shows doing 9/11 material -

that cbs midseason replacement (which got cancelled) 'golden boy' set its last episode around a 9/11 flashback that went pretty all-in: chi mcbride watching the second plane hit, seeing the explosion in a window reflection, people running the streets with ashes raining down, then the collapse - all as incidental to a case one of the characters was investigating that morning.

Gave a peek to two of the NBC fall series trailers.

Michael J. Fox's show looks like it might be okay. The Blacklist looks stupid, even though I love Spader.

I thought Blacklist looked cool

It looks like a lot of other ideas crammed into one series (rookie profiler, criminal mastermind making the FBI work for him, et al). Spader might still win me over, though. I'll watch it.

I have been having a few sneaky peeks at Wentworth which I purely downloaded for my missus. It is a Prisoner Cell Block H reboot, if you need to ask you probably don't need to know.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BK-NzExCYAAcz5k.png:large

Crazy ratings chart fun

lol at the office

for a show as dead as The Office had been getting, 26% drop is actually better than i would've expected post-Carell

but hey, Bob's Burgers went up! nice.

Well, The Office drop is just from last year, so it isn't from Carell to post-Carell.