What TV shows are people watching?

djchameleon · 05-13-2017, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Um, according to your link it's been "renewed after cancellation"???

Yeah that is brand new info that happened like either yesterday or early Saturdat morning.

Yay they got approved for 10 episodes in 2018 after being canceled.

Chula Vista · 05-13-2017, 11:17 PM

Just sat through a marathon of CNN's United Shades of America with Kamau Bell.

Wow. Powerful stuff. Half depressingly crushing and angering and the other half emotionally uplifting.

The KKK episode just exploded my brain.

Chiomara · 05-17-2017, 01:48 PM

This show is SO GOOD so far. (So good apparently that I accidentally posted this in the wrong thread a little while ago.) Three episodes in.

Edit: and, surprsingly it's a doing a pretty fantastic job of portraying PTSD (as experienced by a strange child desperate for approval) which I did not expect at all before I began watching it.

rostasi · 05-17-2017, 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by djchameleon

Yeah that is brand new info that happened like either yesterday or early Saturdat morning.

Yay they got approved for 10 episodes in 2018 after being canceled.

Yeah! Good news! I was a little overly analytical about how they were going to handle the time-sequences, but the overall larger storyline made it bigger and better.

Yes, and ITV has done it again. Scott & Bailey had only three episodes for the new season and it was cancelled. I'm beginning to see a pattern with these shows that the new manager is cancelling, but I don't want to say too much until I investigate it more thoroughly.

rostasi · 05-17-2017, 02:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

It's ITV. Who gives a ****? Sky is where it's at now.

I vote for the candidates, not the party.

Trollheart · 05-17-2017, 05:50 PM

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Originally Posted by rostasi

Yeah! Good news! I was a little overly analytical about how they were going to handle the time-sequences, but the overall larger storyline made it bigger and better.

Yes, and ITV has done it again. Scott & Bailey had only three episodes for the new season and it was cancelled. I'm beginning to see a pattern with these shows that the new manager is cancelling, but I don't want to say too much until I investigate it more thoroughly.

Henry IX seems to have gone the same way. Three episodes and nothing. After all the hype that seems odd. I wonder if there's anything in the fact that BBC ran Mike Bartlett's play King Charles III last week? Henry IX wasn't great but it had some potential, and a good cast list too. Sad.

Edit: Oh wait, that was Gold. Weirder then. Sunk without a trace.

rostasi · 05-17-2017, 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Henry IX seems to have gone the same way. Three episodes and nothing. After all the hype that seems odd. I wonder if there's anything in the fact that BBC ran Mike Bartlett's play King Charles III last week? Henry IX wasn't great but it had some potential, and a good cast list too. Sad.

Edit: Oh wait, that was Gold. Weirder then. Sunk without a trace.

Too bad about Henry IX. I rather like Annette Crosbie.
We're gonna try the first episode of King Charles III tomorrow evening.
We'll see if it lasts with us here at home.

Trollheart · 05-17-2017, 07:33 PM

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Originally Posted by rostasi

Too bad about Henry IX. I rather like Annette Crosbie.
We're gonna try the first episode of King Charles III tomorrow evening.
We'll see if it lasts with us here at home.

It's not a series, it's a play. Just the one episode, self-contained. You might be interested/distracted by the Shakespearian way it's written. I thought it was okay but was a little disappointed in it.

rostasi · 05-17-2017, 07:46 PM

OK, so it's gonna be like "The Hollow Crown" Richard III" I guess -
which I actually enjoyed more than I expected. Thanks for the info!

Trollheart · 05-17-2017, 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by rostasi

OK, so it's gonna be like "The Hollow Crown" Richard III" I guess -
which I actually enjoyed more than I expected. Thanks for the info!

Welll.... yes and no. It's set (obviously) in modern times but they use very Shakespearian language. I found it a little offputting. Incidentally, the Hollow Crown (all four episodes) totally brilliant and I have still King Lear (all four hours of it) to watch. Hope you enjoy the play, I just felt a little, I don't know, thrown by it.

05-13-2017, 11:17 PM	#5352 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Just sat through a marathon of CNN's United Shades of America with Kamau Bell. Wow. Powerful stuff. Half depressingly crushing and angering and the other half emotionally uplifting. The KKK episode just exploded my brain. __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

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Chiomara mayor of spookytown Join Date: Jan 2017 Posts: 812	This show is SO GOOD so far. (So good apparently that I accidentally posted this in the wrong thread a little while ago.) Three episodes in. Edit: and, surprsingly it's a doing a pretty fantastic job of portraying PTSD (as experienced by a strange child desperate for approval) which I did not expect at all before I began watching it. Last edited by Chiomara; 05-17-2017 at 02:37 PM.

05-17-2017, 07:46 PM	#5359 (permalink)
rostasi . Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 4,007	OK, so it's gonna be like "The Hollow Crown" Richard III" I guess - which I actually enjoyed more than I expected. Thanks for the info!