Wax Lion
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I'm all for casting a WoC as Nancy Drew*, I just don't get losing the part where she's a teen who spots stuff the adults miss. I think I'd rather watch that terrible-looking sitcom version of Nancy Drew they made into a movie.
* I saw someone mention Amandla Stenberg, who would be awesome as Nancy.
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Ah. That's what I was thinking of, I guess I mixed that up as how Barbara's story ended.
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Unless I'm forgetting something else, Ann didn't have a grandson. She had a granddaughter, little Annie, from Julie's marriage to Max. So Annie can show up at the old homestead. Or Valerie Bertinelli, either as Barbara or as a totally different character.
Ah, my memories of the show have gotten mixed up. I thought the final season saw Barbara and her husband adopting a boy who was already living with them, I'm probably mixing it up with another sitcom.
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There was a US version of Faking It on TLC. It was really awful. While the British version focused on the skill being learned, there was more drama to the TLC version and the few times I watched it, the subjects were really whiny.
ETA: Okay, any telenovela experts out there? I'm trying to remember the name of a Spanish telenovela that was popular enough that an American remake aired on Telemundo. It was set in a boarding school and had an O in the title (not a word with an 'o' but just an O) and had a storyline with a gay character (as I recall the American version got a lot of criticism for muting that story.)
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I, too, was thinking about the ODAAT credits. I guess I watched a lot of daytime reruns of the show from season two, because I always thought Schneider blow-drying his hammer was always part of the credits. I loved the ending where they pose for a group photo with a timer. I see they did a couple versions of it but I thought it was a bigger part of the show, like Mary Richards throwing her hat in the air.
Since this is Netflix, I hope the new version tries to keep that theme song which is one of my favorites. It fits the tone of the show and works well on its own and could survive being adapted to a latin style of music.
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As I recall, the 704 Hauser pilot had a member of the Bunker family show up at the end who came to see his old house. When he saw the family was aruging about politics he nodded that things were the same as when he lived there. I think it was Gloria's son, so they didn't need to cast the same actor, he was just there for the nod to continuity.
If the rebooted ODAAT is similarly set in the same building, they could easily cast any age-appropriate actor as Ann's grandson, I don't think any old school fans will care. Still, most of those Food Network shows are done on the cheap where several episodes can be filmed in a short time and a multi-camera sitcom isn't a big strain on an actor's schedule so I'd expect that it wouldn't be that hard to get Bertinelli to make a guest appearance.
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I actually really liked the SOTU coverage even with Matthews there. He had his moments but there were also a few times Rachel cut him off in the middle and he stopped, as if he knew that was a signal he should wrap it. There were some good discussions thanks to Rachel.
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BBC America eventually bumped it down to Sunday afternoon so I don't think QI did well. I think the audience who would watch it already saw those episodes.
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By the way, this seemed to be the place to mention a pet peeve about remakes. I hate it when a show's title is a regional idiom and the remake keeps the title (or in the case of The Mysteries of Laura, translates it literally) like with Queer as Folk. That was a witty title if you know the phrase "there's new't so queer as folk" but in the US it was just the name of a British series.
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While I thought the coverage overall ended up being good, I almost skipped the coverage of Trump's Burlington appearance when it began with ten minutes of Trump giving a speech he's given a hundred times on MSNBC.
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Also, this same article says The CW ordered a Pilot for a Tales From the Darkside reboot last February (February 2015).
http://tvline.com/2016/01/07/m-night-shyamalan-block-tales-from-the-crypt-tnt/
That one is dead as of last May. It was an odd once since they tried to make it less of an anthology with a character who is aware of a "Darkside" that is affecting people, to give it some continuity. Too bad they didn't have the rights to remake The Hitchhiker because that would have made sense (and, heck, at this point they way The Hitchhiker almost always found room for a sex scene would make it a really great fit for The CW).
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Giving a show to Mark "Drudge rules our world" Halperin says pages about the news channel it wants to be.
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It occurred to me that it's surprising that Night Gallery hasn't gotten a reboot. It seems perfect in that the original show is iconic but wasn't very good, so you can take advantage of how the "our next painting tells a terrifying tale" bookend is well known but use better stories. Heck, you could even go semi-anthology by making the gallery guide a character within the universe. (Better than the way they tried to make Tales from the Darkside a semi-anthology.)
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It's funny. My husband was a conservative when I met him. He voted for W in 2000 but he's now pretty progressive. He hates Hillary Clinton and a lot of the language he uses makes it clear it's a matter programming from years of Fox News fake-scandals.
I loved that Chris reran the segment where he went through the police training because he's so cute throughout it. Overall, it's a great segment but Chris trying to handle those simulations were a hoot.
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It's funny because I recall UK soap Hollyoaks doing a storyline where a woman had an abortion because she thought the father had abandoned her and she didn't want to raise the child alone (or risk that she'd treat the child badly because the father abandoned her). It was all just fuel for drama since her brother-in-law thought the father might be dead and that she might feel differently about raising the child as a widow than as an abandoned wife. (The father eventually turned out to be alive and the abortion fueled more drama, none of it having to do with her feeling guilt or regret over the abortion, just anger at not being told what was going on when she made the decision.)
Hollyoaks is not at all a responsibly feminist show. A few weeks later they did a storyline where a girl lies about being raped rather than admit she's was cheating on her boyfriend.* She was also pressured to declare it rape by one of the show's more moralizing characters, too, and the whole town treated her boyfriend badly. And, elsewhere, a male teacher was raped by one of his students, who temporarily got away with it by faking evidence that the teacher was molesting him and his friend. Good thing it's apparently easy to get erased from the sex offender list in that village.
Abortion just isn't such a loaded issue there.
* OTOH the boyfriend had an eating disorder and she was cheating on him with a much hotter guy. Finding out about the affair fueled his body dismorphia, making him think it wouldn't have happened if he had abs like the other guy, which is a surprisingly good example of how Hollyoaks can combine an issue storyline with the soapy drama.
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I gave up after the flashback episode where Laurie spent the whole time having phone conversations that sounded like she was debating getting cancer treament when it turned out she was debating about keeping her pregnancy -- which was then raptured out of her womb. Once I realized it was the kind of show where people don't behave normally so that what they're really about to do is hidden, I dropped it.
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Tonight, near the end of the Rachel Maddow show, she cited his current poll number and said that no one at that level has ever failed to get the Republican party nomination, in the years that polling has existed.
I just watched that and she said that there hasn't been a candidate to reach a 20 point advantage over their next-closest rival who hasn't won the nomination. That's a scary thought. A few weeks ago she talked to a pollster who said the current Trump surge was due to him bringing in new likely voters. That's scarier but it does raise a question of if they'll really show up to vote, especially for the Iowa caucus. IIRC, Obama's campaign did a lot to prepare supporters to go to the Iowa Caucus for the first time (though their coaching couldn't involve talking about actual candidates), I haven't heard if Trump is doing the same.
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So I'm getting caught up from being on vacation and the Christmas eve episode with Steve Kornacki talking to Frum... I tried to give Frum a chance but the first thing he said was that the Tea Party is misunderstood and everyone forgets it was a populist movement for maintaining government programs. No, you dummy, did you think Rick Santelli's rant about paying for the losers was about Medicare? There's still no reason to talk to Frum, he's a disingenuous tool who rewrites history to suit his latest argument.
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Is it me or did that promo look... wacky? Like it mixed the drama of the Ninja Warrior franchise with snarky commentators, a la Wipeout? I didn't like the smug tone of WIpeout's announcers, but I think I'd take John Henson over Matt Iseman and American Ninja Warrior's irritating faux-sportcasters.
I'm actually cool with an easier course, what I liked about the Sasuke obstacles was how dynamic they were. I think sometimes the ANW designers value difficulty more.
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I think today I wouldn't have checked out Terriers because that marketing campaign was so unclear and I don't have as much time to pick up new shows. Unless the glowing reviews came from day one, I probably would have missed it.
In FX's defense, cancelling Terriers was a decision that has shaped how the network moves forward. They're very focused on making poorly-rating but critically-buzzed shows work financially and some of it was about making sure a show wouldn't be the next Terriers. They may have gone too far in ordering a third season of Tyrant, tho.
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So the UK Apprentice is nothing like the Mitchell and Webb sketch?
One show I wish were available online: The Peter Serafinowicz Show. E! aired it a while ago and it was great but I don't think I've seen it anywhere since then.
Is The Chaser still on in Australia? G4 aired it for a little while but pulled it, I enjoyed it. It was like The Daily Show meets Punk'd with a group of pranksters. Some of their stuff made news like when they disrupted (torture memo writer) John Yoo's UC Berkeley class with a guy in the Abu Garib stress position and asking if that was torture. I guess most Americans aren't really interested in a show that made fun of other countries' politics but I enjoyed what I saw of The Chaser.
I would also tune in for Mock the Week, at least for a little while.
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I think I heard that And Then There Were None was a co-production with Lifetime and will air stateside eventually.
On a similar note, I heard good things about You Me and the Apocalypse and after looking at the cast, I can't wait.
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Sadly, I feel the 80s was the peak time for women on scripted daytime TV. Not only did you have some great soap writers who could create compelling female characters (the late great Doug Marland, Bridget Dobson, Pam Long, Claire Labine even Harding Lemay came back for a minute) there was a short boom in animated programming that was pretty good to female characters. Robotech was written with a very mature perspective and characters like Lisa Hayes, Miriya Sterling and Rook Bartley felt like a big change to how heroines were presented to kids (it probably explains why the kids I knew who loved Robotech was pretty mixed in gender). Meanwhile GI Joe and Jemm and the Holograms were also pretty trailblazing. She-Ra was a lot more gendered but even that gave kids a strong female and let girls have their character in an action show.
Wow, for all the problems I have with JFP I did not notice the Courtney thing. That's amazing.
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Sorry you pressed my button. Even though she's worked with different writers, every time Jill Faren Phelps took over a show the heroines became delicate damsels who inspire men to become stalkers (and in at least one case, a serial rapist -- even better, it was a storyline that got all smug about rapemance in soaps) and need their men to rescue them. The ones who don't get their strength taken away end up getting killed in some pretty violent storylines. Again, she may work with different writers every time but the same themes showing up again and again suggest she's directing the writing to those stories. I understand on Y&R there's doing an evil twin storyline that mirrors the Justine stupidity that happened when she was in charge of AW.
She has often left a soap in such a mess no one who follows in her footsteps can figure out how to fix things ( I can't think of a single show that got its fans back once she got her hands on it). I've learned her name so that I know to give up once she gets put in charge of a show, I know it's going to be terrible. (drawn in to her old shows.) Somehow the misogyny she brings to her shows tend to linger.
However, she keeps getting hired so I'd guess that the people who hire her want their shows to head in that direction.
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Less Than Total Recall: What's The Name Of This Series I Vaguely Remember?
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