Cancelled shows of Tomorrow: The War on Chuck Lorre - Part 8

[terry78]

I honestly like Black Matter more than Hunters on SyFy.

 

[Jordacar]

You mean Dark Matter?
#allmatter

 

[terry78]

All Dark Matter.

 

[Mace Dolex]

I'm going to say Uncle Buck is another movie to television adaptation failure.

I struggled through three episodes and gave up ten minutes into the fourth one. It's every tired cliche of incompetent fathers/uncles and sitcoms in general you've seen. So far we have the father who can't take care of his kids, the mother who is a control freak, the carefree uncle who is just totally cool. The kids who "test" their nannies/mannies to see if they are up to the task. There was nothing particularly good about this show.

You could replace them with virtually any other sitcom in the past 40 years and have probably seen that episode before.

The episode I quit on is the one where the control-freak mother who is perfect is confronted by a past rival who bested her, and now she has to best that rival. I didn't even bother finishing it because I was so sick of it.

Absolutely agree, I had sense it wasn't going to last as ABC was burning off episodes back-to-back which is always a sign that a show is in trouble.

Guess TV execs forgot about the failure of the 1990 Uncle Buck sitcom.

 

[Sawyer]

Absolutely agree, I had sense it wasn't going to last as ABC was burning off episodes back-to-back which is always a sign that a show is in trouble.

Guess TV execs forgot about the failure of the 1990 Uncle Buck sitcom.

Probably, but in fairness, Parenthood had a failed TV adaptation in the 90s too, and then a critically acclaimed one just recently that lasted six seasons.

That being said, this Uncle Buck and the new Parenthood are miles apart in quality.

 

[Quasar]

A new season of Mad TV is starting next Tuesday on the CW.

 

[Sawyer]

Grey's Anatomy Vet T.R. Knight Returns to Shondaland With Role on The Catch

So I'm guessing he's not the actor she killed off because she didn't get along with them.

 

[rashad]

Power - Renewed for a 4th and 5th Season by Starz
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/starz-renews-power-seasons-4-912511?utm_source=twitter

 

[Teelie]

Thought that was Powers for a second there. I want to see it renewed too.

 

[THUNDERSTRIKE]

Thought that was Powers for a second there. I want to see it renewed too.

same here... I especially want to see more of the new Retrogirl ...

 

[_Superman_]

Power - Renewed for a 4th and 5th Season by Starz
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/starz-renews-power-seasons-4-912511?utm_source=twitter

This is great news.

 

[squeekness]

Thought that was Powers for a second there. I want to see it renewed too.

I thought Powers was renewed for a second season, no? I hope so.

 

[THUNDERSTRIKE]

I thought Powers was renewed for a second season, no? I hope so.

wow, you must have been out of the loop, Squeekers... the second season of ten episodes has just concluded this week...

 

[Teelie]

Yeah, was referring to a third season.

 

[Shifty]

Chandra Levy Limited Series From Lawrence Kasdan In Works At TNT

EXCLUSIVE: The Chandra Levy case, which is back in the headlines this week, is the subject of a limited series in development at TNT. The project, executive produced by Lawrence Kasdan (Star Wars: The Force Awakens), is co-produced by Sony Pictures TV and Turner.

Keith Huff (American Crime, House of Cards) is writing the script based on the book Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery by Scott Higham and Sara Horowitz. Kasdan and Huff executive produce with Judith Verno and Diane Sokolow. Kasdan may direct subject to availability.

Levy was 24 and an intern with the Federal Bureau of Prisons when she went missing in May 2001. Her disappearance became a media sensation after she was romantically linked to Congressman Gary Condit. The missing person case became a murder investigation when Levy’s remains were found in Washington, D.C.’s Rock Creek Park the following year. Police acknowledged the Democratic congressman from California was at one point a prime suspect, but he was eventually cleared in her death.

The case went cold for six years. In 2007, two Pulitzer Prize reporters for The Washington Post, Scott Higham and Sari Horwitz, were assigned with revisiting the murder.

In a series of 13 articles, that became the basis for Finding Chandra, the two explored the bungled police efforts to catch a killer, the twisted culture of politics, the dark nature of political scandal, and the agony of parents waiting for answers. They focused their attention on an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, a young man in the clutches of alcohol, drugs, and violence who had been assaulting female joggers in the area where Levy’s body was found.

That man, Ingmar Guandique, was charged and sentenced to 60 years in prison after being convicted of Levy’s murder in 2010. He was granted a new trial last year after his lawyers said a key witness lied to the jury. Then yesterday, federal prosecutors made the shocking announcement that they were dropping charges against Guandique, sending the case back to square one.

Revisiting famous crimes in a limited series form has become a hot genre in light of the recent success of FX’s American Crime Story: The People vs. O.J. Simpson.

Go where the ratings and awards are. The Levy murder was constantly in the news before 9/11 and the War on Terror pushed it out of the headlines. Most people probably aren't aware what happened after the fall of 2001.

CBS - Cased Closed, season one JonBenet Ramsey

CBS - Patty Hearst Kidnapping limited series

NBC - Law & Order: True Crime, season one: Menendez brothers

FX - American Crime Story, season one: OJ Simpson

TNT - Chandra Levy limited series

Netflix - Making a Murderer, season two

 

[rashad]

PlayStation Network Cancels the Powers Series

 

[THUNDERSTRIKE]

PlayStation Network Cancels the Powers Series

grrrrrrrrrr... well, so much for that... gonna miss a pretty good show and seeing Olesya Rulin in her Retrogirl costume...

 

[Sawyer]

It's not every day that an actor gets fired from their series for kicking a writer.

 

[Marvolo]

It's not every day that an actor gets fired from their series for kicking a writer.

He kicked the writer in the leg. Probably a shinkick. Yeah, it wasn't the mature thing to do, but anything less than a Spartan kick or a nutshot shouldn't result in termination. They could have reprimanded him or docked his pay.

 

[Sawyer]

Well, first they suspended him, I have to assume he did something to make it worse.

 

[Marvolo]

Well, first they suspended him, I have to assume he did something to make it worse.

Probably right. It also may not be the first time he's caused trouble.

 

[rashad]

Probably right. It also may not be the first time he's caused trouble.

It wasn't his first time. His troubles behind the scenes have been documented.

 

[Drizzle]

I've always thought Thomas Gibson was an asshat, so...

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[TheCommissioner]

I get that back in the day it was OK to be an a-hole, not so much anymore

you act like a buttmunch, there are consequences

the minute you make something a physical altercation, no matter the impact, there are consequences

 

[Teelie]

Just like Jeremy Clarkson he thought he was big and important enough to get away with throwing a tantrum and found out wrong.