Second season of Orange is the New Black launched today.

 

Anyone else into this?

 

I have to admit to being a bit of a TV/movie-phile.  I generally buy Blu-Rays when there's a movie I want to see rather than just watching it on PPV or In-demand (I like to collect).

 

Premium TV has really been leading a creative resurgence in recent years, probably dating back to The Sopranos.  Its nice that Netflix has become a legitimate competitor for HBO (which puts out some really great shows like Sopranos, Deadwood, Boardwalk Empire, True Blood etc).

 

House of Cards was tremendous.

 

While cable channels like AMC are getting in on the act, I annoys me a bit.  The Walking Dead would be so much better on Netflix or HBO where they could truly appeal to adults (HBO passed on The Walking Dead when Thomas Jane was attached).

 

As for Orange, it took me a few episodes to get into last season but Im looking forward to banging out a few episodes tonight.

 

As an aside, for you Trekies, it was recently the 20th anniversary of the finale of TNG, one of the best Series' Finales in TV history.

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all the chicago civil servant shows have been renewed....Justice is still pending

 

http://tvline.com/2017/05/10/chicago-fire-renewed-season-6-pd-nbc/

ugh this show WON'T END!

http://tvline.com/2017/05/10/modern-family-renewed-season-9-and-10-abc/#tvline-comments-827891

 

and we have some more renewals

http://tvline.com/2017/05/10/izombie-renewed-season-4-the-cw/

really I thought this would end since the show it originated from (no pun intended) just ended

http://tvline.com/2017/05/10/the-originals-renewed-season-5-the-cw/

 

and here's a CW pickup

http://tvline.com/2017/05/10/black-lightning-series-order-the-cw-life-sentence-lucy-hale/  I wonder why we haven't had any Marvel shows on the CW, wait stupid question the CW is a WB owned network

well this is a bummer

http://tvline.com/2017/05/10/last-man-standing-cancelled-abc-no-season-7/

Anyone watching Mystery Science Theater?

3 hours ago, iHeart said:

well this is a bummer

http://tvline.com/2017/05/10/last-man-standing-cancelled-abc-no-season-7/

Holy cow, it was up to 6?

yeah it was up to 6

and it looks like A Different World- Black-ish edition may end up on Freeform or ABC Spark in Canada

 

http://tvline.com/2017/05/10/blackish-spinoff-freeform-yara-shahidi-zoey/

like some last minute deals are being hammered

 

I have two renewals from fox

http://tvline.com/2017/05/10/last-man-on-earth-renewed-season-4-fox/

http://tvline.com/2017/05/10/gotham-renewed-season-4-fox/

2 hours ago, iHeart said:

like some last minute deals are being hammered

 

I have two renewals from fox

http://tvline.com/2017/05/10/last-man-on-earth-renewed-season-4-fox/

http://tvline.com/2017/05/10/gotham-renewed-season-4-fox/

Gotham was a given but I think it might have gone elsewhere even if FOX dropped it.

10 hours ago, johnzo said:

Anyone watching Mystery Science Theater?

Tried a few times.... just doesn't make me laugh for some reason.

a couple I like are first two seasons of "Misfits", (British sci fi comedy) and the movie "Paul" (British/American sci fi comedy)

Misfits is still on netflix, don't know about Paul.

After the first two seasons of misfits the cast changed, and the program deteriorated. One of the best actors went on to game of thrones as a major villain. Iwan Rheon.

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5 hours ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

Gotham was a given but I think it might have gone elsewhere even if FOX dropped it.

yeah like the CW but where would they find room? they won't cancel long running shows. 

15 hours ago, iHeart said:

and another reboot has been given an order

 

http://tvline.com/2017/05/10/dynasty-reboot-the-cw-series-order-grant-show/

 

 

Interesting.  Looks like they are going full reboot, unlike the Dallas "remake" which was just a continuation of the series.  I never watched Dynasty.  But the Dallas revival was actually pretty good.  Hearing that theme and seeing the updated opening brought back lots of childhood memories.  But once Larry Hagman died, it was tough to continue.  But I did enjoy it.  It actually made me buy some of the Dallas DVD's.  I think I got up to season 4 or 5.  Classic series.

thank F**K Last Man On Earth is renewed and Last Man Standing cancelled. There's hope for humanity yet...

well then Noeller I hope you're a blacklist fan

 

http://tvline.com/2017/05/11/the-blacklist-renewed-season-5-nbc/

3 hours ago, The Unknown Poster said:

Interesting.  Looks like they are going full reboot, unlike the Dallas "remake" which was just a continuation of the series.  I never watched Dynasty.  But the Dallas revival was actually pretty good.  Hearing that theme and seeing the updated opening brought back lots of childhood memories.  But once Larry Hagman died, it was tough to continue.  But I did enjoy it.  It actually made me buy some of the Dallas DVD's.  I think I got up to season 4 or 5.  Classic series.

yeah I agree they should have ended it that season, I mean it was nice to see cast members working again, but let's face it JR WAS THE SHOW

This, not surprising

 

http://tvline.com/2017/05/11/making-history-cancelled-fox-season-2/  and just added APB

 

you know in my honest opinion, the day the Simpsons Ends FOX should just kill the whole animation block because let's face it, the Simpsons IS the block. 

 

meanwhile I'm sitting here waiting for news that Once has been renewed for a 7th and shortened final season or is cancelled

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in the non major network upfront

 

http://tvline.com/2017/05/11/smilf-showtime-comedy-series-order-rosie-o-donnell-co-stars/

 

well let's see how this goes

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57 minutes ago, iHeart said:

well then Noeller I hope you're a blacklist fan

 

http://tvline.com/2017/05/11/the-blacklist-renewed-season-5-nbc/

Time to close it  after season 5.

Don't know if it's been mentioned before but Billions is a great series starring Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis.

13 hours ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

Gotham was a given but I think it might have gone elsewhere even if FOX dropped it.

I didnt mind the early seasons of gotham. I liked the idea of it as a detective show set in the batman universe but pre batman era. Really liked donal logue, and the dynamic between he and gordon.

It pushed further and further into gordon being batman light though. And really lost me there. 

29 minutes ago, wbbfan said:

I didnt mind the early seasons of gotham. I liked the idea of it as a detective show set in the batman universe but pre batman era. Really liked donal logue, and the dynamic between he and gordon.

I agree with all this, but I still really enjoy the current version of the show. Critics slammed them hard for making it too much of a procedural, but I didn't mind it. Saying that, I still really love the non-procedural version that they are now. Penguin and Riddler are just incredibly well acted. Big fan of both Logue and Ryan Atwood....

here's some renewal news

http://tvline.com/2017/05/11/the-goldbergs-renewed-season-5-abc-2/

 

http://tvline.com/2017/05/11/great-news-renewed-for-season-2/

 

sounds like ABC is starting to announce what's going on with their lineup here's a cancellation

http://tvline.com/2017/05/11/american-crime-cancelled-season-4-abc/

http://tvline.com/2017/05/11/dr-ken-cancelled-season-3-abc/

 

so I guess ABC just wants to fill fridays with 2 hours of 20/20 and yet more shark tank, maybe they found out that Kevin O'Leary is available again

 

here are some pickups

http://tvline.com/2017/05/11/abc-orders-the-gospel-of-kevin-the-mayor-the-crossing-for-the-people-series/

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