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.

Edited February 5, 20188 yr by The Unknown Poster

9 minutes ago, iHeart said:

and it looks like the next season of Once may be the last after all 

http://tvline.com/2017/05/16/abc-fall-lineup-2017-once-upon-a-time-friday-schedule/

 

OUAT/Agents of SHIELD Fridays. Grey's renewed again!

3 minutes ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

OUAT/Agents of SHIELD Fridays. Grey's renewed again!

this is a different Marvel show, I don't know if Inhumans is related to S.H.I.E.L.D.

25 minutes ago, iHeart said:

this is a different Marvel show, I don't know if Inhumans is related to S.H.I.E.L.D.

It is part of the Marvel universe.

I love Seth McFarlane and pretty much anything he does, but my thoughts on space bullshit are well known. Even if it's somewhat making fun of Star Trek and it's nerd following, I just can't watch something with weird alien people on a space ship....

35 minutes ago, Noeller said:

I love Seth McFarlane and pretty much anything he does, but my thoughts on space bullshit are well known. Even if it's somewhat making fun of Star Trek and it's nerd following, I just can't watch something with weird alien people on a space ship....

How DARE you...

 

58 minutes ago, Noeller said:

I love Seth McFarlane and pretty much anything he does, but my thoughts on space bullshit are well known. Even if it's somewhat making fun of Star Trek and it's nerd following, I just can't watch something with weird alien people on a space ship....

Somewhere in another part of the universe is an intelligent species that resembles lizards and among them is an individual who can not watch space shows that feature pink skinned aliens.

no, end Grey's first, 

http://tvline.com/2017/05/16/greys-anatomy-spinoff-firefighters-2017-abc/

8 hours ago, Logan007 said:

Actually The Orville looks funnier and more entertaining then I thought it would be.  Not that it looks that good, just that my expectations for anything with Seth McFarlane in it was just so low.  I may watch it just as a guilty pleasure.

I didn't think it looked that bad, nothing must see, but i might check it out. I wasn't a big ST fan and movies like Galaxy Quest were kinda meh for me, but I do like Seth McFarlane so i'm willing to see his spin on space (other than those family guy star wars spoofs)

 

speaking of fox shows,  man are they pumping out a lot of ...  ify shows,  here's another

 

 

Better Call Saul's third season has been amazing so far.

19 hours ago, Noeller said:

I love Seth McFarlane and pretty much anything he does, but my thoughts on space bullshit are well known. Even if it's somewhat making fun of Star Trek and it's nerd following, I just can't watch something with weird alien people on a space ship....

McFarlane seems to be a huge fan of Star Trek though so I would say it's less about making fun of it and rather paying homage to. So you don't even get your wish there. 

oh well at least the writers don't have to go through the headache of having to write a send off or have to kill off Bill Paxton's character

 

http://tvline.com/2017/05/17/training-day-cancelled-cbs/

Edited May 17, 20178 yr by iHeart

OK...has this been mentioned already, or did I beat @iHeart to a TV scoop?!?

 

2 minutes ago, Jimmy Pop said:

OK...has this been mentioned already, or did I beat @iHeart to a TV scoop?!?

Poking fun of themselves for season 4 which had each character 'owning' their own episode...wasn't quite the same AD, for me anyway.

 

1 hour ago, Jimmy Pop said:

OK...has this been mentioned already, or did I beat @iHeart to a TV scoop?!?

 

No, I never posted this before hand. But this wasn't really a secret anyway

I hope he'll get a nice send-off on saturday even though his only well known character is Drunk Uncle (but then again, Hader's best known character was Stefon and he got a really good send-off)

http://tvline.com/2017/05/17/bobby-moynihan-leaving-saturday-night-live-snl-nbc/#comment-list-wrapper

 

and Dennis Quaid will be playing George W Bush in American Crime Story: Katrina...wait a minute, why are they filming the one for Versace now? when they cast George W Bush

 

http://tvline.com/2017/05/17/dennis-quaid-cast-katrina-american-crime-story-george-w-bush-fx/

Edited May 18, 20178 yr by iHeart

American Crime Story: Katrina sounds like a big stretch for a show.

10 hours ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

American Crime Story: Katrina sounds like a big stretch for a show.

I tend to agree.  Im interested in seeing it because Im guessing its a bigger scandal than I can appreciate.  But when they announced more seasons after OJ and said they had a wealth of stories to dramatize, "Katrina" didnt immediately come to mind.

yeah it doesn't really strike me either, I mean I know they messed up big time with Katrina (and by they I mean FEMA and the US government) but I barely remember anything of it, I am well aware of Versace's story though and why it is being filmed before Katrina?

finally some news about the black-ish spinoff

http://tvline.com/2017/05/19/blackish-spinoff-series-order-freeform-collegeish/

 

and the SNL writers are going to have a headache tonight because two departures are going to kind of overshadow the Rock's induction into the 5 timers club

 

http://tvline.com/2017/05/20/saturday-night-live-vanessa-bayer-leaving-nbc/

looks like the three featured players that joined last year will be promoted for season 43. It's kind of a bummer though, I liked her.

http://tvline.com/2017/05/21/saturday-night-live-sasheer-zamata-exits-snl-cast-leaving-nbc/#comment-list-wrapper

Edited May 21, 20178 yr by iHeart

On 5/18/2017 at 0:21 PM, iHeart said:

yeah it doesn't really strike me either, I mean I know they messed up big time with Katrina (and by they I mean FEMA and the US government) but I barely remember anything of it, I am well aware of Versace's story though and why it is being filmed before Katrina?

American Greed did an episode on Mayor Ray Nagin. There was lots of fraud, corruption, bribes, money laundering etc.  I think Nagin looked at Sam Katz's business dealings and said hold my beer.

now why would he be influenced by a Winnipeg Mayor

 

 

http://tvline.com/2017/05/22/chicago-justice-cancelled-no-season-2-nbc/