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The TV Thread

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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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    Babylon Berlin opening credits.  The show is pretty good, but the credits are astonishing.  They're a little NSFW if you squint at them.

     

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    New show on....HBO I think?  Sharp Objects staring Amy Adams.  In the vein of Big Little Lies but more of a drama/mystery.  First episode this past Sunday was suitably creepy.  Interesting casting with Danny from Mindy Project as a Detective and the girl from It as well. 

    Does anyone watch The Affair?  Its back for another season too.

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    Some interesting stats about Netflix's GLOW Season 2.  I know Netflix is secretive about their viewership but I guess Nielson is now able to determine viewership

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    GLOW season two on Netflix has been a huge success. On the first three days the show was put up (6/29 to 7/1), the season averaged 700,000 viewers in the U.S. per episode, and 86 percent were between 18 and 49, the highest concentration of 18-49 viewers of any original streaming content on Netflix that Nielsen has analyzed. It also had viewership where the mean (meaning half above and half below) family income was $80,200 per year, the third highest of any Netflix series behind only “The Crown” and “House of Cards.”

     

    Season two was much better than the first one. Really enjoyed it especially the Marc Maron character.

    13 hours ago, johnzo said:

    Babylon Berlin opening credits.  The show is pretty good, but the credits are astonishing.  They're a little NSFW if you squint at them.

    I'm going to give this show a try...  I've had it earmarked since reading it was the most expensive non-English language TV Drama of all-time.  $40M to produce!! 😮 

    On 2018-07-12 at 2:31 PM, Jimmy Pop said:

    I'm going to give this show a try...  I've had it earmarked since reading it was the most expensive non-English language TV Drama of all-time.  $40M to produce!! 😮 

    Caught a few episodes so far pretty interesting, I would also recommend "Yellowstone" with Kevin Costner and "Succession" both currently in season one.

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    For the first time in 10 years i got copyright infringement email from BellMTS.

    Definitely will get one tonight - it's the Westworld finale I think.

    Did get one for the finale LOL but they sure took their time in sending it.

    it looks like Stranger Things season 3 isn't coming til next year

     

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    $7.99 (US I presume) per month 

     

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    $7.99 (US I presume) per month 

     

    I wanna say there's not much to see here.

    Hardwick will return to talking dead because I guess they found nothing

    https://tvline.com/2018/07/25/chris-hardwick-returning-amc-investigation-complete/

    and a Frasier reboot is in development stages

    I don't know I feel that they shouldn't touch this one. I have a philosophy that only shows that didn't have the most agreeable endings (like say Roseanne and Will and Grace) should get revivals while shows that had decent endings like Once and Glee (yeah I thought the show had a good ending, in fact I actually wish Glee had predicted the outcome of the 2016 election)

    https://tvline.com/2018/07/25/frasier-revival-kelsey-grammer-reboot-cbs/

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