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, 20187 yr by The Unknown Poster

2 hours ago, The Unknown Poster said:

There are many shows I’d love to check in with the characters every 5-10 years. 

Very BBC of you.

okay now we have a series!

https://tvline.com/2019/04/26/90210-reboot-shannen-doherty-cast-brenda-walsh-fox/

3 hours ago, iHeart said:

okay now we have a series!

https://tvline.com/2019/04/26/90210-reboot-shannen-doherty-cast-brenda-walsh-fox/

This concept sounds really awesome. 

okay seriously what is going on at netflix?

https://tvline.com/2019/04/26/santa-clarita-diet-cancelled-netflix-season-4/

2 hours ago, iHeart said:

okay seriously what is going on at netflix?

I'd assume they are massively overspending and now are cutting corners on anything that is not an instant success.  

They certainly won’t cut a program that draws. So I guess Santa Clarita isn’t that popular.  

Okay no spoilers.  Do we need a GoT thread?   Heck of an episode.  Read alot of complaints about how dark it was on older TVs. 

Great climax. 

Yeah, I've got a decent TV and I'll be rewatching with the contrast jacked up. The only other complaint I had with that episode was the plot armor.

3 hours ago, The Unknown Poster said:

Okay no spoilers.  Do we need a GoT thread?   Heck of an episode.  Read alot of complaints about how dark it was on older TVs. 

Great climax. 

I'm up to S3E06.

3 hours ago, The Unknown Poster said:

Okay no spoilers.  Do we need a GoT thread?   Heck of an episode.  Read alot of complaints about how dark it was on older TVs. 

Great climax. 

I don't know the final season is halfway done, but I guess a series finale spoilers thread should be okay

Enjoyed the GOT episode.  I guess my TV is new enough that the darkness wasn't an issue for me... didn't even realize it was a problem till I saw it trending on twitter.

For people who have not seen the episode yet, I'll put some other thoughts behind the spoiler feature

Spoiler

I was a bit surprised at how few characters died, given that they wrapped up some of their storylines the episode before.  I expected more front line guys (Tormund, GreyWorm, etc) to go down & the ones they kill off were fairly obvious and didn't really factor in to the main plot.  Others like Jaime & The Mountain I figured would survive because they still had other stuff still going on (Bronn coming for both Lannisters?, Mountain vs Hound battle).

They lost a ton of their army so it'll be interesting to see how they regroup for the march south.  They do still have both dragons (maybe not for long if you pay attention to the king's landing part of the intro though) so that should help but they pretty much lost all the Dothraki on the initial charge & the Unsullied seemed to get overrun as well. 

 

https://tvline.com/2019/04/29/the-twilight-zone-revival-renewed-season-2-cbs-all-access/

in two days may will be approaching, well all know what that means, winter is coming....for the big network shows

They're trying to extend her contract, but to be fair I wouldn't be surprised if she does leave, mostly because the average amount of time a cast member usually spends on SNL is usually 7 seasons (hey I got bored one day and thought I should see if there's a mean, median, and mode within the people that have appeared on the show), and she's been on for seven and a half (she came on in late season 36, just as Kristin Wiig was on her way out, I think Kate's first episode was Sofia Vergara/One Direction

https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/kate-mckinnon-contract-saturday-night-live-1203200109/?fbclid=IwAR3Xe61cKxbEfAcAWAmBuDFv5yBNbIMeilLjGeZwCFw0Z4lWxGPqVKJSjKs

actually come to think of it this is Aidy Bryant and Cecily Strong's 7th season as well, well, we'll have to find out around the time the season finale airs in a couple of weeks

Edited April 29, 20196 yr by iHeart

let the cancel/renew hunger games begin

https://tvline.com/2019/04/30/empire-renewed-season-6-fox-jussie-smollett/

yeah there has been talk recently about how some cast members wanted him back, but it doesn't appear to be so

 

https://www.cnet.com/news/netflix-high-quality-audio-makes-shows-and-films-sounds-better/

Another day another game show revival announcement

https://tvline.com/2019/05/02/elizabeth-banks-press-your-luck-revival-host-abc/

18 hours ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

https://www.cnet.com/news/netflix-high-quality-audio-makes-shows-and-films-sounds-better/

Great news.   I have a decent audio set up and while I dont really notice much being "bad", I definitely notice when its good.

god I hope the series finale doesn't get leaked

https://deadline.com/2019/05/game-of-thrones-leaks-episode-4-major-death-1202607587/

https://tvline.com/2019/05/07/john-lithgow-perry-mason-cast-limited-series-hbo/

 

Isn't it a little soon? but then again I'm old enough to remember when you'd see a tv movie on one of the major cable networks at the drop of a hat

https://tvline.com/2019/05/07/college-admissions-scandal-tv-series-felicity-huffman-lori-loughlin/

 

It took Three tries but Nancy Drew is finally returning to the small screen (oh and the riverdale spinoff got picked up too)

https://tvline.com/2019/05/07/katy-keene-nancy-drew-series-order-cw-lucy-hale/

 

just plan the crossovers already

https://tvline.com/2019/05/07/batwoman-series-order-the-cw/

Well at least she still has Carmen on Netflix

https://tvline.com/2019/05/07/jane-the-novela-cancelled-the-cw-jane-the-virgin-spinoff/

I guess they're starting this already

https://tvline.com/2019/05/07/council-of-dads-nbc-series-clive-standen-photo/

Edited May 8, 20196 yr by iHeart

I don't know if the avalanche is today, tomorrow or next week, but per my one post here per day rule it will be updated

https://tvline.com/2019/05/08/billions-renewed-season-5-showtime/

and the 90210 summer series has a premiere date

https://tvline.com/2019/05/08/beverly-hills-90210-revival-premiere-date-fox-video/

Edited May 8, 20196 yr by iHeart

6 minutes ago, iHeart said:

I don't know if the avalanche is today, tomorrow or next week, but per my one post here per day rule it will be updated

https://tvline.com/2019/05/08/billions-renewed-season-5-showtime/

S5 already?

 

1 hour ago, iHeart said:

I don't know if the avalanche is today, tomorrow or next week, but per my one post here per day rule it will be updated

https://tvline.com/2019/05/08/billions-renewed-season-5-showtime/

Season 4 has been pretty inconsistent,  worst season so far, I think they'll wrap it up in season 5 with the lot of them  headed for the hoosegow, Sacker and Connerty may be the only survivors.

https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/batwoman-katy-keene-nancy-drew-cw-jane-the-virgin-spinoff-1203208388/

 

and more renewals

https://tvline.com/2019/05/09/madam-secretary-renewed-season-6-cbs/

https://tvline.com/2019/05/09/swat-renewed-season-3-cbs/

https://tvline.com/2019/05/09/seal-team-renewed-season-3-cbs-david-boreanaz/

https://tvline.com/2019/05/09/macgyver-renewed-season-4-cbs/

https://tvline.com/2019/05/09/hawaii-five-0-renewed-season-10-cbs/

https://tvline.com/2019/05/09/bull-renewed-season-4-cbs-michael-weatherly/

and cancellations

https://tvline.com/2019/05/09/power-cancelled-no-season-7-starz-premiere-date/

https://tvline.com/2019/05/09/for-the-people-cancelled-no-season-3-abc/

 

Some pickups:

https://tvline.com/2019/05/09/prodigal-son-deputy-next-fox-series-order/

https://tvline.com/2019/05/09/new-fox-comedies-2019-nick-offerman-jason-biggs-sitcom/

https://tvline.com/2019/05/09/carols-second-act-broke-series-orders-cbs-comedies/ (Pauley Perrette is returning to tv)

https://tvline.com/2019/05/09/fbi-most-wanted-evil-all-rise-cbs-series-order/

https://tvline.com/2019/05/09/zoeys-extraordinary-playlist-nbc-series-order/

 

and a casting change

https://tvline.com/2019/05/09/nancy-drew-scott-wolf-freddie-prinze-jr-recast-cw/

Edited May 10, 20196 yr by iHeart