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Glee, once you get past the singing, is actually a black comedy, much like the Broderick/Withersoon movie Election. Jane Lynch is superb on it (see the aforementioned Party Down for more of her, and all of Rob Thomas's friends and cast from Veronica Mars days).<br />
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Community, Better off Ted, and Modern Family are all smart comedies in the vein of 30 Rock, Arrested Development etc. Lots of subtle zingers and references to popular culture. White Collar stars (and is a vehicle for) the guy who played Bryce Larkin on Chuck. He plays a conman who is working with the FBI agent who caught him to catch other criminals. In return, he gets to leave jail under a work release program. Not a bad show, but so so. It is a USA show (like Burn Notice and Royal Pains). They tend to be more light hearted than a real drama.<br />
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The key part of Friday Night Lights is Coach Taylor and Tami. Their marriage on the show is portrayed so lifelike, that I forget it is just acting. The transition to the new school and cast has been pretty good. The usual Hollywood BS would have Coach Toylor whip the team into shape from zeros to heroes, and miraculously make the semis in the first season. FNL doesn't go there. The team sucks, and the coach and players are all just hanging on. Great TV. -
On the negative side, recently in Aus we have had the return of FGA (Fucking Grays Anatomy), Desperate Housewives, Brothers and Sisters, and Gossip Girl. You cannot imagine how much i am looking to getting the second TV back from the shop tomorrow.<br />
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Yea Tim, the Underbelly marketing machine is in full effect over here, so can't be far off. Being that is based in Kings Cross, it should follow the usual formula of drugs, guns, and a whole heap of titties. And if its like the last one, that will lose its interest about halfway through the series. <br />
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Waiting for new Top Gear, currently watching new Entourage and Two and a Half Men, and Cold Case (i like Lily Rush), and hanging out for the football codes to start so i can reclaim my TV from wife/M4L Jr.<br />
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Oh and apparently new 24 coming too, lets hope who ever gets it doesn't keep fucking around with the scheduling. -
[quote name='rustycruiser']Glee, once you get past the singing, is actually a black comedy, much like the Broderick/Withersoon movie Election. Jane Lynch is superb on it (see the aforementioned Party Down for more of her, and all of Rob Thomas's friends and cast from Veronica Mars days).<br />
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Community, Better off Ted, and Modern Family are all smart comedies in the vein of 30 Rock, Arrested Development etc. Lots of subtle zingers and references to popular culture. White Collar stars (and is a vehicle for) the guy who played Bryce Larkin on Chuck. He plays a conman who is working with the FBI agent who caught him to catch other criminals. In return, he gets to leave jail under a work release program. Not a bad show, but so so. It is a USA show (like Burn Notice and Royal Pains). They tend to be more light hearted than a real drama.<br />
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The key part of Friday Night Lights is Coach Taylor and Tami. Their marriage on the show is portrayed so lifelike, that I forget it is just acting. The transition to the new school and cast has been pretty good. The usual Hollywood BS would have Coach Toylor whip the team into shape from zeros to heroes, and miraculously make the semis in the first season. FNL doesn't go there. The team sucks, and the coach and players are all just hanging on. Great TV.[/QUOTE]<br />
I like Better of Ted - just haven't got around to watching a decent number of episodes yet.<br />
I couldn't stand Bryce Larkin on Chuck, maybe he's less annoying on this.<br />
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[quote name='mariner4life']Oh and apparently new 24 coming too, lets hope who ever gets it doesn't keep fucking around with the scheduling.[/QUOTE]<br />
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Season eight of 24 started on 7Two tuesday ... or did in nsw ... Look to be doing 2 hours at a time ... -
So that was S8 then, i recorded it, will watch on the weekend. excellent.
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[quote name='TeeJay']Awww, you should you have stuck with it. They thought up a lot of good things as they went along - then got some proper writers in to make it a good series. <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':D' />[/QUOTE]That was a fucking polar bear on a fucking tropical island you fucks! You don't just walk off from that without saying another word! And you're what? Going fishing? Eat the fucking polar bear!
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I have seen the first episode of Lost for Season 6. The general consensus seems to be that it was very good and I agree. The first hour dragged but it picked up in the second hour. TVNZ have cut the episode in half by the looks of the TV Guide which is pretty usual for them. Last season bored me to tears but for the most part was a filler season. It'll be interesting to see where they take it from here. I defintely don't think all of the questions will be answered but the major ones will.<br />
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I liked V. I'm looking foward to the rest of the episodes.<br />
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[quote name='rustycruiser'] Friday Night Lights (best show on TV!).[/QUOTE]<br />
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This series was slotted on a channel dedicated for theyoung' and is mainly a music station. I found it by sheer fluke but was hooked from that point on. It screened at 8.30pm. <br /> <br /> Series two has been snapped up by a different network and it's been put on around midnight. The series wasn't advertised and is being used as
insomniac fodder'. Shame really because it would make good prime-time viewing. Anyway, I found the listing, again by fluke, and am enjoying this series as much as the first.<br />
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`The Good Wife' has just started on New Zealand television. I enjoyed the first episode but as I enjoy the leading ladies acting (ER and Canterbury) I think I'd watch it anyway because she seems to concentrate on quality roles. -
[quote name='taniwharugby'] As for Lost, which I have watched since the start, I have a horrid feeling we will get to the end and we will get some pathetically lame ending (like Jack wakes from a nightmare) ....[/QUOTE]<br />
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Bite your tongue!<br />
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I wouldn't mind a spin-off though, but it would have to be as `supernatural' as Lost to keep me tuned.<br />
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I like Criminal Minds too. Hotch and the skinny-brainiac being my favourites. -
[quote name='rustycruiser']Prequel. Set 50 years or so before the Cylons nuke the 12 colonies. The show centers around how the first Cylons where created, and the role of two families in the creation, the Greystones and the Adamas.[/QUOTE]<br />
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Ooooh, I hope we get this. <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':D' /> -
[quote name='mariner4life'] Oh and apparently new 24 coming too, lets hope who ever gets it doesn't keep fucking around with the scheduling.[/QUOTE]<br />
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It's back on tonight (Friday) on Channel 4. It's on at 8.30pm. Fortunately, C4 are pretty consistent with their scheduling. They don't play the ratings game like the other networks. -
[quote name='TeeJay']I wouldn't mind a spin-off though, but it would have to be as `supernatural' as Lost to keep me tuned.[/QUOTE]<br />
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That was only ever a rumour. Tptb on Lost have said that once it's over, it's over - no movie, sequel, spin-off or whatever. -
[quote name='TeeJay']This series was slotted on a channel dedicated for the
young' and is mainly a music station. I found it by sheer fluke but was hooked from that point on. It screened at 8.30pm. <br /> <br /> Series two has been snapped up by a different network and it's been put on around midnight. The series wasn't advertised and is being used as
insomniac fodder'. [B]Shame really because it would make good prime-time viewing. Anyway, I found the listing, again by fluke, and am enjoying this series as much as the first.[/B]<br />
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`The Good Wife' has just started on New Zealand television. I enjoyed the first episode but as I enjoy the leading ladies acting (ER and Canterbury) I think I'd watch it anyway because she seems to concentrate on quality roles.[/QUOTE]<br />
The 2nd series is a real dip for the show, however it completely rights itself in S3.<br />
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How is FNL - the TV series related to the movie with Billy Bob Thornton.<br />
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Was the movie first? Then the TV series as a spinoff - or are they totally unrelated?<br />
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[quote name='timslim']How is FNL - the TV series related to the movie with Billy Bob Thornton.<br />
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Was the movie first? Then the TV series as a spinoff - or are they totally unrelated?<br />
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I ask - as I've got the movie, but have never found time to watch the TV series.[/QUOTE]<br />
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Movie was first. It is mostly non fiction, based on the book of the same name. The TV show is related. The director of the movie, Peter Berg, created the TV show. Initially because he was unable to include a lot of the interpersonal topics from the book in the movie due to time constraints. The TV show would give him 22 hours per season versus the 2 or so of the movie. Connie Britton plays the coaches wife on both the book and the movie. Brad Leland also came over. He plays booster Budddy Garrity on the TV show, and the similar character in the movie. The show doesn't use any material from the book, unlike the movie. The town, team, players, events etc are all fictional whereas the movie (mostly) follows the book. But the tone, look, feel, cinematography, even the sound track (music by Explosions in the Sky) is very similar between the two<br />
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I highly reccommend anyone watch season one. It is one of the best single season arcs of any show I have watched. Season 2 is so so (blame network interference trying to get teens to watch). Season 3 and 4 are back up to the standard of the first. One of the few TV shows that I have bought the DVD sets. In fact, Arrested Development is the only other one. -
I was moaning the other day about how few good dramas were on the television and those that were returning were the
old' ones. (Oldies but goodies but nothing
new').<br />
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I have friends in the UK who tell me about great shows (and sometimes they send me videos of the occasional one for me to see) and I thinkwhy aren't we getting these instead of crap reality shows?'<br /> <br /> Then, last night when I was watching
24' on C4 I saw an advertisement showing all thenew season' shows. Hell, they're all coming to C4 while the other networks show us utter rubbish or repeats. (From memory I think I saw
doll house' advertised too).<br />
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So, now, where once upon a time I never even bothered looking at C4's schedule in the TV Guide, it's now becoming the first listing I look at!<br />
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Talking ofrubbish' and
spin-off' shows, did anyone watch the remake ofReggie Perrin' with Martin Clunes? It wasn't as good as the original series but it had its moments. One of them being his reference to watching
CSI Bournemouth' and `Britain's Fattest Cat'. Obviously telly's pretty bad all over! <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':D' /> -
[quote name='rustycruiser']Movie was first. It is mostly non fiction, based on the book of the same name. The TV show is related. The director of the movie, Peter Berg, created the TV show. Initially because he was unable to include a lot of the interpersonal topics from the book in the movie due to time constraints. The TV show would give him 22 hours per season versus the 2 or so of the movie. Connie Britton plays the coaches wife on both the book and the movie. Brad Leland also came over. He plays booster Budddy Garrity on the TV show, and the similar character in the movie. The show doesn't use any material from the book, unlike the movie. The town, team, players, events etc are all fictional whereas the movie (mostly) follows the book. But the tone, look, feel, cinematography, even the sound track (music by Explosions in the Sky) is very similar between the two<br />
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Cheers for the details rusty - I enjoyed the movie, like Explosions in the Sky as well - so will check out the TV series.<br />
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Just finished watching Season 1 of Deadwood on DVD. Superb writing - David Milch is outstanding. It's like sitting down to a 5 course meal as you start an episode. Kicks the shit out of most of the writing on TV. Need to hunt down season 2 and 3 now.