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they decided to put maybe the youngest cast of NCIS brand on sundays as 8.
The young cast is interesting and it will be interesting to see the ratings drama play out, but I personally don’t think it will mean anything. The young cast aside, NCIS is still very much an old people show. It doesn’t seem to matter which new “thing” they tack on to the franchise, it always skews very old. And after the big Supergirl debacle, I don’t think CSB is holding out any hope for the youth of the world to come flocking to a new show that’s really just the same show for a franchise that’s…what…20 years old now?
ETA: I just had a quick look at their ratings. NICS LA always has more eyeballs than we do (like close to 8 million) but their demo’s are always around the same as our S5B ratings…so 1.3, 1.2, ect. That more or less proves my point: the young cast means nothing; it’s still only older people watching. That’s a show (and, really, network) that skews very old
[adrotate group="5"]"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Casting Lin is basically the only reason I would want to see a new version of Mary Poppins!
Emily Blunt & Lin-Manuel Miranda to Star in Mary Poppins Returns
ETA: Currently having a renewed loved affair with “The Schuyler Sisters” I keep yelling at people to WORK while giving them a diva snap
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"‘Sense8’ as soon as S2 becomes available
When is that??? I’ve been waiting for an announcement forever but feel like I never see it whenever Netflix puts out their “Coming soon” list.
I’ve never watched ‘Once Upon a Time in Wonderland’, so this might be a good time for that too.
YES. Do it! It has a bit of a rough start but by the time you hit the midseason finale (episode 8) it’s amazing and then the back half only gets better with each passing episode.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"So, a few years back, I happened to spend some time in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which is where GRR Martin is.
1) How have you never told me this before
2) Yes, Tolkien did the same thing though sans coffee house (more of an ale house…)
3) O_____________O
4) So basically everything that made it into the World Book
1) A very clever idea which leveraged the pre-existing popularity of Disney characters. 2) Phenomenal casting. These days, Lana and Bobby’s acting is what carries the show, along with Colin’s sex appeal. 3) Luck. A & E were lucky to be associated with ‘Lost’ and they’re lucky that ABC has no contenders to usurp OUAT’s time slot.
#1 and #2 especially. I also think it help (in the #3 luck department) that many of OUAT’s fellow ABC shows are doing worse in terms of ratings. The writing can be bad but as long as its steady, ABC has a show that ad buyers can rely on. We talk about OUAT as if it’s the product to sell and whether or not it can be sold depends on the quality of said product but I don’t think that’s exactly true. At least not in the network/ad buyers realm. We, the viewers, are the ones being sold. The ad buyers are buying our time, our eyes, our desire to check out the whatever they’re shilling out.
So as long as we can still be bought at top dollar, then the longevity continues. (I really am starting to fear a S7)
I believe that the main problem is that A&E no longer try to tell a story anymore, but rather to sell a product
*points to above for product discussion* but yes I agree that A and E aren’t really trying to tell a story anymore. Or at least, they don’t plan a full coherent sensible story. Just look at what happened to Sean/Robin this year.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Missy is returning for S10
http://www.cultbox.co.uk/news/headlines/michelle-gomez-confirms-missy-is-returning-to-doctor-who
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Someone who is more of a Lost fan than I was might comment to this, but I was really struck by the way in which A&E (and ABC marketing A&E) have linked them to Lost. After reading some of the background on the show’s production, I was really surprised to realize they had come on board to a show that was already in motion (it was the brainchild of JJ Abrams, Lieber, and Lindelof originally).
Yes and Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse (the latter of whom was brought on fairly earlyish in the first season when Lindelof was feeling totally overwhelmed and needed help running the shebang) ran it for all 6 seasons. Abrams was brought on to help develop Liber’s original pilot episode and he helped conceptualize some of the first season but both Abrams and Liber removed themselves from the picture early on. Abrams handed it over to Lindelof and was like “okay, good luck!” He came back to direct an episode of S3 but he had very little involvement after he helped develop S1. Personally, I’ve always considered it to be Lindelof and Cuse’s child.
A and E were eventually given exec producers titles, but they were always just part of a very large, sometimes changing, writing staff. They are credited with writing a later episode of S1 but the story idea was actually another writer’s (who left shortly after, IIRC). They stuck to Hurley-centric stories a lot, which is fine. He is an important part of the narrative, but his stories were always more “B” stories as opposed to, say, Jack or John Locke stories which had the serious meat of the show. I would call their LOST work a very mixed bag. They had some good episodes (and Greatest Hits is easily their best work on LOST and one of the top 20 episodes of the series) but they also had a lot of mediocre, forgettable ones that moved the plot along but weren’t the sort that get remembered years later (Fire and Water; Dave; Tricia Tanaka is Dead). They also wrote what I easily consider the worst episode of the entire series, “Expose.”
I can see why ABC ties OUAT to LOST (and even other media outlets do this, always bringing up LOST when they interview A and E); LOST is actually the only reason ABC took a look at OUAT. LOST was a huge cultural phenomenon but OUAT and LOST are worlds apart not only in terms of narrative and talent but also ratings and cultural cache. And while LOST gets a lot of slack from critics nowadays for their 6th season, I would put LOST S6 up against anything (anything!) from OUAT S3b-present day and dare people to pick OUAT over LOST.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"On Sundays I’ve got AMC’s new “Preacher;” “Game of Thrones;” and of course “Penny Dreadful.”
“Outlander” is Saturday and “Orphan Black” on Thursday, and both those shows are slowly starting to wrap up their seasons.
Other than that, for the summer I indulge in some excellent trash TV like “The Bachelorette” but will also be picking up “Feed the Beast;” “American Gothic;” “Masters of Sex” (once they set a premiere date); “Pretty Little Liars;” “Dead of Summer;” and “Mr Robot.”
It’s also a lot of Netflix for me. I just binged watched S2 of “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” and am currently watching S1 and 2 of “Grace and Frankie.” After that, it’s S2 of “Daredevil.”
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Part of me feels bad for Adam (he gets an unreal amount of stuff tweeted at him–both relevant critiques, angry fans, and even threats) but part of me doesn’t. If he’s going to be that active on Twitter (responding to everyone and everything) then he needs to learn to manage it better. He needs to learn when to and when not to engage. He also has some incredibly strange mechanisms that make place blame on everyone BUT him and Eddy.
For example, he responded to some RubySlippers fans asking why Red and Dorothy weren’t in more episodes and his response was, “We wanted them but Meghan had conflicts.” It makes it seem like it’s Meghan’s fault when really the writers should have planned their story a bit better. But even this is a more minor case.
The really weird ones are when Adam is caught in a lie and he suddenly starts parsing what certain words mean. He was accused of lying in a Hot Seat in s5A when he and Eddy promised that we would be seeing Robin’s “dark past” in S5B and that Robin would have a centric. When this interview was sent to Adam post Robin’s death, Adam attempted to redefine what lying means and how what he and Eddy said wasn’t technically lying, so he didn’t need to apologize. I can understand that it’s not *technically* lying but it wouldn’t harm Adam to say “yeah, we spoke without planning the full season ahead of time and we decided to go a much different route. We’re sorry that we made promises that we couldn’t keep in the end.”
But this goes back to what Kiki said in the tumblr link I linked past page: they are incapable of seeing their errors or even believing that they are capable of being wrong. Their best policy, then, is to double down on the lingo they’ve come up with as a way to rationalize.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Boy it’s a wild party in Adam’s timeline….everybody has something to say! OQ, CS, SQ, even Rumbelle and Snowing are coming out to play now….Season 6 will not be a pretty time in this fandom
I’ve been popping in over there every now and then to keep an eye on it, to see if Adam is saying anything worth reading (he’s not)*. But yeah’….crap storm palooza.
*= I take that partially back. He did admit that casting a Latina Baby!Lily was the wrong move when they didn’t plan on casting a Latina Adult!Lily.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Interesting articles. The thing with CS though is that it could work but the way it has been set up and the way it is currently being written is horrible. They’d be better off splitting CS apart then rebuilding it in a more healthy way eg get Emma back her old self, give Hook time to earn his redemption etc.
I dunno….I have a hard time seeing CS work under any circumstances. Part of Emma going back to her old self means adopting the Seeker of Justice trope that goes so well with the Hero/Savior one. The problem is that she’d have to seek justice for Hook’s many victims, but somehow be able to look past them/forgive them.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"
