seeing chelsea peretti onstage at the golden globes was pretty cool
― Clay, Monday, 13 January 2014 03:28 (ten years ago) link
hell yeah
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 13 January 2014 03:28 (ten years ago) link
yeah tvbythenumbers has brooklyn 99 as likely cancelled but considering fox gave it the after the superbowl slot and they bought a golden globe for it i can't imagine they're going to cancel it after just one year (esp since ken tremendous shows tend to improve dramatically in their second season).
― balls, Monday, 13 January 2014 03:45 (ten years ago) link
happy for them cuz I want them to get season 2 but this is my third favorite show on Fox Tuesdays and Samberg's sometimes the worst thing about it.
― da croupier, Monday, 13 January 2014 06:44 (ten years ago) link
Jake Johnston and Chris Messina def deserve a trophy more than ol' Cute'n'Screamy
― da croupier, Monday, 13 January 2014 06:46 (ten years ago) link
not to mention Andre Braugher
oh how i wish Andre Braugher was gay irl (also wished the same for Adam Pally re: Happy Endings)
― Murgatroid, Monday, 13 January 2014 06:53 (ten years ago) link
I find it hard to believe Fox would actually pay to buy Brooklyn 99 a Golden Globe. Or any show, really, they just don't care! Look how well those awards did for Arrested Development.
That said I already love Brooklyn 99 and it's probably only going to get better
― Nhex, Monday, 13 January 2014 15:38 (ten years ago) link
yeah I really enjoy Brooklyn 99 now -- it took a few episodes to get going but it's really come around
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 13 January 2014 18:15 (ten years ago) link
anyone else watching space dandy? djp?
― Mordy , Thursday, 16 January 2014 01:43 (ten years ago) link
Really liked that Broad City pilot.
― Murgatroid, Thursday, 23 January 2014 07:15 (ten years ago) link
^ this was a happy surprise
― Clay, Thursday, 23 January 2014 08:12 (ten years ago) link
fyi: killer women is terrible
dnw
mr veg dvr'd it why because trisha helfer ... it's like a hallmark movie masquerading as a tv show
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 January 2014 17:18 (ten years ago) link
It was readily apparent from the commercials.
― Murgatroid, Thursday, 23 January 2014 17:21 (ten years ago) link
yeah, i caught one episode, because I love that Cylon. sadly... awful
― Nhex, Thursday, 23 January 2014 17:47 (ten years ago) link
has anyone else watched Helix?
the acting is kinda b-movie-level awkward/terrible but there is something about the story that I really love. or maybe I'm just fangirling for Moore, idk
lol 'maybe'
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 January 2014 18:17 (ten years ago) link
I realized it had that guy from The 4400 but wasn't sure if i should really give it a shot. looks REALLY low budget. Didn't realize RDM was involved
― Nhex, Thursday, 23 January 2014 20:33 (ten years ago) link
i'm mr meeseeks look at me rick and morty thread
― Mordy , Monday, 27 January 2014 05:20 (ten years ago) link
i like broad city
― Mordy , Thursday, 30 January 2014 04:50 (ten years ago) link
Me too.
― Simon H., Thursday, 30 January 2014 04:55 (ten years ago) link
watched the first ep, not really my style - opening and ending of the pilot really turned me off
― Nhex, Thursday, 30 January 2014 04:55 (ten years ago) link
i like it
― some dude, Thursday, 30 January 2014 05:38 (ten years ago) link
is 'intelligence' any good, cbs aficionados?
i keep seeing spots for it and i didn't even recognize josh holloway without his sawyer haircut (and shirt, i guess)
― j., Thursday, 30 January 2014 23:54 (ten years ago) link
didn't watch, apparently it is vv dull and formulaic
― Simon H., Thursday, 30 January 2014 23:55 (ten years ago) link
i always lol when i see that it's Sawyer from Lost. he disappeared for a while, didn't he?
― Nhex, Friday, 31 January 2014 02:37 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, for some reason Taylor Kitsch got the film career that should rightfully have been his.
― Simon H., Friday, 31 January 2014 03:32 (ten years ago) link
who among those clowns really made out well
hurley, obv., and i'm always seeing dr. chang in bit parts now, and michael emerson has made a real strong showing
― j., Friday, 31 January 2014 03:36 (ten years ago) link
xp lol, i actually just saw X-Men Origins: Wolverine the other week and was thinking that!
most of the Losties are doing ok but none of them have really broken out the way they did on that show, sadly - even Emerson or Terry O'Quinn
― Nhex, Friday, 31 January 2014 03:41 (ten years ago) link
those clowns!
emerson's got a big hit show on cbs. sawyer seemed the most likely for stardom and maybe still is but so far it was a tiny appearance in mi3:ghost protocol and not much else in movies. seems like somehow it's harder now for ppl to make the jump from tv to movies? maybe i'm wrong but the only ppl who have made the jump or whatever in the past ten or so years i can think of really are steve carell (whose movie stardom predates his sitcom stardom really), tina fey (same), and jason segal (where his having been on freaks and geeks clearly played a larger role in fostering his movie career than himym). there are others i'm sure who did tv and then got a nice movie career going recently but nobody that really built off their tv stardom like bruce willis or george clooney did. i mean jon hamm hasn't done it yet. anyway i would've thought 'cbs drama' would've been a perfect fit for holloway but somehow they fucked up and put him in something that looks like it should be on nbc.
― balls, Friday, 31 January 2014 03:56 (ten years ago) link
burn, sucks to be nbc
yeah some of them have had steady tv work, terry o'quinn has been in something ever since lost ended, even ol aussie whasername has been on one of those fairy tale shows. and emerson is holding it down but i don't think those viewers are going to translate into anything but a solid line of tv gigs for the next ~10 years for him. (and he's even got supposed movie star jim caviezel alongside him to lend a little glow.)
a little earlier on, but jennifer garner made the switch kind of uneasily, had to put up with being in a lotta romcoms. not exactly bruce willis stardom but i can't think of many others. huh.
― j., Friday, 31 January 2014 04:10 (ten years ago) link
think you're right balls - the only ones who've made the jump recently that i can think of are disney channel-types like Zac Efron
yeah, i love Emerson but i always saw Caviezel aka Jesus as the mainstream draw for Person of Interest. kinda shocked it's been on this long, but CBS I suppose
― Nhex, Friday, 31 January 2014 04:20 (ten years ago) link
yeah garner's a good call. she never really became a big movie star (to an extent she kinda stopped trying, seems like when she works now it's clearly something she actually wants to do and not really a career move), but her push into movies got that style of hype and industry support that willis or clooney got. her appearance in catch me if you can was somehow a big deal. bradley cooper made the jump but he was never defined by his tv work, he was a dude that happened to be on alias and then the show he actually starred in was canceled pretty quickly for better or for worse (i liked kitchen confidential). i mean think of how many movies the dudes from friends headlined and the best hollywood can come up w/ for neil patrick harris is the smurfs?
― balls, Friday, 31 January 2014 04:29 (ten years ago) link
well, post-doogie wasn't his career kinda nowhere before harold and kumar reset his image? which was a while before himym, but i kind of expect him to get… something… going after it ends (as opposed to say hannigan who will maybe find another tv role, having built up a second store of viewer goodwill kind of like david boreanaz did, only he seems to have flourished more).
what about anyone from the desperate housewives / gray's anatomy side of nighttime soapish shows? i never saw any of those so i don't really follow their actors.
― j., Friday, 31 January 2014 04:37 (ten years ago) link
o fuck you're right
HEIGL
can't believe i forgot heigl
― balls, Friday, 31 January 2014 04:39 (ten years ago) link
eva longoria seems to have set her sights on something bigger than movie stardom. the possibility exists that i have had a fantasy wherein i'm rich (from 'something', something 'positive', not like just wall st) and she becomes my bride and we team up and take the white house by TURNING TEXAS BLUE.
― balls, Friday, 31 January 2014 04:44 (ten years ago) link
Heigl had a good run for like, three years there, huh, and her career promptly fell off a cliff after that
is that the lifespan of Hollywood careers these days
― Murgatroid, Friday, 31 January 2014 04:44 (ten years ago) link
didn't she have 'trouble' with being 'opinionated' or whatever i.e. not taking typical women-in-media bullshit?
― j., Friday, 31 January 2014 04:48 (ten years ago) link
melissa mccarthy is a weird case in that you could easily argue that she's actually the biggest sure thing movie star right now (as in if there was a melissa mccarthy vehicle opening in theatres next week it would almost definitely be #1 at the box office) and yet the sitcom she currently stars in is a just a footnote to her career, it's barely a bigger factor in her success than whether she played volleyball in high school or whatever. it has got to drive cbs insane and they can promote that show w/ 'hey we got melissa mccarthy - LOOK WE GOT MELISSA MCCARTHY - SHE HAS A TV SHOW - MELISSA MCCARTHY FROM THE MOVIES HAS A TV SHOW' and most of america is still 'yeah we love melissa mccarthy, but that show looks fucking awful'.
― balls, Friday, 31 January 2014 04:49 (ten years ago) link
oh yeah that's a good one. when she broke out i was wondering if she had brought any fans to the table from that show, but i figured it was just that she was running shit and the film performances by themselves did it.
― j., Friday, 31 January 2014 04:51 (ten years ago) link
heigl burnt some bridges but she also got a bad rep, esp in yr us weeklies etc, which may have hurt her w/ her audience. she also made too many shitty movies but i don't think that alone scuttled her career, it didn't do the same w/ jennifer aniston.
― balls, Friday, 31 January 2014 04:51 (ten years ago) link
well, she was like one of the handful of top tv comedy actresses of the 90s, and they gave her SO many chances at vehicles. i think heigl may not have been in such a solid position?
― j., Friday, 31 January 2014 04:53 (ten years ago) link
Everyone got super sick of Heigl after a long string of increasingly shit films in which she played the same horrible character. (I know this because I watched all of them while playing drinking games with friends at the ol' video store gig.) Honestly I don't think the mini-Knocked Up beef had that much to do with her falling out of favor.
― Simon H., Friday, 31 January 2014 04:55 (ten years ago) link
aniston did get a lot of chances - hell, she still gets too many chances, probably - if the brangelina thing hadn't happened i think she would've disappeared a lot quicker
― Nhex, Friday, 31 January 2014 04:59 (ten years ago) link
Can I just: Most hideous movie poster featuring Katherine Heigl's dumb ass face
― ...out of that weakness, out of that envy, out of that fear.. (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 31 January 2014 05:01 (ten years ago) link
sadly most of the image links no longer work. well, not that sadly
― Nhex, Friday, 31 January 2014 05:20 (ten years ago) link
I just noticed that NBC is premiering About a Boy on a Saturday night.
A SATURDAY NIGHT.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 31 January 2014 05:34 (ten years ago) link
The last time Jason Katims decided to do a TV show based on a movie no one expected would spawn a TV show, we got Friday Night Lights, so sure, I'll give About A Boy a shot.
Wait, I forgot Parenthood. Is that show any good? A few people I follow here and there on Twitter watch it but it doesn't seem to have nearly as much of a dedicated following as FNL did.
― Murgatroid, Friday, 31 January 2014 05:43 (ten years ago) link
i saw a commerical for About A Boy and thought for a second that Bent had returned
Parenthood definitely has a following, it's one of those weird you'd-think-it-was-cancelled-years-ago kind of audience, but it has consistent numbers. It's good if you like that kind of soft family drama, i.e. Judging Amy, Men of A Certain Age, etc. I never got into it, but I could see it was good for its genre.
― Nhex, Friday, 31 January 2014 05:48 (ten years ago) link
Parenthood is good (at least, the first two seasons were) but it was so placid and kind-hearted that it was hard to remember to watch it.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 31 January 2014 05:51 (ten years ago) link
Yeah I know people who really like Parenthood and also really like other things I like, so even though it looks uninteresting from afar I can appreciate what its appeal might be.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 31 January 2014 05:54 (ten years ago) link