2013 Fall TV Thread: Previews, Evaluations, Ridicule and Mourning

^ this was a happy surprise

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

It was readily apparent from the commercials.

yeah, i caught one episode, because I love that Cylon. sadly... awful

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'

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

i'm mr meeseeks look at me rick and morty thread

i like broad city

Me too.

watched the first ep, not really my style - opening and ending of the pilot really turned me off

i like it

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)

didn't watch, apparently it is vv dull and formulaic

i always lol when i see that it's Sawyer from Lost. he disappeared for a while, didn't he?

Yeah, for some reason Taylor Kitsch got the film career that should rightfully have been his.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

o fuck you're right

HEIGL

can't believe i forgot heigl

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.

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

didn't she have 'trouble' with being 'opinionated' or whatever i.e. not taking typical women-in-media bullshit?

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'.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

Can I just: Most hideous movie poster featuring Katherine Heigl's dumb ass face

sadly most of the image links no longer work. well, not that sadly

I just noticed that NBC is premiering About a Boy on a Saturday night.

A SATURDAY NIGHT.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Parenthood is good but it needs to end next season. They are squeezing story lines out that don't feel organic.

About A Boy is the FOURTH show starring David Walton that NBC has put on the air in the last four years. It's like they really want him to happen, but not enough to give him a promising and/or well-promoted project. I like the guy (he was hilarious in Fired Up and the best thing about a couple of those NBC shows) but it's getting sad.

Sleepy Hollow finale was pretty dope

went full on Empire Strikes Back

About A Boy is the FOURTH show starring David Walton that NBC has put on the air in the last four years. It's like they really want him to happen, but not enough to give him a promising and/or well-promoted project. I like the guy (he was hilarious in Fired Up and the best thing about a couple of those NBC shows) but it's getting sad.

all of this is OTM, I commented on the same thing to my wife when the About a Boy promos started airing

I can't fathom why a broadcast network would even bother debuting a show on a Saturday night, though. If you want it killed, don't even bother.

most likely some kind of contractual obligations, i think

i always get the feeling there's a lot of bullshit network politics going on, shows get produced, executives change over, schedules get wrecked
you ever see the movie The TV Set?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfErkHGPJrA#t=265

Broad City and Workaholics aren't all the different, except I find myself hating the dudes on Workaholics and totally loving the ladies on Broad City. Is this sexist? Or am I just not bored with women doing gross/stoner humor yet?

the ladies on broad city are hilarious - much funnier than workaholics guys. also funnier than girls ladies imho.