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Oh dear god, there are too many television shows.
Remember when TV Guide, Entertainment Weekly, etc would do a run-down of all the new television shows? The critics would provide reviews of all of them? Well no longer. There are so many television shows that the television critics have thrown in the towel and given up trying to keep track of them, let alone reviewing all of them. They just choose the ones that look interesting to them.
1. Picked up TV Guide at the drug store, just because I got curious.
Glad I did, otherwise I would not have known that my favorite Jane Austen (which was written and finished by another lady,Sandition which tells you something about how I felt about Jane Austen) is being adapted for the screen and airs this coming Sunday, in an eight part series, starting at 9 pm. (Although it's not the version I adored, because the writer is just doing his own completion of Austen's tale). Howard's End is being shown before it. Howard's End previously aired on Hulu or some other channel I had no access to in the US, and has now, finally popped up on PBS Masterpiece Theater.
January 12
Sandition airs at 9 PM on Sunday
Howard's End at 8 PM on Sunday
(Both on PBS)
Also, for folks who have HBO? The adaptation of Stephin King's paranormal mystery "The Outsider" is being adapted as a series starring Ben Mendalson and Jason Bateman, among others -- airing on Sunday.
New Streaming Services (as if we didn't have enough already, right?)
( Read more... )
New Series! (Because we don't have enough already. Remember the good old days when you eagerly awaited the brief return of your favs, and new series only premiered in the fall? Well those days are long gone.)
( NEW TELEVISION SERIES! )
Believe it or not, I didn't even list all of them, just a handful.
Current Anthology Series Popping Up Again With a New Installment, Just in Case You Forgot They Existed or Thought they were Over!
( Read more... )
People Being Added To Casts..With Noting
( Read more... )
2. I watched the premiere episode of Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist last night, which I enjoyed more than expected. I decided to try it on co-worker's recommendation -- this is the co-worker who got me to watch "They Who Walk in the Shadows" and is in love with Outlander and Doctor Who. He loved it, his wife didn't.
But they are trying another episode. It doesn't really premiere until Feb anyhow.
Will you like it? I have no idea. Outside of the format of one character hearing other people do song and dance numbers in her head, or experiencing them as if they are happening, while no one else does -- it has zip in common with Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. If anything the concept reminds me a little more of Whedon's for Once More with Feeling (sans demons, etc), where people sing whatever they are feeling -- except Whedon created his own songs.
( review and set-up )
3. Co-worker: Being on a computer all day is killing my eyes.
ME: And I come home and do it too, also read on the train. What can I say? I love to write. Sometimes I think life would be much easier if I didn't.
Co-worker: Really?
Me: Yeah, I don't even care if anyone reads it. (Although that would be nice. But on the other hand, I still live in fear as to the reaction. People don't tend to react to things they way I think they are going to.)
Co-worker: Just to get it out there?
ME: Yep. I just like to write stories, etc.
Remember when TV Guide, Entertainment Weekly, etc would do a run-down of all the new television shows? The critics would provide reviews of all of them? Well no longer. There are so many television shows that the television critics have thrown in the towel and given up trying to keep track of them, let alone reviewing all of them. They just choose the ones that look interesting to them.
1. Picked up TV Guide at the drug store, just because I got curious.
Glad I did, otherwise I would not have known that my favorite Jane Austen (which was written and finished by another lady,Sandition which tells you something about how I felt about Jane Austen) is being adapted for the screen and airs this coming Sunday, in an eight part series, starting at 9 pm. (Although it's not the version I adored, because the writer is just doing his own completion of Austen's tale). Howard's End is being shown before it. Howard's End previously aired on Hulu or some other channel I had no access to in the US, and has now, finally popped up on PBS Masterpiece Theater.
January 12
Sandition airs at 9 PM on Sunday
Howard's End at 8 PM on Sunday
(Both on PBS)
Also, for folks who have HBO? The adaptation of Stephin King's paranormal mystery "The Outsider" is being adapted as a series starring Ben Mendalson and Jason Bateman, among others -- airing on Sunday.
New Streaming Services (as if we didn't have enough already, right?)
( Read more... )
New Series! (Because we don't have enough already. Remember the good old days when you eagerly awaited the brief return of your favs, and new series only premiered in the fall? Well those days are long gone.)
( NEW TELEVISION SERIES! )
Believe it or not, I didn't even list all of them, just a handful.
Current Anthology Series Popping Up Again With a New Installment, Just in Case You Forgot They Existed or Thought they were Over!
( Read more... )
People Being Added To Casts..With Noting
( Read more... )
2. I watched the premiere episode of Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist last night, which I enjoyed more than expected. I decided to try it on co-worker's recommendation -- this is the co-worker who got me to watch "They Who Walk in the Shadows" and is in love with Outlander and Doctor Who. He loved it, his wife didn't.
But they are trying another episode. It doesn't really premiere until Feb anyhow.
Will you like it? I have no idea. Outside of the format of one character hearing other people do song and dance numbers in her head, or experiencing them as if they are happening, while no one else does -- it has zip in common with Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. If anything the concept reminds me a little more of Whedon's for Once More with Feeling (sans demons, etc), where people sing whatever they are feeling -- except Whedon created his own songs.
( review and set-up )
3. Co-worker: Being on a computer all day is killing my eyes.
ME: And I come home and do it too, also read on the train. What can I say? I love to write. Sometimes I think life would be much easier if I didn't.
Co-worker: Really?
Me: Yeah, I don't even care if anyone reads it. (Although that would be nice. But on the other hand, I still live in fear as to the reaction. People don't tend to react to things they way I think they are going to.)
Co-worker: Just to get it out there?
ME: Yep. I just like to write stories, etc.