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IMBD posted the television renewal and cancellation list for 2024.

Here it is and it is wickedly long. There are a lot of television shows that I've either never heard of, or never seen.

Anyhow, Good Omens has been renewed for a third and final season.

Renewed: "Good Omens"

Announced: December 14, 2023

After a major Season 2 cliffhanger, Aziraphale and Crowley will be back for a third and final season of "Good Omens" on Prime Video.

Foundation was also renewed.

Television Shows coming in 2024 .....

I should post in TV Talk - but I'm scared to?

Anyhow, here's the list of up and coming television series for 2024. Feel free to swipe, if you wish?

List of up and coming anticipated television series for 2024 via Rotten Tomatoes

(I'm admittedly not a fan of Rotten Tomatoes, but the list appears to be verified.)

( Standouts for January - March? )

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( Some returning fandom favorites... )

( And some interesting new one's with no clear date...except sometime in 2024. )

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Whew. There's a lot of television shows. Those are mainly new ones. And I didn't list all of them. I only highlighted fifteen of over twenty. Noticing a lot are adapted from books and video games.

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I've been watching old movies. Watched The Way We Were finally - 1973. Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand, produced by Ray Stark and Sydney Pollack, directed by Pollack (who I've actually met in person). It's good, but I agree with Streisand, the deleted scenes - three of them - kind of weakened the film. I went to watch the deleted scenes after watching the film. However those who didn't know about them, didn't notice a difference - and I only did because I listened to Streisand discuss it prior to watching it. I don't know how I'd have reacted without listening to her discuss it first. It's an excellent film about how a relationship doesn't work and can't succeed because the two people in it don't quite click. They want different things in life, and really different lives. Weirdly, I felt more sympathy for Redford's character than Streisand's - mainly because he tries to tell her from the very beginning that they can't work - but he can't quite articulate why, and so she persuades him to stick it out, and he loses the most when they finally break up. And I can't help but wonder, if my sympathy would have switched to Streisand, and I'd have felt more at the ending - if those deleted scenes remained?

Gave up on Topper - it was boring.

And I watched the final Doctor Who Special - which surprised me. I didn't expect that. It was much better than expected. After the last three seasons of Doctor Who - my expectations have been lowered. However, these Specials were really good. The last one did slip a wee bit into soap box territory, but overall a good episode with a suitably frightening villain, and superior production values. Neil Patrick Harris did an excellent job in the supporting role. Although I agree - his German accent was relatively cartoonish.

Welcome back, RT Davies. I apparently underestimated your abilities here.

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I need to finish a few television series. Lessons in Chemistry, the Buccaneers, Gilded Age, For All Mankind, Virgin River, Castlevania. I've been busy - so woefully behind.

Oh, and Barbie (the Greta Gerwig film) is coming to MAX. It's free on Max, and exclusive to Max.