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shadowkatEnjoyed the season finale of Nashville more than Grey's Anatomy and OUAT. Which surprised me.
There's 25 new tv series slatted for fall. And you can watch the trailers for all of them online. Isn't that just nifty? I remember the old days when we had to wait until the end of August. They are starting early. Also, it was usually just 15 new shows.
Nashville has been renewed, as has Grey's, Revenge, and pretty much everything else I'm watching. Also, not surprisingly, Marvel Agents of Shield (I find that highly ironic. The least interesting (to me at least) of Joss Whedon's post Angel/Buffy series is the one that gets a second run. )
Of the 25, I watched several of the trailers last night (skipping the sitcoms), determined the following are worth a second look:
* Gotham (this is Commissioner Jim Gordon's origin story, with Bruce Wayne as a teenager. )
From NY Times:
Mr. Heller and Warner, which controls DC Comics, built “Gotham” around a question the Batman comics never posed: What if a young James Gordon was the detective who investigated the murder of Bruce Wayne’s parents?
Warner was not making the rights to Batman available — he is too important as a movie property — but Mr. Heller, 54, is allowed to tinker with new back stories for Gordon and the franchise’s villains. “I have always loved origin stories,” Mr. Heller said. “How people became who they are is where the drama is.”
Fox won a bidding war for “Gotham” in part by agreeing to pay a penalty if it did not become a full-blown series. Mr. Heller and Danny Cannon, a veteran of the “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” programs, are the program’s executive producers. Ben McKenzie, known for “The O.C.” and “Southland,” plays Detective James Gordon. Jada Pinkett Smith joined the cast as the vicious gangster Fish Mooney. Bruce Wayne, who grows up to don Batman’s cape and cowl, is played by a 13-year-old actor, David Mazouz.
“It’s a lot like telling stories about ancient Rome,” said Mr. Heller, who helped create the racy drama “Rome” for HBO in 2005. “There are certain things we know, but there are also gaps in the history, and you fill in the gaps with interesting stuff.”
This is not “Smallville,” the well-scrubbed Superman prequel that ran for 10 seasons starting in 2001. Mr. Heller — the son of Lukas Heller, who wrote screenplays like “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?” and “The Dirty Dozen” — described the tone of “Gotham” as “Grimm’s fairy tales meets old gothic horror. It’s deliciously dark. But it’s not a cold, fearful darkness.”
Has a good cast and seems to be more noir slanted, borrowing heavily from Frank Miller's Batman Year One graphic novels and Dark Knight Returns.
2. How to Get Away with Murder - a new series by Scandal and Grey's Anatomy show-runners Shondra Rhimes and Betsy Beers, it stars Viola Davis as law professor and criminal defense attorney, who informs her class that each year she chooses four students to join her firm. These are the students who manage to figure out how to win a criminal defense. The trailer is kick-ass. It's Rhimes wicked and satirical twist on a legal procedural.
A sexy, suspense-driven legal thriller about a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant, mysterious criminal defense professor (Viola Davis) who become entangled in a murder plot that will rock their entire university and change the course of their lives. Grey's Anatomy producer Peter Nowalk will write and executive-produce with Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers' Shondaland. Liza Weil, Tom Verica, Billy Brown, Katie Findlay, Matt McGorry, Aja Naomi King, Jack Falahee, Alfred Enoch, Charlie Weber and Karla Souza will co-star.
3. Secrets and Lies - Juliette Lewis and Ryann Phillip...Ryan Phillip plays a jogger who finds a murdered boy. Did he kill him or is he innocent. Lewis is the cop dogging his tail.
4. Galavante - this is just weird. It's a musical comedy fantasy adventure by Broadway and Disney songwriter Alan Mencken. (Parodies the medieval fantasy genre). Sort of reminds me of Robin Hood: Men in Tights, except with songs.
Handsome Prince Galavant (Joshua Sasse) is on a quest for revenge against the king (Psych's Timothy Omundson) who stole his one true love (Mallory Jansen) in this fairy-tale musical. Dan Fogelman will write and executive-produce with Oscar-winning composer Alan Menken writing the music. Vinnie Jones, Karen David and Luke Youngblood will also star.
5. Hieroglyph - equally weird. Making me think that the networks are getting desperate in their fight to stay relevant?
This action-adventure drama set in ancient Egypt tells the story of a notorious thief named Ambrose (Max Brown), who must navigate seductive concubines, criminal underbellies and even a few divine sorcerers when he is plucked from prison to serve the Pharaoh (Reece Ritchie). Pacific Rim's Travis Beacham will write and executive-produce alongside Peter Chernin, Katherine Pope and Fringe's Miguel Sapochnik, who will also direct the pilot. John Rhys-Davies, Antony Bunshee, Caroline Ford, Condola Rashad and Kelsey Chow also star.
6. Constantine - this is based on the Hellblazer series, but unlike the Kenu Reeves film, actually appears to be based on the original material and the hero actually looks like the character in the comics, lean, blond, rumpled, and decidedly British.
The more interesting ones may not appear until 2015 - such as The Whispers, iZombie by Rob Thomas (which appears to be based on a comic book, but it also reminds me of the YA book "I was a White Trash Zombie", about a teen who gets a job in coroner's office. I'm thinking it may be a mash-up of the two), Battlecreek (Vince Gilligan's new cop series), Wayward Pines (M. Night Shulaman's take on Twin Peaks - a 10 episode mini-series starring Juliette Lewis and Matt Dillan).
The Flash - looks fun. As does State of Affairs. American Crime looks preachy, but has a great cast. Gracepoint is basically the American version of Broadchurch, same plot, same characters, and David Tennant playing the same role he did in Broadchurch, just in the US. Does have a great cast. But so did the British version.
There's some interesting things in the works, which may or may not get picked up.
And a few misconceived series that make me wonder what they are thinking.
In other news... attempted to clean my stove and oven - it...well, doesn't that much different. Noticed that the date on the oven is 1989. I'm right it is over 20 years old. It's older than a couple of my co-workers. Landlord promises to give me a new one in July. I told him that I was willing to split the cost. (I'm desperate.)
Made the mistake of eating a portion of a dark chocolate, almond butter, quinoa puffed, an coconut sugar candy bar. The chocolate alone had me buzzing. But I desperately craved it. Was feeling a bit depressed today.
There's 25 new tv series slatted for fall. And you can watch the trailers for all of them online. Isn't that just nifty? I remember the old days when we had to wait until the end of August. They are starting early. Also, it was usually just 15 new shows.
Nashville has been renewed, as has Grey's, Revenge, and pretty much everything else I'm watching. Also, not surprisingly, Marvel Agents of Shield (I find that highly ironic. The least interesting (to me at least) of Joss Whedon's post Angel/Buffy series is the one that gets a second run. )
Of the 25, I watched several of the trailers last night (skipping the sitcoms), determined the following are worth a second look:
* Gotham (this is Commissioner Jim Gordon's origin story, with Bruce Wayne as a teenager. )
From NY Times:
Mr. Heller and Warner, which controls DC Comics, built “Gotham” around a question the Batman comics never posed: What if a young James Gordon was the detective who investigated the murder of Bruce Wayne’s parents?
Warner was not making the rights to Batman available — he is too important as a movie property — but Mr. Heller, 54, is allowed to tinker with new back stories for Gordon and the franchise’s villains. “I have always loved origin stories,” Mr. Heller said. “How people became who they are is where the drama is.”
Fox won a bidding war for “Gotham” in part by agreeing to pay a penalty if it did not become a full-blown series. Mr. Heller and Danny Cannon, a veteran of the “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” programs, are the program’s executive producers. Ben McKenzie, known for “The O.C.” and “Southland,” plays Detective James Gordon. Jada Pinkett Smith joined the cast as the vicious gangster Fish Mooney. Bruce Wayne, who grows up to don Batman’s cape and cowl, is played by a 13-year-old actor, David Mazouz.
“It’s a lot like telling stories about ancient Rome,” said Mr. Heller, who helped create the racy drama “Rome” for HBO in 2005. “There are certain things we know, but there are also gaps in the history, and you fill in the gaps with interesting stuff.”
This is not “Smallville,” the well-scrubbed Superman prequel that ran for 10 seasons starting in 2001. Mr. Heller — the son of Lukas Heller, who wrote screenplays like “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?” and “The Dirty Dozen” — described the tone of “Gotham” as “Grimm’s fairy tales meets old gothic horror. It’s deliciously dark. But it’s not a cold, fearful darkness.”
Has a good cast and seems to be more noir slanted, borrowing heavily from Frank Miller's Batman Year One graphic novels and Dark Knight Returns.
2. How to Get Away with Murder - a new series by Scandal and Grey's Anatomy show-runners Shondra Rhimes and Betsy Beers, it stars Viola Davis as law professor and criminal defense attorney, who informs her class that each year she chooses four students to join her firm. These are the students who manage to figure out how to win a criminal defense. The trailer is kick-ass. It's Rhimes wicked and satirical twist on a legal procedural.
A sexy, suspense-driven legal thriller about a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant, mysterious criminal defense professor (Viola Davis) who become entangled in a murder plot that will rock their entire university and change the course of their lives. Grey's Anatomy producer Peter Nowalk will write and executive-produce with Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers' Shondaland. Liza Weil, Tom Verica, Billy Brown, Katie Findlay, Matt McGorry, Aja Naomi King, Jack Falahee, Alfred Enoch, Charlie Weber and Karla Souza will co-star.
3. Secrets and Lies - Juliette Lewis and Ryann Phillip...Ryan Phillip plays a jogger who finds a murdered boy. Did he kill him or is he innocent. Lewis is the cop dogging his tail.
4. Galavante - this is just weird. It's a musical comedy fantasy adventure by Broadway and Disney songwriter Alan Mencken. (Parodies the medieval fantasy genre). Sort of reminds me of Robin Hood: Men in Tights, except with songs.
Handsome Prince Galavant (Joshua Sasse) is on a quest for revenge against the king (Psych's Timothy Omundson) who stole his one true love (Mallory Jansen) in this fairy-tale musical. Dan Fogelman will write and executive-produce with Oscar-winning composer Alan Menken writing the music. Vinnie Jones, Karen David and Luke Youngblood will also star.
5. Hieroglyph - equally weird. Making me think that the networks are getting desperate in their fight to stay relevant?
This action-adventure drama set in ancient Egypt tells the story of a notorious thief named Ambrose (Max Brown), who must navigate seductive concubines, criminal underbellies and even a few divine sorcerers when he is plucked from prison to serve the Pharaoh (Reece Ritchie). Pacific Rim's Travis Beacham will write and executive-produce alongside Peter Chernin, Katherine Pope and Fringe's Miguel Sapochnik, who will also direct the pilot. John Rhys-Davies, Antony Bunshee, Caroline Ford, Condola Rashad and Kelsey Chow also star.
6. Constantine - this is based on the Hellblazer series, but unlike the Kenu Reeves film, actually appears to be based on the original material and the hero actually looks like the character in the comics, lean, blond, rumpled, and decidedly British.
The more interesting ones may not appear until 2015 - such as The Whispers, iZombie by Rob Thomas (which appears to be based on a comic book, but it also reminds me of the YA book "I was a White Trash Zombie", about a teen who gets a job in coroner's office. I'm thinking it may be a mash-up of the two), Battlecreek (Vince Gilligan's new cop series), Wayward Pines (M. Night Shulaman's take on Twin Peaks - a 10 episode mini-series starring Juliette Lewis and Matt Dillan).
The Flash - looks fun. As does State of Affairs. American Crime looks preachy, but has a great cast. Gracepoint is basically the American version of Broadchurch, same plot, same characters, and David Tennant playing the same role he did in Broadchurch, just in the US. Does have a great cast. But so did the British version.
There's some interesting things in the works, which may or may not get picked up.
And a few misconceived series that make me wonder what they are thinking.
In other news... attempted to clean my stove and oven - it...well, doesn't that much different. Noticed that the date on the oven is 1989. I'm right it is over 20 years old. It's older than a couple of my co-workers. Landlord promises to give me a new one in July. I told him that I was willing to split the cost. (I'm desperate.)
Made the mistake of eating a portion of a dark chocolate, almond butter, quinoa puffed, an coconut sugar candy bar. The chocolate alone had me buzzing. But I desperately craved it. Was feeling a bit depressed today.