The Television Show Test Thread

[Reply #680 on:]

Only Fools and Horses got a prequel show haha, and it's got the dude from The Inbetweeners as Dellboy.

[Reply #681 on:]

No one understands you!!!

[Reply #682 on:]

You keep pointing out your little problems other peoples posts!

[Reply #683 on:]

Only Fools and Horses got a prequel show haha, and it's got the dude from The Inbetweeners as Dellboy.

I'll make note to watch it after getting a root canal and my penis circumsised by a blind rabbi with a rusty blade.

While wearing a wooly jumper.

[Reply #684 on:]

   Only Fools and Horses got a prequel show

Why? It's not as if they came from a markedly different background (i.e. social strata) before they got down on their luck, did they? So it would just be more of the same except a) they'd be younger and b) we'd already know they're not going to strike it rich in the lifetime of the series.

[Reply #685 on:]

Because!
a) Shut up, and
b) quiet you.

I was just saying, I didn't even watch it, but OFAH original had its moments.

[Reply #686 on:]

I didn't watch much of it either. Not that I didn't like it but after The Secret Life of Edgar Briggs and then Open All Hours I was pretty much David Jasoned-out.

[Reply #687 on:]

So ABC has decided to cancel Ugly Betty. WTF! This is a fave show and I can’t believe they did that.

[Reply #688 on:]

Season 3 started of Secret Diary of Call Girl. And a goooood start to a new chapter. Love it!

[Reply #689 on:]

Oscar nominees released

Multiple nominations include:
9 noms for Avatar and The Hurt Locker
8 for Inglourious Basterds
6 for Precious and Up in the Air
5 for Up
4 for District 9, Nine, and Star Trek

Some highlights:
Up was one nomination shy of tying Beauty and the Beast for most nominations for an animated film, although Up did it in 5 distinct categories while B&B did it in 4, making Up more prolific.
Up is also the second animated film and first CGI film to be nominated for Best Picture.
Up and Avatar are the first films released in 3D to be nominated for Best Picture.
Avatar and District 9 are one of a few science fiction films to be nominated for Best Picture, although I and many others feel that Avatar is much less sci-fi driven as D9 is.
None of the Golden Globe nominees for Best Picture - Comedy/Musical made it to the Oscars' Best Picture category.
No comedy actors got in, whilst only one comedy actress got into Best Actress: Meryl Streep.
Clint Eastwood got bumped from Best Director for Lee Daniels for Precious.
Original Screenplay will be interesting, with Globe-winner Up in the Air over in the Adapted category: Coen Bros vs. Tarantino vs. Pixar.
Randy Newman busted into the Oscars again.
Cloud with a Chance of Meatballs got bumped for The Secret of Kells, an Irish-Belgian-French film I've never heard of.

Overall, I'm quite happy with nominations. Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus got some nods in the design categories, which are much deserved. District 9 got some love despite it being a South African sci-fi flick about apartheid. And Pixar finally got the respect it deserved. Up deserves the nod, don't get me wrong, but this is obviously a make-up nomination for not giving a look to WALL-E last year.

[Reply #690 on:]

Secret Of Kells is supposed to be good, haven't seen it yet though, to the internet!

[Reply #691 on:]

A surprise is that The Blind Side was nominated for Best Picture. It wasn't exactly "Best Picture material". I far would've rathered Moon be nominated.


Also: Most Pirated Videos of 2009. The #1 movie was Watchmen, and the surprising #1 TV show was Heroes. Would NBC renew it based on pirate figures?

[Reply #692 on:]

Yay, Christopher Waltz is nominated for Best Supporting Actor!

[Reply #693 on:]

weiner: Watchmen eh? Not according to this list:
http://torrentfreak.com/top-10-most-pirated-movies-of-2009-091220/

Although Heroes was on the top of this list:
http://torrentfreak.com/top-10-most-pirated-tv-shows-of-2009-091231/

[Reply #694 on:]

Christopher Waltz deserves that one.  His role made Inglourious Basterds worth it for me.

And Avatar should only win in the technical awards.

[Reply #695 on:]

if avatar wins the oscar for best movie i'll laugh

[Reply #696 on:]

Where the Wild Things Are probably should have been one of the 10 nominees.

[Reply #697 on:]

Where the Wild Things Are probably should have been one of the 10 nominees.

False.

[Reply #698 on:]

Quiet, you. You're just mad 'cause Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day wasn't made into a movie.

[Reply #699 on:]

Classic.

[Reply #700 on:]

Where the Wild Things Are probably should have been one of the 10 nominees.

I would've accepted (500) Days of Summer or Moon. Or retroactively nominating Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. They can do that now, right?

[Reply #701 on:]

Where the Wild Things Are probably should have been one of the 10 nominees.

I would've accepted (500) Days of Summer or Moon. Or retroactively nominating Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. They can do that now, right?

True.

[Reply #702 on:]

In TV news, anyone who doesn't watch Castle, on ABC starring Nathan Fillion needs to.

That is all!

[Reply #703 on:]

Castle is too much like The Mentalist.  If I want to watch an unctuous douchebag trade vaguely flirtatious, sarcastic barbs with his dark-haired sexual tensor while solving mysteries, I'll just watch House.

[Reply #704 on:]

The Mentalist is too much like Psych.

And stop breaking down my favorite shows to a single sentence!

[Reply #705 on:]

Speaking of similar shows, Psych and Monk are both pretty awesome.

[Reply #706 on:]

And Lie to Me?

[Reply #707 on:]

Monk is the best one of those shows

[Reply #708 on:]

And Lie to Me?

Never saw it.  Is it more comedy-based crime solving or smugness-based crime solving?

[Reply #709 on:]

I don't watch that crap

smugness based i think.

[Reply #710 on:]

Finished watching Dead Set that was on channel 4 a few years ago, great zombie mayhem.

[Reply #711 on:]

Ahaha...Cougartown is pretty good. "I feel like I can see colours again!" Aww. I think I will keep watching it. Christa Miller's character is basically just Jordan again..but there's nothing wrong with that.

[Reply #712 on:]

Anyone else here watching Archer?

[Reply #713 on:]

Ahaha...Cougartown is pretty good. "I feel like I can see colours again!" Aww. I think I will keep watching it. Christa Miller's character is basically just Jordan again..but there's nothing wrong with that.

Not really, she's actually a lot nicer than Jordan. But I love the show, I'm so happy that it's good. Cause the last show Courtney Cox was in (Dirt) bored the hell out of me.

[Reply #714 on:]

wayyyyy too much botox used though

[Reply #715 on:]

Anyone remember some sort of kids show from the late 80s or early 90s that featured some sort of female wizard puppet with what looked like horns?  I think it was on Nickelodeon.  My sister used to watch it, and I would make fun of it because the wizard puppet character's horns looked like cream horns from the bakery.

[Reply #716 on:]

Eureeka's Castle?

[Reply #717 on:]

That's it.  Grazie.

[Reply #718 on:]

Golden Girls?

[Reply #719 on:]

  You must have an interesting definition of "kids show", BDC.