New telly shows thread

[Darkflame]

Good stuff.
Loved the first season.

[supermario]

On BBC3 from 30th April

[fog]

Yeah the first series of Orphan Black was one of the better new ones of last year. Plus Tatiana Maslany is amazing.

[RiK]

Just watched the first episode of 'Believe', it's a J.J. Abrahams thing:

Bo is a young girl who was born with special abilities that she cannot control, and as they start evolving, the people who are protecting her must turn to an outsider. This leads them to William Tate, a wrongfully convicted death-row inmate, whom they break out of prison. Although he is reluctant to take on the role as her protector, the two eventually form a bond that will guide them to helping each other, as well as others, while staying one step ahead of the evil forces that want the girl.

http://www.nbc.com/believe

Seems quite promising

[merman]

Almost Human cancelled in the States, so I won't bother watching that when it starts over here next week.

[Darkflame]

On the lighter side, been really enjoying Raising Hope on Netflix.
Very MyNameIsEarl-ish so anyone that enjoyed that would enjoy this.
A bit darker humor then that though.
Guy knocks up a serial killer and gets stuck with the child. The rest just fits in the Malcome-in-the-Middle/Live action simpsons-esq template, where much of the humor comes from the strange characters in the town, and flashbacks revealing various history's of characters. Still, while not original as such, I am finding it very funny.

[Misfit]

Made it to the end of Hostages and Season one of The following.

Both similar in many ways and summed up by this quote from the Hostages Guardian review:

One brilliant idea can't sustain a whole series.
Hostages might have made a gripping two-hour film, but it is wearisome over 15 episodes. Spinning out stories for as long as possible does TV viewers no favours

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio ... mentpage=1

Hostages was preposterous after a few episodes, but managed to keep us mildly entertained through about 10. The last 5 were really dragging it out. It was only my desire to see how it played out that kept us going as my wife would have quit early and had we not had all the episodes to hand with no breaks we just wouldn't have made it on normal TV.

The following wasn't much better and could be summed up in the same way. A good idea for a file but to stretch it out it just got sillier and sillier. The difference was that the characters were more interesting and my wife found Hero and Villain desirable enough to watch (as was the wife for me, but her stupidity did stretch it a bit!).

May watch Season 2 when it hits Netflix. Luckily they canned ideas for Season 2 of Hostages....

[RiK]

Almost Human cancelled in the States, so I won't bother watching that when it starts over here next week.

Why? It was amusing enough even if only for the one series.

[Misfit]

Almost Human cancelled in the States, so I won't bother watching that when it starts over here next week.

Why? It was amusing enough even if only for the one series.

I started and it's ok. I then stopped and am waiting to watch them in the correct order once they are all out. (As the network played the early ones out of order for some reason).

[everklear]

Almost Human cancelled in the States, so I won't bother watching that when it starts over here next week.

D'oh!
I enjoyed that.

[Darkflame]

Theres always Monsters Anonymous, just a tad lower budget

[merman]

Almost Human cancelled in the States, so I won't bother watching that when it starts over here next week.

Why? It was amusing enough even if only for the one series.

What's the point if it won't be continuing?

[Harlequin]

Almost Human cancelled in the States, so I won't bother watching that when it starts over here next week.

Why? It was amusing enough even if only for the one series.

What's the point if it won't be continuing?

What is the point of watching anything? Nothing lasts forever (with the possible exception of Coronation Street).

[Darkflame]

Its more about how things end than that they end.

[Harlequin]

Its more about how things end than that they end.

Many series, if the producers are being sensible, wrap things up at the end of each season unless reasonably certain of being renewed, then add to the story in the event of a continuation being commissioned. I think Buffy the Vampire Slayer was the first to do this in genre television (I suspect to avoid the problems endured by Babylon 5).