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		Someone at Fox invented a time machine and warned their past selves how shiatty Terra Nova was (hollywoodreporter.com)		113
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Madbassist1		2012-03-06 04:49:02 PM

DanZero: MeinRS6: Please forgive me for not accurately portraying the correct amount of fake wrestling content on SyFy.

Please insert "useless crap" in place of fake wrestling in that post. I believe that should take care of it.

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Wrestling sucks, but I'm pretty sure it's the highest rated program on syfy...by far.

Badgers		2012-03-06 04:51:28 PM

1. Put snakes on plane: I can recommend Awake. The lead is great and it's got my interest to find out what's really going on.

The pilot seemed promising, but the rest is just going to be like a regular cop show, except with 2 realities...

galactus5000		2012-03-06 05:33:34 PM

DjangoStonereaver: galactus5000: DarthBrooks: [blogginginamerica.net image 456x349]

Because America really wanted to watch an expensively-produced show about dinosaurs and stupid high-school kids in a jungle instead of any other show.

One Browncoat to another... GET OVER IT!

WE DESERVE 5 MORE SEASONS AND A MOVIE!

-snicker-

Something tells me no one is going to shed many tears over this cancellation.

/Sorry, but Browncoats just get on my tip.

Browncoats who never shut up about it get on mine. Yeah, I went through my period of shaking my fist at the sky, but then I realised that it's a decade on and they have all moved on. And then I did, too.

skepticultist		2012-03-06 07:03:59 PM

Angry Buddha: Zombie DJ: FirstNationalBastard: Finder is bombing

Aww....I like that show.
It's not great, but it's just a nice little show to watch.

Yeah, I feel the same way. I watch it when I see a new episode pop up on Hulu. Same with End Game. I don't even know what network the latter is on.

/I guess I'm part of the problem

Endgame is from CBC, its Canadian. I'm like you, keep catching episodes on Hulu because my queue runs out and it just comes on. It doesn't broadcast anywhere in the US, Hulu got exclusive rights to it. It's not being renewed however.

/Finder is growing on me, but the way they introduced it -- a backdoor pilot episode of Bones -- still rubs me the wrong way.

HempHead		2012-03-06 08:10:38 PM

Wellon Dowd: daughter

NeedlesslyCanadian: Wellon Dowd: The girlfriend, the daughter, the older daughter, the mother. There was some great fapping material on Terra Nova.

Hrm...there were only two daughters on the show mate, and the younger one was like 6 years old.

/take a seat over there
//the annoying son's girlfriend though, god damn

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myinternetname		2012-03-06 09:32:39 PM

God damn it!

I knew not to get attached to a nerd show.

The girl that played the oldest daughter is SMOKIN' HOT. Like a dark young Sarah Silverman without the nastiness of Jimmy Kimmel rubbed on.

www.foxtvasia.com

myinternetname		2012-03-06 09:43:12 PM

brantgoose: "Zim!!! DON'T USE THE TIME MACHINE LOVE, ZIM!!"

That conjures up pleasant and amusing images of Fox executives with rubber piggies in their brain case instead of brains. Unfortunately, that's probably how they got most of their programming ideas in the first place.

Evidence:
1) Cancelling Futurama
2) Constantly pre-empting The Simpsons for football games or worse yet, Survivor episodes.
3) Everything else on Fox Entertainment.
4) 666 News.

Having Total Fark allows you to go full derp before regular members.

t3knomanser		2012-03-06 10:49:00 PM

Badgers: The pilot seemed promising, but the rest is just going to be like a regular cop show, except with 2 realities...

I hope not. I hope to see a lot more of the protagonist losing his shiat as he tries to juggle these incompatible realities and completely fails.

ssa5		2012-03-07 12:04:57 AM

skepticultist: Has anyone watched Alcatraz? It looks really stupid. None of the teasers have inspired me to watch it at all, and the latest teaser -- four of the criminal return (again?) to search for gold buried on Alcatraz Island -- just made it look like it might be the stupidest show ever.

Is it as dumb as it looks? Dumber?

/dinosaurs were made up by the cia to discourage time travel is a song by Math the Band

Yes. Not as bad as The River (which may be one of the worst prime time shows I have ever watched) but it is just not worth the time. Another one of those shows that would have been better off produced by BBC with a 4-6 episode mini-story. There just is not enough there, and that will another end in cliffhanger and leave the viewers holding the bag.

What Terra Nova really needed...vampires! And sparkly ones at that. WTF, they through everything else in there (Its dinosaurs, its time travel, its Survivor, its a procedural crime, its a romance, its a teen drama, its....ugh just change the damn channel).

Lsherm		2012-03-07 12:09:03 AM

skepticultist: /Finder is growing on me, but the way they introduced it -- a backdoor pilot episode of Bones -- still rubs me the wrong way.

This is how they used to do it. Married with Children had an episode with just Matt LeBlanc that turned into a series (for two episodes), and the Jeffersons were spun off the same way from All in the Family. Then The Jeffersons tried it with their own spinoff about the maid, Checking In. For more recent examples, Whedon did it with Angel in the Buffy series, but since there wasn't an exact episode dedicated solely to the new show, it wasn't considered a "backdoor pilot".

Here's a fair list of backdoor pilots (new window), although it doesn't list all of them, nor is it relatively recent.

It used to be a good way of checking to see if someone would just watch something tangentially related to the show you were expecting in a given time slot - like a test drive for a new series. I hadn't seen anyone try it in a such long time that I noticed, so it was unusual.

If you were a little older, I'm guessing, you would have noticed what they were doing and had done what I did: went to the web to find out (finder, get it?) what the spinoff series was going to be. Michael Clark Duncan doesn't just show up with unknown people as a guest star on Bones. But in the past this was standard practice.

/ps - the Locator books are better, as always.

taliesinwi		2012-03-07 12:56:28 AM

Lsherm: skepticultist: /Finder is growing on me, but the way they introduced it -- a backdoor pilot episode of Bones -- still rubs me the wrong way.

This is how they used to do it. Married with Children had an episode with just Matt LeBlanc that turned into a series (for two episodes), and the Jeffersons were spun off the same way from All in the Family. Then The Jeffersons tried it with their own spinoff about the maid, Checking In. For more recent examples, Whedon did it with Angel in the Buffy series, but since there wasn't an exact episode dedicated solely to the new show, it wasn't considered a "backdoor pilot".

Here's a fair list of backdoor pilots (new window), although it doesn't list all of them, nor is it relatively recent.

It used to be a good way of checking to see if someone would just watch something tangentially related to the show you were expecting in a given time slot - like a test drive for a new series. I hadn't seen anyone try it in a such long time that I noticed, so it was unusual.

If you were a little older, I'm guessing, you would have noticed what they were doing and had done what I did: went to the web to find out (finder, get it?) what the spinoff series was going to be. Michael Clark Duncan doesn't just show up with unknown people as a guest star on Bones. But in the past this was standard practice.

/ps - the Locator books are better, as always.

To be fair, although your Matt LeBlanc MwC example is valid, the "All In The Family"/"The Jeffersons" example is more of a classic spinoff. George and Louise were the neighbors for something like four years (and two dozen? episodes) before getting their own series. There was a AitF episode that "kicked off" "The Jeffersons", but we knew who they were already. A true backdoor pilot is when suddenly a bunch of people you don't know parachute into a location you've never been to and there are MAYBE one or two character from the show you tuned in to actually on the screen, and they're not the focus.
Also the episode of "All in the Family" wasn't a pilot in the true sense of the term - "The Jeffersons" was already created and cast, it just needed a setup episode. Whereas "The Finder" episode of "Bones" _was_ closer to an actual pilot in that significant character changes were made before the series itself got going - Saffron Burrows is gone completely, Stult's paranoia is noticeably dialed back, and there's a new U.S. Marshal and a teen parolee suddenly hanging around.

FuryOfFirestorm		2012-03-07 02:25:21 PM

At least Fox got one thing right: un-cancelling Breaking In and bringing it back for a second season.

Badgers		2012-03-07 04:22:50 PM

t3knomanser: Badgers: The pilot seemed promising, but the rest is just going to be like a regular cop show, except with 2 realities...

I hope not. I hope to see a lot more of the protagonist losing his shiat as he tries to juggle these incompatible realities and completely fails.

There's screeners for the next 3 or 4 episodes floating out there...

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