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Nolan previously hinted at the project when telling Indiewire about his love of the book series, saying, “I fucking love the Foundation novels by Isaac Asimov — they're certainly not well-known, but that's a set of books I think everyone would benefit from reading. That's a set of books where the influence they have is just fucking massive; they have many imitators and many have been inspired by them, but go back and read those, and there are some ideas in those that'll set your fucking hair on fire.

Fuck yeah!

Ok, maybe some of the following candidates delivers something worthy.
http://thewertzone.blogspot.com/2014/10/charles-dance-cast-on-syfys-childhoods.html
http://thewertzone.blogspot.com/2014/10/spike-picks-up-kim-stanley-robinsons.html
http://thewertzone.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/syfy-greenlights-expanse-tv-series.html
http://thewertzone.blogspot.com/2014/07/shannara-tv-series-greenlit.html
http://thewertzone.blogspot.com/2014/07/american-gods-picked-up-by-starz.html

I highly reccomend feeding your RSS reader with the The Wertzone, obviously, although he did miss this:
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014...maddaddam-wont-shy-away-from-graphic-elements
 
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HBO is after sexscenes and nudity. I'm not sure if they're capable to present Asimov's work without making it rediculous.

Generally Hollywood seems to not understanding the source or it's author.
I Robot is an example. It's losely based on the minibook, but then change the title! It's not a bad movie, it simply isn't breathtaking like the book. And while the book creates passionate readers with it's quality and style, the movie is practically easily forgettable TV flick.

But I'm happy for another reason. Starz decided to revive Evil Dead as 10 eps series:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2...-again-as-starz-series/?smid=nytimesarts&_r=1

Can't wait!
 
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People what's going on? Nort a single new post in a month?
Noone watches series any more or you're stuck in pause limbo refusing to watch anything older than a week?

If you're older than 30, seriously, get Penny Dreadful. Right now would be great to avoid all those yucky christmas movies every network shows each year.
Penny Dreadful pretends to be a horror show, but it's actually a psychological tractate on life and death. Don't be fooled by appearance of known names and monsters from other works (books), this is not League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (nice comic and crap movie) copycat.
The show is nearmasterpiece material, there are no explosions and CGI is very rare (spiders), it's heavy on story and the cast is superb. Even side characters made stellar performances here. And the show ends perfectly.
Can't wait for season 2.

Remember. Only if 30+. Younger than that… Sorry, I don't mean to insult anyone, but IMO this material is too hard for youngsters to understand completely. Try with something else. Like…

Arrow's spinoff The Flash. Don't expect a masterpiece there, it's pure fun with crapload of humor and doesn't try to lie anyone that it's more than that which is worth of respect.
 
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Just finished season 2 of The Walking Dead. Loving it so far.

It has a few light soap-opera elements, which thankfully come and go, but overall it's good imo. And man, they're killing characters left and right. But, I hear Frank Darabont isn't involved in the future seasons (I'm not sure starting with which season) and their budget got seriously cut because of decisions high up the chain of command of AMC. So I'm cautionsly waiting for it to go bad. But then again, I do hear season 5 had some high numbers in viewership. So may'be it's not all that bad. We'll see.
 
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I thought Marco polo was pretty good, just the setting and culture alone makes it pretty refreshing to me.

And yes I'm hooked to the 100 as well. For some reason I feel I have to apologize for that (it being unrealistic and full of holes as they say)
 
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Isn't 100 series ment not to be watched by 18+ people?
 
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Galavant

If no network available to you airs it, smuggle it somehow in any way you can. This gem Corwin doesn't want you to know about was filmed in his neighborhood!

Someone has to make RPG out of this, as soon as possible!
 
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joxer said:
Galavant

If no network available to you airs it, smuggle it somehow in any way you can. This gem Corwin doesn't want you to know about was filmed in his neighborhood!

Someone has to make RPG out of this, as soon as possible!
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So it got better? We caught about 5 minutes aboout a third of the way into it and it felt so hackneyed and self-satisfied I was waiting for the Chuck Lorre laugh track ...
 
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Galavant is light-hearted fun and mildly entertaining if you appreciate it for what it's attempting to do. Game of Thrones lovers stay away!! :D
 
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It's not a parody of GoT!
It's a script for the most brilliant filled with humor RPG that will be made… As soon as any RPG developer sees this show and steals the material!
 
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I really enjoyed the first 2 episodes of the Agent Carter mini-series. I thought it was well done and good fun. I enjoyed the treatment of stereotypes as well. If they maintain this standard I can see a second series being made.
 
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Agent Carter?
What miniseries?

Ah, seems they made spinoff os Agents of SHIELD. I won't be watching it if it's boring like the parent show.
 
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It's a spinoff from the original Captain America set in 1946 and is nothing like Shield.
 
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Then I'll give it a shot. If I find it airing somewhere... Or when.
 
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And as a follow-up to Agent Carter, we quite enjoyed it. In same ways even more than Agents, because Carter really seems much more a thriller/hardcore spy TV show, similar to Alias, imo.
 
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I have been in the mood for anything with spaceships really. I even rewatched firefly which I almost never do. It's good, great even, but way over hyped on the internet.

Looking for new stuff I found the expanse (James corey) is being adapted for television:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expanse_(TV_series)
Which got me pretty (a lot) excited.

From the older stuff - star trek series, Stargate, Babylon 5 etc - I guess farscape deserves another chance looking at the imdb scores. Back in the day, it lost my attention somewhere in season 2
 
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