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Mar. 4th, 2019 09:40 pm
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I’ve been wallowing in 90’s nostalgia recently after Amazon Prime added Heartbreak High to its back catalogue, it seemed like every British school kid was obsessed with it back in the day, at least we were in my school anyway! It was based around a school in a tough inner city, and it gave us such a different view of Australia compared to Home And Away (which I was also obsessed with) and Neighbours

And then today we get the news that Luke Perry, famous 90’s icon, has tragically passed :( I never saw the complete series of Beverley Hills 90210, I think it mostly aired on Sky? But I definitely remember watching the early seasons after Channel 5 started airing them, and naturally I developed a huge crush on Dylan McKay. I wouldn’t say that I was a huge 90210 fan, perhaps I came into it a bit late with the C5 airings, but Dylan McKay was such an iconic character and essential part of the 90’s. He was also fantastic later on when playing a very different character in the prison drama Oz, and of course I remember him starring as Pike in the original Buffy movie! I would love to rewatch some of those early 90210 episodes now that Amazon Prime seem to be adding more nostalgic shows from the 90’s, they’ve also uploaded Baywatch in HD, so fingers crossed that 90210 might be next

I just can hardly believe that the actor has now gone...I heard about his stroke of course, but for some reason I never for one moment thought it was going to kill him. This is such a sad day :(
I really enjoyed it actually! I was surprised at how many changes they made from the book though, for some reason I had it in my head that it was going to be a pretty close retelling of it. One thing that stood out to me was I remember (although disclaimer that it has been a few years since I read it now!)Read more... )


And it’s just been confirmed today that The Punisher and Jessica Jones are both cancelled, with Netflix not even having the decency to wait for JJ’s third season to even air first 😡 This open letter from Jeph Loeb seems somewhat hopeful though that Disney might be having discussions to continue them on another platform? It seems like a no-brainer if they want goodwill and a big launch for expanding Hulu internationally
I was a little on the fence about watching it at first, but it actually turned out to be a surprisingly fun and touching show. Tbh I was mostly interested in checking it out because of Gillian Anderson, but then I ended up getting more invested in the teen characters instead. The promotion was a bit misleading actually as I got the impression that Gillian and the Otis actor we going to be co-leads, instead it was really mostly a teen-focused drama, and Gillian was more of a supporting player as the snooping mother. It reminded me a lot of Skins actually, although I must say that sixth form was never that scandalous and sex-obsessed when I was at school, some of the sex and nudity was certainly a bit eye-opening!

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Netflix's Latest Numbers Show It Has One Demographic in Mind


I’ve definitely been starting to get the feeling lately that Netflix are becoming a more traditional network with chasing youth. Clearly they want the younger viewers who have more time on their hands to binge watch in a weekend and make something part of pop culture immediately, as opposed to say Marvel shows where adults might have more on and not have the time to watch all 13 episodes in a single weekend. Reportedly that was an issue with Netflix when it come to the length of Marvel shows in fact, that they wanted them cut down from 13 episodes to 10 episodes, so clearly they are starting to really value how fast shows are getting watched

Suddenly caring so much about the initial ratings feels a little like a betrayal of Netflix’s original intention to me though? I always understood it to be set up to provide as much content as possible in order to keep subscribers interested, and then first weeks viewing figures or the youth demo doesn’t really matter, we are free to watch in our own time. Only now they seem to be returning more to how the original networks did it when they boast about how many viewers watched certain shows in the opening week, and I feel a little bit concerned about how that might affect content that is aimed at older people :( I always hated that system in America where older viewers and overall viewers don’t count at all, it’s only the youth demo that counts, and it feels like things are going backwards if Netflix do start chasing the youth vote at the expense of other shows. Especially when Netflix don’t even have advertisers to worry about, so one age group really shouldn’t be valued any more than another

And side note, but it is INCREDIBLY annoying when I sort my Netflix watch lost in the order I want to watch next, and then the damn thing keeps rearranging itself next time I open the app, does anyone know of any way to prevent this?



Also LiveJournal send something about a #10yearschallenge to my inbox, anyone else get this? (ETA Well just browsed through the tag, and it seems to be exclusively all Russian users other than me!) Apparently ten years ago I was watching season 3 of Supernatural for the first time

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I never really go back and read old entries any more, it’s strange to read some of those entries and comments and remember that that was all ten years ago now. And a little sad to see some old faces commenting that I have completely lost touch with since...
'Buffy the Vampire Slayer': Jordie Bellaire, Jeanine Schaeffer Talk Taking the "Ultimate Marvel" Approach to the New Series


JB: I think me and Jeanine when we first started talking about the project, we both talked about how we both love Willow. I think Willow definitely has a lot of charm being this sweet, quiet, bookish girl, but she really came into her own confidence in the later parts of the show. I just think that's the thing that young girls need today, you know, I think we need strong female characters who are confident, not just shrinking violets. Not to say that obviously there aren't women who are like that, still confident, but I just thought it would be a nice flip and a nice change for once to have somebody smart, to have somebody sweet, who is also confident and who can speak her mind and can be honest, and open, and frank


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JB: Well again, I think like the reversal of Willow, I really liked Dru and her journey throughout the show and the books and stuff, and I really wanted to start her off strong and maybe a little brazen and arrogant. I think that her being a strong character and kind of being frightening, not because she's so unhinged because of what had happened to her in her history. I really wanted her to come off just completely like dominant, completely controlling, really frightening, just like The Master. Again, reversing the idea that there is a male antagonist to Buffy, but actually that her greatest foe could actually be a woman. That's sort of why we went with that for Dru. In my mind, I just want to see her starting off kicking ass, like right away. I don't want us to think, "Oh poor Dru." I want to kind of be like, "I don't want to be in the same room with her at all. She's horrifying."


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JB: Well, I think Spike is a sweetheart. He's a big old sweetie pie. I'm a big Team Spike. I really like Spike, and I think that he is a poet. I mean, imagine how a poet's gonna get on with a domineering lady in his life. It's probably not going to be super great for Spike. I don't think he's gonna have a lot of agency. I don't think he's gonna have a lot of his own say or control of things. So that's sort of the relationship I'm interested to explore.

I think maybe originally he kind of pretended that he was a bit more equal than I think he actually felt comfortable. I think we're gonna lean into the fact that he's an outsider, even among outsiders, especially near Dru



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And my final nitpick is that I read on ONTD that the Prophecy has been changed? It’s no longer "Into every generation a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness; to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their number. She is the Slayer."

It’s now

-"Into every generation a slayer is born; A Chosen One. They alone will wield the strength and skill to fight vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness; to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their number. They are the Slayer."

That’s one of the most bizarre changes to me in fact, it’s meant to be more inclusive to use neutral pronouns I guess, but the whole concept of Buffy from the beginning was celebrating female power?


To be a little more positive though, I do like that the art looks miles better than the artist they used for the season 8 comics (the article has lots of examples of the inside art). I just wish they didn’t feel the need to completely change preexisting characters, while still giving them the same name. It’s interesting that I haven’t heard them discuss Buffy much actually, so I assume that means that she hasn’t been changed as much as the supporting cast?
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Watching the new Black Mirror episode Bandersnatch was certainly an interesting experience! I thought it was a very cool concept with all of the different paths you could choose, although admittedly I don’t have the patience that some people had when it comes to spend apparently four hours or more on all of the different options. I think I spend about an hour and 30 minutes on it max lol.

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Another show I’ve been watching on Netflix is You. I’m not surprised that viewings apparently leapt up so much after Netflix acquired it. I’ve seen some skepticism over the 40 million number of views, but it makes sense when you consider that this is world wide, so just think of the extra views they can get from the U.K., from Canada, from Australia, from Germany alone, and that’s just four countries we’re talking about! I don’t get why more US networks like say HBO aren’t willing to consider a worldwide streaming service for their shows, it’s what makes sense in this day and age IMHO

And You was a fun binge watch, but tbh I was planning on just watching the one season to see what all the fuss is about, and then dropping it. It’s hard for me to get really into shows when I don’t connect with the characters, and neither Joe or Beck were really doing it for me.Read more... )
My Struggle was just urgh such a bad way to start the season off unfortunately. Lol at the super unnecessary Mulder voiceovers, like you really don’t think you couldn’t have just shown him spotting that someone was tailing him, you have to have a whole voiceover of his inner thoughts to tell us what’s happening?! The car chase scenes felt weirdly small-scale as well, it seemed like Chris Carter used to be a much better director back in the day? And then you can tell that he thought it was such a genius twist to throw in a retcon based on an episode from 17 years earlier, but first time around the whole thing was so sick and disturbing that I honestly believed that CSM must be lying, that all would be explained later :(

And I noticed that Agents Einstein and Miller got *very* short shift in this one compared to all of the time spend on them at the end of last season, I wonder if CC really was originally thinking of setting them up for a younger spin-off, and then changed his mind after audience feedback proved to be so negative?


On a more positive note, I remember an interview with CC talking about one complaint they took onboard with season 10 was the lack of Mulder/Scully interaction disappointing fans, and I think it really comes across that they’re making an effort to correct that in This. They’re having Mulder/Scully work together in nearly every scene, as well as throwing in some cute asides for the fans like Mulder’s joke about handcuffs, or telling Scully how adorbs she looks when she’s sleeping. Shipper me lapped it all up naturally lol, and of course I loved seeing them sleeping on the sofa together <3 The scene by Deep Throat’s grave was a nice touch too.

In fact this was actually an episode that I overall found a lot better than I remembered once I started getting into it. I wasn’t always a fan of their virtual reality episodes tbh, but this one turned out to be pretty fun in the end. It felt a bit like a Black Mirror episode even. Aww poor Skinner though, Scully and Mulder were super rude to him in this one!


Plus One was a mixture for me. I wasn’t a big fan of the main plot, it felt like it was mostly there as an acting showcase for the actress playing the twins. CC seems to love episodes with doubles, but it didn’t quite work for me, it all seemed so random and didn’t come together as a proper case at all. However I loved the Mulder/Scully scenes naturally, so they pretty much made the episode for me :D Admittedly I was kind of frustrated that they didn’t get even one onscreen kiss this season, but I actually really liked how Plus One handles them sleeping together. I mean it probably would have felt a bit weird and out of the blue if we had actually seen Mulder and Scully rolling around in bed together lol, instead their scenes here were very sexy in a more understated way which is perfect for them really

One thing that stood out to me this time around though was that, not only did Judy guess Scully’s age as 40’s, but also Mulder asked Scully what was stopping her from having another kid, so it almost feels like CC wanted the audience to forget Scully’s real age in order to set up the pregnancy reveal in the finale? At the time I thought that Mulder was just being kind after Scully brings up that he could meet someone younger and have kids, but now I’m wondering if CC actually meant for Mulder to be throwing it back to her as a serious option? It’s well-known by now though that Gillian has always played older than her real age on The X-Files, Scully should be well into her 50’s by now, and in the context of the series (William being 16, Scully already being a qualified Doctor when we first met her) it just doesn’t work to try and retcon that...


And The Lost Art Of Forehead Sweat is an all-time classic for me! It felt a bit like Darin Morgan’s attempt of a sequel for Jose Chung’s From Outer Space when it comes to looking at how objective truth can be, and really it had too many hilarious moments to count (Mulder in his Bigfoot outfit, ‘I’m Fox freaking Mulder you punks!’, the butterfly net and the straightjacket, ‘bing bing bong bong bing’, Scully tuning out Mulder’s Bigfoot ramblings, the Twilight Zone opening parody, Mulder falling on the floor in a tantrum and kicking his legs, and well I could go on and on really lol). I especially loved the flashbacks incorporating Reggie in all of the classic episode clips, and taking a shot at themselves with the comment on this one had better not be about killercats 😂

It was nicely self-aware too with Scully drawing attention to Mulder maybe losing his taste for conspiracy after all the birther theories from this century, this was basically The X-Files wanting to make it clear that they don’t want the classic conspiracies of their show to be associated with the current far right. (I remember there were a few angry murmurs at the time when season 10 incorporated vaccinations into season 10 as part of the government conspiracy, even though that was always something that the show traditionally did.)

I’m not sure how much some of the references in this episode are going to date it in the future mind you, but lmao you gotta love the commentary on ~fake news~ with the little evil Dr. They in the red MAGA cap among the ‘hundreds of millions of people at the inauguration’, and well I think the hilarity of the following moment speaks for itself 🤣



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Sarah Michelle Gellar to Star in Thriller Sometimes I Lie From Ellen DeGeneres

Sarah Michelle Gellar is staking her claim on a new TV venture, preparing to star in and executive-produce a limited series about a woman trapped inside her own body.

Gellar will lead Sometimes I Lie, which is based on the novel of the same name by Alice Feeney, our sister site Deadline reports. The Buffy the Vampire Slayer vet will play Amber Reynolds, who wakes up in a hospital bed, paralyzed, mute and unable to open her eyes — but she can hear everything that’s going on. She doesn’t know what landed her there, and the action skips around among the present, her childhood and the recent past.

Ellen DeGeneres and Jeff Kleeman (Splitting Up Together) will executive-produce alongside Gellar; Warner Bros. TV will produce. At this time, no network is attached to the series

Sometimes I Lie will be Gellar’s first major series since CBS’ The Crazy Ones, which was cancelled in 2014. She also voices characters in Robot Chicken and Star Wars Rebels.



This is very cool news, after The Crazy Ones was cancelled it really seemed like she was done with acting
Which TV shows did you start watching in 2018?

Feud, Sharp Objects, Peaky Blinders, Killing Eve, and The Haunting Of Hill House. All brilliant shows that had me totally enthralled <3 I don’t think I said anything about Killing Eve or Peaky Blinders at the time though actually, but I really want to start using my LJ more next year and keep it up to date with what I’m currently watching. I may rewatch some of them next year anyway and talk about them then, these shorter seasons of 8 or so episodes make binge-watching so much easier!


Which TV shows did you let go of in 2018?

I’m not sure if I’ve quit all of them for good or not, but at the moment I don’t have any plans to keep up with iZombie, Empire, Wentworth, Suits, or Doctor Who. It used to be a struggle for me to quit shows that I had been invested in, but there’s so many promising shows being brought out by streaming services now that it makes it really hard to stay motivated for a season of tv that you’re not that excited for, and have to force yourself to keep pushing through episodes. I probably will pick up Suits and Doctor Who again at some point though...

And The Americans and The X-Files both ended this year, as well as the premature cancellation of Daredevil :(


Which TV shows did you mean to get into but didn't in 2018? Why?

The Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina was one that I was intrigued by, but then ended up dropping after the fourth episode because I found it all a bit slow. And I ended up dropping out halfway through The Handmaids Tale just because I had problems with my Internet connection, and by the time I was back online again they had already taken episode 205 down 🙄 I’m hopefully going to catch up on that sometime though if C4 ever get it back up!


Which TV shows do you intend on checking out in 2019?

Too many! I just renewed my Amazon Prime and they have quite a few interesting shows. At the moment Runaways, Homecoming, Castle Rock, The Good Fight, Lucifer, and Person Of Interest are all on my watch list. Ooh and seasons 1-12 of Supernatural are on there as well I recently discovered, so I want this to finally be the year for me to catch up with seasons 10-12. And I noticed they have Buffy in HD, so I’m really tempted to have a Buffy rewatch this year as well. I know that fans hate the changes and how the lighting has been messed up etc, but truthfully I can’t deny that I find that clear picture super tempting when I’m skimming through season 2 episodes to admire the difference. Willow running through the woods in Phases say, or Buffy and Spike’s confrontation in the darkened hallways in School Hard, WOW it all looks soooo much clearer than the grainy and fuzzy old video tape kind of quality that I have on my DVDs.

And with Netflix I’m interested in checking out the new Black Mirror episode, You, Maniac, The Alienist, The Crown, and the second season of The Sinner

And I’m thinking of checking out the first couple of episodes of The Perfectionists which is the follow-up to Pretty Little Lies, but I’m not sure if it’s going to be airing in the U.K. or not? Fingers crossed that Netflix pick it up!


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And Happy New Year, I hope that everyone who is celebrating has a good one :D
I just finished watching the second season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel recently on Amazon. I’m not sure how many on my flist are watching this one though (you really should be!), at the moment it very much feels like a show that the critics adore, but the general public never watch :( In spite of all the awards attention, it’s not even Amazon’s most binged shows of the year. It’s really a shame because it’s such a beautiful show, and the dialogue is soooo witty and great. Just the pilot is perfect and should be enough to hook anyone, and then I ended up falling in love with season 2 even more

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Eliza Dushku: I worked at CBS. I didn’t want to be sexually harassed. I was fired

By Eliza Dushku

The narrative propagated by CBS, actor Michael Weatherly, and writer-producer Glenn Gordon Caron is deceptive and in no way fits with how they treated me on the set of the television show “Bull’’ and retaliated against me for simply asking to do my job without relentless sexual harassment. This is not a “he-said/she-said” case. Weatherly’s behavior was captured on CBS’s own videotape recordings.
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I feel compelled to chronicle what actually happened after The New York Times published a story about how CBS handled my allegations. I declined to be interviewed for that piece because I wanted to honor the terms of my settlement with the network. I was under the impression that Weatherly and Caron would also not respond per our settlement. Instead, all commented to the Times in what amounted to more deflection, denial, and spin.

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Doctor Who Series 12 Announcement


As series 11 came to a close on BBC One tonight (Sunday 9th December) the show announced that series 12 is on its way and will be returning to BBC One in early 2020.

Well this is going to seriously kill momentum I would imagine, especially with younger viewers who have only just been introduced to DW and Jodie’s Doctor!

I suppose I can’t really gripe though because I dropped this series of DW after the fourth episode (I just can’t with Chris Chibnall’s writing ☹️), but still it does seem like it’s more popular with the general public then ever, so I really can’t understand the rationale behind this. Am I being very naive here, or is ten episodes a year not that big an undertaking that viewers should have to wait until 2020 for more? We were lucky enough to get two fantastic executive producers with Russell Davis and Steven Moffat, but I really get the feeling that Chris Chibnall is out of his depth here

From the BBC Lizo Mzimba, the BBC's entertainment correspondent, said while there was "a recognition that fans might want a series every single year, Doctor Who has almost uniquely complex filming requirements and a lengthy post-production period".

The show has only just had a gap year in 2016, and that was supposedly only because Steven Moffat was rather burnt out after being in charge of series 5-9 (plus the anniversary year). And my understanding is that Steven Moffat wasn’t even that keen to do a tenth season in the first place, that he only decided to stay on so that there wouldn’t be a long gap before Chris Chibnall was finished with Broadchurch and ready to take over. But this time there’s no real explanation being offered at all when Chris Chibnall has only just started on the show? (Also Moffat was juggling Sherlock at the same time early on, while RTD was balancing two different spinoffs with Sarah Jane and Torchwood). So I’m not sure what exactly the complex filming needs are this time that means they have to cut back from 13 episodes every year to 10 episodes every 18 months?
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Late response, but what an absolutely wonderful show that was, definitely one of my favourite shows to come out of Netflix this year. Admittedly sometimes it was a bit too scary for me as I’m a total wuss who hates jump scares, I often found myself watching through my fingers because the tension and buildup were becoming too much, but what I really found myself loving was the family drama, and following the past and the present as we found out how it all came together

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Apparently the second season isn’t going to involve the Crain family at all? I’m hoping that it will get into the history of the house though maybe, and spend more time exploring the ghosts there and their stories
Most of the user base don’t seem to have a clue where they want to move too now, I’ve seen the most references to MySpace actually, although I presume that’s mostly people joking? :P Must admit I don’t hate the thought of this giving fandom the final push to move away from tumblr, but nobody seems to have much of an idea of where they want to go instead at the moment. I’ve seen people talking about wanting to set up a whole new platform, but that’s going to be tough to set up for a significantly large number of people. Most sites are supported by ads still if you want to make running them affordable, but then you run into the same problem of user content being policed. I noticed that DW already released a hopeful welcome post though lol, the owners always comes across to me as a bit too eager to pick up disgruntled users from other platforms, although I suppose you can’t fault them for trying! And honestly it does seem like dreamwidth is fandoms best option if they want to go somewhere that’s run entirely by fans, but then tumblr people just never seriously consider it whenever it’s suggested :shrugs: I’m guessing they want something a bit more image based maybe

I did come across comments on how this is exactly like what went down with livejournal, although I’m not sure I remember it the same way. Apparently it originally started with asking to post porn behind a cut, then it was requesting that it be hosted externally with a link, and then finally all LGBT content was made nsfw by definition and people were asked to leave. I...don’t remember that at all? I remember the main issue was with child porn, didn’t some conservative group start sending links to LJ accusing them of hosting child porn, and that was when LJ started targeting entires that featured drawings of Harry Potter underage characters in sexual positions. It wasn’t a blanket ban on LGBT content from what I remember though, and it ended after about a week or something anyway when LJ ended up reinstating those users and admitting they overstepped. Obviously the damage was done by then though, and LJ’s reputation never did fully recover in the eyes of fandom :(
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First Look: BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER Cast Gets a Gen-Z Makeover From BOOM!

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BOOM! Studios today unveiled the first look at characters designs from BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER by Russ Manning Award-winning artist Dan Mora (Klaus, Saban’s Go Go Power Rangers).

Debuting in comic shops on January 9th, 2019 in partnership with 20th Century Fox Consumer Products, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #1 reimagines the groundbreaking pop culture phenomenon from the very beginning!

Alongside Mora, Eisner Award-nominated writer Jordie Bellaire (Redlands) and series creator/story consultant Joss Whedon (the visionary writer/director behind Firefly, Marvel’sThe Avengers, and more) invite readers to meet a Buffy Summers like the one they know – trying to make friends at her new school, get decent grades, and to escape her imposed destiny as the next in a long line of vampire slayers tasked with defeating the forces of evil. But the Slayer’s world looks a lot more like the one outside your window, as this new series brings her into a new era with new challenges, new friends...and a few enemies you might already recognize (including fan-favorite Drusilla’s debut as THE MISTRESS).



Hmm not sure how I feel about some of the redesigns, the art is certainly well done and looks good, but I don’t recognise what they’ve done with the original characters in some cases...For example it seems a shame to completely lose Drusilla’s Victorian look, I can’t see the original character in suits at all? And Buffy looks cool, but it’s a little bit strange to see her more practically dressed in flannel and jeans when there was such an emphasis on her wanting to be traditionally ~girly~ during the high school years of the tv series, that conflict was a pretty big part of the show, no?

Willow is the strangest to me though, again she looks cool, but literally nothing like how high school Willow would ever dress? It was always bad fashion with that character, brightly coloured tights and garish pink jumpers, and here she’s in short skirts and midriff bearing tops? That just seems like the exact opposite of how Willow was portrayed before, she was certainly way too embarrassed to wear anything revealing when Buffy suggests it for Halloween, so how drastically are they rebooting here?

Nice to see that they kept Spike’s classic look the same as ever though *g* And apparently no designs released as yet for Giles, Cordelia, and Angel?
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I absolutely loved it! I was already very much looking forward to it as a fan of the book, and I was really impressed at how it all turned out.Read more... )
‘Veronica Mars’ Revival Series Near Deal At Hulu With Kristen Bell Reprising Role’

Rob Thomas’ cult favorite noir mystery drama Veronica Mars starring Kristen Bell is making another comeback, this time as an eight-episode limited series at Hulu.

I hear the streaming platform is finalizing deals for the new installment, with star Bell set to reprise her role as sleuth Veronica Mars. I hear there have been preliminary conversations about bringing back a number of the other cast members from the original series and followup movie



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Urgh sorry to have disappeared for so long, I’ve finally managed to resolve the issues with my home broadband :shakes fist at TalkTalk:

So what does everyone think about the news that’s just come out on a Buffy reboot?

One of the most beloved TV series of the past two decades, Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is making a comeback. A reboot of the supernatural drama is in development at Fox 21 TV Studios, the cable/streaming division of 20th Century Fox TV, the studios behind the original series, which ran for seven seasons, first on the WB and then on UPN

Midnight, Texas creator Monica Owusu-Breen has been tapped as writer, executive producer and showrunner of the new Buffy the Vampire Slayer, with the original series’ creator and showrunner Whedon set to executive produce alongside original series’ exec producers Gail Berman, Fran Kazui and Kaz Kazui as well as Joe Earley from Berman’s Jackal Group.

The new version, which will be pitched to streaming and cable networks this summer, will be contemporary, building on the mythology of the original. Per the producers: “Like our world, it will be richly diverse, and like the original, some aspects of the series could be seen as metaphors for issues facing us all today.”

According to sources, the diversity in the show’s description reflects the producers’ intention for the new slayer to be African American. The sources cautioned that the project is still in nascent stages with no script, and many details are still in flux


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