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Now and Again. Considering how popular action/comedy/warm-hearted dramas are this year (e.g., Chuck, Pushing Daisies) this would have been a huge hit had it come out now.
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Oh, yes. I’d forgotten about that one. Man, that was a fun show- and it had one of the best season finale cliffhangers I’ve ever seen.
“Run! They’re right behind me!”
“Who?”
“Men with guns!”
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I dunno if “screwed around” is the way to describe it. Fox wanted to air baseball on Sundays and they didn’t care if the games ran over Futurama’s 7:00 pm timeslot. They chose their priorities and Futurama suffered.
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That was absolutely the wrong timeslot for that show. Futurama’s an adult comedy (not in the sense of being particularly raunchy, but because so much of it is over children’s heads) and should have been marketed as such.
I’ll vote for Greg the Bunny. Watching the episodes in order on the DVD release, it was the later episodes that were the funnier ones (and there is some hilarious stuff there), and I believe it would have gotten even funnier if it had been allowed to live.
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I agree with Eerie, Indiana…
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I never watched the show but I meant to mention that I lived in Eerie, Indiana’s official sister city throughout the series’ run: Normal, Illinois.
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Yes! I knew there was one I was forgetting. Actually I think it’s a defense mechanism, forgetting about “Starved,” because every time I think about it I’m brutally reminded that it was killed after a handful of episodes while the horrifyingly bad “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” is in it’s what, third or fourth season now? Ugh.
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Yeah, the fact Sunny in Philly is still on is salt & vinegar on a deep open wound. But at least I don’t watch that stupid show.
Regarding Dark Angel: C’mon. It was getting pretty silly towards the end there.
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I never watched the show but I meant to mention that I lived in Eerie, Indiana’s official sister city throughout the series’ run.
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No, the sister city was Rome, Wisconsin . Both towns had the same school principal, and a kid that looked like Justin Shenkarow. Plus the weatherman from Eerie went to become the medical examiner in Rome.
I miss Action (here’s a cast pic), a scathing satire of Hollywood, set at a production company, starring Jay Mohr as producer Peter Dragon. I think Dragon was modelled at least in part on a young Joel Silver; the scuttlebutt was that the studio head was modelled on Barry Diller.
The dialogue was often screamingly funny and in horribly poor taste, reflecting the real crassness of that subculture, and as a result the show was reviled by much of the public – who couldn’t relate to a show whose characters were obsessed rat-racers with few redeeming qualities.
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No, the sister city was Rome, Wisconsin . Both towns had the same school principal, and a kid that looked like Justin Shenkarow. Plus the weatherman from Eerie went to become the medical examiner in Rome.
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Yeah, I’m not talking about TV sister cities here. I’m talking about how the producers actually in reality selected the real city of Normal, Illinois to be the sister city of the fictional Eerie.
This story (which, I’m sorry, but The Pantagraph has no business charging anyone 3 bucks for anything) shows enough in its preview to confirm it.
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I miss Action (here’s a cast pic), a scathing satire of Hollywood, set at a production company, starring Jay Mohr as producer Peter Dragon. I think Dragon was modelled at least in part on a young Joel Silver; the scuttlebutt was that the studio head was modelled on Barry Diller.
The dialogue was often screamingly funny and in horribly poor taste, reflecting the real crassness of that subculture, and as a result the show was reviled by much of the public – who couldn’t relate to a show whose characters were obsessed rat-racers with few redeeming qualities.
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There’s a show on IFC called The Business which is in a similar vein. It’s not as nasty as I remember “Action” being but I think it’s pretty funny.
Suprised no one mentioned the Dresden Files as well -
Chris Elliot’s Get a Life was brilliant (to me anyway, he cracks me up).
The live action The Tick never got a fair shake.
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Suprised no one mentioned the Dresden Files as well -
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Some wounds are too fresh to examine…
Quark wasn’t the greatest show ever, but it deserved more than one season, at least.
Key West (TV Series 1993) - IMDb I liked the one called Key West. Went off too soon.
Over There. I guess it was just too painful to watch with the war still going on.
Kolchak: The Night Stalker was a pitiful abortion compared to the original concept (you can read the sad story in Stephen King’s Danse Macabre), but still a rare and fine enough thing of its kind and its time to earn cult status. Hard to believe, now, it only lasted one season.
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Quark wasn’t the greatest show ever, but it deserved more than one season, at least.
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I remember watching it when it was on. I did not miss it much when it went off. Are you sure this show deserved a longer run? I don’t recall it fondly.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106045/ I liked the one called Key West. Went off too soon.
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Meh. Shameless ripoff (eccentric characters in remote location) of Northern Exposure (however vigorously the producers denied it).
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Kolchak: The Night Stalker was a pitiful abortion compared to the original concept (you can read the sad story in Stephen King’s Danse Macabre), but still a rare and fine enough thing of its kind and its time to earn cult status. Hard to believe, now, it only lasted one season.
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Now this one was a good example. For all its camp and Dr. Who worthy effects, it was a fun show. I saw it mostly in syndication in the late 70s but I remember one of the movies and watching it with my older sister who was watching me and my brother while my parents were out.
Good show.
The half-season wonder When Things Were Rotten was so much funnier than Robin Hood: Men in Tights that it’s hard to believe both were Mel Brooks projects; I guess he lost something along the way.
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I remember watching it when it was on. I did not miss it much when it went off. Are you sure this show deserved a longer run? I don’t recall it fondly.
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I do, but I was just a teenager. Quark provided timely sendups of all the space-opera cliches in Star Trek (then still living in memory yet green) and Star Wars. No doubt if it had lasted they would have taken on the Planet of the Apes franchise.
[QUOTE=What Exit?]
Now this one was a good example. For all its camp and Dr. Who worthy effects, it was a fun show. I saw it mostly in syndication in the late 70s but I remember one of the movies and watching it with my older sister who was watching me and my brother while my parents were out.
Good show.
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The 2005 series, OTOH, richly deserved its early cancellation. (Hint, guys: Kolchak is not sexy. Kolchak must never be sexy. Kolchak is crusty.)