The TV thread

I emitted unladylike cackles at Cunk on Earth. Actual academics patiently explain the way things work(ed) to fictional presenter, Philomena Cunk. If you're the kind of person who gets ragey over jokes about potatoes and DNA, you will not have a good time.

 

Are the academics in on the joke are are they being Borat'ed?

 

I suspect they know it's meant to be tongue-in-cheek, but the extent to which the joke goes was jarring to one professor in the episode I saw. This is not the wink and a nod that marked Terry Jones' documentaries.

The level of questions were similar to some of the queries I heard from concerned parents after they found out I didn't dig up dinosaur bones in college.

 

It’s depressing to see a COPD commercial with a soundtrack of All Right Now

 

Maybe, but they kept some of the events from Pittsburgh and have even added to the story so far.

 

Breaking news …

https://deadline.com/2023/02/yellow...ise-continues-matthew-mcconaughey-1235251400/

Is everybody going to the train station?

 

It's become very obvious that Costner has dialed back on shooting because he's appearing in fewer and fewer scenes as the series goes on and the ones.

Must be nice to be able to walk away from $1.3 mil an episode because your sticking point is wanting to work only one week instead of six


They could easily continue the current version of the show and either just kill him off and focus on the kids and the fight to control the ranch or keep him alive and just don't show him but speak of him -- ie he's doing governor things, he off buying horses, whatever.

 

They did, yes. I'm definitely not one who wants a beat-by-beat recap of the video game. If I wanted that, I'd play it again. I think they're doing a great job of adding depth and humanity to the characters.

 

Beyond Costner, Paramount also fucked up initially because they sold the streaming rights to NBC / Peacock. As a result, it's almost certain that any continuation would be a rebranding, so they can take control of that aspect.

 

I only know bits and pieces about the game and I doubt I will ever play it, but I agree. They can focus on different things in a show than the game, though it seems as though the source material did a decent job developing the characters, too.

 

He's cutting back on his hours there because he's also working on "Horizon", his new film on the expansion of the American West, both pre- and post- Civil War. It's a "passion project" he co-wrote, is directing, acting in, producing and financing at the same time that Yellowstone is in production.

This will either pay off big for him or really hurt. He's breaking one of the cardinal rules of Hollywood: "Never make a movie with your own money."

 

But Costner has done it before - and done well.

https://deadline.com/2023/02/reboot-dead-new-home-canceled-hulu-1235254083/

My theory on why Reboot wasn't renewed? People that tended to watch Reboot, only watched Reboot, and nothing else on Hulu.