The TV thread

I read something the other day that their are different tiers for how much these shows sell in syndication. Comedy Central (which will show Community) or WGN might buy a show with 60 or so episodes, but they don't pay much. There's a lot more money to be made with a show that has 85-100 episodes and shows like Community and Happy Endings might have a chance of survival because they are getting close to that level.

 

Christopher Guest has his first TV show (HBO's Family Tree) debuting tomorrow, which seems like something that should have happened 20 years ago. So much of the mockumentary sitcom genre is directly derived from Guest. I still think Best in Show would have been better as a TV show, as great as it was as a movie.

Here's Alan Sepinwall's fairly glowing review of it: http://bit.ly/YN9fGb

 

I'm guessing "Lick My Love Pump" will not be the theme song?

 

I've decided to go back through Sherlock again. This will be my 4th time through, and I just finished the first episode. That's easily one of the best pilot episodes for any TV show. It does a great job of building the 21st century Sherlock world, and the casting is absolutely perfect.

 

Not a spoiler, but just what I think, but I could really see Sherlock's brother being the real Moriarty.

 

I'm watching the third episode now. I wonder why Sherlock never looked into the classmates/friends of Carl Powers, the kid who died in the swimming pool. The woman Moriarty was controlling, after Sherlock solved that case, said that he killed Carl because he was sick of being made fun of.

I mean, he meets Moriarty at the end of this ep, but that would maybe have given him more background info on him.

 

It's official
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-ct-seth-meyers-late-night-host-jimmy-fallon-20130512,0,1658080.story

Third straight SNLer, so I guess it makes sense. I just don't know if there is that much difference between Fallon and Meyers, esp. with both shows being done in NY and produced by Lorne Michaels.

I know some people question SNL's relevance, but last night's episode equalled or bettered any primetime show including Darlington and Knicks-Pacers.
I guess that is why NBC is willing to give Michaels a bigger piece of the schedule.

 

In the original stories, Mycroft is morbidly obese. He delegates matters to Sherlock when they require legwork. I don't think we'll ever see that used in adaptations.

 

I also think despite the update, they try hard to be faithful to the original and shoehorning his brother in as Moriarity would be like making Romeo and Juliet long separated twins. Sherlock's relationship with his brother is an entirely different situation than his deal with Moriarity.

 

Yeah, I don't think it would make sense for that to be the case.

And 'tart, they still make use of Sherlock doing the 'legwork' for Mycroft. In the episode I'm watching, Mycroft specifically says that he wants Sherlock to help him with a case because it requires legwork. Of course, that's not Sherlock's style in this version (Watson often gathers data for him) so he then gives the legwork to Watson.

 

I see NBC canceled '1600 Penn,' one of the most fragrantly overflowing shitbuckets which has been emptied on prime-time airways in recent years.

Memo to Josh Gad: Fat, stupid and stupider is no way to go through life, son.

 

The BBC version, I assume?