The TV thread

That was really creative.

 

We finished Girls5Eva. It was hilarious as usual although the story could have been given slightly more time to breath. I wonder if Netflix has any desire to produce another season given the lack of any sort of a push

 

Girls5Eva is so awesome. Hate to see it go too.

 

My wife just ground through the BBC Sherlock Holmes with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman. I caught a few episodes - but I just watched the last one of the series. It was an amazingly sick and twisted, suspenseful piece of work indeed. Wowsers.

 

Please watch "Sunderland Til I Die" on Netflix. If you thought Wrexham is good, just you wait.

The people in that town for that club across the first two seasons, especially...just you wait. Do yourself the favor.

 

It’s added to the watch list. Thanks for the tip.

 

One of my all time favorite shows. Last season is pretty weak....but before that, classic. The best episodes: the first one and the wedding one. Amazing.

 

I can certainly vouch for the first one as well. I had thought that Jeremy Brett was the definitive Sherlock. Cumberbatch and Freeman are both excellent.

 

No love for Basil Rathbone?

 

CBS's fall schedule looks pretty bold - a Matlock reboot with Kathy Bates, NCIS Origins following the exploits of Gibbs prior to his arrival in DC or wherever the office is supposed to be, and Watson - a medical show featuring Morris Chestnut - and yes, its a tweak of Dr. Watson from Sherlock fame (didn't that ALSO air on CBS)? CBS seems intent on locking up the 55 and older demographic. What it lacks in creativity - they make up for in not thinking too highly of their audience.

 

Most of their prime time lineup is Sleepy Time TV for Boomers. It makes it more strange when they have the odd show or two that's actually good (Ghosts) or the funny game show in late late night hosted by a millennial (After Midnight).

 

They've been pretty much running the same show(s) for decades only slightly morphing into new ones so they don't have to pay for a show in its eighth year. I don't know how they are keeping NCIS afloat - sure Harmon left and Weatherly, McCallum died and the goth chick bailed - so that saves some coin. Usually they'll make showrunners kill off a character or two each year to save their show.