The Couch Potatoesselect from the mini series category Nightmares and Dreamscapes...
“Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King.” The series is an excellent reminder that what makes Mr. King’s visions so fascinating is not their uniqueness or their artistry, but exactly how much they’re like ordinary nightmares. Which are plenty scary. And good for him for writing them down.
These movies are based on Mr. King’s short stories, and five in this series come from his book “Nightmares and Dreamscapes.” Apparently nothing Mr. King writes is unfilmable. These elaborate, showoff productions, which star people like William H. Macy and William Hurt, are proof that TNT, having had success with “Salem’s Lot” in 2004, is really getting into the moviemaking game, and setting out to lure serious actors.
In the category of Sitcom taem Jumped the Shark is happy to select:
Spin City
Created by Gary David Goldberg and Bill Lawrence, the show was based on a fictional local government running New York City, and originally starred Michael J. Fox as Mike Flaherty, the Deputy Mayor of New York.
Michael J. Fox (1996-2000)
Charlie Sheen (2000-2002)
Barry Bostwick
Richard Kind
Michael Boatman
Alan Ruck
Heather Locklear (1999-2002)
Connie Britton (1996-2000)
Alexander Chaplin (1996-2000)
Jennifer Esposito (1997-1999)
Carla Gugino (1996)
Victoria Dillard (1996-2000)
Lana Parrilla (2000-2001)
How can a show be bad when it gave us a Denise Richards and Heather Locklear kiss?
Where's The Remote? are pleased to select in the Canadian category:
The Newsroom
Before "The Office" came this Canadian gem, yes Canadian, by CBC no less. Bitingly dark satirical mockumentary of a Canadian Newsroom. The first season especially is brilliant stuff. Recommended.
The Newsroom is an award winning Canadian television comedy series which ran on CBC Television in the 1996-97, 2003-04 and 2004-05 seasons. A two-hour television movie, Escape from the Newsroom, also aired in 2002.
In the United States, The Newsroom airs on PBS stations across the country.
Set in the newsroom of a television station (never officially named, but clearly based on the CBC itself), the show — which was similar to such earlier series as the British Drop the Dead Donkey and the Australian Frontline — mined a dark vein of comedy from the political machinations and the sheer incompetence of the people involved in producing the nightly news.
The original 13 episodes were meant as a short run, not a multiseason series, and became one of the most critically acclaimed programs on Canadian television in the 1990s. Following the end of The Newsroom, Finkleman produced three different short-run series for the CBC, More Tears, Foolish Heart and Foreign Objects, all of which included Findlay as a linking character. (A Findlay-like character with a different surname had also appeared in Finkleman's pre-Newsroom series Married Life.)
However, none of these subsequent series were as well-received by the public or by critics, and the CBC began to seek a new set of Newsroom episodes. Escape from the Newsroom, which included a fourth wall-breaking plot digression in which the characters directly addressed the idea of reviving the series, was meant partly as a sarcastic response to that request. However, Finkleman ultimately agreed to produce 13 new episodes, which aired in the winter of 2004. The last four episodes of the second season were shot as a mockumentary.
A third season of The Newsroom, consisting of six episodes, aired on CBC beginning February 14, 2005. All three seasons and Escape from the Newsroom are available on DVD.
7420 episodes. Need I say more? OK...probably. The show ran for nearly 30 years and I remember it being distinctly different from the other soaps my step-mom and grandmother watched when I was 5 or so. It had an erie sort of mysterious feel to it.
Original opening, they don't do this stuff anymore!
1964
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
With our lucky number 13th pick, The Channel Surfers select Beast Wars: Transformers in the Animated category.
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Beast Wars: Transformers (Beasties on YTV, due to YTV discomfort over the name[1]) is a Transformers toyline released by Hasbro between 1995 and 1999, and a full-CGanimated television series spawned by it that debuted in 1996. The Emmy Award-winning series was set in the "original" Transformers universe as a sequel to the original series (which was later rebooted by various limited comic book stories from several companies including Dreamwave comics and IDW).
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The two main factions of robot Transformers are descendants of the two main factions in the original cartoon series: the Maximals are the descendants of the Autobots and the Predacons are the descendants of the Decepticons. The names were intended to stem from the terms Mammal and Predator but were not necessarily consistent with the alternate forms of the Transformers.(In Beast Machines, the process during which Autobots and Decepticons became Maximals and Predacons is respectively referred to as the "The Great Upgrade".)
The leader of the Predacons team is Megatron. He and his forces are a splinter group on the hunt for powerful crystals known as Energon, to be used in a ploy for power and dominance. They do this with the aid of artifacts known as the Golden Disk and Megatron's stolen ship, the Darksyde, which is equipped with a transwarp drive. A Maximal exploration ship, the Axalon, led by Optimus Primal, is sent to stop them. Together the ships plunge through a time/space phenomenon created by the transwarp device during their battle in space, and land on a mysterious planet.
The planet is soon found to be rich in deposits of raw Energon, to the point that it proves to be poisonous to both factions' robot forms, forcing the factions to take on alternate organic forms for protection until their robot forms are needed. Thus the robots take on the beast forms of recognizable animals including mammals, birds, dinosaurs, arachnids, and insects.
The Maximals
The Predacons
I really, really love this show and have since its beginning. The way that it evolved and changed over the course of its three seasons is really cool, and I greatly enjoyed the homages to the "G1" Transformers show, most notably the discovery of The Ark and Nemesis and the Beast Wars characters' interaction with Optimus Prime and the original Megatron. It's a shame that the series' successor failed to live up to the richness and depth of the writing in Beast Wars. Arguably the best display of the high quality of writing is the episode Code of Hero, the episode where one of the original Beast Wars characters dies.
I know it's not 15 hours yet, but I'm going to the game tonight and wanted to get this in before I leave work. Please do not judge me too harshly for this pick!
In the Reality (Elimination) Category, Team Legen...wait for it...dary! selects Beauty and the Geek.
One of the few things that Ashton Kutcher has forced upon this world that I semi-enjoyed. It was a horrible show full of every stereotype for smart but nerdy guys and pretty but stupid girls, but I really enjoyed watching it, even if I'm a little ashamed to admit it. The best season was season 4 where they brought in a male beauty and a female geek and the male beauty was the kid who played Spike in the movie, Little Giants (I know a lot of useless stuff). I don't watch a lot of reality tv and the ones I do watch have already been taken so please be nice.
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The Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little, and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while the Company is true. Go Flames Go!
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
