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| TitanPa |
Posted - 09/27/2007 : 21:21:11
I think we need a new Fourum around here dedicated to TV. Since we like to talk about TV shows alot...but anyways....
A new show debuted here in the States on Monday on NBC. It seems NBC is going back to its roots and getting shows that were really popular. NBC once had 'Quantum Leap' and after 10 seasons ended it. It seems The TV viewing public are still interested in Time Travel as am I. Journeyman is another time travel show. IT's not 'Quantum Leap' or 'Doctor Who' or any other kind of Time Travel show. I watched it and I loved it.
Sure he goes through time to help people. But he keeps time traveling until he has helped. He doesnt just stay in one 'time journey'.
Weird thing is, he doesnt know how he time travels and neither do we. He time travels in his own body. He also blacks out and travels at different times even if he is driving a car. This is a great show but there are some flaws.
The characters in the show are actually calling his time travels, 'LEAPS'. Which is totally wrong. You cant copy one time travel word from another time travel show.
I won't go on further about the show if you havent seen it yet or even got it in your own country. I will let you watch and decide for yourself. Then maybe we can discuss it. If you love Time Travel...this show is for you!!!! |
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| TitanPa |
Posted - 12/19/2007 : 04:12:18
Wow! I just saw episode 12. It was the best episode yet. How can anyone justify axing this show? |
| TitanPa |
Posted - 12/17/2007 : 07:56:05
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
Well, it does sound interesting, but there's no way of knowing if our sat company will get it or not. If it gets here, I'll let you guys know.
(And stop talking about Heroes - we've only had five episodes of the 2nd season here so far. I'm loving the Ireland bits and listening to Katie Carr's accent.)
hehe. poor girl. |
| ChocolateLady |
Posted - 12/17/2007 : 07:12:36
Well, it does sound interesting, but there's no way of knowing if our sat company will get it or not. If it gets here, I'll let you guys know.
(And stop talking about Heroes - we've only had five episodes of the 2nd season here so far. I'm loving the Ireland bits and listening to Katie Carr's accent.)
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| TitanPa |
Posted - 12/17/2007 : 06:23:15
If you want to save Journeyman...go to this website!! Plus they are saying it's not actually cancelled.
http://savejourneyman.net/
I dont know if I will have time to send Rice-a-roni. But Ill try.
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| TitanPa |
Posted - 12/17/2007 : 06:17:48
They should actually make a 2nd shorter season to wrap everything up. To please the fans. If The series ends with a cliffhanger...Thats gonna tear me up inside. I dont care to visit Fan blogs that continue the story. I rather hear it or see it from the writers themselves. Oh well. Rack up another favorite show on the cancelled list:
THe Nine
What About Brian
The Class
WinFall
The was another time travelling show....around 2004.. Aboout a guy who would play a certain song and it would take him back to the 80's. He would change something and that would change his future self. so the whole show was him going back to make his present right. I cant remember it.
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| benj clews |
Posted - 12/16/2007 : 17:35:42
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Originally posted by TitanPa
NOOOOOOOOOOOO
Every year dammit. It happens every year. I get interested in 1 show and it gets cancelled. This was a great show too. Maybe another network will pick it up. Perhaps the Sci-Fi channel. It enough to want to not watch the 1st season of a show just in case it gets cancelled.
I know- now I bet we'll never find out what's going on with the time travelling.
And I'm still reeling from Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip being cancelled. Seriously, where's the justice? Right now I'm absolutely loving it, but there's this big countdown in my head to the final episode.
I sometimes wonder how feasible it would be for a cancelled show to be taken on by a non-profit company formed by it's fans (obviously, the show would have to be reasonably popular but a lot of these cancelled shows are still turning in 'disappointing' viewing figures in the millions in the US alone), who each donate a few dollars a week to film a new episode. |
| TitanPa |
Posted - 12/16/2007 : 15:43:44
NOOOOOOOOOOOO
Every year dammit. It happens every year. I get interested in 1 show and it gets cancelled. This was a great show too. Maybe another network will pick it up. Perhaps the Sci-Fi channel. It enough to want to not watch the 1st season of a show just in case it gets cancelled.
Edit: Hoping it was a rumor. I checked wikipedia. Even that confirms it. |
| ChocolateLady |
Posted - 12/16/2007 : 06:28:31
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Originally posted by 8enj clews
Well, there you go... another decent show bites the dust... 
http://televisionista.blogspot.com/2007/12/journeyman-cancelled.html
Huh... you'd think that a show with a lead in of somthing as inane as "Deal or No Deal" would catch some of the back-draft from it. Apparently, American viewers have become so mindless that they would rather change channels away from a good program to something else equally inane.
I don't know about you, but I think game shows shouldn't be aired during prime time - especially these days when people can record programs so easily. |
| benj clews |
Posted - 12/15/2007 : 12:39:01
Well, there you go... another decent show bites the dust...
http://televisionista.blogspot.com/2007/12/journeyman-cancelled.html |
| ChocolateLady |
Posted - 11/27/2007 : 12:56:42
Sorry, I really didn't mean to offend. I think I didn't express myself properly.
My point is, British actors seem to be acting and yet not acting - if you know what I mean. More like they're being real people (or is that becoming real characters) and not just playing a part. The truth is, I think that today's British actors are far better at their craft than the American ones we have today. Moreover, the British don't seem to look just for a "look" for their films and television shows, but rather for the best person for the part - the person who can pull it off. The Americans are just starting to see that good acting is more important than putting a big star in a role to draw viewers, and if the production is well done, the viewers will follow.
I'm sure I was duped by Hopkins' dry wit, and I'm sure he does know how much effort goes into acting and doing it really well - or he wouldn't be the amazing actor he is. But I think the trick is to act with such ability that it looks like you aren't acting at all. I think many American actors today have forgotten what that is and are caught up in their stardom or are resting on their laurals of past successes, and the results are second rate at best. As for the team effort, if your ego gets in the way of your acting, you can't work as a team. But British actors are still working to achieve a better performance than their last and to make that part of a whole production and not just the big name star.
(And of course, this is a generalization, and we know that all generalizations are false.)
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| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 11/27/2007 : 08:14:52
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
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Originally posted by Animal Mutha
"The Time Traveler's Wife" is a great book and has been adapted into a film starring Eric Bana, due out 2008.
I have the book and its on my "next up to read" pile. Being dyslexic, if I start soon, I should have finished it before the Israeli release of the film. Thanks for the heads-up.
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What is it with Brits fronting US TV shows: Deadwood, House, The Riches, etc?
There are more. Ian Hart in "Dirt", for instance, is the best part of the show. Also Simon Baker was the star of "The Guardian" - yes, I know he's Australian but still... . And while I didn't watch "Still Standing" much, I didn't really know Mark Addy before that show, and was surprised to find out he's a Yorkshire lad and was using his original accent in "Bonkers".
My theory? British actors know how to be subtle and internalize when they act - even when they're doing slapstick comedy. American actors try to show everyone that they are great actors, especially if they're not, and they end up looking fake and unbelievable. In an interview someone asked Anthony Hopkins about his craft and how he can act so well, he said all he does is learn his lines and says them, that he hasn't really a clue how to act, he just does what he's told. Maybe if Americans would do as they're told more and just learn their lines and say them, they'd be better actors.
Nothing personal, CL, but I'm sure glad you weren't my acting teacher during my years of learning sense memory, fencing, acrobatics, breath control, emotional memory, group dynamics, vocal harmony, stagecraft, microphone and camera technique, verse speaking, classical interpretation, etc ... oh, yes, and acquiring the confidence to recognize that acting is a creative process, that good actors have a great contribution to make to what is essentially a group art form, and that people who merely do what they're told not only give acting a bad name but encourage bad directors to dismiss any process which actors should be going through to create the illusion of reality, to make the familiar seem unfamiliar and the unfamiliar seem familiar.
PS Hopkins is notorious for his dry Brit wit -- he's well known for feeling uncomfortable about answering silly journo questions and knows the process of acting isn't something to be squeezed into a sound bite that's likely to be misinterpreted anyway.
Sorry, but you really touched a nerve, there.
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| ChocolateLady |
Posted - 11/27/2007 : 07:01:07
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Originally posted by Animal Mutha
"The Time Traveler's Wife" is a great book and has been adapted into a film starring Eric Bana, due out 2008.
I have the book and its on my "next up to read" pile. Being dyslexic, if I start soon, I should have finished it before the Israeli release of the film. Thanks for the heads-up.
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What is it with Brits fronting US TV shows: Deadwood, House, The Riches, etc?
There are more. Ian Hart in "Dirt", for instance, is the best part of the show. Also Simon Baker was the star of "The Guardian" - yes, I know he's Australian but still... . And while I didn't watch "Still Standing" much, I didn't really know Mark Addy before that show, and was surprised to find out he's a Yorkshire lad and was using his original accent in "Bonkers".
My theory? British actors know how to be subtle and internalize when they act - even when they're doing slapstick comedy. American actors try to show everyone that they are great actors, especially if they're not, and they end up looking fake and unbelievable. In an interview someone asked Anthony Hopkins about his craft and how he can act so well, he said all he does is learn his lines and says them, that he hasn't really a clue how to act, he just does what he's told. Maybe if Americans would do as they're told more and just learn their lines and say them, they'd be better actors.
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| TitanPa |
Posted - 11/27/2007 : 04:34:17
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Originally posted by Stalean
Kolo's favorite show was "Quantum Leap," and he was very upset when it was cancelled. Of course he watched "Journeyman" as did I last week. I was explaining to him that, to me, it is more like a book that I read, "The Time Traveler's Wife" than "Quantum Leap," but that is just my opinion. Anyway, I am looking forward to both "Heroes" and "Journeyman" tonight. Warning!! Don't highlight and read the following if you don't want to know anything about "Journeyman."
Kolo thinks that Livia was time-travelling to bring Dan and Katie together in the first place.
What do you think? 
Looks like Kolo was right all along. Tonights episode explained so. |
| Animal Mutha |
Posted - 10/30/2007 : 19:56:16
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Originally posted by 8nimal Mutha
[quote]Originally posted by Stalean
Kolo's favorite show was "Quantum Leap," and he was very upset when it was cancelled. Of course he watched "Journeyman" as did I last week. I was explaining to him that, to me, it is more like a book that I read, "The Time Traveler's Wife" than "Quantum Leap," but that is just my opinion.
"The Time Traveler's Wife" is a great book and has been adapted into a film starring Eric Bana, due out 2008.
Journeyman is premiering here in the UK on Sky One soon. I've seen the ads for it and was amused to see it stars Scottish actor Kevin McKidd, who you may remember from Dog Soldiers and for fans of Father Ted, he was the injured priest lost in the lingerie section in the Christmas episode. Genius!
What is it with Brits fronting US TV shows: Deadwood, House, The Riches, etc?
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| TitanPa |
Posted - 10/19/2007 : 15:07:25
I sure hope this show lasts a few more seasons. I can't wait for it to come out on DVD.
I feel for his wife. I can't imagine being married to someone who just disappears every now and then....no ....wait....I wish I did. lol.
So whats up with the Professor who calls him in the past? How did he get his number?
This week The show isnt about the storyline. But it centers on the family. hHe travels when he is with his son. How can you do whatever you need to do in the past when you left your child all alone in a busy place? |
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