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Post by BigPapaJoe on Jul 18, 2014 18:54:10 GMT -5
I wonder if this series is a product of it's time. They've tried a couple of relaunches in the last couple of years I think? I know there was at least one and it just didn't have the leverage to stick around. Maybe audiences just don't have patience anymore for the moral dilemma narrative.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 18, 2014 19:10:04 GMT -5
I wonder if this series is a product of it's time. They've tried a couple of relaunches in the last couple of years I think? I know there was at least one and it just didn't have the leverage to stick around. Maybe audiences just don't have patience anymore for the moral dilemma narrative. The public doesn't watch anthology shows any more.What was the last successful anthology? Tales From The Crypt? Any others in the last 40 years that lasted a few seasons? Especially on network TV they've failed from Spielberg's Amazing Stories or the new Alfred Hitchcock Presents
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Post by Jasoomian on Jul 18, 2014 19:10:20 GMT -5
Has anyone read the current Dynamite series? I haven't yet, but it sounds like JMS is trying something kind of interesting with the format of the comic series. Although I feel like the interiors of any TZ comics should be black & white. JMS of course worked on the 1980s revival of Twilight Zone, and what I've seen of that wasn't bad at all. I believe there also is or will be a Dynamite TZ Annual with a few non-JMS stories.
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Jul 18, 2014 19:28:10 GMT -5
I wonder if this series is a product of it's time. They've tried a couple of relaunches in the last couple of years I think? I know there was at least one and it just didn't have the leverage to stick around. Maybe audiences just don't have patience anymore for the moral dilemma narrative. The public doesn't watch anthology shows any more.What was the last successful anthology? Tales From The Crypt? Any others in the last 40 years that lasted a few seasons? Especially on network TV they've failed from Spielberg's Amazing Stories or the new Alfred Hitchcock Presents I think there is that new show American Horror Story. I heard that was decent. Still on the air after a couple of years I think. That is of the horror genre though. There are talks of Leonardo DiCaprio wanting to be a producer for a Twilight Zone movie I heard. Or maybe it was Brad Pitt. Anyways, I'd be really surprised if they could make that work.
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Post by comicscube on Jul 18, 2014 19:35:16 GMT -5
I wonder if this series is a product of it's time. They've tried a couple of relaunches in the last couple of years I think? I know there was at least one and it just didn't have the leverage to stick around. Maybe audiences just don't have patience anymore for the moral dilemma narrative. To be fair, the last relaunch was pretty terrible. I mean, Jason Alexander was playing Death.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 18, 2014 19:39:08 GMT -5
Yeah,cable probably has a few but the point being its a format that was once very popular on network TV and has just about disappeared. Happened to variety shows and westerns too. Replaced by reality shows and true fact shows. Whoopee
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Post by Jesse on Jul 18, 2014 19:43:20 GMT -5
The public doesn't watch anthology shows any more.What was the last successful anthology? Tales From The Crypt? Any others in the last 40 years that lasted a few seasons? Especially on network TV they've failed from Spielberg's Amazing Stories or the new Alfred Hitchcock Presents The Outer Limits remake ran for seven seasons and started around the time that Tales From The Crypt was cancelled. Some of it was pretty good. There was an excellent remake of "A Feasibility Study". Since then though the only ones I can think of are Métal Hurlant Chronicles which has two seasons and Masters of Science Fiction which only had six episodes.
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Post by Jasoomian on Jul 18, 2014 19:47:26 GMT -5
"American Horror Story" isn't really an anthology. It's more of an annual miniseries. Each season's story is unrelated to the other one; but each season is most definitely a collection of serialized episodes. "True Detective" and "Fargo" are also adopting this format.
There have been more recent anthology series, but not very successful ones. The 2002 revivial of TZ lasted two years. "Masters of Horror" did two years on Showtime before it morphed into "Fear Itself" for one more season on NBC. "Masters of Science Fiction" only lasted one year on ABC.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Jul 18, 2014 20:04:57 GMT -5
What was the last successful anthology? The Outer Limits remake ran for seven seasons and started around the time that Tales From The Crypt was cancelled... Doesn't every generation get a solid anthology series? In the eighties, we had "Tales From the Dark Side," "Amazing Stories," "Monsters," "Ray Bradbury Theater," "Freddie's Nightmares," etc.
"Goosebumps" and "Are you Afraid of the Dark" (among many others) entertained '90s kids. I'm not qualified to speak intelligently beyond that, but I feel certain the trend continues.
And as a matter of fact, the format is in the midst of a revival, if "True Detective" and "Fargo" (the TV series) are any indication.
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Post by dupersuper on Jul 18, 2014 22:16:47 GMT -5
The Outer Limits remake ran for seven seasons It also had boobs.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 18, 2014 23:14:52 GMT -5
I watched The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank today. That's the one where James Best rises out of the coffin at his own funeral and stubbornly insists he isn't dead. This is a really cool episode. It also features Edgar Buchanan (Uncle Joe of Petticoat Junction) and Dub Taylor (from You Can't Take It with You, Bonnie and Clyde and dozens of TV shows).
And just now I watched "To Serve Man," one of the more iconic episodes. I haven't seen it for decades. I bet that the last time I saw it, the infamous Treehouse of Horrors parody hadn't aired yet.
It's as great as ever. Hasn't lost any of its impact over the years.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 18, 2014 23:33:46 GMT -5
As you might know,I was and always will be a Twilight Zone fanatic.As soon as I got a VCR in 1980 I started taping every TZ I could. In NYC the same station that broadcast Yankee baseball also aired TZ. They'd use TZ to fill in the time if there was a rain delay.It eased the pain
The movie Patterns was mentioned earlier, an impressive screenplay he wrote and available on home video.The other week I watched an early Paul Newman movie The Rack which Rod wrote the teleplay. He also wrote the classic Requiem For A Heavyweight with Anthony Quinn, the screenplay for Seven Days In May with Burt Lancaster and Assault On A Queen with Frank Sinatra.And of course he partnered on the famous screenplay for Planet Of The Apes
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Jul 19, 2014 1:34:14 GMT -5
Yeah,cable probably has a few but the point being its a format that was once very popular on network TV and has just about disappeared. Happened to variety shows and westerns too. Replaced by reality shows and true fact shows. Whoopee Reality shows. Perhaps the worst thing to happen on the planet since the dawn of human civilization. And people just buy into that crap.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 21, 2014 16:50:55 GMT -5
I watched The Fugitive last night. It's a pretty good episode, one of those average episodes that's great but isn't quite To Serve Man or Time Enough at Last. It's the episode where the old guy can change into a monster or a mouse or a bug and he's friends with a little girl with a brace on her leg.
It seems kind of familiar, but I don't think I've seen it. Nancy Culp (Miss Hathaway from The Beverly Hillbillies) had a major role and that's the kind of thing I would probably remember if I had seen it.
I just watched Little Girl Lost. I definitely remember this one, and I was a little reluctant to watch it because I remember the plot very well and I was thinking it was kind of a humdrum episode. But I watched it dutifully (because I'm watching them in order) and I was very impressed with it. I think it's partly the staging but mostly the acting. The actors (especially the distraught mother) make the most of the material, with forlorn looks and their awkward running around the house as they cope with the weird disappearance of the daughter into the Fourth Dimension.
A very entertaining episode! (Which you might not guess from the description.)
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jul 21, 2014 19:03:45 GMT -5
Yeah,cable probably has a few but the point being its a format that was once very popular on network TV and has just about disappeared. Happened to variety shows and westerns too. Replaced by reality shows and true fact shows. Whoopee I would watch anthology (and have) with more frequency than in any other format. X-Files has probably been the only exception, as far as what I watch frequently. A show really shows it's strength when a person can watch any random episode throughout the shows history and consistently be entertained. I rarely care to take the time to lye characters develop to get to a point of liking them or the show. Life's too short to take the time to watch ten episodes to like Joey JoJo Junior Shabado.
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