One Season BringBacks

[NikeeGoddess]

well, i just read that it may be 7 or more months (not a fact... just a rumored prediction) until the strike ends. it hasn't hit* the tv viewing audience that much yet (cept for daily talk shows) however... just for fun pick your one season replacements to bring back. the one show you wish had never been cancelled - one rule: the show must have been cancelled with having only one or less seasons on the air.

examples:
Roar - w/Heath Ledger!!!! - did anybody ever see that?!
American Gothic - a horror/thriller show
Kolchak, The Night Stalker -i watched that one as a kid. this is the remake
Freaks and Geeks - a fan favorite i'm guessing
Commander in Chief - LOL! i assume was in preparation for Hillary
Sliders - with Jerry O'Connell
Frank's Place - w/Tim Reid and my personal favorite - my pick!

non eligible but great examples that went on for more than one season:
Arrested Development
Max Headroom

what do you want to bring back to fill in the gap?


*unfortunately for 24 fans which is a mid season show now - they did not finish writing all 24 eps so they may not air it at all this year.

[Christine N.]

OMG, I LOVED Roar!! I was so sad when that went off the air. Typical of Fox, though, kill it before it dies.

[zeprosnepsid]

Space: Above and Beyond
Firefly
My So-Called Life

Any number of Fox shows... Profit, Kindred.

I liked Roar too...

But Sliders was on for 5 seasons.

I expect the strike to run till June when the SAG contract is up...

[clockwork]

*unfortunately for 24 fans which is a mid season show now - they did not finish writing all 24 eps so they may not air it at all this year.

I'm not sure they were planning to air it this year anyway, Nikee. They haven't for the last couple of years as far as I remember and instead broadcast it in mid to late January so that it runs through complete. However, even this later start is bound to be affected and I believe it may not start until much later in 2008. :(

And my picks...

Well, I liked Commander in Chief too but my guilty, cancelled-after-one-season shows I'd love to sea more of would be LAX, Eyes and maybe Surface.

[RainbowDragon]

Oh yeah, Surface was really good and they left it up in the air. . . and The Class should have been renewed. Also miss the WB's Related, and, going further back in time, Married to the Kelleys. I'm sure there's more but can't think of anything else now. . .

[dpaterso]

I posit this dumb question: to support the striking writers (if that's your decision), shouldn't everyone switch over or switch off the moment any repeat show airs (instead of looking forward to favorite repeats) and let the TV companies -- and if possible, the ad sponsors -- know what you're doing?

-Derek

[NikeeGoddess]

i agree 100% with you dpat if it would make any difference. but i've never had a ratings box* attached to my tv and don't know anyone who ever has had one so whatever i watch or don't watch never makes it to the ratings stats.

*i often feared that it only religious freaks in Utah and Oklahoma received the boxes but i doubt they really exist at all... making the ratings a complete fraud altogether.

[azdak]

I posit this dumb question: to support the striking writers (if that's your decision), shouldn't everyone switch over or switch off the moment any repeat show airs (instead of looking forward to favorite repeats) and let the TV companies -- and if possible, the ad sponsors -- know what you're doing?

-Derek

Just to stay outside the box:

Writers should sell their scripts to UK (Harry Potter, ...), Australia (The Island?, ...), NZ (Lord of the Rings, The Frighteners, ...) etc. Then great/good/successful movies are made elsewhere, more money goes elsewhere and after a year or so, who cares, studios come on their knees, if they please could get residuals for ... what exactly?

Don't let them in the door before buying stock of Disney, Time Warner, NewsCorp etc at USD 10 or below. The USD is conveniently low, so if you use GBP, NZD or AUD - you should get a bundle.

There is no substitute for victory. (General Douglas MacArthur)

[zahra]

Just to stay outside the box:

Writers should sell their scripts to UK (Harry Potter, ...), Australia (The Island?, ...), NZ (Lord of the Rings, The Frighteners, ...) etc. Then great/good/successful movies are made elsewhere, more money goes elsewhere and after a year or so, who cares, studios come on their knees, if they please could get residuals for ... what exactly?

Don't let them in the door before buying stock of Disney, Time Warner, NewsCorp etc at USD 10 or below. The USD is conveniently low, so if you use GBP, NZD or AUD - you should get a bundle.

There is no substitute for victory. (General Douglas MacArthur)
They'd have to get used to writing for a budget of £100 and a packet of wine gums in most cases (including their fee), as far as the UK is concerned. And writing about people digging an allotment, rather than foiling a super-power master-plan. :)HP is an exception, not a rule, unfortunately. As for TV, lose the packet of wine-gums.

[NikeeGoddess]

And writing about people digging an allotment, rather than foiling a super-power master-plan.
atleast dr. who has a real set now and not just a series of walls as if it were a play on the stage LOL! but i think they spend most of their money on makeup.

[WriterGirl2007]

Just to stay outside the box:

Writers should sell their scripts to UK (Harry Potter, ...), Australia (The Island?, ...), NZ (Lord of the Rings, The Frighteners, ...) etc. Then great/good/successful movies are made elsewhere, more money goes elsewhere and after a year or so, who cares, studios come on their knees, if they please could get residuals for ... what exactly?

Don't let them in the door before buying stock of Disney, Time Warner, NewsCorp etc at USD 10 or below. The USD is conveniently low, so if you use GBP, NZD or AUD - you should get a bundle.

There is no substitute for victory. (General Douglas MacArthur)

I don't think I've ever seen anything that came out of Australia. Do they make movies? LOL

As far as the OP, I'd love to see Firefly!

[NikeeGoddess]

I don't think I've ever seen anything that came out of Australia. Do they make movies? LOL
this made me laugh as well although i could probably list 9 or 10 aussie flicks that i've seen over the years that's hardly enough to consider it a real industry. - best exception to the norm: The Yearling - but how many years ago was that?!
NZ - you've got to have quirk, being wacked out helps, and anything with farm animals is good material - best exception to the norm: Whale Rider
UK - talking heads but they've got to have something good to say b/c that boring dribble doesn't always do so well on this side of the pond

[Mac H.]

I don't think I've ever seen anything that came out of Australia. Do they make movies? LOLWell, recently we've had 'Happy Feet' (although that was animation, so wouldn't have been WGA anyway .. even if it didn't have Aussie writing, directing and award-winning Animal logic doing all the animation...)

Before that, you've got the usual movies like 'Babe', 'Mad Max', 'Romeo+Juliet' etc etc...

If you liked 'Moulin Rouge' you could probably count that as an Aussie flick too, since it had Australian writers/directors/producer/cinematographer/Art Director/star actresses .. and apart from some minor studio work in Spain was filmed in Australia too.

We are much too smart to fund films ourselves ... but we certainly make plenty of good films !

Mac
(PS: And yes, the idea of selling scripts to Australia because the USA isn't paying enough is bizarre. The Aussie industry doesn't pay enough to live on ... with the exception of TV, which is a reasonable (but not great) living for the very top writers)

[poetinahat]

I don't think I've ever seen anything that came out of Australia. Do they make movies? LOL
Seriously? There are tons. Lots of them are excellent.

Fox has studios in Sydney (http://www.foxstudiosaustralia.com/). At least one of the Matrix films was shot here.

Just off the top of my head, here's a sample. I can recommend all of these, except the last five (haven't seen the last four, and The Sundowners is over-the-top Aussie cliche, still good for yuks; I've spent a lot of time in the town where the beginning was filmed):

Mad Max
Romper Stomper (Russell Crowe as a skinhead)
Muriel's Wedding (Toni Collette)
Cosi (Toni Collette et al. - mental patients stage an opera as therapy)
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, Terence Stamp)
The Sum of Us (father/son pic; Jack Thompson as dad, Russell Crowe as gay son)
The Castle
The Dish
Doing Time for Patsy Cline
Lantana (Anthony LaPaglia et al.)
The Bank (Anthony LaPaglia, David Wenham)
The Night We Called It a Day (Dennis Hopper as Frank Sinatra)
Crackerjack
Gettin' Square
True Love and Chaos
The Sundowners (Robert Mitchum)
Head On
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Looking for Alibrandi
Rabbit-Proof Fence (Brian Brown?)
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