According to Variety
, Disney+ has picked up the distribution rights to an upcoming Goosebumps live-action series. From the sound of it, it's fashioned similar to the world of the recent films, rather than anthology adaptation of the books like the original series.
Nick Stoller and Rob Letterman serve as writers and executive producers on the show, with Stoller executive producing via Stoller Global Solutions. Letterman will also direct the first episode. Neal H. Moritz and Pavun Shetty of Original Film, Conor Welch of Stoller Global Solutions, and Iole Lucchese and Caitlin Friedman of Scholastic Entertainment are also executive producing. Sony Pictures Television Studios will produce. Original Film and Stoller Global Solutions are currently under TV overall deals with Sony.
Moritz was a producer on the two recent “Goosebumps” feature films, which were released in 2015 and 2018. Letterman directed the first film. Collectively, both of the movies grossed over $250 million.
This is just weird. Not only about seeing news about Twisted Metal since it has been years since a Twisted Metal game was released but the fact they want to make it into a action comedy tv show is even weirder.
Did any of the producers have ever played the games? The words "action comedy" has nothing to do with Twisted Metal. (Unless they played the Twisted Metal games that were made by 989 Studios which got rid of it's Darker and bloodier themes.)
I wanted to share some aspects of this Vulture interview with The Baby Sitters Club's showrunner Rachel Shukert. While Netflix has been been a little more transparent about viewership numbers through their Top 10 Netflix website, they (along with other streamers) are still accused of being too vague while canceling shows, without warning, due to those numbers.
For fans, the end of The Baby-Sitters Club is disappointing because so few series fill its specific niche: stories about preteen girls that don’t oversexualize or infantilize them. “It seems like girls are expected to go straight from Doc McStuffins to Euphoria,” Shukert says. The Baby-Sitters Club was the rare TV series not about how the world sees girlhood but rather how girls see themselves.
I want to be very careful because it’s a lot of conjecture, but I feel like Netflix’s internal metrics can change month to month. Something that was fine three months ago is suddenly not what they need.
The truth is that when your show does very well in North America, as ours does, as far as Netflix is concerned, pretty much everybody who’s going to have Netflix [in North America] has it. They’re looking to drive subscriber growth in other parts of the world where this IP doesn’t have much recognition.
It was odd. You have a call and they give you numbers seven days in and then 28 days in. Our numbers seemed fine. It was what they expected. It was pretty close to what we did last season, so I wasn’t too worried. Then, as the decision to renew the show kept dragging on, I started to get concerned. At the same time, the show has been so critically well received. We’ve been nominated for and won so many awards note People love it.
For this show that has a fine viewership but is not a monster hit, but it’s beloved by fans … does that matter? I don’t know. I think we had the bad luck to come out at about the same time as Squid Game, which showed them how crazy numbers could get. Numbers that were totally respectable and successful last year were suddenly seen in a different way. I don’t have access to a lot of this data, and in general creators don’t have access to this data at Netflix, so it’s what you put together on your own.
When you only have your numbers in a vacuum and you don’t know the numbers of anything else, you don’t know what you’re trying to hit. You don’t know what numbers other comparable shows are hitting. Netflix will give you context in terms of what your numbers were last season or what they were hoping for, but even that is very vague. You’re flying a little blind.
But they would sometimes have notes that felt like they were based on data. They’re open about that! Like, in shows where this sort of thing doesn’t happen within the first five minutes, people don’t make it past that hump. They have so much data; it can be helpful, and it can also be tricky to integrate.
Netflix also doesn’t do a ton of marketing, and I think in season one, we were bizarrely helped by the pandemic — not because people were home in front of the TV but because our original release date got delayed. There were some dubbing issues in other countries; we were supposed to come out in May, and we wound up coming out in the first week of July, so there was a lot of press set up that had longer lead times, and people actually knew about the show before it came out.
A lot of times, Netflix things come out and for whatever reason, if the algorithm doesn’t put it in front of you, no one knows it’s on. I heard from so many people who loved season one that they didn’t even know season two had come out. How is that possible? How does the algorithm not know that you watched and loved the entire first season and then immediately show season two to you? Why is this not getting in front of people that want to watch it?
A new live-action Casper the Friendly Ghost series is being developed for Peacock.
(If he's a CGI ghost, is it really "live" action? 
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According to Variety, Warner Bros. Discovery will be ceasing production on original scripted shows for TNT and TBS.
will no longer develop new scripted content, two sources close to the matter tell Variety. It is unclear what will happen to TBS and TNT’s current slate of scripted programming.
After ramping up their scripted programming efforts in the past decade, both TNT and TBS have significantly pared down their scripted offerings in the last few years.
At TBS, the network’s only remaining scripted shows are the comedies “The Last OG,” “Miracle Workers,” “Chad,” and “American Dad.” Of those, “The Last OG” aired its fourth season in October 2021 with no word on a fifth. “Miracle Workers” aired its third season in July 2021 with a fourth season ordered in November. “Chad” aired its first season in the summer of 2021 with a second season to debut in 2022. “American Dad,” which moved to TBS from Fox in 2014, was renewed for two more seasons in December 2021.
TNT has only two scripted shows left on its roster. Those are “Animal Kingdom,” which will end after its sixth season airing in June, and “Snowpiercer.” The latter show was renewed for a fourth season ahead of its third season premiere.
Netflix will be hosting a Work Com series from Universal about the last Blockbuster video store:
Park and Fumero star in the ensemble comedy that takes place in the last Blockbuster Video in America. It explores what it takes – and more specifically who it takes – for a small business to succeed against all odds.
Cast also includes Tyler Alvarez, Madeleine Arthur, Olga Merediz, JB Smoove and Kamaia Fairburn.
The series is created by Vanessa Ramos, with David Caspe and Jackie Clarke also serving as writers/executive producers. John Davis and John Fox executive produce for Davis Entertainment. Payman Benz will direct and co-executive produce four episodes, including the pilot. Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, is the studio.
Cute. They are both charming actors, I hope this is good.
Oh cool, if it takes off, it might even cause a boom in demand for Blockbuster stores again
It's May, you know what that means? The Sweeps! Before the major television outlets announce their upfronts, they're going to a large sweep of cancellations with some renewals sprinkled in. Just from today alone, Deadline has reported:
- Renewed
- Series Orders:
- Gotham Knights
- The Winchesters
- Walker: Independence
- Cancellations:
- Into the Dark (Airing final fourth season on June 6)
- Naomi (2022)
- Dynasty (2017)
- Legacies ("Series finale" on June 16)
- Roswell, New Mexico (Airing final fourth season on June 6)
- Charmed (2018)
- Series Orders
- Fire Country
- So Help Me Todd
- East New York
- Cancellations:
- Good Sam
- United States of Al
- B Positive
- Magnum, P.I. (2018)
- How We Roll
- Series Orders
- Renewed
- Cancellations:
- Renewed:
- Renewed:
- Renewed
- SurrealEstate (A rare Uncancelled moment)
- Series Orders:
- Reginald The Vampire
- The Ark
- Renewed
Netflix claims it'll spend its subscriber revenue "wisely
" and respect "artistic expression", while revealing the late comedian Norm Macdonald has a posthumous special expected to air on May 30.
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This Old House host Norm Abram will be retiring after 43 years with a special to commemorate him on October 3rd.
J. J. Abrams' latest (and expensive) television project, Demimonde, has been shelved by the new administration at Warner Bros. Discovery.
with a straight-to-series order, Demimonde, which was developed and sold under Bad Robot’s previous WBTV pact, was still in early pre-production when the plug was pulled.
Written, executive produced and to be directed by Abrams, Demimonde, his first solo TV creation since Alias, was to star Danielle Deadwyler as Olive Reed who is torn away from her husband and daughter in a brutal scientific accident. She is forced to unravel a conspiracy to reunite with her family, now lost to a dark, distant other world.
Kira Snyder, Rand Ravich & Far Shariat served as showrunners. They executive produced with Bad Robot’s Abrams and Ben Stephenson. Rachel Rusch Rich was co-executive producer.
Last summer, HBO Max opted not to go forward with another Bad Robot series, The Shining offshoot series Overlook. The project has since been set up at Netflix. It is unclear whether Demimonde would be shopped to other buyers.
I know there was an X-Files thread around here somewhere.
Never trust anyone who uses "degenerate" as an insult.
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Thanks.
Regarding The CW, its parent companies Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Global appear to be closing a deal with Nexstar. If it goes through, Nexstar will have 75% control, while the WBD and Paramount will have 12.5% control each.
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According to Variety, Disney+ is developing a new Eragon adaption.
There was a previous adaption, the 2006 film adaption.
Max Headroom, with actor Matt Frewer reprising the titular computerized host, appears to be making a new series return with AMC in the latest Deadline report.
Known for biting commentary, quick wit and manic glitching, the supposedly computer-generated TV host played by Frewer was first introduced in the 1985 British cyberpunk TV movie Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future. He became an instant pop culture phenom and went on to host a music-video show, star in ads for New Coke, appear on the cover of Newsweek and headline his own primetime series. Max Headroom aired on ABC for two seasons from 1987-88. At that point, the character’s massive popularity started to wane, but he has remained a cult favorite with frequent pop culture references, on shows including BoJack Horseman and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and in Selena Gomez’s music video for “Love You Like a Love Song,” among many others.
Cantwell, Frewer and Lisa Whalen executive produce the reboot with SpectreVision’s Wood and Noah.
This marks a return to the 1980s and AMC for Cantwell, who co-created, executive produced and co-showran the network’s PC revolution drama series Halt and Catch Fire with Christopher C. Rogers. He most recently executive produced sci-fi drama series Paper Girls ,which debuts today on Prime video.
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New episodes of the long-running Days of Our Lives are moving to Peacock on August 19th. Its old timeslot will be used for NBC's one-hour daytime news program.
According to Newsweek, this follows the trend of "other titles generally associated with network television, Thursday Night Football and ABC's Dancing With The Stars, also recently announced their intention to become streaming exclusives later this year."
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That show's still on?! I thought it ended some time ago.
Disney100 Marathon | DreamWorks MarathonConsidering how I happened to post box office numbers (from Dan Murrell) weekly, I probably should have figured to include those TV viewing numbers too. ![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
Nielsen has offered their recent streaming numbers. These are US-focused, and on a month delay relative to the current week. Futhermore, Nielsen is still a (large) sample size of households in their system, so not every US person is counted. Therefore, there may be some reasonable differences between internal numbers from streamers, and Nielsen's own batch.
Additionally, Nielsen
has offered their own internal numbers on a current week basis.
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There's a new Docuseries on Peacock talking about why people hate on Barney & Friends so much.
Looking back on it, it was kinda weird people really hated the purple dinosaur.
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
Idea Seeker
What are your guys' thoughts on the Dahmer show?
You can't kill art.
Frasier is getting a
reboot at Paramount+.
A continuation it looks like, not a reboot. With Kesley Grammer back.
I've been thinking about why I like It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia more than Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm, and I believe it's because deep down Larry David does not think he deserves shit for all the awful things he does, which is why a lot of times his characters get screwed over by circumstances or people who claim to be good but are really dicks. The Always Sunny writers are under no delusions that their characters are awful people who deserve what they get.
Never trust anyone who uses "degenerate" as an insult.