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More Pilot News!! LOST’s Abrams To HBO!! THE OC’s Schwartz To CW!!
I am – Hercules!!
Two pilots from two supercool creators are going before the cameras.
* “The OC” mastermind Josh Schwartz, who just had his spy-dudes pilot “Chuck” greelit for production at NBC, also just got the greenlight for the CW’s blog-centric New York teen skein “Gossip Girl,” based on the popular series young-adult novels. Read more of this here.
* “Alias”/“Lost” creator J.J. Abrams’ untitled cancer-ward pilot, meanwhile, is going into production for HBO. It was written by Tom Schulman (“Dead Poets Society,” “Honey I Shrunk The Kids,” “What About Bob?”) and Rafael Yglesias (“From Hell,” “Dark Water”), based on the 2004 book "The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness" by New Yorker scribe Dr. Jerome Groopman. Read more of this here.
“Soap” and “All in the Family” for $11 per “Season”? 
“NewsRadio” for $15 per season? “Seinfeld” for $18 per season? “Rescue Me” for $18.25 per season?
The Post-Christmas Twofer Sale!!
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Not quite what I was expecting from Abrams, but I'll bite... it IS HBO.
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deezam
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The only way I think I would watch an Abrams cancer-ward show is if they got Ben from Lost on there after Jack's botched tumor removal.
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What in fuck is going on over at HBO??? Those cocksuckers. (yes, I'm still bitter over Deadwood).
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Through the miracle of my imagination, I have seen JJ Abrams's new series about cancer patients. In this show, we meet a group of mis-matched cancer patients who have long and overly complex back-stories with very little ongoing development. There is a central mystery which is never satisfactorily resolved, and - since this is HBO - everyone says cocksucker a lot. Also, the lead actress is a well-toned brunette with small breasts. It was pretty good.
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Don't care what people say, I love LOST. And I enjoyed FEARLESS, FROM HELL, and Yglesias' TV Movie RISING SON in the '90s.
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May I propose the title, "Home-a Melanoma."
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Kill me now...
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http://tv.yahoo.com/news/article/urn:newsml:tv.ap.org:20070104:tv_the_o_c__canceled__ER:1
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has got to go. Now. It's no "photoshop plant" or Hulk Hogan reset (ie, it's not funny). As for Abrams new series, how about he figure out what the hell is going on in Lost before he goes running off to dip his wick in another program, for Chrissakes.
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My suggestion for the next one?
YOU ARE WORTHLESS, ALEC BALDWIN!
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Will the new series have some cool techno espionage music by Michael Giacchino? YOU ARE WORTHLESS, J.J. ABRAMS!
You see how well my new AICN catchphrase works?
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they have bombs in their ribcages, you know.
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I'm not over the "has a beer and cheets on his wife" thing yet.
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Yes, you read it correctly
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Have we missed anything?
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Hells yeah!
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moving to HBO. Honestly, give Rob Thomas a show there and watch him rack up the nominations.
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Surfing and cancer and gay-ass vampires? I use to think that HBO could do no wrong. But they haven't done right in so long that I'd really like to know what's going on over there. Was it a change of management? And if so, from whom to who? I wish this site could illuminate us on things like that. I wouldn't be surprised if the people who use to be in charge of HBO's original programming are now working over at Showtime. Seriously, if anybody has a clue what's been going on, please share. At least with Star Trek, I knew to blame Brannon and Braga.
Also, on Abrams, I gave him a pass over fucking up Alias, but now that he's been doing the same thing to Lost, I have no desire to watch anything by him anymore. I'll likely finish out Lost but at least it had an interesting premise (like Alias which I didn't make it to the end of), why on earth would I ever want to entertain myself with cancer? I gotta imagine he's not cheap either. That might mean they have to cancel one of their good shows to get him. Oh right, they already canceled all their good shows. For HBO, the grass is always greener on the other side, they need to grow the fuck up already. Maybe take some ritalin. -
they're not that bad. Nice to see Weeds, Office, and Little Miss Sunshine, and Departed respect, but where the fuck is Whitford's nomination. He's been kicking so much ass. And people, Abrams did fuck over Alias (however a large part of it WAS the network), but stop blaming him for Lost. It is NOT his show. He simply works on it. Lindelof and Cuse are who you blame and praise for it, and although Abrams is returning to writing and directing, he by no means is pulling the strings.
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What about, "I heard Captain Lou Albano was supposed to be in it, but he got caught in a snowstorm."
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How's that spacechampion?
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..., got caught in a snowstorm gotta eat."
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McNulty took a back seat this season, but come on, Carcetti and Pryzbaluski did a fantastic job.
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Damn new restrictions.
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Or else I need to eat Cheerverine's clitoris.
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That's just it, he returned to writing and directing this year and it turned to crap. I was worried about that last year when he said he was gonna get more involved. And producers have always had a lot of influence on shows. The fact that Lost mimics Alias in it's go nowhere approach can't just be a coincidence. Most shows that turn bad do go somewhere, just not where we'd like them to go. I would fully expect to see that unique go nowhere "Abrams touch" on HBO's Cancer as well. The patients won't be getting better, but they won't go into remission either, or some shit.
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just made me spew Dr Pepper all over my keyboard. Oh my god...I heard the voice in my head and it fit so perfectly.
We all want to tune in for some quality life affirming cancer deaths. Nothing quite as upbeat as that.
After having just survived endometrial cancer and having my fucking ovaries ripped out I really REALLY don't need to have a weekly does of radiation laced AbramsDrama.
Give me the gay ass vampires. When does the Charlotte Harris series start? And do we have cast list yet?
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Well, it has to be better than BOMB IN A RIBCAGE GOTTA EAT!
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So, will we get all kinds of flashbacks where the patients find out they have cancer? Even better, they're all mysteriously connected to one another.
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"I'm laughing already" "It's not a comedy"
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he'll just rip off Phenomenon and Heros and give them all brain tumors that give them special powers. I can totally see that.
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You said: "How's that SpaceChampion?" For schizzle.
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Focus, dude, focus.
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I know, how about ANY time anyone uses the words "gotta eat", "Damn you Michael Bay", "Hulk Hogan" or "Chuck Norris", it can be rigged so that their computer automatically blows up and they become engulfed in flames and die a painful death. Please? God help us a bunch of 22 year old fratboys taking over the internet with their "wit"...
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...up. Seriously.
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Would learn from Joss Whedons' mistake of trying to take on three shows at one time...It does'nt work, because one of the three shows will eventually suffer artistically...In his case, it was the last season of Buffy. He should learn to serve one master: TV or Movies.
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...so what the hell is a 'skein'? Maybe one of you guys could let me know. Thanks.
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WHY DON'T ALL YOU FANBOYS STOP WITH ALL THE STUPID REMARKS THAT WE HAVE ALL HEARD BEFORE!!!! IT MAKES YOU LOOK DUMB AND FAT AND IN YOUR MOMMA BASEMENT AND LOSERS AND REALLY BAD! YOU ALL NEED TO BE LIKE ME - - FOR I AM SUPERIOR TO ALL OF YOU AND I AM THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS ANYTHING IMPORTANT TO SAY AND I SAY IT WITH CLARITY THAT ONLY I CAN UNDERSTAND BECAUSE YOU ARE TOO DUMB TO UNDERSTAND MY SUPERIOR INTELLECT!!! SO SHUT UP AND BOW DOWN BEFORE ME AND STOP CLUTTERING UP A TALKBACK WITH YOUR "HUMOR" AND JUST READ MY GREAT WORDS AND TRY TO BE AS SMART AS ME EVEN THOUGH YOU NEVER CAN BECAUSE OF THE LOSERS THAT YOU ARE!!! WE ALL KNOW THAT THIS SHOW IS GONNA BE GREAT BECAUSE IT IS GONNA BE CANCER PATIENTS WITH HBO - - AND THAT MEANS EVERYONE WILL CUSS AND WE WILL GET TO SEE ALL KINDS OF NUDITY AS WOMEN EXAMINE THEIR BOOBIES AND GUYS GET A CAMERA UP THEIR BUTTOCKS TO LOOK FOR POLYPS!!! WHHOOOOOOO-HOOOOO! NICE RED JUICY BLOODY RED POLYPS HANGING ON TO THE SIDE OF THE PINKISH POOP CHUTE!!!!! THIS SHOW WILL BE GREAT AS ALL J.J CREATIONS BECAUSE HE WILL BE THERE TO SEE IT ALL THE WAY TO THE END!!!!! AND WE WILL SING AND DANCE AND LOVE THIS SHOW!!! BUT WE WILL NOT MAKE UP NEW CATCHPHASES, BECAUSE ONLY YOU DUMB WORTHLESS MOTHERFUCKERS DO THAT!!!!....And thus, I have spoken! - - - George, The 7th Chicken!!!!
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Writing a whole paragraph in capitals (for effect or not), puffing yourself up as "superior" (whether you're serious or not) and signing your posts "George, The 7th Chicken!!!!" pretty much makes you one of those "dumb worthless motherfuckers" you're talking about as well, Georgie.
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And for the love of all Geekdom, would someone get Abrams to focus?! I can see it now. Star Trek XI: Kirk searches for the last Rimbaldi artifact to destroy the tumor in the brain of re-imagined Wire-Fu Spock. Subplot Spock/McCoy bickering is a cover for their mad, mad, man love. Hey - tumor gotta eat.
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is a sad, feeble, middle-aged dad-like attempt by Variety at creating a cool new word and have it catch on like wildfire. Except it didn't, and that was 3 years ago. So they are literally the only one in Hollywood saying it, and they say it as though it's actually caught on. What's even sadder is they actually have FILTERS in their software that go through their writers arcticles and replace instances of 'the show' with 'skein' to make sure nobody forgets to use it. It's the pop-culture equivilant of giving yourself a nickname, then asking all your friends to call you by it. It's pathetic. Beyond pathetic.
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Although sometimes he says he does to try and get laid at parties...
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I think it means soap.
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George the 7th Chicken has been posting in capitals on aintitcool.com since the site first appeared -- 1000 years ago, mind you -- and he deserves y'all's respect! Don't be overawed by his "bow down to me" routine, though. He obviously has a demented God-complex playing out inside his brain. A God-complex that requires capital letters to be expressed. But at least he's got a brain. I'll give him that. Keep rockin' it, George.
Now on to JJ. An R-rated show about Cancer patients, huh? My first thought is: maybe he's grown tired of making fantasy shows like "Lost" and "Alias" and needs a more reality-based drama to fire him up again? Maybe. Maybe it'll be a dramedy (drama-comedy) along the lines of "Six Feet Under". Could be pretty cool if it goes there.
But if this show goes the way of "Alias" and sets up a million convoluted storylines that by the third season fall apart, I'll be disappointed. But if JJ injects a creative, dramatic, profanity-laden take on reality into this show, using his wacky mind to give us characters worth caring about, I'll check it out. -
I e-mail you about the Afro Samurai preview, then totally forget the first episode last night. That's what I get for depending on Coaxial as a TV Guide. :P
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The first episode that aired last night rocked and was actually worth your valuable time, not that anyone here would have bothered to tell you that...
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and I am SO FUCKING GLAD I found Afro Samurai. It was cool as hell.
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...next to the Hulkster.
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pryz and carcetti were throwing down..show the love
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Abrams's track record includes more than just Alias and Lost. He's also the man who created Felicity, and I'm pretty sure he was involved with What About Brian as well (or at least his studio, Bad Robot, was). I'm guessing this show about cancer patients is going to be something in that vein, a drama without crazy mysteries and all that.
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Jan 06, 2007 11:44:57 AM CST
Off topic Wire question, for those who saw season 4...
by danielkurland
I finally got caught up with all my recorded episodes, and in the finale, my tape cut out during the montage, which I am assuming ended the episode. The last bit I saw was that the montage started at Cutty's boxing area. Could someone please tell me what I missed and if anything crucial happened?
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Ok, no spoilers here, got the 24 season 6 premiere dvd today which has the first four new eps and the first 12 minutes of the fifth episode (odd fox have released this but it was cheap so no complaints here)
Have to say without a doubt the best season opening of any series ever, just total jaw-dropping tele perfection :)
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