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Update!! NBC Wins Hot Bidding War For New Secret-Agent Hourlong From ALIAS Mastermind J.J. Abrams!!
UPDATE!! It now appears that NBC outbid the others for the show's rights.
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I am – Hercules!!
A new spec pilot script authored by “Alias”/“Lost”/“Fringe” creator J.J. Abrams and Josh Reims has set off a bidding war among ABC, NBC and CBS, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The untitled hourlong, which sounds like it could be a sequel to “Alias,” deals with a pair of married secret agents.
Reims, who earlier worked with Abrams on “Felicity” and “What About Brian,” more recently wrote on “Dirty Sexy Money” and “Brothers & Sisters.”
“Fringe” was another spec that fell into a network bidding war. Fox ultimately snapped up the rights and it became last season's highest-rated new series.
Find all of the Reporter’s story on the matter here.
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She's too fine a lady to not see on a weekly basis. Cast her in this show.
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please
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Who cares???!!! JJ Abrams has no ending for this rip-off of a show, just like he never seems to have a real ending for any of his work, although he always claims to?
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I'd watch that.
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Seriously, somebody out there do a reboot and cast that guy. He doesn't even need to do the British accent.
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JarJar is in. It's not as if they beat the woods to find a script.
If this script flops, he'll be getting another green light for the next excretion next year.
Of all the scripts (in all the gin joints) floating around Hollyweird, JarJar just happens to find . . . his own . . . and by great good fortune, he determines that it is worth flogging to the nets. And by every objective standard, the network dopers agree.
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Season 5 sucked shit, but I still feel like it ended too soon. JJ needs to make a movie where Arvin Sloane eats his way out of the cave-in.
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Sep 30, 2009 11:56:23 PM CDT
It mostly likely will go to Disney..oops I meant ABC!
by hollywoodhellraiser
It would sink at NBC.
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The TV show that was the spin off of the suck ass Brad Pitt movie was pretty good.
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I was afraid he was gonna jump ship once he became a big time movie director.
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would air episodes out of order, and NBC would put it on a Friday death slot. Whoever wins, we lose.
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When I commit to a show, I stick with it. I get invested and want to see how it all ends. Seasons 1 and 2 of Alias are FANTASTIC, and 3 is pretty good, but man oh man was season four absolutely TERRIBLE. What the fuck was going on in the finale? Giant red ball and zombies? Come on. I tuned in to watch the series finale, but I was so disappointed that such a great show lost so much momentum. It was those damn cliffhanger finales. They'd write impossible stuff that they couldn't get out of.
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Scarecrow and Mrs King
Hart to Hart...
There's bound to be plenty more...
Get Smart. -
Season 4 was pony.... Season 5 I have but never watched.... Funny how all of that gang are still in jobs after that pile of keich (Scottish word)
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Viewership is an alltime low and videosales are dropping like dead flies. Do the networks really need another show that only a few Lost fans will watch religiously? I guess the answer is yes.
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that's where the best shows are now!
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But they did that stupid 2 year skip forward and then reset button. And it was unwatchable after that.
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...bomb terribly with all involved? Yikes. Anyway, Abrams is wasted on these silly shows. More on the level of Fringe and Lost.
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agree with many of the above, the first 2 seasons are gold, i enjoyed three and how they dealt with sydney's story [that scene where she is with locke in the van watching her own funeral], but after that it kind of went awol. was this when abrahams had jumped ship? i loved those impossible cliffhanger endings they use to do.
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4 and 5 not so much. Seasons 1 and 2 of Alias are among the best tv seasons of all time. And 3 was also very good. I miss Jennifer Garner..that episode on the plane with her modeling bikini's for that dude she was trying to get information from..yummy.
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If it's not, well we have had quite enough of that Jar Jar shit from him. Don't you start too. It's so fucking lame. You are suggesting what? He is as bad as the character Jar Jar Binks? Man, even some of his harshest critics would argue he is not even close. At least think of something which makes some fucking sense.
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I'm guessing HBO never picked it up but that would've been an interesting project from Abrams...
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there was something i loved about the first 2 seasons, possible the 3rd too but i dont remember as well. but it was how every single episode ended on a cliffhanger, it was usually resolved in the first 5-10 mins of the next episode but that was just cool and gave the series a sense of urgency. luckily i saw season 1 on dvd so there wasn't much waiting but season 2, yeah i had to go week by week for that. damn. i've noticed that True Blood is using that same idea. but again i saw the first season on blu and i've watched the 2nd with those "on demand" channels so i never had to wait long.
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Oct 01, 2009 7:10:04 AM CDT
can we just get some Vertigo properties made into tv shows inste
by miyamoto_musashi
Y The Last Man, Preacher, Transmetropolitan, Fables, 100 Bullets.
Of course all on cable, network TV could be finished for me after Lost is over. -
"Lost" is now a talkshow host punchline. Whatever spy show Jar-Jar's got planned, it'll inevitably involve "alternate" timelines or time travel. He's gotta sell a new series now because when the "Lost" finale backlash hits - OH AND IT WILL - his cachet in Hollywood will flatline fast. Fuck this site's 90's tech - get a talkback program where we can fucking edit our posts - like we've been asking for YEARS!!!
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After that it slipped a little bit (but was still really good)
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They should have just stuck to the formula in the first two seasons. It became an incomprehensible mess after that, and wasted a pretty damned good cast in the process. Gotta lay off the pharmaceuticals, fellas.
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Moron.
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It felt like it got pulled in too many creative directions after a certain point, but the combination of the pre-Affleck'd Jennifer Garner and the super spy intrigue had me hooked. It's when they started to move away from all the weird Milo Rimbaldi mythos that the show started its downward slide.
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I could get behind chicks kicking stuff.
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Watching Victor Garber being the badass Jack Bristow was a personal highlight. And offing himself to trap the newly-immortal Arvin Sloane forever was just a stellar move. "You beat death, Arvin...but you couldn't beat me."
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Fucking get a MODERN ASS talk back edit feature... Have Amazon pay for it... for fuck sakes!
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From keeping me on the edge of my seat through the first and most of the second seasons to actually putting me to sleep in the fourth. A show that completely lost its way, but man, that first season is pure gold. One of the best single seasons of network TV ever? Yeah, I think so.
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"Lost" is run Damon and Carlton. Season 2 may not have been so well received, but it was mainly the fault of scheduling and the fact ABC wanted the writers to drag shit out. Once the show got an end date, things have been running smoothly. And anyone who bitches that there are no answers, obviously hasn't been watching the show since Season 3: Part 2. Finally "Alias" has a lot of good ideas, but veering toward the Sci-Fi too heavily killed the show. I can take the Evil Francie cloning stuff. But the Rambaldi shit was retarded. Had the show stuck to a more grounded reality with light sci fi elements, it would have still been on the air. Also no fight has really topped the Sydney vs Francie season 2 fight. And the show always worked well when she had a rival spy after her.
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Will these agents be turned into zombies by a giant red ball of Rimbaldi goo? Alias ended so bad that I almost used it as my excuse to give up on Lost in S3 (fortunately, it picked back up in 4 and 5). JJ shows seem to be about throwing spaghetti to the wall, and running out of the room, without knowing whether it stuck or not.
I gave up on Alias after it's second-to-last season, as did many others. Mission Impossible was horrible, Star Trek was god awful, and he has very little to do with Lost (the only decent thing "he's" done). I tried half a season to get into Fringe, but it just didn't do it for me. Unless the reviews are extraordinary, I imagine I'll take a pass on this one. JJ is easily the most overrated hack in Hollywood. -
My wife and I watched every episode of Lost this summer and when we finished she said, "What now" and I said "How about Alias?" So we opened our Rambaldi cube and watched all over again.Seasons 1 and 2 was pure gold. Season 3 wasn't on the same level, but still good. Season 4 was meh until close to the end. Season 5 was an improvement, although not on the same level as 1-3. I think the problem with 4 is that it didn't have an identity, or a central enemy to rally against. Seasons 1 and 2 had Sloane and SD-6, Season 3 had the Covenant, Season 5 had Prophet Five. Season 4 had...err...umm...Elena Derevko at the very end? And would you believe it, that's when it started getting good.But the two-hour series finale was pure television gold. As close to perfect as you can get. The final stand-off between Jack and Sloane, Sloane's fate, the Syd-Irina fight, the bomb on the subway, the end of Prophet Five,
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Is still an awesome episode of Television. Anyone who says otherwise is a jackass. Nothing on any other genre show has managed to capture the same level of excitement that the episode had.
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When will they show it?
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every night at 10, mondays at 8-9
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JJ total involvement with TV now is writing big concept pilots, selling them, maybe having a hand directing the pilot or writing a few episodes in season one, but that's it. He hands the creative reins to people he's worked with and goes to do a movie or dream up another show.
He's a master at the high concept and grabbing you with a mystery. I don't think he ever has the answers to the mysteries, just the questions. -
Truly you have a dizzying intellect. I am stunned to silence by your powers of persuasion. Bravo, sir! Bravo!
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fuck u abrams for killing jack bristow.
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Damn it you dweeb, can you do anything that hasn't been dozens of times before? Including by you?! You creepy crap! If I could, I'd punch him into paralyasis!
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AICN style.
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AICN Style!
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They wanted to move away from the Rimbaldi elements, and the serialized nature of the show, and take it into a more "stand-alone" episode style format so new viewers wouldn't be lost. The writers tried to accommodate them, and they killed the series. Then, of course ABC led the way with a new wave of serialized programming, like LOST.
Guess ALIAS was just a few years ahead of its time.
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Oct 01, 2009 11:48:14 AM CDT
3 stupid networks fight to have a show from an untalented hack
by asimovlives
I just learned a completly new meaning for the notion of "complete mental retardness". Carnivale and Rome gets canceled, and any stupid reard shit that Jar Jar Abrams shits gets into a biding war. There is no justice in this world.
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The spiritual precursor of Jar Jar Abrams's Shit Trek, where future men in space act like spoiled brat dumb emo teenagers.
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No, he just wipes his ass on a napkin and everybody pretends there's words in it and it's a script.
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Oct 01, 2009 11:52:43 AM CDT
New Jar Jar Abrams' show = more adults acting like emo teenagers
by asimovlives
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and it lost alot of steam once JJ stopped caring about the show...LOST spun it's wheels for a couple seasons after he became less involved, and I see the Same happening to Fringe. Guys like a wizkid CEO who comes in for a year to show you how to run the company, then when he leaves, everyone starts fucking eachother in the mailroom.
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Just being honest. I tried Alias and it was silly. I watched Felicity and fell asleep. I watched Lost and well...that show is just an open question with no answer which is a cop out way to bait an audience. I tried Fringe and it started okay but then lost its way on the path to X Files town.
I'm not one to punish success but this one (J.J) is quite clearly a case of somebody sitting next to the right person at synagogue. He's not very talented but you really want me to think he is.
John Wells deletes more worth while scripts than I've seen from this guy in his ever. -
Will it be a sequel to this instead? Please? I always wanted to see what happened to the two of them, and 9/11 came around and messed that all up.
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and love him for proving them correct that "all Jews are bumbling, fumbling, creatively bankrupt, intellectually sterile, 9/11-obsessed, oozing pustule-looking rich bitches". Hell, I'M Jewish, and JJ Abrams makes me feel like carving a swastika into my fucking forehead.
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on this new show and be the exec producer, but he's too busy to be creatively involved. there's no guarantee this will be good.
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...tomorrow Star Wars and Stargate continue to be flushed down the drain with the premiere of "Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Season 2" and "Stargate Universe"...they both look absolutely atrocious. More prequel bullshit and a horrid BSG/Voyager/Lost in Space/Atlantis mash-up. It's a good time to be a fanboy...At least on Sunday we have the "Seinfeld Reunion" story-arc starting on Curb...
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Fuck Jar Jar Abrams up his fucking ass.
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That's news to me! Why didn't the people who made Rome though of that?
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Six posts in the span of an hour is no way to live your life, son.
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Holy shit, usurping the name of a CGI character that many angry nerds can rally around AND combining the wit of Kevin Smith AND morphing it into a painfully accurate and satirical barb for JJ Abrams! One wonders why, since you've been doing this exact same bit for almost a year, that NOBODY thinks that it's FUNNY or even TRIES to emulate it? Could it be that it's lame as fuck? Nahhhhhh...
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yeah it's insane right? It's a public meltdown and we are all witness. Watch the tears fly off his skull as his head spins screaming "jar jar why!?". The guy is a joke.
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Fuck Jar Jar Abrams in his fucking ass.
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Clone Wars didn't have the best of starts with the movie and the season was a bit hit and miss at the beginning but it seemed to get better as it went on and from what I've heard of season 2, it's going to be closer to Empire in tone than A New Hope or Phantom Menace.
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Maybe you shouldn't had liked Jar Jar Abrams's shit work in the first place then, no?
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Fuck Jar Jar Abrams up his fucking ass.
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JJ abrams comes up with some cool concepts... you can argue about the execution (im one of those jerks who actually liked cloverfield.) but he does deserve praise for keeping TV interesting. on that note.. i dont think its possible to please geeks. 10 years ago TV was all cop dramas, family dramas and sitcoms.. JJ starts building concepts with felicity, moves to a cool spy drama with alias, brings us one of the best, crazy mindfuck TV shows ever with Lost, gives us a new giant monster movie with cloverfield, brings Star Trek back from the dead, then give us an updated X-files (a show i missed dearly) with Fringe. im not saying everything he does is perfect, but how can any of you completely hate on the guy?
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They feel less special b/c what used to be cult TV is now mainstream.
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I think of George W. Bush crossed with that Mad Magazine guy!
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Please, just DO IT!
"Ghosts of Girlfriends Past?" "The Invention of Lying?" WTF? Come on now. I want her to kick ass again! -
yeah, i guess.. but man, i think TV is great right now, with two of my current 'cant miss' being JJ shows. I dont go to the movies as much anymore because there is so much good TV lately.
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I don't think AsimovLives got hugged often enough as a child.I guess you can feel free to fuck Spielberg in his ass as well, since on the bonus DVD in the Alias Complete Series DVD set, the Academy Award winning director heaped lots of praise on Abrams.
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The first two seasons of "Alias" were great! Once they made the time jump- fucked!
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Christ almight, why is AsimovLives such a doucher?
If you didn't like JJ's Trek, YOU WERE NEVER A FAN! Simple as that, the Star Wars prequels why we are on that...Clone Wars tv show is a whole lot of goodness. Sucks to be a retarded hater. -
Oct 01, 2009 7:52:39 PM CDT
Get the feeling AICN put out Bay and Abrams stories just for Asi
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
He must think he died and went to hell.
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But it must suck for you just to be a retard.
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Oct 01, 2009 9:22:51 PM CDT
PS, "Hater" has to be the most asinine word ever...
by fa_tass_dinomolester
I am a hater of the word "hater".
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What? I know that you're mostly innocent, Herc (if only because you only post stories, you don't get involved in them) but even your terse statements are subject to egregious errors. The last time someone snapped it up the rights, it won a ball game. Please take the time to PROOFREAD. It's gotten particularly bad lately. That probably has something to do with Quint contributing less. You could all take a cue from him and actually READ the articles you're posting.
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Should be interesting if NBC then renews CHUCK for a 4th season... two shows on the same network with the same plot?
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And not only that, but it will get awful ratings and be canceled also. NBC is basically the death channel, unless your a hip faux-sitcom. JJ needs to pitch a show to HBO or AMC and be allowed to run wild. NBC is going to hobble him, and it'll end up like Heroes. I'm disappointed. And not only that, but NBC just spent a shitload of money on it Im guessing, and will continue to spend shitloads, and then abandon it like they did with Kings. NBC loves to fail. It's their thing.
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possibly "Chuck" as well. With this show, NBC will have a shiny new series to cater to the 18-39 year olds, and Heroes will have less leverage with the only "lifeline" they had left: Which was despite abysmal (and falling) ratings, they were still one of the highest rated things on the network overall.
"Chuck" will likely fall into the same category. Heck, aren't they going to be showing it on Fridays? That's a death-sentence by itself. -
NBC's promotion department makes all of their shows look as hip and interesting as a glass of unfiltered tap water. If this show airs any earlier than 9 o'clock EST, you know it'll end up being neutered by network programming execs.
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can u come up with something new except. fuck_____ and fuck him in his fucking ass. is there a supressed sexual problem.
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I loved the first two seasons of "Alias." Loved them. Thought they were two of the most creative, well-acted, intensely plotted, beautifully filmed television seasons ever.
And then seasons three, four, and five happened. Season three was the dirty bomb that destabilized the entire series, but I kept hoping they'd somehow throw a band-aid on it. They did, I guess, but the "explanation" for why Sydney lost two years of her life at the end of season two was weak and VERY poorly retconned. I never bought it, as most viewers didn't, thus "Alias" slowly lost its way.
But the first two seasons of the show remain amazing and ass-kicking. I can still throw in the first episode of "Alias" for a friend or friends and they instantly want to borrow the series. Always happens. I only own the first two seasons, but its enough.
I hope JJ and Reims return to form.
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