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looks so. fucking. TERRIBLE.
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looks good,but why dont they just make a batman mini series?
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May 17, 2010 1:47:20 PM CDT
I See A Flaw In The Cape's Great Plan!
by isleptwithkathybatesandallthatigotwasthi
"We can see your face.""Huh?""Under the hood. We can see your face. We know who you are.""Uh.....oh fuck."
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he was walking alone, piss drunk...i said hi and he just glared at me
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May 17, 2010 1:56:43 PM CDT
I didn't meet Vinnie Jones in honolulu
by isleptwithkathybatesandallthatigotwasthi
Perhaps one day, if I'm very unlucky, I will.
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May 17, 2010 1:58:51 PM CDT
The Event doesn't look as bad as I imagined
by isleptwithkathybatesandallthatigotwasthi
Or it could be the fact that I'm about to lose "24" and am desperately clinging onto hope here that something involving conspiracies and shoot-outs will come along to replace it in my viewing schedule.Probably that.
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from these awful DOA shows! You know you want "The Cape" & "The Event" to be good, but you can almost start taking bets right now which shows will be canceled in 5 minutes. At least "The Office", "Community", "Parks & Rec", and "30 Rock" are still around. All these others just seem a rip off of another failed show.
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is not THE EVENT.
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From the 12 year old exec who brought you Heroes & Robinson Crusoe!
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it was THE EVENT. What a monster!
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Blegh... sorry NBC, PASS! As for The Event, oh great, Weaver is back to fuck things up even more.
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Am I the only one whose browser crashes while trying to watch those NBC videos.I've tried Firefox, IE and Flock.
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So glad to see another show that is just like our lives! I totally sold something to Google for 12 million too! Hope that bad kisser girl gave that Alpha Beta-looking asshole some Herpes.
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I like it even less. It was already pointed out in this talkback but it bares repeating. If you don't want people to know who you are...wear a mask.The Capes son is the dumbest kid EVER if he doesn't recognize his dad.
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I can't wait for The french prince of Cheers and 30 rock from the sun
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None look watchable.
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my interest level just went up when I saw that Jean Ralphio (Ben Schwartz) from Parks & Rec will be a recurring/regular character on the undercovers. the quality of the show doesn't look too bad either. we'll see if it's any good content-wise
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NBC: We still live in the 1990's.-----later-----m
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Looks like NBC's answer to coming back from 4th place is to follow the ABC template of making every new show a Dramedy. I laughed my ass off with them trying to cram the word "sexspionage" down our throats. I'm on a NBC focus panel and that's the kind of lame questions they ask us all the time: "What do you think of the term "sexspionage"?" Of course none of the answers you can pick are "It's fucking ridiculous".
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How can such a beautiful and talented woman consistently end up in such unwatchable tripe? Seriously, The Cape could not possibly look any fucking stupider. Can a show actually be canceled mid-way through the first episode? Because it looks like that's where we're definitely headed with that shit.
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And wasn't he in a WB show with a young Milo Ventimiglia, Allison Mack, and Chris Evans? He's overdue for a break, but two shows? I guess he ought to be covered, unless both flop.
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...i mean, i expected it to, but man, it looks really good... but it will be canceled due to the "darkness" of the skin pigmentation... such a shame...and a bigger shame... ya can never show a black (nice and/or phat) ass on TV or music videos, but ya can always show a no ass in a g-string...whats up wit that?
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very shadow-like.Looks a tiny bit rough in some spots, but I'll give this a shot easily.
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and THE EVENT was born.
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Doesn't look a day over embalmed.
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I hope we get to see a bootleg of Adam's pilot someday. It was the only thing I've heard about that sounded interesting enough to get me to watch. NBC would probably just give his show to Leno anyway.
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Let's all not watch it together!
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THE CAPE looks fucking terrible. Look for it to last less than Happytown did.
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holy shite the cape is gonna suck
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that has to be some kind of record right? The Cape has the potential to break it.
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Season finale tonight! Sounds like it is going to be amazing.That's how interested I am in ANY of these NBC shows. So disinterested that it inspired my mind to wander to a show that's not even on NBC. Sheesh!Of course, House is amazing and this looks to be a very good introspective episode where the most moving part is going to be any insight we get into House despite some pretty incredible ongoings around him.So yeah, that's how excited I am about NBC's schedule.-Cheers
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you do realize that she picks which shows she will audition/try out for, right? It's not as if she's just thrown into a bunch of shitty shows and has absolutely no say about it. she's made bad choices. she helps put herself in these "unwatchable tripe" shows.
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didnt think anything could be worse than the bbc comedy, mumbai calling...i was wrong school spirit is total shite...we in cali have passed school bond issue after school bond issue, but it takes volunteers to rebuild a school? where is the fucking money going?ive already commented on the cape...total dog meat the event is an attempt to capture the heroes, 24 and lost crowd...will be gone by midseasonim not even gonna bother watching the resti will never support another writers strike...these guys are all hacks
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So I finally bothered to watch that video for The Cape. Wow. They went over-the-top cheesy. Creating a martial art that involved using a spider silk cape as a weapon? And a secret identity protected by a hood that might, I don't know, fly off when he's doing vigilante stuff like running or staring into a stiff breeze. The obviously scripted humor is a bit much as well.Even if this does end up being better than I fear, the premise just seems too far-fetched even for a Batman/Kick-Ass inspired comic-type television show. That spider silk cape and the associated cape-driven martial art will just be too much to suspend disbelief. And this from a guy who bought into the Batman, Spider-Man, and Iron Man movies, not to mention years of comics and cartoons, including The Tick and Venture Bros. I guess I at least expect some adherence to the basic laws of physics (or tongue-in-cheek humor, which if done right can be awesome), and, you know, ACTUAL martial arts. At least if you're going with the realism-based plot design. Heck, he's a cop, why not have him use a gun since he's probably had some training/experience with it, rather than some (even if it DID exist) antiquated and limited martial art based on having a very impractical article of clothing.I'm just a little impressed that they could make a show designed with so many problems from the get-go. That in and of itself takes some effort. So to that . . . Bravo!-Cheers
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It is like a a bad SNL skit.
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If they'd just get rid of all the toxic family stuff and just have him kick ass against maniacs like Batman. God, not EVERYTHING has to be soap opera and family values.
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The Hood wants his costume back.
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It's traditional when a black character provides support for the hero that he should either be in a wheelchair or be blind, or missing his hands. This explains why the black dude isn't out kicking butt himself but instead needs to train some candy ass white guy.
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If he'd stop listening to Candyman.
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A weak Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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Yup, all gonna be canned. Probably best to guess the quickest to be cancelled.
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What's the over/under on that getting canceled? I'd say 4 shows air and it's gone.
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The actress is 26 years old. Yeah, right.
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just cringe inducing
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May 17, 2010 5:17:23 PM CDT
I'm shocked at all the positive feedback UNDERCOVERS got
by bruce of all trades
Cuz that thing looks like some serious MR. & MRS. SMITH rip-off crap.
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But with each clip, it looks worse and more offensive. I might still watch it out of morbid curiosity, look watching an accident at the side of the road.
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but if any show can do it, its going to be outsourced.
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Kill his family. Nobody cares.
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May 17, 2010 5:35:08 PM CDT
Is it better to be an actor in a failed tv show than...
by richard_gere_raped_my_gerbil
..to have never made it on tv at all?I suspect the lead actor in "The Cape" will have this question put to him several times over the course of his life.
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Each and every one of them. But, Christine Woods and the lead brunette chick in Friends with Benefits makes my dick hard. Just sayin'.
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Good god that was terrible. I thought nothing could be worse than the Outsourced clip. Then I watched the Love Bites clip. This is the same network that gave us Community, right?By they way, Mumbai Calling was an ITV comedy, not BBC.
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Also known as the mild mannered Dick Johnson, CODPIECE, has been trained to use his Codpiece, made of nanoarmor, to fight for truth justice, and the American way no matter how hard it gets or how long it takes. When the Cape needs help he erects an unstoppable alliance with his trusty sidekick, CODPIECE!
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They all look like dogs. Creative bankruptcy thy name is NBC.
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My money is on Outsourced. Racism is hilarious!
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I would have loved to have seen his show (especially this single camera one and not the other live-audience one from last year), but alas, this just means that he'll still be able to do his podcast every day, plus more.
As for THE CAPE, it looks like every single other tv superhero show, be it THE FLASH, MANTIS, or hell, even KNIGHT RIDER: Hero gets a family of assistants as his backup team, including a tech girl, and fatherly mentor. Too dumb for regular people, to stale for nerds. Seriously, this one looks dead-on-arrival,
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...on Twitter and Facebook desperately organizing "Bring Back The Cape" campaigns.
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..on his fiftieth failed audition since The Cape was cancelled.
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It's sad that so many won't give Undercover a chance just because of the skin tone of the main characters. Hate the show for its terrible writing and for being corny, not for something so trivial.
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..disowned by his family for repeatedly shouting "I was The Cape once!" down the phone at them whilst drunk.
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..selling 'The Cape' DVDs to anyone who passes his trailer park home in order to eat.
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Which goes to show how desperate NBC are. It seems that 'quality' and 'intelligence' have been forgotten about. And what the hell is it with half of the clips giving away the ending of the show? The outcomes may be predictable, but that doesn't mean that they should be revealed in the trailer.Apart from Community, I think I give up on network TV. Just wake me up when Futurama's back.
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He played the Australian or British doctor. So if The Cape tanks, he'll still be known from ER.
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What the fuck is wrong with people? Harry's Law looks like it has appeal, certainly 5000 steps above Raising the Bar. And I could get into The Chase and The Event--the later of which looks like it could be as good as I wanted Flashfoward to be--but could be as bad as Flashforward actually was. Undercovers looks blah to me, but it did have a little humor. Love Bites looked like the return of Sex in the City, so ugh. The rest, pass. The number of comments on the unworthy The Cape, even just to rip on it, shows how limited the demographic on this site can be.
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The lead still needs work hiding his accent, but otherwise it's got Keith David and Summer Glau and basic superhero tropes - don't understand what's so far-fetched in a superhero story. I'm a fan of this stuff, so I'll check it out. It's gotta be better than the shitstain that was Heroes.
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...that according to both Yahoo!'s and AICN's spell-checkers, "Undercovers" is not actually a real word? I like JJ Abrams shows (Well, Alias, Lost and Fringe) but do you get negative bonus points for the name of your show not actually being a real word?
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a Non-Event.I have my fingers crossed for aliens, but I think it will probably be something that plays better to the terrorist porn crowd.Perfect Couples actually made me laugh a little, so I feel bad about myself.
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But it doesn't take "pride" to fix the school system. It takes money. And there's a reason it's considered one of the deadly sins. I hope the show spurs more community interest, but communities will remain dead and dying until rents are under control and slumlords living in mansions are held accountable for what they do to communities.
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They get the same number of negative points that "Google" gets. Although some say "google" is a kind of old cricket term, I'm skeptical.
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A sci-fi show on NBC longer than 3 seasons.
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Undercovers looks mediocre at best. Hard to tell from a short clip but who knows. JJ is someone I trust but that trailer didn't grab me like I had hoped it would.
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I've seriously never seen a channel with such a terrible line-up.
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I would have watched this show if it was about Frank Costanza's lawyer
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For this they cancelled HEROES? What questionable substance has someone slipped in NBC executives' drinking water?
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May 17, 2010 7:13:08 PM CDT
Christ, what do they show the beginning middle and end of everyt
by runawayboulder
Why bother watching the first ep?
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Your right runawayboulder, these "trailers" just saved me from wasting my time when the shows premiered.
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Cliche upon cliche and don't get me started about that GODAWFUL "say hello to Dorothy, bitch" line OR the long-underwear line... Why can't new ground be tread in these presentations (and productions). It's the same crap over and over and over again.
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CUUUUUUUUEEEE the protests!
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Outsourced is probably the only one up there I'll be checking out, made me laugh. Maybe I'll catch Undercovers as well, I liked some the lines. It'll probably be the best written one of the bunch.
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Sponsored by Glad.
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THE CAPE lasts two or three episodes MAX. Alternative scenario is THE CAPE lasts for five episodes somehow and by then gets "retooled" with the destruction of his family and gets set in a apocalypse future where "The Chess" ("The Cheese?") has won and everything is tinted blue. Then he teams up with STREET HAWK and they fight M.A.N.T.I.S!
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to me, all brit shows are bbc
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May 17, 2010 8:40:10 PM CDT
Why does it always involve "A Man / Cop / Firefighter Framed for
by nzguy
The Cape looks like a throwback to the old 1980's TV shows of Knight Rider, StreetHawk, Airwolf etc etc etc
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call centers do not have one client...they have manyexcept for the large tech firms like microsoft, which has real microsoft certified engineers, who arent half bad (even though they are stealing american jobs)at least mumbai calling got that part right
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The Cape looks like a complete rip-off of the Japanese film K-20: the Legend of the Mask.
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It looks like, at the very least, that it could be a good ride.
As long as it spends less time being maudlin, and more time kicking ass, that is.
Sure, it doesn't look like the most original show on television, then again we are talking about network television, which is not exactly known for originality and bold concepts.
I don't expect The Wire with costumes, though as long as I am entertained for an hour or so and the characters (The Cape in particular) don't do too many stupid things too often, then I am on board,
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I know who I'd bet on in a fight.
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Seriously, they stole the look of Bruce Willis's superhero character, and his family dynamic, and then added in a cheezy cape and Keith David. Yeeeesh.
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May 17, 2010 10:19:12 PM CDT
Jesus- the Rockford Files pilot must have been absolute shit
by carl's hat
for this crap to get the go ahead. I'd rather watch season 5 of Prison Break than see Sucre sell out and now be a freakin' US marshall. The lead of this show needs to be a male- sexist? Maybe. True- definitely.
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And do a show about the foulmouthed crime fighting Dwarf.
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Time to reboot Supertrain.
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good cast...nice premise...plus those smart guys at NBC put it in the same timeslot as the soon to depart 24...I smell success as long as they know what the Event is and are not making it up as they go along
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For the most part, I no longer like television. Every one of these shows is trying to be "cool". Nearly all at least seem to take place in New York, or a similar city. And watching shows about model-hot women having trouble finding a man has become tiresome. And it's supposed to be some big joke that that woman has no push up bra? Is it really all that necessary when you're 25?
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The romantic comedy has progressed to the point where it may in fact be the downfall of western civilization.
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..about Corporate America.major Companies that rake in Millions of dollars like Dell,Microsoft and even AICN's beloved Amazon.com have ousted American CSR jobs to WIPRO whose representatives' english is not as credible/fluent as it should be.it's not all about company costs through attrition, but fucking greed.
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Unfortunately the protagonist was not the masked K-20, no was he a superhero/vigilante but a scheming villian instead. I had such high hopes for this movie when I first saw the incredible animated inro.The Cape is aimed specifically for the comic and Heroes fans.(i.e. geeks) however, it may go the way of the bionic woman remake or FOX's Mantis.
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..I'm a fan of Keith David's work from JC's The Thing to his voiceovers in Spawn and COD:MW2.But don't ask me to watch The Sensei after the first 3 minutes, I had to remove that crap from my instant Netflix queue.Funny premise (pun intended) when david's character, a minister is harrased by Skinheads only to have his ass saved by some Martial arts guy,who before thanking him..(SPOILER)....Man was that fucking hilarious.
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does not make a good show. The Cape will be a mid-season replacement that will end up needing a mid-season replacement replacement.
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The trailer is a bad Curb Your Enthusiasm, reality-meets-fiction clone, not to mention completely off-putting when the premise of the show is, "I have everything I could ever want. What now?" Yeah, that's something we can all relate to, eh?
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It seems like they're determined to alienate their young viewers, and are completely content with producing shit. After screwing Conan and canceling Law and Order and Heroes, I'm done with NBC.
The Cape looks atrociously bad, and Outsourced looks incredibly racist, and there were no laughs in the 5 minute clip (maybe there were, but I shut it off after the dog humping leg toy).
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