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Clips!! Clips Of The Nets' New Shows, Including DOLLHOUSE, FRINGE, LIFE ON MARS And Mike Judge’s THE GOODE FAMILY!!

FIRST by Yeti	May 15th, 2008 10:39:50 PM
bwha ha ha
Life on Mars looks horrible!!! by typingaway	May 15th, 2008 10:40:45 PM
It looks like a comedy in parts! Plus, um, hello where's the friggin Bowie song!??!!? Time to buy a bootleg of the original.
Fringe and Dollhouse look to have a lot of potential by Yeti	May 15th, 2008 10:45:19 PM
Joss Wheldon is back baby!
Is the original Life on Mars by Series7	May 15th, 2008 10:53:56 PM
Any good? Anyone?? Like I saw the promos a bunch when they showed it on the BBC America, but it looked kind of boring. It got really good reviews though. Anyone?
I don't understand... by flickchick85	May 15th, 2008 11:13:44 PM
why they always use these out-of-context clips (well, most of them anyway), as if even though we have NO CLUE what they're talking about, we're supposed to be intrigued, anyway. I mean, wouldn't trailers be more effective? Unless the show sucks of course, like it appears Life on Mars does. Then no trailer or clip can save them.
Oh, and Sit Down Shut Up by flickchick85	May 15th, 2008 11:15:01 PM
is probably pretty funny, being a Mitch Hurwitz show, but that animation is just so damn ugly, it's hard to want to watch it. Of course I will, though. Hurwitz=genius.
OMFG LIFE ON MARS LOOKS LIKE SHITE by Bill Clay	May 15th, 2008 11:27:32 PM
What a weak sauce version of the original. Even Ashes to Ashes looks better, God forgive me.
trailer by vaterite	May 15th, 2008 11:32:11 PM
hey, this isn't the trailer that was pulled from youtube before.
Eliza Dushku by CrazyJoeDavola	May 15th, 2008 11:49:02 PM
Sweet cleavage in that clip.
is this link working? by oisin5199	May 16th, 2008 12:28:00 AM
I'm just getting a blank screen.
Soooooo.....JJ is bringing back The X Files? by fedrich519	May 16th, 2008 12:32:00 AM
That's pretty cool of him.
The Cleveland Show by The Guy Who Slept Through Everything.	May 16th, 2008 12:34:05 AM
They're actually making that!?!
Sit Down, Shut Up has a laugh track? by SilentP	May 16th, 2008 12:41:36 AM
Goddammit, what the fuck? Dollhouse looks good, though I have no idea what's going on in that scene. And the shared dream thing in Fringe was kind of silly, but whatever, still looking forward to that one.
Series7 by velum	May 16th, 2008 02:53:37 AM
yes the original series is fantastic. They are all on the net if you look for them.
Yikes... by DC Films	May 16th, 2008 03:31:55 AM
I hope that not the best of Dollhouse in that dull, wooden clip!!! Fringe could be nice, or just 'MSI' (Mind Scene Investigator). Hope it's not just derivative crime hunts, with cliche serious and wise-cracking partners. Nothing wrong with that if it's good, but we've been there with Spooky and Skully and by the looks of the trailer that ain't broken yet, so these guy's'll come off second best. Hoping JJ has some interesting twists and arch, 'cos Lost meets X-files could really be nice.
The Cleaveland show is not real by David Cloverfield	May 16th, 2008 03:32:03 AM
It's just a "how stupid that would be" publicity stunt. Hell, maybe it will start out like the Cleaveland show, and it will turn into a Family Guy episode after the first ten minutes. hey, that would actually be funny.
Life on Mars by montimer	May 16th, 2008 04:30:57 AM
Why all the Life on Mars bashing? I love the original series, and don't think the US version will be anything like it, but I don't think that's a problem. If it does what The Office: An American Workplace did, and finds it's own style it stands to be good. Oh, and I'm looking forward to seeing Colm Meany kick some more arse like he did in Layer Cake.
missed point by collective	May 16th, 2008 05:50:02 AM
the original LOM was supposed to be set not just in the 70's but a 70's cop show i.e the sweeney. so for a u.s market it makes sense it would be your 70's cop shows
Series7 by brokentusk	May 16th, 2008 08:52:33 AM
A friend of mine leant me the first season of the show a few months ago. He told me it was absolutely brilliant and that I had to watch it. Needless to say, I made it through half of the season before abandoning it. The production design and acting was great, but I just felt the show was too boring. I wanted it to pick an identity, to either be hysterically funny, or deadly serious, but the show tries to be both at the same time – something which some people seem to love, but I didn't. I realise they were cleverly trying to re-create the formula of British cop shows like SWEENEY, but I thought it would have been better if every episode was treated like an episode of C.S.I., except the main character (Sam Tyler) has to keep trying to solve crimes the old fashioned way because he's stuck in the 70s – they didn't really take advantage of this gimmick enough. Instead they repeatedly include scenes of Sam wondering whether he's in a coma, insane, or actually in the future, which become increasingly annoying after a while. You know what I mean, where after every advert break there’s some crazy dream sequence where the main character wakes up in a cold sweat or something? Annoying. Don't want to put you off though, because other people love every minute of it. I just thought it was an incredibly wasted opportunity, which is why I’m looking forward to the U.S. version (even though, from these clips, it looks like a complete re-hash of the British version).
The only reason Life on Mars pisses me off by Laserhead	May 16th, 2008 08:58:21 AM
is because they won't let the Brit version be released on DVD in this country, since they're doing the U.S. remake.
"your 70's cop shows"... by Bill Clay	May 16th, 2008 09:25:22 AM
That's the problem with US Life on Mars. US 70's cop shows didn't have Gene Hunt. They've too literally tried to copy the original, and given us a weird UK/US hybrid. The US LoM should look like we're watching an episode of Baretta, with Gil Grissom trying to teach modern policing to the 70's neanderthals. And I guarantee you that the LoM title is going to put off the majority of the US audience who will assume it's a sci-fi space show. This won't even make it through 1 whole season before cancellation.
Life on Mars by The Pelti	May 16th, 2008 09:41:10 AM
The British version was fantastic because it dealt with the characters instead of of being 70s CSI. I don't have high hopes for the american version, only because it can't hope to recapture the chemistry between Phil Glennister and John Simm that was so essential to the show. I do think that, like the Office, this is a show they can't simply import to the United States, as it has a lot of elements that are very specific to UK cop shows. I just hope that the Region 1 DVD/Bluray of the UK version comes out around the same time. Seriously though, whats with the straight remakes of UK shows, between Life on Mars and 11th Hour, these look like two beat for beat remakes, right down to the story and the character names.
Dollhouse looks like Bionica Lewinsky Pt. II. by Christopher3	May 16th, 2008 10:57:34 AM
And the big problem with "Life On Mars" - besides the miscast mannequin as its lead - is the US tendency to drag things out for X seasons. Also - no creepy BBC test pattern girl.
DVD release by Fount of Useless Info	May 16th, 2008 01:05:49 PM
"they won't let the Brit version be released on DVD in this country, since they're doing the U.S. remake." Because the availability of The Office DVDs hurt the US version so much.
The Lost Files and The Bourne Joss Whedon-cy by zooch	May 16th, 2008 05:15:29 PM

Working link? by supertoyslast	May 17th, 2008 03:46:14 AM
Anyone got working links to these clips? Because I'm not getting anything at the above link. Don't know if it's because I'm in the UK.
Life on Mars US Trailer by Shan	May 17th, 2008 10:46:16 AM
John Simm and Philip Glenister must be rolling in their graves.
Life on Mars trailer on You Tube by aversiontherapy2	May 17th, 2008 12:46:58 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =1-aDlRJVYuI My god it looks terrible! The tone, perhaps only set by the stupid narration and editing, is awful, just awful. And wtf is up with the production, they've taken so many things from the UK version, like the appearance of the cops (right down to the Ray Carling look alike) and Tyler's f'ing wardrobe! The only thing quintessentially American about it was the fact that they gave him a big ass muscle car instead of the crappy car he got in the original. Gene Hunt had the 'cool' car. This has disaster written all over it. Which is a shame, because Colm Meaney might have made a good Hunt.
Oh, and by aversiontherapy2	May 17th, 2008 12:49:45 PM
The US version of Sam Tyler looks more like a serial killer than a cop. He's supposed to be the anti-70s copper but he looks as much of a thug in this as the rest of them.
I knew the US Life on Mars sucked when... by Bill Clay	May 17th, 2008 06:15:42 PM
...Philip Glenister said in an interview that they had offered him the role in the US version. WTF!? How the hell could Glenister be a 70's American cop? Even using the familiar Colm Meany is pushing the suspension of disbelief envelope. These unimaginative dolts aren't adapting LoM for the US, they're refilming the original series shot for shot.
...and "acclaimed international series" ?! by Bill Clay	May 17th, 2008 06:20:10 PM
They're afraid to say it's a British series in the American trailer? What is ABC scared of? Maybe they fear that Joe Sixpack will think it's another 'Upstairs, Downstairs' if he hears it came from the UK.
Killed another site! by No-Op	May 17th, 2008 08:01:31 PM
Nobody can handle the power of AICN links.

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