From the writer/producer/directors of into the spidervers and cloudy with a chance of meatballs! I am so so excited for this!

I tried watching Designated Survivor when it first came out and didn't get through the pilot

It has been too long.

FYI, terms like “in-demand” or “engagement” are just made-up buzzwords created by random analytics companies that track meaningless metrics like hashtags, Google searches, likes, etc. Basically everything except actual viewership. News outlets shouldn’t use companies like Parrot Analytics as actual sources for anything.

Also of note, the janitor in Clone High was voiced by Neil Flynn, aka the janitor in Scrubs. Bill Lawrence once confirmed(or joked) that they were the same character.

Which seems ironic... since they got done cancelling most of the shows niched to millennials (which also had too many LGBTs and POC to the new owners' likings)

I mean I know Velma has gotten a lot of hate lately, but I always thought it was the anti woke crowd up to their shenanigans again, not that it was genuinely terrible

You’re correct. There are “no hierarchies of abuse in communist Russia or China” since both China and Russia are capitalist economies.

For people too young for this show. The show was being animated and voiced on a weekly basis with aggressive timelines for getting out each episode. The original show was supposed to be 24 episodes to a season but MTV decided to cancel it at Episode 13. So the final episode involved everyone being frozen with a message basically begging people to help them get the show uncancelled..... which it never did.

The show became super popular with the torrent generation and yeah... it really does look like they're targeting millennials badly on HBO Max.

not since twin peaks has an accidental 20 year gap worked in a show's favor

except season 3, it was shit. s2 wasn't that great as s1 either.

nobody mentioned I'm sorry yet, so I will.

I've seen the leaked first episode. There is a quick Gandhi reference and I could see them never referencing him again

Yes! I feel so bad but I also find Edwards character so annoying.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLT!!!!!!

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I really hope there is either a major Gandhi twist gag reveal...or at least a throwaway joke, never to be heard of again.

For those who don't know, India protested MTV for casting Gandhi in their TV series, prompting MTV to kill the show.

Ed O'Neill was David Milch's original choice to play Al Swearengen on Deadwood but HBO rejected him. Then Powers Boothe was offered the role but became ill and couldn't film the pilot. Ian McShane came on late and Boothe was cast as another character.

If The Walking Dead wound up on HBO, I'm sure there would have been boobs.

Thomas Jane might be the unluckiest. He passed on playing Don Draper on Mad Men.

He also missed out on playing Rick Grimes on The Walking Dead because he was already doing Hung and HBO wouldn't let him do both shows at once.

Kiefer Sutherland passed on playing Red Reddington on The Blacklist which wound up being played by James Spader.

I don't know if anyone considers Red an iconic role, but it's given James Spader 10 years of employment while Kiefer has had multiple tv shows that have failed to last. Now, after 10 season, The Blacklist is wrapping up while Kiefer's next show, Rabbit Hole, will be premiering in a couple days. This will be Kiefer's 5th attempt at launching a successful series after 24 ended.

I wonder if he would change things if he could go back in time. Or maybe The Blacklist just wasn't for him either way.

Why?

It's been 20 years. The bloom is off the rose with Whedon and he probably wouldn't be asked back. As NuTrek (among other shows) has shown us, revivals like this almost inevitably suck. And a reboot or universe won't have the magic of the show you loved, it'll just be a soulless cash in on a familiar property.

Be happy with the little there was. Treasure it. Because anything new will likely be a horrible mistake that doesn't add anything good, it just tarnishes the original.

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