Through the years, American producers have sought inspiration from across the pond, taking Britain’s best shows and molding them to fit our cultural sensibilities. With a few notable exceptions, most of these shows fall flat in their execution. There are some things that can’t translate to a new audience. In recent years, reality and game […]
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Television Turmoil: Manimal’s bad title and worse special effects made it a tough sell
Television Turmoil is a look at the worst and weirdest series to make their way onto the small screen. While it’s often overlooked, the title of a work does a lot of the heavy lifting with our first impressions. A bad or misunderstood name can immediately give a potential audience the wrong idea (just ask Cougar […]
Pluribus is a tantalizing sci-fi show impossible to resist
Before creating two of the greatest TV shows of all time, Vince Gilligan was a writer on The X-Files. For 8 seasons, he wrote some of the show’s best episodes and eventually became a co-executive producer. If there’s one thing to take away from Pluribus, Gilligan’s latest series,it’s that he hasn’t lost touch with his […]
Television Turmoil: Supertrain proved to be one of the costliest failures in TV history
There are few people in the 70s TV landscape as influential as Fred Silverman. Described as “The Man with the Golden Gut,” Silverman was renowned for his ability to pick out hit shows. This particular brand of executive-myth building started with stints on CBS and ABC, where he helped revitalize both networks and, in the […]
Chief of War: A historical drama that never loses its authenticity
As an avid fan of history, I’m immediately sat the moment I see the words “historical epic.” The less I know about the period, the better. Especially given the dubious accuracy of many of these films and shows. While I can’t speak for the veracity of Apple TV+’s Chief of War, it certainly has the […]