Syfy did pay a fee for each episode and they were supposed to get this money back with ads. But the ratings never grew, and viewing habits have shifted away from broadcast. I supposed that they tried to renegotiate the fee, but they had little leverage over production costs. Apparently, even when a network isn’t in…
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Syfy didn’t have many incentives to keep the show.
‘Frank, Frank... Why aren’t you even removing the spikes?’
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Done in 1976.
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Even if you don’t speak German, it’s obvious that Ralf Hütter is much more comfortable singing in his native tongue. I have “Trans Europa Express,” “Trans Europe Express” in German, and there are nuances in the phrasing that are missing from the English version. But, of course, the clunky delivery also contributes to…
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“Pocket Calculator” isn’t the original version. “Taschenrechner” is. Kraftwerk first wrote and recorded their songs in German, then they would produce an international version, in English. “Taschenrechner” was one of the few tracks which was translated into multiple languages.
It was because there was a change in showrunners before season 2 started. The show had already exhausted three different showrunners in its first season. Season 2 showrunner Keith Eisner didn’t care much about the conspiracy story, which is why he had the main villain killed so soon, and added to the main cast…
He did an episode of Legion last year, and two episodes of Barry this year.
NBC burnt through the season during the holidays. They had something like four episodes between December 21 and January 4, just after a hiatus of a month and a half. It was obvious they were trying to dump it at this point.
England was also a place that allowed film production in the English language without much interference from the studios or the press. Remember that he originally moved there for Lolita, because of the touchy subject. Kubrick hated Los Angeles and Hollywood, and only did The Killing and Spartacus (not his choice)…
With Kubrick, there’s always a component of visual trickery. He was a master at suggesting that he was controlling everything within the frame, and that there was no incident. I mean, when you see a CGI film, you don’t have as strong a feeling, while the whole thing is built from scratch on computers.
Not at this point in the show’s history. It has happened, for Scrubs for instance (JAG also switched networks, but only after one season), but the current story lines (Holt being considered for commissioner, Jake and Amy marrying) suggest a sense of finality, which was also quite obvious in Joe LoTruglio’s Twitter…
Also, the Ciment book has a 1980 interview with Julian Senior, head of publicity for WB Europe. I don’t know if it’s reproduced in the English edition of the book. The section of the interview on Barry Lyndon has Senior explaining that Warner audited projectors, because of all the photographic research done for the…
The A.V. Club has been targeted with cost-cutting measures that affect the entire division it’s a part of. Univision is desperate to find fresh money given the amount of debt for the entire group. That’s why there have been fewer shows reviewed and why they ask permanent staff to favor quantity over quality, so they…
Except that 1.75:1 was an existing aspect ratio at the time, as Disney used it for most of their live action and animation features in the seventies (The Aristocats, Robin Hood, The Rescuers or Pete’s Dragon are all 1.75:1, for instance)
That’s actually the thing. There have been some good, even great, Archer episodes after season 3, but Adam Reed painted himself into a corner with the main story line, and seems to have no idea so far about how to finish it. This isn’t just the cliffhanger with Archer being shot (you know they could deal with it with…
The Fox network won’t change hands. It’ll stay with the Murdochs, Fox News and Fox Business. The studios and the FX networks are the one at sale.
“This animated show has been THE BEST THING EVER for its three seasons, it’s a godsend that it gets 70 more episodes.” (An Archer fan in 2012)
Woody Allen was considered as the lead in the eighties. Neither Martin nor Allen were supposed to do some comedy for the part. Allen would have played a Jewish doctor in New York. Then Kubrick decided that, for the themes to make more sense, he should have a married couple as the lead, and his second choice after…