The first preview for Bryan Fuller's Mockingbird Lane TV series -- now smushed into a TV movie by NBC, after paying $10 million for it and then somehow deciding it's not what they wanted -- is finally here, and guess what? It looks pretty damned good. Given Fuller's track record of Pushing Daisies, Wonderfalls, the first season of Heroes, and all that, I don't know why I'm so surprised, but I'm also kind of surprised to discover Mockingbird Lane is actually funny -- with all those somber preview shots, I guess I forgot this was going to be a comedy (I'm kind of dumb, admittedly). Anyways, the show looks pretty great, Eddie Izzard is perfect for Grandpa Munster (that is a sentence I never thought I'd type) and now I'm genuinely sad we're not getting an actual show out of this.
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what do you expect from the tv networks in the US if its not brain dead reality tv crap then they dont want to know.........i was cynical about it but then i watched the preview and it didn't look that bad and now they have gone and cancelled it.
Ever since I treated "30 Rock" as a real documentary of what's going on inside NBC headquarters, nothing, and I mean NOTHING, NBC does today surprises me anymore:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTj47rcuM-4
I don't recall it ever being advertised as a comedy. All the info I saw said it was going to be "a gritty realistic take were the Munsters eat people, Ooh". Most people's reactions from what I remember was "What the fuck?".
The only thing I'm surprised at is that anyone thought that Brian Fuller + Eddie Izzard would be anything less than awesome. Shame on NBC.
the only thing i hate about the tv show re make was the fact that it was going to be a drama instead of a comedy like the original
Dangit. Now I have to be conditionally interested in this again. CURSE YOU NBC, CURSE YOU AND YOUR FICKLE WAYS.
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oh, NBC, you just keep on sucking and sucking. hey, i heard myvoicenation's got a great message board system, why don't you attach it your shows?
This is where someone like TNT needs to branch out from dramas and pick up promising shows networks have shat on...
I have a comment box but I only came here to read other peoples comments - there are comments but I can't see them for some reason... My Voice Nation nerd rage... rising
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@Bearr You'll WHAT?! What the hell kind of nerd would do that, much less declare it in front of people?
@SteveAsat I'm kind of a maverick. I play by my own rules. I don't care what society thinks. Yeah.
sad for this thing sounded interesting a new take on a classic. but guess nbc figured okaying this for a series would take away a spot for some new reality show. though at least the thing got a movie to see what could have been
@demoncat_4 It's happened before. That's how we got an Eighth Doctor. Whether that little sidetrack helped or hindered the overall history of the series is a matter of debate. Unlike, say, the Land of the Lost movie.
@SteveAsat yes but the eighth doctor was fox trying to do an american verison of dr.. who. and the eighth doctor is cannon. the munsters have been out of the spotlight for ages plus hollywood also did the same with the short lived dark shadows tv series. so this is not a new trend
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I remind myself that I've seen a lot of crap that had good commercials. Then again I've seen a lot of good stuff that had good commercials too. Well at..........WAIT.....Did Herman Munster boot up with the Mac sound? Let the Mac/PC jokes commence.
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Perhaps if viewership is through the roof and NBC sees how popular it is? Oh wait, no, then they'll just "Heroes" it up.
@MatthewKerr Or perhaps it will be successful and then shipped off to another studio who will then probably just destroy it as quick...
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@AFMG @Lithroe @Gallen_Dugall Actually, it seems to be a better title for an emo contemporary band.
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@Lithroe @AFMG @Gallen_Dugall Well I hope it has a safety switch, hate for it to go off in your pocket.
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@Lithroe @Gallen_Dugall "Retractable Hate" now seems like a good title for a Metal song.
