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The DH is sick, so we've been watching a lot of movies this week. Just watched Panic Room. I'd been avoiding it because I thought it would stress me out, but really, there was just far too much Stupidity Factor for me to do anything other than MST3K it.
Cool camera tricks though.
Seeing as how we have no thread for tv other than sci fi or certain particular shows, I thought I'd mention here that word has come down from HBO that while Season 4 of Deadwood is impossible at this point, David Milch will make two 2-hr movies to finish things out.
This week is Deadwood week on Matt Zoller Seitz's blog. Great stuff!
why? Does everybody want too much $$$?
why? Does everybody want too much $$$?
Some good guesses here: [link]
Why did this happen? A complicated set of issues that revolve around money, it would seem. The bottom line is that "Deadwood" is expensive to make, cannot possibly be cut for use elsewhere (even on ad-supported cable), would not be co-financed by any other production company in Season 4 (unlike the very expensive historical drama "Rome," where costs are offset by foreign producers other than HBO) and would require HBO to pay the "Deadwood" actors to sit around while notorious clock-killer Milch works on a different HBO series, "John From Cincinnati." Nothing dramatically new in all of that except, and this a big exception, HBO balked at paying the tab.
Sopranos are done until 2007. Deadwood over. Now I'll have no problem whatsoever cancelling HBO until next year.
Sopranos are done until 2007.
What? There's more? I thought this last season was...the last season.
I've never watched the show, but I hear things.
Deadwood over.
Deadwood is airing season 3 this summer, AFAIK.
What? There's more? I thought this last season was...the last season.
There are eight more episodes left of "this season" which will air NEXT year. Pretty silly, mind you. But there it is. When Rome and the Sopranos return, I'll re-up for HBO. And hopefully get it at an introductory rate again.
Now I'll have no problem whatsoever cancelling HBO until next year.
We do this every season for HBO (Sopranos) and Showtime (The L Word).
There are eight more episodes left of "this season" which will air NEXT year.
What the crap? That's a hell of a fucking long midseason hiatus. And the episodes are already in the can, aren't they?