Thursday, October 31, 2019
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Temporary Layoffs News: Green Lantern Returns
Eight years after Green Lantern underperformed at the box office, HBO Max is resurrecting him on the small screen. Will DC TV’s Magic man Greg Berlanti strike gold with a distressed property? Only time will tell.
Read more about it here:
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Temporary Layoffs News: Going Down to South Park
HBO Max, the new streaming service from AT&T and Warner Brothers announced that it will spend $550 Million for the streaming rights to South Park. Read more about it here:
Monday, October 28, 2019
Temporary Layoffs News: ABC Renewals!
ABC has announced full season pickups for three of its shows- The Rookie, Stumptown and Mixed-ish!
Full story available here: https://tvline.com/2019/10/28/stumptown-full-season-1-order-renewal-episodes-abc/
Sunday, October 27, 2019
NEW FEATURE: Temporary Layoffs News!
Beginning tomorrow evening, we’ll highlight one TV related news article EVERY evening! This will be in addition to our regular morning feature. Check back each evening after 6PM PDT (9PM EDT) beginning tomorrow!
Saturday, October 26, 2019
Friday, October 25, 2019
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Deep Dive Rewind: Charlie Brown, Part Four
Prior to the Peanuts specials, television animation was seen as being cheap and disposable. Walt Disney wouldn’t even touch it and what did air was mostly repackaged theatrical cartoons. Charles Shultz didn’t want to make cheap specials that wouldn’t be remembered thirty minutes after they aired. He was looking to create something special that would outlive him. While Coca-Cola and Dolly Madison were most likely delighted that the special would have legs, they probably hadn’t expected that the specials would still be watched and enjoyed 50 years later.
Much of the credit for that goes to the team that was assembled to produce the show. Bill Melendez, who produced the animation and Vince Guaraldi who produced the score had the same high standards that Charles Schulz championed. They wouldn’t talk down to kids or assume that quality didn’t matter because the specials were “just for kids”.
It was this attention to detail and quality that made these specials live long past the expiration date of other less ambitious productions from the same time period.
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