[Dormant, move to !television@lemm.ee] Shows and TV

Will Trent and The Rookie premiered last week, also pulling off strong viewership for ABC's Tuesday night lineup

'Severance' Season 2 features new and returning characters joining Adam Scott, Patricia Arquette and John Turturro in the dystopian orbit of Lumon.

Netflix is making 'Surviving Black Hawk Down', a doc series based on the hit Ridley Scott movie starring Josh Hartnett.

Trailer post:https://lemmy.world/post/24346655

Follow the call of the arena. Spartacus: House of Ashur premieres this fall on STARZ

Isabella Bucceri, Nukâka Coster-Waldau, Salóme Gunnarsdóttir, Björn Landberg and Synnøve Madocy Lund have joined the Season 3 cast of Wheel of Time.

Looks great!

Also, Admiral Shala'Raan vas Tonbay, leader of the quarian people in the Mass Effect games.

I just finished watching The Expanse, and I was looking up information to soothe the grief.

Having re-watched 30 Rock several times, it really stands out how much Jenna Maroney improves throughout the series. She is a one-note, generally uninteresting character in Season 1 and part of Season 2, to the point where she's barely mentioned in some episodes. She really doesn't have any significant stories for a long time. Eventually, as her character's career starts to take off, the show ramps her absurd character traits up to 11. By the end of the show, she goes from a side character to one of the most important parts of the show, hitting the emotional climax in the finale. She is a funhouse-mirror reflection of the Season 1 character and as Flanderized as any character on TV.

And it works. She is more fun, interesting, and ironically also developed and deeper. Most of the characters are Flanderized a little, but none develop as much as Jenna. Tracy is definitely a different character, but he was always ridiculous, while most of the rest of the cast are varying degrees of the same.

I don't know if I can think of a show that really pull this off so well. A lot of shows change or develop the characters as they progress, but the examples of good Flanderization are few and far between. You could probably make a case for Winston on New Girl.

Are there other good examples?

Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/television/comments/1i1ea3l/shows_with_successful_flanderization_of_characters/

The hospital-set sitcom 'St. Denis Medical' has been renewed for a second season at NBC.

With 152.5 million total views, 'Squid Game' Season 2 trails behind only its own first season (265 million) and "Wednesday" (252 million).

Adam Scott, Britt Lower, Zach Cherry and Ben Stiller promoted 'Severance' at Grand Central Station in New York City.

The red carpet premiere for Season 2 of Netflix's The Night Agent has been canceled, the latest Hollywood event to be scrapped due to LA wildfires.

As BioWare charts Mass Effect's future, the former Commander Shepard thinks its OG cast deserves a TV spotlight.

I was thinking about the Sandy Hook Promise: Gun violence warning signs video where a stereotypical teen romance story plays out and in the background someone gives off warning signs that they're going to go on a shooting spree and it's made me wonder if there are movies that follow a similar setup of building something up in the background just to have it completely overtake the main story line.

Like an average city girl following in love with a prince but you see protests and other signs of civil unrest in the background and the prince gets assassinated at the wedding. Maybe some kind of story that ends in 9/11 or the Cold War turning hot. Some kind of discount M. Night Shyamalan-style twist.

Silo star Steve Zahn speaks about working with Rebecca Ferguson, creating Solo's backstory, his season 3 theories and the show's season 2 sets.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/22519950

Scottish actor Rory McCann, best known for playing the burly brute The Hound on HBO’s Game of Thrones, will replace late actor Ray Stevenson for a second season of Star Wars show Ahsoka, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

Stevenson played the hulking former Jedi known as Baylan Skoll in the Disney+ series. He died after a brief illness in May 2023, three months before the series premiered. The actor was a fan favorite, thanks to his resonate voice, humor and roles in Punisher: War Zone, the Thor movies and TV’s Rome.

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It is unclear when the new season is to begin shooting or who will be directing. Dave Filoni was the showrunner of season one, and is returning in the same capacity.

The books are better.