The hills are alive, with the sound of TV. This week we’re super excited about John Carpenter making the jump from film to TV, plus the news that Hey, Arnold is heading back to our screens. We have a bunch of new trailers for you to check out as well as news of a pretty silly mistake from The Man in the High Castle‘s marketing team.
Our video of the week sees Adele appear on The Tonight Show and challenge Jimmy Fallon to a lie battle. The result might surprise you:
TV News
John Carpenter coming to TV?
In between the maelstrom of old properties getting revived for TV, it’s genuinely refreshing to see a name like John Carpenter possibly heading to TV. The writer-director is best known for his work in horror and science fiction, and now might be about to aim his singular mind in the direction of the small screen.
According to Carpenter’s wife, Sandy King Carpenter, the filmmaker has a staggering four television series’ in the works. Speaking on horror podcast Killer POV, she said: “Right now there’s four series’ waiting to go to network. As far as I’m concerned we’ll do all of them.”
The shows would range from horror to science fiction, to a mesh of both, all of which are presumably original ideas. Carpenter is an absolute legend of the industry, with films like Dark Star, Halloween, The Thing and Big Trouble in Little China under his belt. It’s a diverse body of work, which will hopefully be reflected in his proposed TV projects.
Tremors
In 1990 Kevin Bacon starred in Tremors, a comedy monster movie about monsters that lived in the earth and could suck you down into the soil if you weren’t careful. The movie spawned four sequels, most recently the direct to DVD Tremors 5: Bloodlines earlier this year. If you haven’t guessed what’s about to happen next, let me put you out of your misery: it’s becoming a TV show.
In the recent spurt of movie-to-TV ventures, Tremors may be unique, since back in the heady days of 2003 it already ran as a TV show for a single season. Kevin Bacon, who will reprise his role in the new series, is probably hoping his presence will help the new show go for more than 13 episodes this time.
Tremors was a lot of fun when it first hit cinemas 25 years ago, so it makes sense that Bacon would go back to something with so much public good will. His most recent TV show, The Following, though a reasonable success was somewhat dark. A Tremors TV show with Bacon at its centre (he’s also an executive producer on the project) might be the perfect project to add something lighter to his resume.
Lost in Space
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Remember that weird movie from the late nineties starring Matt LeBlanc? Well, it seems there’s a new plan to revive Lost in Space, this time as a TV series on Netflix. The streaming service has been making some serious moves of late, so it’s unsurprising that they’re attached to this remake. Apparently this revival has been in the works for roughly a year, so getting a platform to air on is probably a big deal for the project.
According to Deadline the reboot will be “epic but grounded”, following the Robinson family, as in the original 1965 series, lost in a difficult “alien universe”. We’re just glad the words “gritty re-imagining” weren’t used here. The series is to be written by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, the duo behind Dracula Untold
There have been several previous attempts to bring back Lost in Space to the small screen, including a pilot for the WB network back in 2003. The pilot never made it to series, but knowing Netflix the new version may well get dumped on us all at once.
Legends of Tomorrow
The newest trailer for the CW and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow is here, and it’s possible the most high concept thing you’ve ever seen on a TV screen. Taking mostly well known characters from Arrow
Second Chance
The television industry can be a weird and confusing place sometimes. Case in point: Second Chance. The show, which just got its “first” trailer, follows an old corrupt cop made young again by a super serum. If the trailer looks familiar to you, it might be because you’ve seen one similar already. Earlier this year it got a trailer under the name The Frankenstien Code, then briefly became Lookinglass before settling on Second Chance. Somehow the new trailer makes the show look less interesting than the first.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XfujuzhmCs
The Man in the High Castle Controversy
So Amazon should really have seen this coming. To publicise the launch of their prestige TV series The Man in the High Castle, the internet giant decided for an interesting advertising campaign. The show follows what could have happened had the Axis won World War Two, with adverts taken out on New York subway trains covering them in Nazi and Imperial Japanese insignia from the show. Not everyone’s exactly thrilled about this one. The adverts are all over social media, and probably not in a good way.
Degrassi: Next Class
The Degrassi series is a cultural phenomena that’s never quite made it over to the UK, but it’s apparently had a bunch of iterations going back as far as the early 1980s. Now, Netflix has picked up the rights to a re-jigged version of the show called Degrassi: Next Class, bringing the series to the UK and the rest of the world. The show is set in a Canadian high school and deals with issues important to teenagers and growing up. Check out the trailer:
Hey, Arnold!
The cartoon about the guy who had a weird shaped head is coming back for a TV movie. According to Comingsoon Nickelodeon are restoring the show in what could be the first in a series of TV movie revivals for the channel’s cartoon classics. It’s reported that the new movie will even reveal where Arnold’s parents have been this whole time.
Viral Videos
Cultured Vultures is no stranger to the awfulness that was this year’s Fantastic Four movie, but we’re enjoying the Honest Trailer all the same.
Hot off the back of her shocking victory last week against Ronda Rousey, Holly Holm appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers. Do all MMA fighters have to have alliterative names?
Here’s John Oliver explaining just how worthless pennies are in America:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh1hvzBdXgE
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