William Goodall's Blog » Television http://blog.williamgoodall.name Occasional mutterings Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:22:37 +0000 en hourly 1 Something in the Air http://blog.williamgoodall.name/2011/10/01/something-in-the-air/ http://blog.williamgoodall.name/2011/10/01/something-in-the-air/#comments Sat, 01 Oct 2011 17:09:02 +0000 William_T_Goodall http://blog.williamgoodall.name/2011/10/01/something-in-the-air/ Every year some new TV shows come out that seem based on very similar ideas. This year I noticed that Ringer and The Lying Game have rather similar concepts. Separated identical twins (played by the same actress), one rich one poor, swap places. One disappears and the poor sister attempts to find out what’s going on while impersonating the rich sister. More or less.

Grimm and Once Upon A Time both bring fairy tales into the real world but in rather different ways.

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Much closer than any other adaptation I can think of, and the better for it.

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Discussion of the show here and here and here.

[Edit]

And after just one episode has aired HBO has picked up a second season of the show!

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I have to say it again – a satisfying finale! How many shows have managed that lately?

Previously

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Another ‘re-imagining’ of cult character Fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer should brace themselves for a cinematic “re-imagining” of the cult character, which producer Charles Roven describes as a “a completely new reboot”.… [From Buffy to slay her way back into cinemas]

At best this would seem to be unnecessary and I expect it will be a lot worse than that. Joss Whedon is not attached to the project in any way.

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It was a quicker job this time. I didn’t lose any of my settings like region free or speaker delay. Successfully played my filthy rental DVD in time to return it for the next one :-)

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