Bleeding Cool’s chief film writer Kaitlyn Booth and a crew of in-the-know TV journalists have a few words to say about the relative merits of two of the newest science fiction shows on TV, Star Trek: Discovery and The Orville, each show highly controversial in its own way.
It isn’t exactly a boxing match, but still, we can’t help but wonder: What corner of the ring are you in? Let us know!
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Sunday October 1, 2017, Starz aired season 3, episode 4 of Outlander. In this episode, Jamie (Sam Heughan) is serving as a groomsman for a noble British family and is pulled into a web of intrigue by the scheming Lady Geneva Dunsany. Meanwhile, in a much later time period, Claire, Brianna, and Roger continue their search for Jamie’s whereabouts via history books.
THE GOOD:
We’re writers for television and film. So let’s start off with a completely inappropriate cosmological metaphor:
If I Love Lucy was the “primordial big bang” of television comedies—spontaneously birthing into existence all we know and love about television’s situation comedy format, and causing the formation of galaxies such as The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, All in The Family, Cheers, and every other interstellar mass of wonder that comprise television’s brights and best sitcoms—
If we can use that clunky metaphor, with your permission…
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Monday September 21, 2017, Fox premiered Season Four of Gotham. This premier episode opens six months after the tragic release of the tech virus that ravaged Gotham in Season Three.
Who’s been on the stage of The Voice? Supremely talented singers… and this idiot.
Yeah, that’s right, me.
We had a Lip Sync Battle at the Big Name That Shall Not Be Named Here TV and Film Studio where The Voice is shot and also where I work. I signed up solo for P!nk’s F**kin’ Perfect, thinking I could get a routine done in time before the contest. Yeah, that didn’t happen.