XFiles series reboot is a go

[BikerDude]

Yes.
Fox is bringing back the XFiles in 2016.
http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/01/x-files-reboot-anderson-duchovny-on-board
With Mulder and Scully.
Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny are on board.
And it was made a fact by overwhelming demand from fans.

But the big push to revive The X-Files didn?t come from Fox or even from the show?s creator, Chris Carter. It came from Scully herself, Gillian Anderson. Earlier this month on The Nerdist podcast, Anderson said she would be ?f?ing overjoyed? to make more episodes of the show that jumpstarted her career. (Despite the fact that she?s currently starring in The Fall.) Anderson and hosts Chris Hardwick and Matt Mira encouraged listeners to tweet the hashtag #XFiles2015 and the response was overwhelming.

The podcast.
http://nerdist.com/nerdist-podcast-gillian-anderson/

[ZoeAbides]

Saw Chris talking about this on @Midnight last night, and earlier read an article about the 6 shows they're producing as a trial run.  I, for one, am excited!  Picked up where I left off on Netflix to get myself ready for the inevitable!

[BikerDude]

Saw Chris talking about this on @Midnight last night, and earlier read an article about the 6 shows they're producing as a trial run.  I, for one, am excited!  Picked up where I left off on Netflix to get myself ready for the inevitable!

We need more good TV.
Personally I hope that the Netflix and Amazon originals things catches on.
Like House of Cards.
I love having the full season land on a particular date so you can watch it whenever you want.
Binge watching is the way to go with a lot of shows.
Better Call Saul is very frustrating to watch one episode a week.
It needs to be binged.
It's like having one french fry one episode a week.

I'm also having to do that with justified final season.
Very frustrating.
http://www.npr.org/2015/03/26/395534419/justified-creator-aims-to-stay-true-to-the-late-writer-elmore-leonard

[ZoeAbides]

Saw Chris talking about this on @Midnight last night, and earlier read an article about the 6 shows they're producing as a trial run.  I, for one, am excited!  Picked up where I left off on Netflix to get myself ready for the inevitable!

We need more good TV.
Personally I hope that the Netflix and Amazon originals things catches on.
Like House of Cards.
I love having the full season land on a particular date so you can watch it whenever you want.
Binge watching is the way to go with a lot of shows.
Better Call Saul is very frustrating to watch one episode a week.
It needs to be binged.
It's like having one french fry one episode a week.

I'm also having to do that with justified final season.
Very frustrating.
http://www.npr.org/2015/03/26/395534419/justified-creator-aims-to-stay-true-to-the-late-writer-elmore-leonard

I'm with you there.  I avoided Breaking Bad for that very reason, then binged the whole series.  I'm kinda doing that with The Walking Dead.  I'm avoiding Saul right now as well.

I did enjoy Orange is the New Black, but sucks waiting for the next season to drop.

[Reverend Al]

Jesus, you kids are spoiled!  I grew up in the 60s watching everything on a black and white television, and only had seven channels to choose from.  Sadly, not much has changed in the last five decades--whether you have seven channels or 700, there's rarely anything on worth watching.

[BikerDude]

Jesus, you kids are spoiled!  I grew up in the 60s watching everything on a black and white television, and only had seven channels to choose from.  Sadly, not much has changed in the last five decades--whether you have seven channels or 700, there's rarely anything on worth watching.

We're probably the same age more or less.
I say TV has changed.
I'd gladly watch the Munsters or Gilligan's Island one episode a week.
But better call Saul or Justified are painful to watch that way.
Cliff hangars like they often leave you at literally raise my blood pressure.
It's like an itch right between the shoulder blades that you can't reach.

The wave of the future is full season for streaming.
All of TV is going to go that way.
You'll have a menu of shows and you get to pick.
It's so old fashioned to have to watch it at a particular time.
Yeah I know DVR's. But why not cut out the middle man?
And I'm sure it would benefit the networks and advertisers.
There are only so many hours in the day and they need to split that between different types of shows.
Putting out whole season's they can offer way more content and consequently sell way more advertising.

Now if you have a particular show that appeals to a niche audience they have to decide if the time slot could be used by a more "mainstream" type show. Which would appeal to a wider audience meaning more advertiser money. So we tend to get a lot of unimaginative crap that appeals to the broad swath. Sure you get a handful of shows that are adventurous but that is balanced by bland crap that is a sure bet.
Once shows are predominantly offered on demand, as long as the show can make a profit there is no reason not to make the show. It's money in the bank.
It's not competing for a time slot. Just put it out there and the smaller audience buys it and it makes money.
No downside. It's not driving mainstream viewers to another network by taking a time slot.

[Hominid]

Jesus, you kids are spoiled!  I grew up in the 60s watching everything on a black and white television, and only had seven channels to choose from.  Sadly, not much has changed in the last five decades--whether you have seven channels or 700, there's rarely anything on worth watching.

I had 2 channels growing up.  CBC and CJOH (This is Ottawa in the 50s and 60s).  Well, 3 if you count the french CBC, but I don't know french.  There's the odd show to watch on the main networks, but I prefer the Netflix original series mentioned above.  Walking Dead, Justified.  Didn't like House of Cards; the way Spacey turned to the camera for comments... seemed weird to me.  To each his own.

Speaking of DVRs, that's the only way SWMBO* and I watch our favs, so we can skip through the ads.  Blacklist, Mike & Molly, Scorpion, etc.  If she watches Grey's Anatomy, I'm off to my office to watch something else.  ;-)

Now one network has introduced "Shomi" to compete with Netflix.  You 'Muricans get that south of our border?  It's only available on PCs and tablets here.

*SWMBO = "She Who Must Be Obeyed"

[Reverend Al]

...We're probably the same age more or less...

It's funny, on every forum I frequent either daily or almost daily, eventually someone starts a "How old are the members here?" thread, and on every one the majority of the members are in the 45-65-year-old group.  I'd guess the Dudeism forum isn't much different, but it's more difficult to gauge because I think Dudeism appeals to a wider age range than those other forums on which the subject matter generally appeals to a much narrower audience.  I'll be 54 years old at the end of July, by the way.

...I say TV has changed.
I'd gladly watch the Munsters or Gilligan's Island one episode a week.
But better call Saul or Justified are painful to watch that way.
Cliff hangars like they often leave you at literally raise my blood pressure...

In that respect, I agree TV has changed.  Episodic television was formerly comprised of mainly stand-alone episodes with an occasional two-part episode, but more recently writers stretch the same plot(s) through the entire season, and often farther than that.  And, yeah, there are some quality shows out there, but you still have to dig through a whole lot of shit to find that gold.

...The wave of the future is full season for streaming...

Yeah, and I really can't say I'm in favor of it.  I know technically it's not much different from cable television, but in my experience the Internet still isn't quite as reliable as cable or satellite television.

Also, regardless of how they're broadcast, it still takes the same amount of time to produce these shows.  Currently they broadcast the first episodes of a new season while the later episodes for the season are still being produced.  So if they're planning to wait until the entire season is complete before they make it available to viewers (i.e., so their viewers can binge watch an entire season) there will be a much longer wait time between seasons than there is now.

Admittedly, I'm an older feller who is set in his ways, and quite often I go by the old "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" saying.  I don't think cable/satellite television is broken just yet, but I'm quite sure many from the "wave of the future" generations would disagree with me.

[BikerDude]

Also, regardless of how they're broadcast, it still takes the same amount of time to produce these shows.  Currently they broadcast the first episodes of a new season while the later episodes for the season are still being produced.  So if they're planning to wait until the entire season is complete before they make it available to viewers (i.e., so their viewers can binge watch an entire season) there will be a much longer wait time between seasons than there is now.

Well I know that the shows that I'm most interested in seeing do finish the whole season before the first episode lands. Justified is 100% finished before the season starts. Same for Better Call Saul. Breaking Bad was also. I guess it goes with the extended plot lines. The season has an arc and it's subject to change as they proceed. Which leads them to want to leave open the possibility of going back and making changes. Once an episode is aired that's impossible.

I just think that the advent of streaming will open a lot of doors for shows that just wouldn't get made otherwise. Way less risk for the networks. Overall a win win.
Heck I mostly watch my shows on the roku or the smart TV now anyway.
I try to watch weekly but inevitably miss them or fall asleep.