Punch Drunk TV

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK:

• Netflix has invested $1Billion dollars in a Roald Dahl deal that will bring 16 of the author's books to life -- including, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, The BFG, The Twits, George's Marvellous Medicine and The Enormous Crocodile -- in multiple animated shows.
• Netflix is developing a 10-episode, live-action "Cowboy Bebop" series.
• "Ugly Delicious" has been renewed for a second season.
• The planned spinoff to "The Middle" has been scrapped by ABC
• "Take Two" has been canceled at ABC
• CBS will end the "Murphy Brown" sequel after this season.
• Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of "Spongebob Squarepants," has died at the age of 57.
• Youtube is going to shift back its strategy with originally scripted content from being a premium pay service back to an ad-based platform in 2020.
• Jerry Springer will launch his own courtroom reality show called, "Judge Jerry" in the fall of 2019 at NBCUniversal.
• Legendary TV is developing Blake J. Harris’ "Console Wars" novel, which documents the "behind-the-scenes drama that chronicles how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary and a team of rebels, took on the juggernaut Nintendo and revolutionized the video game industry," as a limited series.

JACK'S LOSERS: "Dirty John" and "Paradise PD"
AARON'S FENCERS: "Room 104," "The Purge" and "The Walking Dead"
JACK'S FENCERS: "Queen America"
AARON'S WINNERS: "The Good Place," "The Final Table," "The Nightflyers," "The Christmas Chronicles" and "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"
JACK'S WINNERS: Matt Baume's Culture Cruise, LegalEagle and NHK WORLD-JAPAN all on YouTube, "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" and "Hilda"

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Welcome to Episode 115.

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! 

It's turkey week and, while you're stuffing your face while arguing with that crazy uncle of yours, enjoy sneaking an earbud into your ear to take a listen to our wild and crazy show.

Oh, and we ate some Crack Pie, courtesy of Momofuku Milkbar. And it was fuuuuckin' tasty. 

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK:

• "Big Mouth" has been renewed for a third season.
• Jon Cryer has been cast as Lex Luthor on "Supergirl."
• Benedict Cumberbatch was almost cast as Vampire Bill in HBO's "True Blood."
• A "Jack Reacher" TV series is in the works at Paramount Television. According to TV Line, the books' author, Lee Child, said, “for all his talent, [Tom Cruise] didn’t have that physicality.” So, for the TV series, they’re looking for someone who more closely matches the books’ description of Reacher. Basically, to sum up, Tom Cruise is too short.
• SYFY announced its first original late-night animated series, "Alien News Desk." Set to debut early 2019, the series is a weekly, half-hour topical animated series set in an extraterrestrial newsroom. Voiced by Will Forte (as alien news anchor “Drexx Drudlarr”) and “Saturday Night Live’s” Heidi Gardner (alien co-anchor “Tuva Van Void”), the 12-episode series will cover up-to-the-minute news and commentary about the universe’s most baffling species - the inscrutable Humans of Planet Earth.

AARON'S LOSERS: "American Horror Story: Apocalypse"
JACK'S LOSERS: "Super Drags"
AARON'S FENCERS: "Saturday Night Live," "The Kominsky Method" and "Dirty John"
JACK'S FENCERS: "The Kominsky Method" and Origin"
AARON'S WINNERS: "Salt Fat Acid Heat," "Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown," "Supernatural," "Dogs" and "Sally4Ever"
JACK'S WINNERS: "Dogs," "Daredevil," "Haunting of Hill House," "Sally4Ever," "Follow This," "The Other Side of the Wind Documentary" and "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"

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Welcome to Episode 114.

In this week's episode of Punch Drunk TV, we stuff our faces with rolled-up meats while asking the important questions, like: Which John Leguizamo is the best John Leguizamo? Is it the clown from "Spawn" or Benny Blanco From the Bronx? Choose wisely...

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK:

• "Game of Thrones'" final season will premiere in April of 2019.
• Stan Lee died on November 12 at the age of 95.
• "The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina" will release a special holiday episode to Netflix, titled, "A Midwinter's Tale," on Friday, December 14. 
• "Westworld" filming location, the Paramount Ranch, burned down due to the Woolsey fire in the Santa Monica Mountains
• "Temptation Island" is getting rebooted at USA Network and will premiere January 15th at 10 pm
• Amazon has renewed "Bosch" for a sixth season, making it the longest-running original series on the platform.
• Hulu is teaming with George R.R. Martin for a new small-screen cinematic universe based on the book series, "Wild Cards." 

AARON'S LOSERS: "SNL," "Making a Murderer," "Haunted" and "American Horror Story: Apocalypse"
JACK'S LOSERS: "House of Cards" (Season 6, Episode 1) and "She-Ra and the Princesses of Power"
AARON'S FENCERS: "The Conners," "The Purge," "Supernatural" and "The Walking Dead"
JACK'S FENCERS: "Iron Fist" (Season 2) and "Angels of Death"
AARON'S WINNERS "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," "John Leguizamo's Latin History for Morons," "South Park," "Room 104" and "Daredevil"
JACK'S WINNERS: "Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san," "The Kids Are Alright," "Detroiters," "Haunting of Hill House," "Daredevil" and "Sally4Ever"

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Welcome to Episode 113.

Has it been two weeks or three weeks since we last recorded? Jack and Aaron disagree on these numbers (it's been two weeks, but whatever). Still, it doesn't really matter because we are back! Jack is back from Japan, Aaron has left his couch, there's a bunch of interesting TV news worth discussing, Rick Grimes didn't die, and somehow witches are once again all the rage!

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK:

• After Sunday's episode aired, AMC released the news that three "Walking Dead" TV movies are in development aimed at continuing Rick Grimes' story. 
• Vince Gilligan is developing a "Breaking Bad" movie that will allegedly follow the present story of Jesse Pinkman
• According to SlashFilm, the highly anticipated "Deadwood" movie has begun production with the majority of the original cast returning. HBO is hoping for a spring, 2019 premiere.
• John Logan, the creator of "Penny Dreadful," is bringing a new installment of the series to Showtime. "Penny Dreadful: City of Angels" will take place in 1938 Los Angeles. THR says it'll be "rooted in the conflict between characters connected to the deity Santa Muerte and others allied with the devil, City of Angels will explore a mix of the supernatural and the combustible reality of that period, creating new occult myths and moral dilemmas within a historical backdrop. The series will feature all new characters and storylines."
• Andy Bean and Derek Mears will play both sides of the antihero in DC Universe's "Swamp Thing" series. James Wan is executive producing the series which will debut sometime in 2019.

AARON'S LOSERS: "The Good Cop" and "American Horror Story: Apocalypse"
JACK'S LOSERS: "Legacies"
AARON'S FENCERS: "The Walking Dead" and "The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina"
JACK'S FENCERS: "Midnight, Texas," "Homecoming" and "Busy Tonight"
AARON'S WINNERS: "Hip-Hop: Evolution," "Channel Zero: The Dream Door," "The Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj," "Homecoming," "Daredevil" and "Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown"
JACK'S WINNERS: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," Dream Corp LLC," "LadyGang," "Channel Zero - The Dream Door," "Eli Roth's History of Horror," "The Haunting of Hill House" and "Castlevania"

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Welcome to Episode 112.

Being that we're smack-dab in the middle of October, you best believe there is a "fuck-ton," as Jack likes to say, of horror goodies available to peruse on the small screen. And more are coming.

Not only do we end up highlighting some of those items to look forward to, but we also go almost three hours in this episode -- because Jack's going to Japan for Halloween leaving me in my baby poop bunker just 'a shaking my fist.

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK:

• In its second episode of Season 9, "The Walking Dead's" ratings declined further, bringing in 5-million viewers — which was a 19% drop from the season premiere.
• "Supergirl" will introduce Lex Luthor in Season 4.
• An "NYPD Blue" sequel series is in the works at ABC. The return of the series follows Andy Sipowicz's (original star Dennis Franz) son, Theo, as he tries to earn his detective shield and work in the 15th squad while investigating his father's murder.
• HBO has canceled "Animals" after three seasons.
• HBO has handed out raises to "Westworld's" main actors as pre-production on Season 3 looms. Ed Harris, Evan Rachel Wood, Jeffrey Wright and Thandie Newton are said to be getting $250,000 an episode after the drama's first round of contract negotiations. Previously, each actor was rumored to be making somewhere between $100,000 and $150,000 an episode.
• Netflix announced they'll be ending "Orange Is the New Black" after Season 7, which will air in 2019.
• Netflix is teaming with the BBC on a "Dracula" miniseries from Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, the creative team behind Sherlock. According to THR, "Dracula, which will consist of three feature-length episodes, has been written and created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss and inspired by Bram Stoker’s classic novel. It will re-introduce the world to Dracula, the vampire who 'made evil sexy.'"

AARON'S LOSERS: "The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell," "Charmed" and "SNL"
JACK'S LOSERS: "The Conners," "Charmed" and "SNL"
AARON'S FENCERS: "The Kids are Alright," "The Conners" and "The Alec Baldwin Show"
JACK'S FENCERS: "Castle Rock" and "Light As a Feather"
AARON'S WINNERS: "The Rookie," "South Park," "American Horror Story: Apocalypse" and "The Haunting of Hill House"
JACK'S WINNERS: "History of Horror," "Forever," "Kids Are Alright" and "The Rookie" 

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Welcome to Episode 111.

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK:

• The Walking Dead had its lowest ever ratings for a season premiere on Sunday with Season 9's premiere bringing in 6.08 million viewers. That's a 50% drop compared to Season 8's premiere.
• The debut of Jodie Whittaker as the new Doctor Who drew 1.37 million viewers which was a 48% increase in viewership of the series. In the UK, the BBC simulcast brought in 8.2 million viewers, beating the first episodes of both Matt Smith's and Peter Capaldi's runs as the Doctor.
• Damon Wayans announced that, after the 13 episodes of Season 3 are finished filming in December, he will be leaving Lethal Weapon.
• Hulu has ordered a 10-episode Wu-Tang Clan scripted series, titled Wu-Tang: An American Saga, from RZA. According to THR, the show will be "set in New York in the 1990s at the height of the crack cocaine epidemic" and will "follow the Clan's formation, a vision of Bobby Digs (aka RZA), who strives to unite a dozen young black men who are torn between music and crime but who eventually rise to become the unlikeliest of American success stories."
• The Heathers reboot is still alive at Paramount Network. Previously canceled, the series has had some upsetting scenes edited out and will now air as marathon during the week of Halloween. The nine episodes will air two hours a night starting Thursday, Oct. 25 and will conclude on Oct. 29, followed by a Heathers-themed Lip Sync Battle.
• Greg Nicotero confirmed his new Creepshow TV series will feature new original stories by Stephen King, Joe Hill and Joe R Lansdale (Bubba Hotep). The series will debut on Shudder in 2019.

AARON'S LOSERS: "The Walking Dead," "I Feel Bad" and "Camping"
JACK'S LOSERS: "Into the Dark: The Body"
AARON'S FENCERS: "A Million Little Things" and "Manifest"
JACK'S FENCERS: "Happy Together," "Riverdale" and "The Flash"
AARON'S WINNERS: "Big Mouth," "South Park," "9-1-1," "American Horror Story: Apocalypse" and "Better Call Saul"
JACK'S WINNERS: "BoJack Horseman," "Mr. Inbetween," "Big Mouth" and "All American"

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Welcome to Episode 110.

After a longer-than-normal hiatus, we have returned. And Aaron is now a father. Lacking sleep, but not alcohol, we catch you up on the weeks you've missed and then dive back into TV's craziness.

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK:

• Norman Reedus says he never wants to leave "The Walking Dead."
• James Wan and New Line Cinema have teamed with Warner Bros. digital content creator Stage 13 for "Night Vision," a unique competition horror reality series. For the series, 13 filmmakers will be chosen by a panel of leading horror directors, producers, writers, and executives, and presented with the challenge of creating the best, scariest short films possible. The winner will receive a development deal with New Line.
• "Black Mirror" is going interactive when it returns, making a past idea from its creator a virtual reality. Netflix's acclaimed anthology series from Charlie Brooker is working on a choose-your-own-adventure episode for its forthcoming fifth season. 
• "Outcast" has been canceled at Cinemax after two seasons.
• Showtime has canceled "I'm Dying Up Here" after two seasons.
• FX has renewed "Mayans MC" for a second season

AARON'S LOSERS: "Norm MacDonald Has a Show," "American Vandal" Season 2 and "American Horror Story: Apocalypse"
JACK'S LOSERS: "Single Parents," "The Cool Kids," "Rel," "I Feel Bad," "The Neighborhood" and "The Gifted"
AARON'S FENCER: "Magnum P.I." and "Lethal Weapon"
JACK'S FENCERS: "The Dragon Prince," "Orange Is the New Black" Season 6 and "Murphy Brown"
AARON'S WINNERS: "Saturday Night Live," "The Good Place," "You" and "Maniac"
JACK'S WINNERS: "Detroiters" Season 2, "The Good Place," "Angels of Death," "American Horror Story: Apocalypse," "South Park" and "Mr. Inbetween"

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Welcome to Episode 109.

Aaron here. I'll just cut to the chase: my baby is coming any day now. That said, Jack and I recorded this new episode a bit early in the week. As I type this, it's almost midnight on Wednesday and I'm prepping to schedule this to post on its own. Because who knows where I'll be!? Breakfast Pruner is almost here.

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK:

• "Dark Tourist" is being investigated by Japan's Reconstruction Agency and Fukushima Prefectural Government. 
• Henry Cavill will star in Netflix's new "Witcher" series. 
• Alan Tudyk will play Mr. Nobody in DC's live-action "Doom Patrol" series.
• Former 'Sleepy Hollow' showrunner Len Wiseman will exec produce and direct the pilot for DC's upcoming live-action "Swamp Thing" series, which will also be exec produced by James Wan and air on their new OTT platform, DC Universe.
• Ellen Degeneres is returning to stand-up comedy after 15 years with a Netflix special that will premiere on December 18.
• NBC is expanding the "Law & Order" universe with a new series titled "Law & Order: Hate Crimes." According to The Hollywood Reporter, "the show is based on the real-life Hate Crimes Task Force within the New York Police Department. The unit works under the Special Victims Unit (the basis for SVU) within the department and often borrows SVU detectives for help with investigations."
• Damon Herriman, who played Dewey on "Justified," will not only be playing Charles Manson in Tarantino's new movie, "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood," he'll be playing Manson in season 2 of "Mindhunter."
• Former "Cosby Show" actor Geoffrey Owens was shamed online in an article on Fox News for being an actor working at Trader Joe's. 

AARON'S LOSERS: "The Great British Baking Show" (Netflix), "Jack Ryan" (Amazon), "Ozark" (Netflix) and "The Purge" (USA)
JACK'S LOSERS: "Jack Ryan" 
AARON'S FENCER: "God Friended Me" (CBS) and "Kidding" (premieres 9/9 to Showtime)
JACK'S FENCERS: "God Friended Me" and "Transformers: Cyberverse" (Cartoon Network)
AARON'S WINNERS: "Mayans MC" (FX), "Better Call Saul" (AMC), "You" (premieres 9/9 to Lifetime) and "Castle Rock" (Hulu)
JACK'S WINNERS: "Safe Harbour" (Hulu) and "Angels of Death" (Crunchy Roll)

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Welcome to Episode 108.

Did you want a three-hour episode? Well, your wish has been granted. Maybe it's due to Jack's fluid work schedule. Maybe it's because Aaron's unsure if his baby will be born before next Friday. At any rate, we hope you enjoy Episode 107. Who knows when Episode 108 will happen?!?

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK:

• "The Walking Dead" has cast Ryan Hurst, better known as Opie from "Sons of Anarchy," to play Beta, one of the new villains in Season 9.
• Connie Britton and Dylan McDermott are reprising their roles as Ben and Vivien Harmon from "Murder House" for "American Horror Story: Apocalypse." Evan Peters and Taissa Farmiga will be playing Tate and Violet again, as well. In addition, all the "Coven" witches, played by Sarah Paulson, Farmiga, Emma Roberts, Gabourey Sidibe, Lily Rabe, Stevie Nicks and Frances Conroy, will return.
• Clayne Crawford appeared on the Drinkin' Bros. podcast to tell his side of the "Lethal Weapon" drama.
• Louis CK performed a surprise set at the Comedy Cellar earlier this week and was met with a standing ovation from the majority of the men in the audience while many of the women sat stone-faced. Is it the right time for Louis to make a comeback?
• Rob Thomas is close to a development deal with Hulu to revive "Veronica Mars" with Kristen Bell attached as star.
• "Gravity Falls" creator Alex Hirsch has signed a multi-year deal with Netflix to develop original animated series and movies on the platform.
• "The End of the F*cking World" has been renewed for a second season, for some reason.
• "Mr. Robot" will end after Season 4
• "The Big Bang Theory" will end after Season 12
• The details of this year's CW Superhero Crossover Event have been released.

AARON'S LOSERS: "Who is America" (Showtime) and "Find Me in Paris" (Hulu)
JACK'S LOSERS: "The Innocents" (Netflix)
AARON'S FENCERS: "Disenchantment" (Netflix), "Magic for Humans" (Netflix) and "Preacher" (AMC)
JACK'S FENCERS: "Trial and Error" (NBC) and "Magic For Humans" (Netflix)
AARON'S WINNERS: "Making It" (NBC), "Follow This" (NBC), "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (Netflix), "Wrecked" (TBS), "Better Call Saul" (AMC), "Random Acts of Flyness" (HBO) and "Castle Rock" (Hulu)
JACK'S WINNERS: "Castaways" (ABC), "The Shop" (HBO), "The Characters" (Netflix), "Castle Rock" (Hulu) and "Animals" (HBO)

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Welcome to Episode 107.

After a few weeks of exploring the netherworld, where we battled three-headed Trump-beasts and drank from the fountains of Cola Mountain, Jack and I have finally returned to bellow our opinions into the TV chasm. Didja miss us? 

In all seriousness, Jack started a new job at CryptTV and was in heavy production mode which had us go dark for a time. I can only assume that'll be happening more frequently as Baby Pruner touches down. 

But until then ...

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK:

• CNN is doing a full-length documentary about Anthony Bourdain that will be released in theaters sometime in 2019.
• Season 3 of "Stranger Things" will take place in 1985 and obviously reference "Back to the Future," but according to David Harbour, the new season will also make multiple references to the movie "Fletch."
• Netflix has renewed both "GLOW" and "Anne with an E" for a third season.
• Netflix has canceled "The Joel McHale Show" and "The Break with Michelle Wolf."
• "Castle Rock" has been renewed for a second season on Hulu.
• "Knightfall" — History Channel's series about the Knights of the Templar — has been renewed for a second season and Mark Hamill is joining the cast. 
• USA has ordered a Jason Bourne TV series called "Treadstone." Production is set to begin in 2019. According to THR, "the first season will follow sleeper agents — none of them played by Matt Damon — across the globe as they're instructed to carry out deadly missions."
• Before it could even open, a "Rick and Morty" pop-up bar was shut down by Turner Broadcasting. It was going to be called Wubba Lubba Dub Pub and would've been located in Washington D.C. 

AARON'S LOSERS: "Carter," "All About the Washingtons" and "Insatiable"
AARON'S FENCERS: "Ballers" and "Disenchantment"
JACK'S FENCERS: "Shut Eye," "Live PD," "Cloak and Dagger" and "Mary and the Witch’s Flower"
AARON'S WINNERS: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" (Nicki Minaj episode), "The History of Comedy" (Season 2, the animation episode), "Dark Tourist" (also "Tickled" movie on HBO), Hannah Gadsby's Comedy Special "Nanette," "Random Acts of Flyness" and "Better Call Saul"
JACK'S WINNERS: "Castle Rock," "Better Call Saul," "Tickled" (PLUS "The Tickle King!" on HBO), "Hollywood Love Story" and "Mister Tachyon"

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Welcome to Episode 106.