2012 Upfronts
May. 18th, 2012 04:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
iariaI'm very pleased and relieved that Nikita, Fringe, Revenge and The Vampire Dairies were all renewed. Even though Fringe's renewal was only for 13 episodes it will at least give TPTB a chance to give the series, hopefully, a satisfying conclusion. I was actually most worried about Nikita because I thought for sure that it would be cancelled so that was a great surprised.
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Upfronts 2012
- FOX passed on the show I have been most looking forward to (since I first heard about it a couple months ago) - The Asset. It was to star Ali Larter as a CIA agent who works as a Human Intel Specialist under the cover of being a photo journalist and was created by Josh Friedman. Josh Friedman + Ali Larter + character driven spy drama? Why does FOX hate me? I mean it's not like this is new - last year the exact same thing happened when FOX passed on Locke & Key which looked amazing. And they cancelled Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles which I'm still bitter about. You'd think I'd learn. Nothing else in their line up looks like anything I'm interested in watching.
- 666 Park Avenue - It's about a haunted/demonic apartment building and I love supernatural stuff. Plus it stars Terry O'Quinn so I'll be checking out the pilot at least.
- Last Resort on ABC and Revolution on NBC both seem very concepty and I feel doubtful that they'll last but they also look a little interesting, especially Revolution, so I'll probably check out the pilots for both.
- I'm not entirely sure what Red Widow is going to be about but the trailer did catch my attention so I might check it out.
- Go On is Matthew Perry's new comedy and the trailer made me smile so I'll watch the pilot.
- The CW is doing a Hunger Games style show called The Selection and though there is no trailer out for it yet I know I'm going to be checking it out because - hunger games.
- Elementary - I'll be watching the pilot but I have some reservations.
I love Lucy Liu and I have no problems with her as a female Watson it's just that I feel like this could end up going - unfortunate places. I don't really trust TV. In the behind the scenes trailer Lucy states that Watson "comes from a more emotional place" which - okay, yes but when Watson is female that just has some unfortunate implications. Plus I'm annoyed that once again we get a male genius with the female character as his minder/partner.
I really wish, and would be a lot more enthusiastic, if they'd cast Lucy Liu as Sherlock. I think Lucy would have been an amazing Sherlock. Or even more unlikely to ever happen - if they'd switched the genders of both Watson and Sherlock.
I am also not really pleased what I've heard about Joan Watson's background. Apparently she was a surgeon who killed a patient and lost her license a few years before the start of the series. Really?! So they took a male surgeon who was excellent at his job and made him female and a disgraced former doctor? ...*hands* Plus Watson isn't an army surgeon who was wounded in Afghanistan... why? Because... women don't go to war? Uh, no. Also the US even has soldiers in Afghanistan right now so it works out really well.
I don't actually mind the whole former addict/sober coach idea but they could have kept her as Sherlock's sober coach and still had her be a army surgeon.
Also did they say Sherlock's father hired her?
I have no real opinion on Johnny Lee Miller. I haven't seen anything I remember him in but based on the trailer he seems okay?
- Other shows that I may or may not watch the pilot of depending on time and/or interest include CW's Green Lantern show called Arrow, the ABC show Mistresses (I like Yunjin Kim and Alyssa Milano and it's about a group of female friends), and Chicago Fire.
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Upfronts 2012
- FOX passed on the show I have been most looking forward to (since I first heard about it a couple months ago) - The Asset. It was to star Ali Larter as a CIA agent who works as a Human Intel Specialist under the cover of being a photo journalist and was created by Josh Friedman. Josh Friedman + Ali Larter + character driven spy drama? Why does FOX hate me? I mean it's not like this is new - last year the exact same thing happened when FOX passed on Locke & Key which looked amazing. And they cancelled Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles which I'm still bitter about. You'd think I'd learn. Nothing else in their line up looks like anything I'm interested in watching.
- 666 Park Avenue - It's about a haunted/demonic apartment building and I love supernatural stuff. Plus it stars Terry O'Quinn so I'll be checking out the pilot at least.
- Last Resort on ABC and Revolution on NBC both seem very concepty and I feel doubtful that they'll last but they also look a little interesting, especially Revolution, so I'll probably check out the pilots for both.
- I'm not entirely sure what Red Widow is going to be about but the trailer did catch my attention so I might check it out.
- Go On is Matthew Perry's new comedy and the trailer made me smile so I'll watch the pilot.
- The CW is doing a Hunger Games style show called The Selection and though there is no trailer out for it yet I know I'm going to be checking it out because - hunger games.
- Elementary - I'll be watching the pilot but I have some reservations.
I love Lucy Liu and I have no problems with her as a female Watson it's just that I feel like this could end up going - unfortunate places. I don't really trust TV. In the behind the scenes trailer Lucy states that Watson "comes from a more emotional place" which - okay, yes but when Watson is female that just has some unfortunate implications. Plus I'm annoyed that once again we get a male genius with the female character as his minder/partner.
I really wish, and would be a lot more enthusiastic, if they'd cast Lucy Liu as Sherlock. I think Lucy would have been an amazing Sherlock. Or even more unlikely to ever happen - if they'd switched the genders of both Watson and Sherlock.
I am also not really pleased what I've heard about Joan Watson's background. Apparently she was a surgeon who killed a patient and lost her license a few years before the start of the series. Really?! So they took a male surgeon who was excellent at his job and made him female and a disgraced former doctor? ...*hands* Plus Watson isn't an army surgeon who was wounded in Afghanistan... why? Because... women don't go to war? Uh, no. Also the US even has soldiers in Afghanistan right now so it works out really well.
I don't actually mind the whole former addict/sober coach idea but they could have kept her as Sherlock's sober coach and still had her be a army surgeon.
Also did they say Sherlock's father hired her?
I have no real opinion on Johnny Lee Miller. I haven't seen anything I remember him in but based on the trailer he seems okay?
- Other shows that I may or may not watch the pilot of depending on time and/or interest include CW's Green Lantern show called Arrow, the ABC show Mistresses (I like Yunjin Kim and Alyssa Milano and it's about a group of female friends), and Chicago Fire.
