And no actual Science Fiction.
Theoretical: If HBO did Sc-Fi what books would you want them to do
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But how many of those are being viewed at synonymous with the kind of high expectations associated with the HBO brand? Game of Thrones markets and presents itself like it's Rome gone medieval.
Maybe I should spring for HBO. I hear Dinklage rocks.
Also, this news is good for the health of sf/f across cable. If Falling Skies is a hit for TNT, that should seal the deal.
Awesome news. Yeah Dinklage rocks. I had reservations about his casting thinking they're just casting a well-known dwarf. But he has been so great in the role and made Tyrion really cool.
I think the cable audience just love a good story, well-produced and acted. The genre is not the most important factor, just like how a book lover reads all kinds of books.
Alcatraz, Terra Nova, Touch and maybe The River qualify as sci fi to me.
That has more to do with the channel the show is on. An HBO show carries certain expectations, as does an AMC show, a Starz show, a USA show, a CBS show, a CW show and an NBC show, although NBC is frantically trying to change that...
NBC and ABC's goals are pretty much interchangeable now. Once Upon a Time and Grimm are probably going to end up being very similar in that they'll be pretty tamed down and not as arty as cable, but aiming for a more grownup audience than the CW would go for. USA would be fluffy, CBS wouldn't do anything in the sf/f genre, HBO and AMC would go for arty and complex, and Starz would throw gobs of violence and sleaze at the screen. I guess Camelot was their stab at a fantasy show, but it sounds like it was too stupid to succeed.
Which is where the context of sci-fi as a ghettoized entertainment emerged. Obviously, there are American networks that aren't ipso facto against Sci-Fi or we'd never have, well, a lot of science fiction television.That has more to do with the channel the show is on. An HBO show carries certain expectations, as does an AMC show, a Starz show, a USA show, a CBS show, a CW show and an NBC show, although NBC is frantically trying to change that...
Doesn't mean HBO would do one necessarily.
I'm not sure, but I think I remember reading somewhere that this was going to be their next mini-series, not a regular weekly thing.According to this report, American Gods just might be HBO's next genre show.
The dust has cleared, Game of Thrones ratings are better than solid - they're going up!
I'd prefer a more sci fi than fantasy show to be HBO's next pickup, but hey it's a step in the right direction! Maybe HBO will become the sf/f cable network that skiffy should be.
As for HBO being the new fantasy/sf network, if they keep doing this kind of stuff, then I would be thrilled. Although TBH I'd be even more thrilled if this stuff was on a network I could actually watch.
What I described about the TV channels is a recent thing and sf/f has been ghetto since before I was born.
Well, Terra Nova will probably qualify technically. Alcatraz is Abrams so it will probably be some vague fantasy that ends badly.
I'm not sure if I've heard of The River.
Could be, but there's nothing in the description to indicate anything more than Pulp jungle adventure. Which we definitely don't have enough of, though.
The ABC Trailer for the series seems to indicate something extra normal happening.
http://youtu.be/HnaZxJIsnFE
Sure does. It seems a bit Lost-like. I'll probably give it a try.
I'd very much like to see Dune done in a Game of Thrones-style TV series.* I guess I'm not sure how long such a show should go on for - I'd like the first four Dune novels in an ideal world, which would probably add up as three seasons (such a slender thing, Dune Messiah), but I don't know, maybe there's a way to save Chapterhouse and Heretics, either of which I haven't read in almost a decade and only dimly recall really not liking at all.
I guess the problem beyond a lack of closure to the existing Herbert novels as an arc - this assuming, of course, one doesn't just want to adapt the first book - is whether or not a Dune film would be prohibitively expensive.
*It's a conflict between two great houses, with a focus on the patriarch of one of the houses and his offspring as he moves to a new location... the comparison comes rather naturally, frankly.
Well, Terra Nova will probably qualify technically. Alcatraz is Abrams so it will probably be some vague fantasy that ends badly.
Alcatraz has time travel so that qualifies. The River might be fantasy or sci fi - probably will get cancelled before we find out.
I'd never heard of that until you mentioned it in the other thread, but I looked it up on wikipedia and that sounds like it would be an awesome premise for a TV series. Although, they'd have to change the title, because when I looked it up I also got an unrelated Discover Channel show with the same name.
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