La brea

It starts here on Feb 7 on domestic free to air TV, so will be ruined by commercials

 

Not really, since it was made for a NBC, one of our free over the air networks with commercials here in the US. So technically, it's actually made to be seen with commercials.

 

I have since gone back to Netflix so I'm used to whole shows without ads though you can pause that and take a break, but yeah do not watch much if any commercial TV so that's why I said that. Everyone keeps telling me to watch Manifest but I really can't push myself in that direction. I found it horrible.

 

Dvr and skip commercials? I haven't watched commercials since the early 90s.

 

La Brea returns with decent ratings somehow. 4.02 million for season 2 premiere, which is higher than the Quantum Leap series premiere.

 

How is that even possible? Did they improve the show?

 

Maybe just barely, but this is still far from good. People just like this kind of crap I guess...

 

Fair enough

 

Between this, the new Quantum Leap, Debris, and Manifest, seems that NBC is all in on mediocre sci-fi.

 

Your friends are either Bible thumpers delighted for the representation, or failures at being cool.

10 genre shows worth watching.

1. Prey (1998). Man's evolutionary superior has shown up. Debra Messing has to stop them from replacing homosapiens.

2. The Starlost. (1978) Mormon farmer figures out that the planet he is standing on is actually a millennia old colony ship crashing into a sun, and they are all going to die.

3. H20 just add water/Mako Mermaids. (2006) I have to stress that this is a children's show, for girls, but after 10 years they build up a superb extended universe, and lore.

4. Vampire Diaries. (2009) only the first two seasons are good, but the ##ther fucker is like crack, and festers for almost 20 years.

5. Day 5. Terrorists release a virus globally. If you fall asleep, you die. Our heroes are a meth addict who has been awake for four days and a ten year old on ADD medicine, who now also has to take meth to stay awake and alive.

6. Ash vs. EVIL Dead. (2013) It's modern day sequel to Xena Warrior Princess.

7. Primeval/Primeval Canada. Portal opens, cgi dinosaurs lumber out, nerds and big game hunters herd them back in. The Canadian remake looks/feels like more Stargate.

8.warehouse 13/eureka/Alphas shared universe (2000s) friendly entry level science fiction.

9. Sense 8 (2015). Post human species that exists in telepathic clusters of 8. Orgies, nudity, and graphic drippingly wet birth scenes. The clusters are Hunted by really uptight humans who are exasperated that they are never invited to these really epic post human Orgies.

10. Other Space. Space ship sitcom with that guy from Deadpool. Hilarious Star Trek tropes turned upside down. It could have been the Orville, but other space premiered on Yahoo Screens, which crashed and burned in less than a year, or they would have made that movie for Community.

 

I loved Warehouse 13 and also The Librarians, all 4 seasons of that.

I also remember watching all of H20 when it was here on commercial TV and didn't mind that despite as you say it was made for girls, that show and others were made around the same time period such as Spellbinder which was really kind of fun.

Ashka was deliciously evil

 

I've had Spellbinders on DVD for ten years, and just haven't gotten around to it.

Now the kiddy OZsyfy that I really liked was Thunderstone, although Paralax (it's all on youtube) is pretty good too, but Nowhere Boys was probably after your time, which was a really good ride until they swapped out the entire cast for the final season.

 

Anybody else here watch Ocean Girl back in the '90s? It was either Australian or from New Zealand, and I remember liking it a lot as a kid.

To be fair, that 30 years covers 3 different series, not just TVD.
As for La Brea, I'm still enjoying it. Yeah, the writing isn't always the best, and it's a little cheesy, but I like it.

 

Le Brea is fucking awful, but they know how to cliffhang an episode perfectly, so you want more.

 

Thunderstone was good... I liked that one

 

Jonathan M. Shiff produced Thunderstone, Ocean Girl and H20, and many other shows.

This is what his latest fantasy series ;looks like that just finished season 2...

 

Hmmm not my thing really. Seems like other things I have seen before.

I'm looking around for copies of Spellbinder

 

https://www.cancelledscifi.com/2022...-ghosts-shows-life-with-s2-premiere-and-more/

Hopefully this show has a 3 season arc, and not 5, or even worse indefinite. It's very likely that we will see a season 3, but beyond that looks quite unlikely at this point.

 

Ghosts is so funny , well the US version. I have not seen the UK version.

 

When they filmed the original UK version, they did two takes, one in English, and then the second in American.

It's 99 percent the same, but the subtle differences are amazing.