Bob wrote:

Started Clarkson's Farm thing last night which is more entertaining than I thought and a lot better than the Guardian made out.

Also got through all six series of the Mark Thomas [Comedy] Product. Really fascinating stuff and mostly quiet entertaining.. whilst at teh same time drawing attention to a lot of serious issues.. the nuclear train episode was frightening. Anyway it's all on Youtube and definitely worth a watch.

Facewon wrote:

So foundation tomorrow or next day depending on time zones I guess.

Are they releasing weekly like assholes or dumping all at once like legends?

Kow wrote:

I think the series as a whole had that 80s soap opera feel. like Dallas or something, but it had a few moments that were deeply shocking for my young mind. The baby one was the most traumatic, though. It's still freaky. I seem to remember that it was on quite early in the evening too.

What’s next for me, it looks like, is [an] Alien series for FX, taking on that franchise and those amazing films by Ridley Scott and James Cameron and David Fincher. Those are great monster movies, but they’re not just monster movies. They’re about humanity trapped between our primordial, parasitic past and our artificial intelligence future—and they’re both trying to kill us. Here you have human beings and they can’t go forward and they can’t go back. So I find that really interesting.

I’ve written a couple of scripts, the first two scripts, and we’re looking to make them next spring. When you get to something with this level of visual effects, there’s a lot of preparation that has to go into it. 

It’s not a Ripley story. She’s one of the great characters of all time, and I think the story has been told pretty perfectly, and I don’t want to mess with it. It’s a story that’s set on Earth also. The alien stories are always trapped… Trapped in a prison, trapped in a space ship. I thought it would be interesting to open it up a little bit so that the stakes of “What happens if you can’t contain it?” are more immediate. 

On some level it’s also a story about inequality. You know, one of the things that I love about the first movie is how ’70s a movie it is, and how it’s really this blue collar space-trucker world in which Yaphet Kotto and Harry Dean Stanton are basically Waiting for Godot. They’re like Samuel Beckett characters, ordered to go to a place by a faceless nameless corporation. The second movie is such an ’80s movie, but it’s still about grunts. Paul Reiser is middle management at best. So, it is the story of the people you send to do the dirty work.

In mine, you’re also going to see the people who are sending them. So you will see what happens when the inequality we’re struggling with now isn’t resolved. If we as a society can’t figure out how to prop each other up and spread the wealth, then what’s going to happen to us? There’s that great Sigourney Weaver line to Paul Reiser where she says, “I don’t know which species is worse. At least they don’t fuck each other over for a percentage.”

LivDiv wrote:

New Taskmaster starts tonight. Feels like I have waited ages for this series. I had it in my head it was coming in August for some reason.