this non-sequel might be of interest. it didn’t/couldn’t pay his estate for rights so made an er adjacent series instead
This is a frivolous SLAPP suit, and the estate’s legal team should be sanctioned. Michael Creighton didn’t invent medical drama
Didn’t the court tentatively reject the argument that anti-SLAPP laws apply?
“The case is not about whether someone can do a show set in a hospital,” she said. “It is about whether Warner Bros., John Wells, Noah Wyle, and Scott Gemmill can spend two years developing an ‘ER’ reboot, negotiate with the estate for nearly a year to obtain consent per Michael Crichton’s contract, and, when they can’t get the terms they want, proceed with the exact same show with a different title and location.”
"…the Court also found that the plaintiff’s claims were not “totally meritless” and could not be dismissed, meaning that legal proceedings can continue.
The ruling states that the plaintiffs did “establish a timeline of various communications and events to show the negotiations with the Estate over an ‘ER’ reboot, failure of those negotiations, and the creation of “The Pitt.’”
A case management conference is now scheduled for March 26 in Los Angeles."
Zero Day on Netflix. Binged thru this quickly. A cyber attack cripples the US and a former President (Robert DeNiro) is called in to investigate who did it and why. Connie Britton & Jesse Plemmons (Friday Night Lights); Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey). Angela Bassett plays the current President. Thumbs up!
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I love Yellowjackets! We will wait until season 3 is done before subscribing though.
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I really enjoyed Norah O’Donnell’s segment with Warren Buffett on yesterday’s CBS Sunday Morning. He had really interesting comments on his relationship with Katherine Graham and WaPo under the Graham family, along with some other interesting comments. I have always found him to be so sensible.
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Where are you watching it? I only see a purchase option on Prime.
My husband and I really liked Shrinking (just had to overlook some of the swearing etc). It’s the kind of upbeat show that we like at the end of our evening of the more typical grittier shows. SImilar to Ted Lasso and Trying. We don’t do fast binge on those gems…. instead we try to stretch and savor.
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Regarding Doc - it’s a broadcast network show (FOX), so however you get those? If you have cable/satellite/live streaming you should be able to dvr/on-demand it, if you have that option? Or probably watch on the FOX site with your login credentials? Also it’s on Hulu next day, looks like.
This is one I didn’t initially think I’d want to watch, but I ended up having some extra time and watching the first episode, and liked it enough to stay with it.
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I think it’s been said already, but the latest season of Reacher is just so bad. None have been particularly good, but this one is just bad. Doesn’t stop us from “finishing what we started.”
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Tonight we finished the 4th/last season of Killing Eve. We stuck with it, but honestly I don’t recommend. It’s just to darn gruesome and confusing.
Tonight we also finished our rewatch of The Recruit season 1, in prep for season 2. Good thing we did. My husband and I were really surprised by how much we had not remembered.
Re. Killing Eve, I thought the first season was interesting. Then, it beame so bizarre (to me). I quit watching it after an episode or two in the second season. Never want to go back.
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I never got why it was so popular - too gruesome and twisted for me. 
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Me, neither. It was all the rage at one point. Totally baffled me and my husband.
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We stuck with Killing Eve for a few reasons. (We knew it had 4 seasons already aired / hubby liked it pretty well / we recently visited London and adored recognizing the scenery / some of the scenes had unexpected humor - Villanelle facial expressions were great). But I would not recommend it because there’s more than just the usual streaming series gunfire violence. Lots of killing with knives etc, sometimes murder for hire and other times just senseless psychopath actions.
Anybody’s returned to DrOdyssey?
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And they said it was ~“goofy fun for folding the laundry”. I gave up on it whenever cause ep1 was SO ridiculous… Any opinion about giving it a second try (as “background tv that isn’t so ridiculous it’s insulting”)?
I watched one episode last fall and felt no need to spend anymore time with it.
I’ve been watching The Pitt on Max. For 6 episodes, there were no commercials. The 7th–OMG! So many!
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Just watched a PBS program called Deconstructing the Beatles. Fascinating in how songs were crafted in the recording studio—so much depth I will now listen for, was never aware!
I watched a 90 minute program (with pledge breaks, of course…), but I also see it listed as 3, 30-minute episodes that seem to cover what was in the 90 minute show.
Part 1: All the machinations that resulted in the famous Ed Sullivan appearance in 1964–Beatles were virtually unknown in the US just a few months before the appearance.
Part 2: The work that went behind Rubber Soul—probably 10 of the 14 tracks were top 40 hits.
Part 3: How Lennon made Strawberry Fields his masterpiece (in the opinion of the presenter)
Will keep my eyes open for any more episodes.
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