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Mockingbird Lane
By: Mac Date: October 14, 2012, 12:16 pm
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[glow=red,2,300]Mockingbird Lane - NBC[/glow]
Oct 26th... Munsters reboot
[quote]Watch the magical first trailer for Bryan Fuller’s
probably doomed Munsters reboot, Mockingbird Lane
The fate of Bryan Fuller's TV reboot of the classic sitcom The
Munsters, titled Mockingbird Lane has been up in the air. A
couple of weeks ago, various sources had reported that NBC had
dropped the project entirely, but Fuller himself said
Mockingbird Lane wasn't quite dead. Now it looks like NBC won't
be picking up it up as a full series, but instead plans to air
the pilot as a Halloween special, airing October 26th. It's a
shame, since the trailer is filled with Fuller's visual magic.
We've had some concerns about the look of Mockingbird Lane ever
since we saw the rather ordinary cast poster. But man, wouldn't
I watch a show where piles of rats occasionally turn into Eddie
Izzard. Sure, Jerry O'Connell's Herman Munster doesn't have neck
bolts, but there are a lot of striking visuals on display.
Fuller wrote and produced the pilot with X-Men: The First Class'
Bryan Singer, and according to Variety, there were disagreements
between the two about the show's ultimate design. NBC execs also
reportedly weren't on board with Fuller's attempt to recreate
the feel of Pushing Daisies. And Fuller, for his part, has
Hannibal, his other big TV project, to focus on.
This may sadly be another case of a beautiful Bryan Fuller
project left underwater, but hopefully the pilot will prove fun.
And if it does, there is always a chance that NBC could put the
show back on Grandpa's slab and jolt it back to life.[/quote]
HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDmHcG8vq6Q
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Re: Mockingbird Lane
By: Mac Date: October 28, 2012, 5:06 pm
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This was atrocious. No... horrible. No... so incredibly stupid I
can't even imagine kids like this.
It came on early and we were making dinner. But I did pay
attention. Not only was it stupid, it was odd. Just a very weird
vibe. Hard to explain, but nothing that interested me.
I now know why the studio didn't go beyond this 'pilot' episode.
If they did their homework, I'm sure they would have found
audience reviews less than pleasant.
Afterward, I read some news the studio may consider it for a
series.
TV Guide:
NBC's Mockingbird Lane enjoyed a respectable premiere Friday
night. The expensive pilot-turned-Halloween special was watched
by 5.44 million viewers and earned a 1.5 in the key adults
18-to-49 demographic. Unfortunately, Kitchen Nightmares'
premiere only earned a 0.9, down from last season's premiere
(1.6).
commentary
[quote]While Tim Burton was busy remaking Dark Shadows on the
big screen this year — and what a disappointment that turned out
to be — another '60s cult item, the horror parody The Munsters,
was getting a lavish reboot from Burton's TV counterpart Bryan
Fuller, whose Pushing Daisies remains a fantastical benchmark of
blending the whimsical and the macabre into a dazzling visual
smorgasbord.
The result, reported to have cost NBC in the neighborhood of $10
million, is one of the weirdest hybrids of the comical and eerie
in quite some time. The hour-long pilot of Mockingbird Lane
(Friday, 8/7c), a monster mash of a hot mess, is being burned
off as a Halloween special, with the very faint chance of being
resurrected Frankenstein-style if the ratings show any juice. If
this were to somehow miraculously go to series, I'd probably
watch every episode, from morbid curiosity alone. But this is
not going to be everyone's, or possibly anyone's, cup of
hemlock.
Visually, it's a treat, with director Bryan Singer (House)
bringing colorful panache to Fuller's fertile imagination with
moments of bizarre bliss: the opening full-moon attack on a pack
of scouts that turns into sadistic slapstick, or a sequence in
which the dead-glamorous Lily Munster (Portia De Rossi) is
clothed in a shower of bugs and creepy crawlers the way
Cinderella used to be tended to by chirping birds. You're not
likely to confuse Mockingbird Lane with Once Upon a Time, let's
make that much clear. "The circle of life is a violent place,"
we're told, in case you were expecting The Lion King. (The news
is even worse for the Bambis of the world.)
It's the tone, though, that could really give you nightmares, as
it veers awkwardly from the cheerfully silly to the sappily
sentimental and ultimately sinister without blinking an
artificial eye. The casting is mostly on point, with Eddie
Izzard an unnervingly desiccated Grandpa, whose "drinking"
problem involves sprouting giant wings and a feral bat face, and
Jerry O'Connell a stitch (with visible neck and chest scars) as
Herman, whose literal "bleeding heart" as a well-meaning dad is
as thuddingly obvious a metaphor as little Eddie's unusually
hairy and toothsome form of puberty.
But let's not mock Mockingbird Lane or kill a Mockingbird.
Instead, celebrate its audacious oddness while we can, even for
just one night.[/quote]
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Re: Mockingbird Lane
By: Chiprocks1 Date: October 28, 2012, 5:09 pm
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So this isn't a series but a one-off Halloween Special? I didn't
even know it had aired already.
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Re: Mockingbird Lane
By: Mac Date: October 28, 2012, 5:33 pm
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Well they are 're-packing' it. It started off as series,
something happened and nothing beyond the pilot was made. They
decided to not make a total loss and packaging this as Halloween
Special.
See what they did there. :-\
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Re: Mockingbird Lane
By: Chiprocks1 Date: October 28, 2012, 11:51 pm
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Well, I just added this to my Queue on Hulu. Will check it out
tomorrow after I score a bag of Crystal Meth dipped in BlackTtar
rolled in a Fatty. You know, to lessen the pain of watching
this. Wish me luck.
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Re: Mockingbird Lane
By: Mac Date: October 29, 2012, 6:09 am
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Yea, let us know what you think. Maybe it was a bad night to
stop sniffing glue.
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Re: Mockingbird Lane
By: Chiprocks1 Date: October 29, 2012, 11:50 pm
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[center]Mockingbird Lane (Pilot/Halloween Special)
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This wasn't as bad as I was expecting it to be. But the
Pilot/Halloween Special was half baked and under-cooked. It
really didn't have anything compelling to hook a viewer and it
definitely was NOT what I would call a Halloween Special of any
sort. To me it came off as a rush job just to make a deadline
with no thought to a story with a beginning, middle and end. If
this is the only episode, it's not something I'd miss. Having
said that, there is a lot of potential here if they can do a
'monster of the week' arc or something that has a well-thought
out narrative. The first thing you have to do when watching this
is immediately put the original TV series out of your mind and
just go with this version of the characters. You can't top the
original, so it's pointless to try and do it the same way. With
the modernization of The Munster's it can work in the long run
and where I can see the potential for some new on TV.
Watching the Pilot, I was very impressed with the Special FX.
Really impressed. This is some of the best FX on broadcast TV
right now and I was also surprised at how graphic the show was
for a prime-time audience. Not that I care. Just pointing out
that I'm use to shows on NBC being watered down.
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Re: Mockingbird Lane
By: Mac Date: October 30, 2012, 6:13 am
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For 10 million it better have looked good.
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Re: Mockingbird Lane
By: Mac Date: December 30, 2012, 3:20 pm
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[glow=red,2,300]"Mockingbird Lane" Officially Dead At NBC[/glow]
[quote]Bryan Fuller, creator/executive producer of NBC’s
"Munsters" reboot "Mockingbird Lane," says the project is now
officially dead.
He revealed on Twitter the other day: "I tweet with a heavy
heart. NBC not moving forward with #MockingbirdLane. From
producers and cast, thank you all for enthusiasm and support."
Work on the project began two years ago and, after some delays,
a $10 million pilot episode was shot in June with Bryan Singer
directing.
Though visually stunning, the network didn't think the concept
worked. To offset the cost, they aired it as a Halloween special
in October where it pulled in an average 5.4 million total
viewers.
Further scripts were written, but now the NBC heads have made
the final decision not to proceed. Fuller will now turn his
attentions to other projects, including the currently filming
straight-to-series "Hannibal" on the same network.[/quote]
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Re: Mockingbird Lane
By: Chiprocks1 Date: December 30, 2012, 3:25 pm
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I had high hopes for this.
Not.
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