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NBC’s upfronts 2012-3 – a rundown and clips from the new shows

NBC new season 2012/13

We’ve already had a look at some of the cast photos, but now we have a full rundown of what NBC is ordering up for its Fall schedule. Unlike last year, where there seemed to be a few shows that I’d like to watch – NBC now having cancelled them all – NBC appears to have chosen to fill the airwaves this year and next year almost exclusively with pure awfulness, probably figuring based on this year’s ratings that if it produces anything decent, no one will watch it, so why bother with half-decent, which takes some effort, when you can have river effluent instead.

After the jump, we’ll take a look – yes, there are clips – at NBC’s new shows, to see if there’s anything at all that looks good out of Revolution, Go On, The New Normal, Animal Practice, Guys With Kids, Chicago Fire and Do No Harm.

UPDATE: Now with more clips!

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Monday’s “NBC, ABC, CBS and The CW cancellations and pick-ups with almost no surprises” news

What shall become of The Carusometer?

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Trailers

  • Trailer for The Campaign with Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis

UK TV

US TV

  • NBC cancels Awake, Bent, Best Friends Forever and Are You There, Chelsea?
  • renews The Office, Parks and Recreation, Whitney and Up All Night
  • CBS cancels A Gifted Man, NYC-22, Rob and Unforgettable
  • and CSI: Miami
  • renews CSI: NY
  • and Two and a Half Men
  • ABC cancels GCB, Pan Am, Missing and The River
  • renews Private Practice, Body of Proof, Don’t Trust The B—- in Apt 23, Scandal, Last Man Standing
  • and Happy Endings
  • The CW cancels Ringer, The Secret Circle, renews Nikita, Hart of Dixie and Gossip Girl
  • Jorja Fox to return to CSI again
  • Lost‘s Maggie Grace to recur on Californication
  • No end dates for Community or 30 Rock after all
  • Full trailer for True Blood season five
  • Thursday ratings
  • Friday ratings: Fringe ends with 14-week high

US TV pilots

  • NBC orders Next Caller Please
  • ABC orders Nashville, Zero Hour, Red Widow, Last Resort, 666 Park Avenue, The Neighbors, Family Tools and How To Live With Your Parents For The Rest of Your Life
  • and Malibu Country
  • CBS picks up Elementary, Partners, Vegas, Golden Boy, Made in Jersey and Friend Me
  • The CW orders The Carrie Diaries, Arrow, Cult, First Cut and Beauty and the Beast
  • Infamous and Guys With Kids recasting roles

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Robert Pattinson re-enacts Scanners, Dead Ringers and Videodrome

Obviously, Robert Pattinson is best known for the Twilight movies – although he did a Dennis Wheatley thing on BBC4 a while back before he was famous. But he’s about to appear in David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis, which looks set to be as joyously weird as the majority of previous David Cronenberg movies.

To celebrate this fact, he’s gone and recreated a few classic Cronenberg movies for a film shoot, namely Videodrome, Dead Ringers (which, of course, I can’t have in my DVD collection) and Scanners. Having a video slot in your stomach is probably going a bit far, though, Robert, although at least you held off at exploding heads.

Robert Pattinson in Videodrome

Robert Pattinson in Dead Ringers

Robert Pattinson in Scanners

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2D, 3D, IMAX or IMAX 3D? A quick comparison test using Avengers Assemble and a re-review of the Odeon Gallery

Avengers Assemble

So, as has been pointed out elsewhere, Avengers Assemble is quite good. So quite good is it, in fact, that my wife and various members of her/our family have gone to see it maybe one or two more times since. However, just for laughs, we’ve gone to see it in a different format each time.

So the first time we went we saw it in 2D. Then we saw it in 3D. Then we saw it in IMAX 3D. Handily, this gives us a quick, empirical chance to rate these formats in terms of quality since we can control for other variables such as post-production process, etc, thus settling an age-old* debate.

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