Punch Drunk TV 114: Crack Pie in the Sky

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11/22/18 • 151 min

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!

It's turkey week and, while you're stuffing your face while arguing with that crazy uncle of yours, enjoy sneaking an earbud into your ear to take a listen to our wild and crazy show.

Oh, and we ate some Crack Pie, courtesy of Momofuku Milkbar. And it was fuuuuckin' tasty.

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK:

"Big Mouth" has been renewed for a third season.
Jon Cryer has been cast as Lex Luthor on "Supergirl."
Benedict Cumberbatch was almost cast as Vampire Bill in HBO's "True Blood."
A "Jack Reacher" TV series is in the works at Paramount Television. According to TV Line, the books' author, Lee Child, said, “for all his talent, [Tom Cruise] didn’t have that physicality.” So, for the TV series, they’re looking for someone who more closely matches the books’ description of Reacher. Basically, to sum up, Tom Cruise is too short.
SYFY announced its first original late-night animated series, "Alien News Desk." Set to debut early 2019, the series is a weekly, half-hour topical animated series set in an extraterrestrial newsroom. Voiced by Will Forte (as alien news anchor “Drexx Drudlarr”) and “Saturday Night Live’s” Heidi Gardner (alien co-anchor “Tuva Van Void”), the 12-episode series will cover up-to-the-minute news and commentary about the universe’s most baffling species - the inscrutable Humans of Planet Earth.

AARON'S LOSERS: "American Horror Story: Apocalypse"JACK'S LOSERS: "Super Drags" AARON'S FENCERS: "Saturday Night Live," "The Kominsky Method" and "Dirty John"JACK'S FENCERS: "The Kominsky Method" and Origin" AARON'S WINNERS: "Salt Fat Acid Heat," "Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown," "Supernatural," "Dogs" and "Sally4Ever"JACK'S WINNERS: "Dogs," "Daredevil," "Haunting of Hill House," "Sally4Ever," "Follow This," "The Other Side of the Wind Documentary" and "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"

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Find us on Twitter: @PunchDrunk_TV, @flatlinejack and @aaronflux Join the conversation on Facebook. Welcome to Episode 114.

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!

It's turkey week and, while you're stuffing your face while arguing with that crazy uncle of yours, enjoy sneaking an earbud into your ear to take a listen to our wild and crazy show.

Oh, and we ate some Crack Pie, courtesy of Momofuku Milkbar. And it was fuuuuckin' tasty.

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK:

"Big Mouth" has been renewed for a third season.
Jon Cryer has been cast as Lex Luthor on "Supergirl."
Benedict Cumberbatch was almost cast as Vampire Bill in HBO's "True Blood."
A "Jack Reacher" TV series is in the works at Paramount Television. According to TV Line, the books' author, Lee Child, said, “for all his talent, [Tom Cruise] didn’t have that physicality.” So, for the TV series, they’re looking for someone who more closely matches the books’ description of Reacher. Basically, to sum up, Tom Cruise is too short.
SYFY announced its first original late-night animated series, "Alien News Desk." Set to debut early 2019, the series is a weekly, half-hour topical animated series set in an extraterrestrial newsroom. Voiced by Will Forte (as alien news anchor “Drexx Drudlarr”) and “Saturday Night Live’s” Heidi Gardner (alien co-anchor “Tuva Van Void”), the 12-episode series will cover up-to-the-minute news and commentary about the universe’s most baffling species - the inscrutable Humans of Planet Earth.

Be sure to subscribe on iTunes and comment!

Find us on Twitter: @PunchDrunk_TV, @flatlinejack and @aaronflux Join the conversation on Facebook. Welcome to Episode 114.

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Punch Drunk TV 113: American Horror Story: Kathy Bates Robocop

In this week's episode of Punch Drunk TV, we stuff our faces with rolled-up meats while asking the important questions, like: Which John Leguizamo is the best John Leguizamo? Is it the clown from "Spawn" or Benny Blanco From the Bronx? Choose wisely...

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK:

"Game of Thrones'" final season will premiere in April of 2019.
Stan Lee died on November 12 at the age of 95.
"The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina" will release a special holiday episode to Netflix, titled, "A Midwinter's Tale," on Friday, December 14.
"Westworld" filming location, the Paramount Ranch, burned down due to the Woolsey fire in the Santa Monica Mountains
"Temptation Island" is getting rebooted at USA Network and will premiere January 15th at 10 pm
Amazon has renewed "Bosch" for a sixth season, making it the longest-running original series on the platform.
Hulu is teaming with George R.R. Martin for a new small-screen cinematic universe based on the book series, "Wild Cards."

AARON'S LOSERS: "SNL," "Making a Murderer," "Haunted" and "American Horror Story: Apocalypse"JACK'S LOSERS: "House of Cards" (Season 6, Episode 1) and "She-Ra and the Princesses of Power" AARON'S FENCERS: "The Conners," "The Purge," "Supernatural" and "The Walking Dead"JACK'S FENCERS: "Iron Fist" (Season 2) and "Angels of Death" AARON'S WINNERS "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," "John Leguizamo's Latin History for Morons," "South Park," "Room 104" and "Daredevil"JACK'S WINNERS: "Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san," "The Kids Are Alright," "Detroiters," "Haunting of Hill House," "Daredevil" and "Sally4Ever"

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Find us on Twitter: @PunchDrunk_TV, @flatlinejack and @aaronflux Join the conversation on Facebook. Welcome to Episode 113.

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Punch Drunk TV 115: The Kurt Russell Santa We Never Knew We Needed

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK:

Netflix has invested $1Billion dollars in a Roald Dahl deal that will bring 16 of the author's books to life -- including, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, The BFG, The Twits, George's Marvellous Medicine and The Enormous Crocodile -- in multiple animated shows.
Netflix is developing a 10-episode, live-action "Cowboy Bebop" series.
"Ugly Delicious" has been renewed for a second season.
The planned spinoff to "The Middle" has been scrapped by ABC
"Take Two" has been canceled at ABC
CBS will end the "Murphy Brown" sequel after this season.
Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of "Spongebob Squarepants," has died at the age of 57.
Youtube is going to shift back its strategy with originally scripted content from being a premium pay service back to an ad-based platform in 2020.
Jerry Springer will launch his own courtroom reality show called, "Judge Jerry" in the fall of 2019 at NBCUniversal.
Legendary TV is developing Blake J. Harris’ "Console Wars" novel, which documents the "behind-the-scenes drama that chronicles how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary and a team of rebels, took on the juggernaut Nintendo and revolutionized the video game industry," as a limited series.

JACK'S LOSERS: "Dirty John" and "Paradise PD" AARON'S FENCERS: "Room 104," "The Purge" and "The Walking Dead"JACK'S FENCERS: "Queen America" AARON'S WINNERS: "The Good Place," "The Final Table," "The Nightflyers," "The Christmas Chronicles" and "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"JACK'S WINNERS: Matt Baume's Culture Cruise, LegalEagle and NHK WORLD-JAPAN all on YouTube, "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" and "Hilda"

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Find us on Twitter: @PunchDrunk_TV, @flatlinejack and @aaronflux Join the conversation on Facebook. Welcome to Episode 115.