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

11/30/18 • 130 min

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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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.

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

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Punch Drunk TV 114: Crack Pie in the Sky

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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Punch Drunk TV 116: Kevin Hart-less

It's a weird week here at Punch Drunk TV. Jack just got back from a sad trip with the wife and Aaron learned his deceased father used to do biker porn in the '70s. So get ready, things go a bit off-the-rails for a bit.

There's also some Oscars drama to discuss and the Golden Globe nominations were announced, so we sort through the most important TV nods. Who do you think should win?

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK:

Netflix canceled "Daredevil" but spent $100 million to keep "Friends" for another year.
Hulu solidified a deal with Sony's Funimation Ink, which will give Hulu exclusive U.S. streaming rights to international anime hits like "My Hero Academia," "Attack on Titan" and "Tokyo Ghoul." Hulu described the pact as its "largest agreement for anime programming to date." According to THR, "The deal also grants Hulu a first look at on-demand U.S. streaming rights to future anime series released by Funimation beginning in 2019. These future titles will premiere day-and-date on Hulu and Funimation with the worldwide premieres in Japan."
NBC has renewed "The Good Place" for a 4th season
SYFY is rebooting Rod Serling's other anthology series, "Night Gallery"
MTV is rebooting "Celebrity Death Match" with Ice Cube serving as executive producer
Kevin Hart has been tapped to host the Oscars. Not a day later, the Internet dug up old tweets featuring homophobic slurs. The Academy asked Hart to make a public apology. Hart refused. Then two hours later, he stepped down.
Andy Samberg and Sandra Oh will co-host the 2019 Golden Globes

AARON'S LOSER: "Sick Note" JACK’S FENCER: "The Final Table" AARON'S WINNERS: "Room 104," "Vikings," "Bumping Mics" and "South Park"JACK'S WINNERS: "The Kids Are Alright" and "Sally4Ever"

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