Sentences with phrase «tv as a genre»

The low - level satire is directed at the concept of reality TV as a genre, not at the individuals whom she treats with respect.

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Dow Jones reporter Kristiano Ang and David Lyle, President of PactUS, join MarketWatch's Catey Hill and Maria LaMagna to talk the current shake up the reality TV industry is seeing and whether or not it's the end of the genre as we know it.

The subjects of horror TV shows and movies often serve as surrogates for real world fears, and understanding trends in the genre can help us understand the issues plaguing the cultural psyche.

Unfortunately, the Reality TV format (which is the genre in he chose to present his cause) tends to lead to over-simplification, maybe to the point of trivialization (remember, this is the same genre that brings you such earth - shattering, compelling stories as «Survivor» and «American Idol» and even «The Bachelor (ette)»!)

Paul has been a professional trickster for almost thirty years during that period has appeared countless times as performer, presenter and pundit on numerous TV shows across many genres.

ヤンキー君とメガネちゃん (Yankee - kun to Megane - chan) Genre: Slice of Get the latest slate of new MTV Shows Jersey Shore, Teen Wolf, Teen Mom and reality TV classics such as Punk'd and The Hills.

Science Fiction has to be well written and internally consistent if it's to engage and hold an audience but V just comes across as (yet another) TV series written by non-sci fi writers who don't have a grasp of the genre.

The zombie genre is here to stay — as evident by the hordes of films and TV shows coming off the success of AMC's hits series The Walking Dead.

Gerald's Game, a Stephen King adaptation for Netflix starring Carla Gugino, is good Coming Soon Daniel Dae Kim's stunt training for the Hellboy reboot / Film Hocus Pocus moves forward as a TV movie remake - none of the original actors or filmmaking team are involved David Poland on Blade Runner 2049 with no spoilers «It is Aliens to Alien»... whoa, that's high praise Billboard composer Danny Elfman interviewed about Superman's iconic theme (redeployed for Justice League) and his long collaboration with Gus Van Sant Playbill Judy Garland's final concert, restored / remastered from 1969 will be released for the first time i09 on why you should be watching the Exorcist TV series, back for Season 2 / Film Amazon still has a lot of work to do to catch up with Netflix and Hulu but they're diving into the sci - fi genre big time

I love del Toro as a director and as a human being — the guy has his hands in all aspects of genre entertainment, from films to TV to comic books to video games — and he knows how to build beautifully realized worlds.

In his short and feature - length films to date (as well as in TV series Girl Number 9), Turner has proven to be an efficient filmmaker, who doesn't mind trying his hand at a variety of genres.

It's a pretty fresh approach to the genre, and one that suggests that Lovering — a TV veteran who helmed episodes of «MI - 5» as well as one - offs «Miss Austen Regrets» with Olivia Williams and «Money» with Nick Frost — has plenty of tricks up his sleeve.

Shandling had previously deconstructed America's other favorite TV genre with his «stand - up sitcom» It's Garry Shandling's Show, a much gentler program that spoofed sitcom conventions as acknowledged the studio audience, the TV cameras and the space between the sets as the shows played out.

The biopic is — with rare but important exceptions — a relatively anaemic film genre, and something here about the reduction of Chubbuck's story to its regimented codes and conventions renders it as little more than a classy TV movie.

And now Davis headlines the latest incarnation of the genre classic, a TV reimagining that casts her as the mother of the young girl in the grip of a horrific demonic possession.

Perhaps the most explicitly in dialogue with film history of all his works thus far, the film will read as a much - needed strike of lightning to wu xia for connoisseurs of the genre and a feature - length TV spot for others.

Based on the NBC series Heroes, our game this week is a time manipulation / puzzle platformer that fans of the genre, as well as TV series, will enjoy.

Holed up in this consumerist dream space, they play dress - up, host a dinner, are visited by ghosts, watch coverage of their attack on display model TVs, and act out fantasy lives — only to have it all come to a halt when Nocturama reveals itself as the bleak, desperate genre movie it's been all along.

Captivity, on the other hand, is considerably less ambitious and considerably more exploitive, and as such, actress Elisha Cuthbert's participation can be dismissed as just another former TV star paying her dues in the horror genre.

Made in 1993, Cronos was a fresh approach to the vampire film created just as the Anne Rice books was reviving the moribund genre and long before the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series made vampires hip and the «Twilight» novels spread them through popular youth culture.

Set up as a separate entity in 1990, with its first «official» production the Anthony Minghella - directed romance Truly Madly Deeply, starring Juliet Stevenson and Alan Rickman, BBC Films has had a hand in more than 250 films in a wide variety of formats and genres: from popular TV spin - offs such as Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie and In the Loop, to boundary - pushing art films such as Andrea Arnold's Red Road, Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher and Derek Jarman's Edward II.

Adapted from Webb's 1999 book Dark Alliance and directed by Michael Cuesta (TV's Homeland and Dexter) this looks very solid stuff, in a genre of film that isn't made as often as I would like.

Not so much a sequel as another stultifying character drama set in a world overrun by aliens, this 10 - years - later spinoff switches directors and genres, as first - timer Tom Green (building on experience from British TV's «Misfits» and «Blackout») helms a taxingly over-earnest war movie set in an unspecified Middle Eastern country, where American soldiers deal with insurgents while the menacing MTRs (as they're now called) lumber about in the background.

He's made mincemeat out of most other movie genres since day one: the musical (Popeye), the detective film (The Long Goodbye), the war film (M * A * S * H), the western (McCabe and Mrs. Miller), the sci - fi film (Quintet) as well as skewering politics with his cable - TV series Tanner»88 and Hollywood with The Player.

With his leading man looks and laidback charisma it is somewhat of a mystery why actor Joe Flanigan - best known to genre fans as Major John Sheppard in the now defunct StarGate: Atlantis TV series - is relegated to «original» made - for - the - Syfy channel movies such as this one...

As usual, she delivers a formidable performance in a genre that seems to fit her best (now showcased weekly on the TV show, «Bates Motel»).

As has become a tradition, Warner Bros Television are using the opportunity to showcase some of their big genre hopes for the upcoming TV season.

One of the members of «The State» and the team behind «Wet Hot American Summer,» Wain has always operated under the «comedy ensemble» concept of filmmaking and TV, bringing together the same performers over and over again, often skewering expectations of the genre, as in his spoof of rom - coms, the underrated «They Came Together.»

While Levy is best known as a director of hit comedies and family films, his production company 21 Laps Entertainment has grown immensely over recent years, with a slate of film and TV projects encompassing multiple genres and collaborating with the most renowned filmmakers.

In my spare time I enjoy snuggling with our 2.5 Golden Retrievers (one is half Golden / half Bassett Hound, and yes, she's as cute as she sounds), spending time with family and friends, watching all genres of movies, laughing at inappropriate jokes during Taco Tuesday, yelling at the TV during college football, reading with a glass of wine, and most recently, traveling and visiting breweries that are popping up all over the southeast.

The analysis of TV westerns is fascinating as is the making of the first spaghetti western in which an entire genre was invented in a collaboration / clash between Eastwood and Sergi

My genre is western and I grew up watching all the favorite western tv series as a child.

«Top - down shooter» is the name the journalist - types love to give to the genre that spawned Smash TV in the arcades and Super Smash TV for home consoles, but most people know it as a bullet curtain, a bullet hell, or a twin - stick shooter.

Even more tantalisingly for genre connoisseurs, Eugene Jarvis — designer of Robotron: 2084 and Smash TV — came on board as a consultant.

Even today, its gritty melodrama feels fresh, one of those few creations that transcends an often trashy genre - the reason it ended up as primetime TV.

Worked as TV - producer, scriptwriter, director on multiple productions of various genres, such as TV - series and feature - length documentaries.

Her choreography scrutinizes the mutual influence between the use of gesture and movement in the «low», «commercial» genres — such as romantic comedy, TV soap, or hip - hop video - clip — and in «arts», such as ballet, modern dance and performance.

Anything we have bad to say about gaming on the Fire TV isn't so much a dig against the Fire TV or Amazon as much as it is a dig against the whole mobile - gaming - on - your - TV genre as a whole.

Users can share content from the Galaxy Mega to a TV effortlessly, as well as channel surf in a smart, new way that lets you browse by genre, search by title or receive recommendations based on your interests.

In regard to entertainment apps, video and media player genres had a higher reach as compared to radio and TV.