Sentences with phrase «cult hit shows»

«In Mr. Show, Larry Sanders and other cult hit shows I've played many a funny sleazeball, I've impersonated the great Robert Evans, and it's all been building to this.

During the cult hit show's three seasons, it earned such a rabid fanbase that it was only cancelled after a massive public outcry.

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Using the example of the cult hit Friday Night Lights, Ari spoke about leveraging the show's 1.5 million Facebook fans and raising the capital necessary to produce the content.

With hit shows like The Venture Bros., Robot Chicken, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and more, the channel has cemented itself as a cult favorite amongst late night viewers who might be under the influence of certain substances.

It's a show for a very specific sort of audience, but for that audience, it could become a legit cult hit.

Benefiting from the late -»90s wave of youth - driven TV shows, Heigl stayed with television and attracted an avid following as alien beauty Isabel on the cult hit Roswell.

HOT FUZZ and SHAUN OF THE DEAD director Edgar Wright will team up with Hollywood superstar Johnny Depp to bring the cult, hit show...

; dialogue - heavy scripts that could be as much as sixty - to - seventy pages for a thirty - minute show, and that unique shooting style, Sports Night became a cult hit even while it was airing — and it influenced an entire wave of single - camera shows.

Christopher Guest defined the mockumentary genre with cult hits «Waiting for Guffman», «A Mighty Wind», «For Your Consideration», and most notably, «Best in Show».

Director Wells does open the show up some, but the words and situations are all Letts, who also scored a cult hit last year with the film version of another one of his plays, «Killer Joe.»

Director Richard Kelly's follow - up on the enigmatic cult hit Donnie Darko has run into a critical storm: an unfinished version (according to Kelly) was shown at the Cannes film festival where it was boo - ed and got rotten reviews.

The film's intelligent selection of rock songs, hilarious stoner dialogue, crude jokes, and endless partying appealed to a particular audience and the film became an immediate cult hit; it was even blessed with midnight showings in certain cities.

But when the stars of the hit Sundance film Z for Zachariah — Chiwetel Ejiofor, Chris Pine and Margot Robbie — show up to Off the Cuff's outdoor set to talk to Peter Travers about adapting the 1974 cult sci - fi novel, none of them can handle the cold.

From Software created something of a cult smash hit with Dark Souls, which makes no apologies for showing up how much you suck at playing games that forbid handholding.

Thomas, who created the BBC / PBS series Call the Midwife — an unlikely cult hit of a show about nurses in 1950s London — seems to have been compelled by a desire to make the book more accessible to modern audiences.

The cult hit series «Mystery Science Theater 3000» commanded in its opening theme: «just repeat to yourself, «It's just a show, I should really just relax.»»

4:00 p.m., Indigo Ballroom — «Wilfred» FX «s cult hit starring Elijah Wood as a man who imagines his dog is his malevolent best friend, is quietly becoming one of the smartest and darkest comedies on TV, and Wood will be there with his co-stars and creative team to discuss the show, as well as preview an upcoming episode.

Writer / director / producer Ryan Murphy is best known for creating some of the most popular shows on TV including the WB's cult - classic Popular, FX's award winning and groundbreaking series Nip / Tuck and Fox's current runaway hit Glee.

The connecting thread between Empire Records, The Craft, and End of Days is of course Robin Tunney, who hit it big in the late «90s and has grown to show as much longevity in her career as the select films from her body of work — cult phenoms, if not cultural touchstones by some measure.

The original Battlestar Galactica was a cult hit that enjoys massive popularity to this day, while Ronald D. Moore's darker, reimagined Syfy series is among the most critically acclaimed shows of the 21st century, earning praise from Time, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, and Entertainment Weekly.