Updated: Brian Michael Bendis Busts Rumours Of Powers Pilot In Trouble

[Cavemold]

TV works pretty much the opposite way. If you are going to see one programme in this genre you are going to see a bunch. how many female action hero shows were there post Buffy. How many Vampire/fairy tale shows are there at the moment? How many space sci fi shows followed ST:TNG?

i hope they don't launch it for Bendis sake. It wont last and will look poorly on him.

[not him - HIM]

Sure, but it's not always a bad idea. Would Breaking Bad (better than The Wire and The Sopranos, in my humble, though I'm a fan of both) have been commissioned if Weeds hadn't been a hit?

My wife would definitely agree with you about Breaking Bad being better than The Wire and The Sopranos, although she's only seen the first two seasons of it. Come to think of it, I think it was you who told me she'd like it in some long forgotten conversation in a thread that died many moons ago. So, thanks from my wife if it was you who told me to tell her to watch it.

[Ian Coke]

My wife would definitely agree with you about Breaking Bad being better than The Wire and The Sopranos, although she's only seen the first two seasons of it. Come to think of it, I think it was you who told me she'd like it in some long forgotten conversation in a thread that died many moons ago. So, thanks from my wife if it was you who told me to tell her to watch it.

Hm. There's a bit of padding in season three, but it's worth it for series four's denouement. If you'd like to make your wife (who sounds a lady of style and good taste) happy on her birthday, or whenever, get both. It's so excellently done that weeks, or possibly even months of showing up plastered at four AM, fresh from a gentlemen's bar would be forgiven.

Edit: Not that I'm suggesting that you're the kind of guy who frequents gentleman's bars until four in the morning.

[not him - HIM]

Hm. There's a bit of padding in season three, but it's worth it for series four's denouement. If you'd like to make your wife (who sounds a lady of style and good taste) happy on her birthday, or whenever, get both. It's so excellently done that weeks, or possibly even months of showing up plastered at four AM, fresh from a gentlemen's bar would be forgiven.

Edit: Not that I'm suggesting that you're the kind of guy who frequents gentleman's bars until four in the morning.

Sadly, you read me like an open Ladybird book. But last year's Xmas present of The Sopranos box set is still earning me brownie points to this day, so I've still got a lot of good will to burn up before things get too desperate. But season 4 is going to be in her Xmas stocking this year I reckon. She's got season 3, but is waiting a while before she throws herself into it. Probably for the best given how relentlessly she dug into season 2. I did like it a lot, but for me the last series of The Thick Of It is where its at, man (where's the jazzy-hipster-clicking-fingers emoticon when you need it?)

[Ian Coke]

Have you (in the US, I'm guessing) had a chance to see the latest series of The Thick Of It?

If not, I won't spoil it. But the last episode, especially, is a work of understated genius, to the point where you really do have to go back and watch the whole thing again.

[not him - HIM]

I'm UK born and bred, but think I might have developed a mid-Atlantic forum accent. Am worried that I've become the forum equivalent of one of those painful British actor types that used to turn up on Wogan in the 80s and reel off Americanism after Americanism in the most preposterous English accent.

But yeah, watched the whole of series 4 on iPlayer last week. Jaw dropping. We'll see how I feel in a few weeks, but I'm currently thinking it might be one of the best series of anything that I've seen.