and what's Drifter being canned for? 

Quotes or it didn't happen. 

Slight variant, the Cathartic Church? 

First off, got to defend Rosanne at least on one point. She didn't threaten to bake Jews in an oven. She as a Jew (or occasional Jew if you want to be cynical) did an interview and posed for photos with an acerbically satirical Jewish lifestyle magazine. I seriously question the integrity of a journalist that reports it as such. Also, I liked that show, the original and the reboot and wish we lived in an age where an actor's ability to pull off comedic and dramatic roles was seen as entirely separate from their ability to have a coherent opinion on current affairs. Like, it turns out fucking ALF was racist between takes, and we were blissfully unaware of it. Well, most of us were, I'm imagining a hypothetical black kid in the audience that day who forever more saw ALF suction cupped to car windows mouthing the word "n_____"

As for shock comedy in general, maybe it's going to die down because it's got to die down. Most of it bores me, generally because I'm hard to shock, especially if it's coming from one note offence dispensers. Bill Hicks, Charlie Brooker and the like, I see as full range humourists, they can still be cutting because they delve into something real and relevant, they're not just rendering the profane innocuous, it's funny because it hurts a little. 

There is the aspect of age, both in years alive and the age we've been born too. I think of my childhood, growing up in a Catholic country, where shit like this just wasn't talked about. We had our rules and our boundaries and we had sexless moral guardians called priests, then, and you might be ahead of me here, we found out they weren't so sexless and they weren't our guardians. The world changed, and we all realised that there was more to the world than we were told. It wasn't a culture of vulgarity that enabled their crimes, it was politeness, a conspiracy of politeness. But years pass, and it seems like blue humour hasn't chased the evil out of society, so I can only imagine what it's like for the generation that's coming up behind us to live in this vulgar new world where nothing is sacred and seemingly nothing gets fixed. 

Been listening to some classics. It's good to revisit guilty pleasures once you've abandoned the concept of guilt. 
 

I've been run over by far too many hype trains to get truly excited, but I'm looking forward to this. There's been talk between the two movies as to what is the proper tone for Dredd, truth is there never was a consistent tone for Dredd. It's been running almost as long as 2000ad has, and they got bored and they tried new things and it could be a wildly different kind of story from one week to a next. Usually it's about meeting an entirely new group of citizens, learning  how they live and more often that not how they die. If they can stay true to that and keep the ideas flowing, it'll be something great. The only concern I have is seeing the state of the Preacher series, a show that struggles to depict the version of America that already exists. 

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The city of the future is moving ever closer.

As revealed by 2000 AD and Judge Dredd owners Rebellion at San Diego Comic-Con Saturday afternoon, preparation for the television series Judge Dredd: Mega-City One is progressing apace, with the news that the pilot script and plot for the show’s first two years have been completed — and a name familiar to Dredd fans is attached to both.

Rob Williams, who has written the character for 2000 AD for years — including working on such important stories as “Trifecta,” “Titan” and the “Enceladus” cycle — is the creative lead for the pilot for the show, which focuses on the authoritarian police force in the overcrowded giant city that encompasses the majority of the East Coast of the United States. He also worked with a group of writers on the plot for the show’s first couple of seasons. Despite the title, Dredd will not be the sole focus on the show, which will instead be an ensemble drama.

Judge Dredd: Mega-City One was announced in May 2017, created in partnership between IM Global Television — headed up by former Syfy executive Mark Stern, who developed Battlestar Galactica and Defiance for the network — and Rebellion Productions, a newly created division of the company that owns the Dredd property. Rebellion creative director and CEO Jason Kingsley will act as executive producer on the show, with Brian Jenkins as series producer.

“It’s been really exciting to be working with Rob on the pilot,” Jenkins said in a statement. “We have a really talented team here at Rebellion Productions and I’m really proud of them. Jason and I have been busy looking at locations and laying out season one as we gear up, to move forward into pre-production.”

Kingsley added, “I’ve read the pilot script by Rob and the team, and got that same thrill I did when I first discovered Judge Dredd. As we drive this project forward I’m always surprised by how much effort goes on behind-the-scenes to bring something like Mega-City One to the screen. I’m very pleased with how the whole project is coming together and looking forward to more exciting announcements in the coming months.”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/comic-writer-rob-williams-has-completed-judge-dredd-pilot-script-comic-con-1128980?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&__twitter_impression=true

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JUDGE DREDD TV SHOW: EXCLUSIVE FIRST CONCEPT ART IMAGES

Democracy and lowlifes.

BY JOE SKREBELS IGN can exclusively reveal the first concept development sketches of the Judge Dredd: Mega-City One TV show.

The first, 'Democracy March', shows the suspended streets packed with people amidst the Mega-City skyline (including the Statue of Liberty). The title may well be a reference to the events of "America", one of the Judge Dredd comic series' most well-loved storylines, which tackled some incredibly heavy themes, and saw a major change in Dredd's depiction.

 

'Democracy March' concept art (click to enlarge).

The second piece of art, 'Lowlife Arrival', shows the deepest levels of Mega-City One. The original 'Low Life' comic storyline followed Judges operating in Mega-City One's slums, and those imposing headlights might well show them turning up to do the same.

 

'Lowlife Arrival' concept art (click to enlarge).

If those connections to the original comics (many of which aren't about Dredd himself) are indeed true, it lends credence to producer Jason Kingsley's promise that the show will create "multi-thread storylines, one of which will be Dredd’s but others which take us into the wider world of Mega-City One.”

Both pieces were completed last year, indicating that the show has been in development for quite some time.

While it remains unattached to a network, the team behind Judge Dredd: Mega-City One is in talks with Dredd movie lead Karl Urban to reprise his role - a choice that would likely prove very popular.

Exploring Mega-City One and bringing back Karl Urban are two of the 9 things we want from a Dredd TV show - here's hoping they nail the rest, too.

I've really no idea what this series is going to be, nor do I think there's been any details, now would be a good time to wildly speculate!

Personally I really like the direction it's been taking with Discovery (I'm only five or six episodes in, don't spoil me) and hope it follows on from that thematically. Definitely want to see it painting more nuanced chaotic worlds, hopefully we're truly done with the spaced out laudanum'ed vibe of the Nineties (thought I love it in its own way) 
 

If this excites you, how would you feel about a new series set in the Friends Universe, staring Matt Le Blanc? 

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It’s official — Patrick Stewart is returning to the Star Trek franchise. The acclaimed Shakespearean actor is set to headline a new Star Trek series for CBS All Access, reprising his iconic Next Generation character, Captain Jean-Luc Picard. The project, which has been rumored since the June announcement of a Star Trek universe expansion with new series, was just unveiled by Stewart himself in a surprise appearance at the Las Vegas Star Trek Convention.

https://deadline.com/2018/08/patrick-stewart-star-new-star-trek-series-jean-luc-picard-cbs-all-access-1202440156/

Incredible Hulk managed to go somewhere different every week, pretty sure that show turned a profit.

Ah fuck it, need to make sure everyone's heard this. 

To be honest, I'd be quite happy if ginger dude just faded into the background like Dave Stewart/ Chris Lowe/ Danny Brown's guy and Killer Mike just handled the vocals. Course they'd need about 75% more lyrics, but I honestly don't think that would even be a problem. 

Aye, they seemed to have done this before. To be honest, I have this problem with almost all gigs, I spend an hour or two processing my own thoughts, in this case trying to spot any black people in the building discounting those that were paid to be there, by about the encore I'm willing to concede that some things are just arbitrarily determined to be of interest to white people and it's OK for me to admit I am one and enjoy some music and then it's time to go home. 

Not quite this band, but this song. Nothing against their other stuff, I just haven't heard most of it, listening to another of their tracks now, but generally I don't want to check out more Coup just yet, I just want to hammer this track again. ( oh, if anyone knows how to get the movie Sorry to Bother You on poor people VOD, let me know)

Speaking of hammers, I discovered (or rediscovered, there've been some blurry years) this track. Several times a day: 

Saw Danny Brown support Run the Jewels(who definitely have their moments), he was gash live, I'm not used to live hip hop, I don't know if he was missing some flanking hype men or if we just failed him as a crowd, or maybe he's just one of those people that can bottle lightning, but can't generate it on command. Anyway, on record, especially on his heavier tracks, it was the quieting noise I need. 

As do these young women:

Also, everyone as a qualifier of World citizenship, everyone should listen to the album Wild Planet by the B52's who are actually the greatest band of all time, a fact masked all through my childhood by the sheer adequacy of Love Shack. 

Jesse's a Feminist. Partly. He's even read the texts as he tells his mother. Obviously not your standard Feminist, but he has a go, incorporating the man he is, he's had a varied upbringing. As his father instructs, he has to be one of the good guys. He's not a man not an angel, but compared to the too many of the bad, the Villains are always those that use their power to serve their vanity or for personal gain, and/ or those who take pleasure from others without ever seeking to return it. 

That's referring to the comics version, the real Jesse. The version from the show, I don't know who he is, which was appealing for a bit, but I wish if it was going to depart from the source material, it would have kept going in it's own direction, or at least keep going whatever it does. I assumed after the first series, it was going to unhook it's characters and have them go on a proper road trip. So far it seems that we're getting one major location per series, and that seems less for narrative reasons as for keeping set budgets down. We shouldn't be spending this long in Angelville, once he's got what he needed from that place every fibre of his body should be set on getting the hell out of there or burning it to the fucking ground. 

The series works better for me, the further it gets from the source material, I'm not sure if that material is genuinely better, or if I can just better appraise it on its own merits. But trying to bring in the whole supporting cast, or at least their bizarro TV versions and trying to have moments of tension while still maintaining a series long status quo, the plots tying itself in knots that I can't be bothered untangling. 

Oh my.

Its also shite...

Jont, if you think this is offensive let me tell you about my Martin Luther King's Day parties.

In the name of the father

The Boxer

Wind that shakes the barley

Michael Collins

Paddy's day is when the Irish people and the people who inexplicably want to be Irish people celebrate their massively inflated sense of pride and conversely their complete lack of self respect. These are all important movies about Ireland that have something to say about the place beyond the caricature of the event, why the hell would you want to watch them on that of all days. Get some fucking Leprachaun on for christ's sake. Oh and Shrooms, you'll need some Shrooms.

The Night Marchers - In Dead Sleep (I Snore ZZZZ)

AGAINST ME! "Miami"We charge into danger.No guarantees or safe places.No one can be trusted,everyone is a suspect.All the money's worthless.The talent is trite and exaggerated.The food is turning and the water's fucking poison.And it's rotting your teeth right out of your head,sight and hearing are quickly faded.Your gut's expanding, your hairline's receding.The sores are opening and the cancer's spreading.And the antibiotics aren't working,All the drugs are just strangely sobering.And the skeletons in your closet have opened the door andthey've started talking.Just like Miami!Miami!Fucking Miami.Miami!Sharks circling for the feeding.All hope has been abandoned, like ballots drifting into the ocean.Just like Miami!Miami!Fucking Miami!Miami!Sharks circling for the feeding.All hope has been abandoned, like ballots drifting into the ocean.Hey!They're in your room while you're sleeping.They're in your car behind the seat waiting.All the rifle sights are on the back of your head.They're slipping it into your drink when you're not looking.And they're selling it to you as art.It's every other word in movies and songs.All the public is buying,it's business as usual,and the business is capitalizingon your fear, your greed, your perversions and vices.They say you're guilty, they've got the evidence to prove it.The mistakes are obvious, the faults are glaring.The plane is on fire, the fucking ship is sinking.And you're swept away in a hurricane.You're buried in the rubble of an earthquake.It's terminal,inoperable,they're amputating!Massive hemmorrhaging,major fucking complications!Just like Miami!Miami!Fucking Miami!Miami!Sharks circling for the feeding.All hope has been abandoned, like ballots drifting into the ocean.Just like Miami!Miami!Fucking Miami!Miami!Sharks circling for the feeding.All hope has been abandoned, like ballots drifting into the ocean.Miami!