Thursday Links!!! (and a poll)

[lostdragonfound]

Cancellations & Renewals:

*FX renews 'Tyrant' for Season 2

Casting & Show News:

*[SPOILER] Returns to 'Agents of SHIELD'
*Sam Richardson made 'Veep' series regular
*Aubrey Plaza is Grumpy Cat for Lifetime holiday movie
*Lucifer TV Series will follow Neil Gaiman's Devil to LA
*Orange is The New Black's Laverne Cox to host MtV special about transgender youth

Misc Links:

*6 Reasons The Mindy Project's Danny Castellano is TV's Best New Yorker
*Interview with Ming-Na Wen on Season 2 Agents of SHIELD [SPOILERS]
*'Grey's Anatomy' cast poses as 'Orange is the New Black' characters
*Insiders predict which new shows will be hits (and flops)
*io9: Behind the scenes of Sleepy Hollow [SPOILERS]
*More Weird Facts You Probably Didn't Know About The Original Star Trek

Reviews and Recaps [assume SPOILERS for all of the reviews and recaps]:

*The Mysteries of Laura: Will You Remain on Debra Messing's Case?
*Red Band Society Premiere Recap
*Finding Carter EP Explains Season Finale Twists

A.V. Club Reviews [SPOILERS for all]:

*Sons of Anarchy 7x02
*The Mindy Project 3x01
*New Girl 4x01

POLL about the Comm...

Question 1: How is everyone finding the new format? Do you think we need more than two posts a week for 'current tv' discussions with the Fall season coming up? Do you wish we still had the Homebase system? Something else?

Question 2: Last week I gave Haven it's own discussion post for it's premiere episode? Would you like to see more of these for other shows?

Poll #15934 Stuff...

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 10

View Respondents

What do you think?

View Answers

I think things are just fine how they are.
7 (70.0%)

I think we need more than 2 'Current Shows' posts a week.
1 (10.0%)

I feel that the homebase system worked better.
1 (10.0%)

I have some other ideas to make the comm better that I will comment with below.
0 (0.0%)

Ticky!!!
3 (30.0%)

What do you think?

View Answers

I don't care either way.
2 (25.0%)

I don't see the need for these at all.
1 (12.5%)

I'd like to see more shows get their own discussion posts for premieres.
4 (50.0%)

I'd like shows to get their own discussion post for more than just premieres.
2 (25.0%)

I'll comment with some other opinion/idea.
1 (12.5%)

---

→ For current TV show discussions check this tag here.
→ Non-Current Show Discussion Posts can be found here.
→ Social Posts can be found here and Links here .
→ New Show Posts are here.
→ Returning show posts are here.

Comments

[glitteryv]

I do like the new format. In all truth, I have to confess that I wasn't too sure at first. The homebases seemed like a good idea but I deffo like how the TV shows are more integrated into the regular posts.

Maybe it'd be neat to have a thread for the popular shows in the posts? You could make a new thread per show (which, honestly, sounds like a lot of work).

Actually, I think what would be a better idea is to do a "new/returning shows" thread in the daily posts. All that people would have to do is then put the show's title in the subject line of their reply. That way, people could talk about Elementary or Scandal or whatever the show airing on Thursdays might be.

Everyone who participates (even if it's lurking) in this comm will (at one point or another) check out the day's post.

[lostdragonfound]

Maybe it'd be neat to have a thread for the popular shows in the posts? You could make a new thread per show (which, honestly, sounds like a lot of work).

I've actually been trying to do that for the 'current tv' posts, which we only have twice a week.

We've been doing 'current tv' posts on Monday and Wednesdays, Links on Tuesdays and Thursdays, Social Posts on Fridays, The Rewatch/older shows posts on Saturdays and 'The Week Ahead in TV' on Sundays.

Though, I suppose another alternative is daily posts that incorporate a bit of each. A run down of what's on that day, threads for the popular shows, and a few links. Dealing with spoilers is still a bit of a pain this way though.

[glitteryv]

It's a tricky situation, that's for sure. Spoilers will remain a pain because we don't watch the shows at the same time. Unfortch, that's not going to change anytime soon.

Funnily enough, I went from being really into spoilers to avoiding as many spoilers as possible. I think part of the reason is because fans would come up with really cool theories that never came to happen.

Anyways, maybe someone else will comment and throw in more suggestions. :)

[adafrog]

I like the idea that I can post on any current tv post about what's going on. It does seem like people don't comment a lot, but I didn't get many comments on my homebase post for Helix, either, so...

[dreams_in_color]

I liked the homebase system, but the new format works for me, too.