Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams are a set of weird stories that ask you to look deeper into what each episode is telling you. This week Crazy Diamond is an episode that really does feel like a dream, or to be more exact, a world where dreams are not meant to be, and everything is has a very short shelf life.
Ed Morris (Steve Buscemi) is just a normal man doing his job and living his life. His job at the Spirit Mill is to maintain vials of ‘Quantum Conciseness’ which are used on synthetic humans to give them that magical spark of life which makes them a person, namely a Jack or a Jill. This is where he meets a Jill (Sidse Babett Knudsen) who promises to give him everything he dreamed of. Though that dream may turn into a nightmare.
Ed and his wife live in a...
Ed Morris (Steve Buscemi) is just a normal man doing his job and living his life. His job at the Spirit Mill is to maintain vials of ‘Quantum Conciseness’ which are used on synthetic humans to give them that magical spark of life which makes them a person, namely a Jack or a Jill. This is where he meets a Jill (Sidse Babett Knudsen) who promises to give him everything he dreamed of. Though that dream may turn into a nightmare.
Ed and his wife live in a...
- 10/9/2017
- by Paul Metcalf
- Nerdly
Rob Leane Sep 14, 2017
Here’s our verdict on two episodes of Amazon and Channel 4’s sci-fi anthology series, Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams...
At a swanky event in London, a gaggle of journalists was plied with booze and nibbles, before sitting down to watch two episodes of Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams. This sci-fi anthology series from Amazon and Channel 4, which arrives on screens later this month, adapts short stories from the literary master behind Blade Runner, Minority Report, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly and The Man In The High Castle.
See related Twin Peaks season 3: Kyle MacLachlan chats about the finale Looking back at Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Expectations were high as the snacks depleted and we were ushered to the screening room. Then, Channel 4’s Head of Drama introduced a special video message from Bryan Cranston, who stars in one...
Here’s our verdict on two episodes of Amazon and Channel 4’s sci-fi anthology series, Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams...
At a swanky event in London, a gaggle of journalists was plied with booze and nibbles, before sitting down to watch two episodes of Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams. This sci-fi anthology series from Amazon and Channel 4, which arrives on screens later this month, adapts short stories from the literary master behind Blade Runner, Minority Report, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly and The Man In The High Castle.
See related Twin Peaks season 3: Kyle MacLachlan chats about the finale Looking back at Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Expectations were high as the snacks depleted and we were ushered to the screening room. Then, Channel 4’s Head of Drama introduced a special video message from Bryan Cranston, who stars in one...
- 9/9/2017
- Den of Geek
The History Channel is Developing a New Anthology Series About U.S. Presidents Called The Commanders
If you're a history buff like I am, or if you're just interested in learning more about U.S. Presidents of the past, you're gonna want to watch this new series that The History Channel is developing. It's called The Commanders, and it's an anthology series that "will dramatize the biggest moments in American history and those that served as commander-in-chief."
The limited series is said to range from four to ten hours long and it will focus on presidents including Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Theodore Roosevelt, James Madison, and Thomas Jefferson. According to THR, History Channel is also internally developing projects on George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Dwight Eisenhower.
The stories that the network plans on telling come from a collection of books that they have optioned including The Breach: Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton by Peter Baker, Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris, Thomas Jefferson...
The limited series is said to range from four to ten hours long and it will focus on presidents including Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Theodore Roosevelt, James Madison, and Thomas Jefferson. According to THR, History Channel is also internally developing projects on George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Dwight Eisenhower.
The stories that the network plans on telling come from a collection of books that they have optioned including The Breach: Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton by Peter Baker, Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris, Thomas Jefferson...
- 3/26/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
History‘s scripted drama slate is turning into a regular Hall of Presidents: The cabler is developing a scripted anthology series focusing on men who have held the American presidency.
Each annual installment of The Commanders will be between four and 10 hours long and will focus on a specific U.S. president at a defining moment in his administration, the network announced Tuesday.
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The first Commanders-in-Chief on tap are Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison; the source material for the scripts includes several bestselling biographies, including The Breach: Inside...
Each annual installment of The Commanders will be between four and 10 hours long and will focus on a specific U.S. president at a defining moment in his administration, the network announced Tuesday.
RelatedSix Renewed for a Beefier Season 2
The first Commanders-in-Chief on tap are Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison; the source material for the scripts includes several bestselling biographies, including The Breach: Inside...
- 3/21/2017
- TVLine.com
Today in Backstage casting notices, the futuristic short “Sales Pitch” is casting talent for lead and supporting roles, one of which is an “unsettlingly attractive robot.” And if that doesn’t sound like you, we’ve also got three more fantastic jobs below—see if there’s a part for you! “Sales Pitch”“Sales Pitch,” a short film based loosely on Philip K. Dick’s story of the same name, is casting male talent for two leading and a supporting role. The low budget project seeks an actor aged 18–30 to portray the edgy but relatable Ed Morris, an actor aged 18–32 to play the “unsettlingly attractive robot” David, and an actor aged 24–30 to play the kind and rational Martin. Shooting is slated for mid-January in New York City. DC Villains Improva writers group publishing content for the tabletop gaming industry seeks talent to run through a superhero based game module. The...
- 11/21/2016
- backstage.com
Film critic David Thomson, author of “A Biographical Dictionary of Film” and “How to Watch a Movie,” has a new book coming out this month, “Television: A Biography,” which examines the medium and its six-decade history. In the book, Thomson addresses the medium in two sections: “The Medium,” which explores the social and political climate of the television age, the move from novel craze to complacent habit and more; and “The Messages,” which considers the evolution of TV shows, the relationship between Americans and television and more. “The sacred fixed altar (the set) has given up its central place of worship and is now just one screen among so many, like the dinner table kept for state occasions in a life of snacking,” says Thomson.
Read More: Interview: David Thomson Talks New Edition Of ‘Dictionary Of Film,’ Roger Ebert, Future Of Cinema And Much More
In the excerpt below, read...
Read More: Interview: David Thomson Talks New Edition Of ‘Dictionary Of Film,’ Roger Ebert, Future Of Cinema And Much More
In the excerpt below, read...
- 10/14/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
This article originally appeared in If Magazine #139 (Feb-March 2011).
Ask Nicholas Meyer what work he.s most proud of in his long and successful career in Hollywood and he won.t start talking about reviving the Star Trek franchise. He won.t mention Oscar or Emmy nominations or even his best-selling novel The Seven Per Cent Solution. Meyer will tell you about a TV movie he directed which inspired a Us President not to go to nuclear war.
When it aired in the Us, The Day After was the most watched TV film in history and went on to score 12 Emmy nominations. The movie reveals the potential impact of a nuclear strike on a small American town. Meyer doesn.t think it was a great film but he finds its influence rewarding.
.Sources. confirm that Ronald Reagan came to power believing in the idea of a winnable nuclear war, and it...
Ask Nicholas Meyer what work he.s most proud of in his long and successful career in Hollywood and he won.t start talking about reviving the Star Trek franchise. He won.t mention Oscar or Emmy nominations or even his best-selling novel The Seven Per Cent Solution. Meyer will tell you about a TV movie he directed which inspired a Us President not to go to nuclear war.
When it aired in the Us, The Day After was the most watched TV film in history and went on to score 12 Emmy nominations. The movie reveals the potential impact of a nuclear strike on a small American town. Meyer doesn.t think it was a great film but he finds its influence rewarding.
.Sources. confirm that Ronald Reagan came to power believing in the idea of a winnable nuclear war, and it...
- 8/9/2012
- by Rachael Gavin
- IF.com.au
For those of us who have enjoyed Jason O’Mara’s work since before Life on Mars, his addition to the cast of Terra Nova has been a welcomed one. O’Mara is known for his affability, and his penchant for taking advantage of all the most modern mediums of communication (Facebook, Twitter: @jason_omara , etc.) has made him one of the most accessible cast members—plus, he has become a fount of information all on his own! He can be trusted to Tweet and post reliably about Terra Nova and his life at large.
The newest O’Mara project is his “Impromptu Interviews,” which he posts on his site, http://jasonomara.com/blog/introducting-impromptu-interviews/. This is a new series of short ambush-style interviews with his Terra Nova castmates and members of the crew and writing/executive staff, plus possibly other celebs and members of the media. O’Mara gives...
The newest O’Mara project is his “Impromptu Interviews,” which he posts on his site, http://jasonomara.com/blog/introducting-impromptu-interviews/. This is a new series of short ambush-style interviews with his Terra Nova castmates and members of the crew and writing/executive staff, plus possibly other celebs and members of the media. O’Mara gives...
- 8/4/2011
- by Jess Brown
- TerraNovaTV
He wrote 18 books, one of which is still required reading at the Us Naval Academy. He graduated from Harvard and attended Columbia Law School. He earned both the Medal of Honor and the Nobel Peace Prize. He went on a massive safari in Africa and a fact finding expedition in South America... both after his left retina had been detached in a boxing accident years earlier, leaving him blind in one eye. His face is carved into the side of a mountain. He was shot in the chest and rather than go to the hospital, proceeded to give a 90 minute speech with blood soaking the front of his clothes. One of the most popular toys in the world is named after him. Oh yea, he was also governor of New York, President of the United States and head of the most successful third party in all of American history.
In other words,...
In other words,...
- 3/1/2011
- by Tamatha Uhmelmahaye
Eugene Jarecki's documentary Reagan-debuting Monday on HBO-tries to illuminate the popular president. Lloyd Grove on whether there is anything left to say-or is Reagan just impossible to really know.
Ronald Reagan was plainspoken and sunny in public-a Great Communicator to hundreds of millions around the world. "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" he famously exhorted at the Brandenburg Gate-the battle cry of the Cold War that prefigured the collapse of the Berlin Wall and, in turn, Soviet Communism.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Will Natalee's Father Find Her?
But, at his private core, America's much-celebrated 40th president was unknowable and unreachable, even to his official biographer. After spending hours with the man, Edmund Morris was so perplexed by the impenetrability of his subject's inner life that felt forced to invent a fictional Reagan confidant in Dutch, his authorized biography, in a rash attempt to explain it. Morris...
Ronald Reagan was plainspoken and sunny in public-a Great Communicator to hundreds of millions around the world. "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" he famously exhorted at the Brandenburg Gate-the battle cry of the Cold War that prefigured the collapse of the Berlin Wall and, in turn, Soviet Communism.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Will Natalee's Father Find Her?
But, at his private core, America's much-celebrated 40th president was unknowable and unreachable, even to his official biographer. After spending hours with the man, Edmund Morris was so perplexed by the impenetrability of his subject's inner life that felt forced to invent a fictional Reagan confidant in Dutch, his authorized biography, in a rash attempt to explain it. Morris...
- 2/6/2011
- by Lloyd Grove
- The Daily Beast
Edmund Morris’ three-volume biography of Theodore Roosevelt is one of the great biographies of the last half-century. He solidifies its position with the final book in the trilogy, Colonel Roosevelt, which follows the man post-presidency, as he struggles to find his place in a world where he’s legitimately the most famous man alive, but has limited power. Though Colonel lacks focus in places, it’s a rewarding end for readers who’ve followed the story so far, and it makes the great man’s death powerfully moving. Morris’ Roosevelt is torn between his more-than-healthy ego and the public adulation ...
- 1/13/2011
- avclub.com
I'm down to one assignment left this semester, which is great because this week was pretty rough, deadline wise, and a huge week at work so I've been bouncing back and forth between diphenhydramine to get me to sleep and five hour energy to perk me up enough to get through all my work plus eating like shit and it's sort of made me weird and twitchy. Or rather, more weird and twitchy. It's like having a coffee addiction but without the coffee. I think I need to detox this weekend. Anyone have some recommendations for that? Tell me later, right now I have to duct tape my leg down so I stop bouncing my knee compulsively, here's your Thursday night TV:
8:00pm: "The Big Bang Theory" on CBS
"Bones" on Fox
"Brew Masters" on Discovery
"Community" on NBC
"The Santa Incident" on Hallmark. Why do these shitty Christmas TV movies keep happening?...
8:00pm: "The Big Bang Theory" on CBS
"Bones" on Fox
"Brew Masters" on Discovery
"Community" on NBC
"The Santa Incident" on Hallmark. Why do these shitty Christmas TV movies keep happening?...
- 12/10/2010
- by Intern Rusty
It is not that rare anymore to see pundits get worked up on news shows. But the Sunday morning network news shows have somehow remained a refuge for civil (Boring) conversation. Face The Nation, Meet The Press, This Week, and even Fox News Sunday are still largely the dry informative programs they were intended to be. Generally, they have smart guests talking in a monotone voice about the intricacies of legislation and foreign policy. This Sunday, however, one guy named Edmund Morris managed to somehow stay in a boring monotone voice while calling one of Bob Schieffer‘s questions “bullsh*t.” It is the most academically you will ever hear the word “bullsh*t” used. (Fast forward to 10:16) Even if I hadn’t told you his name, you probably would have been able to guess after this that his name is Edmund. Anyway, Bob Schieffer is normally pretty great,...
- 11/29/2010
- by Noah Garfinkel
- BestWeekEver
Although the clip from CBS’s Face The Nation is not as confrontational as the title to this post might suggest, it’s actually much funnier. Bob Schieffer annually hosts a roundtable. This year authors Ron Chernow (Washington: A Life), Arianna Huffington (Third World America), Edmund Morris (Colonel Roosevelt), and Bob Woodward (Obama’s Wars) participated in the thoughtful and sedate conversation, that is until a sound rarely, if ever, heard on a Sunday morning news show caught all viewers by surprise: a censor bleeping.
- 11/28/2010
- by Matt Schneider
- Mediaite - TV
When Edmund Morris, a Pulitzer-winning writer and biographer of Theodore Roosevelt, essentially punted the task of producing a book about then-President Ronald Reagan by fictionalizing his own pursuit of the man, he opened a can of worms for non-fiction writing in general, and for chroniclers of current events in particular. Raked over the coals at the time for mingling fact and fancy in an effort to portray an unknowable subject, Morris’ Dutch: A Memoir Of Ronald Reagan has quietly become the model text for a new generation of writers producing sensationalist “non-fiction” and hoping for a breakout hit. Witness The ...
- 8/20/2009
- avclub.com
New York -- NBC News denied Monday that conservative author Ann Coulter has been banned from the network after "Today" dropped her from Tuesday's program because of breaking-news events.
The Coulter incident garnered huge headlines, which reported that network sources said NBC was not going to allow the frequent guest to appear any more.
That's not true, NBC News said Monday. Coulter's segment was dropped from the schedule because of news that the show was expecting to cover in the Gaza Strip with the Israeli military action there and in Washington with the Obama transition. "Today" had booked former British prime minister Tony Blair. Coulter was to promote her new book, "Guilty: Liberal 'Victims' and Their Assault on America."
Late Monday, NBC said that it had offered Coulter a spot on the Wednesday "Today" show.
"We've had Ann Coulter on 'Today' many times, but because of the news in Washington and the Middle East,...
The Coulter incident garnered huge headlines, which reported that network sources said NBC was not going to allow the frequent guest to appear any more.
That's not true, NBC News said Monday. Coulter's segment was dropped from the schedule because of news that the show was expecting to cover in the Gaza Strip with the Israeli military action there and in Washington with the Obama transition. "Today" had booked former British prime minister Tony Blair. Coulter was to promote her new book, "Guilty: Liberal 'Victims' and Their Assault on America."
Late Monday, NBC said that it had offered Coulter a spot on the Wednesday "Today" show.
"We've had Ann Coulter on 'Today' many times, but because of the news in Washington and the Middle East,...
- 1/5/2009
- by By Paul J. Gough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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