#freemantle media

[alarrytale]

An artist can sign over their image rights to a label which means that the label decides how that artist should appear to the general public aka what image to give the artist. As long as that image is profitable and the artist benefits from it, the artist can't sue or do anything to rid themselves of the image the label has given them. ///

This is not the definition of image rights. Image rights refers to the name, likeness, logos, catchphrases etc connected to an individual. Whoever owns the image rights owns the right to use these images on products. So for instance Sony still owns the image rights to 1d as a band and to Harry's image as a soloist. This is how Harry closed down Etsy accounts for using his name or photos of him on merchandise.

What does pertain to an artist's public image is a morality clause which allows the label to fire an artist if their public image becomes sullied by their behaviour, usually because they're convicted of a crime and go to prison. Even if their contract has years to run, they can be sacked under this clause.

Image rights are the legal and beneficial rights and goodwill that subsist in relation to the use, exploitation, reproduction of or in association with or otherwise of the personal attributes of the player including without limitation the name, nickname, initials, shirt number, autograph, caricature, statements, biographies, testimonials, endorsements, photographs, video, film or sound recording, voice, image reproduction and likeness and/or fair likeness or any other means of endorsement or identification, personal appearance or non-endorsement and so forth of the player, together with any relevant registered or unregistered UK and foreign copyrights, trade marks or design rights, which exist either now or in the future which comprise (whether wholly or in part) any of the matters referred to in this clause.”

https://www.hcrlaw.com/news-and-insights/protecting-image-rights-in-the-uk/

Hello, anon!

I'm so tired of this conversation. Who cares what it's called. I call it an image clause (because it is). Image clauses are written different in every contract. You linked one for sports athlethes. I don't know what the words "exploit" and "everything that makes you you" makes you think it doesn’t mean that they can make you appear straight if it's deemed benefitial to you.

Instead of typing this all up, you could just go read the contracts? It says it right there. Katie does live readings of it in her spaces, there are media articles out there explaining all this. I know the difference between image rights and a morality clause (because i've been in this fandom for aaaaages). There are reportedly between 66-100 clauses in the txf contract, it's over 80 pages long. And that's just one of many they had to sign. That's also just the txf contract with Syco/Freemantle, and then you have the contracts they signed along their recording contract with Syco/Sony/Columbia. I believe those are even worse and the reason why H and L are not out yet.

Here is an example of phrasing;

Everyone must agree that producers can trick, exploit and embarrass them — and even depict their personal stories in a manner that 'may be factual or fictional' -- and they can't sue for any reason.

"'I further understand that my appearance, depiction and portrayal in the program may be disparaging, defamatory, embarrassing and may expose me to public ridicule, humiliation or condemnation,' the agreement states."

(From the AGT contract)

If that's not basically saying we have control over how you appear to the public, then i don't know. Call it what you want, image clause or morality clause, but it's in there.

Funny clause to keep in mind;

The artists must not make any comments that are unduly negative, critical or derogatory of the company " including its personnel and, in particular, Simon Cowell". Link.

So when i get asks about the possibility of H and L being closeted by contract and different clauses, the obvious answer knowing all this, is yes.

[margridarnauds]

Hi,

So I finished the novel Queen's Gambit by Elizabeth Freemantle and am now extremely angry need to decompress and filter out her garbage I'm shocked that Penguin House published this book and that it is getting made into a movie. To portray young Princess Elizabeth as willingly seeking Seymour out and seducing him is vile. Parr's bitchy handmaid Dot finds them in bed together. What on Earth? No evidence for that. Then Catherine Parr gets angry, blames Elizabeth and they don't reconcile after she leaves. Heartbreaking. Plus, the portrayal of Catherine Parr is horrid there is no evidence she or her stepdaughter Meg were raped during the Pilgrimage of Grace, a devout woman like Catherine wouldn't be contemplating killing either of her husbands, or rejoicing in the prospect of being damned to hell as she puts it after Henry VIII dies. (Maybe with Henry she would think about it but not actually go through with it). I got the impression that this author had an anti-Christian as well as anti-Elizabeth attitude. Tried Sisters of Treason another book of hers but it was also bad. I want to send her an angry letter now calling out her disgusting portrayal of young Elizabeth. Did you send in a review or a note to the author after you read it?

Don't forget Dot's final monologue about Why Elizabeth Is Such A Bitch -- It's Almost Understandable That She's Such a Bitch-Slut.

It's common with historical fiction, really, to not understand the way that religion historically worked. It's very easy to put our feelings on religion, whatever they might be, onto historical figures in an attempt to make them More Like Us, but the simple reality is that they were living in a totally different cultural context. Characters are either religious fanatics so extreme that they make Frollo think "Hm, maybe they're overdoing it a tiny bit", they're Secretly Atheists, or religion just doesn't cross their mind ever (unless, in Tudor media, it's to establish them as a Cool Modern Protestant.)

As for what I did...honestly, put the book aside and thought about every single decision in my life that had led to me both reading and finishing it. As you can see by the fact that I still remember it in vivid detail, it holds a special place in my Hall of Shame. (And it isn't even batshit insane enough to be FUNNY, unfortunately.)

But, my piece of totally unsolicited advice that you are perfectly free to discard at your earliest convenience? ...when you do medieval Irish stuff. Or medieval Celtic stuff in general. You will NEVER see your field faithfully or even sensitively portrayed on page. Every single depiction you get will be based on old stereotypes, colonialist tropes, and outdated information. I've read things about my faves, in particular, that would make most people's hair stand up on end. Things that are truly, deeply vile, that are on par with the depiction of Elizabeth here, or even worse. And it is easy to be angry, it's understandable to be angry, and God knows that my friends have heard me ranting in the DMs. And when I was younger, I was, regularly. And then I got exhausted, because anger is exhausting, especially when it's you and your anger versus a tidal wave of misinformation. I didn't stop getting angry, no. But I started to use it as a tool, not as an explosive -- I let it fuel me, I used it for my scholarship, putting all these different pieces of pop culture about my field in conversation with one another and noting common trends, as well as making comparisons to trends in other areas to figure out what, in our contemporary cultural landscape, is causing us, as a general group, at this point in time, to portray these things in a certain way, as well as how we have portrayed them over time. I have built my career, at least in part, on defending the undefendable, on studying the ink blotches of historiography to see where the historical or literary records meet the popular image, specifically looking at figures who are frequently portrayed as villainous and monstrous. I don't deal in happy endings, I can't when I step in after their final death scenes, after the point where even the possibility of their deaths meaning *something* is gone, because they don't even get the satisfaction of being well remembered. I never expect to see my faves well portrayed -- sometimes, I'm surprised, but it is truly, deeply, RARE.

You send a note to an author, no matter how well-intentioned, and it's easy to write off. The author submitted that work for publication, it's done. They're still getting royalties off of them, whatever that means in the current hellacious publishing landscape, in this case, she even has a movie. They might care, but honestly? They probably won't. They can dismiss you as a crazed, unhinged fan, regardless of how much thought and effort you've put into the critique. You've wasted all that high quality, undiluted anger for something that won't have any tangible effect. My advice, instead? Feel your anger, let the hate flow through you, especially when it reflects biases like sexism, racism, and homophobia, sharpen it, and then use it -- it doesn't have to be in conference presentations or journal articles or any of the trappings of academia, but use it.

Write reviews, absolutely, put it into conversations with other pieces of Tudor and Elizabethan fiction, especially about young Elizabeth (Hell, compare it to, say, Elizabeth R, Becoming Elizabeth, Young Bess, or Lady Bess (Toho 2014/2018), just for examples of the young Elizabeth's life off the top of my head that dramatize the life of Elizabeth), see what other people have said, in journal articles, sure, but also in blog articles or GoodReads reviews online, without necessarily even talking to them, but just to get a survey of what they think and why they think it, and see what you can do. Why do we want to portray Elizabeth this way? Is it a desire to "knock her off her throne?" Portray her as a nymphomaniac bitch slut to contrast with the "Gloriana" image? Is it that we're uncomfortable with the topic of CSA? Or we don't like to think of it as something that historically occurred? (Especially when you compare it to the ongoing bimboification of Katherine Howard, even in allegedly sympathetic biographies.) Is it that we still don't want to believe that it could have happened? That we're willing to give more sympathy to a man than to a child? Some combination of all of them? And are we seeing progressively more nuanced portrayals, or are we seeing more of the same across the board? (I feel like Seymour, at least, has gone from being a romantic hero in Young Bess to being portrayed as genuinely manipulative, even if the execution is still lacking.) On the reverse side, are people more willing to defend, say, Elizabeth I and Catherine Howard than other historical women, specifically because of what they represent and because of their high profile status? Is there a double-edged sword here? Let your anger fuel you.

[renatedagmarmilada]

one Slovak one West Indian

Re-looting my home for St barths human Research covert Remote Destruction program over UK till 2080 - paid for by Kissinger.. Thursday I went out for an hour’s walk at lunch time. Fiona Turnbull, half sister of John Turnbull, one of illeg sons of Allan Lieberman Cross of Finchley London 86 illeg children with Doris Turnbull, west end  millionairess, mental care assistant and career thief..sent into my home slovakian /under age thief/ two houses down phoned Kevin- son of Horwarth of Oswestry Str. Sheffield. Nobody was in the lab St barths Human research at lunch time.. They ring their receiver paid by lab st barths Hum Res- Old remote technique, put a super strong XRay onto the door co-ordinates of Fekete’s home, which clicks it open.. 

Half an hour later, the watching neighbours saw a west indian from Burngreave Sheffield enter. No name given.  This one was cued by John Turnbull’s friend, no name...The Turnbull family invite absolutely anyone into the lab. NO SHAME AT THE HORROR THEY INFLICT ON THOSE POOR LITTLE CRIPPLED KIDS THEY KILL SOON AFTERWARDS...

 The friend and Fiona Turnbull said John Turnbull told them to.. to rob more work from Fekete’s home.This was bossess Anna’s idea-- destroy all their support and use Fekete’s work to give the lab members, then mainly mental care assistants, status on the High Street- whilst she used four lab men to create an army of her own to work in the lab for her - using sperm tests and more... Allan Lieberman Cross 86 illeg kids Harold Mankovitz Finchley 92 illeg kids Simeon Cohen 76 illeg kids and John Fielding 85 illeg kids.. Most were not acknowledged by their father..and called ‘Anna’s created children’.

.I AM A WORKING ARTIST and POET- WRITER. The lab has robbed all Fekete’s University work 50 files - LIterature, English Language, German Contemporary History, ie Jews of Germany etc and sell it to the media as their own work.. all creative work, since 1984, all College examinations and lessons work, three universities work..

THE LAB ST BARTHS HUMAN RESEARCH PAY THEIR CHOSEN THIEVES TO BREAK IN AND LOOT FEKETE’S HOME THEN THEY PAY THEM FOR WHAT EVER THEY HAVE ROBBED.. the thieves are permitted to keep what they want --- AND DO. CLOTHES, WORK, FOOD, HOUSEHOLD GOODS ETC.

All Fekete’s family are also on the monitor and scanner being used, in horrendous ways, their bodies destroyed to ensure their chldren cannot sue any of the lab members family..

 ALL FEKETE MALES HAVE HAD THEIR GENITALIA destroyed: done by remote- tighten the rim of the penis and it pushes it back into the body, same with testicles, to ensure they cannot have any children / or normal sex lives/  besides the young males killed by the lab in freak accidents, like the created accident Anna bossess used on Princess Diana ... / alias former prostitute  Jean Clark from Peckham// - Anna and the King???// fixed on Princess Diana on her lab machine by remote--

 The wonder machine was given to them by the USA and funding by Kissinger- for a trial till 2080.. and laboratory crewe of sex workers who run the lab. used these remote accidents saying they are a repeat of Diana’s to underpin what was done to her. She had two young cousins killed in Australia Freemantle using Abramovich’s cousin, speeding, headlong smash into the young sons of Magdalena and Willy Schmidt, from Geelong, then got into his car and drove off. The family then moved to Freemantle. The lab then had their daughter killed - Research Doctor-quote ‘’ If Fekete talks to her she will know immediately what we have done..’’ They set up a ‘wonder job’ in Canada.. Her plane crashed over Iceland. The rescue party left my 6 months pregnant cousin trapped under a cabin to freeze to death. It took her five hours to die, she was watched on their scanner. All but her shoes was eaten by rats. 

All cousins likely to have children have been killed in created by remote accidents, also one male cousin in his thirties, lived in Edmonton Canada, son of Bella Fekete./uncle, mum’s sister/.’testing their range’.

 Canada and Australia owe allegiance to the Crown of England and the remote destruction program was signed for by Prince Charles... USA is independent usually, but New York has employed at its Human Research some of London St barths Human Research actual killers.

All Sheffield is on the St barts Human Research monitor, for their mental care assistants use by remote to destroy They call it ‘practice’... Remote War Weaponry for future use.

[sabbathism]

People don’t like season 2, and here’s what they have to say :

tl;dr: I answer the web’s most vehement complaints about season 2 of American Gods. If you happen to recognize yourself in one of those, then I suggest thinking about it really really hard and, perhaps, giving the show another chance. If you recognize yourself in several of those, please drop the show. It’s not worth wasting your time and especially not ours. (I put a list of helpful cast and production related facts at the end.)

Hi, Nelle here, I’m but a humble fan who wishes to have fun seeing gods bicker and argue among mortals, complete with the craziest of situations, stellar cast and great visuals. And yet I can’t help but hear things when I start browsing this hellsite in quest of juicy fanworks.

Although I’m no Joan Of Arc, I hear voices from above and here’s what I have to shout back (lest I get burned at the stake)  :

“The pacing is all over the place ! It’s too slow !”

Is it tho ? Pacing has been “all over the place” (really meaning: different from what we avid show-viewers are accustomed to) since season 1, we’ve never gotten straight answers out of anything unless we started listening and paying attention to details. 

The book (you know, the source material) has four parts, the fourth serving as an epilogue to the whole story, season 2 is most definitely meant to close part 1 which, allegedly, had the slowest of pace to begin with. And it doesn’t even have half the new narratives the show has been creating. So no, it’s not slow. I promise you things are happening.

“It needs to follow the actual book more !!”

What’s a good adaptation ? Is it something that is 100% truthful to the source, down to every word ? Is it something that should offer something for people who don’t know the source ? Or, on the contrary, be something inseparable from it ?

American Gods as a TV show offers new things for people who have read the book and for those who haven’t, while keeping the beloved moments and aspects from the original material.

Why add or change stuff ? Well because, if you’re a book reader, you get welcomed into the state of existential dread that comes with not knowing what happen next, I promise it’s part of the fun. But also because author Neil Gaiman believes that he can do more, do better, with something that was written 20 years ago and needed the changes in a lot of places. He’s aware that he has, in fact, a show to make, and not a carbon copy of the book, as well as a fanbase that deserves to be challenged and entertained.

“Why taking the focus off Shadow ? He’s barely the protagonist anymore !”

Because there are..... characters ? who are also part of the story ? Like, actual stories need characters ? But alright, I know it can get confusing when you have a lot of those, here’s how you can still tell Shadow is the protagonist : months of advertising and the entirety of season 1 which was spent following Shadow with only minor breaks allowing other characters to breathe. Trust me they need the development too, or then we’ll really have reasons to complain.

You want a narrative focusing solely on staying in Shadow’s head ? Alright. Try the book. But here’s my take on its narrating choice, as a graduate in english literature : it’s boring. To the point where Neil Gaiman himself got sad that he couldn’t follow other characters.

“They’re not giving the POCs enough space ! Where are the coming to america segments ? At least they gave actual insights.”

Out of every piece of fiction, I truly don’t think you want to get angry at American Gods for how much room it’s giving POCs... (a 20% white cast ensemble, POCs and especially WOCs writers and directors on production, ethnically accurate casting and writing, diversity positive messages, etc) Really I’m sure there are many other places in the fictional industry were the question of diversity is more than legitimate. American Gods has yet to be one of them, by far.

As for the Coming To America stuff, well, there’s not that many in the book to begin with. There are a whole bunch for sure, but we’ve got over quite a few of them in season 1. If there’s more believers you want, we’re served with the latest episode 4, with humans worshiping both Old and New, and interacting with gods. I’m sure we can review that point again once the season is over.

“Those white directors don’t even know how to read or write POC characters !”

*cough*

here’s a list of the POC directors and writers on episodes 2 to 5 of season 2 only :

Deborah Chow (director)

Aditi Kapil (writer)

Salli Richardson (director)

Rodney Barnes (writer)

Orlando Jones (writer)

That’s half the entire director-writer team for these episodes, with Neil Gaiman being involved. You’ll have to point out to me exactly what you mean by “not writing right”.

“New Media ? 1. she’s a bitch, 2. her actress is just plain bad, 3. she’s a hurtful stereotype.” 

And here comes perhaps the trickiest one of all... I’m gonna have to bear with you, as much as you’re gonna have to bear with me :

1. Yes. 2. No. 3. Yes, and it’s a problem, but not for the reasons you think.

First of all, and let’s get it out of the way : actor =/= character nor writing. You think the writing is bad and/or that the character is annoying ? Well, it’s certainly not on the actor. You wanna know the actual level of Kahyun Kim’s acting ? Starring in an Alan Cummings play alongside him. We’ve got a lot to discuss but please keep her out of this.

Second, New Media is an absolute bitch of a character. She’s mocking, manipulative, and too ambitious for anyone’s good. A lot of people seem to love her tho and to that I say good ??? I mean, great if you like her, because she’s got as much potential as the rest of these crazy characters, I’m not here to tell you who you should hate and who you should love.

But there’s a problem you shouldn’t ignore, and that its so far she’s not well written. It’s a terrible thing to say in such a show but she’s really not : because we barely see her talking, because we barely got any scene with her (remember what I said about letting character breathe ?), and because what we’ve seen of her so far is the stereotype of the hypersexualized naive asian girl. Complete with tentacle porn scene. (Whether you felt weirded out, amused or utterly disgusted by this is your own valid opinion.)

The character has been officially described as “the goddess of global content”, “a cyberspace chameleon” and “a master of manipulation.” In recent addition to that, actor Bruce Langley (Technical Boy) has said : “New Media’s willing to be perceived as naive because if she’s being underestimated, when she does make her move, you’d never see it coming, but she knows way more than she lets on.” He then goes on to compare her to Gillian Anderson’s Media.

This proves that the way New Media comes off isn’t a problem of intent (the naive part is calculated and they want the character to be duplicitous, falsely seductive), but of handling, and it’s just as bad. Sure, Gillian’s Media also knew more than she let on for about as much screen time -I’m sure New Media will get to her four scenes in one season-, but she had been grounded in the narrative as her own character, she’s had her exposition speech and time. (See her meeting with Shadow in S01E02) We’ve yet to see that much of Kahyun’s New Media.

Because they do not give her what she needs to be more than a two dimensional character, we find ourselves with a shallow character who doesn’t give too many signs of the thought process everyone seemed to have put into crafting her beforehand, including Kahyun’s acting. This is a serious issue that needs to be handled before the season ends, or she will just stand out like a nasty spot in an overall incredible piece of fiction. Hell even Laura (another very unlikable character) manages to be a great addition to the narrative. Come on people.

You can of course argue that they could have gone for another type or personality for her, other than naive and sex-oriented, for a korean actress to play. You’re right, there’s a lot of aspect of social media that could have been put to work, but not only are we gonna need more than two scenes (at least the tentacles aren’t a regular occurrence so far), but it’s just like they could have not made the Technical Boy hang Shadow. 

The New Gods appear as the ‘general bad idea’ we promote through and associate with their element. Mr. World is gonna be the creepy looking government dude, Tech is gonna be the lanky rude geek, they’re gonna be cold, insensitive and selfish. They’re gonna be the things we don’t like. Throughout season 1, Tech Boy was in the same place we find ourselves in with New Media : he was the loud white racist teenager hating on anon on the net, he was unlikable from start to finish, and it’s only once we got inputs from his actor, the writers, and then now that they’re showing more of his story and personality well after season 1 that we see him as the fully complex and interesting character he is.

Let’s all keep our wits about us, not engulf ourselves in blind hate or love, and encourage the writers to prove us all that this character is worth the while like her actress says.

(I still won’t forgive the bitch, but at least she won’t stick out like a sore thumb.)

(if you want Kahyun’s input on her character and experience, here’s a lengthy interview)

"They don't even know how to write their own character, period !"

By all means, tell me your basis of characterization to declare that characters who didn’t even have enough screentime to have much substance in season 1 (except Shadow, but strangely no one complains about him) aren’t written right when their creator is literally hovering over the writers and actors shoulders, because he wants them to be developed and written right.

It’s not Harry Potter, Neil isn’t making up facts about them to make himself look better, maybe accept that the vision you had in your mind wasn’t entirely accurate to the truth of the characters and that’s okay ? You can still write them yourself however you want, tell the stories you want to tell, Neil has made it very clear that he doesn’t consider fan ideas less valuable than his.

“Bryan has such as specific, unique vision ! They’re just trying to copy it and they’re failing.”

Definitely. No really, you’re right, I’m a big fan of Bryan’s work, I lost my mind like everyone else when he said he wasn’t giving up on Hannibal season 4.

But you know who else has a unique vision ? The seven directors who took over (four of those are women) and the show-runner who had already worked with him beforehand. They’re not trying to copy his style, they’re trying to make a smooth transition so fans like you don’t have a hard time mourning the terrible loss of Bryan and Michael. And for every person who noticed the changes, there were just as many who haven’t even paid attention to it.

Concept : some people may watch shows/movies for the story and the characters, not just for who’s behind the camera. (As far as I’m concerned, I actually like the image better. Everything was killer in season 1, and I think it’s even nicer in season 2.)

“Bryan gave us Salim and the Jinn, and now they’re just gonna be cast aside because those directors lack the LGBT+ sensibility Bryan has !”

Alright, yup, sure. As a member of the community myself, I totally recognize that someone who’s also part of it will know firsthand of the subtleties and details to give the best representation possible on screen. The example of Salim and the Jinn is perfectly fine, since the entire segment was indeed beautifully made. But if we cannot allow people from outside to ponder and think about our lives through writing (which is probably the best way for them to start understanding and broadening their mindset), how can we expect wide representation to improve in any meaningful way ? Especially considering that the show has been casting LGBT+ actors, in an environment where the cast is listened to and solicited on their opinions. 

And especially when Bryan was not the one who gave you Salim and the Jinn. (Because I’ve seen people genuinely believe it.) Neil Gaiman did. He wrote a gay muslim couple in his book 20 years ago, way before it was considered a political statement. He’s also the one who gave strict and specific directions as to how these very characters should be handled. Because if he expanded Salim and his fire boyfriend Jinn’s story from a one-shot to a full story integrated into his entire narration, then it’s certainly not to pull a “bury your gays” or make them miserable. No need to be LGBT+ to be a decent writer and human being.

“Production was a mess anyway, I knew it’d turn out like this. It sucks without Bryan.” 

Define “mess”. Because all the incendiary reports we got throughout early production had been utter bullshit.

Showrunners being “fired” ? Bullshit. “Disastrous” organization ? Bullshit. “Screaming matches” between directors and actors ? Bullshit. Actors “refusing” to come back ? Bullshit.

Every report that wasn’t made through direct input of the cast or production team was not only wildly exaggerated, but also fake ? But please, hear it from Neil himself :

It was weirder for me to read some of the stuff online that said, “Oh, my god, American Gods, behind the scenes, is all falling apart.” I was going, “But they just shot four episodes, and everything is fine. They’re doing some re-shoots, but they’re doing less re-shoots than they did in Season 1.” [...]

I was reading Steven Bochco’s biography on the tube, going into work on Good Omens, every morning, and learning about what went down on Hill Street Blues, and then on NYPD Blue. That was worse, by a factor of thousands, than anything that happened on American Gods. A showrunner came, and a showrunner left. That’s not even an unusual thing. [...] The weirdest thing for me was putting out a thing on Twitter on Season 2, and having a bunch of people go, “We thought this was canceled.” No, it’s not canceled. In its own mad way, it’s on schedule.  

(Source)

The show was never in any danger, much less in jeopardy. It's overreactions to false rumors and dramatic assumptions that can kill a show faster than a showrunner leaving. You want to be critical of a production ? Go ahead, and check your sources and facts. Please. I promise most of the time it’s not worth the worry, much less losing all hope.

“Bryan cared, they’re just ruining what he’s built.”

I dare you to watch any cast interview and tell me these people don’t care about the show, and that they do not value the work everyone else (from hair department to makeup artists, producers, writers, directors and costume team) puts into it as well.

I’ve watched my fair share of shows, I’m curious about production and behind-the-scenes material in general, and I’ve never seen a group of people being so genuinely happy and passionate about what they do and create together.

Neil took time out of preparing Good Omens (which he was showrunning himself) to be more active because he knew things would be different between season 1 and 2. Ricky Whittle (Shadow) had his contract reviewed to better accommodate shooting and planning. Orlando Jones (Nancy) contributed to writing episodes (especially regarding Black history and representation) and brought inputs on characterization. Ian Mcshane (Mr. Wednesday) participated in directing when he explicitly said during season 1 that he wasn’t interested in working as a director on this kind of show.

And that’s for the well-known names only. Go on the American Gods hashtag on instagram, you’ll find all the various artists who participated in crafting all the details found in new episodes. They’re out there talking about how excited they were to work on it all, how they did it, the love they have for the show and crew. They’re active and positive in every way you can be, please tell me how much they don’t care.

Production made the choice of taking its time making this season rather than rushing it when it’s been very clear that delaying can cause massive loss of viewers, because they care more about how the show comes out than what people actually think. They took in stride whatever problem a show of this magnitude could naturally encounter (again guys, no disaster happened) and worked to solve it the best way they could because they were perfectly aware that we fans care. And somehow that’s what made some of yall disappointed ??

If you seriously think Bryan (and Michael, some people forget about him smh) cared more about American Gods than these people -when he, in fact, cared just as much-, then by all means, leave right with him.

(Also uhm, idk if you noticed, but they’re both still credited in the fucking opening. Because, you know, they’re going by the bases they’ve settled.)

Some (hopefully) helpful facts :

+ Bryan and Michael weren’t fired, they walked out of the show after mutual understanding with the rest of the production that they weren’t agreeing on budget and realization. They concluded that pushing it would just be harmful to the show.

+ Likewise, Jesse Alexander (second showrunner) wasn’t evicted but stepped out once disagreements rose as to how to handle the end of the season. Again, they found a solution fairly quickly.

+ Gillian Anderson had only signed for season 1. Whether her character will ever be seen again (probably in flashbacks) is entirely up in the air. No promises, no impossibilities.

+ Both Kristin Chenoweth (Ostara) and Chris Obi (Anubis) have not been able to contribute to season 2 due to conflicts in their schedules.

+ Neil Gaiman has been much more involved in the production of season 2 as he had finished shooting Good Omens, something which took up most of his time when season 1 was produced.

+ Taking time producing a show =/= production being a disaster.

+ Always go for the reports/articles involving interviews and/or inputs of the persons actually working on the project (cast members, producers, writers, directors). Those are the most reliable sources you can fight. (Just remember that there’s always a possibility for fake news/drama online !)

[intheirsandbox]

Bugger! Hopefully Freemantle will find another broadcaster to replace Channel 5.

[pacsaragao]

2018, Television, Cafe Customer, KEITH LEMON: COMING IN AMERICA, Talkback Freemantle Media UK, Arron Ferster

[thehollowprince]

Admittedly, I should have noticed something wrong when both Gillian Anderson (Media) and Kristen Chenoweth (Easter) refused to return, but like most fans of the literary source material for movies and shows, I didn't want to see it so I didn't. But now, after finding out that not only is Orlando Jones (Mr. Nancy) not coming back, but Mousa Kraish (the Jinn), Kahyun Kim (New Media) and Crispin Glover (Mr. World) are also not returning.

What the hell going on over at Starz and Freemantle?

They deliberately made these characters more prominent in the show than they were in the book, and now they're getting rid of them after fans grew so attached to them? Is anyone coming back for this show, because at least half the main cast is gone now?

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Nemo – Nessuno escluso, puntata di venerdì 7 dicembre 2018

Nemo – Nessuno escluso, puntata di venerdì 7 dicembre 2018

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Fremantle Reveals 'American Gods' Merch

Fremantle Reveals ‘American Gods’ Merch

From License Global:

Funko, Dark Horse, Ripple Junction and more are on board to build a robust CP program for the STARZ series

FremantleMedia has revealed a score of licensees that will release new products based on the television series “American Gods.”

First, Ripple Junction has created a range of men’s and women’s graphic tees for specialty retailers in the U.S.; however, select designs will…

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Neighbors is scheduled to return to Amazon Freevee in 2023.

Neighbors is scheduled to return to Amazon Freevee in 2023.

The neighbors unexpectedly returned the following year after finding a new home on the Freevee streaming service. The last edition of the Australian soap did not air until August, after production company Freemantle Media was unable to find a new network. This came after Channel 5 announced they were removing the show from their schedule. Prior to that, Neighbors had been on the air for 37…

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Dr. Mark Vucak is one of the pioneer plastic surgeons in North Queensland. Born in Kuwait, he grew up wanting to delve into medicine and surgery.

For a student who was a champion when it came to canoeing, his passion for medicine and surgery came as a surprise to many. As well his canoeing success, Dr. Vucak also loves chess. He is the Vice-President of the Townsville Chess Club. However, he has proven beyond reasonable doubt that he is where he’s meant to be. He has a track record of successful surgeries that have changed the lives of thousands of people.

After studying to become a surgeon, he worked as a surgical consultant at Royal Path Hospital, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, and Freemantle Hospital where he gained more extensive knowledge.

In 1994, Dr. Vucak established Queensland Plastic Surgery so that regional Queenslanders could access plastic and reconstructive procedures locally. Although he has traveled far and wide because, as his dad was an aeronautic engineer and his mum was an air hostess, he decided to set up the surgery facility in Queensland. This is because, according to him, it is better in Townsville, North Queensland than in other big cities. He also went on to establish Chrysalis Medispa in 2000. With over 30 years of experience as a plastic surgeon, Dr. Vucak has performed more than 13,000 surgeries. As a highly qualified medical practitioner, Dr. Vucak is a fellow of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons(RACS) and a member of the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons(ASPS).

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The miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand, developed by Josh Boone and Benjamin Cavell, is a mixed bag. It tells a dark fantasy post-apocalyptic story centered around the battle between good verse evil.

The nine episodes miniseries could never match the epic nature of the 1308-page non-abridged book. There were shining moments where the creators used media to enhance the story, but most of The Stand feels rushed and only explores the plot’s surface level.

Let’s dive into details. A super influenza pandemic called” Captain Trip” wipes out most of the world’s population. Whoopi Goldberg stars as Mother Abagail, a character whose backstory isn’t developed enough even though Whoopi does a great job at embodying the character.

The novel manages to portray Abagail Freemantle as a fully formed person. In the miniseries, Abigail is simply a messenger of God who tells the council what to do. The best Mother Abagail moments are in the dreams sequences where she speaks to Stu Redman and Frannie Goldsmith. She is this mysterious figure in the wheat fields beckoning them to find their way to Colorado.

Abagail is the child of freed slaves John and Rebecca, who moved to Hemingford Home, Nebraska, for a better life. The Freemantle family built a farm breaking free of their White neighbors’ prejudice. Mother Abagail outlived her parents, siblings, most of her children, and after “Captain Trip,” all of her grandchildren too. She has always been a religious woman who did not update her house with all the new technology. Abigail’s “old-fashioned” home enables it so she can survive on her own for a while. The miniseries is missing all those details.

During a flashback, Nick Andros and Tom Cullen find Mother Abagail in a Nebraskan Nursing Home. This flashback makes it seem like everything is a gift from God and ignores all the hardships this woman has gone through to get here. The audience never feels the full strength of Mother Abagail.

The Stand is told through flashbacks, which is both a detriment and helpful to the miniseries. In early episodes, the flashbacks benefit the show. The first episode,” The End,” starts with Harold Lauder cleaning out the homes of people who died from the flu. A whole crew of people is dumping the corpses of the dead into holes and gathering any items that would be useful to the community. Though in the first few scenes, it’s not clear why all these people are dead. Then there is a flashback scene to five months in the past, which introduces Harold as a teenage outsider with a crush on Frannie. She is a pregnant college student visiting her parents in Maine for spring break.

All the flashback scenes for the first three episodes are used to introduce our protagonists and some antagonists. These scenes are also a way to show how the pandemic spread and why everybody ended up in either Las Vegas, Nevada, or Boulder, Colorado. But the flashbacks sometimes feel like a shortcut to establishing close relationships rather than developing them over time.

For example, developmentally delayed Tom Cullen and deaf Nick Andros’s budding friendship is told through flashbacks. In the first one, Nick finds Tom at the hospital. The two struggle to communicate because Nick doesn’t speak verbally, and Tom cannot read or understand ASL. Thankfully Nick can read lips, and Tom can decipher some of his gestures. The two come together because they both dream of Mother Abigail.

Tom saves Nick’s life in the next flashback when a crazy, sexually charged teenager named Julie aims a gun at his back. Then Nick and Tom are the first people to find Mother Abigail in Nebraska though there is no scene of them traveling to Boulder. The flashbacks show the audience why Nick trusts Tom to go undercover in Las Vegas even with his disabilities, but not how they became so close. The book has pages to show the two men bonding while they traveled alone. If the miniseries were twelve or maybe even fifteen episodes long, it would have given more time to develop the characters and their relationships with one another.

Josh Boone and Benjamin Cavell make some significant improvements to the Nick Andros character. In the novel, The Stand, Nick doesn’t know ASL, so he primarily communicates through writing things down or making simple hand gestures. In the miniseries, he knows ASL. Nick can speak directly to Frannie, who knows sign language. Frannie and Nick are in the counsel in both the book and television miniseries. The fact that she knows ASL is a big coincidence, but they don’t have to rely on somebody reading Nick’s comments to the group. If Nick were continually writing stuff down and somebody reading them aloud, it would not be visually pleasing.

Knowing ASL gives Nick some agency as a deaf person. The second improvement is Nick is a child of illegal immigrants, which explains why he fell through the cracks of the education cracks. In the book, he was raised mostly in the orphanage. Then Nick ran away as a teenager without completing high school and with only an elementary-level education. It is puzzling that nobody taught Nick to sign or gave him a real education. At least as a Latinx young adult with no documentation, it is understandable that Nick is homeless and didn’t go to high school. Sadly, The Stand miniseries did not include aspects of Nick’s culture as part of the story. At times switching the original ethnicity of a character feels forced, but here it is organic.

Fellow Stephen King fans might feel somewhat disappointed by The Stand. If you are into post-apocalyptic stories, read the novel.