The good doctor returns tonight on Television. I love Freddie Highmore.
The good doctor
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I watched the first season, then removed it from my series record settings. Something had to go and this is the one I picked. I liked it, just not enough to see the second season. It seems I am watching more and more non-network TV. I noticed while watching the Emmys recently that most of the nominations came from non-traditional networks (Netflix, Amazon, HBO, etc.).
I'm glad it's back. I liked how the character evolved. Mal I think it's a good think it's a good thing non network TV is getting bigger and better. Too much network power leads to dumbing down.
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I am looking forward to Season 2 tonight as well, he is a great actor.
There are some great shows returning this Fall -- SWAT, Seal Team, Grey's Anatomy and my favourite Bad Blood.
Have been watching a new series called Mayans M.C. which is pretty good. Same writers as Sons of Anarchy.
I am looking forward to Season 2 tonight as well, he is a great actor.
There are some great shows returning this Fall -- SWAT, Seal Team, Grey's Anatomy and my favourite Bad Blood.
Have been watching a new series called Mayans M.C. which is pretty good. Same writers as Sons of Anarchy.
....I’m not surprised that nominations went to non-network shows. The Big Three have played it safe for to long and to the dull denominator....they have tried to catch up but their “edgy” is just to little to late...hence all the early axing of new shows...they are floundering, trying to find the next big thing and don’t have a clue..,.
I really liked the way that Dr. Shawn Murphy was trying to show friendship to his mentor during his cancer testing.
I haven't watched this show, but I've seen several of the commercials. I had wondered if Freddie is actually autistic, but he isn't. He's just a really good actor. I recently finished reading a book about a man named John Robison with Asperger's syndrome, which is a high-functioning condition on the autism spectrum. Robison is a technical genius who worked for the KISS band and Milton Bradley before he opened his own automotive business. His brother Augusten wrote Running with Scissors.
I'm a sucker for a good medical drama. And Freddie Highmore is doing a fantastic job.
Freddie Highmore is such a great actor. He makes me feel all the drama.
It is odd that none of the best/biggest US shows seem to come out of the old stables anymore. OK, the market has changed (again, since there was a sizeable shift back when cable operators started finding and flexing their muscles), but IIRC the mainstream networks also have restrictions placed on them that cable and streaming operators do not. Maybe it's time to have a re-think and lift those, if/where they are still in place. It might even the field out a little.
That said, it would only be a little. Their budgets used to be huge, the stuff others could only dream of. Now, by comparison with Netflix and Amazon, they're tiny. Neither Netflix nor Amazon might show much of a profit for their shareholders, but here a Netflix subscription is £7.99 a month (with Amazon Prime being about the same). At the current rate of exchange, that's $10.46. It might be (probably is) lower in the US, but if for the sake of argument we round down and take $10 as typical, with a base of 137m subscribers worldwide, of which 58.46m were in the US (to 2018 Q3), that's a global pre-tax income of $1,370,000,000 per month. Little wonder, then, that the traditional networks are struggling to compete at a time when ad revenues are still falling, and Netflix can effectively blow a blockbuster movie budget on a show they ultimately cancel (not that they'll want to do that because it's a waste, but as long as they're willing to take risks...).
Then again that does suggest that the old networks should refocus on producing high-quality content with what money they do have, instead of throwing what are still relatively large amounts of cash at lowest-common-denominator pap.
I have been watching the season 3 of the Good doctor. It just keeps getting better to me.