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All The Best - The Best Picture Nominees of 1927-1928 May 02, 2018

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Our quest to watch every single movie nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars begins right here, in the pilot episode for ALL THE BEST!

Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold kick it off with a look back at the first-ever nominees for Best Picture: the gangster thriller THE RACKET, the World War I melodrama 7TH HEAVEN, and the other World War I melodrama WINGS.

Were these films really the best? And which one deserved to win Best Picture at the first-ever Academy Awards? Bibbs and Witney walk you through every single one in this pilot episode for ALL THE BEST.

And don't forget to subscribe on Patreon to vote for which one of our PILOT SEASON podcasts will go to series, exclusively for our Patrons, at the end of April! Will it be ALL THE BEST, THE RANDOMIZER, AVERAGEFEST or CANCELED TOO SOON: THE HOME GAME? Only our Patrons get to decide!

Subscribe on Patreon for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, exclusive videos, Google Hangouts and much, much more! And visit our TeePublic page to buy CANCELED TOO SOON shirts, mugs and other exciting merchandise!

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Canceled Too Soon #96 - White Dwarf (1995) Apr 27, 2018

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When Francis Ford Coppola does sci-fi television, it gets weird. We've already talked about THE PEOPLE, and now it's time to explore the old west alien surgery fish monster immortal princess shapeshifting panther and melancholy tetherball TV series WHITE DWARF.

No, those were not just random words. That's actually what WHITE DWARF is about. It's one of the strangest TV shows we've ever reviewed (and that's saying something), but was WHITE DWARF... canceled too soon?

Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold take a walk on the weird side with Neal McDonough (LEGENDS OF TOMORROW) and Paul Winfield (STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN) and CCH Pounder (AVATAR), in what may be the most bonkers project on all of their respective resumés, as our PILOT SEASON concludes!

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The Randomizer - Desperate Housewives 6.19 "We All Deserve To Die" Apr 25, 2018

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The ABC television series DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES was one of the most popular shows of the early 21st century, but for one reason or another, we never watched it. In the pilot episode for the podcast THE RANDOMIZER, we watch a randomly selected episode from the middle DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES and try to figure out what's going on!

Yes, it's random, but it used to be one of the ways that people discovered new television shows, before it was easy to catch up to long-running series on digital streaming, DVD or Blu-ray. Does it still work? Will we figure out what's happening on DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES, or will we turn out to be WAY off the mark?

Find out in this pilot episode, and don't forget to subscribe on Patreon to vote for which one of these PILOT SEASON podcasts will go to series, exclusively for our Patrons, at the end of April!

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Canceled Too Soon #95 - The People (1972) Apr 18, 2018

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Our PILOT SEASON continues with one of the weirdest footnotes in Francis Ford Coppola's career! Only two months before THE GODFATHER made him a household name, Coppola executive produced a TV pilot called THE PEOPLE, which starred Kim Darby (TRUE GRIT) and William Shatner (STAR TREK) as city folk who stumble across a town of, more-or-less, superpowered Amish people. Yes. Really.

THE PEOPLE never made it past the pilot episode, but was it really... CANCELED TOO SOON? Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold take a trip to this mysterious community where kazoos dance in mid-air, Vogue magazines are verboten, and William Shatner gives the most natural performance in the whole ensemble!

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AverageFest - Mickey Blue Eyes (1999) Apr 16, 2018

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Our PILOT SEASON continues with AVERAGEFEST, a brand new podcast about the hunt for the most mediocre movie ever made! And the most average movie we could think of, to start with, is MICKEY BLUE EYES, starring Hugh Grant as a charmingly befuddled British person who has to impersonate a mobster to marry the woman he loves.

Find out what makes MICKEY BLUE EYES just kinda okay, not terrible but not particularly good either, and how you could use this screenplay as a blueprint for basically every middle of the road rom-com ever made, in this pilot episode for AVERAGEFEST! Don't forget to subscribe on Patreon to vote for which of our PILOT SEASON podcasts will go to series, exclusively for our Patrons, at the end of April!

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Canceled Too Soon #94 - The Robinsons: Lost in Space (2004) Apr 11, 2018

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Back in the 1960s, the Robinson family got LOST IN SPACE, in a classic sci-fi tv series that got better ratings than STAR TREK. 50 years later, the WB tried to reboot that franchise with director John Woo (FACE/OFF) and a young Adrianne Palicki (THE ORVILLE). Only this time, the Robinson family had to fence extraterrestrial threats in a post-9/11 milieu, a la BATTLESTAR GALACTICA.

John Woo's THE ROBINSONS: LOST IN SPACE may have been "badass," but was it... CANCELED TOO SOON? Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold dive into the furthest reaches of outer space to figure out what went wrong, what went right, and where this unusual reboot of LOST IN SPACE would have gone if more episodes had been produced. Who knows? Maybe it would have been better than the new Netflix version. (Then again, maybe not...)

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Canceled Too Soon: The Home Game - Trump Card (1990-1991) Apr 09, 2018

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The year was 1990, and Donald Trump got himself a game show by taking the British series BOB'S FULL HOUSE, filming it at Trump Castle, and changing the name to TRUMP CARD. It only lasted one season, but was it any good? And if not, was it as embarrassing as THE 100 LIVES OF BLACK JACK SAVAGE?

Welcome to CANCELED TOO SOON: THE HOME GAME, a pilot episode for a brand new podcast about defunct tv game shows! We're debuting pilot episodes for bonus shows throughout the month of April. Everyone will get to hear the pilots, but at the end of the month, only our Patreon subscribers get to vote on which podcast will become a Patreon-exclusive series!

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Canceled Too Soon #93 - Alexander the Great (1963/1968) Apr 05, 2018

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What do you get when you mix William Shatner from STAR TREK, Adam West from BATMAN, John Cassavetes from THE DIRTY DOZEN and Joseph Cotten from CITIZEN KANE? You get a beefcake sword-and-sandal television series about ALEXANDER THE GREAT, and it only lasted one freakin' episode.

ALEXANDER THE GREAT had one of the most bizarre casts of any TV series, ever, but was it really... CANCELED TOO SOON? Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold take you through the history of the sword-and-sandal genre, place this weird failed pilot in the context of the cast's lengthy and storied careers, and imagine the alternate reality in which ALEXANDER THE GREAT was a hit series, and STAR TREK and BATMAN - which premiered three years later - had to hire different leading men.

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Canceled Too Soon #92 - Almost Human (2013-2014) Mar 30, 2018

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Our COPS WITH ROBOT PARTNERS MONTH is coming to an end, but we've saved the best for last. ALMOST HUMAN stars Karl Urban (STAR TREK) as a human cop who isn't in touch with his emotions, and Michael Ealy (THINK LIKE A MAN) as his robot partner, who has more emotions than he can handle. Together they solve crimes in Los Angeles in 2048!

ALMOST HUMAN is one of our most requested episodes, but was it really... CANCELED TOO SOON? Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold take out their diagnostic equipment and run a scan on this sci-fi cult favorite, to talk about the episodes that were amazing, the episodes that sucked, what they think about the show's lingering mysteries, why Michael Ealy is a national treasure and why the episode where he fights Gina Carano is a classic!

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Canceled Too Soon #91 - Total Recall 2070 (1999) Mar 25, 2018

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The sci-fi worlds of Philip K. Dick collide in TOTAL RECALL 2070, a television series that takes place in a world where the technologies of BLADE RUNNER and TOTAL RECALL co-exist, and where - naturally - a cop gets a robot partner. COPS WITH ROBOT PARTNERS MONTH continues!

TOTAL RECALL 2070 may be one of the most ambitious TV shows we've ever reviewed, but was it... CANCELED TOO SOON? William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold guide you through every good idea, bad idea and surprisingly boring idea this mostly forgotten sci-fi series had to offer. You know you're excited!

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