Houdini & Doyle (Fox)

[CagleMtnVol]

Houdini & Doyle

Network: Fox

First Episode: May 2, 2016

Houdini & Doyle is a British-Canadian television drama series based on the friendship of Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A 10-episode first season was ordered by Fox in the United States, ITV in the United Kingdom, and Global in Canada.
The pilot episode was written by co-creators David Hoselton (House M.D., Chicago P.D. and David Titcher (TNT's The Librarians).

Starring
Michael Weston as Harry Houdini
Stephen Mangan as Arthur Conan Doyle
Rebecca Liddiard as Adelaide Stratton
Emily Carey as Mary Conan Doyle
Noah Jupe as Kingsley Conan Doyle
Tim McInnerny as Horace Merring
Adam Nagaitis as George Gudgett


[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMPacso21_4[/youtube]

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[CagleMtnVol]

This really looks like it will be a lot fun!

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtiwF9ACzGw[/youtube]

 

[CagleMtnVol]

So did anyone else watch the "pilot"?

I thought it was very well done and it felt like a BBC show and not something from Fox.

 

[Orangedogsrule]

I'm sooooo sick of vapid supernatural walking dead vampire hansel & gretel witch hunters at the emergency room dock with a train wreck full of blood and guts and fetid flesh cause the last ship didn't make it all while the ER docs have personal problems i could puke.

Could we please have some 21st century real life drama? Huh? You know like years ago we had All in the Family or more recently Married, with Children. Now THERE was some real social commentary, I tell you!

 

[CagleMtnVol]

I'm sooooo sick of vapid supernatural walking dead vampire hansel & gretel witch hunters at the emergency room dock with a train wreck full of blood and guts and fetid flesh cause the last ship didn't make it all while the ER docs have personal problems i could puke.

Could we please have some 21st century real life drama? Huh? You know like years ago we had All in the Family or more recently Married, with Children. Now THERE was some real social commentary, I tell you!

So apparently you didn't watch it?

 

[Orangedogsrule]

So apparently you didn't watch it?

Actually, the wife and I tried for about ten minutes (showtime, not commercials, left to order up an on demand ChicagoMed (barf) came back with about 15 minutes left when the camera action got all dark and swirly, the music strident, and we both went "blech" and kept on surfing.

I predict the premise, no matter how good the writing, sets, directing, or acting of Houdini and Doyle as supernatural sleuths; is too constructed and goofy to catch on.

Then again, I truly can't stand all the vampire and zombie sh!t either and I thought it wouldn't last. Instead, that's TV prime time I consider fit for the crapper or moved to after midnight on Fri and Sat so high schoolers have crazy sh!t to howl at on sleepovers, but it has taken over.

Really makes me ready to get rid of cable. You know, cut the cord. Go Amazon, Hulu, Netflix, and buy a digital antenna for broadcast networks.