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Critically Acclaimed Network
Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold host a series of ongoing shows, featuring CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED (new movie reviews), THANK GODZILLA IT'S FRIDAY, CANCELED TOO SOON, WE'VE GOT MAIL, THE IRON LIST, and more!
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Critically Acclaimed NetworkWe've Got Mail #5 | What is 'The Movie of the Year?'
You wrote us emails, and we're answering them on the air in WE'VE GOT MAIL! This week, CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED co-hosts William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold talk…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCritically Acclaimed #102 | Midway, Doctor Sleep, Marriage Story, Honey Boy, The Mistletoe Secret
Surprise! Despite a ton of early buzz and a giant marketing push, DOCTOR SLEEP wasn't the #1 motion picture of the weekend. This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #170 | Tuca and Bertie (2019)
It's that time of year again! CANCELED TOO SOON is back with SUDDENLY LAST SEASON, a whole month where we review nothing but TV shows that failed within the…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkWe've Got Mail #4 | Steven Spielberg's War Movies, Ridley Scott vs. Tony Scott and International Cinema!
You wrote us emails, and we're answering them on the air in WE'VE GOT MAIL! This week, CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED co-hosts William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold talk…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #169 - Night Stalker (2005)
KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER is one of the most important and influential "Canceled Too Soon" shows in TV history. But what about the reboot, NIGHT…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCritically Acclaimed #101 - Terminator: Dark Fate, The Irishman, Earthquake Bird, Arctic Dogs, American Dharma and Christmas Scavenger Hunt!
It's a HUGE week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED! We've got an overview of the TERMINATOR franchise, leading up to a review of TERMINATOR: DARK FATE, and an in-depth…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkWe've Got Mail #3 - Is Darth Vader Redeemable and Horror Movies for Adults
You took the time to write us, so we're taking the time to listen! This week on the CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED NETWORK's weekly podcast WE'VE GOT MAIL, William…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCritically Acclaimed #100 - Dolemite is My Name, Countdown, Girl on the Third Floor, The Gallows Act II and Making Waves
Eddie Murphy is back and in top form with DOLEMITE IS MY NAME, a brand new biopic about comedy trailblazer Rudy Ray Moore and the production of his…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #168 - Tremors: The Series (2003)
The cult monster movie classic TREMORS spawned five straight-to-video sequels and, over a decade later, its own SYFY tv series! But how the heck do you turn a…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCritically Acclaimed #99 - Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, Zombieland: Double Tap, Jojo Rabbit, The Lighthouse and Eli!
Disney made a sequel to MALEFICENT... for some reason... and it's called MALEFICENT: MISTRESS OF EVIL! And it's really dumb! Bibbs and Witney review this…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #167 - Jekyll (2007)
Before Stephen Moffat updated Sherlock Holmes for the 21st century, in the megahit BBC series SHERLOCK, he went back in time and brought back a monster. JEKYLL…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkWe've Got Mail Episode 2 - Why Aren't Film Critics Objective? Can High Frame Rates Work? Is Joker Brilliant?
You have burning questions and we've got burning answers! In this week's episode of WE'VE GOT MAIL, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold tackle the…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #166 - Mockingbird Lane (2012)
Everyone's second-favorite 1960s sitcom about a family of monsters living in suburbia got an all-star reboot with 2012's MOCKINGBIRD LANE! This reimagining of…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCritically Acclaimed #98 | The Addams Family, Gemini Man, Parasite and Robert Forster
They're creepy and they're kooky, but are they altogether ooky? Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold visit the brand new animated version of THE…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkWe've Got Mail #1 - Joker, Mental Health and Bad Movie Subtitles!
It's a brand new podcast on the CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED network, and this one is all yours! WE'VE GOT MAIL is the podcast where film critics William Bibbiani and…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #165 - Mistress of Suspense, a.k.a. Chillers (1990)
It's GHASTLYTOBER, and all throughout the month on CANCELED TOO SOON we're reviewing spooky short-lived TV shows, as chosen by our Patreon subscribers! First…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCritically Acclaimed #97 - Joker, In the Tall Grass, Pain and Glory and More!
William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are taking their movie review show CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED to its new home, right here on the CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED NETWORK!…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #164 - Nearly Departed (1989)
Eric Idle from MONTY PYTHON stars in American sitcom about a pair of upper class ghosts haunting the middle class family that moves into their old house! It…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #163 - The Starlost (1973-1974)
Celebrated sci-fi author Harlan Ellison created a show Amish people who learn they're living in outer space, in a ship containing everyone on Earth as they…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #162 - The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell (2018)
It's our first cooking show! This week on CANCELED TOO SOON, internet sensation Christine McConnell gets her own Netflix series about how to make delicious…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #161 - American Gothic (2016)
The AMERICAN GOTHITHON concludes! The second failed TV series called AMERICAN GOTHIC aired for one season in 2016, and it stars a huge ensemble of great actors…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #160 - American Gothic (1995-1996)
Gary Cole plays a satanic small town sheriff in AMERICAN GOTHIC, a horror series from the co-star of THE HARDY BOYS and the director of THE EVIL DEAD! Sarah…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #159 - Badlands 2005 (1988)
The year is 2005 and severe droughts have left the world in post-apocalyptic disarray, and gangs of ROAD WARRIOR-esque bandits roam the wastelands. It's up to…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #158 - The Weird Al Show (1997)
"Weird" Al Yankovic is one of the most popular comedy and music superstars in the world, but even he couldn't keep a kids show on the air on CBS!…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #157 - Suburban Beat (1985)
When there's murder in your suburban neighborhood, you don't call the cops! You call Dee Wallace from CUJO, Heather Langenkamp from A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #156 - Pasadena (2001)
Dana Delany and Alison Lohman lead an all-star cast of despicable billionaires in PASADENA, a sadistic and sexy soap opera created by Mike White (SCHOOL OF…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #155 - Here and Now (2018)
SIX FEET UNDER and TRUE BLOOD producer Alan Ball has made a several hit shows out of several tricky premises, but he couldn't find a way to make HERE AND NOW…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #154 - Wizards and Warriors (1983)
The year was 1983, DUNGEONS & DRAGONS was being played across the country, and on Saturday nights there was only one show where you could find magic, sword…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #153 - Spectre (1977)
Everybody knows that Gene Roddenberry created STAR TREK, the utopian sci-fi series about overcoming mankind's frailties and taking our place amongst the stars…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #152 - Exo-Man (1977)
Just a few weeks after STAR WARS first came out, a new superhero premiered on television, and his named wasn't IRON MAN, but everyone thought it was! From the…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #151 - Still Star-Crossed (2017)
William Shakespeare's ROMEO & JULIET was nothing more than a prelude to STILL STAR-CROSSED, an epic drama from SHONDALAND - the producers of GREY'S ANATOMY and…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #150 - The Lone Gunmen (2001)
It's time to bring CHRIS CARTER MONTH to an appropriately abrupt conclusion with THE LONE GUNMEN, one of the most notorious one-season wonders in TV history…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #149 - The After (2014)
A group of mismatched strangers are stuck together in the middle of the apocalypse in THE AFTER, a failed TV pilot written and directed by Chris Carter, the…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #148 - Harsh Realm (1999-2000)
CHRIS CARTER MONTH begins! The creator of THE X-FILES and MILLENNIUM also produced a lot of failed TV shows, and we're saluting those disappointments, starting…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #147 - The 3rd Annual Canceled Too Soon Awards!
There's no better way to celebrate television's biggest failures than with a MASSIVE AWARDS SHOW!!! This week on CANCELED TOO SOON, William Bibbiani and Witney…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #146 - Madballs (1986 & 1987)
The year was 1985, and the balls had just gone mad! MADBALLS were a successful series of toys that gave gruesome faces to spherical objects, but although they…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #145 - Bionic Woman (2007)
Back in the 1970s, the world was a heck of a lot more bionic. That's why shows like THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN and BIONIC WOMAN ruled the airwaves. In 2007…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #144 - Probe (1988)
A sci-fi murder mystery series from Isaac Asimov?! Why doesn't anybody ever talk about PROBE? Probably because this series, starring Parker Stevenson from THE…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #143 - Mrs. Sundance (1974)
When she wasn't bewitching sitcom audiences on BEWITCHED, Elizabeth Montgomery was taking over the blockbuster BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID franchise! In…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #142 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids (1973)
The smash hit western BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID probably could have been the basis of a pretty good TV show, but that's not what we got with BUTCH…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #141 - Dead Last (2001)
Back in the glory days of the Dubba-Dubba-WB, a group of rock musicians found a magic amulet and won the power to talk to ghosts! And since they're selfish…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #140 - RoboCop: The Series (1994)
Paul Verhoeven's ROBOCOP defied all expectations to become one of the most celebrated, satirical, action-packed and politically damning motion pictures of the…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #139 - Collector's Item (1957)
Vincent Price and Peter Lorre are two of the most recognizable icons in movie history, and legends of the horror genre. So it's pretty amazing that they…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #138 - Blackjack (1998)
Who know action star Dolph Lundgren as He-Man, Ivan Drago and The Punisher, but do you know he was also a bodyguard with an intense phobia of the color white?…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #137 - John From Cincinnati (2007)
The night THE SOPRANOS ended, JOHN FROM CINCINNATI began. It didn't last long, but it was probably the most popular supernatural surfing drama in the history…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #136 - Benji, Zax & the Alien Prince (1983)
The lovable dog BENJI starred in a series of hit films across multiple decades, but he only had one TV show, and it was a bizarre hybrid of STAR WARS, THE…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #135 - Evel Knievel (1974)
Forty-five years before Sam Elliott (and his amazing hair) finally earned an Academy Awards nomination for A STAR IS BORN, he (and his hair) was stuntman…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #134 - Pan Am (2011-2012)
In the spirit of MAD MEN comes the glossy soap opera PAN AM, starring Margot Robbie, Christina Ricci and more great cast members as the flight crew of a 707 in…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #133 - Kitchen Confidential (2005)
Anthony Bourdain's best-selling exposé of the world of fine dining became a failed sitcom starring Bradley Cooper in 2005! KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL also starred…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkEp. 132 - The Edge (1992-1993)
Julie Brown, Jennifer Aniston and Wayne Knight co-starred in THE EDGE, the most violent sketch comedy show ever made, in which the whole cast gets killed at…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #131 - Tagteam (1991)
Professional wrestlers Jesse "The Body" Ventura and "Rowdy" Roddy Piper starred in several action hits in the 1980s, like THEY LIVE and…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #130 - Tarzan (2003)
Tarzan is one of the most popular characters in the history of popular culture... but not this time. The WB version of TARZAN stars Travis Fimmel (VIKINGS) and…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #129 - Christmas in Tattertown (1988)
Ralph Bakshi became a legend by directing animation for adults, like LORD OF THE RINGS and FRITZ THE CAT, but in 1988 he also directed the pilot episode for a…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #128 - Star Command (1996)
STAR TREK was all the rage in the late 1990s, and a lot of other shows were eager to rip off the classic sci-fi show's formula, with interstellar exploration…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #127 - Silver Surfer (1998)
The Silver Surfer is one of the strangest Marvel superheroes (and that's really saying something). He's a nearly omnipotent shiny space guy who holds himself…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #126 - Nick Fury: Agent of SHIELD (1998)
The year was 1998, and Marvel had a big hit on their hands with the movie BLADE. But they also had one of the most notorious bombs ever with NICK FURY: AGENT…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #125 - Blade: The Series (2006)
The Marvel superhero BLADE is half man, half vampire, all badass. And after he starred in his groundbreaking movie trilogy, which spawned the superhero movie…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #124 - Solarman (1986, 1989, 1992)
The late, legendary Stan Lee helped reboot and recreate the superhero SOLARMAN for a very, very, VERY short-lived comic book series, and a failed cartoon pilot…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #123 - Generation X (1996)
Our MARVELOUS MONTH OF MARVELS turned tragic this week, so we begin our episode with a eulogy for Stan Lee, the co-creator of most of our most beloved Marvel…
Critically Acclaimed NetworkCanceled Too Soon #122 - Marvel's Inhumans (2017)
Not every chapter in the Marvel Cinematic Universe was a success. Despite the best efforts of Disney, Marvel and ABC, MARVEL'S INHUMANS takes some of the most…