It's been very slow so far.

It’s more “what kind of sad specimen obsessed over a show they don’t even watch?”

I'm listening to the audio book now (I know the story though thanks to YouTube videos about the series) and all I can think is how terrible this would be to adapt for television, especially for a western audience. I haven't read a lot of stuff from Chinese authors, but I get the sense that the style is just so different there. Like, the conversations in the book are all very technical. Unlike modern prestige TV where hyper-realistic dialogue and character-driven stories are the norm.

I haven't watched the series yet, but from reviews I've seen, it seems adapting it into a watchable series is presenting a challenge.

Ya, I am now thinking a live audience might be too much!

Jonathan Tucker as Jay Kulina in Kingdom

Melinda Culea played Amy on the 80’s hit show The A-Team for the first season and half of the second. She was unceremoniously kicked off the show due to the fact that the main star George Peppard didn’t want a woman on the team and that with their being four guy’s on the team already, they found they had very little for her to do.

She tried to claw at keeping her job by suggesting that she become to comic relief in the show but they already had Murdock for that.

She had no way to keep her place so they got rid of her.

Rob Heubel is the ultimate “that guy” of the 21st century. Seriously this guy shows up in a bit role for practically every significant comedy show over the last 20 years.

I quit watching after he was gone.

Any of the Star Trek series.

This is what I came here to say.

Yeah Pitt has this reputation of being tough. Too bad because he’s super talented

Frasier

Looking (HBO)

Hill Street Blues.

It was groundbreaking.

Eccleston's return to the Big Finish audio dramas was by his own admission financially motivated - the pandemic resulted in other projects being put on hold and he needed the money.

Game of thrones. Someone should have prevented the last two seasons…

I've heard Bryan Fuller is pretty accommodating to his cast, so to get him to replace you like that means he is likely a massive jerk.

Nikki and Paulo, Lost

South Park

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Might not want to get your hopes up regarding the new series, that's only a rumor and has not been confirmed.

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Glenn Quinn from Angel, he had a drug addiction. Really sad.

Debatably, Christopher Eccleston in Doctor Who.

He played the Ninth Doctor for one series, but by the second series he was already replaced with the Tenth Doctor (David Tennant).

Christopher Eccleston stated that he "didn't enjoy the environment and the culture that we, the cast and crew, had to work in" and that he did not want to do any more based on the experience.

We do not publicly know what specifically he was referring to, but he claims he chose not to come back. Though the BBC basically said he couldn't handle the workload and blacklisted him.

There's no clear-cut, definitive answers as to what truly occurred.

It's only just now, just over 15 years later, that Eccleston has returned to Doctor Who in the form of audio dramas.

Ep 5-10 are on the slow side. Picks up after 11. It's aping the book (original Chinese version) very closely, hardly anything has been left/cut so far, which is unusual in modern movie/show adaptations.