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Filming a HIMYM Series Finale Versus a Season Finale
2008-05-21 04:19:00
Yearly, I am perplexed by the way the television industry works.  I don't know how to change it, but it doesn't seem right that many shows film their last episode of the season not knowing if it will be the season, or series, finale.  It seems like a bad way to operate.Look at last night's How I Met Your Mother.  At the end of the episode, and yes, this is a spoiler, so if you haven't watched the episode you may want to stop reading, Ted asked Stella to marry him.  It was an ill-conceived, ill-advised, marriage proposal.  The man's been dating her 3 months and yet he knows that he wants to spend his life with her?  I don't think so.  He'd just had a near death experience and was regretting dumping her, so he proposed marriage.  Now, the series is all about how Ted meets the mother of his future children, and the show was "on the bubble" for next season when this episode was filmed.  The episode was me...
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Nova Gets up Close and Personal with the "Lord of the Ants"
2008-05-20 01:35:00
For a reason that this writer has yet to deduce, Nova seems to have gotten hyper-specific this season.  Broad issues, while present in some episodes, have taken a backseat to vaguely interesting minutiae.  Even when there is a broad issue to be discussed, the series has opted to focus on the smaller bits and not tackle the larger, quite possibly more interesting, story.Such, sadly, is again the case with their latest episode, "Lord of the Ants ."  The episode tells the story of E.O. Wilson, who has spent the vast majority of his life studying ants.  Wilson, we are told, knows more about ants than anyone else on the entire planet.  He seems like a good humored man, and takes an interest in his work with enthusiasm rarely seen in a 78 year-old.  Early in the episode, for semi-comic effect, Wilson allows himself to get stung by fire ants just to prove that he knew what was going to happen.  It's a moment that's quite telling in the ep...
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Fox Again Delivers More than one Schedule for Next Season
2008-05-16 17:11:00
Okay, get this -- FOX has decided that there are just too many commercials on television. Or, so they sort of, almost, kind of say. At their Upfront presentation they announced that they would launch two series this year with half the number of network commercials. Half. They also said that these shows would not just have more promo time. And, while they didn't say it, I don't think that they meant that they'd just be giving the local affiliates the commercial time. I'm totally getting ahead of myself though, let's talk about their actual schedule - or schedules, fall and spring.In the fall: SunMonTueWedThuFriSat7:00The OT7:308:00The SimpsonsTerminator:The SarahConnor ChroniclesHouseBonesThe Momentof TruthAre YouSmarter Thana 5th Grader?Cops8:30King of the HillCops9:00Family GuyPrison BreakFringe'Til DeathKitchenNightmaresDon't ForgetThe LyricsAmerica's MostWanted9:30American DadDo Not DisturbAnd, in the spring: SunMonTuesWedThuFriSat7:00ComedyRepeats7: 308:00TheSimpsonsDollh...
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CBS Delivers Its 2008 Fall Schedule
2008-05-15 20:07:00
CBS is one of those networks whose moves I always find interesting. They've got a pretty strong lineup these days (even if I watch very little of it), and seem to "tweak" things every season, moving a few shows around, and doing their best to position new shows. Perhaps it's interesting because it seems kind of old school.Got a new comedy? Put it after your strongest one. Got another comedy that has performed well behind your strongest comedy? Use it to launch a different night of programming and another comedy. Position new dramas between strong performers. It's all very simple and explainable. I like that.Anyway, here's how the fall schedule looks:Sun MonTueWedThuFriSat7:0060Minutes7:308:00Th eAmazingRaceThe BigBang TheoryNCISThe New Adventuresof Old ChristineSurvivorGhostWhispererDramaRepea ts8:30How I MetYour MotherProject Gary9:00ColdCaseTwo and aHalf MenTheMentalistCriminalMindsCSIThe ExList9:30WorstWeek10:00TheUnitCSI: MiamiWithouta TraceCSI: NYEleventhHourNumb3rs48 Hours:M...
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The CW Delivers Its Fall 2008 Lineup
2008-05-14 21:00:00
Oh The CW, whatever are we going to do with you. Your teen identity seems not to attract terribly many viewers (though I'm sure there's some way to rejigger the numbers to prove me wrong) and you've been unable to fully program six nights of the week despite using Friday Night Smackdown to cover a whole evening. And now? Now, you've lost the Smackdown. Your solution? You're selling Sunday nights to Media Rights Capital who will do everything that night from making shows to selling the time. Pretty much you're going back to a much older methodology of programming in primetime, which is actually still what some networks do on Saturday mornings these days. I guess it makes things better for you as you can include the Sunday nights in your ratings if their good and ignore them if their not. As for the other five nights, they look something like this: MondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFriday8:00G ossip Girl90210America's NextTop Model SmallvilleEverybody Hates Chris8:30The Game9:00One ...
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ABC Is Upfront About the 2008 Schedule
2008-05-14 00:14:00
There's an old adage that states "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." ABC's programming honchos have certainly taken that notion to heart in debuting their brand-spanking new schedule, which, while new as a whole, has very few new programs in it. Seriously, very, very few.While I appreciate that ABC made my job really easy today in redoing the schedule, I might have been slightly more aggressive. They're only throwing two new shows onto the fall schedule with two and a half more waiting in the wings.Here, check out the fall schedule: SunMonTuesWedThursFriSat7:00America's FunniestHome Videos 7:308:00Extreme Makeover:Home EditionDancing withthe StarsOpportunityKnocksPushingDaisiesUgly BettyWife SwapCollegeFootball8:309:00DesperateHouse wivesDWTS:Results ShowPrivatePracticeGrey'sAnatomySuper-nan ny9:30Samantha Who?10:00Brothers &SistersBoston LegalEli StoneDirty Sexy MoneyLife on Mars20/2010:30As you can see (it's bolded), the new stuff in the fall is Opportunity Knocks an...
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Nova Takes "A Walk to Beautiful"
2008-05-12 21:54:00
It is a sad, unfortunate, truth that just because a documentary deals with an important topic it doesn't mean the documentary is particularly well constructed or presented in a terribly interesting way. A good example of this is the newest Nova episode, "A Walk to Beautiful ." The episode is actually a shortened version of an award-winning, feature length documentary. Yet, without even knowing that this is approximately 30 minutes shorter than the full-length version of the documentary, one can sense that there are bits and pieces missing. "A Walk to Beautiful" eschews the standard Nova-style narration, and while not all documentaries need a "voice of god" narrator, this one certainly could use some more direction than it has. The documentary begins by plopping the viewer down in a village in Ethiopia, miles from the nearest road, where a woman, Ayehu, explains that she has ended up with a medical problem after giving birth to a stillborn child....

The Classic Caballeros Come to DVD
2008-05-11 19:14:00
At times education cloaked in entertainment and at other moments entertainment cloaked in education, the recently released double feature of Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros in a single collection entitled The Classic Caballeros Collection are wonderfully fun films. Both are a mixture of live action and animation and explore, at least superficially, some Central and South American cultures.Originally released in 1942, Saludos Amigos is the older, shorter, and less traditional piece. It follows, in live action, a group of Disney animators as they visit Chile, Argentina, and Brazil. In each locale the animators see bits and pieces of local culture, produce drawings of what they've seen, and then a short animated piece follows which builds upon the drawings and cultural elements. Both Donald and Goofy make appearances in the piece as well as a little plane named Pedro and it marks the first appearance of José Carioca.While young ones who find Cinderella and more c...

NBC and Scrubs Show how not to air a Finale
2008-05-09 19:39:00
As happy as I was yesterday, with television, today I am disappointed (and so it usually goes). Last night I watched the Scrubs finale, and not only did either my cable company (Comcast) or NBC affiliate (KNTV, which is owned and operated by NBC Universal) screw up and cut the audio for the final 15 minutes of the show (go closed captioning!), but it was clearly aired out of order. Seriously.I guess they thought they were going out with the best episode that they were going to get following the writers' strike, but it chronologically had to come before last week's episode and the one that aired the week before that. Last night, after retiring two weeks ago, Kelso was back in charge of the hospital. No explanation was given, he was just there and in charge. I can't imagine that Bill Lawrence and the rest of the producers decided that they would just reinstall the retired man for the finale, I have to believe instead that this episode was supposed to appear at some ot...
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Watching More TV Than you can Shake a Stick at
2008-05-09 01:40:00
I have often told you that I love television. It's a fact. I do. And I love you, my dear readers. So, as you may know, last week I was away, I was out of town, I was … without television. Yes, sad, but true nonetheless. Now, despite the fact that for various and sundry reasons the amount of television I watch has been cut, I was way, way behind when I returned from my trip. Well, yesterday I made up for it. In an effort to be up to date, in an effort to be more informed, in an effort to be better able to address you, the reader, I watched a ton of television yesterday, and I don't use that term lightly.What, you so eloquently ask, did I watch? Well, I'll tell you. I watched: Boston Legal, Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica, The Simpsons, My Name is Earl, 30 Rock, The Office, and two episodes each of: The Sarah Jane Adventures, Law & Order, and Last Restaurant Standing. It was a solid afternoon (and some of the evening) of television viewing. Frankly...
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Corey, Nuke LaLoosh, and Hell's Kitchen
2008-05-07 23:25:00
There are times when I watch a television show and after it ends I just sit there in amazement and wonder. And not in a good way. Look at last night's Hell's Kitchen . I understand, and have said before (and I'm sure will say again), that reality shows are highly edited. They are. It's the truth. Things can be cut in any number of ways. Good people can be made to look bad and bad people good. Incompetent people can appear like geniuses and vice versa. That's the power of editing. That being said, it appears as though Hell's Kitchen this year is saddled with a bunch of incompetent chefs. We're almost halfway through the season and only Ben and Bobby (Rock Jr., as I like to think of him) seem as though they might be pseudo-acceptable winners. But, even if they win I wouldn't want to eat in their restaurant.On the women's side, some of them have this odd strategy of trying to seduce the guys in order to make them easy targets. I've spent a lot of time thinking about that and I...
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Sarah Chalke, HIMYM, and Scrubs
2008-05-07 02:43:00
Last night Sarah Chalke guest starred again on How I Met Your Mother, and it got me thinking, what if Scrubs wasn't going to be picked up by ABC for the fall?As this season began, Scrubs was, for all intents and purposes, headed into its final year.  Then, the writers' strike happened and the number of episodes produced of the show for this year got cut drastically.  Apparently, the producers may have felt that they needed the full amount of episodes in order to end correctly though and the show is produced by an arm of ABC.  In a fit of serendipity and vertically integrated corporateness, the show is all but assured of a slot on ABC next fall.  Will this new season now be the last season?  Who knows, what I'm more concerned with today is what that means for How I Met Your Mother.You see, Sarah Chalke , a star of Scrubs, had been cast in a multi-episode arc as the new girlfriend of Ted (the main character on HIMYM).  The entire premise of HIM...

If Wishes Were Horses Bloodline Would be Factual
2008-04-28 15:10:00
There is a proverb that begins, "If wishes were horses then beggars would ride." More or less, it is saying that wishes and reality are different things; just because someone wishes something to be true doesn't make it so. It is a sentiment that ought to be remembered when watching Bruce Burgess's new documentary, Bloodline .Following the books Holy Blood, Holy Grail and The Da Vinci Code, the movie explores the possibility that Mary Magdalene and possibly Jesus went to France following the Crucifixion and that Mary may or may not have had kids with Jesus which she may or may not have brought to France with her. It's a lot of "if" and "maybe" and "possibly", and, unfortunately, the documentary never actually provides any answers.Burgess, who plays a huge on-screen part as narrator and explorer in the film, interviews numerous people, some claiming to be affiliated with the Priory of Sion, which, according to some documents, knows...
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Earl and Lost Leave Me Moderately Perplexed
2008-04-26 00:09:00
Sometimes I don't understand television, I well and truly don't. Last night on My Name is Earl , Earl's "living in a sitcom in his subconscious while in a coma" continued. The show has been using this as a way of making fun of traditional sitcoms and the fact that they use the same plot lines over and over and over again. It's not a particularly smart or witty observation; all observers of television could tell you that sitcoms use the same story devices over and over again. But, I can forgive a show for pointing out the obvious, that's not my complaint; it's just the background information you need to understand my complaint.Anyway, on the show last night, while Earl was in his mental sitcom, Randy was in the real world going around with his comatose brother. He placed Earl's unconscious body into tons of stupid scenarios. It was like I was watching a 22-minute version of Weekend at Bernie's. So, what you have is a television show that has spen...
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Robin Hood's New Season Hits the Bullseye
2008-04-25 00:39:00
The legend of Robin Hood is one of those things that gets recycled over, and over, and over again in our culture.  The notion of taking from the rich and giving to the poor is one that most of us enjoy. It also doesn't hurt that he is often portrayed as a handsome rapscallion, who woos the heart of the lovely Maid Marian and has wonderful battles along the way.  In short, the legends have something for everyone.  The newest Robin Hood series, entitled simply Robin Hood, premieres its second season on BBC America this Saturday and too, has a little bit of something for everyone.  Featuring Jonas Armstrong as the titular Robin, and Lucy Griffiths as Marian, season two picks up shortly after the end of season one.  Guy of Gisbourne (Richard Armitage) is still smarting from Marian jilting him at the altar, and the Sherriff of Nottingham (Keith Allen) has come up with a few more dastardly plans to kill Robin and takeover England.  With the characters fir...
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Alan Shore Takes on the Supreme Court
2008-04-24 00:45:00
Every week I sit down to watch Boston Legal (well, every week there is a new episode, anyway). Sometimes I love the soapbox they choose to stand on, and other times I'm miffed by it. Sometimes I think the extraneous shenanigans are great, and other times I'm hugely disturbed and disappointed by them.Last night was one of those nights where the show seemed, to me, to work wonderfully. Probably that's because I lean more to the left than the right. The show doesn't just lean to the left, it tends to fall over to that side, but last night Boston Legal and I had a meeting of the minds.Alan was arguing a case before the Supreme Court , trying to defend a man who had been sentenced to death in Louisiana for raping (but not murdering) a 7-year-old. It was a heinous crime to be sure, one that the individual, whose IQ was a mere 70, claimed not to have done. Standing before the nine Justices, Alan, who had been prepped not to, flew off the handle, ranting and raving agai...
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"Sandcastles in the Sand" Leaves me Wanting to go to Back to the Mall
2008-04-22 23:30:00
Sometimes it's the little things, the bits and pieces, that matter most. Everything in an episode of a show can be working perfectly, and then there's a snag. There's something, some little thing, that throws the show off kilter. That seems to be what happened last night on How I Met Your Mother. It was the funniest episode in a long time, and then, all of the sudden, there was a moment that should have been great… but it wasn't. The new Robin Sparkles video, "Sand castles in the Sand," her follow-up to "Let's go to the Mall " a video which should have been utterly fantastic, simply didn't click as well as the original. Granted, Robin explains in the episode that the follow-up was a disappointment and flop, but it simply wasn't flop enough to be really funny. Or, possibly, it was funny, but simply couldn't match the hilarity of the original video.Here, you check them both out (original first, new song second), and you t...
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Nova Searches for the "Car of the Future"
2008-04-21 18:33:00
This week, in its latest episode, Nova opts to deal with its serious subject in a somewhat more humorous manner.  In a cross-promotional effort, Nova has Tom and Ray Magliozzi, the hosts of NPR's Car Talk off searching for the car of the future (which also happens to be the episode's title).  They are, the show would have us believe off searching for a new car for Tom as his ancient Roadster is in need of serious repair. During the episode, Tom and Ray search high and low, hither and yon, and just about everywhere in between in their search for what motor vehicles will be like in the future.  Along the way John Lithgow narrates the brothers' search, informing the viewer about the larger picture of what is taking place.  Said "larger picture" mainly deals with the environment and how our world's use of gasoline in the engines of cars is destroying it.Not surprisingly, the episode premieres on April 22, 2008 – Earth Day.Tom and Ray l...
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NBC Scrubs and Polishes up Thursday Night
2008-04-18 23:14:00
I'd like to, just for a minute, thank NBC. Last night's comedy lineup was… funny. I didn't laugh out loud a lot, but I did once or twice, and I certainly felt a little jubilant watching the shows. Maybe it was just a little nitrogen narcosis from practicing my scuba diving a little earlier in the evening, but I don't think so (my understanding is that nitrogen narcosis disappears as soon as one goes to a lesser depth). My Name is Earl didn't feature the titular Earl waking up from his coma, but it managed to be funny nonetheless. The vast majority of the episode took place in the past, when Earl was still in his "very bad things" phase. His father, played by the funny Beau Bridges (who knew?) was present and remembering just how Earl ruined his vacation to American Samoa by stashing a duffel bag full of Mendocino Greeno in his house. While I don't advocate the smoking of Mendocino Greeno (or any of its close relations), simply having i...
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Why Can't All Wars be Like Charlie Wilson's War?
2008-04-18 00:54:00
One of the many war-related films to fall by the wayside last fall, Charlie Wilson's War hits the DVD shelves next week and, if the world is remotely fair, will garner more notice now than it did in the theaters. Directed by Mike Nichols with a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin, the film boasts the acting talents of Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Based on a real story and a book by George Crile about the real story, the film follows Charlie Wilson (Hanks) as he somehow, some way, manages to continually increase a covert operations budget that funnels money and munitions into the hands of Afghan freedom fighters. Wilson is spurred on in his efforts to support the anti-Russian Afghani forces by Houston socialite and ultra-right winger Joanne Herring (Roberts), and CIA agent Gust Avrakotos (Hoffman). Pushed into taking a trip to Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan by Herring, Congressman Wilson takes up the cause of the Afghani people trying to stem the Soviet inv...
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Last Restaurant Standing Gets Truthy
2008-04-16 23:44:00
For weeks I have been troubled by something on Last Restaurant Standing , only I had very little idea what it could be.  I knew that something was off, horribly, horribly off, but I couldn't quite figure it out.  Well my friends, I have solved the conundrum.  I have found my answer.  I realized why I felt so disjointed in the post-weekend service meetings Raymond Blanc.The problem is that it's a weekend service.  The problem is that they discover the number of patrons the restaurants had on Friday and Saturday night.  The rest of the show however is made to make it appear as though it was all a single night's worth of service.  Everything is cut, right up until the meeting with Raymond, that the restaurants are only open for one evening, not two.  Bits and pieces of the two evenings, it seems, must be edited to together to form a single night in terms of the storytelling even though everything happens on two nights.Now, that would b...

HIMYM Makes me go "Hmmmm..."
2008-04-15 23:39:00
Sadly, at least in part, my televisual malaise continued last night.  The How I Met Your Mother episode we were treated to fell distinctly flat.  It should have been a good episode, it could have been a good episode, but, for some reason, it just didn't work out.The episode featured one of the usual sure-fire paths to success for HIMYM, a brand new Barney-ism.  Virtually every time that Barney comes up with a new phrase or idea, or even puts a new spin on an old one the episode tends to be funny.  That just didn't happen with last night's "chain of screaming."  The idea was simple enough (and I think that was the problem) – when a boss gets yelled at he tends to yell at those under him who yell at those under them and so on and so forth, thereby creating a "chain of screaming."  I remember the first paying job I had, where one of my bosses explained to me that "shit rolls downhill."  So I didn't r...

Battlestar Makes Me Happy as the Housewives Leave me Cold
2008-04-15 03:56:00
Maybe it's me, I don't know. Last week I said that it felt like the return of NBC's Thursday night lineup was unimpressive. I felt the exact same way about the return of Desperate Housewives last night. Frankly, until the characters mentioned that there had been a tornado, I completely forgot. Carlos being blind felt like old news. Lynette's search for God after recovering from cancer seemed equally tired.I don't know, I was so enthralled with the idea of the return of television following the writers' strike and now that stuff is back, I'm impressed by, at best, half of it. The television I'm most happy with isn't the stuff I was looking forward to when the television season began last fall, it's the stuff that was scheduled to start at a later date on cable (Battlestar Galactica, Monk, Psych, etc.) or the random stuff that I didn't know I wanted to watch that I found along the way (Top Gear).Please, if you disagree with me, stand up...
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Looking for the Funny on Thursday Nights
2008-04-11 23:12:00
NBC's Thursday Comedy lineup returned in full force last night.  It was the first time they'd had the full lineup on since early November.  Looking at the ratings, the country was singularly unimpressed with the return.As for me, I don't know how I feel about it.  I have a soft spot for the network having worked for them for a few years and growing up during the heyday of "Must See TV."  Consequently I watch Earl, 30 Rock, The Office, and Scrubs even when they're not funny.  I wouldn't say that was the case last night, but it all felt far more like niche comedy than broader material. At least the funny stuff seemed more niche.  Earl's more, for lack of a better word, broad humor look at the common tropes of the average old-school sitcom (Earl is in a coma and in his mind living in a '50s-style sitcom) was distinctly unfunny.  I'm not at all sure why the writers thought it would be clever to show us what hap...
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Tuesday Night Television Proves Itself Delicious
2008-04-09 20:45:00
Yesterday I ate no solid food, so clearly I spent the entire night watching food-based programs.  Frankly, everything looked totally and completely delicious. Last Restaurant Standing had the contestants in the challenge making -- or attempting to make, anyway -- microwavable meals.  The pictures on all the packages the teams came up with looked truly spectacular.  It didn't look quite as appetizing on the plates, but I think I still could have dug in to any of them quite happily, even the "healthy" stuff the women from Brown & Green (one of the restaurants) came up with.The entire task actually helped highlight one of the big changes between British and American television.  The corporate folks judging the quality of the meals (as well as the packaging and sales pitch) had absolutely no problem telling the contestants exactly what they thought of the products.  There was no whitewashing of their opinion, and no holding back ...
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I've Gone on Better Ones, But I Didn't Mind Tripping The Rift: The Movie
2008-03-21 18:38:00
Whether one believes the restrictions are too tight or too lenient, it is undeniable that there are certain limits to what one can show on broadcast and basic cable television. Thus, it is not a surprise when television series that have a clearly more "adult" bent to them opt, when making a movie, to use copious amounts of profanity that would never make it into a traditional broadcast.As an example, think South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut. The newly released Tripping The Rift: The Movie does not take that route. It does have some profanity, but not as much as one would expect from the normally quite lewd series.The film, as the series before it, takes place well in the future and follows the exploits of Chode (a purple alien blob) and his crew of misfits: Six (a sex slave robot, played this time around by Jenny McCarthy, but in the past by others, including Carmen Electra), Whip (a teenage slacker lizard), T'nuk (a cow-like, bug-eyed alien who is the pilot), Gus...
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How Celebrity Casting Ruined Law & Order's "Shocking Twist"
2008-03-21 03:54:00
The Kidnapped reunion continued last night on Law & Order. It's one of those things that amaze me. There I was last year watching this fantastic show, but I was the only one. Now, the actors from the show (and the producers) are appearing in tons of different projects, including the aforementioned Law & Order. Jeremy Sisto and Linus Roache are already regulars on the show, but last night Will Denton guest starred. Well, maybe he's not a big enough actor to be a guest star, but he certainly appeared on the show. For those not quite sure who Denton was on Kidnapped, that's easy enough to answer: he was the kidnapped one. Now, Denton, as he's not that recognizable (unless you're Kidnapped-obsessed like some of us) was fine to have appear out of nowhere as the returned-from-college son of the murder victim. One didn't instantly know he was the culprit. The same was not true of the show's bit of stunt casting last night and the appearance of S...
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HIMYM & Top Gear - A Wonderful Combination
2008-03-19 02:49:00
Last week I suggested to you that Monday, March 17 might represent a true night of televisual bliss. I was not wrong. Top Gear last night was bloody brilliant, and even if How I Met Your Mother did not reach the dizzyingly funny heights of some episodes, it was certainly a solid effort in the writers' first episode back from the strike.Even better than that, however, was the fact that despite being moved from the 8:00 timeslot to the 8:30 timeslot, HIMYM performed above its season average in the 18-49 demo. Plus, it built on the numbers delivered by The Big Bang Theory, and was up against the season premiere of Dancing with the Stars. CBS ought to get off the fence and declare that HIMYM is no longer "on the bubble," but squarely placed in the "renewed for next season" category. Do you hear me CBS? Renew the show for next season. Renew it now. It built on the numbers from its lead-in, and was up against the highest rated half-hour of DWTS. Not to men...
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Do The Riches Just Get Richer?
2008-03-18 01:22:00
Everyone has their price. So argues Wayne Malloy (Eddie Izzard) at the outset of the second season of the FX show, The Riches . As the audience quickly finds out, that "everyone" includes Wayne himself.The Riches follows the Malloy family - Wayne, Dahlia (Minnie Driver), Di Di (Shannon Marie Woodward), Cael (Noel Fisher), and Sam (Aidan Mitchell) - a group of Irish Travellers who have taken over the lives of the recently deceased Doug and Cherien Rich and their nonexistent children. As season one progressed, the Malloys found it harder and harder to maintain the ruse, and at the close of the season they were forced to try and run. The second season picks up right where the first one left off, with the Malloys about to make their escape from Eden Falls and the lives of the Riches. However, after successfully disappearing, Wayne convinces the family they need to return. If the family can keep the con running just a little bit longer, Wayne, working as Doug at a real estate development ...
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A Question About Oceanic 815 and Jin
2008-03-14 23:59:00
Today we start off with the big question from last night's Lost episode. Does Jin die on the island or does he just remain behind? I'm sure that the vast majority of folks out there believe Jin to have died, but there's no real evidence of that. Yes, Hurley said that they were going to go see "him" and that they went to a tombstone with, presumably, Jin's name on it, but I'd bet, whether or not Jin died, there's no body in there. The date of death given on the tombstone is 9/22/04, the date Oceanic 815 crashed. We already learned during Kate's court case that the Oceanic Six have pretended as though the vast majority of people died in the crash, that only the six and a few more survived the crash, and that the survivors of the crash, save the six, all succumbed to their wounds shortly after the crash. For there to be a body in the grave probably would mean that the story Sun and the rest of the Six told was that Jin was buried on the island...
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