You can just watch Marc Berman from Mediaweek and James Hibberd from the Reporter talks. They were there, after all.
I'll have comments after the jump.
And yes, either Marc Berman is a giant or James Hibberd would fit in your pocket. I'm not really sure.
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Click this link and find out. Season finale is this Friday.
I'm just glad I didn't end up being the one that used to date Carson Daly. Ewww.
Seth, Alex and Mike Henry at Disney Hall clip after the jump from my local CW affiliate, but first ...
Mike Henry of course is the voice of Cleveland, and gets his own show coming up in the Fall, but what you haven't known until now is that Cleveland is leaving Quahog.
From the press release:
From the creators of FAMILY GUY and AMERICAN DAD, comes THE CLEVELAND SHOW (working title), the story of what happens when FAMILY GUY’s Cleveland Brown moves to Stoolbend, VA, to make good on a promise to his high school sweetheart.
And the show will have a January premiere, as animated shows like this and the Mitch Hurwitz-led Sit Down, Shut Up both need ample lead time before making it to air. They'll replace King of the Hill and American Dad at that time, but I'm sure that we'll see various permutations of the Animation Domination lineup after that as they fine tune. Certainly, however, those other shows will be back.
Oh, the young (Milo's 31 this July, huh?), they sometimes forget not to play the game of diminished expectations, which after last season might just be a good idea.
Video from Access Hollywood from the red carpet at the NBC-Uni Upfront-type-but-not-quite event in New York. Sit through the Masi stuff at the beginning which is him just obviously pitching the show like he did the same thing 800 times that day (it's the tone, Masi, the tone!).
Milo's always worth at least a glance, and then Adrian, who tells us he returns and isn't dead, gives you some meat, followed by Quinto, Hayden (suitably distanced from that older guy she dates,
as usual -- even in this clip) and Jack Coleman.
(By the way, no one so far has offered to send me to the Edinburgh TV Fest to see Tim Kring and Russell Davies. What's up with that?)
And, I have news from HeroesTheSeries.com that Bruce Boxleitner will be added to the cast in a role that was originally based on John McCain, but has now been changed, I'm guessing because McCain is the presumptive Republican nominee.
And, they're gonna have some web content starting in July, but I gotta tell you right now that they better step it up and use some actual cast members (not one's that just exist online) and there better be something to it -- meaning no standalone worlds that don't impact the story we see on TV, or I'm not gonna waste my time.
And this season, please, no bombs and no viruses. I'm so sick of bombs and viruses.
Clip after the jump.
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I'm sitting here watching Tweety's coverage of the Edwards endorsement of Barack Obama, and they cut to the quarter hour break with the spot cable ads and one of them is for Fox Noise, touting their popular shows like The O'Reilly Factor, Hannity & Colmes and On The Record with Greta Van Susteren.
Greta? Really? I think What The Buck?! gets more viewers any day of the week.
BTW, if you get the chance, watch Matthews essentially ask Pat Buchanan if he's a bigot. I have the clip after the jump, and Buchanan just melts down like the fire his ideological brethren set in the Reichstag in 1933.
And, on Olbermann (okay, you caught me, sometimes I stop blogging just to eat dinner), a new special comment about War and Golf, which will be after the jump as soon as it's posted.
Golf, Sir?
Golf sends the wrong signal to the grieving families of our men and women butchered in Iraq?
Do you think these families, Mr. Bush - their lives blighted forever -- care about you playing golf?
Do you think, Sir, they care about you?
You, Mr. Bush, let their sons and daughters be killed.
Sir, to show your solidarity with them - you gave up golf?
Sir, to show your solidarity with them - you didn't give up your pursuit of this insurance-scam, profiteering, morally and financially bankrupting war.
Sir, to show your solidarity with them - you didn't even give up talking about Iraq - a subject about which you have incessantly proved without pause or backwards glance, that you may literally be the least informed person in the world?
Sir, to show your solidarity with them, you didn't give up... your 4,000 dead Americans and your response... was to stop playing golf!
Golf.
Not "gulf" - golf.
If I can find it, I'll leave the clip here later. Pat melting down after the jump.
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From the not-far-from reality department at FunnyOrDie.com. And somehow, Bobby Lee from Mad TV gets involved, but frankly, unless I averted my eyes without knowing, I didn't see him.
Are you rich? Rich enough to send a guy you hardly know (or not at all?) to Scotland?
Variety:
U.S. new media guru Clay Shirky, who popularized the phrase “the Internet runs on love,” is to give the Futureview address at this year’s Edinburgh International Television Festival.
(snip)
Other speakers unveiled for this year’s talking shop that unspools August 22, include “Heroes” creator Tim Kring and Brit screenwriter Russell T. Davies. Both will give master classes.
I'm only half-kidding. You might also be interested in sending me as a representative of your news organization. Or, you might just want me to bring a new baby gift to Stu's new little one, CJ. Whatever it is, I am happy to do it for you in Edinburgh as long as you get me there and find me a place to sleep.
Tim Kring and Russell Davies at the same event? I'm kvelling!
But the Hollywood Reporter is having such a good time watching The New Adventures of Old Christine, they only think it's the end of the first season (see above). It's actually technically the third.
Me? Not so much. I checked out on the series after only a couple eps. I know, I know, for a guy who's always screaming about the dearth of comedy in primetime I do manage to come up with enough reasons not to watch some of them. Some of those reasons (Patty Heaton and Kelsey Grammer in Back to You) are good ones. Some are better (like how Two and a Half Men is just not funny).
In this case, I just thought it was weird that Julia's character on this show owned a gym and didn't seem like the kind of woman who would even have time to put a bandage on a cut, let alone worry about fitness.
And I don't like the ex-husband and new Christine.
Interesting, if CBS didn't renew, ABC was ready to scoop it up. Between this news and the Scrubs pickup by ABC (which is now official) I think you gotta see that comedy is gonna make a comeback, and I couldn't be happier.
I hope my comedy writing friends will start getting jobs working on the sitcoms they deserve (or the ones they're pitching to the networks, anyway).
And to tip my hat to a previous comment on the blog by Stu Arnott, I will admit to being happy about the HIMYM pickup despite the fact that they might have gotten there on the back of an aging pop tart.
Congrats, Steve Moffat (below right), from the really big guy who lumbered over to you after that panel at the Convention this past year in LA.
Blink was an episode from the small collection of episodes from the new series that fall into the Doctor-Lite category, the episode each season that is written without too much action for the Doctor and companion so that they can have two episodes shooting at once.
It's the story of Sally Sparrow (above), a young woman in contemporary London that runs into some trouble when she starts taking some pictures inside an abandoned home. I won't spoil it any more than that except to say that it is by far the favorite Doctor-Lite ep of the fans (except me, however. Not that I don't love the episode, but I'm a big fan of Love & Monsters from series two).
This episode is popular enought that Sally Sparrow actually has her own fan appreciation page at Facebook and it is well attended, even by me.
So congrats again, Steve, and to the entire crew that made the episode possible.
After the jump, a tribute video to this particular episode from YouTube user zcats to the tune of that Robbie Williams song, Angels.
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I know, it's not like he has to dig ditches for a living, but it's gonna be a very interesting life on the road attempting to promote a book when you're the author of a faked memoir that got verbally assaulted by the vaunted Oprah in front of the world at large.
So the latest from Frey is called Bright Shiny Morning, but it certainly wasn't for him. And I think it's gonna be a long, long time before he actually finds any joy in doing these promotional tours. The one thing that kept going through my head as he talked to Meredith Viera this morning was that he'll never get to open his mouth in this context again without having to apologize in some way for A Million Little Pieces.
Frankly, she just wouldn't let it go. You can watch for yourself, the clip is posted after the jump.
And I guess that I wouldn't have a problem with that except for that it seems to me that there are a lot of people out there who have done a lot worse than Frey that get to pay the price and move on. I gotta wonder if James Frey gets to move on.
Maybe the problem with breaking people's trust is that it's different than breaking the law because the law has no memory and no sense for retribution.
"No, I'm gonna keep her filthy."
"Yeah, she's been a bad girl."
"And then I'm gonna gag her with her own brassiere."
I just thought I would remind all of you (and me) that this is essentially Seth talking to himself on tape. If you think about it in that context it's so much more fun.
One thing, though, in this episode, what's with the CGI ocean water? I've never seen them do that before. And I didn't even notice it the first five times I watched this episode.
I gotta give you the clip first or it makes no sense.
A hybrid between Star Trek, Falcon Crest and Girls Gone Wild.
Okay, now put aside your misgivings about sex and bodily fluids in zero gravity and just think about a good ensemble cast, and I come up with:
I'm in! Sundays at 10 on NBC, anyone?
Alec's 60 Minutes interview with Morley Safer in full from CBSNews.com after the jump. I haven't seen it yet.
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Imagine my surprise when I saw that BBC America was running the new series in strip (Mon-Fri) at 3 pm Eastern and Pacific starting today.
If you click over there right now you can see how Rose Tyler meets The Doctor (Christopher Eccleston, who btw is upcoming in the big screen GI Joe).
So, if you haven't read this in time, at least set your DVRs if you've been interested but not so interested as to go buy DVDs (but you probably will eventually anyway, just like I did last November).
Or, there's a very good recap of the episode ... well, all over the internet. The 'net's just crazy for the Doc and Rose.
Ah, five minutes in and the Doctor and Rose are running already. Always running.
About Billie, I'm seriously looking forward to all the press that wil accompany the debut of Secret Diary ... in the US. And I think it'll be good for Doctor Who as well.
It'll be nice getting more sleep and not filling up my DVR so much.
I give it two years. One if they let him use his guitar. Six months if they don't come up with a decent hairstyle for him. Three months if he chooses his own writing staff.
That's all I have to say.
... that it's from the season finale.
Oh thank you Gods of Television for making this go away for a while. I'm really tired of this thing. And, you know, you can't even get away from it. The cover of the LA Times Calendar section on Sunday was all The Hills, with a big pic of that tool Spencer Pratt and his girlfriend (what's her name again?).
So, fortunately for all of us, this clip is Audrina and the newly-shorn (that means he got a haircut, kids) Justin Bobby looking at new places to live. Apparently the sitch with Lauren and that ugly friend of hers from Laguna (there are ugly girls in Laguna? Really?) just got too out of hand for her.
You see? I don't even watch the damn show and I know what's happening, just from watching the entertainment shows and The Soup and BWE.
Oh, the other reason I'm posting this clip? I'm a hit count whore. It's after the jump.
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Really?
Because that's quite the stretch. Can you imagine this girl pictured right (forget that it's Jennie Garth, just think about what you know about Kelly Taylor's upbringing in Beverly Hills and what you think her life might have been) becoming the woman who tries to convince you that an SAT prep course is a good idea?
Yeah, me neither.
But this is such a great deal for Garth, especially now that her husband will be working on a new Edie Falco project for cable and she's off that CBS show. She'll only be a recurring character, though she is the connection between the old 90210 and this update. And I bet she got a serious bump in her rate for that which offsets the reduced work schedule, and she can spend more time with her kids.
So, it's all good.
But, Kelly Taylor as a guidance counselor? Please.
Hey Ben, am I right or am I right?
Craig Thomas, who with Carter Bays created How I Met Your Mother and is it's executive producer, talked to the Hollywood Reporter in the last couple of days about (no last name required) Britney's return to the show and ... yuck ... plans for next season.
I have two clips, one from CBS and the Hollywood Reporter video, and they are both after the jump.
Spears first visit resulted in "Mother" hitting its highest rating ever. The show has since maintained an elevated audience level compared to last year. Once considered on the bubble for a fall renewal, the critically acclaimed comedy is now considered a lock to return next season.
I have problems with this on a number of levels (of course, when do I not?) which I have expressed in the past, but the most important one is this ... there is some young woman in Hollywood that would have played the part of the receptionist on the show had there not been a whacked-out pop star looking for some career rehab.
With the producers just breaking off talks with SAG, I think a lot about actors and actors who would like to make a decent middle-class income from acting, and every time Britney or Nicole Richie or even worse, someone from the Spencer Pratt section of the showbiz world gets that gig, the trained actor who doesn't loses.
So, Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, if you can managed to not do this in the future, I'm sure those actors and some of us viewers would be much happier. Why us? Because you can't think for a second that I can stay involved in the storyline when one of your characters looks like that stupid chick that became this year's American Trainwreck.
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And it not only looks like this, it is this:
You can add it to your blog or social networking site page or just play with it here if you want to, but if you want to add it, just click that section in the lower right corner that says, appropriately, "Add this widget." There's also a widget that you can add to your computer desktop and you can find that at this link.
C'mon, you know if it's Billie Piper, it's gonna be posted here. I have only a moment so no comments from me except this:
WATCH THIS SHOW!
Secret Diary of a Call Girl debuts June 16 on Showtime. Visit the official site. Visit Billie's Facebook page (I'm an Admin there).
And, that clip is after the jump.
