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Yes, There Might Be a Scientology Ad on This Site

It's part of the rotation from Google AdSense.

I'm not suggesting that you have to click it just because it's there. You know how I feel about the whole Xenu thing.

However, if you do, drop me a line and let me know what their sales pitch is, I'm always interested in the ways organized religion, even those that have to do with aliens and placing humans around a volcano in some sort of human sacrifice, pitch their product.

The email address is above. In fact, for all blog biz I'm gonna start moving over to this new Gmail account. It'll happen in stages.

Adweek Says You Will Pay For Online Video, Are They Right?

Because I'm sure I have never and I don't think I will ever. And I'm the guy who writes the blog called I Am A TV Junkie. If I'm not gonna, who will?

The Adweek story says that in 2009 they estimate consumers will pay $3.8 billion to watch video on the web.

More from Adweek:

According to a new report issued by Strategy Analytics, consumers may be far more willing to open their wallets to purchase Web video content, much as they do with music, than many once believed. The Boston-based research firm forecasts that worldwide consumer spending on online video content could reach $3.8 billion in 2009 despite the recession. That figure would exceed the $3.5 billion in online video ad revenue expected this year, the report says.

Indeed, even as Hulu and other premium ad-supported video sites surge in popularity, Strategy Analytics sees paid video growing faster than free video over the next several years, at a rate of 39 percent annually through 2012 vs. 37 percent for ad-supported video.

Why? They say the recession is helping. Well, how antithetical of them.

Are they counting porn? If they are I guess I get it. I'm never paid for porn online, either. Or via video-on-demand, and my cable system even has gay porn on demand.

Netflix and the online options of other companies are mentioned, but how many of you are really watching Netflix movies on your computers. Seriously. I'd like to know.

I can't imagine not being able to wait the day or two until the DVD comes in the mail and watching it on my 40" Sony Bravia.

John Barrowman Promotes His Run in La Cage Aux Folles on the Street in Drag

I know, you can't really tell from this far away, but that is our Capt. Jack after raiding Mitzi Gaynor's closet for this getup.

John debuts as Albin in the currently-running revival of La Cage in the West End from September 28 to November 14. Graham Norton took the role for a portion of the run as well.

Tickets? At this link, but it's quite the commute for me, unless someone is already going that way and wants to pick me up (in their Gulfstream, anyone?) and take me with.

Video -- Wentworth Miller on L&O: SVU, Already?

This is for next season, which starts as usual in September. This has already been shot? Did they start back right after locking down Meloni and Hargitay with new contracts?

Hmmm. Well, here he is, a little older than when you first met him on Prison Break and a little more full in the face.

Honestly, I still don't get all the excitement.

Clip after the jump.

If You Could Have the Jonas Brothers Do Something at the Teen Choice Awards ...

... what would it be?

From Fox (press release):

During last year’s show, viewers were invited to ask the Jonas Brothers questions via MySpace video uploads. This year, the stakes are even higher; a few lucky fans will have the opportunity to challenge the Jonas Brothers by uploading video dares online via MySpace. If chosen, the dare will then be completed by the group or individually by Kevin, Joe or Nick during the show. Teens can find more information and upload their video dares through July 27 at www.myspace.com/teenchoiceawards.

If I had a choice, I'd like the Jonas Brothers to get comprehensive sex ed including information on the use of condoms to prevent STDs like HIV and I'd like them to take a class in evolution.

What's your ideas for this? Leave a comment in the section for it below.

The awards air August 10 at 8 on Fox. Get your suggestions in before July 27. You have to be between the ages of 13-19 to participate, sadly. Do you have kids? There's your in.

2 Clips -- Isn't it Bromantic, Big Brother's Jessie and Russell Talk and Touch Muscle

It's as if you're watching the pre-sex portion of gay porn. Check it. First up they lift and spend a lot of time looking at and touching each other, and then after the jumperoo watch them in the kitchen for some staring into the mirror above the sink and ... a game of guess my weight?!?!?

It's just another day in the Big Brother house. Check out the product placement all over the place, too, from Coors to MuscleMilk.

LINK

Second clip past the fold. All the gay on Big Brother seems to be coming from everyone except Kevin.

Video -- FX Animated Comedy from Frisky Dingo's Adam Reed stars Jon Benjamin

It's called Archer, and I had a clip, but FX pulled it back just now so I can't post it. Hibberd still has it live, I'm guessing, he gets back to work tomorrow, so click over here for it.

I've been catching up on the first and only season of Frisky Dingo, the Adult Swim series that's ostensibly about this guy Killface that erects something called the Annihilatrix and plans to push the Earth out of orbit, destroying life as we know it and the millionaire playboy Xander Crews whose as his secret identity, Awesome X, battles to save the world.

Check out a clip from Frisky Dingo, in the absence of anything else, after the jump.

I say ostensibly because the show worked as an outstanding parody of everything from cable news to celebrity culture to global warming to modern relationships. Great stuff from Reed and partner Matt Thompson.

Two season came and went and the production company (70/30 Productions) behind it went belly up in January. Which is a shame. DVD link? Sure. Click below, buy, and help feed my kids.

         

Okay, so I have no kids. Sue me! Click and buy it anyway.

This new show from Reed has Jon Benjamin starring as Archer, and the supporting cast is stellar -- Judy Greer (secretary), Jessica Walter (Archer's mom), Chris Parnell and Aisha Tyler (girlfriend). Benjamin, of course, has been selling his voice to cartoon characters for years, from Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist (running in the morning on Comedy Central these days) to Family Guy, where he plays Carl, my favorite convenience store guy in all of 'toonland (yes, even more than Apu, sorry Apu).

So, it's ostensibly about the spy game but more than likely about everything and anything from which they can squeeze a laugh.

FX will be pairing the show with It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, which seems to only get more popular with age. In fact, if the people at FX would do me a solid and send me some DVDs I might even catch up with it ahead of the fifth season premiere.

Adam Reed = Very funny. I will make sure to get back to you with premiere dates and maybe even a clip, someday.

Frisky Dingo Ode to Killface clip after the jump.

2 Clips -- Wendy Williams Premiere w/Whitney Houston Shoutout

Per my prediction/wish recently, Wendy's reaching out to Whitney. You gotta watch.

Catch it on BET tonight at 11 if you missed it in daytime.

LINK

After the jump, learn how to say "How you doin'" the Wendy Williams way. Because as you'll see, it's not the Joey Tribbiani inflection, it's totally different.

Except for the words. And the meaning.

Wendy's on in daytime in syndication, check your listings. Or as I said, just catch the BET replay.

Two Three Things I'm Asking For From the Universe -- Please Help!

Okay, I want three things. I thought it was just two but I realized it's three.

1) I would love it if there was someone out there in my world, from the blog or my friends in the industry or wherever who could get me five or ten minutes on the phone with Neil Patrick Harris before he hosts the Emmys in September, just to do a little preview interview and maybe ask a question or two about Barney and Robin's future on HIMYM.

2) Joan Rivers was the first person who ever paid me to write. I was a sophomore in college  (1979-80) and my pal Jim Renehan and I used to sell one-liners to her. She's being roasted by Comedy Central this year with host Kathy Griffin. I would like to be there. I'll even bring my own chair if I must. If there's food I promise to eat first. I'll even do all my breathing ahead of time so that the stars can be properly oxygenated.

3) This isn't just something for me, this is for all of us ... I want Time Warner Cable to make some sort of announcement about picking up BBC America in HD. Actually, I just want them to do it, NOW!!! What up with not telling my friendly cable TV customer service rep what's going on? You could save a bunch of sci fi fans serious worry if you'd just ... I dunno, send us all an email to the effect? Or something like that.

If you can help or guide me in the proper direction, write to me at the address above.

Thanks.

Video -- One Craig Clip a Day Goes to the Movies: The Big Tease Trailer

Just another part of my One Craig Ferguson Clip A Day Until You Start Watching campaign.

Every weeknight at 12:37 eastern/pacific (not 36, not 38) on CBS. Show site at this link, where you can also vote for your fave Late Late Show puppet. Mine's the monkey.

(BTW, for Craig fans, you don't have to use the underscores when you type in the show's URL. It works without, too.)

If you haven't seen The Big Tease, it's the ten year anniversary of it's release, so buy it from Amazon below and have a party.

Invite Craig. You never know, he might show up, puppets in tow.

Video -- Do Impressive Torchwood UK Numbers Mean a Full Season Four?

Because, as we know, Rusty is all ready for a fourth go round. And me too. UK TV trade pub Broadcast indicates that Torchwood Children of Earth garnered an average of 5.9 million viewers of its five nights on BBC One.

Remember that the population of Great Britain (in 2008, most recent numbers I can find quickly) is just about 61 million, so if you extrapolate, the comparable US number would be 26.5 million.

That's huge! Of course, there are fewer channels to choose from in the UK and all, but still, a genre show getting that kind of number would be amazing.

More from them:

Nearly half of those watching – 48% – were upmarket ABC1 viewers. Younger viewers, aged 16 and 34, weren’t so taken with the show as they made up 19.4% of those watching.

The series kicked off on 6 July with 5.9m (25.8%), dipped initially the next day to 5.6m (24%) but hit a high of 6.2m (27%) on Thursday. Although Friday’s finale couldn’t build on that high the show was still some way ahead of everyone else at the time.

Apparently, ABC1 adults are a demographic group in the UK but I can't quite get my hands on why they are considered upmarket, what the standards for such are.

Now we need to see an impressive Nielsen number from the US so we can press for a full season. I mean, I liked this format for a change, but I want at least 13 hours or Torchwood every year.

That's not a lot to ask, is it?

BTW, it seems that all the interested parties have gotten on planes (short Eve Myles, who's in her third trimester) and headed to the States, so hopefully we'll see a lot more promo and that will drive some great Summer numbers for BBCA.

Ater the jump from the cable channel Space in Canada there's a preview of the miniseries with interview footage I had yet to see with, well, everyone.

And no spoilers. Until you see it. Because I care about your viewing experience.

I know, I'm a mensch. Yada yada yada.

Video -- Tonight's Nurse Jackie: Dr. Coop Has Two Mommies!

And they are Blythe Danner and Swoosie Kurtz. Outstanding. Judith Ivey guests tonight as well. All powerhouse women on stage and screen.

Tonight's episode "has Jackie caught off-guard when a nurse (Ivey) she used to work with, who is dying of lung cancer, asks Jackie to help end her life. Meanwhile, Coop’s mother (Blythe Danner) is admitted with a gall bladder attack. We learn that he is the only son of lesbians…a fact that delights Jackie and O’Hara."

Delights them, and me. Clip after the jump.

Check out the Nurse Jackie web home at this link for more.

Video -- Bravo's Watch What Happens: Live Premieres w/Jersey Housewife Danielle

Youch! look at that pic of Danielle's face. That's, uh ... scary tight. Could probably bounce a quarter off her left cheek.

You can call Watch What Happens: Live The Andy Cohen Show if you'd like. That's how I'll think of it and I'm sure he wouldn't care.

(He'd probably kvell over it, in fact.)

It's on Thursdays at 11 on Bravo, where Andy is the Bravo original programming chief and the person who's responsible for these women and their place in the pop culture zeitgeist in the first place.

LA Times from June 21:

Bravo is the only network with an on-air representation of the executive office. Since 2006, and because he used to send Lauren Zalaznick, the channel's boss, dishy e-mails from the sets and she was like, uh, why are these not public?, he has been its on-Web talent, conducting a vivid blog and live-streaming online program with a very gay flavor, like much of the network's programming.

At the same time, Cohen would make the rounds of TV chat shows, committing random culture punditry. They were doing it all wrong! Why should they alternately hide and give away all this content?

He began hosting the televised reunions/brawls that air in the aftermath of the most popular Bravo shows. And he was and is good at it, asking the often wounded reality folk hard questions while not appearing smug.

(snip)

Now the logical evolution: Cohen's once-a-week live show, "Watch What Happens," will begin airing July 16. He has given himself the midnight slot. "It'll be me and a couple Bravo-lebrities and maybe a real 'lebrity taking phone calls and e-mails and tweets from Bravo fanatics live at midnight. And we're going to be sipping cocktails," he said.

You can either love or loathe him, I guess, but he certainly does know how to create buzz. I guess I just have gay gossip fatigue. And sometimes it seems we spend an inordinate amount of time engaging in gossip.

Of course, none of these "real" housewives are real in the first place so you accuse of him lying or just go with it and enjoy the fly on the wall aspect. I can't get excited enough about any of them, even Atlanta's Kim with all that fake hair on top of her dome or this Danielle, former stripper and drug moll.

Real housewives. Sure.

Now, if you're anywhere but the east coast, you're gonna have trouble participating in the show (text, tweet, whatev). It IS live. I know for me, Time Warner runs an east coast HD feed of Bravo and those of you with that option are set to watch at the earlier time of 8 pm.

And, I have an idea for those of you who are participating ... why not steer the conversation on screen to something you're really interested in? You've got the power, they've in fact given it to you.

Or, pick a topic at will! Wouldn't you love to hear Danielle and Andy and the random pseudo-celeb discussing modes of alienation or the book Death in Venice or the giant collider at CERN?

Musical Crapfest from Idol Judge Kara Struck from Live Show

So, does that mean that it won't be on Kris Allen's first album? Because that would be a really good idea.

I don't think it was released as a CD single. I don't think they do that anymore. When Kelly won, I ran out and bought that CD single of A Moment Like This and Before Your Love, had to visit three stores till I found one that still had copies.

It was before I had an iPod.

We can all agree that this song was probably the worst of the Idol finale ballads, right? Remarkably hokey and Kris doesn't have the range for it anyway.

You can click over to the Popeater.com story and hear the song again, if you must.

Why would you do that? Don't you like yourself?

NBC Parenthood's Maura Tierney Elaborates on Medical Issues

She (seen here with her buddy John Stamos) says today in a statement (THR):

"I have discovered a tumor in my breast which requires surgery," Tierney said in a statement. "I will not know either my exact diagnosis or course of treatment until that surgery is performed. My doctors have all assured me this is a very treatable condition. I'm very optimistic as to the outcome and want to thank everyone who has sent positive thoughts and support. I look forward to going back to work soon."

And we wish her all the best.

And while we're at it, ladies, click this link to remind yourself how to administer a breast self-exam.

AND DO IT!

Women who read this blog, promise me you will do this today. And, when was the last time you got a mammogram, huh?

Can't afford one? Go to Google and type "free or low cost mammogram" and "(name of city)" and find yourself a low cost of free one.

Finally, if you'd like to donate a mammogram to a woman who can't afford one, click this link and do so. Please.

Finally, there's always the Susan Komen organization that does such good work. Click here for their homepage.

Now, let's all leave Maura alone to deal with this private matter.

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What's Next? Wacky Races, The Motion Picture?

And coming from Family Guy producer David Goodman? I thought the crew at FG was smarter than this.

He couldn't need the money, could he? I can't believe all the money goes to Seth.

THR:

David Goodman has been tapped to pen "Hong Kong Phooey," Alcon's take on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon being produced by the company's Andrew Kosove and Andrew Johnson. Rat Entertainment is also producing.

The cartoon, which aired in the mid-1970s, concerned a kung-fu fighting dog and his sidekick cat who fight crime. Alcon plans to make the adaptation a live-action/CGI hybrid.

And it's a combination of live and CG? Who's bankrolling this thing? I have a toilet that you could flush money down, it's a much more efficient use of time.

Video -- Web Series Jack In A Box by Michael Cyril Creighton

I found this by clicking around Facebook, which is certainly a better use of my Facebook time than choosing my five favorite Hostess Bakeries snacks.

Creighton is formerly from the Best Week Ever web gang.

But, since I brought it up, they are ...

• Suzy Q's
• Cupcakes (chocolate)
• Apple Pie
• Twinkies

Though I prefer a fresh bakery item when available.

Oh, that's right, web series Jack In A Box ... (from one of MCC's YouTube pages):

He used to love theatre ... until he sold tickets for it...

Meet Jack. A once mild mannered young man with a BFA in Acting and no life skills. He takes a job at an off-off Broadway Box Office because it doesn't involve wearing a blazer or using Excel. A few years and thousands of customers later, watch Jack try to manage his anger. But like all caged animals, he is going to throw his own shit at you sooner or later. Service with a smirk, that's all you can ask for.

Clip after the jump. More upcoming.

Clip Bonanza -- Tricia Helfer: Sci-Fi Hit Woman Gets The Call, Brings the Heat

It is getting more and more apparent that Tricia Helfer, seen above in her iconic BSG red dress, is the go-to gal for TV nerdvana.

And, I have to say, it's working.

Since the BSG miniseries, Helfer has guested on:

• The Collector (Canada)
• Supernatural
• Burn Notice
• Chuck
• Human Target (Upcoming on Fox)

And, she was attached to the David Eick/Fox/Paramount (that's three big media shingles for those of you keeping score) pilot Them which you will sadly never see. Plus, she's the voice of Dare in the upcoming Halo 3 game.

She's currently in Los Angeles filming an indie horror movie called Open House for director Andrew Paquin (that's Anna's brother) and those of you who watched Warehouse 13 last Tuesday know that she's this week's guest star.

Busy lady.

The Human Target pilot, btw, is non-stop action from start to end, she's great, the show is gonna hit big (I've seen a rough cut, not really supposed to talk much about it) and make a TV star out of Mark Valley, finally.

(And it should do something additional for Jackie Earle Haley's recharged career, too.)

I have three clips for you ... one from IGN interviewing Tricia about her role in this week's Warehouse 13, a moment from the action-packed Human Target pilot and finally Tricia being interviewed on the red carpet for the NHL Awards in June.

Canadian gals certainly know their hockey.

Tricia will be back at Comic-Con 2009 San Diego this year with the voice cast of Green Lantern -- First Flight, the animated DVD feature that releases on July 28.

2 Craig Ferguson Clips -- Michael Buble and Naturally 7

Two, because I have to make up for yesterday.

Buble: "I watch your show a lot. This is by far the gayest one."

It's always fun when the guest is a fan of the show, because they immediately wanna get in on the puppets, the snake cup, the Germans pooping on each other's chests (only discussed, never illustrated) and of course, I secretly believe Michael Buble wanted to wear Chris' leather shorts.

And now he can. Remember a couple years ago when he was breaking up with Emily Blunt and those pics of him in bed with the big gut made their way across the net? I think he's lost that weight.

Two clips after the jump. Interview first, musical number second.

Buble's new album cover above right. Buy it below. If you click this little icon to buy it from Amazon I get a little taste, and I thank you for that.