Posts Tagged ‘NBC’
NBC has been hyping this show for a while and my interest was piqued. I was excited about the cast (I love Peter Krause from Sports Night and his comedic timing is wry, dry and wonderful) and Ron Howard can just about do no wrong. Tommy Schlamme did some awesome stuff on West Wing. I’ve heard Lauren Graham doesn’t have any sense of humor in real life, but she plays sarcastic well. Even if I am still mad at Bob Dylan, hearing Forever Young in the opening scene made me happy.
Some random chick has a thermos full of sperm in her freezer and exhorts a breeding promise from some guy who doesn’t have any interest in procreating. The same guy is later shocked to meet his 6 year-old son whom he knew nothing about. The patriarch has condoms in his desk drawer. A couple of kids are arrested for weed possession, another diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome, and yet another kid runs away to his dead beat dad after catching his mom in flagrante delicto. There’s a lot of fucked up kids on this show. I lost count. I also lost interest.
Either the water is underpriced or the soda is overpriced.
Questlove, the drummer for Jimmy Fallon’s band the Roots took this picture and put it on Twitter. I’m going to forego all the outrage and the jokes based on said outrage. I’m also going to avoid posing the potentially incendiary theory that the menu could be considered by some to be historically significant for black people. What I secretly hope is that a bunch of people flip out for real and then they will find out that some black person thought up the idea. That will confuse everyone. Also I guess my hope is no longer a secret.
Seriously, though. I really want to know what you think about this one. I mean – what if it didn’t say in honor of black history month? What if it said: by special request? What if it isn’t really from NBC? As much as I WANT to believe that it is real, how come they can’t spring for the NBC logo on their menu thingy? And how much is the NBC discount? And what if it was Jay Leno’s idea?
sigh.
so do your bitching in the comments. Or post ways it could be worse for NBC. But if you are gonna try to be funny, you better succeed.
This is not Spencer from I'm a Celebrity, however, dude has one paragraph on a wikipedia page, how is he gonna have pictures for me to use?
Monday we posted on the first episode of I’m a Celebrity Get me out of here. They have been airing episodes every night since, but now take a break for three days until the show is back on Monday.
I’m not going to say the show has nose dived since Monday’s premiere. But, the shine is quickly coming off. Then again, I haven’t watched an episode the entire way through since Monday, and I completely missed Wednesday night.
Bringing in another Baldwin is solid. But, last night it looked like Spencer and Heidi wanted back on the show. It was quite the debate amongst the folks in the jungle. And, they are milking this one quite a bit. Wednesday they teased it. Thursday they announced it and Monday they will make a final decision on if Spencer gets back in the jungle.
I was entertained by this dude on Monday night. But, the idea to actually leave and then try to come back seems pretty damn boring. If you’re going to come in and be a villain and try to mindfuck with folks, I’m all for it. But, if it’s lame, “I’m leaving, no I’m not” schtick, it’s just boring.
Get back in there and try to give Daniel Baldwin a bottle of Grey Goose, or something.
NBC renewed the cop drama Southland. I’m a bit surprised by this move. But, then when I saw that they were moving it to Friday nights, I was less surprised. It must have gotten decent reviews, but weak ratings.
So, why not move it to Fridays and see if it can scratch out an audience ala Friday Night Lights?
I thought the first season (well, first seven episodes) was a solid run. One of the things that I felt they did well was building a show where you were OK if a couple characters went missing in an episode. The show didn’t rely on any one character.
Dealing with the witness thing in a storyline that arced over several episodes and involved pretty much everyone in the show was something that was done well. TV hasn’t really dealt with the issue of witnesses, or lack thereof, which is a huge problem for prosecutions in large cities.
The other thing they did well was blending uniforms and detectives. Most shows are terrible in that regard. The best at it was The Shield…and the way they handled it was creating a fictional police station, which was a somewhat lame solution. Southland actually manages it within a more realistic context.
Still, going to Friday nights would seem to be a problem as most shows move to that night to die unless they are REALLY FUCKING GOOD. I’m not quite sure the show is on that level.
The NHL Stanley Cup Final is starting this Saturday. Yes, they are still playing hockey. No, you are probably not giving a damn. This ain’t a who’s who of the match-up between the Detroit Red Wings and Pittsburgh Penguins. Not because I don’t want to bore you. I just don’t want to bore myself. Hell, just to prove this I will provide this link. I am 99% certain that this will go to ESPN’s NHL section. I did not test it, but feel free to knock yourself into a tepid nap.
Anyway, they are playing games on Saturday and Sunday with no break in between because NBC doesn’t want a damn thing to do with the “sport”.
Next week, Conan O’Brien is making his debut as “Tonight Show” host, and NBC did not want low-rated hockey games cluttering its weeknight schedule or the possibility that an extended overtime would delay any of O’Brien’s first week of shows.
Makes complete sense. Can’t even blame ‘em.
I am not a heartless bastard, as Acadia said yesterday. I love me some Chevy Chase comedy, realized that for the millionth time watching Fletch the other day. Would a heartless bastard promote others?
“Community,” a sitcom about community college misfits that brings Chevy Chase of “Saturday Night Live” fame back to TV. The cast includes Joel McHale (“The Soup”), Gillian Jacobs (“The Book of Daniel”) and Yvette Nicole Brown (“Rules of Engagement”).
Don’t know who those other fools are, but, it’s got Chase in it, so I’ll give it a shot. Would a heartless bastard give anything a shot?
Probably not.
Sure, this would have worked better had Chase, you know, died, instead of just getting a TV show and I could have put up the “Chevy Chase is dead, ya’ll!” post and Acadia would be like look at that heartful awesome dude all celebrating the life of a famous dude.