> So the United States finally fixes their government and what does Canadian’s government decide to do? Well pretty much put itself in the pooper. The talk of a coalition government is ALL that anyone is talking about and now quite frankly I’m sick of it. Especially when there is so much worse going on in the world.
Things worse than a coalition government:
1. According to Jim premiered on Tuesday for it’s 8th season. Arrested Development lasted three. 2. Pushing Daisies has been canceled for two weeks and this is the first time I am able to truly talk about it. This was the best show on television and it literally hurts in places I didn’t know I had feelings. 3. I can’t believe Kristen Stewart (Bella from Twilight) is now a movie star. She has the personality of my rusted bedpost. 4. Metallica was in Calgary tonight and booked 50 rooms at the Sheraton. How many whores does one band need? 5. When Celebrity Apprentice returns in the new year, all of it’s episodes will be 2-hours long. Sweet Tv-god i wish this was a joke. Find me two people who watch this show. Seriously, this is just ridiculous.
All this stuff on parliament hill doesn’t seem so bad now does it?
>Let’s start off with the good news!The Good: Jeffery Tambor all but confirmed the other day that they are indeed making an Arrested Development movie! Now, I’m assuming he isn’t talking about making a movie about the 80′s hip hop group, but he is instead talking about the brilliant but canceled FOX TV show that has developed a massive and rabid base of fans on DVD. The Bluths live again! It looks like Hollywood is going to start making quality movies……
The Bad: …..oh never mind. Ridley Scott has just signed on to make a movie about Monopoly. That’s right the director of such amazing movies like Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator and American Gangster is now going to make one about the board game that traumatized so many of us as children. Seriously, who lets 8 year-olds pay mortgages and own entire railway stations? It’s not normal. And only $10 bucks for winning a Beauty Pageant, thats crap! Either way, this can’t be a good idea. What’s next? Life? Scrabble? Crocodile Dentist? Although, I’d be okay with a Mousetrap movie. That shit would be scary. Plus who the heck is going to watch a movie about a man named Rich Uncle Pennybags during this economic crisis? Seems kinda rude no?
> Phew what a night. Can you believe that Barack Obama actually won!? Wow, what a time to be have cable and to be able to see it live. I tell you folks, things are looking up.
But I still went to bed with so many questions running through my brain.
They include:
-So…The Biggest Loser is going to be back next week right? -What does CNN do with their now infamous magic board? -Tyra is going to be on forever isn’t? -How pissed is Lorne Michaels? There goes all his material. -Will Oprah now have Sarah Palin on her show? -Anyone else notice that Obama had finished his presidential speech and the polls in Alaska were still open? -For the first time in my life, I will be TIVOing The View and Oprah on Wednesday. Is that weird? Shit is going to hit the fan and I’m not going to miss a second of it! -How could the Americans not vote to keep Cloris Leachman? Oh wait…wrong election. -I miss Arrested Development. Gob’s offensive puppet would have had so much to say about Barack’s big win. -Can Barack get Knight Rider canceled? Crusoe? What about According to Jim?
UPDATE: I think this is possibly my favorite picture of the entire election night. It was taken at a celebration in Athen, Greece and I found it on Huffington Post.
> 30 Rock is Back! 30 Rock is Back! 30 Rock is Back! 30 Rock is Back! 30 Rock is Back! 30 Rock is Back! 30 Rock is Back!
Did I mention that 30 Rock is Back?!?!
Now I know a lot of your don’t watch this show but you must start watching this show right now. If you thought Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin stuff was funny, I’m telling you it’s not half as funny as 30 Rock.
I mean this show has won the Best Comedy Emmy* TWO YEARS in a row. Don’t you kinda already feel stupid for not watching Arrested Development when it was on. And you it’s all you talk about isn’t? Admit it. You love Arrested Development and you wish you had done things differently with your life. Well, you can fix all of that by watching 30 Rock!
Here is a little clip of one of my favorite episodes
*And yes, I acknowledge that these are same Emmy’s that nominate Two and A Half Men and as soon as Barack is in office, I’m sure he will start looking into this.
> It’s pretty obvious that FOX has the worst track record for canceling shows before they are able to grow into any sort of success. Their trigger finger often shoots shows down after their first or second airing. While I think I was the only one that enjoyed last years show called Drive, it doesn’t mean that I don’t still cry myself to sleep sometimes. I happen to know that others, who wish to remain anonymous, still miss shows like The Tick, Firefly and Arrested Development. No one, however misses Back to You or Unhitched.
But I’m ready to give Fox another chance, mostly because their newest show Fringe debuts Tuesday night. Of course it helps that it was created by the always imaginative J.J Abrams. After watching the trailer for the new show, I’m a little nervous because it seems to be an intriguing show that begs paying attention to. Out of all of Abrams creations this is definitely in the Lost or Alias territory and miles away from anything resembling Felicity or What About Brian?
Fringe stars Joshua Jackson (Pacey!), Lance Reddick (super creepy guy from LOST) and Anna Torv (her first North American project) and definitely has something to do with what is probably something like could or could not be aliens or maybe terrorism, but definitely not robots, unless you use the word robot loosely.
Anyway, watch the trailer yourself and check out Fringe as it debuts tonight with it’s 90 minute pilot followed by the hilarious spin on the japanese game sensation Hole in the Wall. Man, didn’t that last sentance read like an ad? And to think Fox isn’t even paying me and will probably cancel Fringe before next week. Fool me a half dozen times……
>When Arrested Development was on the air it would have been impossible to predict how huge the show would become for so many of it’s actors. Especially, because nobody was watching it. Michael Cera, who played George Michael, perhaps has benefited the most from the cult status of the cancelled show. 2007 was an amazing year for Cera who stole the show in two of the years most talked about movies: Juno and Superbad.
Just one year later it looks like Michael Cera is going for leading man status with the comedy Nick and Noras Infinite Playlist. And while I don’t there are too many laughs in the two and half minute trailer, I think it is going to be a Fall hit when college students will be going on the obligatory first date with their one night stands from FROSH Week.
The movie gets bonus points for casting Kat Dennings are the aforementioned Nora. I still remember how funny she was in her small scenes in the 40-Year Old Virgin.
> The summer is in full swing. The weather is beautiful, gas prices continue to spike, my legs look like a checkerboard of mosquito bites, my slight tan actually makes me look relatively healthy and I spend more hours on my patio more than any other room in my apartment.
But I still miss TV.
Actually, more specifically I miss Pushing Daisies. You probably don’t remember this show because it finished it’s new episodes back in November and hasn’t been back since the writers strike.
Thankfully this amazing show was picked up for a second season and it’s only a matter of months until my favorite new show comes back to make me smile in a way that only the Arrested Development theme song song.
I usually get sucked into Summer TV but this year has been different since there hasn’t been anything that has been that much of a draw. Sure I still like the mole, although all the “you’re the mole, no you are the mole, no I’m the mole, are you?” can get a little exhausting.
I’m also really liking ABC’s two shows Wipeout and I Survived a Japanese Game Show purely because they are just so ridiculous to watch. They remind of the good ol’ game shows without the back stabbing and lying that we have all grown to love/loathe on shows like Survivor and Big Brother (which comes back July 13th…regrettably.)
I also love that I say I don’t watch a lot of TV and then present a list of shows I’m watching this summer. Which begs the question: How much TV is normal? Actually, on second thought, don’t answer thought.
> We like Charlize Theron right? Sure she has been in some shit-tastic movies (Aeon Flux) but she also has an Oscar for Monster and has been in some other reasonable and respectable projects: Arrested Development, North Country, The Cider House Rules and The Italian Job. I mean there was a couple of years that she was basically the go-to romantic lead/distraught wife/heroine in distress for any A-list movie.
So I’m confused as to why she has essentially been left out of the promotional material for Will Smith’s newest blockbuster Hancock (opening today). I mean have you seen her in one trailer for the film? Is she on the posters? Has she even been doing press for the movie? It seems so odd to me for someone who has established a fan following to be completely left out of anything to do with the movie.
I obviously understand that it is a summer blockbuster movie and it really doesn’t need anymore of a draw than Will Smith, especially around USA’s Independence Day. But doesn’t it seem that her name adds a little bit of respectability to the project? I mean she has the one thing Will Smith doesn’t, no not a bible, I mean the coveted Oscar statuette. I would think that if women knew that she was in Hancock they would be that much more inclined to go when their sons, boyfriends and/or husbands (Hi UTAH!) drag them to the movie theatres this week.
And while I realize this is a stretch, would it kill them to awknowledge the mini-Arrested Development reunion that is Charlize and Jason Bateman!!! Then again they sorta down played a similar reunion on Juno, but still, it’s enough for me to go!
What about you? Is Will Smith enough draw for you? Or do we all need a little more Charlize in our life?
>Is it May 10th? Because it’s feeling a whole lot like my birthday! While scanning my favorite internet sites this morning I stumbled across a little story with Jason Bateman (who stars in next week’s awesome looking Hancock).
According to TV Guide.com Jason said in an interview with MSNBC that an Arrested Development movie was “in the works, the grown-ups are trying to work out the numbers.”
He then goes on to say that the show’s original format might change a little bit when it’s get to the big screen, “When it was on TV, if you missed one word the whole third act could be blown for you. And TV is a different experience. You come home and you’ve got to finish a call so you miss the first ten minutes or you get snacky and you go to the fridge and you miss another two minutes, so it’s a different experience to film.”
Are you kidding me!!?!?!? An Arrested Development Movie?!?!?!!? How perfect is that? I guess we have Carrie Bradshaw and Co. to thank for that one eh!
>This week is one of my favorite weeks of the entire TV season. This is Upfront Week which means that this is when we here what the networks have in store for the Fall 2008 television season.
So far many of the shows that I have been worried about have already been saved. Like I mentioned last week, it was confirmed that Scrubs is indeed returning next year for one final season only this time it will be on ABC.
I was surprised by how much I enjoyed The New Adventures of Old Christine so I was concerned when many insiders said that it wouldn’t be returning. Well they couldn’t have been more wrong because the show fronted by Julia Louis Dreyfus will be returning to CBS with a full 22 episode season order. This shows that CBS has a lot of faith in the show especially cause it only had a 13 episodes season this past year.
Another show that was in trouble on CBS was How I Met Your Mother. But fear not, this great show will also be returning. Hopefully with less Britney and more Sarah Chalke.
So what shows aren’t coming back? Well so far Men In Trees, Moonlight, Women’s Murder Club, Miss/Guided, October Road, New Amsterdam, Jericho, Beauty and The Geek, Shark, Bionic Woman and Aliens in America have all gotten the axe. I don’t seem to distressed because I honestly forgot most of these shows where even on the air. Which I guess was the problem. I am so relieved that for at least one season I don’t have to say goodbye to one of my favorites.
Which brings us to the biggest announcement of them all. This fall struggling network will be bringing back one of the most famous high schools of all time. That’s right, West Beverly High will be opening it’s doors again to a whole new group of residents from the 90210 zip code!!!! The classic Aaron Spelling drama that pretty much taught me things that I had no business knowing will be getting it’s own spin off this fall a full 8 years after it went off the air. While there aren’t any official alumni of the original show cast as regulars, both Kelly Taylor (Jenny Garth) and Donna Martin (Tori Spelling) will be popping up as a guidance counsellor and a parent respectively. The new cast does feature some familiar faces. Canada’s own Shenae Grimes (Degrassi TGN)will be playing one half of the brother sister duo that move to Beverly Hills. Surely I can’t be the only one to notices that fellow canadian Jason Priestly pretty much played the same role? The matriarch of the kids will be played by Aunt Becky…oh I mean Lori Loughlin and her mother will be played by Arrested Development favorite Jessica Walter.
They haven’t filmed the pilot yet but they are going to have one hell of a trashy reputation to uphold. YOu don’t go messing with millions of peoples childhoods. I am just now warming up to Degrassi: The Next Generation. Here’s hoping that we get some other old alumni popping up on the show. What ever happened to Valerie?
