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A friend just pointed me to Mims’s “This Is Why Im Hot”: A Graphical Dissertation on Americas Number One Song by Rob Harvilla, a satirical piece in the Village Voice about a curent #1 hip-hop hit. I wonder what the Chris Brown folks will make of this? Is Chris Brown a rapper?

I had been excited about “On the Lot” mostly because I loved “Project Greenlight” and I thought it would fill that void. But it looks like it’s going to be a run of the mill game show shitfest complete with guest judges including Brett Ratner. I’ll still watch it, though.

I have been waiting for this a long time… According to Variety today, HBO Films has greenlight “The Pacific,” a companion miniseries to “Band of Brothers” set in the Pacific theater of WWII. The same crew will be responsible — Senor Spielbergo, Tom Hanks and Graham Yost, but no casting has been announced.

So the past few episodes of “Lost” have been pretty darn good and this begs the question: why are these episodes better than the rest? I think I have an answer or at least a theory (and everyone knows this is a show with no small shortage of theories) in the form of a name: Brian K. Vaughan. Continue reading Lost 3×17: Catch 22

Via Ain’t It Cool News, some not so cool news for “Veronica Mars” fans… An April 12 USA Today “Save Our Shows” piece puts V in the “Gone or nearly dead” column. A list that has historically been pretty accurate seems like it would be the final nail in the coffin, but AICN’s Hercules reminds fans that “Mars” pulled out a double billing in E! Online’s “Save One Show” poll masterminded by Kristin Veitch.

I’m going to go ahead and let my fanhood completely cloud my vision and make a bold declaration that “Mars” will indeed make it through to the fall sched. If creator Rob Thomas put half of the effort into the featurette that he created to persuade CW to reupp a made-over “Mars” that he put into the pilot that CW was smart enough to greenlight in the first place, I think they’d be fools to turn it down.

Besides, they’d have to mess with Neptune’s bad boy if they did…

(Not gonna say So it goes, not gonna say So it goes…) Well, sad news today as Kurt Vonnegut has died. He was 84.

Like many people, Kurt Vonnegut’s writing makes me extremely happy. My friends gave me a hardcover copy of “Slaughterhouse-Five” for my 21st birthday and it is something I will always cherish. I would love nothing so much as to see a movie of “Cat’s Cradle,” even if it sucked.

You can read that book, which I don’t believe I’ve ever stated before is my favorite novel, for free here.

I don’t know but I always assumed season one of “Friday Night Lights” would end with the Dillon Panthers losing in the Texas state championship game, thus giving them an axe to grind for a potential season two. Brett Love of TV Squad says last night’s finale answered the question of whether Coach Taylor would remain in Dillon, and while I have to assume that he will, I don’t I agree that the question was indeed answered. Instead we got FNL’s trademark cutaway shot for our last glimpse of the show until … hopefuly next fall.

I’m feeling a little bit off about last night’s episode. The energy level of the halftime pep talk seemed low. The speech was too short. The winning play was anticlimactic. I doubt they had planned a cliffhanger ending before the game ended, but the episode seemed rushed to me once the game actually started. But man, what a season. I’m pretty sure Connie Britton and Kyle Chandler make the best TV drama couple since…since I don’t know. (What’s with all the elipses today?)

Even though I’m planning to do a full season ending award post, I’m going to go ahead and tip my hand right now: This was the best new show this season. Hands down. Here’s to season two.

It’s sad to say but most films in theaters today are nothing more than lead in press for an eventual DVD release and therefore play better on television in people’s homes. Gone is the spectacle and glory of going to the movies for the “big screen experience” replaced by mundane retreads of what was on television last week. Robert Rodriquez and Quentin Tarantino, however, have delivered a big screen experience with their new project “Grindhouse” but it’s more of a ride than a film. Continue reading Grindhouse

WTF??

As expected, the Peacock (yeah, I wrote that) has grown usable hands and pulled the plug on “Andy Barker, P.I.,” the Andy Richter sitcom. As I sort of meant to more explicitly predict.

I think next time, Andy should play a sidekick or a secondary character, like a Tobias Fünke type. He obviously just doesn’t work as a main man.

We can only hope… via TV Squad, Six Degrees was put on hiatus yet again by ABC. Although I quite enjoyed watching Campbell Scott and Hope Davis on a weekly TV series, this show got worse and worse. I haven’t watched the two new episodes, but my wife watched last week’s and reported that it was bordering on unwatchable.

I always maintained that the “six degrees” concept is what ruined this show. The play and movie “Six Degrees of Separation” (Will Smith’s only good movie?) does deal with lives intersecting in New York, but since it wrapped its story up in one convenient package we understand the significance and we see the intersecting more clearly. “Six Degrees” the show is basically just about a bunch of people becoming “Friends” in New York, been there done that.

I would have watched “Six Degrees: Babel, the TV Show”…