This
is a couple of weeks old, but The Futon Critic released their annual “50 Best
Episodes of 2006”
over the first week of the year.The Top
Ten: 10. 24: Day 5: 7:00 a.m-8:00 a.m; 9. Dexter: Pilot; 8. Smith:
Pilot; 7. Veronica Mars: Not
Pictured; 6. Friday Night Lights: Pilot; 5. The Office: Casino
Night; 4. How I Met Your Mother: Slap Bet; 3. The Shield: Post
Partum; 2. The Wire: Final Grades; 1.Battlestar Galactica:
Exodus, Part 2. While
predictable at times (they did, however, single out the better Grey’s
Anatomys of ’06), I’m sure you’ll find something to gripe about. I
did—where the hell are ‘Devil’s Trap’ from Supernatural and House’s
third season premiere? And the out-of-left-field, blame-it-all-on-Beaver Mars
finale? Weevil, please. The full list can be found here:
From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. How
Did We Miss This One? A&E, the network that brought us Growing up Gotti,
American Justice (freaking out crime nerds since 1996), Dog the Bounty
Hunter, and reruns of The Rockford Files, greenlit the “true-life”
series The Coreys in September. The Coreys, whose full title is The
Coreys: Return of the Lost Boys is an eight-episode show about exactly what
it sounds like—if what you’re picturing sounds like Dickie Roberts: Former
Child Star meets You, Me, and Dupree. Corey “Mouth” Feldman lives a
suburban existence with his life Suzie, until “extenuating circumstances” force
Corey “Not Mouth” Haim to move with them. Hilarity, I bet, ensues. There’s no
word on when The Coreys will air or if there will be vampire-fighting
involved, but I hereby promise to keep you, the reader, up to date with the
latest news on this future Emmy nominee.
One of the reasons that Law & Order:
Special Victims Unit (or as my friend Amy calls it, “The Rape Show”)
remains top dog in the L&O multi-verse is its cavalcade of stars. This
season, we’ve already had Michael K. Williams, Bob Saget, and Kal Penn as
creepy perverts, and now, WWE “superstar” Bill Goldberg joins their ranks.
Goldberg guest stars as Cupid, a crazed convict who—no horseshit, Jack—tosses
Christopher Meloni through a window. That might not put him in the SVU Hall
O’ Fame alongside Will Arnett and Chad Lowe, but it’s close. The episode,
“Loophole,” airs February 3rd at 10 PM on NBC.
Eric “McBrightside” Roberts is joining Heroes
and its cast of thousands, reports TV.com. The brother of Julia “Not A
Horseface” will play an associate of Horned-Rim-Guy. I’ve only seen the last
five minutes of every Heroes, so I can’t tell you if he’s going to be
mysterious or not, but I’m guessing…guy might have an agenda. Heroes
returned from its winter break on Monday the 22nd, where it beat out
the Jack Bauer Power Hour (yeah, I still call it that) to win the 9:00-10:00
timeslot—although Charlie Sheen and the I-hear-its-dirty Two and a Half Men
beat them both at 9:00-9:30.
Tony Burton Slow-Mo ‘No’ News of the Day:
Universal target of nerd hate Akiva Goldsman will wr executive-produce the Fox
pilot The Cure. You know that episode of ‘Scrubs’ where Dr. Kelso
refuses to help someone sick out because of Sacred Heart’s bureaucracy and Dr.
Cox goes behind his back, cutting through all that red tape to get the patient
‘the cure’ they need? It’s like that, except executive-produced by Akiva
Goldsman.
James Badge Dale, best known to audiences as
“That other guy from The Departed,” has joined the cast of Denis Leary’s
new pilot Fort Pit. Badge plays Bobby Bonelli, a rookie NYPD cop
assigned to a Brooklyn precinct where all unconnected rookies and bad cops get
sent. (Does that mean it’s the largest precinct in New York?) Leary will
executive produce the series with his ‘Rescue Me’ buddy Peter Tolan, so I’m
guessing it’s going to be edgy, funny, and controversial. TV.com lists Fort
Pit at ABC, while Futon Critic has it at NBC. If Fort Pit makes it
to series, look for it on TV somewhere this fall.
Like the last two-and-a-half seasons of Lost
and Battlestar Galactica, The Shield is a series I’ve needed to
catch up but never had the time or inclination to. (I’m just now getting into The
Wire.) The sad thing is that, being the TV nerd that I am, I know pretty
much all the major plot twists and shockers at this point. That’s my
long-winded way of telling you FX announced a premiere date for the sixth
season premiere: Tuesday, April 3rd. Creator and executive producer
Shawn Ryan announced that the season is ten episodes long, focuses on Detective
Vic Mackey’s search for Lem’s killer, and that Forest Whitaker will return as
IA Investigator John Kavanaugh.
Speculation Alert! Patricia Heaton must have
been tired of slinging bullshit for the religious right, because she’s ‘in
discussions’ to star in Action News, a new comedy produced by 20th
Century Fox TV. Fox TV is also ‘in discussions’ with Kelsey “Hey, I was the
best thing about X-Men 3!” Grammer to play opposite Heaton in the show, which
comes from the guys who brought you Just Shoot Me and Greg the Bunny.
Guess what they’d be playing? News anchors. Fox actually gets some credit on
this one, as they’re waiting to secure Heaton and Grammer’s involvement before
shopping the project to the networks. Four men enter, one man leaves!
I wonder what Lonelygirl15 would sound like
if she was British: The International Herald Tribune reported that the BBC said
Monday it, too, was ‘in discussions’ with internet leviathan (because behemoth
was just too tiny) Google to put some of its shows on “Time’s Thing of the
Year” YouTube. Hey, if this means I can watch old seasons of Bad Girls
in the ‘privacy’ of my own home without having to pay up for BBC America, I say
go for it. (There’s an American version of Bad Girls on its way from FX
in 2008.)
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