SKY BLUE, WATER WET, BALDWIN STAYING ‘30’ It was the bullshit that made the internet nearly explode. Making the traditional tv talk show rounds asking America’s apologies for showing his daughter what Glengarry Glen Ross II: Blake Goes Hawaiian would look like, Alec Baldwin told the ladies of The View he wanted out of his … Continue reading
Well, that was fast. After less than three weeks on the road, Drive, the secret road-race show starring CHUD favorite Battlin’ Nathan Fillion, has been cancelled by FOX. Michael Ausiello of TV Guide ran this item in his blog, citing “multiple sources.” Official confirmation came later, with Variety reporting on its official cancellation. According to … Continue reading
Score one for the Donald, I guess. After less than a year as moderator for The View, Rosie O’Donnell is leaving the show when her contract expires in June. Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune reported that the former Queen of Nice said on the Wednesday edition of the show that, “They’re not kicking me … Continue reading
Dear Dumbass Parents of America, I don’t know how many times I have to keep saying this: Grow the fuck up. I refer to, of course, the latest article from The Washington Post, which reports that the Federal Communications Commission is ready to send the results of a study begun in 2004 on television content … Continue reading
MAYBE LILLY KANE KNOWS THE ANSWER… I got to say, the number of different stories regarding the fate of Veronica Mars (beyond getting her head smashed in by Powers Boothe, but we knew that already) don’t give me hope for the show’s fourth season. Last Friday, we ran a story where Enrico “Daddy Mars” Colantoni … Continue reading
NO TV MOVIES IN DEADWOOD? After teasing you cocksuckers that read this column with shout-outs to Deadwood and yet providing no news on the greatest show to ever fucking air on HBO (Note from God: No.), I’m pleased to finally provide you godless heathens with some news about everyone’s favorite profanely Shakespearean western. Unfortunately, it’s … Continue reading
‘LIFE’ OF ‘ASHES’ If there’s one reason I hate not having cable other than not having HBO, it’s not having BBC America. And chief among the reasons I want BBC America is so that I can see Life on Mars, the time-traveling police procedural that combines two of my favorite tastes – cops and science … Continue reading
Super-documentarian Ken Burns of Jazz, Baseball, and The Civil War, can’t win when it comes to The War. The War, Burns’s latest opus for PBS, is a 14-hour documentary about World War II, told through people from four “distinctly American communities” – Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and Luverne, Minnesota. It’s also turned out … Continue reading
MAGNUM GOES TO VEGAS Sorry, Magnum, P.I. fans – Tom Selleck isn’t donning the Hawiian shirts for a reunion movie with everyone’s favorite wisecracking Vietnam Vet. (Does anybody even do reunion movies anymore?) But the man who rocks a mustache almost as hard as Sam Elliott is contemplating a return to series tv as the … Continue reading
TERMINATOR OF ‘PAIN’ Kristanna Loken, star of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and The L Word, is going from hunting John Connor to hunting Masi Oki (but not really). Loken’s headlining the Sci-Fi Channel’s latest original series, Painkiller Jane. Based on a comic book by Joe Quesada (the guy who told us all that … Continue reading