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Bear Grylls vs Honey Bee
Sunday, October 11th, 2009 by CrapWait….this sounds familiar
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 by Crap‘Chuck’ producer lands Western at Fox
via THR.com
Described as an epic Western with a sci-fi twist, the show will revolve around “a gunslinger caught between worlds” and will feature a nod to “Planet of the Apes,” said Rosenbaum, who is executive producing with Wonderland’s McG and Peter Johnson. “What I’m really interested in is the revamping of the Western genre where you still have all of the iconic Western themes and iconic Western tropes but the idea is that it will feel incredibly contemporary and will introduce the Western to a whole new generation,” Rosenbaum said.
Not to criticize a potential series before it even goes into production, I find this announcement somewhat ridiculous. Off the bat, it bears striking resemblance to another recent Fox series Firefly, which was a sci-fi with Western flavorings. Its also probably worth mentioning “another” older Fox production, The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. which was conversely a Western with sci-fi flavorings. Both of which were canned prematurely.
I’m not saying its an unsuccessful formula since both works were rather incredible and sadly cut short, but how Fox could even think of doing it again and pass it off as some sort of unique “twist”.
Kristin Chenoweth on Glee (Videos)
Friday, October 2nd, 2009 by Crap
The initial pilot for Glee a few months back was good enough to get me somewhat excited. Here was a potential series that was seemingly going in the opposite direction to recent successful franchises like High School Musical, and instead actually embracing Broadway. It cast Lea Michele (Spring Awakening) in the lead role with future guest stars such as John Lloyd Young (Jersey Boys) and Kristin Chenoweth (Wicked).
Needless to say, there was a definite contemporary angle but thats a given in any circumstance. This obviously meant that although there would be Broadway renditions, the majority of the material would be popular music….much of it being less than favorable. This was fine though for the large part. If Michele’s early rendition of Rihanna’s Take A Bow was any indication, I couldn’t complain. The insertion of material like Queen and Journey was also a refreshing surprise as well.
Overall though, the personal draw for the show was its potential to serve as an outlet for Broadway stars in guest role capacities. This and possibly only this was the major reason why I found myself following a a rather dull and incredibly derivative high school melodrama. Thus I faced growing disappointment as the episodes progressed.
Bruce Campbell Asskickery…
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 by CrapAwesome rollickin’ goodness courtesy of the short-lived Jack Of All Trades back in 2000. Way over the top and beyond, much like the show itself and its key star Bruce Campbell. One-liners and sexual innuendos abundant with an over-larged dosage of pure camp.
Kitchen Confidential on Hulu
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 by Crap
Kitchen Confidential is one of the many shows Fox killed prematurely and have long since been forgotten. Forget Firefly, Arrested Development or Family Guy, the reality is that when shows get canceled that’s it. No powerful fan-bases, comic book continuations, or alternate network purchases. When a show gets canned, its completely over and its simply erased from history.
Thus its no surprise that a show that only aired four years ago and had a rather stellar cast, has seemingly been brushed aside to be forgotten. I surely never heard of it and only stumbled upon it by accident. Through my fandom for Bourdain’s program No Reservations, it came to my attention through the ever-so-useful Wikipedia, that there was a fictional TV show based around his life.
“Good Morning Rabbit” Trailer
Saturday, August 29th, 2009 by CrapI’m not entirely sure what this pilot/ potential show is about except that it involves the premise of the characters celebrating every single one of our nation’s holidays from the common to obscure. The show is being created by one Hadley Klein who was previously a consultant on The Sarah Connor Chronicles and looks like a mix between contemporary comedy fare intertwined with a Pushing Daisies-like surrealism and quirkiness.
It stars Alex Frost and Kristina Apga with an appearance by Summer Glau who was also on the Sarah Connor Chronicles. From the looks of the trailer which doesn’t reveal a smidgen of information regarding the narrative premise, it looks quite intriguing. Hopefully it does get picked up for actual broadcast as its easily one of the more unique potential shows I have yet to hear about.
Clarkson Island
Thursday, August 13th, 2009 by Crap
A great sketch from the comedy duo of Harry and Paul poking fun at Jeremy Clarkson and the way in which he hosts the show.
I actually remember seeing a clip of this very same sketch on Top Gear itself two seasons back when Harry Enfield was the “Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car“.
Warehouse 13 Premieres on the newly dubbed SyFy
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 by Crap
Yesterday saw the official transition of the Sci-Fi Channel to its newly dubbed moniker SyFy, which to some seemed like a strange move. This late in the game, a whole network name change seems to open questionable motives. People have already talked about it extensively months ago so I won’t get into the typography and what not, only that it does seemingly fit the already shifting emphasis away from “sci-fi” to a more holistic set of programming. Could be a bad or good thing really, the bad being those horrendous Sci-Fi original slasher flicks, and the good being new shows that really stretch the confines of science fiction but have no place on a more regular primetime network.
