Carrie Fisher-related stories
Posted Jun 19th 2007 11:36PM by JJ Hawkins
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, On The Lot
(S01E07) I'm pretty sure Fox has an intern whose sole job is to check the web every Wednesday morning to see what the bloggers and web magazines had to say about the previous night's episode
.
I say this because it feels like the producers take the online criticism into account and have been making little adjustments here and there to try and make the show a little bit better.
Continue reading On The Lot: The Final Personal Submissions
Posted Jun 13th 2007 1:13AM by JJ Hawkins
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, On The Lot
(S01E06) To the producer's credit, we finally have a format for this show, and it appears we're sticking with it. We also seem to have hit upon a trend with easy on the eyes but hard on the ears host Adriana Costa.
I could be wrong, but it appears her outfit gets a little skimpier every week.
If I'm right, somewhere around week 10 Fox's ratings are going to kill in this time slot since it's likely Adriana will have her outfit whittled down to a couple of squares of toilet paper held together by some fishing line.
Continue reading On The Lot: Five More Finalists Present Films
Posted Jun 6th 2007 12:52AM by JJ Hawkins
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, On The Lot
(S01E05) Tonight's show was a definite improvement over last weeks, but that's kind of like saying being forced fed one turd sandwich is better than being force fed two. At the end of the day, you're still eating a turd sandwich.
Never in my history of TV watching have I encountered a show so maligned by schizophrenia. The producers of
On The Lot know they want to find "the next great Hollywood film director," but they have absolutely no clue what the means are to reach this end.
And what's the deal with Adriana Costa. I think one of the readers mentioned that he and a friend created a drinking game that revolved around one of them taking a shot every time she botched a line.
Sadly, I received email confirmation that the both of them died of alcohol poisoning after this evening's episode.
Continue reading On The Lot: Five Finalists Present Their Films
Posted Jun 1st 2007 3:08PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Programming, On The Lot
Fox has apparently responded to the lackluster ratings of its new reality series,
On the Lot, by trimming down the number of episodes. Instead of airing on two nights each week, the network is going to condense its unreasonably long
results show with its competition for a single, one-hour installment each week.
The change is effective immediately:
On the Lot will only be seen on Tuesdays at 8 pm starting June 5. There will still be a two-night finale on August 13-14.
The schedule change will also cause a shift in the schedule for the remaining episodes of
The Loop. Now The Loop will not appear on Tuesdays, will air twice on Sundays at 7:30 and 8:30 pm on June 24 and July 1.
Posted May 29th 2007 11:52PM by JJ Hawkins
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, On The Lot
(S01E04) This may go down as the longest hour of TV in the history of TV. Tonight's episode was only an hour long, but it felt more like thirteen thanks to the lame effort to
American Idolize the show with all the awkward pauses and the "we'll tell you right after the break" nonsense.
It probably sounds strange for a guy who practically typed a novel during yesterday's review to be criticizing the length of anything, but what else could I do? There were still 24, pardon me, 18 contestants left, and I couldn't very well not talk about someone's film. It'd be like the producers of this show completely leaving out an episode. Things like that just shouldn't happen.
Anyhow, I guess there's no real reason for me to stretch this out any more than it needs to be. I'll tell you who got cut, but we're going to have to wait...until...after...you...click..the...jump.
Continue reading On The Lot: 3 Directors Voted Off
Posted May 29th 2007 1:19AM by JJ Hawkins
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, On The Lot
(S01E03) New host, new show format, and a new time slot on a new night. If I didn't recognize the judges and the directors, I wouldn't have even realized I was watching
On The Lot this week.
Call me crazy, but they should have gone with this
American Idol like format from the get go. After watching tonight's episode, the shows from last week feel even more disjointed from the series.
I'm afraid that the plodding, "me-too-reality-show" that was portrayed last week probably turned more people off the show than anything. It's a shame too, because this week the pace really started picking up, and we got to see what the show truly has to offer.
Namely, a great bunch of films from a great bunch of directors. Well, mostly great films from mostly great directors. Click on for a walk through of 18 one-minute comedy shorts from 18 good and not so good up-and-coming directors.
Continue reading On The Lot: 18 Directors Compete
Posted May 23rd 2007 12:15AM by JJ Hawkins
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, On The Lot
(
S01E01) I'm a reality TV junkie, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. Well, almost not afraid to admit it.
If I were to compile a list of all the reality shows I've watched you'd find some real stinkers on it (*cough*
Temptation Island), but I can't say I could include a single Mark Burnett produced series in the bunch.
Although
On the Lot got off to slow start, I really see some potential in the show and think it's going to be another bona fide hit in the realm of
Survivor and
The Apprentice.
Why you ask? Because it takes all the things we like about the aforementioned shows (i.e. the competitiveness, the warring type A personalities, the bitchiness, and the everyman appeal of the contestants) and wraps it around a topic most of us have more than a passing interest in - movies.
Continue reading On the Lot: A Hollywood Style Pitch Meeting (season premiere)
Posted May 22nd 2007 6:01PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Late Night, TV Royalty, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show
Charlie Rose: Antonio Guterres, Jimmy Wales, and Erica Wagner - The Daily Show: Margaret Spellings
- The Colbert Report: John Amaechi
- The Late Show With David Letterman: Seth Rogan, Charles Barkley, and Michael Martin Murphey
- Jay Leno: Demi Moore, Judd Apatow, Ziggy Marley, and Angelique Kidjo
- Jimmy Kimmel Live: Jorge Garcia and the winner of Dancing with the Stars
- Tavis Smiley: Michael Yates and Ian Somerhalder
- Late Night With Conan O'Brien: Amy Sedaris and Loudon Wainwright III
- The Late, Late Show With Craig Ferguson: Carrie Fisher, Naomi Harris, and Nathan Gibson
- Last Call With Carson Daly: John Salley and Emily Haines
Posted Dec 12th 2006 7:44PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, ABC, OpEd, Video, Web
Where were you on November 17, 1978? If you were alive (I keep forgetting how young some of our readers are), you were probably in front of the one TV in your house, with your family, waiting on pins and needles for the evening news to end. Why? Because ABC was about to air the highly-anticipated show
The Star Wars Holiday Special, that's why. Most of us had seen the blockbuster
Star Wars about a dozen times by then, and we were looking forward to seeing our favorite characters in an all-new adventure!
Unfortunately, it stunk. It stunk so bad that, according to
IMDb, George Lucas tried to buy up all master copies of the show so it would never be shown again. And it hasn't; its only broadcast was on 11/17/78. It's never been released on home video, either. Bootlegs of the show have been floating around for decades, but have been hard to find.
But now, thanks to our old friend YouTube, you can now watch the entire special, which has been broken up into 10 parts. Part one is after the jump; click
here to go to the YouTube page for it, where you'll see the other parts in the "Related" section.
Continue reading Watch the entire Star Wars Holiday Special on YouTube - VIDEO
Posted Nov 30th 2006 6:04PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, HBO, Industry, Celebrities
Meg Ryan
will play the role of Carrie Fisher in a mini-series for HBO. The series is an adaptation of Fisher's novel, The Best Awful, which is semi-autobiographical and fictionalizes many of the events in Fisher's life. The main character is Suzanne Vale, a bi-polar actress who marries a studio executive who leaves her and their three-year old daughter for another man. She's also the daughter of a former Hollywood starlet and is addicted to drugs and alcohol. The novel chronicles her mental breakdown and eventual build-up to a somewhat stable life. It seems like a good fit, since Meg Ryan does 'crazy' characters pretty well.
Carrie Fisher is writing the small screen adaptation of her novel, which is considered a sequel to Postcards From the Edge. Fisher and Ryan are producing the project, along with Bruce Cohen and Richard LaGravenese, the duo who produced
American Beauty and ABC's upcoming thriller series,
The Traveler.
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