Posts with tag George Michael
(S01E13) The surgery is done. The brain aneurysm is gone. But Eli's life hangs -- or hung -- in the balance. This was a very trippy episode, a term Dr. Chen uses to explain to Eli why everything seems so out of whack. By the end of the hour, I'm not sure we can say with any certainty that Eli is really back. But it sure seems that when faced with a choice of letting go or letting God, he took the latter and opened his eyes. Gallery: Eli Stone - Finale
Continue reading Eli Stone: Soul Free (season finale)
(S01E09) Boy, that George Michael cat is one helluva swell guy, isn't he? Now I'm not sure how many celebrities would feel the need to get involved in a newspaper story, but George got all Oprah and put himself out there for this girl he doesn't even know. As for how he wound up picking Eli to lawyer up and take the case? Would you believe it came to him in a vision? Maybe the case was in the vision, too.Continue reading Eli Stone: I Want Your Sex
The world of primetime TV are primarily set in the real world. The real world based on the fiction they create. So, Law and Order -- in all its incarnations -- is set in New York City, but it's not the real five boroughs. The newspapers they read are not The New York Times, the Post or the Daily News. For contemporary TV fiction, reality is on the margins of the storytelling because you can't really set those characters in a real world. However, when the two worlds intersect, the results can be magic. Here's 8 big-time, primetime examples:Gallery: Fact in Fiction
Continue reading Eight real world moments in reel TV
Continue reading Eli Stone: Father Figure
(S01E02) "I'm getting the ass end of this arrangement, man!" -- Eli Stone, concerning his role as supposed prophet.
Ah, now I see the pattern! The titles of all the first season episodes of Eli Stone will be titles or references to titles of George Michael or Wham songs. Next week's title is 'Father Figure' and the week after that it's 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go'. It also looks like each week will feature another performer, or set of performers, who sing a piece of that particular week's song. I wonder who'll they'll get to sing 'Wake Me Up' in a few weeks.
Continue reading Eli Stone: Freedom
(S01E01) "Oh, Did I mention I recently found out I could be a prophet? Yeah, I was shocked too."Continue reading Eli Stone: Pilot (series premiere)
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Via Digg comes ten YouTube clips featuring some of the most awkward television interviews ever conducted. Some of them are classic, such as Barbara Walters asking Katherine Hepburn what kind of a tree she'd like to be, but most of them are fairly recent: Michael Richards on Letterman, a seemingly spaced-out Paula Abdul, and Tom Cruise talking down to Matt Lauer. My favorite is the various clips of Mike Tyson being, well, Mike Tyson.
Continue reading Ten awkward TV interviews
First FOX said the third season of the show was going to be released in June, then they canceled that release and said that they didn't know what day the set would be released. But now it looks almost certain that the show isn't coming back, to FOX or Showtime or ABC or the web or anyplace else, so FOX is going to release the third season set on August 29.
Arrested Development star Michael Cera will chat live
at boston.com to promote
his new indie flick Darling Darling. Cera is in town for The Independent Film Festival Of
Boston.
Here's the deal, if you missed the finale of Arrested
Development Friday on FOX, well, you just aren't a true fan. Not only that, but you missed probably two of the
finest hours of TV comedy that have ever aired. I'm not sure that there was a plotline that didn't get some kind of
mention or wrap-up. Hilarious, funny, crazy, witty, comical, side-splitting, and uproarious are all terms I, and many
many others, have used to describe Arrested Development in the past, but there was one word that wasn't
mentioned enough: perfection. Arrested Development was treated like garbage by FOX. People can say what they
want about FOX giving it more time than most shows to "find its audience," but that's bull and we all know
it. Unless it's an immediate hit (with immediate gratification) networks just don't care about anything anymore (ABC's
handling of Emily's Reasons Why Not was criminal), and FOX jumped AD all over the place, putting it
on hiatus left and right, advertising showings that then disappeared, or just flat-out not advertising it at all. On
with the show!Continue reading Arrested Development: The Finale
As we all know by now, Friday is 99.9999999% more than likely
the last time any new episodes of Arrested Development will ever air on Fox. Whether or not Showtime picks it
up, I've relegated myself to the fact that this is a good thing. Fox has treated this brilliant show like garbage.
Hopefully though, we'll get an announcement sometime within the next week or two officially canceling the show, which
will then lead to an official announcement from Showtime. Well, one can hope. So to celebrate Friday's swan song, we
here at TV Squad will be having a Live Arrested Development Chat. Will George Michael and Maebe maybe
hook up? Will Lucille 2 make her triumphant return? What will become of the banana stand? I honestly don't know, but I
can't wait to see, and I hope you all join me. Check back
here on Friday at 8pm EST, it's gonna be one wild ride off into the sunset.Continue reading Arrested Development Live Chat Location
As we all know by
now, Friday is 99.9999999% more than likely the last time any new episodes of Arrested Development will ever
air on Fox. Whether or not Showtime picks it up, I've relegated myself to the fact that this is a good thing. Fox has
treated this brilliant show like garbage. Hopefully though, we'll get an announcement some time within the next week or
two officially canceling the show, which will then lead to an official announcement from Showtime. Well, one can hope.
So to celebrate Friday's swan song, we here at TV Squad will be having a Live Arrested Development Chat.
Will George Michael and Maebe maybe hook up? Will Lucille 2 make her triumphant return? What will become of the banana
stand? I honestly don't know, but I can't wait to see, and I hope you all join me. Check back here on Friday at 8pm EST, it's gonna be one wild
ride off into the sunset.
One of, if not the greatest parts of
Arrested Development is the layers their jokes have. Everytime you think they've reached the final punchline,
they throw one more at you. It's like a comedy snowball rolling downhill at you, and there's no escape. Now, I've heard
a lot of people say that one of their reasons for not watching Arrested Development is because it's too
"daunting". They haven't watched it since the beginning and they don't think they'd get it now. Well, Dave, a
buddy of mine, was over last night and had never seen a single episode. I think he laughed harder than I did. So to all
those out there that haven't give this show a chance, I give it the "Dave Dunn seal of approval", take the plunge. On
with the show!
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