JackBlack-related stories
Posted Oct 9th 2009 6:30PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Jay Leno
Welcome to the inaugural edition of "Leno Weekly." As you may have noticed, there were no daily reviews of
The Jay Leno Show this week. We felt that while it was important to cover the show for the first few weeks, the time for daily reviews has passed. NBC had promised that this would be a bold new comedy venture for prime-time network television. It's not.
That's not to say that it doesn't have its value or historical significance. Whether it succeeds or fails, it's still a big deal that NBC abandoned scripted television at 10pm. It's kind of like when ABC threw
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? on fourteen times a week to prop up their broken schedule a decade or so ago.
For those of you still interested in how the experiment is playing out, "Leno Weekly" will be a weekly roundup of the highlights and lowlights of Leno's primetime show, including clips. For those who don't think
The Jay Leno Show deserves any kind of coverage at all on TV Squad ... now you only have one article a week to ignore!
Continue reading Leno Weekly: Jamie Foxx, Wanda Sykes & more!
Posted Jun 10th 2009 7:27PM by John Scott Lewinski
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, TV on the Bigscreen, Casting, Reality-Free, Star Trek: Original Series
Rumors that Jack Black was headed to the next
Star Trek movie as stellar con man Harry Mudd were dismissed by director J.J. Abrams Tuesday.
Harcourt Fenton Mudd was originally played by Roger C. Carmel (right) in
Trek's 1960s series. Whether hustling beauty drugs or androids, Mudd was always looking for a quick space buck and was a humorous thorn in Captain Kirk's side.
While some sites suggested Mudd's would-be return in Abrams' next movie could prove a great opportunity for
Jack Black to come aboard the Enterprise,
Abrams denied the Black casting move.
Continue reading Jack Black not trekking to play TV's Harry Mudd
Posted Feb 1st 2009 11:50PM by Jay Black
Filed under: OpEd, The Office, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S05E13) Let me ask you a philosophical question: is it possible for a sitcom to be funny and still not be a very good episode? Technically, all a sitcom is trying to do is make you laugh; if it accomplishes that, it's hard to argue that it's a bad episode. Yet, despite above average guffawing throughout tonight's
Office, nothing about it worked that well.
The cold open perfectly encapsulates what I'm talking about. Dwight's actions officially crossed the line from odd-but-likable-doofus to dead-eyed sociopath. I get that Dwight's a little out there, but when it becomes plausible that a sitcom character might have a basement pit filled up with hitchhikers he's planning to use to make a girl-suit, you have to take pause and consider how he's being handled. That fire was stupid, unbelievable, and ridiculous.
But it was damn funny. You see my dilemma ...
Continue reading The Office: Stress Relief
Posted Dec 15th 2008 3:06PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: The Office, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free
It looks like
The Office scored a major guest-star win. Jack Black will be
appearing on the post-Super Bowl episode of the hit series. The episode revolves around a roast given by the employees to boss Michael Scott (played by Steve Carell). It is unknown as of yet what role he will play. Wouldn't it be funny if he was a Schrute? Feel free to speculate.
Usually a television appearance by a movie star is a sign that the star isn't quite as much a star as he/she once was. On the other hand both Black and Steve Carell are part of the Apatow clique, so that could be a factor in his appearance on the show.
A series doesn't get a bigger chance to shine than a Super Bowl lead-in (well, maybe
American Idol, but that's debatable). I think between the guest-star and the timeslot, we'll see
The Office bringing its A-Game to that episode. Since I'm not a sports fan, I'm looking forward to this more than the Super Bowl itself.
Posted Jul 31st 2008 9:37AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, Celebrities, Children, Reality-Free
The new season of
Sesame Street is right around the corner and, while I normally wouldn't give it a second thought, I am unusually excited right now. No, this isn't a snarky rant about how I've been driven to children's TV because of the sorry state of grown-up programming.
Sesame Street's 39th season, starting August 11th, looks like it has a lot of fun lined up not only for the pre-schoolers but parents as well. I already posted Feist's upcoming special take on "
1 2 3 4", but I had no idea how many amazing guest appearances were coming. Just check out this star-filled highlight reel after the jump.
Continue reading Sesame Street is going to be awesome - VIDEO
Posted Nov 18th 2007 11:32PM by Richard Keller
Filed under: OpEd, The Simpsons, Episode Reviews
(S19E06) "We're gonna be rich! We can finally afford to start a family!" -- Homer
"We have a family!" -- Marge
"A better one!" -- Homer
I think I have whiplash. One minute this week's The Simpsons was about the new comic book store in Springfield and the next Homer was getting his stomach stapled.
I didn't even think this was going to be a Homer-centric episode from the preview comments on the show.Heck, it didn't even seem like he was going to be on the episode at all since his first appearance was about 30 seconds before the second commercial break. When he suddenly became the focus I felt a stabbing pain in my neck.
I may have to sue.
Continue reading The Simpsons: Husbands and Knives
Posted Oct 25th 2006 10:03AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Cable, Industry, Animation, Children
Dreamworks Animation and Nickelodeon are working together to explore the possibility of creating weekly series out of two Dreamworks movies. Paul Rugg (
Freakazoid!) will write a spin-off from 2005's
Madagascar that focuses on penguins Skipper, Kowalski, Rico, and Private. Tom Martin (
The Simpsons) has been brought in to write the pilot for the series version of the upcoming
Kung Fu Panda.
Due out in May 2008,
Kung Fu Panda is the story of Po, the panda. While he is a kung fu fanatic, his body doesn't exactly lend itself to martial arts. But then events transpire that call on Po to save the day. It's like
Hero, with more fur and slapstick comedy... and pandas... starring Jack Black. How can they go wrong?
Continue reading Nickelodeon and Dreamworks teaming up
Posted Apr 23rd 2006 2:26PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Talent, Web, Celebrities
I've always found Andy Dick to be a very
talented, guy. I know, I know, a lot of people don't seem to like him, but, well, screw them.
I was checking
out his offical web site, and besides finding out about the new film he has,
Danny Roane: First Time Director
(with an impressive cast: Ben Stiller, Maura Tierney, Jack Black, James Van Der Beek, and more), I also came across an
entire page of free mp3s of songs he's written. Very entertaining. Check out
"A. Dick Theme," about all the jokes that have been made about his last name (note: some songs are rather
explicit).
Posted Feb 8th 2006 10:11AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Cable, Music and Variety, Celebrities
I'm guessing that we'll see
the
School of Rock version of Jack Black, rather than the Tenacious D version when he hosts Nickelodeon's 19th
annual
Kids' Choice Awards on April 1. I'm pretty sure
F*** Her Gently isn't considered
family-friendly. Black says of the honor, "I have a lot of secret plans for when I host the awards, but I can tell
you I'm going to bring the super-duper, freaky-deaky, ultra-clowny super dance!" That man is going to drive those
kids wild.
Voting begins on March 6 at Nickelodeon's
website. A few
nominees in the television category are after the jump, or you can check out the full list (including movies)
here.
Let's just say it ain't the Oscars. And that's OK.
Continue reading The kids, they love Jack Black
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