SeasonSix-related stories
Posted Aug 20th 2009 2:46PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Food/Home/DIY, OpEd, Episode Reviews
(S06E01) The producers of
Top Chef must have listened to the criticism from the last edition of the show, the one set in New York with the contestants housed in Brooklyn. Despite being in perhaps the most exciting culinary city in the world,
TC-NY was pedestrian. Well,
Top Chef season six, is in Las Vegas and judging by the premiere, the stakes -- as they said a few times -- have been set very high. The round-up of players was filled with James Beard awardees, Michelin star cooks, people who have restaurants already... and a couple of others who have something to prove.
Continue reading Top Chef: Las Vegas (season premiere)
Posted Jul 30th 2009 6:01PM by Michael Pascua
Filed under: OpEd, Grey's Anatomy, Reality-Free
Season six of
Grey's Anatomy is going to be odd. Getting past the fact that T.R. Knight isn't coming back, Ellen Pompeo is pregnant.
Shonda Rhimes has mentioned that Meredith will not get pregnant to coincide with Ellen so we'll either get
How I Met Your Mother-esque bump hiding, or Meredith will disappear for a while.
The only Grey left is Lexie Grey, Meredith's half-sister. Although her relationship with Mark is interesting to watch, could she carry the show's title albeit temporarily?
Continue reading Would you watch Lexie Grey's Anatomy?
Posted Jul 8th 2008 10:03AM by Richard Keller
Filed under: The Simpsons, Video, Retro Squad, Reality-Free, Cheers
Do not adjust your web browser. You are now entering the Retro Squad, where we are reviewing past episodes of classic TV shows.
Even when it isn't at its greatest (which, for many fans, hasn't been since season 10) The Simpsons has still provided some great parodies of classic movies and television programs. For instance, in the season four episode "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie" they did a great parody of the Star Trek movie franchise with Star Trek XII: So Very Tired. I still crack up everytime I see the scene where the severely obese Scotty is telling an aged Captain Kirk that he can't push the warp engines any further.
Continue reading Cheers: The Animated Series - VIDEO
Posted Apr 10th 2007 11:15PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: OpEd, The Shield, Episode Reviews
(S06E02) As I was watching this episode I couldn't help but think how ironic it was how Kavanaugh went out of his way to make Mackey look sloppy, when I think Kavanaugh was being the sloppy one all along. How long could he keep up that charade? How long could he keep Amoya under his control and not looking incredibly suspicious?
Meanwhile, as Kavanaugh continues his witch hunt against Mackey (it does feel like a witch hunt, doesn't it?), Vic continued a witch hunt of his own. Though Vic was into being the judge and jury, Kavanaugh was just playing judge.
Continue reading The Shield: Baptism By Fire
Posted Mar 28th 2007 11:04AM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, The Shield, FX, Early Looks
Recently Jonathan and I got on the phone with
The Shield's Walton Goggins, but if you
read the interview you'll note we hadn't yet seen the first six episodes released to the press. Having now seen those episodes, I think our line of questioning would have been quite different.
Continue reading The Shield season six -- An early look
Posted Feb 15th 2007 9:03AM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, The Shield, Video, Web, FX
Jonathan
mentioned a few weeks ago that Bud TV would be debuting a sort of "bridge episode" of
The Shield. The 15-minute short is
now available for viewing on the site, and after viewing it I'd say it plays a lot more like the first fifteen minutes of the new season premiere.
For those who are sad to see Lem gone from the series, this short video will only make you hate what Shane did with even more passion. Read on for a short rundown of what goes on in the video (image to the right is a little teaser for you).
Continue reading The first fifteen minutes of The Shield's new season
Posted Jan 5th 2007 4:03PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: FOX, Family Guy, Animation
Two and a half months ago, when negotiations between 20th Century Fox and Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane reached a standstill, the writers for the series were told not to report to work. According to Variety, the suits at 20th Century Fox didn't want to stop production midway because a deal was never solidified, despite the fact MacFarlane's contract wasn't up for several months.
Continue reading Production begins on sixth season of Family Guy
Posted Dec 4th 2006 4:51PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, HBO, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Celebrities
Vivica A. Fox will be joining the cast of Curb Your Enthusiasm for the show's sixth season, which kicks off next year. According to Hollywood Reporter, there's not much information, though information points to Fox playing the member of a black family who moves into the David's home after a natural disaster. So there you go, Vivica A. Fox will be playing a black woman, and frankly, I couldn't be happier. I was starting to grow tired of seeing her constantly playing an elderly Chinese man.
The storyline is meant to spoof the events of Hurricane Katrina, as well as race relations. I imagine we can look forward to Larry saying something incredibly inappropriate. The article doesn't mention whether Fox's character will stay on the show or whether she'll only be part of this specific storyline.
Posted Apr 10th 2006 10:41AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, Scrubs
The future of
Scrubs
seemed a little iffy earlier this season, when NBC shelved it until after the New Year.
Scrubs creator Bill
Lawrence and star Zach Braff talked
a
lot about how the entire staff went
whole
hog because they thought this might be the last season, and how they could end up
on ABC if NBC doesn't want them anymore. He sort-of
says it in this
New
York Times article, but Bill Lawrence
flat-out told E! that he's confident
Scrubs will have a season six, whether it's on NBC or ABC. And, it's probably not leaving NBC any time
soon.
Scrubs' ratings have been admirable so far this season (since new episodes started airing in
January). Until
American Idol started, it was averaging 8 million viewers a night. Those numbers are down, but
still impressive. And,
Scrubs is doing well that that key demographic: 18-49 viewers.
I guess
Scrubs will be around long enough for us to find out the
name of Turk and Carla's baby!
[Thanks,
Nawfal!]
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