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Posted Nov 16th 2007 11:33PM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, Episode Reviews, The Next Great American Band
(S01E05) Well, that was a bit of a shocker tonight, eh? Who would have thought that Dicko would propose marriage to the lead singer of Dot Dot Dot? I surely didn't see that coming, did you?
Okay, I'm lying. I just don't want to mention the band voted out before the jump in case folks reading the main TV Squad page recorded
The Next Great American Band for viewing at a later time. Then people would be yelling at me and I'm sensitive, y'know. But I can't have blank white space here, so I should say something.
Read on for the lowdown on the tonight's episode ...
Continue reading The Next Great American Band: Episode 5
Posted Nov 3rd 2007 12:52AM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, Episode Reviews, The Next Great American Band
(S01E03) The field of bands narrowed by two tonight on
The Next Great American Band. So, we're down to ten bands who specialize in various genres. I'm not sure how much I enjoyed the way they did the reveal of the two bands going home. It seemed a bit needlessly cruel, kind of like cruel and unusual punishment.
Each band sang prepared and rehearsed one of their original songs and then a song from the vast array of Elton John and Bernie Taupin numbers. The bands were called out one by one to perform. If they performed, they had made the cut for the week. The two bands who didn't make it had to go through all the rehearsals and sit foolishly and uncomfortably waiting, the camera panning them throughout the show, until the very end. When it was down to three bands, poof.
Continue reading The Next Great American Band: Episode 3
Posted Aug 26th 2007 8:03AM by Adam Finley
Filed under: The Simpsons, Animation, Adult Swim, Celebrities, Children, Pickups and Renewals
Here's some animation news from the last few days:
First, both Care Bears and Strawberry Shortcake are coming back to television as part of a new Saturday morning animation block on CBS called KEWLopolis. Care Bears: Adventures in Care-A-Lot and Strawberry Shortcake join brand new series Sushi Pack and Dino Squad. Returning shows include Cake, Horseland, Sabrina and Trollz.
Tom Ruegger and Nicholas Hollander (Tiny Toons, Animaniacs) are behind Sushi Pack, about a gang of crime-fighting sushi. The characters are vaguely fish-like, which is odd since "sushi" refers to rice, and not fish. I guess animated rice isn't that interesting.
Continue reading Animation news: Care Bears and Strawberry Shortcake return, a bluegrass Simpsons tribute, an Astro Boy movie, and more
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