boondocks-related stories
Posted Jun 9th 2008 6:03PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV on DVD, Reality-Free
Here are the new TV DVDs, in stores tomorrow.
- Army Wives - Season 1
- Bleach - Season 1 (Uncut)
- The Boondocks - Season 2
- Broken Trail - Complete Miniseries
- Comedy Central Home Grown
- Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 3
- The Dukes of Hazzard - Movie Collection
- Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes - Season 1
- The Fugitive - Season 2, Vol. 1
- Hawaii Five-0 - Season 4
- Home Improvement - Season 8
- The Incredible Hulk - When Monsters Meet
- Into Alaska - Collection 1
- John Adams - Complete Miniseries
- McLeod's Daughters - Season 6
- My Boys - Season 1
- The Odd Couple - Season 4
- 7th Heaven - Season 6
- Soap - Complete Series
- TekWar - TekWar
- What's Happening - Complete Series
Posted Apr 27th 2007 1:29PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Animation, Web, Adult Swim, Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Here's what's coming up on Adult Swim:
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, as mentioned previously, has received an order for thirty new episodes.
Moral Orel has also been picked up for a third season (which I already knew, but I was sworn to secrecy until it was officially announced). Also, the latter half of the second season kicks off this Sunday.
Continue reading Adult Swim news: what to look forward to
Posted Nov 29th 2006 12:50PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Industry, Celebrities
More Michael Richards fall-out. Esteemed comedian and writer
Paul Mooney has called for an end to the use of the "N word." This is big deal because Mooney is an entertainment legend known for his own liberal use of the word. He wrote for
Sanford & Son,
Saturday Night Live,
Good Times and
In Living Color. He was Richard Pryor's writing partner and has worked closely with Spike Lee and Dave Chappelle. He appears in the "Negrodamus" and "Ask a Black Man" sketches on
The Chappelle Show. Seriously, the guy is huge. If you ever have a chance to catch his stand-up act in the clubs, you should. The man has seen it all.
Continue reading Comedian Paul Mooney gives up the "N word"
Posted Oct 25th 2006 2:02PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Programming, Animation, Adult Swim, Anime, The Venture Bros.
This is why Zeus created the DVR, animation lovers. According to an updated schedule grid, Adult Swim has a few marathons planned for the month of December. Fans of Bleach, Metalocalypse (ROCK!!!), Squidbillies, Robot Chicken, Venture Brothers and Boondocks pay heed, cause here's what's being served up:
On Christmas, gather the family around the television for a fifteen-episode, out of order Venture Brothers marathon beginning at 10:30 pm.
On December 26th, a marathon of episodes one through fifteen of The Boondocks begins at 10:30 pm.
Robot Chicken marathon on December 27: Episodes ten through forty starting at 10:30 pm.
Squidbillies marathon: Episodes one through twenty, then a repeat of episodes one through ten, starting at 10:30 pm on December 28.
Bleach marathon: Episodes one through fourteen kicking off at 11 pm on December 30.
Metalocalypse marathon: Episodes one through twenty, followed by a repeat of episodes one through twelve, starting at 10 pm on December 31.
Posted Jul 25th 2006 6:00PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV on DVD
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius - Jimmy Timmy Power Hour 3 - All Creatures Great and Small - Series 3
- Animaniacs - Volume 1
- The Boondocks - Season 1
- Chappelle's Show - Lost Episodes
- Dark Shadows - DVD Collection 3
- JAG - 1st season
- La Femme Nikita - 4th season
- Miami Vice - Seasons 1 and 2
- Pinky and the Brain - Volume 1
- Punky Brewster - Season 3
- Rawhide - 1st season
- Tales From the Crypt - 4th season
- Three's Company - 7th season
Posted Jul 14th 2006 6:09PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Cable, Animation
Denys Cowan is a comic book artist who worked on comics for such DC characters as Spider-Man, Batman, The Question, and Steel, but lately he's been holding down a job as Vice President of Animation at BET. Newsarama's Daniel Robert Epstein recently spoke to Cowan about what exactly BET has in store as far as animated offerings, and what might be expected down the road. Cowan, as some of you may know, was also a producer for Boondocks during the show's first season, and was largely responsible for getting it on the air. Apparently, however, things did not end smoothly and Cowan refuses to speak about his time on the show. At least, he refuses to go into it with any great detail. Cowan hopes BET is able to use animation the way MTV used it in the 90s, and considering his background in comic books, I could definitely see that happening.
[via ToonZone]
Posted Jul 14th 2006 11:05AM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Programming, Animation, Adult Swim
The second season of
Boondocks was supposed to kick off
later this year, but that's no longer the case. Don't worry fans, the show is still coming back for a second season, but creator Aaron McGruder says production is taking longer, and that they're simply trying to make this season look better than last season. In other words, there's no bitter contract disputes or any kind of in-fighting going on, McGruder just wants the show to look good. Waiting can be a bummer, but it sounds like once the new season begins in March of 2007, it'll be well worth the wait for fans of the series. Oh yeah, and instead of fifteen new episodes, the network has ordered twenty. Until then, I guess we'll just have to enjoy the
DVD.
Posted May 19th 2006 4:01PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: TV on DVD, Animation, Adult Swim
As I
mentioned in April, the first season of
The Boondocks, uncut and uncensored, will be out in June. Well, apparently I lied. Okay, I didn't really lie, but the release date has been pushed back over a month to
July 25. Actually, I'd be interested to know if anyone watches this show. I checked it out when it debuted, and while I think individual episodes were okay, the show never seemed to leave me with any reason to keep checking back in. If I serendipitously catch it while surfing the channels, I'll stop and watch it, but it's not a show I actually make a point to watch. It has become one of those shows I can admire even if personally it leaves me a bit cold. Should I give it another chance?
Posted Apr 5th 2006 12:35PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: TV on DVD, Animation, Adult Swim
The first season of The Boondocks, the Adult Swim
series based on Aaron McGruder's comic strip about a black kid and his younger brother moving out of Chicago's inner
city to live with their grandpa in the suburbs, is coming out on DVD on June 13. The fifteen episodes of the season
will be shown uncut and uncensored. Also, the disc will include French subtitles, an addition I felt was sorely missing
from the original airings. How do you say "white people are crazy" in French, anyway? I've forgotten all the
French I learned in high school. Seriously, though, this new set sounds pretty cool, and I like the idea of seeing
these episodes in all their raw, uncensored glory, which means I'll probably buy the set despite not always watching the
show.
McGruder may provide audio commentary on some episodes, though if I'm reading TVSODVD's piece correctly, that's not official just
yet.
Posted Mar 8th 2006 12:58PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Animation, Adult Swim, Celebrities
When Adult Swim picked up
The Boondocks, the series based on Aaron
McGruder's comic strip of the same name, McGruder pretty much abandoned the strip in order to focus all his energy on
his new animated series. He continued to write the strip, but hired an artist to draw it. Now McGruder has backed away
completely and announced he's taking a six-month vacation from the strip. It seems as if McGruder is slowly setting his
original creation aside, and that's to be expected, since the daily grind of trying to churn out a comic strip coupled
with the work involved in producing a cartoon series would be enough to drive anyone insane. My only request for
McGruder is that if the strip becomes too much for him to handle, he tastefully retire it and direct all his energy
toward the show. I'd rather see that than what happened to Garfield, a strip now created by a corporation that Jim
Davis simply slaps his name on. McGruder seems to work best when all his energy and vitriol is focused on one thing. If
that "one thing" is his TV series, so much the better. If he tries to sparse it out between the strip and the
series, they'll both suffer for it eventually.
Posted Mar 5th 2006 4:00PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming
As if you didn't know, ABC has The Oscars tonight. Jon Stewart hosts the show,
starting at 8 (ABC has the red carpet arrivals at 7, while E! has coverage starting about 35 hours before the
show).- There's other stuff on tonight too: CBS has a new 60 Minutes at 7, followed by repeats of
Criminal Minds, Cold Case, and CSI.
- NBC has a new two hour Dateline at
7, followed by repeats of Law and Order: CI and Crossing Jordan.
- FOX has a new
Malcolm at 7, followed by Bad Boys II.
- AMC has the original movie version of
MASH at 8.
- TMC has Barbershop 2 at 8, while FLIX has 1967's How I Won The
War.
- Also at 8: TBS is showing Scary Movie 3 a couple of times, while ABC Family has
Cruel Intentions (ABC Family?!?).
- At 9, you can catch a repeat of The Apprentice
premiere on CNBC, if you missed it a few nights ago.
- Also at 9: Food Network has a new Iron Chef
America.
- At 10, MSNBC repeats this morning's Meet The Press.
- Also at 10:
Showtime has a new ep of The L Word, while FLIX has A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The
Forum.
- At 11, Cartoon Network has a new The Boondocks.
- And after your local
news, there will be a special live edition of Jimmy Kimmel Live on ABC, with Jon Stewart, Quentin Tarantino,
and Johnny Knoxville.
Posted Jan 30th 2006 10:08AM by Adam Finley
Filed under: OpEd, Animation, Adult Swim
If ya'll have been digging
The Boondocks, you'll be happy to know that a
brand new season will be kicking off
later
this year. Adult Swim has bought twenty new episodes of the series. I haven't quite made up my mind about the show,
though I did go into it with high hopes. Several episodes have been brilliant, but others have left me cold. What keeps
me from dismissing the show entirely is that it's the only show of its kind out there right now, and, being an animated
program, it's able to get away with saying some of the stuff it does. It's as if I'm drawn more to what the show stands
for than the show itself. That's admirable in it's own way, but it doesn't always make for the best television. I never
walk away from an episode of
The Boondocks unmoved, but I don't always walk away entertained. What keeps me
from turning my back on it completely is those moments when the show proves it's capable of doing both.
Posted Jan 25th 2006 5:14PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Cable, Animation, Celebrities
A recent episode of
The Boondocks cartoon rubbed Reverend Al Sharpton the wrong way. The episode,
called
The Return of the King, featured an animated Martin Luther King, Jr. using the "n"-word. The
story has King being named a traitor and terrorist sympathizer for his non-violent response to the September 11th
attacks. It aired on January 15, the night before the MLK holiday. I didn't see the episode, so I can't tell you
exactly how the "n"-word was used.
Sharpton is demanding that Cartoon Network apologize and pull
any episodes "that desecrate black historic figures." Cartoon Network released a statement (not an apology),
defending
Boondocks creator Aaron McGruder. The Network said, "We think Aaron McGruder came up with a
thought-provoking way of not only showing Dr. King's bravery but also reminding us of what he stood and fought
for."
Posted Jan 11th 2006 1:28PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Cable, Industry, Programming, OpEd
Black Entertainment Television (BET) has struggled ever since its inception to be seen as a
legitimate, and reputable, source of entertainment and information for the black community. It's most fatal flaw, in my
non-expert opinion, was that rather than filling timeslots with quality black programming, it filled its schedule with
ANY black programming. The network has been panned by critics for perpetuating stereotypes and putting way too much
focus on music videos and other shows that glamorize materialism and exploit women. Hiring Reginald Hudlin as president
of entertainment and chief programmerseems tohave been a step in the right direction. Hudlin helmed such movies as
House Party and
Boomerang, helped bring
The Boondocks to television, and directed episodes
of
The Bernie Mac Show and
Everybody Hates Chris. More recently,
according to Aaron Barnhart, BET insiders
planted questions in the audience at an event in Pasadena. Barnhart, rightfully so, felt that was more than a
little tacky. That's true, but at the same time it shows that BET knows how to play the game. Perhaps it will finally
become the channel it should have been all along, and if it has to play by the dubious rules of the television industry
to do so, I say right on.
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