onion av club-related stories
Posted Jun 9th 2006 11:44AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Talent, Programming, OpEd, Web
I've always wondered how the
Onion A.V. Club comes up with their off-the-wall Inventory lists. Do they come up with the concepts in editorial meetings, or do the writers just individually conjure these lists off the tops of their heads,
like we do? Either way, some of the categories they come up with are funny and conversation-worthy to say the least.
Case in point: this week, the
A.V. Club folks list
"13 Memorably Unpopular Characters from Popular TV", and the list is right-on-target: I mean, who didn't hate Cousin Oliver, or pull the hairs out of their nose every time Scrappy-Doo came on the screen? Urkel also makes the list, although there are about 133 people
who may dispute that claim. Even the choice of Dawn Summers is spot-on, as I confirmed with our resident
Buffy-phile,
Keith, this morning. Those
Onion guys can come up with some pretty good lists. They're almost as good as
ours.
Posted Mar 29th 2006 9:14PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, Late Night, TV Royalty, Programming, OpEd, Music and Variety, The Office
The
scamps over at The Onion's
A.V. Club have come up with
an
interesting list of eight projects that were destined to be disasters but ended up being successes. Most of the
list consists of movies like
Titanic, Apocalypse Now, and even the Steve Martin version of
The Pink
Panther. But they also include two TV projects in the mix: the American version of
The Office and...
Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
Now, the low expectations for the US
Office were well
documented. But all you young'uns out there might not remember the "Who the hell is Conan?" stories that were
all over the news when O'Brien took the
Late Night job in 1993. Also, the first few months of the show were...
uh... let's just say they were less than stellar.
Continue reading Conan and The Office: "Disasters" that made it
Posted Jan 25th 2006 8:28PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Sports, Cable, Premium Cable, Industry, Programming, OpEd
Today was a very good day for the
Onion A.V. Club.
Not only do they have a great interview with
Stephen Colbert, but they
also list their twelve (or, in this case, XII)
favorite Super Bowl
highlight reels. You know the ones I'm talking about; they're the ones produced by NFL Films that ESPN used to show
in order right before the current Super Bowl kicks off. This year, they'll be showing Supes I through XXXVIII in order
on ESPN Classic from Saturday, 2/4, from 3 AM until 11 PM, then ESPN2 shows I through XXXIX out of order from 11 PM
on Saturday, 2/4, until 6 PM on Sunday, 2/5 (ESPN will have a five hour (!) pre-game show on Sunday, from noon to
5 PM).
Continue reading Onion A.V. Club picks its favorite Super Bowl highlight films
The TV Squad Podcast: Vik Sahay of Chuck, Oprah talk, brutal timeslots, and more!
TV Squad Ten: Top Ten ESPN shows from worst to first
Andy Richter: The TV Squad Interview
