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Andy Barker P.I. coming to DVD

Posted May 1st 2009 11:03AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Late Night, TV on DVD, Reality-Free

The DVD shelves have become a heaven of forgotten shows that barely saw the light of day.

Get ready to welcome one that got less sunlight than your goth cousin gets in a year.

The Late Night Insider blog, the underground blog of the former Late Night with Conan O'Brien, reported that O'Brien and former and returning sidekick Andy Richter are recording commentary tracks for a new Andy Barker P.I. DVD.

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Darren Aronofsky brings new supernatural show to AMC

Posted Apr 8th 2008 3:23PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Industry, Programming, Reality-Free

Darren Aronofsky I think it's official now: American Movie Classics has become the new hip network to watch. And that's something that we couldn't have predicted just a couple of years ago.

After bringing the critically-acclaimed Mad Men to the network and the new series Breaking Bad (not to mention Hustle), AMC has announced that director Darren Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem For A Dream,The Fountain) is developing a new series for the cable network titled Riverview Towers, about a family that moves into an apartment complex and spooky things start to happen.

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Things I Hate About TV: It's just like a movie!

Posted Oct 16th 2006 10:35AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, OpEd, Things I Hate About TV

I hate it when a network, a star, or a producer refers to a TV show that "looks like a movie." Is this supposed to impress me? I don't really care if a TV show "looks like a movie," because I look for the actual content of the show (writing, stars, direction, etc) before I look at how it looks. Give me a good script that looks terrible and I'll take it over a formula show that looks fantastic any day.

Take Smith. The network (and more than a few TV critics and fans) kept saying it looked like watching a movie only on our TV sets. Um, yeah, only I think what people meant by this is that the cinematography in the pilot was good and it had some good explosions. Not a terrible show, but really, that's what it came down to.

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Andy Barker P.I. coming to DVD

Darren Aronofsky brings new supernatural show to AMC