step by step-related stories
Posted Jun 18th 2009 6:07PM by Eliot Glazer
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Lost, Video, The Office, Reality-Free
Lost fanatics, rejoice! We may still have, oh, more than half a year left before we get cheerfully dumped with a load of new episodes (::drool::), but in the meantime, we have DVD's,
abc.com, repeats on
SyFy, and
YouTube!
Yes,
YouTube.
Well, technically, we can't get our fix of full episodes on "the Tubez," but the site still provides us with plenty of fodder; fan dedications, clip montages, and music videos galore. Let's face it: people love their Hurley birds, smoke monsters, and everlasting, cancer-conquering romances. And why shouldn't they?
Continue reading What if Lost were a sitcom from the nineties?
Posted Jul 26th 2008 10:02AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Psych, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S03E02) From the title, it was clear tonight's show was going to relate to
Ferris Bueller's Day Off. In fact, in true Shawn and Gus fashion, the entire John Hughes' oeuvre was mined for comic gold, as Gus was hosting the 13th high school reunion -- that's right. Not 10, but 13 years. Ironically, in 1995 there was no John Hughes movie. Never mind, the references were more '80s than '90s anyway, including
Milo and Otis, Karla DeVito, and all those Hughes movies.
Overall, there was something lacking tonight. The setting came first, Gus and Shawn's class reunion, then the case. It was like
Murder She Wrote, where Jessica Fletcher just happens to stumble onto a murder wherever she is.
It seemed an awkward arrangement. The show is better when Shawn and Gus horn in on a Santa Barbara PD case.
Continue reading Psych: Murder? ...Anyone? ...Anyone? ...Bueller?
Posted Oct 3rd 2006 8:25PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Industry
Imagine a house with three single men in their thirties taking care of one of three little girls. Now imagine all of them speaking Russian. That's the scenario taking place on Russian TV, where old American sitcoms like
Full House are being remade into new Russian-language versions. Other sitcoms that are being remade, according to
this article, are
Suddenly Susan, Step by Step, and
Perfect Strangers (yes,
Perfect Strangers. Balki is now Andrei, and he comes from a remote former Soviet Republic to move into the Moscow flat of his cousin Ivan).
If you think, though, that a local Moscow-based producer bought the rights to these series, think again. The remakes are being produced by Warner Brothers, the original U.S. producer of each show. Either WB is hurting for money or they really think foreign markets are about to explode. What's next? A Chinese version of Urkel?
[Thanks to Reb and
Dinges for the tips.]
Posted Aug 2nd 2006 10:01AM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Cable, Animation, Web
If you're a fan of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, you might find this interesting. Creator Craig McCracken is posting, in real-time, a step-by-step description of everything that goes into creating an episode of the series. You'll have to check the production blog every day to see how they're coming along. The first step, naturally, is coming up with a story idea, which Cracken says is usually based on a certain character rather than some mere "concept." I guess that's a good approach, and it seems to have worked pretty well for them so far. The blog is still pretty new, so there's not a lot of stuff on it yet, but check out the archives anyway for some cool early sketches of the characters.
Posted Mar 15th 2006 12:01PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, CBS, Daytime, Celebrities
Patrick Duffy, who starred in Dallas and Step by Step and was
once the leg of Scuzzlebutt, is coming back to
television. This time Duffy will be playing Stephen Logan on The Bold and the Beautiful. Stephen is the
father of Brooke Logan, played by Katherine Kelly Lang. Part of me wants to call this a step down for Duffy, but I
don't think he has people banging down his door these days, so I'll just say it's cool he's getting work. Besides, he's
not a bad actor. I was always impressed by his comedic talent on Step by Step, even if the show itself was
absolutely wretched.
[via BC Beat]
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