TV News Thread

[Johnny Unusual]

NOPE!

[Johnny Unusual]

Al Pacino IS Phil Spector!

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/hJK4i_K_38E" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/hJK4i_K_38E</a>

This could actually be good, but that doesn't stop me from laughing, every time I look at Pacino in this movie.  But really, he's just being accurate.

[Mrs. Dick Courier]

Didn't NBC learn their lesson with the whole Conan/Leno thing?

Now they want to give Fallon the Tonight Show and get Howard Stern in Fallon's time slot.

[Pak-Man]

NOOOOOO! No more Clone Wars.

http://starwars.com/news/a-new-direction-for-lucasfilm-animation.html

Or at least SOME Clone Wars, but it's "Bonus Content" that won't be delivered via Cartoon Network.

[BiteMe316]

NOOOOOO! No more Clone Wars.

http://starwars.com/news/a-new-direction-for-lucasfilm-animation.html

Or at least SOME Clone Wars, but it's "Bonus Content" that won't be delivered via Cartoon Network.

Oh great. I finally find a show I might actually like and it gets cancelled.     Cartoon Network wouldn't know good shows if it jumped out in front of them, smacked them in the face, and started singing "Viva Las Vegas"!

[Sideswipe]

I would cancel the hell out of anyone who started singing Viva Las Vegas.

[Pak-Man]

Not sure if this one was Cartoon Network's fault. The speculation is that since Disney owns Star Wars, and Disney has their own network(s) for cartoons, they might not want to give those ratings to Cartoon Network anymore. Something similar happened with Transformers: Animated when Hasbro got their own TV network...

[Johnny Unusual]

Yeah, something similar happened recently when an acclaimed Darkwing Duck comic suddenly ended a while after Disney bought Marvel and started publishing through them.  It wasn't the publisher, it was the company that owned the characters.

[Pak-Man]

THAT'S what happened to my Darkwing Duck comics? Disney's on a roll lately. :^)

[Space version 2.0]

Who's Line is being revived.

From the sounds of it Mochrie, Stiles, and Brady will all be returning as the regulars, with guest comics as the fourth. The new host will be Aisha Tyler, mostly known for playing Lana on Archer. Airing this summer on CW.

[Variety of Cells]

Cool. Was never a big drew Carey fan but I used to love Who's Line.  Here's hoping Donal Glover shows up in an episode.

[Mrs. Dick Courier]

That Bates Motel looks like a good show, and it stars that super cute little Freddie Highmore, almost grown up.

Probably catch it on DVD.

[Tripe]

To quote a friend of mine:

You know what would be cool? If it were like Love Boat, and different celebrity guests get killed off each week.

The showerrrr,
Soon will be
Running red agaaaaaain.

[LucasM]

Second seasons of Continuum (April 21), and Perception ('Summer') are confirmed.  [Sorry, lost the links I found that info in long before I located this thread via posts in the 'Completely Random Thoughts' thread.]

This may not be the place for this, but since I doubt there's enough people to start a thread specifically for this show, I'll add it here since I mentioned it above:  [spoiled because I just discuss the show above that doesn't have its own thread]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I really enjoyed the first season of Perception, because so far there's been no egregious bullshit in their use of 'brain activity' as the source or explanation of the problems for which the FBI agent (a very pretty adult Rachel Leigh Cook) is active and needs the help of a neuroscientist (Eric McCormack, an old teacher and crush () of hers [I thought he looked like a good actor in 'Will and Grace', but since I can't stand sitcoms, I never was able to confirm that until this show, as I couldn't sit through more than a couple minutes of 'WaG' at any given time]).

I don't generally care for police procedural shows.  But tuned in after hearing "neuroscientist" in its description.  Some degree of reality in how the brain is portrayed may be a first for TV (obligatory plug: see my sig line for more info ).  Oh, and from my more limited exposure to such disorders, McCormack appears to do a pretty fair job of portraying a generally high functioning schizophrenic, and it is not used as comic relief (as such things have seemed to be in the past on TV), but as another layer to the difficulties faced by that character.

[Mrs. Dick Courier]

I overlooked the news about Whose Line

This news makes my day, maybe even my week!