Ah, DARIA! Of course it’s back. One of the best animated shows in the history of TV. With Daria herself the progenitor of our entire population of hipster chicks. (That’s right, even before Katy Perry.)
But are new episodes coming?
Month: June 2012
No! No! Aaron Sorkin is a God, We Tell You! A %$#@ God!
Okay, so maybe some people disagree a little.
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‘The Newsroom’ Review: Aaron Sorkin’s New HBO Show Gets Almost Everything Wrong
This job shouldn’t be this easy. But Aaron Sorkin’s “The Newsroom” (premieres Sunday, June 24 at 10 p.m. ET on HBO) offers such a target-rich environment that the phrase “shooting fish in a barrel” does spring to mind.
The biggest problem with “The Newsroom” — and it’s one of many, many problems — is that its goals and its narrative strategies are in direct conflict with each other. The result is a dramatically inert, infuriating mess, one that wastes a fine cast to no demonstrable purpose, unless you consider giving Sorkin yet another platform in which to Set the People Straight is a worthwhile purpose.
munchman: We Refuse to Make “Pan Am is Grounded” Jokes
…Instead we’re leaving that to the outstanding professionals at the Huffington Post.
‘Pan Am’ Canceled: ABC Series Officially Grounded
“Pan Am” is officially dead. Sony was attempting to get “Pan Am” a new home after ABC canceled the low-rated series, but the revival failed to take off.
In a letter to World Wings International, a non-profit organization of former Pan Am flight attendants, Nancy Hult Ganis, a former Pan Am flight attendant and executive producer on the ABC series, made the announcement.
Two New Shows We’ll Watch
…until we realize that they aren’t giving us anything they promised.
Stick with us on this. It’s the only way you won’t be disappointed.
Aaron Sorkin Puffs Up Aaron Sorkin
…but it’s okay because he’s teaching us something, see?
How to Write an Aaron Sorkin Script, by Aaron Sorkin
by AARON SORKIN
A song in a musical works best when a character has to sing— when words won’t do the trick anymore. The same idea applies to a long speech in a play or a movie or on television. You want to force the character out of a conversational pattern. In the pilot of The Newsroom, a new series for HBO, TV news anchor Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels) emotionally checked out years ago, and now he’s sitting on a college panel, hearing the same shouting match between right and left he’s been hearing forever, and the arguments have become noise. A student asks what makes America the world’s greatest country, and Will dodges the question with glib answers. But the moderator keeps needling him until…snap.
