…Pretty surprising, actually. Especially Numero Uno. Then again, the fact that the very same film was Number One at the box office is also a shock:
Our thanks to TorrentFreak for this chart. And for proving, once again, that there ain’t no reason in the world to go to the movies unless you like pigging out on fake popcorn and pseudo butter that clogs your arteries and turns your heart to sludge, making you into the #2 most-pirated film of the week, DEAD MAN DOWN.
Bad news, fans of Rod Serling, excellence in television, and just plain coherent storytelling. Looks like J.J. Abrams, Master of the Not Fully Thought Through Obvious in Film and its partner, Not Full Thought Through Muddiness in TV, has made a deal with Rod Serling’s estate to turn Rod’s unproduced screenplay, THE STOPS ALONG THE WAY, into a TV mini-series.
To us, this is pathetic. Like entrusting a TV version of any Shakespeare play to whatever moron it is who created/writes/produces HOT IN CLEVELAND.
We miss the muppets. We mean the real muppets, with their adult humor and social commentary. The way Jim Henson used to do them, way back when. And now, after lo these many years, maybe – just maybe – we’ll get to see them again. Leave it to the BBC to be the ones to give us the shot:
by Nancy Tartaglione
BBC One has joined with The Jim Henson Company for That Puppet Game Show, a new comedy game series that has a few things in common with Henson’s original Muppet Show. The series is currently shooting and will occupy a primetime slot on Saturday nights beginning later this year. Each week, two celebrity guests – the only humans on the program – will compete head-to-head in a group of “madcap” games as they vie to win £10,000 for charity. Like The Muppet Show, which incorporated behind-the-scenes shenanigans along with the actual onstage goings-on, That Puppet Game Showwill also feature a backstage sitcom.
Viacom and Amazon.Com are hatching a nefarious plan to take over the minds of our children. Or is it their hearts? Wallets?
Yeah, that’s right, it’s all about the $$$. What’s that, you say? Our kids don’t have any money? Of course not. But we do, and good parents will do anything to make their kids happy, right…?
What the flipping hell are we talking about? Just trying to translate this press release from Amazon and Viacom. You know TVWriter™. We live to serve. Here’s the original wording:
Yessir, it’s that time of year again. The time when Dan Harmon steps into the spotlight and monopolizes the television news. How does he do this? Why does he do this? Why can’t we @!%# do this?
by Chris Willman“If any of you are a midlevel writer who doesn’t work for ‘Parks and Rec,’ let me know that you exist and I would love to hire you,” the reinstated showrunner cracks at a Los Angeles Cinefamily event.
Somebody has a lot of catching up to do on Community. And that someone is Dan Harmon, who is formalizing his deal to return for the fifth season of the series he created. On Saturday night, he admitted he hasn’t been paying any attention to the NBC comedy’s creative direction since his unceremonious exit a year ago.