…Yep, we wanted Peggy Bechko back so badly that we couldn’t wait for her next contribution and swiped this baby right off Peggy’s wonderful blog:
Hey, you, are you working too much?
Yep, you. Yes, I know, you’re working a job and you just have to write so you have to juggle both and that means working…a lot.
Remember the early days of HOUSE, when Jesse Spencer was cute? And almost cool? Well, that’s all over now, baby.
And so is CHICAGO FIRE, at least in the munchman abode. Even My Girlfriend has had enough.
Or to put it another way:
…But it isn’t any kind of gender bias that keeps them from getting it, it’s just that, well, let’s face it…if there’s one thing the networks have proved over the last 50 years it’s that they pretty much don’t get anything.
Network TV Attempts To Figure Out Modern Feminism, Might Just Be on to Something – by Alyssa RosenbergTelevision is a trend-driven business:Bridesmaids does well and suddenly, everyone’s looking for funny women, Modern Family is a hit, and suddenly, multicamera comedies are in and single-camera comedies are out. Most of the time, these trends are big, broad attempts to chase increasingly rare success stories. But this year, network TV, in its own halting way, is going after something a little more unusual: network TV is trying to figure out modern feminism.
The first attempt was Next Caller, a sitcom starring Dane Cook that NBC put into production to start airing in the midseason. On the surface, the show’s premise is disastrous: Cook was set to play Cam, the host of a shock-jock satellite radio show called Booty Calls, who’s paired with a feminist co-host, Stella (Collette Wolfe), promoted from a local NPR station to the big time because, as his boss (Jeffrey Tambor) puts it “Your show sucks and your ratings are garbage.” But apparently NBC lost faith in the concept, which many of my fellow critics hated in the first place—the network canceled Next Caller before it even assigned the sitcom a time slot for January.
…No matter what our elementary school teachers said:
There is no denying it, whether at work, school, or in everyday life, we often encounter situations where thinking outside the box is necessary. It’s also true that sparks of insight can be somewhat hard to pin down. You just never know when creative thought will arise.
Hmm, dude cuts quite the jaunty figure in these shots, doesn’t he?
New York Comic Con was quite the experience. I ran into several dozen snappy dressers and oddly enough, some TARDIS and Dalek impersonators. What a strange day.