Yep, he’s traveling through space, time, and the interwebs, inundating us in universe-expanding posts:
August 26th:
I may be extremely clever but I’m still figuring Tumblr out. I just found this fantastic old post.
“Who are we to make these decisions? We’re the media elite.” (News from The Newsroom)
I have yet to read a single review of The Newsroom that doesn’t reveal as much or more about the character of the reviewer as it does about the show itself. Although there are many (many) sins of television making of which I could accuse Aaron Sorkin, uncomplicated is not one of them.
What the hullabaloo reveals is a cultural conversation many of us are having right now, yearning for intelligence in news. Sorkin takes that conversation (not a new revelation by any means) and runs with it – and apparently (despite mixed reviews) popularly enough to garner a second season.
Hulu Brings Us the Best in Canadian TV (?!)
We want to say that’s an oxymoron but aren’t in the mood for the flak. Fingers to lips then as we read:
Why you should be watching Hulu’s creepy deal-with-the-devil series The Booth at the End – by Lauren Davis
“The Fien Print” on ABC’s NASHVILLE
Even we can enjoy a good soap. (Hey, can’t always be supercool, y’know?) And wouldn’t it be wonderful if this turned out to be just that? Gotta love the smell of betrayal in the morning! Yeah!
Take Me To The Pilots ’12: ABC’s ‘Nashville’ – by Daniel Fienberg
Another Dutch Drama Comes to U.S. TV
It’s all starting to feel so familiar. Let’s just pretend we gave our obligatory (yet heartfelt) rant about “Why aren’t you asshats buying new material instead of going for old stuff from, well, anywhere but an excited, fervid, currently functioning human brain?” and move on:
David Zabel To Adapt Dutch Drama For ABC – by Nellie Andreeva
EXCLUSIVE: With Red Widowlanding on ABC’s schedule for next season, the network has put in development another drama project based on a Dutch format. Former ER showrunnerDavid Zabel is set to write and executive produce Betrayal, a serialized drama based on the 2011 Dutch series Overspel, produced by and runs on Netherlands’ public broadcaster Vara. It centers on an unhappily married woman who begins a torrid affair with the lawyer for a powerful family. When he turns out to be the legal counsel for a murder suspect who is being prosecuted by her husband, the affair and the case begin a spiraling series of betrayals with cataclysmic results for everyone involved.