munchman: NBC Pulls ANIMAL PRACTICE Off the Air

…Just when I was almost psyched up enough to make myself watch an episode.

Yep, NBC has cancelled the show without calling it a cancellation because network executives are, you know, cowardly bags of brainless shit rotting vegetation. Taking its time slot will be WHITNEY, as of November 14th when it premieres for its second season.

Till that date, NBC will play off a few more ANIMAL PRACTICE eps so anybody who hasn’t already flooded on Crystal the monkey can still do so. read article

“Something Awful” Weighs on on the 2012 Fall Season

…And the analysis actually seems…fair. As in even-handed, not “meh.” We’d never use “meh” to describe SomethingAwful.Com’s POV.

New TV Show Roundup For Fall 2012! – by Dennis Farrell

Most of the Fall’s new shows are underway, with a few stragglers premiering in the coming weeks. This year’s batch has enough promising ideas and spectacular failures to suit anyone’s taste. Well, just about anyone’s taste. There still isn’t a reality series documenting Terry Gilliam’s ongoing efforts to make a Don Quixote movie. Until there is such a show, television will not be complete.

Still, there are plenty of new shows to consider. read article

BET Co-Founder: “…we squandered a really important cable network….”

Aw, she’s just saying this because she can:

(Caution: Major Boldface type follows. Not our fault:)

BET Co-Founder Sheila Johnson Goes Off On The Network…Again – by Sergio (IndieWire)

She’s done it before and now she’s done it again. That is, BET co-founder Sheila Johnson criticizing the very network that she created with her former husband, Bob Johnson. read article

The Hudsonian Sees PARTNERS

by Josh Hudson

This new CBS comedy originally aired on September 24, 2012. Considering the time slot, it was a rather dismal ratings performance. Much like the acting and the writing.

4 people, 3 couples. That’s the unofficial tagline of this show. If you can’t read between the lines, I’ll translate: read article

Adult Swim Makes Our Day

‘Cuz not only do we love the show, we have friends hard at work on it! Yay, friends! (Taking us out for dinner soon?)

This has been on for 6 seasons already? Gulp…

Adult Swim Renews ‘Robot Chicken’ for Seventh Season – by Leslie Goldberg (Hollywood Reporter)

Adult Swim has renewed Robot Chicken for a seventh season.

Co-creators and executive producers Seth Green and Matthew Senreich used their platform Friday at New York Comic-Con to make the announcement that the series will return with all new episodes in 2013. read article