…Which means that at least one of their 5,427 other sitcom pilots ain’t gonna make it to the air because you don’t get into bed with Michael J. Fox just to kick him out before he even performs.
(EDITED TO ADD: NBC has sent out a press release confirming that it is committed to 22 episodes now, before even shooting a pilot.)
Ahh…okay, so that’s a bit of a stretch. Credit for trying? C’mon!
Imagine – the old dood said that and we’re not even Jewish! Or Chinese! (Whoa, sorry. This isn’t a good environment for jokes based on ethnic stereotypes, is it?)
Black belts’ white matter shows how a powerful punch comes from the brain (UCLA News)
…Eh, excuse us, we should’ve said “authors.” That’s what Forbes calls these wordsmiths, who are making way too much dinero to care what they’re called, other than, maybe, “Sir:”
Forbes’ 15 Highest Earning Authors List – by Zoe Triska
Yesterday, Forbes released their annual list of the world’s highest earning authors.
File this one under why we think Gizmodo.Com doesn’t suck:
It’s OK to Be a Hater Because Everything Is Bad – by Sam Biddle
Almost everything is bad. Usually, really bad, and not even bad in an interesting way. Tech is no exception—if anything, tech might be the worst of the bad. The Internet? Gross. The people who use it? Ugh. And it’s fine to hate it all.
Out with the old. In with the…almost, kinda, sorta not-so-old:
TNT Says Goodbye to The Closer, Hello to Major Crimes – by Adam Bryant
The Closer‘s series finale finds Brenda (Kyra Sedgwick) trying to put away slippery defense attorney — and suspected serial rapist —Phillip Stroh (Billy Burke) once and for all. And although the climax of the Stroh storyline heavily impacts Brenda’s future, it’s the introduction of another character — an orphaned teenage hustler named Rusty (Graham Patrick Martin) — that may ultimately prove to be most important. So much so that he’ll also be a focal point of Major Crimes.