proggrrl: (Heroes play with my new toy)
proggrrl ([personal profile] proggrrl) wrote2008-02-13 06:26 pm

End of writers strike generating 1000’s of news tidbits…

Wow. Well. Let me just dive in:

- OMG YAY: A The Daily Show and The Colbert Report return with writers tonight
*happy dancing*


- HEROES writers are going back to work and, though there will not be any more eps this season, it’s very likely there will be MORE THAN 22 EPS NEXT SEASON.  Can I getta W00t?!

- Saturday Night Live will broadcast 4 new shows in a row beginning on Feb. 23: Tina Fey hosts week one, and Ellen Page week two.  Made of awesome.

- Showtime announced news today
The bad: CALIFORNICATION, which I very much enjoyed, won’t be back till late summer/early fall.
The good: WEEDS returns June 16, and new shows on the horizon include POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS directed by Tim Robbins, and THE UNITED STATES OF TARA, written by Diablo “JUNO” Cody and produced by Steven Spielberg.  Whoa.

- The NY Times has HBO show news: ENTOURAGE and BIG LOVE will have to premiere much later than usual due to the late start.  So the former comes in the fall, and the latter near the end of this year.

- Also from NYT piece: SAVING GRACE is 3 weeks behind schedule and will premiere later in June than originally planned.

- The supercool Paley Festival panels are getting going next month and here’s an LJ comm that’s going to track everything that comes out of them…

- Supersilliest news: Fox is really, truly making a USA version of this now infamous game show.  ZOMG.  You need to go watch that video btw.  It needs to be seen.  Just once.

- Leonard Frakking Nimoy is doing The Colbert Report on Thursday!?!? *dies*

[identity profile] einaphets.livejournal.com 2008-02-14 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
Yay for the Colbert Report!

The game show thing, wow. You gotta hand it to the Japanese. They come up with some crazy stuff. Nothing beats that huge log game though. lol

[identity profile] proggrrl.livejournal.com 2008-02-14 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Nothing beats that huge log game though.

LOL, so true!

[identity profile] cordwainer.livejournal.com 2008-02-14 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
Awesome links and news!

And I'm looking forward to the Paley Fest. I heard there will be some awesome panels and panelists. :)

[identity profile] proggrrl.livejournal.com 2008-02-14 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I heard there will be some awesome panels and panelists. :)

Yeah, me too! :D

[identity profile] brokenmnemonic.livejournal.com 2008-02-14 08:27 am (UTC)(link)
The bad: CALIFORNICATION, which I very much enjoyed, won’t be back till late summer/early fall.
But it will be back? Wheeeeee :D *bounces*

There was a Star Trek trailer before Cloverfield last night, and for all that it was little more than shots of the Enterprise being built (in the atmosphere? Weird) it had Leonard Nimoy doing the voiceover. Very cool.

When they say "more than 22 episodes for Heroes" why do I get the feeling they mean "a season plus the half a season we didn't show this time"?

[identity profile] proggrrl.livejournal.com 2008-02-14 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
RE the Trek trailer...well I thought it was lame really. I hate it when they are so desperate to get a piece up with a certain big movie, that they make something like that, which says NOTHING. Dissappointing. But I can't wait to see the film. Now we have to wait till NEXT SUMMER! WTF

RE Heroes - absolutely, the extra eps are makeup eps from S2 this year. I'm just glad we'll get them sometime in the future! Yay.