TV pwning me again. Sigh.

Nov. 13th, 2007 10:23 am
proggrrl: (FNL-shirtless riggins plz)
Can I take a break this morning to say that ALL my TV is pwning me right now.

I'm talking last week's 30 ROCK, GREY'S ANATOMY, FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS. This past weekend's TORCHWOOD (and really, all the eps for the past month); a profound (and profoundly BI) show. The season finales of CALIFORNICATION and TELL ME YOU LOVE ME.

BSG: RAZOR. You know how I feel.

And most especially this and last week's HEROES. Wow.

Almost totally makes up for complete abscence of DAILY SHOW, COLBERT REPORT...and the news that 30 ROCK has shut down, HEROES is probably ending for the season in 3 weeks...and BATTLESTAR GALACTICA season 4 is going dark this week till further notice.

*STAND STRONG WRITERS!*

Meanwhile, I am collecting a bunch of things for us to do if everything completely shuts down for months and months. Most of it will be movie-related. We're not there yet. Hopefully the Hollywood agents will broker a deal before things get super duper ugly.

How's everyone doing? Work pwnd ME last night, so no RAZOR screening for me...did anyone go?
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Kristen Bell + MIA

Oct. 23rd, 2007 09:56 am
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Oh HEROES!  Last night's ep was terrific.  Kristen Bell, evil dad, new powers confirmed...and the use of an MIA song on network! *glee*

Also excellent was Saturday's TORCHWOOD - really a profound concept at its center.  (For Brits and netizens who've seen already, it was 1.7, Greeks Bearing Gifts, where Toshiko is given a pendant that can read people's thoughts.)

This Sunday's ep of TELL ME YOU LOVE ME was the best yet, it was packed to the brim with revealing and intense scenes.  I felt like I learned more about everyone in this single ep than I had in the last three combined.  David & Katie continue to be so adorable, as I continue to root for them...

And CALIFORNICATION?  Intricate, sweet, full of love and pain.  Totally awesome.

That is all.  *g*
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“Fire him if you want, but I’d keep an eye on him. One never knows how loyalty is born.”

Oct. 20th, 2007 09:37 am
proggrrl: (MM Don needs another scotch)
MY TV PWNS RIGHT NOW.

It's all vaguely spoilery, so I'll put it down under just in case.


Sorry I haven't caught up with the rest of the week yet. Ha!  I still have a new FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, UGLY BETTY, PUSHING DAISIES, DIRTY SEXY, and CALIFORNICATION to go.  That and trying to hit the Metropolitan Museum of Art's newest exhibits and catch me some NYC fall foliage in the park...and maybe a movie...*head explodes*
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“I don’t want to pay for it. I want it for free. Paying for stuff sucks.”

Oct. 17th, 2007 11:42 am
proggrrl: (UB the twins)
Well it turns out that yes, the Buffy-Sing-a-Long shutdown by FOX is indeed union-related...it's just not the Writers union.  Also, another speck of evidence supports the SERENITY 2 movie rumor ("…I heard it from Nathan so if it turns out not to be true you can blame him…”).  Hmm.

I just loved this week's HEROES (Kristen Bell is coming! To hang with Milo? Most exxxxcellllent).  Bye bye CALIFORNICATION and MAD MEN. I will miss, miss, miss you. *sigh*

Still really enjoying DIRTY SEXY MONEY (even if it is turning into DAMAGES.  Just a little.)  On the fence about REAPER (the Kevin-Smith-bloom is coming off the rose), CHUCK (not funny enough/not sexy enough), and PUSHING DAISIES.  But the latter is probably a keeper, it's gloriously twee and Kristen Chenoweth is a delight.  Her dog bf is killing me.  We'll see how the next few eps go, now that the network has banned our boy Barry Sonnenfeld from doing any more directing.  Hanging in for PRIVATE PRACTICE.  GREY'S final 2 minutes last week was stunning, and UGLY BETTY can do no wrong in my eyes - so there.

I've changed my mind about BROTHERS & SISTERS and am sticking with it.  The past 2 weeks have been great, and I just listened to this incredibly profound podcast interview with its lead writer and creator, the playwright Jon Robin Baitz...check this out.  He is deliciously articulate and thoughtful, feminist...just great.  What a blessing to have this guy writing for TV.  

Speaking of The Treatment podcasts: I have been catching up on a backlog of 'em, and wanted to recommend another great one for you TV fans out there: last summer's interview with Showtime executive Robert Greenblatt.  It's a fascinating listen for any fan of serialized TV.  Most interesting to me was RG's insider view of why 10 or 13-ep series often work out better than 20 or 22-ep ones.  Also really enjoyed hearing screenwriter Tony Gilroy, who talks about writing the scripts for the BOURNE films, and working on his new feature MICHAEL CLAYTON, which is Gilroy's first stab at directing.   Elvis Mitchell's interviews are as smart as Charlie Rose's - with the added plus that Elvis knows what the frak he's talking about much more often.

I love podcasts.  They are a fantastic thing to have handy for workouts, train or walking commutes, hikes, or long car and airplane trips.  Here are a few of my current favorites:

[Today's subject line is from DIRTY SEXY MONEY. Natch.]
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“Those people in Manhattan? They are better than us. They want things they haven’t seen.”

Oct. 11th, 2007 03:54 pm
proggrrl: (Metropolis-the perfect woman)


Still digging BIONIC WOMAN. Yup. Now we have Jamie hacking herself maybe? Ha. And apparently Katims is running the writers room now? Well that's GOT TO BE a good thing. Nice script, Eick.

About PRIVATE PRACTICE: I haven't watched last night's yet, but can I say this show brought me to tears for 2 weeks in a row?! 1.1 during the mall-emergency scene (finding out what happened to her son), and 1.2 during the baby swapping scene (oh mommies!)...if they pull this off again...whoa.

I'm still slightly gleeful about last Saturday's SNL muppets sketch. *g* Maya Rudolph makes an awesome Janice!

Gods I'm gonna miss MAD MEN, which ends next week...Last week's ep was just incredible. Peggy's new assignment...Joan doing Roger's makeup...Betty doing the laundry (!!!)...Peggy's date (today's subject line quotes that wonderful scene)...and THE BOX.


Can't stop typing without bringing you today's braindump...
  • Fandom gets to vote on the US DVD cover for TORCHWOOD S1 starting 10/15! Cool.
  • Seth Green is coming to GREY’S ANATOMY. Me likey.
  • Interesting factoid: did you know that “the median income of women age 21 to 30 in New York who are employed full time was 17 percent higher than that of comparable men”?
  • 101 Cookbooks turned me on to these great links: the person who runs the cookbook section of the NY Public Library has a blog, and there is a great new site selling works of art for $20.
  • Can we talk for a sec about how James McAvoy is looking on this Esquire cover? *long sigh*
  • HBO has decided to respond to fandom’s collective AARRRRGGGGHHH over what DEADWOOD actors Ian McShane and W. Earl Brown have said publicly RE the dismantling of the DEADWOOD sets and the unlikelyhood of the TV movies ever being made. BigscreenLittlescreen collects up all the important links for us. A misguided ray of hope, or spin control?
  • This sucks - but I have no doubt it is related to the WGA talks. Hopefully it will be worked out soon. Blargh.
  • I suppose some of you have heard about this Warner Brothers scandal. (Yes, SCANDAL.  If it's true, not out of context, and not a joke.)  I'm on the fence - Nikki Finke is a bit of a shit-stirrer.  Yet it is quite compelling if three separate producers pointed it out independently of each other, and if Robinov wasn't joking.  Frustrating news, with a bizarre upside that it's causing a lot of great discussion about the bigger issue: women and their place as filmmakers and audience.

 
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What PopCandy is Like After a 2-Week Vacation

Oct. 3rd, 2007 01:40 pm
proggrrl: (Firefly-River on ceiling)
Whitney you are a Goddess, what would I do without your news blips…such as...
  • I know many on my flist are getting excited about the new PJ Harvey album – well apparently you can preview the whole thing now on AOL.
  • Anyone who is excited about Wes Anderson’s new film THE DARJEELING LIMITED, which just opened last weekend to amazing attendance in New York City, should check out all the links Whitney found of clips and the short “prequel” Anderson made with Jason Schwartzman and Natalie Portman.
  • Whitney is so right: we should all be celebrating Banned Books Week, every week of the year. Dammit!
  • Ian McShane spoke to Cinematical about those fabled DEADWOOD films…and the news is superbly BAD, although my morning was made reading him say this:
"You feel cheated? Imagine how I feel!" McShane replied. "We all do. We all do. It was one of those one-off jobs that you do which has got an extraordinary creative brain behind it, and it kept getting better, and the actors were great. It was a fabulous place to be and work. It was a workshop cum theater cum film. It was an extraordinary time. But everything has to come to an end, babe."

And some utterly random goodness NOT via PopCandy:
  • NewTeeVee posts advice for the TV nets on how to further attract and keep your geek audiences in thrall to this year’s new shows. Really good ideas here – the movie studios should be listening too.
  • TVGuide talks about The Whedon Effect on this year’s new TV, and why NBC probably would never move BIONIC WOMAN to the Sci-Fi Channel (WARNING: you have to jump over some incredibly spoilery bits to scroll down to this stuff, especially if you’re staying unspoiled for FNL this Friday. Watch out!)...via Whedonesque.
  • The BLADE RUNNER: FINAL CUT media push has begun in earnest now, leading up to the December DVD release. This directors-cut-to-end-all-directors-cuts just screened at the NYFF and opens this Friday in theaters for a very limited (as in RUN-DON’T-WALK) run in NYC (The Zeigfeld! OMG) and LA.
  • Wired has a bunch of cool stuff this week: These two features about ROBOT CHICKEN, an interview with Ridley Scott and a nexus of all the cultural influences of BLADE RUNNER, and this incredibly disturbing yet sexy robot art. *wipes brow*
  • Current Mood: Vacations rule!
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Emptying the DVR Part 4 – “Are you comfortable being monogamous?”

Oct. 1st, 2007 09:53 am
proggrrl: (BSG Six and Head Baltar)
I have now caught up with all the current eps of HBO’s TELL ME YOU LOVE ME, and I am really enjoying the show.  There is nothing on TV quite like it, and only a premium channel, working outside all network/cable censorship laws, is even allowed to broadcast material so graphically intimate.



A reminder for all my BATTLESTAR GALACTICA homies: start taping FLASH GORDON this Friday to see the embedded BSG “mini-sodes”…if you still haven’t seen them, the promos are posted here on Sitrep.  Young William Adama looks great! I’m psyched.

I’ll have more to say about last night’s shows, and everything that begins this week, pretty darned soon. 

Here’s the last few shows I’ve got on my docket:
  • FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS (this week - yay!)…did anyone catch the S2 opener on yahoo last week?
  • PUSHING DAISIES (this week)
  • 30 ROCK (this week)
  • ALIENS IN AMERICA (next week)
  • CASHMERE MAFIA (late November)

*exhausted but excited sigh*

As they ought to say in France: Bon teevee!
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Emptying the DVR Part 1: “I love women...I have all their albums.”

Oct. 1st, 2007 09:33 am
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So I am catching up on all the magic my DVR has been storing up for me for the past few weeks, including the late summer shows and the newest preems for the fall.  Time to dump a week and a half’s worth of TV absorption on y’all…enjoy.  Here is part one...OF FOUR. *g*

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"For a lot of people, it's easier to fuck than talk."

Sep. 10th, 2007 09:10 am
proggrrl: (stardust-yvaine in crater)
At many times in my life, I have wondered why I like romantic comedy/drama so much. I know they are bullshit fantasies of what relationships are like – and that nothing I’ll see in them will touch very close to reality. Yet they are so pleasing to watch...you curl up with your favorite comfort food and you dig in.

Sometimes I take that line of thought farther and wonder: if a film or TV show stepped past the "they kissed and lived happily ever after" moment, what would that mean? You know - past that moment that ends all those silly romcoms and Austen adaptations? The couple has become a couple, they kiss, they hug...so NOW WHAT? And what of 5 years from now...10 years from now?

HBO's new show TELL ME YOU LOVE ME, which began last night, is trying to provide some answers to this question.

I was able to get my hands on some advance clips to show you, but I'm having embed problems, I'll see if I can put some up later today. Maureen Ryan and The New Yorker have run some very well written reviews which can fill you in on the plot. The show is created and run by a woman, Cynthia Mort, which I consider worth noting.

I’ve just watched the first episode, and it’s an intriguing concept with lots of promise. Right now the married and sexless couple is the most fascinating for me. The youngest couple, who are engaged and therefore the only unmarrieds, is also hitting close to home with their intense negotitations of monogamy and commitment.

What I see so far is a lot of small lies that build up into big issues. People are lying to each other, and lying to their therapist. I assume over time more and more truth will be revealed.

Also notable for me, is the way the show works to separate Love from Sex, and to investigate all the levels of desire and commitment.

Fascinating stuff in and of itself...Adding the soft-core-porn-level sex scenes gives it a shot of added reality that is almost unnerving. This is NOT pornography, by any means. But the things that are revealed during sex are just as important to this show as anything we see or hear elsewhere. This show wants you to watch people having very intimate, private sexual moments – but NOT to turn you on.

Check this out. Highly recommended…let’s see where it goes.
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Real men on a real field push each other around and play with a real ball

Aug. 17th, 2007 04:05 pm
proggrrl: (firefly-kill u w/my brain)
Friday braindump time!

Ahahaha [personal profile] hollywoodgrrl – they made a tee shirt of it!




GLOBAL ECONOMIC WOES: The chaos in the markets confuses me, because I'm terrible with that sort of stuff.  I read this New York mag piece by Jim Cramer last week and it made me nervous for my 401K & IRA.  This Salon piece may explain it better...but I don't feel any better for reading it.  I always thought those subprime housebuying loans and refinance deals were ridiculous - if you don't have enough money to buy all the bright shiny stuff - DON'T BUY IT.  Pretty simple I thought; though if you need $$$ fast for a medical procedure or other emergency, I can see how this would come in handy.  This is a moment in time where my lack of owning a home seems like a good thing.  Ack.
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I don't know Butchie instead.

Aug. 15th, 2007 02:46 pm
proggrrl: (Dick in a box!)
Addendums to previous post:

Someone (hmmm who could it be) has created a site that is posting entire FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS eps...for freeeeeeee...

Someone at Variety agrees with me about the depth and breadth of JOHN FROM CINCINNATI...and more on Zack Whedon's (Joss' brother) involvement with DEADWOOD & JfC...

HBO has announced their next project with David Milch, a 1970s/Vietnam era cop show which sounds like it will have some anti-war undertones (or, knowing Milch, OVERTONES).
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Big Pipe's easy. Dry land's hard.

Aug. 15th, 2007 10:24 am
proggrrl: (BigL - margene HMMM)
It's been a while since I've said anything about all the summer TV.

Is anyone out there watching the summer cable dramas?  I'm good and hooked on a bunch of them, a few I'm hanging on to see how they go.  And WEEDS has just begun! Happy!

It goes without saying that everything below is spoiler-ridden, you have been warned.






Now I’ll leave you with a bit of dialogue between MAD MEN Don Draper and his boss Roger Sterling, played out near the end of last week’s ep (S1x04).  Bottom’s up.
Both men are sitting with their end-of-day whiskeys in hand.

Sterling: You don’t know how to drink, your whole generation.  You drink for the wrong reasons.  My generation, we drink because it’s good. Because it feels better than unbuttoning your collar. Because we deserve it. We drink because it’s what men do.

Draper: What about shaky hands? I see a lot of that too with you boys…

S: No joke! Your kind, with your gloomy thoughts and your worries – you’re all busy licking some imaginary wound.

D: Not all imaginary…

S: Yeah, boo hoo.

D: Maybe I’m not as comfortable being powerless as you are.

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