i am a wonderful man

What ever happened to Michael Ian Black and why isn't he on TV anymore? I heard him on the radio this morning and I got all excited. He's doing a cross country tour of his stand up routine, I am A Wonderful Man, and is in the city tonight. Too bad I'm lazy and old and won't trek out there to see him :(

I miss Phil Stubs! He was such a great character. And Stella wasn't so bad either. And the classic The State.

Oh TV gods bring him back!

Gwen Stefani HP Commercial

It must be woman empowerment week in these parts.

Gwen, I agree. You can't turn creativity on and off. Please tell my bosses that! :)

tina rocks

i love tina fey. i think she's funny. glad the old men at NBC decided to keep her Emmy award winning show, 30 Rock, around for a 2nd season. i wouldn't have finally watched it. i tend not to watch good sitcoms their freshman year. i don't want to get attached to something really great and than have it be burned and stomped on by the network gods. i'm still mourning the loss of Arrested Development on Fox. why people didn't watch that show i don't know. what has gone wrong with sitcom taste in this country! anyway, love the Tina Fey. she writes, produces, directs and stars in 30 Rock. i hope more than a dozen people watch it this season, me included!

THE GREAT PURGE

I’m purging the old tired shows that are hard to resist…Grey's Anatomy and Brothers and Sisters. You may say that these shows aren’t old and tired but they sure act like it. Actually this great purge is only occurring since some old favorites like THE OFFICE and Curb Your Enthusiasm and new favorites like MAD MEN and Californication are taking over my TV. But really I didn’t record Grey’s Anatomy this week and I didn’t miss it. Bobby says this won’t last long. Oh, and Heroes is going too. We just finished watching The 4400 in my TV household. And this sci fi series has much more real depth, plot and mystery than that hot shot NBC show will ever deliver. We’ll see how long this purge lasts. Keep your fingers crossed for me.

Here are some shows that I checked out this week:

Reaper on The CW- So I really wanted to fall into step on this one. But after about 3 minutes I wanted to turn the channel. It’s so Kevin Smith in the bad way. Smith has become the new John Hughes. Who knew? I mean Clerks is as much as a classic as Sixteen Candles and Breakfast Club. And what is Hughes doing now- writing screenplays for Disney and probably very happy. I vote that Smith do the same. I mean his last few ventures in film have not been uplifting. Okay, back to the show. It actually wasn’t dark enough. I mean the guy’s parents sold his soul to the devil. Didn’t seem to faze him so much. And the devil only wanted him to save the world of a pyro maniac. Somehow I think the real devil wouldn’t really be concerned about this guy going back to hell. Anyway, I may catch this again to give it another chance.

Big Shots - This is a cheap remake of Desperate Housewives with men as characters. I won’t support it. Even if the cutest boys like Dylan McDermott and Michael Vartan star in this show about these successful? men dealing with their wives. Don’t even bother watching it. I did and their cute faces didn’t last me the whole hour. I mean who is the target audience for this? Really it can’t be women. I am in no way that interested in what men do while I’m not watching.

WEEDS and CALIFORNICATION … You say but how so? FREE SHOWTIME this weekend. I caught several episodes of each captivating series on Comcast on Demand. And it was simply wonderful. But now it will be depressing, as I won’t pay the extra $6.95 for Showtime to watch this weekly. It will be so painful to wait for the seasons on DVD. I’m so glad that David Duchovony has morphed into Hank the egomaniac woman lover writer. And that little girl Becca she’s such a wonderful young actress.

THE OFFICE… over the top season premiere. It was a bit long but I was happy to see this sitcom come back a winner.

I'm hoping that Desperate Housewives kicks off tonight with a better season than the former. If I'm disappointed I can always watch Larry David on Curb Your Enthusiasm.

What will you purge this fall season?

my summer is ending

My work schedule always cuts into my lazy summer days. So it’s always a bummer when the new fall TV season premieres and reminds me summer is over. It’s always more of a bummer when most of the new shows aren’t worth watching. But here’s some that I’ll catch for sure:

Pushing Daisies
Wednesdays 8/7c on ABC
SERIES PREMIERE: October 3 at 8/7c
From ABC Website: “Pushing Daisies is a love story about a pie-baking young man with a very special gift… the ability to return dead people briefly back to life with just a simple touch -- enabling him to help a P.I. crack murder cases by asking victims to name their killers. Director Barry Sonnenfeld, writer-producer Bryan Fuller, and the producers of Big Fish blend romance, crime procedural and high-concept fantasy to create a fairytale in the spirit of Amelie, Stranger than Fiction, and Chocolat. Features a stellar cast.”


Dirty Sexy Money
Wednesdays 10/9c on ABC
SERIES PREMIERE: September 26 at 10/9c
From ABC Website: “Power, privilege and family money are a volatile cocktail thrust on an idealistic lawyer when he inherits the job of tending to the legal (and sometimes illegal) needs of the absurdly wealthy Darlings of New York City. Peter Krause, Donald Sutherland, William Baldwin, Natalie Zea, Glenn Fitzgerald, Samaire Armstrong, Seth Gabel, Zoe McLellan, and Jill Clayburgh star.”

Others to catch: CHUCK on NBC, CASHMERE MAFIA on ABC.

Okay only two shows; I know I’m terrible. Here are a couple of new shows that I’ve been watching pre-season:

My co-workers turned me on to Mad Men on AMC. Lovely fine crafted program about the new age of advertising in the 1960s. There is a great character development with lots of tension build. I’m currently watching the 7th episode on Comcast On Demand and waiting for the other shoe to drop with Don’s past life or Pete’s marriage.

I’m really starting to get tired of Tell Me You Love Me on HBO. Unfortunately I’m a bit of a prude and I believe that sometimes revealing everything in love scenes isn’t the way to go. I mean there’s such thing as taste in portraying intimacy between characters. I can’t get past this I guess. I keep covering my eyes instead of hitting my Tivo button. I don’t think I’ll tune in next week. They aren’t making any of the story lines compelling enough to put up with the blatant nudity. Sell it people!

I watched the pilot of Bionic Woman over the weekend. They really screwed up the build up in this one. Before I knew it she was already bionic and it was only 10 minutes in. Also the whole idea of the classic Bionic Woman is that you know its kind of cheesy. They are taking themselves way too seriously in this remake.

What new shows are you looking forward to?