The Mets' Game 5 loss has left me in a crummy mood, so it's going to be a small update for today. Besides, based on TV ratings, no one listens to me much anyway.
Game 6 of the NLCS (Fox, 8 p.m.) goes tonight, assuming more cooperation from Mother Nature. Maybe tonight, Mets pitchers will get to throw into the same strike zone as Cardinals pitchers. Just a thought.
The good folks at Fox ordered three more episodes each of "Happy Hour" and "Til Death" for reasons passing understanding.
They also sent me an e-mail to let you the viewer know that apsiring filmmakers can earn their chance to work with Steven Spielberg on the upcoming reality series, "The Lot." Visit thelot.com for information on how to send in your submissions.
There isn't a whole lot of love given to reality shows on this site, but "The Lot" has some passing interest for me because of my unhealthy waste-of-time obsession with the movie industry. However, I doubt "Lot" producers Spielberg and Mark Burnett ("Survivor") will be able to surpass "Project Greenlight," a marvelous series about how bad movies get made in bad ways that failed to draw viewership on either HBO or Bravo. No word, but it seems unlikely that producers Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Chris Moore will go to the well a fourth time. Incidentally, the third Greenlight movie, "Feast," should be hitting the DVD shelves any time now.
Incidentally, the winner of "The Lot" gets a $1 million development deal at Dreamworks.
Elswhwere on the dial, Justin Timberlake with be the musical guest for the new Victoria's Secret special that airs on CBS Dec. 5 at 10 p.m. If I watch, it will be with the mute button on.
Over at the CW, "Veronica Mars" co-Executive Producer Diane Ruggiero has announced a new superhero pilot for the network. Focused on super-powered women, it's described by The Hollywood Reporter as "Sex & The City" meets "Batman." (Thanks for that image, guys.) These days, I'm sticking with superhero shows that have either Japanese time-traveling office geeks or Erica Durrence in them, but hey, who knows, I may mellow in a few months.
WEDNESDAY'S BEST BET: Should I even bother to do these best bets anymore? You, the viewers, allowed "Criminal Minds" (CBS, 9 p.m.) to virtually tie (sorry for the split infinitive) "Lost" (ABC, 9 p.m.) in that timeslot. Seriously, what are you people thinking? Why give CBS more license to produce more criminal procedurals? Why no love for one of TV's top three shows all of a sudden?
If you aren't watching "Lost," then you are definitely not watching "The Nine," (ABC, 10 p.m.) so maybe I shouldn't bother telling you that you are missing one of TV's best new shows.
I'll be spotty the rest of the week with my blogging, since I am out of the office. But check out the Web site anyway (and tell your friends) because I need the hits.
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Keeping Up With My Streak of Blogposts, Even When I Don't Have A Lot To Say
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4 comments:
I listen to you! In fact, I'm going to try to find Heroes on YouTube and see if I can catch up enough to catch it on Monday. The thing is though, will I be lost if I'm unable to find it?
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Anon, glad to hear it!
You can find replays of Heroes on NBC.com. In addition, Sci-Fi runs reruns of the previous week's episodes at 7 p.m. Fridays and 7 p.m. Monday (two hours before the new episode of the week). I'd encourage you to watch these before trying to dive into the series. You can still probably be able to follow it, but your viewing experience will be a lot better watching it in order.
I'm fairly certain that NBC will air as many reruns as it can when original programming ends for the holiday season next month, since Heroes is the network's one true dramatic success this season.
Boy someone got out of bed on the wrong side. I assume you will enter the Speilberg competition. I tink that the loss of Pedro and El Duque is too great a hill to climb
I won't be making any contributions to the Spielberg competition. They want completed short films, not scripts.
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