Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Remember the great Writers Guild Strike of aught-seven/aught-eight? Come on, sure you do. Letterman had a creepy beard! Really? No?
Well, while picketing, a bunch of those dirty Hollywood liberals decided to band together and try and get a handle on this newfangled new media webisodes thing, and the result is hitting the tubes today: Strike.tv.
The Daily Show‘s Aasif Mandvi and SNL‘s Kristen Wiig play star crossed lovers in Global Warming, The Office‘s Mindy Kaling gets her own reality show in House Poor, and Bob Newhart breaks into the digital age with The Challenge. But my favorite of the bunch? Character actor Bob Clendenin is stalked by his state of the art car concierge in Daryl from OnCar.
Strike.tv
Monday, February 11, 2008
So seeing as the strike is (essentially) over, I assume my television will be instantly filled with a bounty of 30 Rock and The Office. I can’t wait!
8:00 – American Gladiators (NBC)
This week we spotlight the biggest omission of the current revival: the Atlasphere. I don’t know about you, but nothing says Gladiators like dudes rolling around in steel balls (aside from, perhaps, dudes smacking each other with Q-Tips). Please, Hulk Hogan, bring back the balls.
8:00 – Prison Break (FOX)
The image of Prison Break that I have in my head is that every season is spent trying to, well, break out of a prison, only to discover in the season finale that they’re still stuck inside an even bigger prison. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Late Night
Dave’s lead guest tonight is “2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover revealed”. I loved him in that movie! Ferguson hosts my mortal enemy, Julie Chen.
Apparently, while I was in New York, there were like 4 caucuses and primaries or something. Who knew right? I thought we had another week or something. Anyway, Senator Obama this weekend won caucuses in Maine, Washington State, and Nebraska. He also won the Louisiana Primary and the U.S. Virgin Islands. These wins make him the leader in delegates and gives his campaign momentum and energy going into the week. There will be more primaries on Tuesday, including delegate-rich Virginia.
Word also came out yesterday that Senator Clinton’s campaign manager, Patti Solis Doyle, has been replaced. She is still on the payroll as a senior advisor. It is kind of like when my friend in high school was made a senior adviser at Burger King because he kept giving us free burgers — Oh wait no — He was fired. Apparently Mrs. Doyle’s days have been numbered since Sen. Clinton came in third in the Iowa caucuses. The Clinton campaign is saying that they think they will lose all of this week’s primaries and are focusing their efforts on the big states like Ohio and Texas.
The President, the Grammeys, and the Teevee after the jump.
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Monday, January 28, 2008
The news this morning is all Presidential campaigns all the time. In case you missed it, Sen. Obama won this past weekend’s South Carolina primary in a landslide. Today Senator Ted Kennedy will announce he is endorsing Obama’s candidacy and will vigorously campaign for him. Senator Kennedy is the brother of former President John F. Kennedy and one of the most senior members of the Democratic party. the Presidential candidates, his endorsement was the most sought after. If you want to sound all insidery, speculate on the roll Bill Clinton’s recent negativity and attacks on Sen. Obama may have played in driving this endorsement. All of this is part of the lead up to next week’s Super-Duper-Tsunami-God-Damn-Lots-of-People-Vote Tuesday. Polls right now show Senator Clinton with leads in most of the major states, but it will be close.There is also a primary in Florida tomorrow. But the only person who really cares is Rudy Giuliani.
Perhaps because he is sad that everyone forgot about him, or perhaps because he is Constitutionally required to, The President will address s joint session of Congress and the nation tonight for his 8th and final State of the Union address. Early reports say that the speech will focus on the war and the economy. Which seems to me like saying the Patriots are going to focus on playing offense and defense this weekend. While you might feel compelled to watch, it will be epicly boring. Later today we are going to post a 2.0somethings State of the Union drinking game to make doing your civic duty more fun.
Riots sprung up anew in Kenya this weekend. At this point, the riots are more about reprisals and ethnic differences than they are about the election results.
The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) awards were this weekend, and since the Actor’s Guild is loosely affiliated with the Writer’s Guild, they were protest-free. Most of the coverage of the event demonstrated that entertainment reporters are uncomfortable when things get vaguely political. There is a very good chance that this was your only chance to get your annual awards show fix. The Golden Globes were already pwned and the Oscars will probably get picketed.
