A little of this, a little of that and some of these
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- February
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I was multi-tasking last night, watching Monday’s episode of The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Bruce Davison!? What isn’t he in these days? Geez.
Anyhow, I had lots of things piling up in my drafts folder, and I haven’t done a roundup post in a while, so I figured I’d toss it all out there.
Here we go:
• Jericho’s ratings from Tuesday night went up in the double digits in every category over last week, CBS announced. What will this mean for the show’s future? Unclear, but it certainly ain’t bad. Also, are you tired of waiting for a Jericho soundtrack to come out? Of course you are. So make your own. Go here to find out what songs played in which episodes and then you can always head over to iTunes (or maybe your own music collection) and put them all together.
• Supernatural scored season-high ratings last week on The CW. The episode scored its second-best audience of the season overall, with 3.22 million viewers. In the adults 18-34, adults 18-49 and men 18-34 categories, however, the Winchester brothers pulled in season-high ratings. Ausiello over at TVGuide.com was saying this could even be an opportunity for the show to get another season.
• I read on Seat42f.com that Lil’ Bush gets its second season premiere at 10:30 p.m. March 13 (that’s a Thursday) on Comedy Central. I don’t care if you’re liberal or conservative or anywhere in between; it’s just damn funny. It features the adventures of Lil’ Bush, along with his friends Lil’ Condi, Lil’ Rummy (Iggy Pop!? does his voice?) and Lil’ Cheney. Fun fact: Every time Cheney’s dad shows up, he’s … wait for it … Darth Vader! Seat42f had this description of the second-season premiere, “Lesbian Freakfest.”
The Lil’ Gang doesn’t want the Lil’ Dems to ruin St. Patrick’s Day with their liberal and all-inclusive St. Patrick’s day parade so they enlist the advice of the revenge-seeking and Hot Pocket-hoarding Lil’ Karl Rove who is more than happy to bring down the Lil’ Dems and show off the rapping skills of his alter-ego, MC Rove.
• Over on SCI FI Wire, I read that Bear McCreary, a music composer for Battlestar Galactica, will perform live April 13 at the Roxy, a Los Angeles nightclub. Cast members (dunno which ones) will emcee. Cool.
• quarterlife tanked in the ratings last night on NBC, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Hmm. Maybe it’s because the series ran online first. And then aired earlier in the day on MTV. Whatever the case, it got the lowest rating NBC has had in the 10 p.m. Tuesday time slot in 17 or more years. It’s unclear if it’ll even get a second airing, which was set for this coming Sunday. Yikes. That hasn’t happened since Anchorwoman last summer on Fox.
• So, Tyra Banks and Ashton Kutcher are joining forces on a new reality series. No, that’s not a joke. Seriously. So says The Hollywood Reporter. It’s for ABC and it involves “contestants competing in a beauty pageant.” I swear I read on some other blog somewhere that the contestants live in a house together? Whatever the case there is, of course, a “twist.” ABC ordered eight eps. Quite the moguls, these two.
• Rufus Sewell snagged the lead role in Jerry Bruckheimer’s new scifi drama project for CBS, says The Hollywood Reporter. The show, Eleventh Hour, is based on a British series. Sewell has the role originated by Patrick Stewart. Rufus Sewell and Jerry Bruckheimer doing TV? Things can’t be doing nearly as poorly as all the doomsayers seem to think. Sewell will play Jacob Hood, “a special science adviser to the government who, with his feisty female bodyguard in tow, saves people from the worst abuses of science.” Ah, the ubiquitous “feisty female bodyguard.”
• NBC has ordered 13 episodes of Robinson Crusoe, according to TVGuide.com (actually, The Hollywood Reporter had it first, but the link to the story doesn’t seem to work anymore, so this was next best). It is, indeed, based on Defoe’s classic novel from 1719 (and regarded by many to be the first novel ever written in English). Let me let NBC co-chairman Ben Silverman describe it:
It’s part MacGyver, part contemporary morality tale about race and personal discovery, part comedy, and part Castaway meets Survivor.
All right, then.
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Category: ABC, Anchorwoman, Ashton Kutcher, Bruce Davison, CBS, Comedy Central, Eleventh Hour, Fox, Jericho, Lil' Bush, NBC, Patrick Stewart, Quarterlife, Robinson Crusoe, Rufus Sewell, Supernatural, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, The CW, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Tyra Banks
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