I’m reading a few reports about how Katherine Heigl made “unflattering” comments towards her latest movie, Knocked Up, and the show that made her famous, Grey’s Anatomy. Some say she’s starting to bite the hands that feed her, others she she’s getting too full of herself, and many more are throwing of the hate she can come up with at her. How nice.
I’m not a fan of hers, and I realized that I used to hate her, because I couldn’t stand Izzie (and her dead fiancé…), which was probably unfair. Yeah, probably. Anyways, I have nothing against her, or for her, but I just want to address this because I don’t see nothing wrong in what she’s saying.
In fact, I’d find it oh so refreshing to have someone to say what she (or he) actually thinks instead of the usual lying BS that everything’s perfect and he or she loves everyone. I’m sure you and I are the first to say it out loud when we hate a movie or thinks a show, or an episode, sucks; why shouldn’t they be able to do the same ? - But that’s not even what’s going on here, actually.
On this Sunday ABC proved everyone how the writers are important in the world of TV, because without them no Desperate Housewives, which did the best results of the night both on viewers and the 18-49 demo, and without which ABC probably wouldn’t have win the night as it clearly did.
NBC and its Sunday Night Football didn’t do as good as this time, with 6 million viewers less than one week ago (13.1 vs 19.14 million viewers); and without a strike I doubt Life Is Wild would still be on the air (1.2 million viewers, 0.4 on the 18-49).
Really, everyone does. Even the animals you often see being cute and/or funny on viral videos you send to your friends so they can watch them and forward them too instead of doing their work.
Yes, they too support the writers and are going on strike, so if you prefer watching cute funny animals and forwarding videos to your friends than doing your job, then you have to support the writers. Or something like that.
The situation was different over at the Tonight Show, though, and Jay Leno did not seem to be going that same road as well. Then, he started to be trashed by many people, and headlines popped out reading “Leno fires staff!”
About 120 of the show’s non-writing staffers were being laid off by NBC - not Leno - and the studios also said that there was absolutely no guarantee that they would be re-hired once the strike would be over. In other words, they might be out of work for good, strike or not.
So there’s this ongoing writers’ strike, and studios and other liars are claiming that they can’t pay writers out of online streaming and content written for the Internet, because you know, either it’s promotion or they’re not even sure if they’d be able to make a penny out of it, those poor babies.
Meanwhile, as we all know, they’re making a fortune out of it. Recently Financial Times just revealed that the four US television networks are in line to generate $120 million of revenues in 2007 from online content, according to a leading media buyer.
It is nothing new though, as we’ve already seen them admitting to such things in this video. But that was all before writers dared asking to be paid for their work, of course. Since then, the Internet is something so new and unpredictable there’s just no way to make money out of it. No really, if you don’t believe me just google it!
You all know South Park is a freaking fantastic and hilarious show, and so it won’t surprise you to hear that for the week of November 5-11, it was the show with the largest number of timeshifted viewers of any cable show. It came in first, growing by 25.6% (918 000 viewers) from 3.6 million live to a 4.5 million viewers on live+7.
And for all of you fans of the show, here’s some good news : MTV Networks plans to make every clip from every episode of the animated hit comedy South Park available for free online next year, as part of a strategy to reach consumers everywhere. Ain’t that some good news ?
* Once again there’s a lot of the usual stuff missing. Not that Sundays are usually that loaded anyways…
* And at 9.00 - because there’s nothing before - ABC sticks to its goods with a new Desperate Housewives, followed by a new Brothers & Sisters
* And in order to have something else to say, I’d like to mention the new and revisited version of The Wizard Of OZ, brought to you by SciFi. It’s called Tin Man and the first episode (out of three - yes, miniseries) airs tonight at 9.00 Episodes 2 and 3 will air tomorrow and Wednesday, same time same channel.
Now it seems many people are pretty excited about this one, I’m not sure I’m one of them. What the hell is wrong with me ? Anyways, I think I’ll probably try to watch it though and see what it looks like. It might be pretty fun, plus I think I may have a little crush on Zooey Deschanel, starring as DG here, so I’ll have to take a look. In most of what I’ve seen her in, she’s always portrayed from a weird or odd to, at least, a somewhat unusual character.
She’s usually kind of crazy, and I do like that. She was great (and so refreshing) on Weeds and I hope things will be just as fun on Tin Man. Some people also seem to describe it as a mix of shows such as Battlestar Galactica, Heroes and Pushing Daisies. And they do mean Heroes in its first season, so that could be pretty awesome !
Plunged headlong into another world, DG must discover her true identity, battle evil winged-monkey-bats, and attempt to fulfill her destiny. Her perilous journey begins on the fabled Old Road that leads to a wizard known as the Mystic Man. Along the way, she is joined by a decidedly strange trio of companions. “Glitch,” an odd man missing half his brain, “Raw,” a quietly powerful wolverine-like creature longing for inner courage, and “Cain,” a heroic former policeman (known in the O.Z. as Tin Men, for their tin badges) seeking vengeance for his scarred heart. Ultimately, DG’s destiny leads her to an emotional and terrifying showdown with the scintillatingly wicked sorceress Azkadellia, whose ties to DG are closer than anyone could have imagined. DG’s life, as well as the very future of the O.Z., hangs in the balance.
(S03E10) There is no doubt that this third and final season of Criminal Minds will stand out when looking back, because many changes took place during its course, the biggest of all being - obviously - the departure of Gideon, replaced by Rossi. By the way, I was kidding when I called this season the final one, it probably won’t be. And there’s nothing wrong with that, quite the contrary.
Because while, like many, I got highly worried when I learned that the one character I believed to be like the backbone of the show would leave, and after a few episodes which did nothing but reinforce those fears, things finally got better. And by better I mean we were back to normal standards of quality, as one could expect from this show.
(S03E11) I am not sure I ever was a fan of My Name Is Earl per-se, but it is without a doubt that I enjoyed the show ever since the pilot and I loved the two previous season. It never considered it to be absolutely hilarious or as great as The Office or 30 Rock can be, but it was nevertheless a really great sitcom and I loved to see Earl and his buddies go through their adventure each week, and I laughed every time.
But as I’ve said this year, I am not sure about this season, because of the very fact that Earl is behind bars. Many times already I’ve expressed my feelings about this whole thing, and how I thought that this was probably not the best idea, and that they should get over it, and let him free. And I had gotten a little optimistic that writers would have realized that fact and that Earl’s stay in prison was soon to be over.
ABC doesn’t usually do so good on Fridays, but this time instead of the usual Men In Trees and Women’s Murder Club they aired a movie, The Polar Express, and it did much better. So much, in fact, that it allowed ABC to came in first in both viewers and on the 18-49 demo, with 10.3 million viewers and a 3.0 on the 18-49 demo.
At 8.00 came in first with their usual Deal Or No Deal, more watched than ABC’s movie. CBS probably wished Jennifer Love Hewitt and her ghosts did not go away, because their Grammy special was followed by almost 4 million less viewers. Meanwhile The CW did as good as every Friday thanks to their Friday Night Smackdown! while on Fox The Next Great American Band lost viewers again.
By fred | December 3, 2007 
I’m not a fan of hers, and I realized that I used to hate her, because I couldn’t stand Izzie (and her dead fiancé…), which was probably unfair. Yeah, probably. Anyways, I have nothing against her, or for her, but I just want to address this because I don’t see nothing wrong in what she’s saying.
(S03E10) There is no doubt that this third and final season of Criminal Minds will stand out when looking back, because many changes took place during its course, the biggest of all being - obviously - the departure of Gideon, replaced by Rossi. By the way, I was kidding when I called this season the final one, it probably won’t be. And there’s nothing wrong with that, quite the contrary.
(S03E11) I am not sure I ever was a fan of My Name Is Earl per-se, but it is without a doubt that I enjoyed the show ever since the pilot and I loved the two previous season. It never considered it to be absolutely hilarious or as great as The Office or 30 Rock can be, but it was nevertheless a really great sitcom and I loved to see Earl and his buddies go through their adventure each week, and I laughed every time.