Because it worked so well last season, I guess. I mean, who didn’t love the amazing performances of Britney Spears, Mandy Moore and other Enrique Iglesias last season, right ? Right ? *sigh*
Seriously, this is a huge load of BS if you ask me. I am not opposed to stunt casting per-se, and I’m sure that when done well and not coming from some starving for attention celebrity or the network trying to get a few more viewers in regardless of whether or not it might actually hurt the show in the long run, it can turn out great.
For proof of that, just see last season’s appearances by the lovely Sarah Chalke ! Perfect in the role, delightful, hilarious, great chemistry with other cast members, starting with Josh Radnor (Ted), it was simply awesome.
It’s nothing new to see people using the Internet, blogs, YouTube, all kinds of things to promote a new movie or a TV show. Viral marketing is a very strong and widely used technique nowadays, but sometimes it always happen, things get pushed just one bit too far.
The latest example of such of a thing happened very recently, when The Office star Rainn Wilson went crazy and kidnapped the adorable Jenna Fischer to ensure that everyone would go and see his new movie…
From Jenna’s MySpace :
A PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM JENNA’S “FRIEND”, RAINN WILSON
Hey there Jenna’s MySpacers!
My name is Rainn Wilson and I’ve kidnapped the lovely Jenna, put her, bound, in the trunk of my firebird and logged onto her MySpace to send out this bulletin.
To free America’s sweetheart, Pam Beesly, one half of the magic which is ‘Jam’, you must attend my new movie, ‘The Rocker’, which opens August 20th.
As soon as the film grosses 18.7 Mil, she will be released and given a peach smoothie.
(S01E11) When it premiered, I wasn’t anywhere near being a fan of this new series. But it seems that, and that might be the case with many (USA) series, with time things have gotten quite better and I’m now looking forward to a new episode every Sunday night. Of course, that won’t last for long as next week is (already) the season finale, but before we say goodbye to Mary and her dysfunctional family we had to see all Hell broke loose in their little world.
From day one we had this ongoing plot about Mary’s sister Brandi and all the drugs she was carrying, because if you have to hide a pile of drug, what better place than your U.S. Marshall sister’s home ? We knew it would eventually all go down and be a huge mess, we knew Brandi was nowhere near as smart as her sister and would obviously end up in deep trouble.
This week, it all started to collapse, and it was pretty awesome!
It’s summer time, a time during which the amount of what is actually worth watching on TV is far less than what it is during the full TV season. Sure, we already have some great shows that have returned and other new ones who found their ways to our schedule, I’m thinking of Psych, or In Plain Sight, or any other shows, on USA or not. But since there are less on the (main) networks, it’s usually a time to watch either new series you missed last season, old series you never tried, or just cleaning your DVDr of series you weren’t able to keep watching on a weekly basis during the season.
I always like to do my share of such watching during the summer, and this year is no different. And, usually, there are also a list of shows I’m always curious about, even old ones I have still yet to try (e.g. Veronica Mars). This year, one name that was on my list was CBS’ canceled Moonlight. Then, after the overwhelming reactions from the still very much active and in love fans of the show, that name rapidly made the top of the list.
But then, I started thinking about it, and I wondered : Is Moonlight really worth watching ?
Well, I guess this is kind of a good news. The original plan for NBC was to have, in the beloved post-Superbowl slot, a combo of The Office, and the series premiere of that Office “spinoff” for which they had no idea whatsoever besides putting it there, in the post-Superbowl slot, and link it to The Office so that it should sell. *sigh* I hate NBC.
Anyways, after the whole mess surrounding this infamous spinoff “project” (which still hasn’t entirely dropped, even though the new Amy Poehler sitcom project is a different thing completely), things have changed and there will be only one show in the hour after the Superbowl, meaning the hit-sitcom The Office will have a special hour-long episode on February 1st !
Now, I’m not sure this is really the best thing ever, because last season the hour-long episodes were quite frankly not a success, with a second half-hour usually not as good as the first one was, or the show usually is.
Right, so recently I mentioned a couple of Internet series that were actually good (and funny), without going into any details or anything. And I don’t think I had any intention to come back at it, but then I found this hilarious little promo for The Legend Of Neil and, well, why not…
The Legend Of Neil, created/written/directed/produced/worshiped by Sandeep Parikh (Zaboo on The Guild), is a show about video game, sort of. From what I hear it is based on a famous Nintendo hit - The Legend Of Zelda - and I’m quite sure it is filled with references that all the geeks who played the game for years will love. That being said, I never played the game, and that isn’t stopping me from having a great time watching the show, because it’s obviously not targeted for gamers only.
(S03E04) So far this season of Psych has been a little different than all of the previous ones, because our favorite detectives never had to work on an “official” case, one for which they’d been hired by the police department (and for which they’d get paid). We always had something, more or less creative, to find our boys working out a new mystery outside of the usual application for their Psych agency.
And last week I remember wishing this would change, mostly because Lassiter & Juliet where sent back to not-so-good B plots that only allowed for them to have about 5 seconds of screen time each week, and close to no interactions with either Shawn or Gus. This week, it was both the same, and different — and in the end, it worked out pretty good!
By fred | August 12, 2008 
Because it worked so well last season, I guess. I mean, who didn’t love the amazing performances of Britney Spears, Mandy Moore and other Enrique Iglesias last season, right ? Right ? *sigh*
It’s nothing new to see people using the Internet, blogs, YouTube, all kinds of things to promote a new movie or a TV show. Viral marketing is a very strong and widely used technique nowadays, but sometimes it always happen, things get pushed just one bit too far.
(S01E11) When it premiered, I wasn’t anywhere near being a fan of this new series. But it seems that, and that might be the case with many (USA) series, with time things have gotten quite better and I’m now looking forward to a new episode every Sunday night. Of course, that won’t last for long as next week is (already) the season finale, but before we say goodbye to Mary and her dysfunctional family we had to see all Hell broke loose in their little world.
It’s summer time, a time during which the amount of what is actually worth watching on TV is far less than what it is during the full TV season. Sure, we already have some great shows that have returned and other new ones who found their ways to our schedule, I’m thinking of Psych, or In Plain Sight, or any other shows, on USA or not. But since there are less on the (main) networks, it’s usually a time to watch either new series you missed last season, old series you never tried, or just cleaning your DVDr of series you weren’t able to keep watching on a weekly basis during the season.
Well, I guess this is kind of a good news. The original plan for NBC was to have, in the beloved post-Superbowl slot, a combo of The Office, and the series premiere of that Office “spinoff” for which 
(S03E04) So far this season of Psych has been a little different than all of the previous ones, because our favorite detectives never had to work on an “official” case, one for which they’d been hired by the police department (and for which they’d get paid). We always had something, more or less creative, to find our boys working out a new mystery outside of the usual application for their Psych agency.
