Flash Forward S01E07 - The Gift "Promo"
Después de un gran capítulo 6, para mí, el mejor hasta ahora, todo se está poniendo interesante. Yo cada semana espero el siguiente capítulo, aunque ya hay bastantes seriéfilos que la han aparcado, precipitados creo yo. El personaje de Simon promete, me lo estoy imaginando con la voz doblada, y creo que debe perder bastante. Bueno aquí dejo la promo del next, por cierto sale una cara conocida para los fans galácticos.
The Joy of X
Being a self-proclaimed TV connoisseur I probably shouldn’t admit to watching shit reality TV, but around this time every year I can’t help but get sucked into the unrelenting media hype that surrounds ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ and the focus of this week’s blog: ‘The X Factor’.Ever since Simon Cowell decided to scrap the old ‘Pop Idol’ format in favour of the ‘X Factor’ concept we are all now familiar with, this show has been grabbing headlines like a Max Mosley orgy.
I maintain my theory that ‘Strictly’ remains the middle class reality show where as ‘X Factor’ manages to attract not only the intelligent but also the utterly moronic – how else do you explain the voting patterns of the show and the fact that everyone who appears on the show manages to achieve chart success the following week – I honestly believe William Shatner’s rap album would get to number one if Cowell let him on ‘X Factor’.
The judging panel and presenting personnel have undergone many changes in the show’s six year run but we are currently forced to endure a completely castrated Dermot O’Leary as host, Holly Wilo-boobies on ITV2 spin-off ‘The Xtra Factor’ and a judging panel consisting of the egos of Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh, Dannii Minogue and Cheryl Tweedy-Cole.
Looking at those judges, I know what you’re thinking – isn’t this a singing contest? Well the answer to that question would be a resounding no, but that said, I think the fact that, when it comes to the judges’ comments each week, the contestants are only ever interested in pleasing Cowell proves how much the other judges’ musical knowledge is regarded.
‘American Idol’ (maintaining the old ‘Pop Idol’ formula) remains one of the, if not THE, biggest show in America – a country with notoriously fickle TV watching habits. Cowell obviously is in involved in both and has this year taken his broadest steps yet to try and make ‘X Factor’ some sort of American ‘Idol’-lite.
Check back to my March post from earlier in the year American Idol Vs. X Factor to see a comparison between the two shows.
Cowell must be smart enough to realise though that ‘X Factor’ will never be ‘American Idol’ and it is his own fault that the two can not be realistically compared – ‘Idol’ has always been about the talent, ‘X Factor’ has always, and will always, be about the judges and their colossal egos.
I hate everything ‘X Factor’ is and stands for, yet I can’t help but watch and yell expletives at the screen anytime anyone other than Cowell opens their mouth. Bound for hell he may be for creating this monster, but Simon Cowell remains the only person on that show with a tiny shred of intelligence.
My personal vendetta against Cheryl aside, she offers nothing constructive to those contestants, blindly supports her acts and then cries if she doesn’t get her own way but that said she has more right to sit on that panel than Dannii Minogue. Dannii is only on that panel because they couldn’t get Kylie – that’d be like if Alec Baldwin had turned down ‘30 Rock’ and Tina Fey had got Stephen Baldwin.
Then there’s the old Sea Lion himself Louis “I liked it” Walsh – I really wanted to feel something other than utter disdain for the man when he returned to the show after the death of Stephen Gately and I sat there and tried to like him but within four minutes his uncontrollable evil began to shine through once again.
On the presenting front, Dermot O’Leary is almost unrecognisable from the ‘BBLB’ Dermot the nation knew and loved – he has openly talked about his hatred of the show in the press yet still stands there insincerely plugging the hell out of something he doesn’t believe in week after week – they could pay me all the money in the world it wouldn’t be a substitute for being true to myself – Dermot O’Leary is one of the biggest sell-outs in the world.
I never really watch the ITV2 show but I imagine it is the standard Holly Willoughby fare – dazed expression, incoherent babbling and two bouncy breasts on glorious display for the camera.
Looking back at last weekend’s shows just makes me angry, but here are some of the things that were wrong and remain fundamentally wrong with the show (and a few things that were right).
The highlight of the show each week remains mimicking the ridiculous intros that voiceover man does and laughing every time he tries to say “Rachel Adedeji”.
It was big band week which I’d already lamented in last week’s blog but surprisingly no one did the usual dogshit like ‘Mack the Knife’ or ‘Mr. Bojangles’ – instead we were left with a bunch of songs that weren’t even swing.
This fact seemed to escape everyone though until Louis decided to go ape on Jamie Afroman for doing U2. Louis puts his point across in such a petty way that he makes it impossible for anyone to like him, he’s like a child: “it’s not fair”. He didn’t just say it once though, he went on and on about how U2 wasn’t big band and how Bono would have been appalled – I’m sure Bono is on your speed dial Louis.
He did have a point to be fair to him – U2 isn’t big band, just like Blondie isn’t disco but that didn’t stop Diana Vickers doing that for ‘disco’ week last year did it? Louis’ comments wouldn’t have made him the most vilely hypocritical man in the World if, after he condemned Jamie for not doing big band, his own act: genetic experiment gone wrong John and Edward hadn’t taken to the stage and sung a Ricky Martin song – I must’ve missed Ricky Martin’s swing album.
And if we’re being pedantic (which I am) – how is ‘When You Wish Upon a Star’ big band? They really need to set some guidelines for the song choices during themed weeks or at least not have the judges sit there and have one rule for one and one for another.
But that is this show all over – how about another double standard from last weekend? The weekend before when Cheryl lost the terrible Ricky she openly and rather bitterly commented on John and Edward’s utter shitness – yet this last weekend she sat there with that false Cheshire Cat grin plastered across her face with what looked like a reject from Whitney Houston’s ‘Bodyguard’ collection in her hair and told the twin idiots how much she enjoyed their shtick.
Moving on to the results of this weekend and we have what is probably this show’s major problem – the voting. How can Danyl, who for the record is in a different league to everyone else on the show and was actually more engaging and entertaining than Westlife on Sunday’s show, end up in the bottom two when also-rans like the little wooden boy Lloyd and blander than bland Lucie sail through? It’s fucking retarded and proves the mental capacity of the people who vote on this show.
I’m a big fan of Jamie – I like his whole pub rock vibe but he shouldn’t win, Danyl should. Danyl is the only one of these contestants even close to having “the X factor” and if the show does what it is supposed to do and finds this country’s next big recording artist he just has to win, like him or not.
It was painfully clear from a few weeks in that Leona and Alexandra should win and the same applies here. That is why the conspiring and tactical voting among the judges is so appalling. I called it as soon as the vote started on Sunday night that Cheryl would send Danyl home – anyone with an IQ higher than one knows that Danyl and Miss Frank cannot be compared yet our little national treasure put the vote back on the public rather than standing up and having some balls; because she knew that if, by some miracle, Danyl had less votes she’d got rid of the surefire winner but actually hadn’t had to pull the trigger herself.
But alas, Danyl survived and Miss Frank have now gone back to their day job – scaring the Billy Goats Gruff.
Yes I hate the judges, the host, the format, the hype and pretty much everything about the show but for some reason I have to watch this infuriating spectacle.
This year’s line-up is one of the weakest I’ve seen and it honestly makes me wonder who they sent home if this is the final twelve, but out of the remaining contestants Danyl and Jamie are the best closely followed by Stacey. The rest are all just making up the numbers and need shipping out as soon as possible because only one man is worthy of winning this year’s show and it already looks like people are determined to prevent that…
Can I just remind you what happened the last time the rightful winner didn’t actually win?
Leon Jackson.
Need I say more…?
If you also want to be pushed to the brink of smashing your TV each week – ‘X Factor’ is on Saturday and Sunday night each weekend on ITV1.
Other Musings this Week:
- The ‘24’ Season 8 trailers hit cyberspace this week and make the new season look suitably awesome.
The general rule with these trailers though is that they only show footage from the four-hour premiere, which should be one hell of a spectacle if these trailers are anything to go by.
It was very nice to see Benito Martinez from ‘The Shield’ popping up in the trailer but no amount of awesomeness can make up for one very large gaping Almeida shaped hole in these trailers.
- Armando Ianucci’s sublime ‘The Thick of It’ returned at the weekend and very quickly got to work re-establishing itself as the best British comedy out there.
The new female minister is an extremely deserving recipient of Tucker’s vitriol and I look forward to several more weeks of seeing her get berated by the single greatest comedy character to emerge from these shores in years.I’ve heard a few mumblings that critics were less than enamoured with this opening episode, which completely baffles me – but these are probably the sort of people who think Michael McIntyre is funny.
Alongside ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ and the very impressive ‘Modern Family’, ‘The Thick of It’ is conspiring to give us a rare treat of three very funny shows all airing brand spanking new episodes at the moment
- Speaking of comedy, since TV or not TV relocated, and due to our lack of a dining table, tea times have seen me regularly tuning in for ‘How I Met Your Mother’ – a show I’m pretty sure I lambasted in an earlier blog.
Well I’m the first to admit when I’m wrong, and boy was I wrong about this one – E4 billed it up as being like ‘Friends’ when they secured the rights to it but ‘How I Met Your Mother’ is far superior to it’s more famous counterpart.
Edgier, more daring, often darker and a hell of a lot funnier ‘How I Met Your Mother’ deserves a larger following on these shores and hopefully if E4 hammer it in the schedules like they do with ‘Scrubs’ and ‘Friends’ then that could very well happen.
- When I was in Las Vegas one of the songs of the holiday (i.e. songs constantly on the radio), alongside Miley Cyrus’ unbelievably, and rather annoyingly, catchy ‘Party in the USA’, was Pitbull’s ‘Hotel Room Service’.
I returned to these shores to find it pumping out on Radio 1’s playlist only to find it was a remix featuring the unholy vocals of Pussycat Whore Nicole Scherzinger. Never has a remix ruined a song more – Scherzinger’s voice is akin to having a kebab skewer slowly inserted into your ear.
TV Moment of the Week:
- James Earl ‘Darth Vader’ Jones proving he still has it with an all too brief tour de force appearance on the back to basics new season of ‘House’ as a ruthless African dictator.
Take note kids, that’s real acting.
V - Season 1 "New Promo"
Nueva promo con alguna imagen inédita. Ganas son pocas de que empiece. Go go!!
Lost - Season 6 "Promo 1"
Primera promo de Lost y parece que se han tomado en serio lo de no enseñar ninguna imagen de la última Temporada y me parece perfecto.
Avatar "Trailer 2"
Ya tenemos el 2º trailer de Avatar en calidad decente. IM-PRESIONANTE!!
Clickar en HD.
V - Títulos de capítulos
Queda nada y menos para el estreno de V en nuestras pantallas. Ya tenemos los títulos de los primeros 4 capítulos, los únicos que vamos a ver este 2009, y que podremos continuar a partir de Marzo 2010.V - 1x01 - Series Premiere
V - 1x02 - There Is No Normal Anymore
V - 1x03 - A Bright New Day
V - 1x04 - It's Only The Beginning
Fuente: VisitorSite
The Big Bang Theory S03E06 - The Cornhusker Vortex "Promo"
Se nota una semana sin Big Bang. Tranquilos que la semana que viene vuelve y como siempre lo sabe hacer, con mucha gracia.
Heroes S04E08 - Once Upon a Time in Texas "Promo"
Con este capítulo volvemos a recordar viejos tiempos de la 1ª Temporada.
The Box "Trailer"
Hasta ahora no lo había visto, pero tiene una pinta bastante interesante. ¿Apretarías el botón?
Soundtracks - Recomendaciones 1
Primer post de recomendaciones de Bandas Sonoras Originales. Voy a recomendar algunas de las mejores que hay o han habido de películas, series, animación. El gusto es personal, así que a lo mejor no es del agrado de todos. Se remarcarán las canciones más destacadas. Empiezo con 3 de películas, que en mi opinión son de calidad alta.
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The FountainCompositor: Clint Mansell
Recomendadas:
01 - The Last Man
02 - Holy Dread!
09 - Death is the Road to Awe
MoonCompositor: Clint Mansell
Recomendadas:
05 - Memories (Someone We'll Never Know)
10 - Sacrifice
12 - Welcome to Lunar Industries (Three Year Stretch....)
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The Last SamuraiCompositor: Hans Zimmer
Recomendadas:
01 - The Last Samurai - A Way of Life
06 - The Last Samurai - Idyll's End
11 - The Last Samurai - A Small Measure Of Peace
24 - Season 8 "1 & 2 Promos"
Ya tenemos 2 promos de la nueva temporada y ¿última? de 24. Vuelve el Dios de la televisión. Espectaculares promos. Es que esta serie es lo más grande que hay.
True Legend (Su Qi-Er) "Trailer"
Director Yuen Woo Ping, el que se encargó de las coreografías de películas como Fearless, Danny the Dog, Kill Bill o Matrix. Seguiré la pista.
Sanctuary S02E03 "Comentario" y S02E04 "Promo"
Acabó siendo una fija en mi lista de series, y esta 2ª temporada lo ha confirmado. Sanctuary ha vuelto de la mejor forma y el final de este capítulo 3 lo ha demostrado. No creía que Ashley nos dejaría así, aunque cuando salieron las fotos promocionales de la 2ª Temporada, no se veía por ningún lado y parece que no formará parte.
Me gustaba el personaje, pero quien sabe, a lo mejor la volvemos a ver, aunque no tiene pinta. A ver como sigue la serie, en cuanto a la trama. Sanctuary entretiene y lo hace de la mejor forma y Syfy lo sabe hacer bien.Aquí la promo del siguiente capítulo:
Friday Night Lights - Season 4 "New Promo"
5 días para tener en nuestro hogar el 1º capítulo de FNL de esta esperada Season 4.
Flash Forward S01E06 - Scary Monsters and Super Creeps "Promo"
Después de un capítulo raro, en mi opinión, dejándome un poco descolocado, no sabía si había visto el capítulo anterior o qué. El presidente de los EEUU que sale de repente por ahí, con otras historias. Capítulo mal narrado, donde el cliffhanger no ha sido como los anteriores, donde seguro que Janis se recupera del accidente que ha tenido, por que, lo que pasará, pasará, no?
State of TV Address
I’ve had a while now to refamiliarize myself with my surroundings and get fully up to speed (almost) on what has been happening out there in TV land, so to usher TV or not TV back into regular circulation I’ve decided to give what may very well become an annual State of TV Address.A veritable smorgasbord of shows have returned to our screens in recent weeks, often without the slightest hype from the clueless channels we have over here – over in the US you get practically beaten over the head with the hype for new or returning shows – but my dissection of the gaping differences between UK and US TV shall be confined to last week’s post.
Instead, here are my thoughts on the current crop of shows that are lighting up, and in some cases: polluting, our screens:
Modern Family – I heard this hyped to the hilt on the radio during my trip Stateside and decided to take a punt on it Thursday as I had half an hour to kill and man am I glad I did.
The name is a little too close to ‘My Family’ which is what put me off initially but this show is the complete antithesis of ‘My Family’ – it’s actually funny. The show gives off a very ‘Arrested Development’ vibe with the whole so dysfunctional it’s bordering on the farcical family and much like ‘A.D.’ did when it dragged modern comedy out of the doldrums a few years back, ‘Modern Family’ has me very excited (and that’s not just because I get to ogle Sofia Vergara’s mammoth mammaries).
It’s brilliant getting to see Ed O’Neil back on our screens actually being funny; he is one of my favourite things about ‘Wayne’s World’ and is part of sitcom folklore for his tenure as Al Bundy on ‘Married… with Children’.
Elsewhere, the dynamic between the gay couple and the self-proclaimed “cool dad” are my highlights of this very funny show. Sky1 don’t tend to snap up sitcoms so that is a telling sign of how good this show is – check it out for yourself Thursdays @ 8pm (in between about fifteen episodes of ‘The Simpsons’).
Curb Your Enthusiasm – What can I say about this orgasm-inducing show that I haven’t said a million times before other than Larry David is an unparalleled genius.
The new season hit our shows last Thursday and it was better than ever, we haven’t even begun the ‘Seinfeld’ arc yet but I am confident that this is going to be up there as the best season so far.
Larry’s ability to take the simplest of everyday annoyances and transform it into some sort of gargantuan issue is truly something to behold. Thursday’s episode was a little light on the Leon (don’t worry he’s back on form this week) but it was heavy on everything that made us love Larry David in the first place. Rejoice fellow comedy lovers because the best sitcom in production is back and blacker than ever.
FlashForward – The most-hyped new show of the season has already been embraced en mass and is looking like it’s going to be another huge smash for ABC.
I’m already hooked, which means barring some sort of ‘Heroes’-esque capitulation in quality I’ll be hooked in until ‘FlashForward’ breathes it’s dying breath.
The cast is suitably ensemble like and thus far hasn’t made great use of many of the more interesting characters (but I have faith) my only hope is that they don’t ram Joseph Fiennes down our throat too much (no innuendo intended) as his character sadly is one of the least interesting so far. Much like Jack over on ‘Lost’ – this supposed leading man is rather dull; I’d far rather see more time devoted to the likes of John Cho’s Demetri.
Regardless of my minor quibbles this is still one of the most exciting shows to hit our screens since that brilliant (sob) first season of ‘Heroes’.
Peep Show – Along with ‘The Thick of It’ (more on that later), ‘Peep Show’ is the only truly funny comedy to come out of this country in the past decade or so and six seasons in it is still as razor sharp and stitches-splittingly funny as ever which is some feat for a British show.Season 6 has featured glorious appearances from all the usual suspects, Johnson and Super Hans stealing the show as always. It’s a real shame that the ‘Peep Show’ run is always over so soon, because it really is a joy to have such a well written show coming out of the UK.
X Factor – The more they try to be like ‘American Idol’ the wider the gulf between the two shows becomes, ‘X Factor’ is a horrible show, manipulating the morons who populate this country and feeding the massive egos of all those involved with it… Yet I tune in every week.
Actually that’s a lie, I tune in for the live shows, but I loathe myself for doing so. The final twelve this year really are dire – the winner has to come from Simon’s group and in my eyes it can only really be Jamie Afro or Danyl.
Next week is the annual Big Band week – and all I can say is why? It’s always shit, and how far do you think we’ll we get in before someone does ‘Mack the Knife’, one of the worst swing songs of all time? I give it until one of Cheryl’s munchkins takes the stage or that cheeseball Olly.
They definitely need some new theme weeks on ‘X Factor’ – I’m still lobbying hard for Warren Zevon week – imagine how great it would be hearing one of the wannabes doing ‘Werewolves of London’ – A-woooooo!
Scrubs – The final season of this always funny show has sneaked back onto our screens with little to no fanfare, surprising really when you consider how much E4 relies on it to fill their horribly empty schedules.
I say it’s the last season, but that’s not strictly true – in their infinite wisdom, for some reason ‘Scrubs’ will be continuing beyond this season but without most of the principle cast. So I guess we should enjoy the final crop of new episodes before they ruin the legacy of this show a la what ‘Joey’ did for ‘Friends’.
Never Mind the Buzzcocks – ‘Buzzcocks’ may have now lost Simon Amstell and finally said goodbye to Bill Bailey after seasons of fleeting appearances but it remains a TV highlight and when you compare it to the likes of ‘As Seen on TV’ still sets the standard for panel shows.
Noel Fielding is a spot on replacement for Bailey and the guest host rotation managed to find a permanent replacement last time in Amstell, so you never know who may be sitting in the host’s chair next season.
Generation Kill – was a show that I has earmarked for DVD purchase, so hats off to the powers that be at Channel 4 for airing this gritty Iraq war based mini-
series from the guys behind ‘The Wire’.As you’d expect coming from the geniuses that brought us the greatest TV show of all time, ‘Generation Kill’ is an unrelenting visceral assault – funny, touching and damn scary in equal measures.
The star of the show from this bunch of relative unknowns has to be James Ransone aka Ziggy from ‘The Wire’ who stars as a motormouth marine, other familiar faces include Lee Tergesen as a Rolling Stone reporter covering the war and ‘True Blood’s Alexander Skarsgard.
If you’re looking for a overly dramatised version of the war with explosions and shoot-outs every five minutes don’t waste yours and my time, but if you want a realistic portrayal of what life is like for the young men who risk their lives across the world then dip in and check out another masterpiece from David Simon and Ed Burns.
House – now Sky1 have picked up Hugh Laurie’s acerbic MD we are finally getting up to speed with the American air dates of the show. Hence season 5 finished and we were launched straight into season 6 as House battles his demons after a stint in a mental institute.
The season openers with House at the institute were strange, in that we didn’t see the rest of the cast, save for a brief Wilson cameo yet they were pretty enjoyable ‘special’ episodes once they got going.
As for the new season: it looks like Andre Braugher is going to be making recurring appearances as House’s psychiatrist (and friend?) which is good as he is a damn fine actor. We could also be seeing some more on-off drama with Thirteen and Foreman, which I could really do without.
‘House’ still remains one of the most popular shows on TV and it’s easy to see why – drama, comedy and a great cast make it a show very easy to fall in love with. If you haven’t made an appointment yet I suggest you do so.
Lie to Me – Tim Roth’s House-lite has also had a quick turnaround on season airdates in the UK and this second season seems to have gotten off to a much darker start.
The ‘Scooby-Doo’ nature of the show that ran throughout season one also seems to have been thankfully scaled back and I suspect FOX think they are on to a winner here. Tim Roth remains superb as the face-reading Dr. Lightman but the poorly developed female characters remain an irritating distraction from Roth’s greatness.
That said, ‘Lie to Me’ remains an albeit slightly derivative cut above the usual camel dung stinking up our screens.
Dollhouse – I really want to love Joss Whedon’s latest TV effort but they are making it so fucking hard!
The first season was, by their own admission, not the best, with too many story of the week episodes but towards the end of the season as they started to focus more on the ‘Dollhouse’ mythology they seemed to hit their stride.
With that in mind, hopes were high for season 2 when it began recently… so how do they begin? By reverting back to story of the week storytelling with little to no focus on the show’s overall mythology.
It’s recently been announced that FOX have put ‘Dollhouse’ on hiatus until December so I think it’s safe to say that the bell is tolling for Echo and co. My only hope is that ‘Dollhouse’ can at least reach some of its potential before it disappears forever.
Strictly Come Dancing – The BBC’s Saturday night contender in the reality war has finally got going and although I was outraged to return from Sin City to discover that Richard Dunwoody had been voted out I’m enjoying watching ‘Strictly’ a hell of a lot more than its ITV rival.
My wager on Jade Johnson is still looking good as the Olympian continues to improve each week but it looks as though the winner has already been decided and will be either Ali ‘shagger’ Bastian or Ricky Whittle. I wouldn’t be completely against either of them winning, but Jo Wood seriously needs to go – how she remains is beyond me.
Sure, John Sergeant lasted way longer than he deserved to last year but he had likeability, Wood is not only a vacuous, gaping chasm void of personality but she’s partnered with Brendan ‘Pants Man’ Cole. I can only assume she’s riding the wave of the feminist sympathy vote much like Ulrika Jonsson did back in January. I was disappointed to see Calzaghe go last Saturday, he danced like Lieutenant Dan from ‘Forest Gump’ but he’s a good bloke and at least kept us entertained.
‘Strictly’ remains the benchmark by which these types of shows should be measured and it continues to baffle me how ‘X Factor’ continues to pummel it in the ratings, maybe my theory that ‘Strictly’ is the middle class reality show is right and the numerous nimrods that make up our population would rather sit down on a Saturday night and watch someone sing out of tune for their entertainment.
Then again maybe the opportunity to watch a couple of test tube grown simpletons dressed in red PVC doing the creepiest routine imaginable is too alluring for the majority of the country.
Other Musings of the Week:
- A new series of the best British sitcom of all time (there, I said it) ‘The Thick of It’ begins Saturday on BBC2 on Saturday @ 10.10pm. ‘Nuff said.
- I find it rather delicious that The Daily Mail is currently on the receiving end of a glorified witch hunt after it instigated its own last year with Sachsgate.
The heinous comments made about Stephen Gately by the equally odious Jan Moir have rightly been condemned pretty much universally but I think some people may have reacted a bit too strongly to her comments after all it’s only words…
- I happened to catch a bit of Jordan on ‘The Graham Norton Show’ on Monday and although she’s always looked like some sort of living blow up sex doll she was still reasonably attractive, but now she looks like some sort of grotesque clown.
She and new cross-dressing sex toy Alex Reid don’t spoil a pair – they’re two of the least convincing women I’ve ever seen.
And how the hell can that woman be up for Mum of the Year – who else is on the shortlist Casey Anthony?
- E4’s new ‘comedy’ ‘School of Comedy’ looks like it could be the least funny show of the year, in fact there were probably more laughs at Michael Jackson’s funeral.
It amazes me how utter sopping gash like this even gets commissioned and the main kid who has been featured very prominently in the ads for the show has the most punchable face to hit a TV screen since Nick Griffin's 'Question Time' appearance. He also has a voice so grating it makes me want to grate a cheese grater across my scrotum just to numb the pain.
Get this wank off my TV now!
TV Moment of the Week:
- Has to be this brilliant line from the fantastic ‘Generation Kill’ – closely followed by Larry David trying to open his vacuum-sealed SatNav pack on the magnificent new season of ‘Curb’ – as the marines rolled into Iraq, the rather unexciting nature of the whole process was captured brilliantly by Alexander Skarsgard’s Colbert (great name by the way) when he alerted his travel buddies to the exploding skyline with
“Wake up… You’re missing the invasion”
More next week...
Dollhouse...que sucede
Ahora la Fox dice que transmitirá Dollhouse este Viernes, capítulo 4, y que hasta el 4 Diciembre no volverá a la pantalla. Después de confirmar que ha obtenido temporada completa de 13 episodios, hacen un parón de estas dimensiones. Se han equivocado al renovarla? se merecía TSCC la renovación más que Dollhouse?
Yo solo he visto el 1º de la Season 2, y ahí me he quedado porque me aburrió soberanamente. Creo que la serie no seguirá para una 3ª temporada, y aunque la canvien de día, no subiría de audiencia, o a lo mejor la renuevan otra vez para ponerla otra vez los viernes, ya que es muy difícil programar algo para ese día. Porque Whedon aún no me ha demostrado nada para considerarlo como dice mucha gente uno de los buenos.
Riese The Series
Riese The Series, serie que trata sobre un viajero llamado Riese, una vagabunda aparentemente al azar, que huye por las tierras de Eleysia con su lobo, Fenrir. Perseguido por un grupo religioso aterrador, la Secta, Riese debe eludir a los asesinos que han sido enviados para matarla y descubrir su objetivo verdadero.
Estreno previsto para 2 Noviembre 09 a través de servicios on-line.
The Big Bang Theory S03E05 "Comentario"
- Kill Wil Wheaton!
- From hell's heart, stab at him!
Cada semana, cada Martes esperando Big Bang, y ahí está, sin defraudar cada semana. Este capítulo con invitado especial Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher en Star Trek: The Next Generation). A parte de que nos hace reír como ninguna, el nivel de frikadas es brutal y eso hace que sea una de mis preferidas. Pero tampoco hay que olvidarse de Wolowitz, que cada vez que abre la boca, es para sacarte una carcajada. Que siga así cada semana.
Syfy revisiona V
Syfy se prepara para la nueva visita de V a partir de Noviembre. En los días próximos al estreno dará por su canal:
Noviembre día 1:
V: The Original Miniseries
V: The Final Battle
V: The Original Miniseries
Noviembre día 2:
Maratón todo el día de V.
Noviembre día 3:
Otra maratón.
Por otra parte ABC pretende colgar del cielo mensajes con V gigantes en 26 ciudades americanas. Esto es ir fuerte con la serie.
The Cup of Tears "Trailer"
Interesante trailer, vaya aspecto visual, artes marciales + animación. La seguiremos muy de cerca.
Battlestar Galactica - The Plan "Comentario"
Todos los fans estábamos esperando The Plan, para ver qué cosas nuevas nos podían contar sobre la historia. Y bueno, contar poco, desde mi punto de vista. Eso si, hay que decir que los primeros 20 minutos han sido espectaculares, esas naves Cylons apareciendo en la órbita de Caprica, o esas bombas nucleares bajano del cielo. Todo un espectáculo visual acompañado del gran McCreary.
Por lo demás, todo ha sido como un resumen de las 2 primeras temporadas, incluyendo escenas ya vistas. Datos a destacar es lo sucedido con Boomer, donde descubrimos que no era del todo un cylon, el lado humano le atraía un poco más, cuando disparó a Adama. También como todos los planes de Cavil para desbancar a la raza humana fallan una vez tras otra. Y me ha sorprendido el porqué de la admiración de Leoben por Kara, ¿Por qué ha podido manejar un Rayder? Un poco forzado, aunque no entiendo el Flash Forward que ve Leoben al tocarla. No he podido ver mucho más sobre The Plan. Aunque Cavil ha estado como siempre. Me encanta este actor.Cabe destacar la canción de los créditos, la misma que nos presentaban en la intro de cada capítulo, pero un nuevo remix. Si la queréis descargar, aquí.
Flash Forward S01E05 - Gimme Some Truth "Promo"
Creo que la serie se tendría que llamar, Cliffhanger. Cada capítulo nos dejan con ganas de más. Grande después de saber que ha obtenido Temporada completa.
Heroes S04E06 - Tabula Rasa "Promo"
Me gusta este Volumen 5. Heroes vuelve a parecerse a una serie normal.
What I Learned from Watching US TV the Week (and a half) Before Last
So I'm now back from a place where the regular laws of society and human decency do not apply - Las Vegas, Nevada of course… and I’m also now moved into my (first) new home albeit still internet-less so I come to you today one last time (hopefully) from TV or not TV's former 'offices'.During my trip Stateside I made a few notes on some televisual observations I made during my early morning, early evening and late night TV viewing and I also managed to catch some of the shows that I previewed before my vacation from the blogosphere as well as the new seasons of some of our old favourites so now I will recant my US TV experience to you in (hopefully) descriptive, techni-colour glory and tell you just what I Learned from Watching US TV the Week (and a half) Before Last...
- ‘NCIS’ is on all the time on the USA network. The Mark Harmon-starring original tepid naval investigation series was literally on every time I flicked across USA, either that or the slightly less tepid ‘Numbers’ which stars the always enjoyable David Krumholtz.
- We need more celebrity starring adverts in the UK rather than the z-list likes of Katona and Nesbitt we are forced to endure. Out there you've got Morgan Freeman voicing the Visa ads, President David Palmer pitching All State insurance and Ryan Seacrest hocking mouthwash (quite appropriate seen as his name sounds like a mouthwash) even at Manchester airport there was a massive Kevin Costner staring back at me promoting - get this - Turkish airways - no slogan just Dances with Wolves' face and a big Turkish plane - why can't we have that on our screens in between Corrie!?
- The 24 hour networks are even more scaremongeringly paranoid than you could ever imagine when you can experience them raw, in the flash and 24 hours a day. I suppose they have to come up with something to fill those 604,800 seconds of air time each week don't they...? Speaking of which...
- Fox News' distorted truth and paranoia really has to be seen in all its misinformed, manipulative glory to be believed. Whether it's comparing a school singing a song about Obama to Nazi Germany or their utter revelling in Chicago's failure to land the Olympics for a network of schmucks who claim to love America they sure have a funny way of showing it.
- The US TV habit of putting post-watershed films on before the watershed is utterly pointless. Why put a violent, profanity-laced film on at 11am if you're just going to cut all the best bits (the violence and
the swearing) out? I was happily watching ‘The Rock’ (the film, not the actor) one evening when it got to one of my favourite bits (which, in that film is any scene that involves Sean Connery speaking - seriously he could make any line sound cool) where Connery breaks through the two-way glass of the interrogation room and grabs FBI director Womack by the throat. "Womack why am I not surprised you piece of shit" - great line.There I am repeating the script verbatim line for line when a clearly dubbed "dirt" replaces "shit" - to say I was thoroughly disgusted is an understatement. What's next "yippe-ki-ay motherfudger"?
That said,
- You can pretty much find something decent to watch on US TV at any time of the day, morning, noon or night - sure there is the usual dross filling the schedules but everything is better even gash daytime tele, instead of Jeremy Kyle you've got Springer instead of those heinous Loose Women you've got ‘The View’, who, granted are still harpies but you get Whoopi Goldberg instead of Kate Thornton (go figure) and guest-wise the likes of Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon rather than Katie fucking Price.
- The 'loads of adverts' stereotype about US TV really isn't a stereotype. It's stone cold fact. The one way that British tele trumps its US cousin is that we don't cut to and advert after every line of dialogue or sporting play - it really is that bad.
Granted US adverts are a trillion times better than ours but I still don't want to watch them every five seconds.
- A ‘Saved by the Bell’ reunion truly would be awesome. Justin Lee Collins really needs to ‘Bring Back...’ ‘Saved by the Bell’. The former cast members crop up all over TV - Mario Lopez (everywhere) Tiffani Thiesen, still looking smokin’ hot, in the new ‘White Collar’ (which along with ‘Trauma’ look like two of the better debuting shows this fall season) ‘White Collar’ also stars ‘Tru Calling’ alum Matt Bomer looking markedly more charismatic and less wooden than he did on ‘Tru Calling’ and Mark Paul Gosselaar on ‘Raising the Bar’.
A reunion show would be great. I'd particularly love to see Dennis Haskins aka Mr. Belding again and to see if Elizabeth Berkley has actually filmed a role yet where she doesn't get her muff out.
- The new season of ‘Heroes’ looks dog even with the addition of T-Bag. Even the great Robert Knepper looks as though he won't be able to save Tim Krig's increasingly awful, once great, show. I caught a bit of one episode and it really was so bad that I turned it off, I didn't particularly want to watch an episode out of order as I obviously haven't seen the previous episodes, but as you'll see in a minute with ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ if the show is good you can't help but watch - it was very easy to switch Matt Parkman and his imaginary Sylar off and that is a very ominous sign for this show.
- Season 7 of ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ is going to be abso-fucking-lutely awesome. I managed to catch an entire episode of one of the shows that I was mouthing off about before my hiatus, the genius that is Larry David's ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ and let's just say that I had high hopes and they were more than met (and this episode hadn't even seen the ‘Seinfeld’ reunion arc start).
The Blacks may have now left Larry, but thankfully the genius that is Leon will be sticking around for the season, a wise move indeed. A great moment in what was episode 2 of the new season saw the Blacks leave just as Leon returned - Larry: "They've gone. So I guess you'll be..." Leon (clutching a big bag of Chinese food): "...Going up to my room and eating this fucking Chinese food". I love that man.
- ‘Bored to Death’ is going to be brilliant and needs to find a home on UK screens soon. One of my other five big ones that I tipped up last time I was here was ‘Bored to Death’ and given my uncertainty over whether it will ever make it over here (it should) it was the one show I really wanted to catch when I was Stateside. I managed to catch about half an episode and it was every bit as good as I imagined but the shock was that Zach Galifianakis, while still very funny, didn't still the show (in what it has to be said is a very-reigned in performance from the uber-funnyman) Ted Danson breezed in and completely bogarted the show.
Danson is inspired as Jason Schwartzman's sleazy "herpes riddled" publisher and plumbs darkly comic depths I never even knew Danson was capable of - imagine the amplified version of himself from ‘Curb’ and multiply that by about 50 and you'll be someway to appreciating how great Danson is in this show (and I only saw about 20 minutes!). I can rest assured, thanks to multi-region DVD players and hopefully another Stateside jaunt next year that I will eventually get to appreciate this latest addition to HBO's fine collection of programming but if more British people don't get to see this brilliant, brilliant show then it really will be a travesty.
Join me next week for My State of TV Address where I will be discussing the state of UK TV at the moment – a lot has happened in the month I’ve been away so it should be very interesting…
- The new season of ‘Heroes’ looks dog even with the addition of T-Bag. Even the great Robert Knepper looks as though he won't be able to save Tim Krig's increasingly awful, once great, show. I caught a bit of one episode and it really was so bad that I turned it off, I didn't particularly want to watch an episode out of order as I obviously haven't seen the previous episodes, but as you'll see in a minute with ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ if the show is good you can't help but watch - it was very easy to switch Matt Parkman and his imaginary Sylar off and that is a very ominous sign for this show.
- Season 7 of ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ is going to be abso-fucking-lutely awesome. I managed to catch an entire episode of one of the shows that I was mouthing off about before my hiatus, the genius that is Larry David's ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ and let's just say that I had high hopes and they were more than met (and this episode hadn't even seen the ‘Seinfeld’ reunion arc start).
The Blacks may have now left Larry, but thankfully the genius that is Leon will be sticking around for the season, a wise move indeed. A great moment in what was episode 2 of the new season saw the Blacks leave just as Leon returned - Larry: "They've gone. So I guess you'll be..." Leon (clutching a big bag of Chinese food): "...Going up to my room and eating this fucking Chinese food". I love that man.
- ‘Bored to Death’ is going to be brilliant and needs to find a home on UK screens soon. One of my other five big ones that I tipped up last time I was here was ‘Bored to Death’ and given my uncertainty over whether it will ever make it over here (it should) it was the one show I really wanted to catch when I was Stateside. I managed to catch about half an episode and it was every bit as good as I imagined but the shock was that Zach Galifianakis, while still very funny, didn't still the show (in what it has to be said is a very-reigned in performance from the uber-funnyman) Ted Danson breezed in and completely bogarted the show.
Danson is inspired as Jason Schwartzman's sleazy "herpes riddled" publisher and plumbs darkly comic depths I never even knew Danson was capable of - imagine the amplified version of himself from ‘Curb’ and multiply that by about 50 and you'll be someway to appreciating how great Danson is in this show (and I only saw about 20 minutes!). I can rest assured, thanks to multi-region DVD players and hopefully another Stateside jaunt next year that I will eventually get to appreciate this latest addition to HBO's fine collection of programming but if more British people don't get to see this brilliant, brilliant show then it really will be a travesty.
Join me next week for My State of TV Address where I will be discussing the state of UK TV at the moment – a lot has happened in the month I’ve been away so it should be very interesting…
Friday Night Lights - Season 4
Justamente quedan 18 días para el comienzo de la 4ª temporada de Friday Night Ligths y para eso necesitamos estar un poco informados de las nuevas incorporaciones en Dillon.
La familia Tylor estará al completo. La serie no sería lo mismo si hubiera habido una baja en ella. Tim Riggins seguirá, lo mismo con Matt Saracen y Landry Clarke.
Por el lado de las incorporaciones tenemos a Becky Sproles, Jess Merriweather, Vince Howard y Luke Cafferty.
Aquí las descripciones de los personajes para esta temporada.
Naruto Shippuden Opening 6
Vaya pasada de Opening. Se avecina buenas animaciones en este momento de la serie.
The Dark Knight - Injection
Una de las mejores películas que se han hecho y uno de los mejores temas que he escuchado, Hans Zimmer - Injection.
Dollhouse - Summer Glau se presenta
A falta de ver el 2º de Dollhouse, me da un palazo enorme ponerme a ello. Os presento a la nueva incorporación de Dollhouse, Summer Glau. Veremos su puesta en escena en el capítulo 5, The Public Eye. Con este fichaje creo que tiene que subir el nivel de la serie, aunque por el camino que va...
V - Cast Promotional Photos
Tengo mono de V, aunque me tira para atrás, sabiendo que solo se emitirán 4 capítulos este 2009 y que casi toda la temporada se mueve a Marzo 2010 después de los Juegos Olímpicos de Invierno y además de los parones de grabación que ha sufrido la serie, por desconformidades con la cadena. Pero bueno, se esperá con ganas, después de un gran estreno como Flash Forward. Y ahora un poco de fotos promocionales.
Friday Night Lights - Seaon 4 "Promo"
Sólo quedan 2 semanas. Promo al nivel como la que hicieron para la 3ª temporada.
The Crazies "Trailer"
David Dutton (Timothy Olyphant) es el sheriff de Ogden Marsh, un casi-perfecto pueblo pequeño americano donde todos sus habitantes obedecen la ley.
Sin embargo, una noche, uno de ellos acude a un partido de baseball cargado con una recortada listo para matar. Otro hombre prende fuego a su casa después de encerrar a su mujer e hijo pequeño en un armario.
Algo está afectando a los ciudadanos del lugar... convirtiéndoles en seres completamente locos.
El sheriff, su mujer embarazada, una asistente del centro médico y el ayudante del sheriff trataran de hacer lo posible por escapar de lugar con vida...
Fuente: Aullidos
Fan phone
Lo que fue una anécdota en la historia de 24 y el famoso "24 fan phone", ahora es una oportunidad de negocio para una innovadora empresa. ¿No más números de teléfono falsos en la televisión?.
Usted sabe cómo los números de teléfono en programas de televisión y películas, casi siempre comienzan con el muy falso “555". Hay una empresa nueva - We've Got Your Number - que no hace más que proveer números de teléfono verdaderos para producciones de cine y televisión.
No habiendo números “555“, añadirá un pequeño extra de la realidad a los guiones de nuestras series y, si los productores y los equipos de marketing de las cadenas son tan inteligentes como la gente de 24, van a ver que es también una oportunidad para conectarse con los fanáticos.
La mayoría de aficionados de 24 saben acerca de teléfono de 24 (24 fan phone). El número (real) de teléfono 310-597-3781 se utilizó como el número de teléfono móvil de Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) en el programa, y los espectadores que hemos llamado a veces han tenido la suerte de llegar a un miembro de la producción e incluso con Carlos Bernard en alguna ocasión. El Teléfono celular de Jack es tan popular con los fans de 24 que incluso inspiró su propia página MySpace.
Fuente: Team 24
Es que estos de 24 son unos cracks!!