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WWE needs to calm down the SEC ASAP {TV Squad}
Jun 22nd 2009 3:55PM You know, the Dr. Who connection (about coming in and saying who the next champion will be) could well be one of the most innovative ideas they've run in a long, long time. Perhaps a backstage skit where a wrestler goes to visit a psychic, who turns out to be right. Or a "Boogieman"-like character who wanders around backstage telling other wrestlers things like "Beware the ghost of Doink!" and then have that guy lose his match when Hornswoggle the midget comes out from under the ring dressed like a clown.
Or why not just go all the way and do some sort of crazy Back To The Future gag where a time machine appears, somebody jumps out and announces that they have to save John Cena from something horrible, and then disappears again?
The possibilities are endless. It'd be a fun way to poke fun at the whole "scripted" thing.
WIll Scrubs become the Christopher Turk, M.D. show? {TV Squad}
May 22nd 2009 12:40PM Producers need to figure out how to break the paradox of "keep it fresh by changing up the whole location of the show" with "your dedicated followers love the way you wrapped up all the storylines they watched for 8 years so 6 months later please don't change it all on them."
Turk just got promoted to chief of surgery or whatever the heck his new title is. He's married to Carla who has been a nurse there longer than any of them were doctors. So while that's still fresh in our memory you're going to have him teaching at a medical school? Trapper John had that imaginary "Let's transplant this one character from this one series 20 years into the future" flexibility. Scrubs doesn't have that.
Hey Kara, why not write a song everyone can sing? {TV Squad}
May 21st 2009 9:14AM Come on, has anybody in the history of show really cared enough about the original song to swing a vote? It's completely a gimmick so that they'll have something other than a cover to launch as a single. From an entertainment perspective it's a stupid idea. The finale of the whole season is two people singing the exact same song one after the other? How boring, for both of them.
At least have them sing that first or something, and let them end on the song of their choice. Mix it up a little.
American Idol: We have a winner! {TV Squad}
May 21st 2009 9:10AM Kris winning does make you at least wonder a little bit about the rumor from weeks back that it was fixed and that Kris would indeed be the winner.
I think the problem is that people got sick of Adam. A couple of times in a song, go ahead and hit a high theatrical note and impress everybody, that's fine. But somewhere along the line he started singing most of the song in that high screechy voice. He could have come across like a throwback to 80's "power scream" hair metal, which may have worked, but he ended up sounding like he'd be better off at a drag queen show.
I like the *idea* of Adam better. His "Mad World", "Tracks Of My Tears" and a couple of others were great. But Kris is far more marketable, if a little boring for my taste.
Scrubs duo moves on to NBC's Community {TV Squad}
May 14th 2009 9:02AM I'll give it a shot, but in the history of television comedy has the premise of "Normal guy X is forced to perform role Y" ever worked out? Isn't that kind of what the whole foundation of the Seinfeld "pilot" was all about, the ridiculous premise of forcing somebody to be somebody else's butler?
I'm hoping that was just poor word choice and it ends up more like "chose to go back" or "felt he had to go back" or something. "Forced" sounds like a judge with a gavel and a poor script. "Because of your 75th DUI, I hearby sentence you to teach at a local community college." ???
And the winner of The Celebrity Apprentice is.... {TV Squad}
May 11th 2009 11:43AM That wasn't hard to guess, here's what I wrote on the poll last week:
>See, I think it's too obvious that Annie will win. I'm >betting that, once the final teams are formed, we get a >bunch of "team rallies behind Joan...but nobody likes >Annie and won't work for her" stuff, which Trump >alluded to in "Annie, do you think people will follow you?"
>The only way to "win" is to be the one that Donald likes >the most for the role. He's already got the brutal >"nothing personal" guy who'll do whatever it takes - >Pierce. Does he need another one? It's not like they >*do* anything, other than present an image. So I think >that this time he's going to round out that image a bit >and soften the "anything goes" with more morals and >hard work and never giving up, etc etc etc... and Joan >wins.
Haven't watched the episode yet, but it sounds like it was pretty predictable. Unlike viewer vote shows, the Apprentice always comes down to simply who they want to pick. To win you have to be the one Donald wants. That's your lesson - sometimes the guy who gets the job isn't the one who did the best job, it's the guy who played golf with the boss, or the guy who is the nephew of the vice president ...
Who should win the Celebrity Apprentice? {TV Squad}
May 6th 2009 8:46AM See, I think it's too obvious that Annie will win. I'm betting that, once the final teams are formed, we get a bunch of "team rallies behind Joan...but nobody likes Annie and won't work for her" stuff, which Trump alluded to in "Annie, do you think people will follow you?"
The only way to "win" is to be the one that Donald likes the most for the role. He's already got the brutal "nothing personal" guy who'll do whatever it takes - Pierce. Does he need another one? It's not like they *do* anything, other than present an image. So I think that this time he's going to round out that image a bit and soften the "anything goes" with more morals and hard work and never giving up, etc etc etc... and Joan wins.
Memo from a Scrubs fan: please let the show die {TV Squad}
Apr 28th 2009 1:42PM Given how often we've compared Scrubs to MASH in the past, I hereby dub this attempt, should it come to pass, "AfterScrubs". Because we all know how well "AfterMASH" came out. Maybe they can still get David Ogden Stiers.
Everything about last night's Celebrity Apprentice was boring - VIDEO {TV Squad}
Apr 13th 2009 11:02PM The show is so blatantly over produced (to the point of being fixed) it's ridiculous. "Herschel's gonna be project manager." "No, pick Joan." "Ok, Joan." So, you know, coincidentally she can go head to head with the person she now - as of 5 minutes ago - hates.
What will be a wonderful irony is if Joan's team wins, and then Melissa ends up fired. I would enjoy that.
Although even better would be Melissa turning on her mother next week, leading to a Joan vs. Melissa final.
Dancing with the Stars celebrity updates {TV Squad}
Mar 28th 2009 9:10AM The show has always had people with dance training, guys as well as girls - how many boy-band members have been on the show? Maks is right that it's not fair, and it drastically skews the competition. But it would also be impossible to say to has that unfair advantage. How about all the athletes, with better strength, endurance and flexibility than your average tv star? Do they have an unfair advantage? If you cut out everything that could be considered an unfair advantage you end up with the Harrison Bergeron(*) version of the show, where everybody looks like Woz, Jerry Springer, Kenny Mayne and Master P.
(*) No relation to Tom.
