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Put down the remote (Emmys 2009)

The Emmys still fail.
There, I said it.
Despite Neil Patrick Harris doing an incredible job (obviously way superior to last year’s abysmal opening), most of the results did suck.

Obviously, there were no major surprises regarding who won the major awards.
Overhyped much?

On a completely random subject, I was surprised to see Elisabeth Moss kissing Fred Armisen.

Turns out, they’re engaged.
(Yeah, I’m not one to peruse the E! Online pages)

And was that a dig from Glenn Close at the poor writing from Damages’ Second Season?
Said Close:

I wanna begin by thanking Todd, Glenn and Daniel for giving me, probably, maybe, the character of my lifetime — depending on what they do this season. (awkward laugh)

Anyways, Little Dorrit garnered the most Emmy wins of the night with a total of seven, closely followed by Grey Gardens.
I was pretty disappointed that Generation Kill didn’t win best mini-series. Poor Flight of the Conchords never had a chance either.
30 Rock is at five, one more than…Pushing Daisies, the second TV show on the list!
Kristin Chenoweth winning was both surprising and well-deserved.
HBO dominated the Emmys with 21 awards (NBC comes in second with 16, ABC third with 11, and FOX fifth with 10).

It’s funny seeing how the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences categorizes the web-based wins.
For instance, the network (yes) for Dr. Horrible Sing-Along Blog (which won “Outstanding Special Class – Short-Format Live-Action Entertainment Program”) is actually drhorrible.com.
For you Lost fans out there, in case you didn’t know, the show did win something else: “Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media (Fiction)”, thanks to the latest Dharma Initiative ARG.
As you might have guessed, the same thing applies here; dharmawantsyou.com is listed instead of ABC or some other studio.
Ironically, this was the worst received of all Lost ARGs.
That, and the website is now dead.

Even the NBC web-based content (such as The Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Digital Experience) is not filed under NBC but NBC.com.
It’s certainly an interesting shift to note, especially given the fact that this year’s broadcast seemed to be under the theme of network failure.

Moving on to the other wins, I was very happy for both Bryan Cranston and Michael Emerson and was even more ecstatic to see Kristin Chenoweth win.
Cherry Jones is a great actress but her 24 material was pretty weak compared to the extraordinary In Treatment.
Sadly, Colbert didn’t win anything. I’m awaiting the fallout next Tuesday.
There was a bit of an emphasis this year on Battlestar Galactica (probably since it was its last season).
First, a few clips were shown in the “One Year of Drama” section. Pretty late in the game for that, especially given the quality of the final season.
Also, Bear McCreary’s fantastic score for the series was used for the same section.
Pretty neat.

However, perhaps the most talked-about moment from last night’s show was the “surprise” appearance of Dr. Horrible.

Now that was great.

On the polar opposite, we have CBS advertising in the middle of an acceptance speech the In Memoriam!

What the hell?!

Despite this little mishap, and a few skits that bombed (like that “greatest TV fan badly seated” one), these 61st Primetime Emmy Awards were definitely enjoyable, if only for Neil Patrick Harris.
Certainly not for their results though.

Point and slash

Tron: Legacy has now a release date: Dec. 17, 2010.
It will, like Spidey 4, be digitally remastered for the IMAX.

As you probably have heard by now, District 9‘s Sharlto Copley and Jessica Biel are joining Joe Carnahan’s A-Team cast.
Bradley Cooper, Liam Neeson and Qinton “Rampage” Jackson have already been cast, respectively playing Lt. Templeton “Faceman” Peckn John “Hannibal” Smith and Sgt. “B.A.” Baracus.
Biel is set to play Faceman’s ex and Copley be Capt. “Howling Mad” Murdock.

Ron Howard is coming back at FOX with another comedy, this time multicamera, and about an IRS district office. The Simpsons/The Office‘s Brent Forrester will write the pilot.

Oh and Arianna Huggington will have her own multicamera sitcom for ABC, brought to you by How I Met Your Mother‘s exec Greg Malins. The show will be about “the friendship of three freshman members of Congress — two men and a woman — who live together in D.C.”

And since we’re (almost) on the subject:

Lorne, what have you done?

This post was long overdue…

Unsurprisingly, Megan Fox has today been officially announced as the Sept 26 host for Saturday Night Live‘s 35th season.

And after last week’s news, I’m wondering:
Seriously, what the hell is Lorne Michaels thinking?

A year ago, he was actively looking for more “diverse cast members” (read: someone who can do a decent Obama impersonation without blackface).
After auditioning dozens of incredible actors, it turns out he’s not hiring any of them and is sticking with Fred Armisen.
No offense to the latter, but I just don’t find his Fauxbama that good (same for Maya Rudolph’s Michelle I’m afraid).

That said, let me get Lorne Michaels’ thinking straight:
Everyone (including the President himself) is telling you to hire someone being able to do a good Obama impersonation, so you audition great comedians, and then you don’t hire any of them?

What. The. Fuck.

And now, he’s adding two new female cast peeps.
Okay, that’s a good thing.

But then he subsequently fires two other female cast members (Michaela Watkins and Casey Wilson)?!

What. The. Fuck.

I saw last year Watkins at the Groundlings, she was fantastic.
Though I’m not a big fan of the whole Today show skit, her other impersonations/characters on SNL are great.
Fortunately for her, she doesn’t seem über-pissed about the firing (and there may be a show for her down the line).

Now as for Casey Wilson, that’s a whole other thing.
According to E!’s Ted Casablanca, Wilson was asked to loose 30 pounds during the hiatus (and was fired because she didn’t).

What. The. Fuck.

SNL has now officially become a boring, safe, formula show, without anything new or groundbreaking about it.
I wish Watkins and Wilson the best of luck with all their future endeavours.
At least they won’t be limited to 5-second background roles anymore.