trailer break: ‘Everything Must Go’
I bet Will Ferrell is great in this. I will forgive him the next shitty big-budget movie he does if this is good and his performance is excellent.
question of the day: Is it too soon for a sitcom about an army bomb disposal squad?
It was 20 years after the Korean War ended before CBS gave us M*A*S*H. With the Afghan war still on, the BBC wants to make us laugh about bomb-disposal soldiers…
retro ad: 1980s Pit Fall videogame ad with Jack Black
Before he was Kung Fu Panda, Jack Black was the annoying kid in a videogame commercial.
trailer break: ‘Kung Fu Panda 2’
This looks pretty okay: not one single fart joke in the trailer.
question of the day: What is the most positive, most productive concept for a reality show you can think of?
Surely there must be a way to harness something of the worst-of-human-nature aspect that makes these shows popular while also highighting the best of what we can do…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: the cheek! Starz’ ‘Torchwood: Miracle Day’ trailer not available in the U.K.
Was this a deliberate snub to the nation that gave Torchwood to Starz? It’s hard to see how it could be an accidental oversight…
newsflash: Rapture publicist not raptured, still doing PR
This is why we can’t have nice things…
watch it: “Chewbacca + Ewok = Dance Off!!”
This is what geeks do for fun.
the last episode of Oprah Winfrey’s show airs today
Have I ever watched a single episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show? I don’t think so… maybe accidentally, some day in 1993 when I was home sick from work and lolling on the sofa and too miserable to change the TV channel…
trailer break: ‘Real Steel’
Ho. Lee. Shit. They did it. They finally did it. They made Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots: The Movie.
