Lost will return on February 2nd at 9:00pm. That's a Tuesday, folks. Plan accordingly.
Also announced today: Chuck returns January 10th, Leverage returns January 13th.
Oh, and some talk show from Chicago is going dark in September 2011.
In celebration of Hanukkah, my friends over at Special Passenger Records are releasing a compilation album featuring a variety of bands from across the nation. The "Hanukkah Project" officially drops on December 3 at a dirty manischewitz throw down at 121 Studios. In the next few days, you should be able to order a copy of the Hanukkah Project, featuring a special pack of Hanukkah goodies (omg! a dreidel! omg! a menorrah temporary tattoo!), via Special Passenger's Etsy site: http://www.etsy.com/shop/speshpass
I'm impatient though, so you can download MY contribution to the Hanukkah Project right here, right now. Because really kids, I'm serious, you need to enjoy Hanukkah, and you need to start enjoying Hanukkah without any delay.
Download:
Os Chavez feat. MC Language Master - "Enjoy Hanukkah (album version)"
Os Chavez feat. MC Language Master - "Enjoy Hanukkah (extended dance remix)"
Steamimg:
The big news of the week is that Dollhouse is officially canceled. Fox is planning on airing the 13 episodes they ordered, but there will be no more. Honestly, I'm kind of relieved. It was an interesting idea for a show, and might have been successful with a better lead actress. Eliza Dushku is such a blind spot of Joss it's not even funny. In good Joss news, he's set to direct an episode of Glee in the near future.
The list of other shows heading to the scrapheap of TV history include Eastwick, Hank, Southland, Trauma. Poor Southland didn't even get a chance to air. NBC exiled it to Friday night and then canceled it the week it was supposed to premiere. The real problem there is that Southland is a 10:00 show. NBC no longer has any 10:00 slots because they're taken by The Jay Leno Show. Southland did get lucky, though. TNT has decided to pick up the show. They may not produce any more episodes, but they did buy the rights to at least broadcast the ones already in the can. On the other hand, ABC has ordered five more episodes of a show I'm not watching, The Forgotten.
I have also finally officially broken up with Heroes. It was the third thing on the Tivo at 8:00 and when House went on vacation for the baseball playoffs, I realized I really didn't want to watch it. So it's gone. Off the Tivo and off my Hulu list. Bye-bye Heroes.
AMC's remake miniseries of The Prisoner starts Sunday. Getting mixed reviews. The general consensus seems to be that Ian McKellan is good, the rest is meh. Still going to record and watch.
I also started watching V. I've only seen the first one so far, but it's promising. It's moving way faster than the original. ABC is only showing the first four episodes this fall. It's going to take a big break and then return sometime next year. Even if it's wildly successful this fall, it's going to suffer from the long break. The other problem is, V has already replaced its showrunner and has halted production and gone through the dreaded "retooling." So we'll see how it does when it returns.
There's a new show that I've been watching on USA called White Collar. I think I've finally gotten to the point where I'd recommend it. The fourth episode just aired, and the first ones are probably still up on on the interwebs somewhere.
I'd like to take this moment to point out that the word that gives me the dyslexic trouble to type is "episode." It takes me two or three tries every time to get it to come out right, and it's a word I type a lot. We now return you to your regularly scheduled vaguely newsish post.
The Who is going to play halftime at the Super Bowl. CBS has not yet announced the show that will follow the game.
There are rumblings that ABC is in talks to bring back Charlie's Angels.
In case you missed it, Sesame Street turned 40. Everyone who knows the Spanish words for open and close say a little thank you.
The Addams Family is headed for Broadway in the form of a musical.
If you didn't see this season of Mad Men, well, it's over, but you should check it out as soon as you can one way or another. Holy crap, what a good show.
I'm working on this tonight while watching the three night CSI crossover fiesta. I stopped watching CSI:Miami ages ago. It's even more orange than I recall.
CBS has picked up the rights to Shit My Dad Says, the first show inspired by Twitter. If you haven't seen the Twitter feed, go check it out. It's pretty funny.
I'm pretty sure I mentioned a while back that there was a live action/CGI Yogi Bear movie. Word now is that Dan Ackroyd will be the voice of Yogi and Justin Timeberlake takes on Boo Boo.
Oprah announced that she is ending the run of of syndicated show in 2011. It sounds like she's moving the show to her OWN network. That's Oprah Broadcast Network to us mortals.
Bon Jovi is appearing on the season premiere of Inside the Actors Studio. Not the singer/actor. The band. No joke.
SyFy is doing a reimagining of Alice in Wonderland called Alice. It premieres December 6th.
Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will co-host the Oscars, but that info might be trumped by the news that Ricky Gervais is hosting The Golden Globes.
There exists a Weezer Snuggie. I think I want one.
Rumor patrol: Several networks are negotiating with Apple for a $30/month subscription service. In related news, Hulu announced they are planning on starting to charge for access to content.
Comcast is set to buy NBC Universal away from GE as soon as this week. I think that will work out great, because Comcast has already proven itself a responsible network owner with the Versus/DirecTV clusterfuck. It actually might be perfect. I mean, there's nothing worth watching on NBC anyway, so if they take it away from me because I have DirecTV, then I won't actually be missing anything, right? Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Poor NBC.
In today's unnecessary British remake news, SyFy has announced they're making an American version of a show that so far has only had a six-episode first season, Being Human. Now it took me a couple weeks to warm to Being Human, but in the end, I really loved it. They're producing the second season now, and I'm really looking forward to it. I'm not at all looking forward to an American version.
NBC increased the season order of Chuck from 13 episodes to 19, and the rumors are increasing that the show will return earlier than March as promised. All good news. I think NBC really is sucking wind this fall and they even need help from a nearly canceled show.
Here's an interesting idea, CBS has started a service called Eye Alerts that will let you know when their sports coverage goes long, thus making their primetime shows start late on the east coast. It won't adjust your DVR for you, but at least you'll know.
Benjamin Bratt is going to reprise his role of Detective Rey Curtis on an episode of Law & Order this season. I'm really enjoying this current season/cast/incarnation of L&O. If you haven't been watching, and were a fan in the past, check it out.
Katee Sackhoff (that's Starbuck to you an me) is going to appear on an episode of The Big Bang Theory this month.
Blackadder and Fawlty Towers both got a remaster and re-release treatment recently. If you've never seen either, now's the time.
IFC has picked up the off-network rights to Arrested Development.
Fox has picked up a new reality show from the producer of Survivor, Mark Burnett, called Our Little Genius. A.K.A. exploit your gifted kid for money.
BBC America is running a Doctor Who marathon the week before Waters of Mars premieres and a Top Gear north pole special in December.
Punkin Chunkin, the show about hurling pumpkins returns to the Science channel Thanksgiving day.
Alright. That's about all I've got for today. More soon.
Tomorrow (November 15th for those of you not playing along in real time), the next Doctor Who special The Waters of Mars airs at 7:00pm GMT. It will air on BBC America on December 19th. It will air at my house sometime between those dates.
These specials are the beginning of the end for David Tennant's tenth Doctor, and he's been making the rounds in a fairly mad fashion this week. He hosted three days of a breakfast radio show, appeared on a couple different TV talk shows and just about anywhere else he could get his mug. It's been a bounty for us nutty fans. The most funny/bizarre thing that happened is that on his breakfast show run, he donated his old bed for auction to the Children in Need charity. Personally, I think the fix was in from the beginning, because the sponsor of the show ended up "buying" the bed, but we did get some funny/scary interactions with crazy fans because of it.
David Tennant finished his Doctor Who filming in May, and has been a busy boy since then. He's got one movie coming out this week, Glorious 39, a British period piece about a family on the eve of World War II. He's got another movie coming out in December, St. Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold. This one sounds about as far in tone from Glorious 39 as possible. Considering it starts Rupert Everett in drag, well, you decide.
But the biggest David Tennant news is that he's landed a pilot, Rex is Not Your Lawyer, for NBC. It's unclear if it's for the production company or the network itself, but still, these days NBC is a fate worse than Fox. The other thing that sounds frightening about it is that they're going to make him use an American accent. This sounds like an Incredibly Bad Idea to me. I guess if he's supposed to be an American lawyer, it makes some sense, but it seems such a shame. I've said it before, if you're going to hire a non-American actor, let him or her use their real accent. Either way it might not turn in to anything, but it's nice to see him getting some notice in the states.
In other BBC TV news, the new season of Top Gear starts tomorrow as well. The more I watch that show the more I adore it. Can't wait!
Movember - nu disco / indie dance / electro house / club rap
Peter tipped me off about "Movember" (growing a mustache to raise awareness about testicular cancer -yeah, I know, totally makes sense) but I also just like the name; sounds like you're trying to get more out of November. I definitely am.
In this mix, I went for faster cuts to the next song, just a few mins with each track. Also tried my hand with loops this time. Turns out loops are fun.
Meant to post this weeks ago. Thought I was going to finish it. Think I'll just start another one.
Let's start today with the latest rumors about the movie Thor. Rumor has it that Robert DeNiro and Jude Law have joined the cast.
Chris Pine, the new James T. Kirk, is in negotiations to be the new Jack Ryan.
This one's for you, Rob: Alex Proyas, director of Dark City among others, is working on a film adaptation of The Tripods. I like the idea of him as director. I like his style.
Roland Emmerich wants to make an Independence Day sequel, but won't do it without Will Smith. Which means never.
Bryan Singer is talking about returning to the X-Men fold. I would love an apology for X-Men: The Last Stand.
Joss Whedon's movie Cabin in the Woods is going to be held back a year, to 2011, to turn it in to 3-D.
ThinkGeek is actually making their April Fool's joke Taun Taun sleeping bag.
Fox and EA are teaming up to make a Spore movie. Chris Wedge is said to direct.
Did I know that Peter Berg was making yet another version of Dune?
Two of note this week. South Park returns Wednesday at 10:00pm Eastern and Mythbusters at 9:00. They're both shows hard to set a season pass for because they run a lot of repeats during the week. So if you want to see the new episodes of these two shows, it helps to be specific. Good luck.
I love FlashForward. That is all.
Firefly was canceled with 4.5 million viewers. Dollhouse was renewed with 2.7 million viewers. This simultaneously makes me happy and very very sad.
