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Rosie O’Donnell’s Reality Show Complete Disaster

November 29th, 2008 Steve Anderson No comments

Hey kids, gather round–post-Thanksgiving joke time.  What do you call a show that can’t even get the ratings of Knight Rider on a bad day, hosted by a militant lesbian who couldn’t keep an audience paying attention in the first place?

Give up?

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Estate of Panic Has Me All Up In One

November 28th, 2008 Steve Anderson 2 comments

I really don’t like reality TV.

Starting things out like that may make you wonder, why am I going to write about something I hate so much?  Well, to be honest with you, most of the problem I have with reality TV is that the reality it portrays is a really unpleasant one.

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You Too Can Be Carl!

November 22nd, 2008 Steve Anderson 1 comment

Hey TV viewers!!

Are you fat, balding, favor sweatpants and a wifebeater with a horribly anachronistic gold chain and have more body hair than certain kinds of wildlife? Do you resent your neighbors and have no visible source of income?  Have you been held hostage by weightlifting equipment with ambitions of global domination?

If you have, well, you probably have a lot more fun on your weekends than you should, but you also may be able to land yourself a TV gig being none other than Carl in a live-action episode of Adult Swim’s food-based show with a title that has almost nothing to do with the show, Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

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South Park: The Ungroundable–Burn Down The Hot Topic

November 20th, 2008 Steve Anderson 1 comment

Well, that’s it, folks–another season of South Park is in the can and I’ve been following it all the way from Indy Jones getting repeatedly banged up the ass to this very moment.

And Matt and Trey went out with a…well…subdued bang as they went back to South Park Elementary and targeted the vampire craze that my colleague Liz just discussed recently and of course the upcoming release of the film / book series / collectible merchandise machine Twilight.

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As If We Weren’t Lazy Enough Already

November 19th, 2008 Steve Anderson No comments

Pretty soon, there is going to come a day where you no longer have to get out of the house.

In a sense, this is awesome…but in another equally real sense, this is scary.  But mostly awesome. See, TiVo is currently working with Domino’s Pizza to make it possible to order a pizza ON YOUR TIVO. Read more…

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Dead Like Me Back From The Grave–Temporarily

November 19th, 2008 Steve Anderson No comments

Okay, I’m really, REALLY happy about this, especially since I was so spectacularly fond of the show Dead Like Me back when it was on Showtime, which as you know is the home of stuff like Dexter now.  You can generally count on premium cable to put out good TV because they don’t have to kiss the FCC’s egomaniacal ass.

And as a result, we’ve got a sweet new piece of Dead Like Me that we can all enjoy. Read more…

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Network TV Hemorraging Viewers–Destination: Cable

November 17th, 2008 Steve Anderson No comments

The networks have more reason than ever before to cringe, as viewerships on even some of their best shows like Heroes are slipping.

Seems the viewers are packing it up and going with cable instead. Read more…

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South Park–Elementary School Musical. So You Can’t Win ‘Em All….

November 14th, 2008 Steve Anderson 1 comment

All right, so it’s another week and another episode of South Park has come and gone.

And this time, Matt and Trey hit a bit of a sour note by offering up a skewed take on High School Musical.

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Irony.

November 9th, 2008 Steve Anderson No comments

Bender sang about it on the then-final episode of Futurama, but man, did I never think I’d get me a dose of it quite like I got when I cracked open the news files this morning and saw this headline:

Jury Recommends Death Sentence For Power Ranger

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South Park: The President-Elect Is Here–Keeps Getting Better

November 7th, 2008 Steve Anderson No comments

Leave it to Matt and Trey to turn a presidential election into Ocean’s 11.

The worst part about the preceding?  I’m SERIOUS.  That’s the worst part about it.  South Park actually turned the presidential election into Ocean’s 11.

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