Month: July 2006 (Page 2 of 17)

Bullz-Eye’s TV Power Rankings Return!

July 29, 2006 /

Savor the moment, HBO. You currently own more than a quarter of our TV Power Rankings list, but with the imminent departure of “The Sopranos,” “Deadwood” and “Rome,” along with the TBD status of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and the oddly lengthy shooting schedule for the half-season “Extras,” the end of your reign as BE must-see TV could very well be nigh. For the moment, though, we heart you and wish you would ask us to the prom.

Unless Jack Bauer’s still single, in which case we’re spoken for.

Here’s a sample entry from our list:

13. Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO): It seems like a long time between seasons of this great comedy, and I often wonder during the show’s hiatus: What trouble is Larry David into right now? Last season, he had to decide whether or not to give one of his kidneys to Richard Lewis. Richard’s cousin, Louis Lewis, was (conveniently) in a coma and Larry kept visiting him in the hospital, secretly hoping that Louis would croak so that Richard could have Louis’ kidney instead. The other season-long storyline was Larry investigating the possibility that he was adopted, leading to several funny scenes with his supposed gentile birth parents. The show isn’t quite as fresh as it was in its first couple of seasons, but with episode titles like, “The Korean Bookie,” “The Christ Nail” and “Kamikaze Bingo,” how could you be? ~John Paulsen

Check out the full list here.

24, Deadwood, Entourage, External Entertainment, External TV, Lost, My Name Is Earl, News, Prison Break, Rescue Me, Reviews, Rome, South Park, The Office, The Shield, The Sopranos, TV, TV Action, TV Comedies, TV Dramas

The latest nominee for “Greatest TV Show Ever”

July 28, 2006 /

“Garth Marenghi’s ‘Darkplace.'”

This series – which originally aired on the BBC in 2004 – made its U.S. television debut last night on the Sci-Fi Channel, and I think I laughed harder at the premiere episode than I’ve laughed at any TV show since “Arrested Development” went off the air.

A description will never do it justice, but the best summary I can offer is that Garth Marenghi is a famous horror writer – think Dean Koontz – who, in the ’80s, created a drama called “Darkplace,” about a British hospital that just so happens to have a hellmouth within its walls. Margheni not only wrote and directed the show, he also starred in it, but the series supposedly suffered so many problems that, by the time it was cancelled, “it had already claimed six lives, caused three nervous breakdowns, and been subject to at least one visitation.” Now, however, in the midst of television’s creative drought, it’s finally being allowed to be shown again…and it’s interspersed with interviews with the former stars.

Oh, I should probably also add that Garth Marenghi is fictional, the show never existed, and it’s all a big put-on…or did you not figure that out from the above photo?

I can only imagine the Brits think it’s about ten times funnier than I do, since it’s parodying the low-budget, poorly-acted sci-fi / supernatural dramas that were all over their airwaves in the late ’70s and early ’80s.

If you go here, you can see the first episode. (It’s split into halves, but both parts are available to view.) Trust me, you’ll want to. I’m sure not everyone will think it’s funny, but, personally, I nearly pissed myself laughing.

TV, TV Comedies

Zach Braff IS Fletch

July 26, 2006 /

After a few years of being in the proverbial Hollywood pipeline, The Weinstein Co. has green lighted a film adaptation of Gregory McDonald’s Fletch Won to be written and directed by Bill Lawrence with Zach Braff in the title role. Prior to this, Kevin Smith had been entertaining the notion of doing the exact same thing, but it never came to fruition.

Personally, I’m glad to see this thing finally in the full-on go mode. Having read a number of the Fletch books and being a fan, I can safely say that the first Fletch was fucked around with so much that it barely resembled the book at the end. Of course, Fletch Lives was not even based on any of the books and managed to do even more disservice to the whole series. Lawrence and Braff promise to keep Fletch Won edgier, which is exactly what the other flicks needed. Fletch was not a slaspstick, pie-in-the-face story, but that’s what it became. The novels are filled with dry humor and always have a real sense of suspense in them. They’re hard to put down.

Unlike Chevy Chase…who really doesn’t need any more space wasted on him from me.

Actors, External Entertainment, External Movies, Gossip, Movies, News

What? A former boy-band member is gay? Preposterous!

July 26, 2006 /

Fiddlesticks. Does this look like the face of a gay man to you?

Clearly Lance Bass is just looking to steal the spotlight from JT’s new single, or possibly horn in on some of the media attention those two former 98 Degrees singers are getting. Between Drew Lachey’s winning the title of King Star Dancer and brother Nick’s public nursing of his she-devil-inflicted wounds, Lance is probably just feeling a little left out of the Boy Band Alumni limelight.

Gay, shmay. Next they’ll be telling us that Tom Cruise is gay, or something equally ridiculous…

Actors, Gossip

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