Author: Will Harris (Page 236 of 261)

Will is a member of the Television Critics Association and has written for Decider.com, the Onion A.V. Club, The Dissolve, Indiewire, Rhino.com, TV Week Magazine, The Virginian-Pilot, Popdose.com, and EW.com along with writing for Bullz-Eye.com and Premium Hollywood.

His name is Jason Bateman…but you can call him Jake.

May 11, 2006 /

Bravo – part of the Universal family – is going out of its way to make the most of what was one of the coolest parts of the late, great network known as Trio: it’s created BrilliantButCancelled.com.

Yeah, we know, we’ve already hyped how they’re releasing the Brilliant But Cancelled series of DVDs, but this is something different. On BrilliantButCancelled.com, they’ll be streaming programs that aren’t scheduled for DVD release…and one of those is “The Jake Effect,” a sitcom starring Jason Bateman and the total fox known as Nikki Cox.

The funny thing about “The Jake Effect” is that it was put on the schedule for 2003, seven episodes were filmed…and, yet, it was yanked before a single episode ever aired. This panned out nicely for Bateman, of course, because it put him in the perfect position to take on “Arrested Development”…and, actually, it turned out fine for Cox, too, since she ended up on “Las Vegas” as a result. Now, you’ll get the chance to see these episodes online…and see if you missed out on anything. Plus, if you can’t be bothered to turn on your computer, Bravo will do a one-shot airing of the episodes on May 25th.

Now, if we could just get someone to release or re-show Bateman’s 1984 show, “It’s Your Move.”

News, TV, TV Comedies

Damn, Harold, why couldn’t you give US the exclusive…?

May 9, 2006 /

At the tail end of his interview with Bullz-Eye.com, director Harold Ramis hemmed and hawed about the film he was starting to work on with Owen Wilson, not wanting to chat it up very much because “I’m so afraid someone will get wind of what it’s about,” conceding little more than that “it’s odd. Not odd in an uncommercial way, but it’s risky. It’s a big movie. So we’ll see if the studio has the heart for it.”

Finally, however, Ramis has gone on the record – though, sadly, not with Bullz-Eye – and admitted to VH-1 that the script he and Wilson have co-written is a comedy entitled “The Year 1,” that it’s vaguely reminiscent of Mel Brooks’ “History of the World, Pt. 1” (though, one hopes, more consistently funny), and that “it’s driven by fundamentalism and my concerns about fundamentalism.”

“It’s a look at the early history of civilization,” Ramis said, “using Genesis, the first book of the Bible, as kind of an emotional psycho-social template. It’s a comedy, and when you see it, it’s gonna feel like a broad ‘Ten Commandments’ parody more than anything. A sandal epic comedy.”

Hmmm. Well, all we can say is “tread carefully.” We still remember the poor, misguided people who picketed “Monty Python’s Life of Brian.”

Movie Comedies, Movies, News

“24: The Movie” to be a reality

May 5, 2006 /

After many rumblings about how a “24” movie was immiment (which were almost always followed by someone bitching about how it was going to suck because it clearly wasn’t going to be a 24-hour-long film), Keifer Sutherland has offered at least one detail.

While on Jonathan Ross’s talk show, Sutherland revealed that the “24” film would be shot “here.” While he didn’t clarify if “here” was London or somewhere in England or, like, the planet Earth, the British newspaper The Sun quoted him as saying that it will be filmed in London, Prague, and Morocco, as well as suggesting that it will be filmed “about a year from now.”

24, Movies, TV, TV Action

I Swear To God, It’s Not For Me, But… (#3)

May 5, 2006 /

Admit it, guys: you’ve laughed at “The Golden Girls.”

You might not call it one of your favorite shows of all time, but we’ve checked with the folks at Nielsen, and they have documentation which clearly demonstrates that, whenever you’re at home alone, you’re flipping through the channels, and you find an episode on Lifetime – and lord knows it’s on all the damned time – you sometimes stop and watch.

Season 5 of “The Golden Girls” is being released on DVD on Tuesday, May 9th. Yeah, I know, if it’s on Lifetime constantly, why buy it? Well, unlike a lot of the bare-bones sets coming out nowadays, this one features several commentaries from the Girls themselves: Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan, and Betty White. (Sadly, Estelle Getty has, for some years now, been suffering from Dementia with Lewy bodies, which is – God help her – reportedly like a cross between Parkinsons and Alzheimers.) Arthur and McClanahan have a tendency to drift into watching the show, laughing at what’s onscreen, and offering comments like, “We were a great bunch of gals,” but White’s commentaries are particularly interesting and full of trivia…like, for instance, how she was originally considered to play Blanche (McClanahan’s role) but that the producers felt it would be too much like her character Sue-Ann Nivens on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.”

Ah, who am I kidding? You’re not going to buy it…but, y’know, Mother’s Day IS right around the corner. So if you buy it for your mom, I’m sure she won’t tell anyone if you borrow it…

Actresses, Reviews, TV, TV DVDs

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