Thank you? Lonestar?

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Oh jeebus. Lonestar was canceled after only TWO episodes. That's pretty embarrassing honestly, especially since critics were raving about the new series, staring Jon Voight.

Apparently, it went from a 1.3 rating on the Neilsen chart to a 1.0 from its first to second week, gaack

ANNDDDD its the first cancelation of the new season! HOORAY!

But it is kind of sad that networks can't even TRY to save a show that's getting good reviews, it really shows how important a marketing campaign is when a great show is getting zero viewers. Maybe network executives are to blame?

However, in one article, it was said that many critics thought this show would have been better on cable, not network television.

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Ahh, cable. A wonderful world where shows like Boardwalk Empire can get picked up after only ONE EPISODE AIRED. That's unheard of in television, yet 4.8 million viewers on a pilot episode is pretty much out of control.

Even though it must be an amazing feeling for the producers of Boardwalk Empire, was it smart for network executives? On the second week it was down to 3.3 million viewers. Still amazing, but will this be a common trend?

SO. What an interesting time for immediate cancellations and renewals. What a great season 2010-2011 will be!

Goodbye, Max Weinberg

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NOOOO! =[

a million frowning faces towards the fact that according to reports Max Weinberg is NOT returning as Conan's faithful drumming sidekick when things kick back up again for CoCo in November.

Why??!! What else are you suppose to be doing with yourself? The E-Street Band isn't going on tour AGAIN are they???

Give me a break, Max. Being with Conan is probably one of the best things to happen to your career. Everyone's already moved out to LA, so why not take another chance??

BUT. Fun times for tv gossip: as I was reading Perez Hilton ( I know, shut up), it was reported that he might be looking to take over Kevin Eubank's position when he leaves Jay Leno. WHAT?

If that happens I will take it as a HUGE act of betrayal. I mean, I'm hoping there would be a legitimate reason since Max seems like a decent guy, but who knows in this town.

So for now, the leader position will be taken over by the less funny and less jewish Jimmy Vivino. I have nothing against him, but no one does a stare down like Max and Coco.

Lets remember him during the times he WASN'T on tour with Bruce Springsteen :

Favorites of the Week

SO. the first week of premieres has passed as this new week brings wonderment and hope of something great. Wowsers. Here is some of my favorites of this past week in tv:

Favorite SNL monologue :

I'm sorry but I thought this was hilarious. I'm never a HUGE fan of SNL, maybe its because I haven't been able to get passed the fact that we aren't still living in the 1990s and the best and brightest (in my opinion) are long gone.

BUT: "Rachel!" "Poehler Bear!" "Dratch bear!" "No! POLAR bear!" Hilarious.

And even though I never seem to find Jimmy Fallon THAT funny (what a giggle-bitch), he somehow seems to get it together with Tina Fey to really produce comedy magic. What a great way to start the season, lets hope for big things

Favorite cold open:

omg. How could you NOT love this? I'm aware that it caused some debate, due to the fact that even though The Office goes through plenty of unrealistic situations, it does as much as it can to keep within the realism of an office setting. I mean, could an office really be able to pull off a lip dub? In this fashion?

I say, fuck yes. When Dunder Mifflin is a company in a world when its regional manager Michael Scott's contribution to a lip dub is intense magic tricks... then yes. Anythings possible.

Favorite self deprecating joke:

Yes, Cougartown. You are STILL Cougartown, you didn't change your name LIKE YOU SHOULD HAVE and have completely squashed all potential to breathe legitimate life into your show. Don't get me wrong, I still love the show and no matter what ANYONE (I'm looking at you, Perez Hilton) says, I loved Jennifer Aniston as Jules' cooky therapist.

However, as the season premiere came and went, apparently to low ratings, I'm nervous to see where the direction of the show is going to go. It seems to move so quickly, that it might just pull an OC, and just implode on its own storyline. I'm excited to see where it goes.

Favorite season premiere:

Modern Family.

Wow. I haven't laughed so hard all summer. Claire and Phil and the kids in the old station wagon just killed me. What a great way to prove your Emmy for best comedy. I'm obsessed with this show and can't wait to see it progress into an amazing series. congrats guys, you deserve it.

Other than that, on a ranting note, I just realized that I missed Dexter, Mad Men, Family Guy, AND American Dad. I think I had an aneurysm just from thinking about everything I have to catch up on. So, I will try my hardest but with my busy schedule that might be difficult.

Wish me luck as I melt my brain!

Lets bring it back to the 90s

SO. Fun little story that inspired me to blog. I was reading through a powerpoint presentation for my intercultural communications class (I accidentally slept through it... whoops), and came across the "family" section of the powerpoint, and what defines it.

after a few definitions, my professor decided to list a few television shows that defined the idea of "family" throughout the years.

Of course, it started with Leave it to Beaver, and Father Knows Best in the 1950s,

then Julia, and The Brady Bunch, in the 1960s,

followed by The Partridge Family (who didn't love their music), Good Times, All in the Family, and Different Strokes in the 70s, what a decade for the untraditional family.

in the 1980s, of course, it was all about Rosanne and Cosby, just to name a couple. How about Charles in Charge? Thank you, Scott Baio.

BUT. When the slideshow came to the 1990s, the only example my professor used was: Friends. Really? Friends?

Now, of course being the lazy bitch that I am, I wasn't there in class to actually hear her explanation of how Friends fit in to this category. I'm assuming it went as such:

"These friends were so close they acted as a family...." and all that jazz. Or, maybe she was tired of listing some of the same old, multi-camera sitcom family shows.

But, what we have to remember is there were some AMAZING family shows throughout the 1990s, I know because I lived it. Lets take a look back at some of my favorites SHALL WE?:

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The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

omg. Well first of all lets just get it out of the way. Who didn't love, THE SONG

IIINNN WEST PHILADELPHIA BORN AND RAISED... enough.

This family-based sitcom was great as a wealthy African-American family living in California take in their cousin, played by Will Smith, a street smart class clown from Philadelphia who is always down for a good time and who occasionally clashed with the rest of the family's business sense, school first attitude. It was a wonderful case of opposites attract, and an eye opener for how family members can relate to each other, no matter how different they are.

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The Nanny

this show is SO underrated. Even though everyone hated Fran Drescher's voice you can't help but love the comedy. This woman is absolutely hysterical with a show idea similar to one of The Fresh Prince, where an upper established family is brought back to Earth by some crazy outsider, causing mayhem. The show, which Drescher was executive producer, was different because even though many shows dealt with nannies, for the most part they were MALE nannies (Charles in Charge, Who's the Boss, etc). As far as I can remember, this show was one of the first in a while to have a female nanny come and implode the workings of a wealthy family, and actually be funny and successful. The chemistry between Fran and Maxwell is great, and it really brings me back to my "stay at home sick days" in elementary school.

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Sister, Sister

if you were a female (and lets admit it, some males) who grew up in the 1990s you, at some point or another, watched this show. A NEW kind of Brady Bunch, except, get this, the sisters were RELATED. How convenient. Tia and Tamera were amazing throughout this show, and as a young child I thought they were the funniest things since the looney tunes. And with Jackee Harry and Tim Reid as the parents, you really couldn't go wrong. I loved the ridiculous concept of two sisters being separated at birth, finding one another, and having their parents fall in love. It was great and totally 90s.

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3rd Rock From the Sun

YESSSS!!! So great!! Thank you John Lithgow, Kristen Johnson, French Stewart, and of course Joseph Gordon-Levitt. I love you all for making probably the most untraditional family sitcom ever. A group of aliens posing as an American Family in order to watch humans living in the "least important planet" in the universe? Absolutely brilliant and another underrated show. They really don't show enough of this in reruns and I would love nothing more than to get it as a box dvd set (HELLO PRESENT IDEASSS) This show was amazing because it tapped into all the ideas of what the "traditional American family" does, and of course, makes fun of it. Absolutely brilliant.

WTF, House?

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House and Cuddy sitting in a tree... what?

YES. House is in luuuuurve, who would have thunk it?

Its hard to imagine after 7 seasons of the thrilling medical show centered around a brilliant doctor who doesn't play by the rules and is emotionally dead inside can actually find a way to care so much about his complete medical opposite.

This caused much discussion in my own house last night, as avid viewers of the show watched their hero show his softer side.

So what does this mean when love is involved? I think some people can look at the positive and understand that characters have to evolve no matter who they are, and after seven years of sexual tension somethings gotta give. Who knows, with a real relationship with someone who actually cares about him, House's character may actually be able to go somewhere other than the brilliantly snarky scrooge-like doctor.

Or, will this risk not pay off? What if people are so turned off that they turn away from a show that's always been consistent (a reason why I really have never been turned on to the show in the first place). This isn't their ordinary House, and they aren't happy about it.

I guess time will tell, but it was VERY suspicious to see both House AND Cuddy's faces after they said goodbye during that exchanging of "i love you"s. Very interesting, maybe the writers know what they are doing after all?

GET READY!

THE NEW FALL SEASON IS HERE.

What an exciting time. It is hitting around mid-september meaning all of our favorite shows are RETURNING with new plot lines and character hijinks.

Does everyone have their schedules ready? I DO:

Tuesday:

9:30 p.m- Running Wilde, Fox.

Wednesday:

8 P.M- Lie to Me, Fox.

9 P.M.- Modern Family, ABC.

9:30 P.M.- Cougartown, ABC.

Thursday:

8 P.M.- Community, NBC

8:30 P.M.- 30 Rock, NBC

8:30 P.M.- Shit My Dad Says, NBC.

9 P.M.- The Office, NBC.

Sunday:

9 P.M.- Family Guy, Fox.

9:30 P.M.- American Dad, Fox.

HOORAAAAY. Ok. so obviously I've got a LITTLE problem with my dream thursday night lineup. What the hell am I going to do with my 8:30 spot? Thanks NBC for taking 30 Rock out of its perfect 9:30 spot to make way for... Outsourced?

Give me a break, NBC. If I want to watch ANOTHER Office knockoff, I'll go to Parks and Rec... where is that show anyway?

And no, I'm still not going to watch Glee. I'm sorry fellow Gleeks, but its going to have to take more than two seasons to capture my attention.

BUT. What about OUTSIDE the major networks? There are still a few shows I am looking towards adding into my beautiful tv schedule:

Mad Men, AMC. Sundays at 10. Its new season started July 25th and since I JUST began watching the show, it might take me a little while to routinely watch it each week. Gotta catch up first.

Boardwalk Empire, HBO. Sundays at 9. For some reason I have a really hard time watching HBO shows as they air... so I might just have to stick to watching this one on the internet.

The Cleveland Show, Fox. Sundays at 8 30. Yeah, I'm still not sure about this one. I started watching it last season, and it was pretty decent but still has a long ways to go. Not this time, Cleveland.

THEN, of course, I get to sprinkle my week with my favorite trashy shows, such as the endings of Jersey Shore, Teen Mom, and I'm pretty sure theres going to be a new Celebrity Rehab

Gotta love that Dr. Drew.

Can't wait for tomorrow :-D

EDIT.

apparently, I can create controversial blog posts... losers.

House, Fox. Mondays at 8 p.m. Ok. After much debate with my roommate, and by debate I mean she yelled at me, I'll be watching lietome I MEAN HOUSE... House. I'll watch House.

Whatever.

Dexter, Showtime. Sundays at 9 p.m. Ok THIS show was one I actually forgot. I MUST watch this show again as it got me through my hardest times (living without cable, dvd box set, you know the drill). This can definitely substitute for Family Guy and American Dad, shows prefer to watch on Hulu anyway.

Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia, FX. Thursdays at 10 p.m. Yes, yes, and yes. I forgot this one too. I JUST got into this show, and I didn't watch it for the same reason I wasn't watching Glee, I didn't want to be peer pressured into it. I know, stupid.

However, all it took was a pair of kitten mittons for me to jump on board with this college humored comedy going into its sixth season. Get pumped.

Summer Lovin: Lie to Me

I'm not a huge summer series groupie, for whatever reason. A lot of times, when I'm able to pry myself away from work, I'll sit and watch trashy VH1 reality shows:

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Tough Love Couples, anyone?

BUT. I was able to get into one really great show this summer. In its second season, Lie to Me is really starting to pick up its pace and find its voice and really be able to bring viewers into the life of Dr. Cal Lightman, a psychologist that specializes in body language and face expressions.

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He founds the Lightman Group, a private company yet has a special relationship with the FBI (especially in the form of Agent Reynolds, played by Mekhi Phifer), and together, or really- with Lightman leading the way in full force, solve all sorts of fun crime mysteries.

Also, there's Dr. Gillian Foster who plays great opposite Lightman as his colleague or better half. Of course, as with any show, you want them to get together. It will be a great, or possibly annoying, question of "will they or won't they" throughout the series.

sidenote: Watch season 2, episode 21- Darkness and Light for the beginning scene where Foster and Cal play a married couple and make out passionately as a part of their gig. Its quite hilarious, and hopefully a sign of events to come? We can only hope.

Anddddddd there's Eli Locker and Ria Torres. I guess for the show they're OK but kind useless characters in my opinion, who are only there to add their 2 cents in every case and then have pointless plot lines of them two hooking up once and having it be awkward.

For those who have been following the show- remember when Eli kissed Cal's daughter, Emily?? ewwwwwwwwww

Anywayz apparently it was quite a struggle to get Tim Roth to play Cal Lightman. He's had a pretty extensive career, getting nominated for an Academy Award for Planet of the Apes and being involved in other films such as Pulp Fiction and The Incredible Hulk. Quite impressive, and apparently it took a billion years to get him to sign on, but honestly, I couldn't be more thrilled with the choice. He's amazing.

However, I can't help but to find it very similar to ANOTHER british, fast-talking wise guy on television who already is able to solve many mysteries on his own, with a bunch of kiss-ass followers trailing directly behind him:

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because, lets be serious people. LIE TO ME is amazingly similar to HOUSE. Except honestly, in my opinion, new, fresher and better.

I can't help but feel as though I'm done with HOUSE, and can move onward and upward to a new Brit in my life.

Besides, all television shows today are taken from older television. Family Guy is All in the Family, 30 Rock is Mary Tyler Moore, Parks and Rec is The Office which is taken from... The Office.

So that's fine. And with its new season premiering November 10th I couldn't be more excited. Its a great crime thriller that will have you addicted in no time.

Jerry Jerry Jerry!

SO. Why wasn't I blogging this summer? Because I was too busy being a hotshot working for the Jerry Springer and Steve Wilkos Show. The experience was very interesting to say the least. I got to work VERY closely with many of the guests, and got some GREAT life stories.

My favorite definitely have to be this one quite feisty woman who was SUPER skinny and SUPER blonde but had SUPER wrinkles and talked about how she just up and left for california and stayed there by herself for a month. "I like bein' all by myself sometimes," she said in a thick southern accent.

she then proceeded to go on stage and kick the shit out of another girl. hilarious.

But I have to say my favorite part of working on the show is everyone who I worked with. Very nice, very intelligent and VERY hardworking people who were nothing but extremely nice to me, the poor intern.

While the show was still filming in Chicago, Vh1 aired a short lived series about what it was like to work for the Springer Show, and I have to say, its quite an accurate depiction. The funny thing is, I watched this show when I was younger, and WHO KNEW that I would actually do it.

BUT WATCH THIS. Its called, The Springer Hustle.

For the record: Jerry Springer and Steve Wilkos are the nicest guys ever.

FUN FACT: I got Rachelle lunch frequently, and saw Selina a lot, who I recognized from the show which was cool.

ALSO. If you haven't check out Steve Wilkos yet, you really should. He does a lot of really intense, controversial topics which come from true stories.

Will Arnett = love of my life

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YES. My heart fluttered when I heard that Will Arnett was starring in a NEW sitcom, RUNNING WILDE, created by Mitch Hurwitz. Hurwitz, if you can remember tv fans, is the genius behind Arrested Development, a jumpstart to Arnett's career.

Everything Arnett does is hilarious. He has this amazing sense of humor along with a great sense of physical comedy.

Amy Poehler better watch out.

I originally fell in love with him whenever I'd catch him on Conan, two of my great comedy loves in one place? I say yes.

So we have two great forces from AD (not to mention I heard through the grapevine that David Cross was guest-starring at some point? But that might be another project), will it produce a great show? Obviously, its hard to get attached to a show so early on the series since the show itself is still trying to find its voice. HOWEVER, I have high hopes for this one... and I'm hoping that Keri Russell doesn't ruin it. I don't know why, but I'm worried about her. BUT. I've never seen Felicity so I guess I can't judge.

I also can't help but be a little worried about he story itself. In the trailer there seems like enough to make a solid pilot, but it doesn't really say where the story is going to go from there. I am really interested to see if Hurwitz is able to bring back the same AD magic.

if not... I guess I can look forward to the AD movie.

HERES THE TRAILER! Tell me your thoughts.

RUNNING WILDE begins Sept. 21st at 9:30.

And this is a tv review, which pretty much summarizes the show as "ok." But, again, its only the beginning. Lets see where it goesss!

EMMYZ

LOVED IT. I really did. Hooray Jimmy Fallon, Hooray Modern Family.

but BOO no Lost, BOO no Conan, and c'mon.. HOW many Emmys does Jon Stewart actually need?

Definitely started off with a bang. This sketch was absolutely hilarious. Why is it whenever Tina Fey and Jimmy Fallon get together I can't help but laugh uncontrollably? I'm a sucker... that's why

My favorite moment of the night. No one deserves it more than Eric Stonestreet

and here's why:

and as much as I LOVE Jon Stewart... c'mon Emmys.

Why didn't Dave Letterman get nominated?

Why can't Steve Carrell EVER win?!?!?

Emmy snubs: Community and Cougartown. Not cool Academy, not cool.

OK. I'm rambling. But the emmys were pretty good this year.

I guess I'll just cross my fingers for Lost to get a golden globe.