You're Killing Me!

What in the world is going on at NBC? I just read that Southland has been cancelled. I really liked that show. It sucks because it was cancelled two weeks before it's second season premiere. That's right, two weeks before it was going to come back on. I really want to know what people are doing over there at NBC. I have seen more promos for the wedding on The Office than anything else on that network. It's great Pam and Jim are getting married, whoopee. I like The Office, but I like other shows too and it would be great if I could see more ads for the other shows they've got. I've tried to watch Mercy and Trauma but they're not really interesting me but since I can't stop watching TV I still tune in. Hell, I'm even watching Eastwick and I told my mother the other week not to get too attached to it because it probably wasn't going to last past episode seven. Eastwick is an ABC show and while I like what they've got going I'm not terribly thrilled I haven't seen a lot of Ugly Betty love going around. I'm tired of becoming invested in a show and having it taken off the air. Why even bother showing them in the first place. NBC is circling the drain and it doesn't look like anyone is trying to stop it. Yay, Thursday night is a great night but you can't survive on one good night a week. I want an apology from NBC and a written note that says they will order a full season of Chuck and that they won't cancel it two weeks before it's supposed to air. What are the odds that's going to happen?

Time Warner Cable Can Suck My Balls

I got a letter in the mail last week from Time Warner Cable stating that some things were going to be changing with my DVR. The most exciting thing for me was that for certain shows if I started watching them after they had started I would have the option to play them from the beginning. Super awesome, I like it. The letter also said some of the menu options would be changing and that these would take effect in the coming weeks. Cut to today, I turn on the Weather Channel in the morning and notice the menu bar has changed. I don't have enough time to check it out and leave the house. I come back this evening to turn on the TV in my living room and lo and behold I click the list button to pick a show to watch (Raising the Bar) and realize the whole thing is completely different. I can no longer decide which shows will be erased first if my DVR is running out of room, it decides that the oldest show gets kicked off first. It has decided that every first run show is still a first run show all week. So when Mad Men comes on at 10pm Sunday it's a new episode. This damn new programming has my DVR thinking that every airing of the show is new and will soon be kicking off old shows I haven't watched yet to re-record an episode I already have. That also means that I will get 4/5 Daily Show's a day. I have asked it to not record The Daily Show anymore because I can remember to tape or just watch it outright. As for Mad Men and every other show that it will be re-recording all week I just have to do it manually for now. Hopefully a lot of very angry customers will be calling in (as I plan to do tomorrow) and this will all be fixed very soon. I'm not sure the exact magnitude of how upset I am is getting across. I have time and time again spoken of how much in love I am with my DVR and I feel like it's turned into something completely different and if it doesn't change back we may have to break up. Seriously, I can't take it and it's only been one day. I don't want to have to go back to Tivo, I liked what I had. We'll see what happens in the coming days, I guess I can be happy that this is happening now and not the first few weeks of the Fall TV season. It's coming up and while I'm not super excited about a lot of the new shows a few of them have me smiling already. Glee, Community and Flash Forward I'm talking about you.

Zack Morris!

OK, so I've been watching Conan every night since last week because I feel like I need to support him. I don't think he got the best reviews last week but I think people are just being cruel. Conan is funny and I think he's doing a great job. He even brought Andy back! Andy is back on TV and I couldn't be happier. Today was my day off and I watched Conan last night, I watched him live people and that in and of itself should tell you just how dedicated I am to him. I never watch TV live. Ever.

Well, I was watching Conan and running around on the Internet and his show ended and Jimmy Fallon's began. I enjoy Jimmy every now and then. Slow Jamming the News is truly inspired. Lick it for 10, it makes me smile. However, last night Jimmy endeared himself to me. He had Mark Paul Gosseslar aka Zack Morris on in character. That's right an entire interview done as Zack Morris. It was genius. I was just sitting there kind of in shock because it was so perfect. The hands in the jeans, the time out even the cell phone. I swear a reunion would be awesome and finally a reunion for my generation that I would watch. I don't think I'm ready for a Wonder Years or a Full House or hell even a Step by Step one. I'm not going to lie, I totally watched TGIF. Every week. Saved by the Bell, addicted to it and I would love to see them back together. Think it'll happen?

Squidbilies

I love my DVR. Seriously. How else would I have known that Squidbilies was coming back on? I love me some squidbilies. It's so random. Granny? Ridiculous. If you met me I'm not sure that you would peg me for a fan of it but I am. I even have a tape of Squidbilies episodes. I'm waaaaay too cheap to buy DVDs of most shows and I only own sets of Arrested Development and the O.C. I just tape things. I'm not going to turn this into a love rhapsody about my VCR although I think everyone should have one. I don't know about DVD recorders but I think my VHS machine is tops. Back to the s-bilies. I made my dad watch it a long time ago and he thought I was nuts. Kind of like he thought I was nuts when I came home from college and made him watch Sifl and Olly. I think he just says yes so we can bond together but maybe also because deep down he knows I watch the coolest shit. C'mon I bet if you've watched either one of these you'll probably dig the other. I haven't even watched the new episode of Squidbilies yet. I came home tonight and saw that my DVR loved me and was too excited to not share the news with you. It says it came on at 1:15am this morning/last night so please look out for it on the Cartoon Network. I have to go run now and catch 10 minutes of genius. See ya later.

Cancellations

A bunch of shows I've loved are being axed now. Medium, Samantha Who?, Life, My Name is Earl and I'm sure they're going to try and get rid of Ugly Betty too because they moved it to Friday at 9pm. Luckily though, two shows did manage to get picked back up and they are Southland and Chuck. I'm truly happy about Chuck because I do completely love that show. Matty came over on Monday all year and we watched Gossip Girl and Chuck back to back. We had a lovely year doing that and even though Chuck won't be on Monday nights anymore I'm still so happy it wasn't cut.

I am extremely unhappy about Samantha Who?. It was doing so well on Monday nights after Dancing with the Stars and then they shuffled it around the schedule and people stopped watching. I always read about people who think they could do a better job with the primetime schedule and believe me I think I could too. First, I would axe JAY LENO from the network. They got it right when they gave Conan a starting date which meant Leno had an end date. It was so easy to get rid of him! I've run this thought into the ground in a couple of other posts so I'll leave it at that. They would have had an extra 5 hours of content to fill and they could have saved Medium. They have treated Medium so poorly over the past couple of years. Bringing it back midseason, barely promoting it. When it first started it got great ratings but then they started shuffling it around and we all know what that does. I have heard though that CBS might pick it up and put it on Fridays after Ghost Whisperer. I'll watch CBS, they have Simon Baker, I'll do anything they ask.

Now about Life. WTF. It was a great show. Not your average cop drama, it had a great cast and it was funny. Tell me the last time a cop show was funny...intentionally. I'm too upset to write anymore and will just say that My Name is Earl was working for me. I still watched it every week and it was still loved over here at my house, Unfortunately this has all been decided and there's nothing left to do. Although there's a very small chance that another network will pick up Earl, I'm not counting on it. It's not Scrubs. Which I am very happy that ABC picked up last year and even happier that they are bringing it back midseason with Better Off Ted. I love that show. It's weird and funny and I am so into weird. Hello...Life. I'm not going to cry. I'm not.

Southland Tales

Finally got around to watching Southland tonight. Ryan Atwood is back! Okay, so he isn't playing Ryan anymore but since I'm one disc away from finishing my rewatch of the entire O.C. I'll be calling him Ryan from here on out. He will always be Ryan, kind of like Janiston will always be Rachel. Except for the fact that Ryan is super awesome and Janiston is kind of on the wane for me. I'm not here to talk about her though, tonight is all about Ryan. Okay, he was always kind of hot on the O.C. but in the past few years he got waaaay hotter. I don't think I'm going to be able to be objective about this show, or even be able to talk about anything other than a returning piece. He's such a piece. Damn, let's move on.

Just about every actor on this show has you doing a double take. There's this actor Kevin Alejandro who was on Ugly Betty playing Hilda's main squeeze but died and this short lived but very much watched by me show Drive. Regina King has been in just about everything. Shawn Hatosy, he's been everywhere, plus he was in a Justin Timberlake video. Tom Everett Scott who just finished up a short stint on the now defunct Cashmere Mafia but is really just he drummer who stole Liv Tyler's heart in That Think You Do! There's this one guy who I saw in the episode who I remember clearly from Speed, he's the last guy in the elevator and he tries to get the lady out and when she refused starts jumping up to my old piece Keanu to get out. His name is Patrick Fischler and I have now committed his name to memory. I bet he gets people walking up to him all the time asking him if they went to high school together. He's got that look about him. There's tons of other people on the show and I'm sure they've all made crazy impressions on me throughout the years. I always remember the craziest things.

Now for the show. It was alright, since we all know I'll watch something just for a piece it's clear I'll be tuning in every week. I'm also a fan of cop dramas. I'm a total law and order slut. Can't get enough of it. I still remember the first time I caught a string of reruns of reruns on TNT and every other network that used to play it 10 times a day about 6 years ago. I kept thinking to myself, there's no way I've actually watched them all...especially since I had only started watching them a year prior to that. In my defense though, I'm crazy so this all makes sense to me. Have I digressed from the topic once again? Shameful. Why are you even still here reading this? Basically let me just tell you this. The show was ok but since NBC is giving up it's 10pm slots to douchbag Leno I don't know where it's going to end up on the schedule next fall. It's not like they're going to move it to sister station USA. That just doesn't make sense. Here's what does. Get rid of Leno. They had their chance and didn't. I'm not going down this road again, I can't. But it's still making me angry! Enough fighting onscreen. Thursday 10pm, NBC check it out.

LIFE is Good

OMG. I am so in love with Life right now. It's my appointment television for Wednesday nights. Lost is still on my radar but I watch that whenever now. I still haven't even watched last week's episode yet. I'll get to it tomorrow. Maybe I'll even write about it. First, let me clue you in to what I find one of the most refreshing hours on television every week. I'm going to admit that one of my favorite parts of the show is the music. It's awesome. It's not the hip indie song of the week like they play over the end of every episode of Grey's Anatomy. It's inspired. Of course every now and then a show will play a song you either love or will start to love, but this show pulls some of my favorites regularly. I think I want to be best friends with the music supervisor Tricia Halloran. If you're out there please get in touch with me...I believe we'd hit it off.

The cast is entertaining and I'm actually involved in the story line. It makes me wonder if it's actually going to survive the cuts at the end of the season. With Jay Leno coming on at 10pm every night there's not that much room left for actual television. I don't care for Jay Leno and having him on an hour and a half earlier isn't going to make me like him any more. I hope it makes the cut. I honestly watch a lot of NBC, I watch it Sunday through Friday but something tells me Jay is going to put the network in a tailspin. Who's going to want to watch him 5 nights a week? Remember when Regis did Millionaire all the time? It got old, and Jay is nowhere near as funny as Letterman...I only watch him to catch his guests and Ross the Intern. I can actually tune in to Letterman and be entertained by his banter. Basically, Jay sucks but Life rules. Watch it before Jay runs the network into the ground.

A Hot Piece

DUDE! Stringer Bell just walked into The Office! I love this man. Seriously folks. I love him. He makes me happy. I hope he's a recurring character. I could watch this man read the phone book, he's jut that good. I was a die hard fan of The Wire and was crushed when he bit the dust. There's really nothing else I'd like to add to this so I'm just going to leave it at that. I could look at this picture for hours...maybe you could too.

Idol Top 13

Susan and I wrote each other back and forth for the entire two hours of last nights top 13. In lieu of commentary solely by me, I've decided to include our conversation in its entirety. Lucky you.

Susan: Whoa wait til you see Paula tonight. She talks like she is on crack.
Me: What's with the bird on her neck?
S: She's Channeling bjork minus the artsiness. It's so great they're doing MJ. They're all gonna massacre his songs.
M: Probably but maybe Anoop will surprise us.
S: Maybe. I didn't really like lil rounds' version. I guess I'm more honest than the judges.
M: True. I agree with Simon though. I hate what she's wearing too.
M: Paula's had some work done on her eyes. I'm convinced that's what's different about her.
S: This Kris Allen is cute but I hated when he sang man in the mirror. John Mayer better watch out. God I hate John Mayer.
M: Haha. This is my favorite song from Dangerous! He can never replace Michael.
S: I just though he sucked during that week. Girls are gonna be mad that he's married to that blondie.
M: Whatevs. People can get divorced. That's what they're all thinking.
M: Did you see his wife's face after Simon said he should have kept his wife hidden? Classic.
S: Dude Simon just said something about the wife and she was pissed. Alison should win this whole thing.
M: We're on the same wavelength...awesome. She should win. So don't forget to vote.
S: Well he's totally right. Don't these contestants know who votes? Simon is just giving strategic advice.
S: Omg. If you're gonna do a classic like Beat It, you either do it totally different or don't do it at all.
M: Well, I suppose Anoop is out.
S: He sucked ass before he even began singing. don't these people have brains or advisers?
M: They have stylists for the clothes but i guess not for anything else.
S: You know everyone during rehearsals was telling him it was a good idea and then making fun of him two minutes later.
M: You are so mean. I actually didn't think it was so bad.
S: He was awful. How dare he even try to sing Beat It! is he gonna do thriller next week? How about Bad?
M: Wait, I wasn't talking about Anoop anymore, he wasn't great but I was saying Jorge wasn't so bad.
S: This Megan girl is gorgeous. Simon like her because of that. I hope she's good.
M: I don't love what she's wearing. She seems so happy. Why?
S: She's probably high. Her brother just turned 21. She never dresses well. That song was so bad.
M: You summed her up perfectly.
S: I love this guy because he's like Liza Minelli meets Fallout Boy. just so funny. He sings every song the same.
M: Haha. Liza and Fall out Boy. True. Aww, Simon's gonna make him cry.
S: Paula is having an attack. I love that song. I danced to it in 6th grade. I'm surprised Simon loved it though.
M: He had to pick something to all out love tonight. I still remember watching the video premiere while we were eating dinner. We all stopped moving.
S: Haha. Totally. I mean Macaulay Culkin was in it. Those were the glory days of music videos.
M: How are they going to get through two people in 12 minutes?
S: It'll be a duet. Haha. No idea. This Matt guy is the really poor man's JT. And JT is a poor man's MJ.
M: Seriously. But I like him. Likability goes a long way with me. Plus he's not ruining the song. Couldn't the world use another JT?
S:Yeah he's good just really nervous. And just not good looking enough but he can't help it, I guess. I'm still pissed about Anoop.
M: You know I hear they couldn't use the regular #'s with 13 at the end because it's a sex line. I'd be pissed if I was 12, especially if I was cut.
S: Yeah that sucks. I do love the song Matt just sang. I'm gonna have to dig out my MJ cds after this.
M: Do half the people have kids?
M: Ok. Who are we voting for? I'm voting for Danny and Allison and possibly Kris cause he's cute.
S: Yeah. It's for pity votes. I will vote for Danny, Alison, Matt, Adam and Alexis. Is that too much?
M: Nah, I was gonna vote for baby JT and someone else who's name I've already forgotten.
S: Haha. Well I got all my votes through except Danny. He was number 3 right?
M: Yep. Yay, we voted. Now who do you think is going to get kicked off? I pick Anoop and either Megan or Alexis with a small chance of Lil.
S: I Liked Alexis. I say Anoop and hopefully Megan or Jasmine. Why oh why am I now addicted to this show?
M: Because it's awesome and we have the power to kick people off. Sometimes I wish we voted for who we wanted kicked off. That would be sweet.
S: Yeah I know. That would be more American.

What. The. Hell

DISCLAIMER: I wrote the first two paragraphs last Tuesday afternoon the day after the finale of The Bachelor...everything else I wrote today. I will be a good blogger this week. I'm going to blog everyday. Too little too late perhaps but whatever, I'm going to try.

I haven't blogged in ages and on top of that I think the last time I blogged about The Bachelor was the second or third episode. Quick thoughts on episodes past. For the longest time I did not remember that Jillian was the hot dog girl. I seriously didn't. Plus I also couldn't remember anything else about her nor cared enough to do any research to find out. That's really all I wanted to share. Now on to last nights $#!!-storm of a 3 hour couch tour. I cannot believe I sat there and watched all that crap last night.

I watched the finale but didn't start watching it at 8, I was finishing up a rewatch of Far From Heaven. I hadn't seen it in ages and for some reason it just seemed like a good idea to watch it again. It was and Julianne Moore is sublime. So, I started around 8:30, I watched it from the beginning thanks to my DVR and since I started late I got to fast forward through all the lame commercials. Score. What happened next was so weird but I didn't catch my mistake until the commercial break. The Finale ended and my TV went straight from Melissa splashing around in the pool with Jason and Ty to Melissa in the back seat of the limo crying her eyes out about Jason dumping her. I watched for about 4 minutes and then the commercials came on. I pressed fast forward and my DVR said it was at the 10:30 mark. Whoops. When the finale finished my DVR went straight to the live airing of the after the rose special. Basically I stumbled in 25 minutes late. Not so much of a disaster because it all seemed to work out in my head. Oh well, I rewound and started from the beginning.

Everyone on the planet has already gone into depth about the douchiness of what Jason did to Melissa so I don't really want to get into it. It pissed me off and after a week to cool off while it still does I'm going to let it go. Jason proved to me that no matter how sweet and caring and loving a guy may be he's still going to be a total ass at some point. He ruined my faith that somewhere out there good guys still exist. He said on Jimmy Kimmel last week that he was kind of obligated to put it all out there on TV but damn, I would have found a way around it. Melissa is coming off well and last night's Dancing with the Stars only helped. She looked good and could possibly be there through the end.

Molly though, the only thing I could think when they brought her out to be re-wooed by Jason was...Molly you in danger girl. She bought into it though. She fell for him all over again. Totally fine, I just wish they hadn't kissed on the couch 10 minutes after he told her he kicked Melissa to the curb. Shame on you Molly, c'mon, not just yet. This is all last weeks news though so I'm going to end it here. But wait, Jillian was picked as the new Bachelorette so I'll be back in May when it premieres because I'm for sure going to blogging about that. Definitely.

Dollhouse Fake out

So I totally tried watching Dollhouse last night. I wanted to love it and I wanted it to not make me fall asleep but it did. It didn’t make me fall asleep solely on its own, I was beat and I was lying down. Now that I think about it, maybe it was completely my fault. I didn’t watch it Tuesday like I said I was going to; instead I watched Medium and American Idol. Shit went down and I couldn’t watch nearly as much TV as I originally wanted to. It’s cool, I’ll just catch up this weekend somehow. Haha. The Oscars are this weekend and I’m throwing a small party for friends. It should be tres exciting.

On to TV matters. Have I ever mentioned here that I absolutely adore Medium? I think it has one of the best families on television. More realistic than most. As long as you trim out all the psychic abilities the mom and daughters share. Great TV parents. Strict but not too strict and if I had to pick a set of parents on TV right now they would definitely be at the top of my list. I think my absolute choice for number 1 would be, well, I can’t think of one! They’re all way too dysfunctional. Don’t get me wrong, I expect all families to be a bit dysfunctional but not to the degree that some of these shows go to.

Let’s take the weird two father thing they’ve got going on over at Nip/Tuck. Christian is Matt’s true biological father and Sean is the man he grew up thinking was his father. They’re so twisted up in their own lives they barely had time to keep Matt’s together. Having a baby with Kimber? Going out with a neo-nazi? Engaging in a love affair with a transsexual? I suppose we’ll just chalk all that up to the VERY creative minds of the writers. As I’m sitting here think about all of this I realize just how crazy this show is. A friend came over to visit recently and since she’s been out of the country for quite awhile I was updating her on the goings on over at McNamara/Troy. That is hands down the most out there show on TV. They don’t miss anything. Christian is undergoing breast cancer treatment. I think Sean has been sliced twice. First by the carver and then by his crazy manager last season. Julia became a lesbian. Liz switched teams for a hot minute and banged body parts with Christian. WTF?

I don’t care though. Them being crazy brings me back week after week. It’s so damn entertaining. Plus there are always the surgeries. I'm always transfixed and then I have to look away for a second because I get a little grossed out. I've heard that the next season is going to be the last. Something tells me that the show will definitely go out with a bang. Considering the storylines so far, it's probably going to be something huge.

Lazy Blogger

Seriously? I haven't posted in two weeks? I'd pretend I was ashamed with myself but really, I'm too lazy to be ashamed. Haha. I'm going to try my hardest to be on top of this now. Yesterday was my birthday and I like to throw myself a party every year so I'll blame the laziness on me putting my time and energy into planning that. Enough excuses, now it's time to get back to blogging. I know you must all want to know about my thoughts on the Bachelor and why I haven't watched more than two episodes of The United States of Tara. The reason that's strange is because Toni Collette is one of my favorite actresses and she's on TV weekly! What's up with that, that true laziness. Not watching something you enjoyed with an actor you love because you're lazy. Remember how I said I was going to catch up on Fringe? I watched two episodes a couple of weeks ago and now that new episodes are coming on again I've got 7 that's right 7 backed up on the DVR. Shameful! I'd watch them first but I'm going to watch Dollhouse now. Everything about that show makes me happy but I know it's probably not going to last, especially after I read about the numbers it pulled in last Friday. I shall keep my hopes up and be off to watch the pilot now. Fingers crossed it lasts the full season. Eliza and Joss deserve at least that.