Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Monday, March 19, 2012
New! Fiona Apple -Paperbag and more 2012 SXSW
http://www.spinner.com/2012/03/15/fiona-apple-sxsw-2012/
Fiona Apple - Every Single Night [HD] LIVE SXSW 2012
Fiona Apple - Fast As You Can [HD] LIVE SXSW 2012
Fiona Apple - Valentine [HD] LIVE SXSW
Fiona Apple "Anything We Want" SXSW 2012
Read: It's possible SXSW 2012 just peaked with the return of Fiona Apple
Which Shootout Trailer is Better: Walking Dead/ Truck Turner /Hard Boiled/Dusk Till Dawn/Coffy /Machete?
The Walking Dead Season 2 Finale
Issac Hayes Truck Turner
John Woo's Hard Boiled
Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino with George Clooney's From Dusk Till Dawn
Pam Grier's Coffy
Robert Rodriguez's Machete
Issac Hayes Truck Turner
John Woo's Hard Boiled
Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino with George Clooney's From Dusk Till Dawn
Pam Grier's Coffy
Robert Rodriguez's Machete
Dear ABC Execs: Save General Hospital By Moving it to ABC Family
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| GH's Robin and Patrick Drake (Kimberly McCullough & Jason Thompson) |
Dear ABC Daytime Execs,
I know you folks are paid lots of money to make big decisions and I am a mere blogger in Ohio, but you are really screwing daytime.
I've been a loyal fan of soaps ever since I tore ligaments in my foot as a kid and I had nothing better to do than to watch soaps during the time I was stuck in bed.
From Jessie and Angie on All My Children to Luke and Laura on General Hospital to Bo and Hope on Days of Our Lives and to Sharon Newman and well, everybody on Young and Restless, I am proud to say I am a soap fan.
So it is quite alarming to hear how quickly Katie Couric's new talk show will be shoved into General Hospital's current time slot at 3pm slot on September 10th.
No offense to Ms. Couric, but ever since she left the Today Show, her ratings hasn't been the greatest, but if you believe in her and her talk show that's fine.
So with Katie Couric coming in, The Revolution's ratings going down faster than the"Titanic" and GH's ratings actually steady around 2.3 million, I have an idea to help save the last daytime drama on ABC:
Either use Katie Couric's allegedly suggestion to move General Hospital to 2PM to give her a stronger lead-in than The Revolution or shift GH to ABC Family.
Since I don't have Katie on speed dial, I'll talk about my ABC Family idea.
Let's face facts, most of ABC Family's night time is built on soap operas.
"The Lying Game" and "Pretty Little Liars" are pure soap through and through, some of the cast members of these shows actually came from ABC soaps,( ex. The Lying Game's Alexandra Chando (As The World Turns) and Christan Alexander (GH) as well as Pretty Little Liars's Natalie Hall (AMC)).
So wouldn't it be wise to add General Hospital to your stable of soaps and fortify the ABC Family schedule?
The audience is already built-in and you can add new wrinkle like webisodes to enhance the GH and ABC Family's brand.
GH could air at at 4pm on ABC Family so it wouldn't interfere with ABC daytime shows or kick off ABC Family's night programming at 7pm, (with a repeat showings after 11pm and/or weekends.)
Either way, its a win-win for everyone.
ABC soap fans will still have at least one of their beloved shows on the air and think about the advertising you can reap from the 2.3 million viewers that tunes into the show.
For cable television, 2.3 million is a respectable number, it falls in the middle of the pack of the top 25 cable TV shows, somewhere around behind Spongebob repeats and ahead of Oprah's Next Chapter. (Maybe Oprah shouldn't have discounted the idea of putting All My Children and One Life To Live on OWN, as the network continues to struggle to land viewers).
I know running a daytime soap opera is quite expensive and I think most fans would be OK with some tweaks to make the show financially solvent. But in a 2012 TV era where the hottest new shows on ABC are basically soap operas with the addictive "Revenge" and the campy "GCB", isn't it time to help one of the last show's on your network that help launched this genre?
Sidebar: Forbes' recently had an article entitled, "ABC Announces Katie Couric Start Date and Possible End of "General Hospital". In the piece Forbes said that Anderson Cooper should be co- hosting Live with Kelly Ripa. This move is clearly #2 on how to save daytime list. Come one Coop, make it happen with Pipa! You two could be the Regis and Kathy Lee of the Twitter generation!
Read: ‘The Revolution’ Pulled? ‘General Hospital’ Moving to 2:00 PM?
Read: Layoffs and restructuring at Oprah Winfrey's beleaguered OWN channel
Read: Will Katie Couric Save General Hospital?
Tara's Burns Down+ A Blaxplotion Shootout = The Walking Dead Season 2 Finale
During a commercial break, I flicked over to AMC, where I saw a saw a barn bunring to ground.
Immediately I said this looks like the the scene in "Gone With The Wind" when Scarlett O'Hara watched her beloved home tarta burn to the ground.
It was as as if, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino teamed up to shoot this episode instead of Spike Lee's former cinematographer turned great TV director Earnest Dickerson, (in some ways the last night's did have a "Dusk till Dawn" feel because it was two different shows in one.)
Although this week's episode was wasn't as good as last week's epic confrontation between Rick and Shane, The Walking Dead's season finale answered a lot questions including:
Who would die?
How did this army of walkers end up on the farm?
Why are people turning into zombies without being bit?
(For those who didn't see the episode, I'm not going to spoil it for you)
My two quotes of the night, first came from Herschel when he said “Christ promised a resurrection of the dead. I just thought he had something a little different in mind.”
Here's a religious man who followed the word of God, but now everything he believed in has shaken him to his core. I think we have all been there, where you believe in something, but its meaning is drastically different when it becomes real.
My second favorite quote came from Rick when he told the group " this isn't a democracy anymore."
Throughout the first two seasons, Rick was being the rational nice guy who tried to give everyone a voice; But after awhile, I think he felt that people took his niceness for weakness.
Sometimes to be an effective leader, you have to be d*ck. Rick's former best friend turned enemy Shane was great in that way.
Shane clearly saw that the old world was dead and to survive in the new one, you had to kill or be killed.
This kind of kick ass take names later thinking is good for awhile, but long term you end up putting yourself and others you are protecting in danger.
Realizing that to hold this group together, Rick had to become of a survivor and more like his former sheriff self, where his word is the law. The question now is will they follow his "Rick-tatorship" or will some try to challenge him like Shane did unsuccessfully.
Another surprise of the night was the appearance of Michonne. Unlike a lot of fans, I only read a few pages of the the graphic novel, mainly because I want to be surprised each week.
I thought the character was pretty cool, since you don't have too many African American heroines (or heroes) in media nowadays. So imagine my surprise when a hooded Michonne (who will be played by Treme's Danai Gurira) appeared on the show with her signature blade and two chained zombies in tow, saving one of the women I would marry in during zombie apocalypse Andrea (Laurie Holden).
(That scene was like when Alexis was first appered on Dynasty, wearing a veil because they didn't cast Joan Collins in the role yet.)
Moving forward, since the farm is full of zombies, the location of season three will be set in a prison.
Now at least on the farm you can run away from a walker (sorry Jimmy) but the prisons are made to stop people from escaping. Throw in a chick with a sword and a fractured group who might not follow Rick's lead and you have the makings of an even darker, deadlier season three.
See you next fall zombie filled Atlanta! I'm spending my summer with True Blood's Stackhouse clan in Bon Temps Louisiana, where there is less killin and more suckin...blood that is.
Read: 'The Walking Dead's' Robert Kirkman Tells 'Michonne's Story' (Hollywood Reporter)
Read: 'The Walking Dead's' Robert Kirkman on the Casting of Danai Gurira as Michonn
Read: Which Shootout Trailer is Better: Walking Dead/ Truck Turner /Hard Boiled/Dusk Till Dawn/Coffy /Machete?
Friday, March 16, 2012
Russell Brand New Orleans Booking Mugshot (Photo)
Before the arrest, Brand had this tweet about the incident:
"“Since Steve Jobs died I cannot bear to see anyone use an iPhone irreverently, what I did was a tribute to his memory.”
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