Some of you knew Alex Karras as a football player for the Detroit Lions. Others knew him from his pro-wrestling days. Lots of people knew him as the dad in Webster. As for me, he’ll always be Mongo, the excellent character from the excellent Blazing Saddles. Karras had a remarkable career, entertaining millions of people as an athlete, an actor, and a comedian. He was awesome.
Category: TV
Mariah Carey vs. Nicki Minaj on American Idol
I knew that putting two batsh*t-crazy women on the American Idol judging panel was a good idea! Here’s a video of Nicki Minaj cursing out Mariah Carey during the American Idol audtions in Charlotte, North Carolina (aka Ric Flair country). Minaj was pretty intense and her tirade featured an impressive curse-words-per-minute ratio. Carey tried to play it cool, dismissing Minaj’s behavior as childish. If these two are having problems during auditions, I can’t wait to see what they get up to during the big shows. They’re a live TV disaster waiting to happen! Love it!!!
McKayla Maroney is Impressed With Hart of Dixie
The adorable and not-easily-impressed McKayla Maroney is making her acting debut in Hart of Dixie. For those of you not familiar with the show, it’s a Rachel Bilson drama/comedy on The CW. McKayla will be playing Tanya, Rose Hattenbarger’s best friend on the show. While she has acting aspirations, Maroney noted that she’s not done with her gymnastics career. Check out the full Access Hollywood interview below for all the details, including why she and her Olympic teammates are cooler than Justin Bieber. Continue reading “McKayla Maroney is Impressed With Hart of Dixie”
Tom Hanks Sees Emmy in Olivia Munn’s Future?!?
My nightmare of Olivia Munn becoming the biggest star in America continues! This time around, the legendary Tom Hanks told the girl formerly known as Lisa that an Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Emmy Award is in her future. Check out the Entertainment Tonight video below and please let me know if you think Hanks was being serious, being polite, or being patronizing. Whatever the case may be, the cameraman was totally on point trying to brush off Bolivia Bunn for the exponentially more interesting and talented Tom Hanks. Continue reading “Tom Hanks Sees Emmy in Olivia Munn’s Future?!?”
Aaron Sorkin Says The Newsroom is a Romantic Comedy
Some people think of HBO’s The Newsroom as a drama. Others feel that it’s a satire. I’ve always thought of the show as a romantic comedy with dramatic overtones that satirizes the sad state of news reporting in America today. Some of my friends made fun of my take on the show, but The Newsroom’s writer Aaron Sorkin backs me up on this. In a recent HBO GO chat he said:
The Newsroom may talk tough sometimes but at its heart it’s a romantic comedy and it can only succeed if you’re invested in the characters.
See. I told ya so.
Olivia Munn on New Girl Season 2
It appears there’s no stopping our (so not) beloved Bolivia Bunn. After several 2012 movies and a great run on HBO’s The Newsroom, Munn has landed a multi-episode arc on Fox’s New Girl. According to Deadline:
She will play Angie, Nick’s (Jake Johnson) new love interest who is sexy, earthy, charming and can hold her own with the group. Munn, repped by CAA and Mosaic, will film her episodes before production starts on Season 2 of HBO’s Newsroom, on which she co-stars.
The silver lining in all this is that New Girl stars the exponentially superior Zooey Deschanel. Their respective talents — and hotness generated by talent — are in different leagues. Munn is working with a shot glass, while Deschanel draws from a pint glass. Zooey will help reveal Bolivia for the fraud that she is, right? Right?!?
So yeah…my recurring nightmares of waking up to find that Olivia Munn is the biggest star in America will be making a comeback.
WWE Programming Now Available on Hulu Plus
WWE and Hulu have teamed up…wait, the WWE doesn’t give a crap about tag-teams anymore so I’ll have to rephrase that. WWE programming is now available on Hulu Plus. According to the press release, subscribers will be able to watch “all WWE TV programming” the day after it airs. Hulu Plus costs $7.99 a month and is available on a number of devices, including PCs, tablets, smartphones, and videogame consoles.
For wrestling fans that want to cut the cable cord, WWE programming on Hulu Plus could be a fantastic deal. It allows these fans to watch shows like Raw and SmackDown without having to pay for cable-television service that includes hundreds of channels they’ll never watch. It will be interesting to see if this deal will change WWE’s strategy with YouTube. The company has been serving up clips of its shows a few days after they air on television. I’m sure the company will continue to post clips, but I wonder if they’ll be as extensive or if the delays will be longer. Hulu Plus allows viewers to watch the shows in their entirety, but some people will be satisfied with what WWE’s YouTube channel offers.
I could see using the service when I travel internationally. The combination of Hulu Plus and a VPN service would allow me to watch Monday Night Raw anywhere in the world. For some WWE fans, this could be the only (legal) way to enjoy these shows in a timely manner.
Any of you intrigued by WWE programming on Hulu Plus?
K-Town, Britney Spears, and Gangnam Style
I love the video above of Britney Spears learning the “Gangnam Style” dance from Psy. It’s awesome on multiple levels. First of all, it’s fun watching her learn how to do this ridiculous dance that’s sweeping the nation (this decade’s “Macarena”?). Secondly, I’m quite pleased with the MILF she has transformed into. Watching her go from teen sensation to troubled youth to MILF has been a wonderful journey.
All of that aside, this “Gangnam Style” thing is troubling. As a resident of Los Angeles Koreatown, I feel bad for the Korean-American population. There are many people that will think of Psy’s stupid song-and-dance when they think of Koreans. There are many that will think that Korean-American youths are like the idiots on K-Town (season finale below). I’m guilty of the same thing. I have nice and normal friends that live on the Jersey Shore, but when I visit them, part of me thinks that every other person in town is a moron like The Situation or Snooki. Sadly, some people will think that Koreatown is full of miscreants like the ones in K-Town and people walking down the street doing the “Gangnam Style” dance.
Reality television and stupid music, killing the world one neighborhood at a time. *sigh*
Geoff Johns Writing Arrow Episode, More Trailers
Here’s a bunch of assorted news on Arrow, CW’s upcoming series about DC Universe bow-slinger Green Arrow. Comic-book fans will be pleased to learn that Geoff Johns, one of the most consistently great writers of the last decade, will be penning an episode of the show. On a recent post on DC’s blog Johns is quoted as saying, “I’m thrilled to be writing this episode of Arrow, and while I can’t give too much away, I think comic fans are going to like what we have in store for them — keep an eye out for the Huntress.”
CW has also released some new trailers for the show. The first one is pretty sweet. It makes Oliver Queen look like a modern-day warrior (as opposed to a guy with outmoded weapons and an Errol Flynn fascination).
The next one is…not so good. It’s cheesy and more along the lines of what I expect from The CW.
Hopefully the show’s tone is more like the first trailer and the second is something that’s being used to attract the frau.
Anyway, let me know what you think of the two Arrow clips. Are you excited that Geoff Johns will be writing an episode of the show?
American Idol 2013 Judges Finalized
The judges for the next season of American Idol have been finalized! Providing insights, entertainment, and (hopefully) insanity in 2013 will be Mariah Carey, Keith Urban, Nicki Minaj, and Randy Jackson. With the show’s popularity waning, the producers decided to spruce things up with a new set of judges. (Though they couldn’t get rid of Randy Jackson. He must have naked photos of Nigel Lythgoe.)
AI was never able to replicate the drug-addled wonderfulness of Paul Abdul, who left the show in 2009. There’s an extremely high chance that the duo of Carey and Minaj will make the show more insane than it has ever been. The potential for awkward awesomeness is off the charts!
Check out the photo of the new judges below and let me know what you think of the American Idol 2013 team (please!).
