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TV Profile: Terrell Shaw
You might know them or you might not, but chances are you have no idea what they watch. This week we hop onto the couch with KNVA’s human promotions machine. Next time it could be another television personality, a politician or an ordinary couch potato like you or me — check back to find out.
Terrell Shaw
The Face of The CW Austin
Number of years in this position: 1 year … I prefer to say 12 months it makes it seem longer!
I love my job because: I get to do what I love … which includes everything from being on TV doing contest and promotional spots as well as serving my community with special events and speaking to kids about my job on career days!
Here’s what’s on my DVR: “The Vampire Diaries,” “Gossip Girl” that’s right BRUTHA’S like gossip too, “ESPN Sportscenter,” “WWE Wrestling Raw” and “Smackdown” … Ohhhhh Yeaaahhhhh, “The Young and The Restless” … gotta keep up on my soaps and last but certainly not least PBS “Sesame Street” … hey who says Grover and the Cookie monster can’t be fun and informative past the age of eight years old?
My all-time favorite TV show is: It’s a toss up between “Martin” and “Seinfeld” … yadda yadda yadda they both cause serious damage to my funny bone!
You’ll never catch me watching: “Jon and Kate plus Eight” … THEY CRAZY!
If I have insomnia, the show that lulls me back to sleep is: “Antiques Roadshow” … I’m getting zzzz … just thinking about it!
A current show I never miss is: “TUF The Ultimate Fighter” … what man doesn’t like to see two dudes going head to head in battle and knocking each other out! Plus my boy Kimbo Slice is on their Wrecking Shop … that means he works hard (haha).
If my TV is on, it’s probably tuned to this channel: The CW Austin of course … I’m not just saying that because I work for them … seriously some of the best TV on television … besides the women on every show is HOTT that’s right two T’s HOTT!
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‘The Goode Family’ makes Comedy Central debut Jan. 6
We previously reported that Austin native Mike Judge’s animated series “The Goode Family” (canceled by ABC) would make the jump to Comedy Central. TV Week reports that that will happen on January 6. The cable network will re-air the first season’s 13 episodes. If the show does well, there’s a possibility that new episodes could be produced.
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Latin Grammys perform for KAKW
The 10th Annual Latin Grammys, broadcast live Thursday night from Las Vegas, were a huge success for local Univision affiliate KAKW. The ratings for the show were up 86 percent over the 2008 numbers.
One highlight of the show was a bilingual duet by Alejandro Sanz and Alicia Keys, “Looking for Paradise.” Here’s video of that performance in case you missed it:
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Aqua Teen stars at Alamo Drafthouse tonight, Saturday
Dave Willis, co-creator of Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim show “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” will appear at 7:30 tonight at the Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek with Dana Snyder, the voice of Master Shake. The duo will also appear at 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
The pair will perform script readings, give out prizes and preview clips from upcoming “ATHF” and “Squidbillies” episodes. In addition, they will be singing songs from the just-released CD, “Have Yourself a Meaty Little Christmas.”
Tickets are $15 and seating begins 45 minutes prior to the performance. For more information, check out the Alamo’s Web site.
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‘Oprah’ move not a done deal
Contrary to Internet reports, Oprah Winfrey has made no decision on the potential move of her syndicated daytime talk show to her new cable network, OWN, Reuters reports via ABC News.
Internet entertainment writer Nikki Finke wrote Thursday that Winfrey would end the Chicago-based talk show when her current syndication deal runs out and move it to Los Angeles-based OWN as soon as mid 2011, the Reuters story says.
Winfrey’s production company, Harpo, Inc., plans to announce the show’s fate by the end of the year.
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John Krasinski of ‘The Office’ will be at Alamo Ritz
John Krasinski, one of the stars of the NBC series “The Office,” will be at the Alamo Ritz next week to promote his debut as a film director.
Krasinski will screen “Brief Interviews with Hideous Men,” based on a book by David Foster Wallace, at 7 p.m. Nov. 13. The event will include a Q&A with Krasinski.
Krasinski also appears in front of the camera in the film. Other cast members include Will Arnett and Timothy Hutton.
For tickets and more information, visit originalalamo.com.
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Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin to co-host Oscars
Two wild and crazy guys?
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that Oscar hosting veteran Steve Martin and newcomer Alec Baldwin (star of NBC’s “30 Rock”) will co-host the March 7, 2010 ABC Academy Awards telecast, ew.com reports. “I am happy to co-host the Oscars with my enemy Alec Baldwin,” Martin joked.
The choice seems odd in light of the success the younger and more hip Neil Patrick Harris has enjoyed hosting the Tony Awards and, most recently, the Emmys. Ratings for the Oscars seem to drop every year. What do you think? Will the addition of Baldwin’s wry wit and Martin’s banjo-picking convince you to tune in?
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ABC’s Quinones at Book People today at noon
ABC News Correspondent John Quinones will be speaking and signing copies of his new book, “Heroes Among Us: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Choices,” at noon today at Book People, 603 North Lamar Boulevard, Austin. The signing is open to the public and books can be purchased at Book People prior to the event.
Quinones is a San Antonio native and a graduate of St. Mary’s University. He’s a co-anchor of “Primetime” and was most recently a correspondent for “Primetime Thursday” and “20/20.” Quinones won six national Emmy Awards for his “Primetime Live,” “Burning Questions” and “20/20” work.
Quinones is in town to speak at the Texas Campus Compact’s Live. Learn. Serve. Dinner on November 5 from 5:30-10 p.m at the Omni Hotel, 700 San Jacinto Street in Austin. The evening will include a reception, book signing, silent auction and dinner, after which Quinones will deliver the keynote speech.
More information and details on how to order Dinner tickets can be found here.
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Have we seen the ‘Conchords’ final flight?
HBO’s Emmy-nominated “Flight of the Conchords” might have flown for the last time, according to Reuters. The news service quotes co-star Jemaine Clement, nominated for an Emmy for the show’s second season, discussing the workload and saying “It very likely might not” return for a third season.
“We’ve got to write the series, but we’ve also got to write the songs, and just dividing your time into those two writing tasks is really tricky,” Clement said.
HBO is leaving the decision about the series — based on the exploits of a New Zealand folk duo in New York City — up to Clement, co-star Bret McKenzie and series director James Bobin. Clement says that if a full third season does not materialize, the show could return in a shorter season or as a special.
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Contest: Win a copy of the “Glee” soundtrack
Does it seem a little more “Glee”-ful out there today? Is your podmates’ humming more annoying than usual? Do you hear that insidiously catchy, over-produced song in the air? That’s just the “Glee” soundtrack.
“Glee: The Music, Season One, Volume 1” hit store shelves and music download sites today, but I’ve got a free CD for one lucky “Glee” fan (hey — do you think the disc’s name is a subtle clue that there will be more of them on the way?)
From the pilot’s “Don’t Stop Believin’ ” Journey cover to “Dancing with Myself,” the Billy Idol tune “Glee”-ized in the upcoming, “very special” Nov. 11 episode, 17 tracks are featured (thankfully, the “Thong Song” doesn’t appear to be among them).
Here’s how you you can win my still-shrinkwrapped copy: Cheerios’ coach Sue Sylvester has a secret that’s revealed at the end of the next new episode. Take your best or funniest guess at what it is; I’ll choose a random entry and get the CD into the winner’s “Glee”-ful little hands.
Enter by commenting below. One entry per person, please. I’ll post the winning entry on Friday.
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‘V’ arrives tonight: Will you be ‘V’iewing?
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Will this be the “V” remake that gets it right?
The much-anticipated series arrives tonight at 7 p.m. on ABC. It’s a great pilot episode, much more agile than the good — but plodding and maddeningly repetitive — “Flash Forward,” ABC’s earlier fall science fiction offering. A “re-imagining” of the original 1983 NBC miniseries (attempted as a regular series by that network in 1984), “V” centers upon the arrival of an extra-terrestrial race — the titular V, or Visitors — who appear in 29 giant spaceships hovering over Earth’s major cities.
The attractive and soft-spoken aliens arrive with a message of peace. They quickly win over the populace by sharing technology, notably in the medical arena, opening centers where they cure all manner of human ills. They offer tours and rides on their spacecraft and recruit young humans into an ambassador program. But does their benevolence mask a more sinister agenda? Of course it does.
The hour moves briskly, reaching much further into the plot line than I would have anticipated and the first 5 minutes, nearly wordless by broadcast television standards, offer some of the best camera angles and most cinematic visuals of the new season. “V’s” special effects are top-notch and the cast, especially Elizabeth Mitchell (“Lost’s” Juliet) as a counter-terrorism agent and Morris Ryan Nichols (Morris Chestnut) as a resistance fighter, bring their A-game. “Party of Five’s” Scott Wolf plays a conflicted television anchor, tempted by Anna, the leader of the Visitors, to stage a softball interview in exchange for the success the exclusive will bring him.
Just four episodes will air initially, with further installments returning after the 2010 Winter Olympics. The show is expensive to produce; future episodes will have to maintain the pilot’s quality and garner big ratings if the Visitors’ visit is going to last more than one season. I think it has a shot. Like “V’s” Earthlings looking to the skies, I am hopeful, but possibly deluded.
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Chris Pelikan comments on KEYE firing
“I just kind of wanted to put my side out there” Chris Pelikan tells me.
The former KEYE sports personality’s contract — he had been at the station since February 2008 — was terminated on Sept. 9 after the broadcast of a segment two nights earlier featuring interviews from the locker room of the Round Rock Express. Pelikan had operated the camera for and edited the segment, which showed a brief flash of nudity in its final seconds.
On Sept. 7, the day the segment was taped, KEYE Sports Director Bob Ballou suggested the pair head to the Dell Diamond to interview a few players who were being called up to the Houston Astros. Pelikan operated the camera while Ballou interviewed players. Pelikan had spent a lot of time in locker rooms throughout his career, he says, but he hadn’t operated a camera in one since college. (Pelikan says that he was asked to start shooting video about three months after he arrived at KEYE when the sports photographer was moved to news.)
Pelikan says that when he and Ballou got back to the station about 4:30 p.m. he edited the segment for broadcast on the 6 p.m. news, showing a group of interns how to use the equipment while he worked.
After the newscast, the KEYE sports department received an e-mail from a viewer pointing out that a player’s naked rear end could be seen in the background of the segment. Pelikan said he and Ballou immediately examined the piece.
“Sure enough, for probably the last second of the sound bite in the sort of deep recesses of the background, a guy sort of came from around the corner — like, after he had gotten out of the shower — and he sort of just turned around and flashed part of his butt,” Pelikan recalls, “for no more than a second, second and a half. And, honestly, not a single person who was working the control room or any part of the show noticed it.”
Pelikan says Ballou responded to the viewer’s e-mail, apologizing and promising greater vigilance. “And we thought that was kind of the end of it.”
The next morning, the station received another e-mail. Pelikan said the content was basically the same as that of the first message, with the writer noting that he or she was not offended, but that somebody might have been.
That’s when Pelikan says KEYE News Director Suzanne Black first contacted him about the matter, forwarding the message to Pelikan and Ballou, asking them for an explanation.
“I responded first, saying I shot it, I edited it, it was my fault,” Pelikan says. He explained the time crunch and apologized. “I took responsibility for it; I said I was sorry.” He says that when Black told him they would have to talk further, he began to realize how serious the matter was.
“And it wasn’t like I didn’t take it seriously, because I understand obscenity and all that sort of thing,” he says. “But it was a complete and total oversight and you really almost had to be looking for it to see it. “
When management had him anchor the 6 and 10 p.m. shows that day, he thought things would be OK.
On Sep. 9, Pelikan met with Black and KEYE President and General Manager Amy Villarreal in Villarreal’s office. He says Villarreal spent the first few minutes of the meeting praising Ballou and Pelikan’s chemistry and their work.
“But we’re going to have to terminate your contract today,” Pelikan remembers her suddenly saying.
“And I honestly lost my breath for a few minutes. I couldn’t believe it,” Pelikan says.
He says that Villarreal brought up the possibility of a fine from the Federal Communications Commission, telling him the offense was grounds for dismissal. “She gave me a letter of termination that she wanted me to sign, and I wasn’t about to sign anything at that point in time, “ he remembers, “because I couldn’t just sit there and believe that what they were doing was right, or legal even.”
But “contracts work the way contracts work,” he tells me, “and technically I did violate a station policy on obscenity. The whole thing was just very difficult for me to accept because I felt like I had done a lot to help out that station.”
He says that the last time he had been in Villarreal’s office was four or five months earlier, when the station manager had asked him to pass on his contractual raise to help the station out in these tough economic times. “And I did it in two seconds because I thought it was the right thing to do for the station.”
He says he felt blindsided by the termination.
“I’m sitting there with a 4-week-old baby thinking, ‘how the heck am I going to provide for her? How am I going to have insurance for her?’ “ he says.
He tells me that his daughter, now 12 weeks old, is the twinkle in his eye these days. “It’s been a real nice silver lining to this whole cloud — that I’ve been able to spend a lot of time with her.”
I ask Pelikan if he hates Janet Jackson, whose wardrobe malfunction at the 2004 Super Bowl is regularly credited with increasing standards scrutiny for broadcast television.
“Her name came up in the meeting,” he laughs.
He says he never had a performance review that came back without excellent marks. “The only time Suzanne or Amy would come and talk to us was to say ‘Stop working so hard. You guys are killing yourselves; you’re going to burn yourselves out.”
I ask him if he feels that the punishment fit the crime.
“I guess this is negligence. But I feel like I did everything that I was asked to do there and then some and for something like this to be the end, no,” he says. “I can’t believe that they thought a punishment like this was the right way to go.”
Would he be upset if one of his children saw something similar to the segment in question on the news someday?
“Obviously, I would prefer that my child not be introduced to anything on television of any sort of sexual nature before I feel they’re ready for that,” he says. “And I am sincere when I say that if someone was sitting there or their child was sitting there and that caused a difficult moment, I sincerely apologize for that. You figure if you turn on the 6 o’clock news you’re not going to see something like that.
“But it’s hard for me to look at it that way, because I feel like so few people — even those who were watching — saw it. I don’t know how many people were watching that day and how many saw it, but we got two e-mails on it. I don’t know how many you got.”
I received one.
Pelikan says he’s had an offer to return to his native St. Louis to do a radio show, but says that family issues make that unlikely. His father has spent his life in medical sales, so he’s got feelers out in that industry. He has applied for a few PR jobs, but he hasn’t heard much back.
“It’s a tough economy right now,” he says, “and here I am trying to switch careers with a resume that just has TV on it. I think patience is going to have to be an important thing for me right now.”
It took Pelikan almost two months to begin receiving unemployment compensation. “Fortunately, the Texas Workforce Commission didn’t agree with (KEYE’s) assertion that I engaged in ‘gross misconduct’ and approved my claim,” he says.
Pelikan doesn’t want to leave Austin, but if it comes to that he would consider relocating to St. Louis or to Dallas, where his wife’s family lives. Regardless of what happens, he will have fond memories of Austin.
“My time here has been wonderful,” he says. “It’s a very special breed of person who lives down here. No matter what happens professionally, I will always love Austin and I will always treasure my time here. It’s been a lot of fun.”
Villarreal declined to comment on the record about Pelikan’s dismissal.
“As always our policy is not comment on personnel issues,” wrote Jerry Wagley, KEYE’s director of creative services. “It would be unfair to our staff and their privacy to do that.”
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Video: ‘24’, evil President Logan return in January
The Associated Press reports that Gregory Itzin will rejoin the cast of the FOX drama “24” when new episodes begin airing in January.
Although Itzin’s disgraced President Logan’s wife got all stabby on him in Season 6, we learned in Season 7 that he was still alive.
The 2-night, 4-hour “24” Season 8 premiere starts at 8 p.m. Sunday, January 17, but I don’t think I’ll be watching.
What do you think? Will you be back or should Jack Bauer just hang it up already?
Maybe this Season 8 trailer will help you decide:
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‘Southland’ saved by TNT
As speculated, cable network TNT has picked up “Southland,” in a manner of speaking. The cop drama, starring Benjamin McKenzie (of Austin) was canceled by broadcast network NBC after six episodes of its second season were shot but before any of them had aired. TNT will run those episodes along with the 7 from its truncated first season; this will give new viewers a chance to jump in at the beginning.
Here’s your chance, “Southland” fans … TNT — already home to cop drama “Dark Blue” — will evaluate “Southland’s” ratings and decide whether or not to bring it back after these 13 episodes have aired.
The show will begin airing on TNT January 12 at 9 p.m., going head-to-head with NBC’s “Jay Leno Show.”
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Most networks up this fall, but ABC drops
Reuters reports that viewership is up at three of the four major broadcast television networks this season. Only third-place ABC — with 11 new dramas and comedies — has seen a decline in ratings.
Major points from the story:
“Glee” and “House” are doing well for FOX, the only network up in all demographics and categories.
First-place CBS has 13 of the Top 20 programs.
NBC ratings are up but network, whose move of Jay Leno to the 9 p.m. prime-time hour from late night has drawn only about 5 million viewers weekly, is still in last place.
Read the complete story by clicking here.
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Bulldogs and barbecue: Austinites on ‘Judge Joe Brown’ today
Wolfe, who adopted the rescue dog three months prior to the attack, maintains that everyone knew the dog was skittish around new people. He contends that the amount Cox is suing for is exorbitant and that she should share liability for the attack.
C’mon, Austin … does every barbecue have to end with someone getting bit in the face?
“Judge Joe Brown” airs at 2 p.m. on FOX.
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ABC’s ‘Supernanny’ sets Saturday casting call at Austin Zoo
Can we call it “Zoopernanny?”
ABC’s “Supernanny” is holding an open casting call from 10 a.m. til 6 p.m. on Oct. 31 at the Austin Zoo and Animal Sanctuary, 10807 Rawhide Trail in Austin. The parenting show is searching for families of all backgrounds for season five, especially: families with unique interests; parents with ordinary and extraordinary circumstances; teen moms; parents with mean girls or bullying boys; culturally diverse parents; and blended families where both sides are seeking help. Producers want families from every type of background who are ready for a visit from nanny Jo Frost.
“We are very excited to host ABC’s ‘Supernanny’ open casting call,” said Patti Clark, The Austin Zoo and Animal Sanctuary president. “Like ‘Supernanny,’ The Austin Zoo and Animal Sanctuary is centered around the needs of young children by offering over 300 animals across 100 different species to learn about and experience close-up throughout our beautiful Hill Country zoo and sanctuary.”
For front of line privileges and priority casting, the producers ask that you e-mail your family’s story with a recent photo to cast4shows@yahoo.com or call 614.668.5700 for more information. To learn more about The Austin Zoo and Animal Sanctuary or the “Supernanny” open cast call visit www.austinzoo.org
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‘Friday Night Lights’ back tonight on DirecTV
“Friday Night Lights” returns tonight with a ticker tape parade. Okay, the flying paper is from former Panthers’ star fullback Tim Riggins’ (Taylor Kitsch) un-cracked college notebooks, but still …
The Austin-filmed critical hit, which has managed to elude ratings and mainstream awards success like a running back zipping down the field, returns tonight, but only if you’re one of those hoity-toity, West Dillon-esque DirecTV subscribers. Us East Dillon-ish scrubs will have to wait until summer 2010, when the series returns to NBC.
Regardless of when you start to watch, you’ll find yourself in a “Twilight Zone-y,” skewed version of the Dillon you know and love. For starters, some of your favorites will be gone. And redistricting (this is Texas, y’all are familiar with that concept, right?) has left Dillon a town divided. Coach Taylor (Kyle Chandler), having guided the Panthers to a loss at State, is relegated to the rust-covered bleachers and neglected turf of East Dillon High. He practically has to break into his own locker room and, once he gets inside, he’s greeted by some furry critter (a badger?), which has taken up residence in one of the lockers (maybe they should have named the East Dillon team the Badgers instead of the Lions).
It’s quite a fall from his old school, where smarmy, new coach Wade Aikman (Drew Waters) and his cronies summon Taylor’s wife, principal Tami (Connie Britton), and inform her that she’ll be calling the coin toss to open the Panthers’ football season. They also tell her which side of the coin to call, but then break out into jerky, frat-boy spasms of laughter. Just kidding, Tami! Sheesh. These guys can’t fail fast enough, but it’s not gonna’ happen any time soon.
Off the field, it looks like Riggins’ college dreams — oh, let’s face it … they’re really his brother’s college dreams for him — are on hold again as he bails from San Antonio State in favor of Dillon and a one-night stand with a bar maid (is this “Friday Night Lights” or “Cougar Town?”) He wakes up to find the woman’s daughter, Becky (newcomer Madison Burge, from Hutto) looking for a ride to school. Becky is sassy, smart, pretty and kinda’ trashy. I like her, but that might be because she asks lover boy how it feels to be “the guy who used to be Tim Riggins.” Hee.
Over at East, Coach Taylor is trying to build a team out of a rag-tag group of misfits and screw-ups, including Vince (Michael B. Jordan), a misfit and screw-up who is delivered to Taylor via squad car. There’s gonna’ be some drama there. But first there’s some locker room drama as the East Dillon Lions squabble on and off the field. Taylor challenges his players to commit or leave, and most of them leave. Oops.
Principal Tami’s got the opposite problem: several of her students have been redistricted to East Dillon High, but refuse to go. Her daughter Julie (Aimee Teegarden) becomes upset as her friends are pulled out of classes and removed from the school. So upset that she just gets up and walks out into the hallway to watch them as they’re escorted away. Can you just get up and walk out of a high school class? I guess being the Principal’s daughter has its privileges.
Julie spends her out-of-school time with boyfriend Matt (Zach Gilford), the former Panther’s quarterback who postponed his education at the Art Institute of Chicago to stay in Dillon, take car of his grandmother and deliver pizzas with Julie riding shotgun. Looks like Coach Taylor’s not the only former golden boy who’s been knocked down a few pegs.
Speaking of Coach Taylor, game night finally arrives and we get to see just how stark the East-West contrast really is: full bleachers, cheers, smoke, flags and pageantry at Aikman’s stadium give way to the stark, empty East Dillon stands. This part of the premiere doesn’t exactly ring true. In the show’s world, Taylor is a football god. Wouldn’t more people show up just to see what would happen? Even just to watch him fail? Besides, it’s football and it’s Texas: I’ve seen bigger crowds show up for that finger field goal kicking game you play at your kitchen table with a buddy and a piece of notebook paper folded into a triangle. Tailgaters, too. Oh, well. Over at West, look for Principal Tami to put Aikman in his place, leaving no doubt as to where her allegiance lies.
I won’t tell you how the Lions’ first game ends, but it’s not pretty. It’s a great set up, though, for what should be a fun year. Thanks to DirecTV, “Friday Night Lights” already has a commitment for another season; Coach Taylor’s position is more tenuous. But he’s never been better than when he’s had something to prove.
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Mike Judge’s ‘Goode Family’ heads to Comedy Central
“The Goode Family,” Mike Judge’s animated sitcom about a family of environmentalist zealots, is headed to Comedy Central. The cable network will re-air the 13 episodes that ran on broadcast network ABC this summer prior to the show’s August cancellation.
When ABC dropped the ax, co-creators John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky promised to shop the show around to other networks. “This show has been the most creatively satisfying thing we have ever done and we look forward to continuing it,” they wrote on the show’s Facebook page.
I don’t think I was the only skeptical viewer, but one of the duo’s most recent posts announced “The Goode Family’s” return:
“IT’S OFFICIAL! The Goode Family will air on Comedy Central in January of 2010! They will start by re-running the original 13,” the post reads. “If this goes well and we capitalize on our fan there will be an order for new episodes! This second chance is truly a factor of our show attracting passionate and vocal fans. Any help getting the word out is greatly appreciated!!”
I wouldn’t count on new episodes, but Altschuler and Krinsky seem determined, promising to embrace social media technology to increase the show’s fan base prior to the new airings.
Comedy Central previously revived “Futurama” and “Family Guy,” and it’s rumored that they will pick up “Arrtesed Development” scribe Mitchell Hurwitz’s failed FOX animated series, “Sit Down Shut Up.”
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A former staffer takes Letterman to task
Nell Scovell, a former writer for David Letterman, is the latest person to come forward and throw her 2 cents into the embattled late-night talker’s sexpoitation controversy. Scovell airs her complaints in a Vanity Fair essay, according to eonline.com. The site says the piece “paints her late ’80s tenure on his NBC Late Night show as one marred by uncomfortable tension, hostile environments and sexual favoritism.”
Scovell also decried the lack of female writers on the show and claims she does not want compensation, revenge nor Letterman’s downfall, eonline reports. “I just want Dave to hire some qualified female writers and then treat them with respect.”
I just attended a panel at the 2009 Austin Film Festival in which comedy writers Chuck Sklar and Dan French revealed that none of the late-night talk shows’ writers rooms has a strong female presence. They seem, in fact, to most resemble middle-school boys’ locker rooms.
Scovell’s other accusations aside, the lack of female writers hardly seems particular to Letterman.
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Ricky Gervais set to host Golden Globes
Ricky Gervais, star of the original British version of “The Office” and HBO’s “Extras,” who dissed the Golden Globes in his hilarious appearance on the 2009 Emmy Awards, will host the Golden Globes, the Associated Press reports.
Gervais claimed to prefer the Emmys — which recognize only television work — because of the lack of beautiful movie stars making him feel inadequate (the Globes honor achievement in television, film and music).
“In this room I’m probably above average,” he joked. “Steve Carrell is considered handsome … it’s amazing.”
The Golden Globes have not had a host since 1995, when Janine Turner and John Larroquette handled those duties.
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