10 posts tagged “himym”

There is a Dollhouse spoiler at the bottom of this post. You have been warned. It's not necessarily a plot spoiler, but it is a casting spoiler.

Let's see if this turns in to something worth posting...

First up, how cool was the Lebowski shout out on How I Met Your Mother this week?

Then, there are a handful of things coming up for fans of British TV.
1) The Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Ian McKellan's King Lear is on PBS on March 25th. It's an episode of Great Performances, for those of you searching by episode.
2) The Mighty Boosh is coming to Cartoon Network. I've never seen it but always wanted to.
3) Little Dorrit starts on PBS. It's a "Masterpiece Classics" miniseries starting on March 29.
4) If you can't get enough of Captain Jack from Torchwood, John Barrowman's reality show from the UK, Any Dream Will Do, starts airing on BBC America on March 29th. It's about the search for the male lead in some Andrew Lloyd Weber muscial. I forget which one. Joseph, maybe?

I enjoyed the BSG finale. I didn't love it, but I really really liked it. See you on the other side, BSG.

That's about all I got right now, but I'll be back soon with more. I didn't get through all my sources tonight for this post, so I'm sure there's more stuff out there. I'm also leaving this space to give you room to avoid the spoiler if you really don't want to know.

Here's your Dollhouse spoiler:
My leaf on the wind, Alan Tudyk, has been cast as Alpha in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse. I have been hit or miss on Dollhouse so far this season. The latest episode, written by Joss, was a big improvement over previous weeks, but either way I'd been warming to this show. It's taken way too long to feel that way, so my guess is this is a one and done sort of thing. But Oh. Em. Gee. If Alan Tudyk was on every week it would be appointment TV. Joss knows how to write for this man. Joss has even (another spoiler, but it's beyond the statute of limitations) killed him on screen and he comes back for more. It's going to be fun to see him playing a bad guy. It was rumored he was going to show up this past Friday, but I've also heard rumors that we're not going to get to see Alpha until the season finale, episode 13. For those of you playing at home, this was episode six.

I just finished watching the Emmys. For a list of winners, go here. Surprises included Bryan Cranston winning Best Actor in a Drama and Alec Baldwin winning for 30 Rock. Mad Men, The Colbert Report and The Daily Show also won their share.

Tivo check time:
I know I haven't made a big deal out of it yet, but let this be the big reminder that HEROES RETURNS MONDAY NIGHT! There's a one hour special at 8:00 "Countdown to the Premiere", and then at 9:00 is the two hour (two episode, really) premiere.

With slightly fewer capital letters, How I Met Your Mother also returns tonight at 8:30.

Tuesday brings us another new House and Fringe twofer. Also new show The Mentalist goes up against Fringe. It's supposed to be good, so I'll check it out.

Wednesday CSI:NY comes back.

Thursday has the season premiere and a second episode of My Name is Earl and the premiere of Survivor, both at 8:00. The Office also returns this week.

Next Sunday is the premiere of The Amazing Race and the Simpsons, both at 8:00.

In a way, I'm kind of glad there aren't all sorts of interesting new shows this fall because I've been busy and I'm already behind in watching what I've already recorded.

South Park has its midseason premiere on Wednesday night. Since animation isn't covered by the WGA, they weren't out on strike, so this was a planned break. It just happened to coincide with the strike. For as much noise as I make about the fact that I don't like cartoons, South Park is consistently one of my favorite shows.

Also returning this week: Reaper. There are a few episodes left from before the strike and they're producing a few more episodes before the end of the season.

Of course, Lost is still new, as is Law & Order, I believe, and possibly, Smallville. I've got to check again.

Other stuff:
In an attempt to keep interest in the show, Fox is doing a 24 movie before the next season kicks off next January. One of 24's co-creators Joel Surnow, has left the show.

Bubble show Friday Night Lights has apparently been renewed with the help of DirecTV.

CW has announced Smallville has been renewed. I guess that's the good news. The bad news would be that Lex and Lana are both leaving the show. They'll be back for bits, but not regulars. Reaper has not yet been renewed.

CBS has renewed a bunch of shows including all three CSIs. How I Met Your Mother is still not officially renewed, but expectations are that it will be. There are rumors swirling that Alicia Silverstone will be the mother. Take that for what it's worth.

Starbuck's husband Anders (actor Michael Trucco) is going to star in a new NBC comedy called The Man of Your Dreams. It's expected it will be on in the fall. Anders has been a favorite of mine on BSG, so I'll probably watch this one.

Former Doctor Who Christopher Eccelston has joined the cast of G.I. Joe.

The first three Replacements albums and an EP will be reissued in April.

Gary Gygax, the creator of Dungeons and Dragons passed away last week.

Reason number 412 why I hate George Lucas. Lucasfilm is reissuing the three original Indiana Jones movies on DVD. There are special features that weren't on previous views. Gee, where have we heard this song and dance before? Jackass.

NBC's handling of Scrubs has always been ham-fisted. It's supposed to finish this year. Except because of the strike, they might not get to finish the show. Now ABC is making noises about picking up the show for the next season. For a whole season. Even though it was supposed to finish. Of course, NBC is more than a little pissed that ABC is making announcements like this since they still own the show.

Saturday Night Live returned a couple weeks ago. It's still bad, but at least the musical guests have been good. Last week was Wilco, this week was Vampire Weekend.

I just started watching another BBC miniseries. This one's called State of Play. I don't know how I missed this one. It's incredible. TV on DVD will eventually be the death of me. I was just going to watch the one episode and go to bed. Now I'm about to finish the disc and I want to finish it the whole series right now. It's going to take at least two more days to get the second and final disc of the series from Netflix. The cast is amazing. Lots of BBC regulars like John Simm (love him) and Philip Glenister (also from Life on Mars with John Simm), people who are now much bigger like James McAvoy, and a few already big stars like Bill Nighy. I think my current obsession with John Simm is responsible for me finally discovering this gem. With his Life on Mars being a favorite of mine and his guest shot on Doctor Who, I'm now finding I want to go back and watch the things I now know he was in that I've already seen, like Human Traffic and 24 Hour Party People. Full review of State of Play to come once I've finished it.

Another random bits and pieces catch up post.

Jesse L. Martin is leaving Law & Order. This is too bad because this is the first year since we lost Jerry Orbach that he's got a partner that's working well. The whole cast is quite good this year. NBC is planning on doing 5 new post strike episodes that will air starting in April.

HD-DVD is dead. Long live Blu-Ray. Toshiba finally waved the white flag and gave up. All the major studios are moving to Blu-Ray. Looks like there's a PS3 in my future.

The J.J. Abrams Star Trek movie has been moved from a Christmas 2008 release to summer of 2009.

FX has confirmed that rather than produce any post-strike episodes, the season of The Riches will just be seven episodes long.

Craig Ferguson will host the White House Correspondents Dinner. I can't imagine he'll be as offensive to the President as Stephen Colbert was, but he's a funny guy and I'm sure he'll get his digs in.

The deal isn't done yet, but it looks like NBC will let Scrubs finish in the way it intended.

Lots of announcements about the upcoming Wolverine movie, but the only one I'm going to mention is that Dominic Monaghan has joined the cast.

CBS is moving How I Met Your Mother to 8:30 on Monday. Shows what I remember from before the strike, I thought it was there already. It also wasn't in the list of renewals that CBS put out earlier this week, but it seems most people think it will be back. I'll be disappointed if it isn't. They're expecting to shoot nine new episodes this season that will start airing March 17.

Leonardo DiCaprio is producing a live action version of Akira.

Bionic Woman was officially canned. I deleted the unwatched shows off my Tivo a long time ago.

Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell have all signed on to take over Heath Ledger's part in The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. Since it's a Terry Gilliam movie we already knew it was going to be strange, this just makes it odder.

There's a special Aerosmith only Guitar Hero coming in May. It also looks like I'll be able to get a stand-alone guitar for the Wii in a couple weeks.

The first official trailer for the new Indiana Jones movie is out. It looks ok.

Apparently, there's a vampire movie in production called Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Undead. With a title like that you shouldn't need Sean Lennon doing the score, but it's got him.

Molly Ringwald recently turned 40. I feel very very old.

An Arrested Development movie might be in the works. For me, this show rode right up to my threshold of embarrassment humor and occasionally crossed it, so I'm not dying for a feature-length episode.

Among many other names added to the cast of G.I. Joe, including Dennis Quaid, Doctor Who number nine, or Claude the invisible man from Heroes depending on who you are, Christopher Eccelston has signed on.

We're getting reissues of three Replacements CDs and one EP in April. The rest of their catalog should be available by the end of the year. I may have to check these out. I love these guys.

In other music news, Thriller celebrated its 25th anniversary while I wasn't looking.

Harold and Maude finally got an official soundtrack. Seems a little silly since you can just pick up Cat Steven's greatest hits, but I guess there was never a proper soundtrack. Don't tell Jim, but I love this movie. He made me watch it one too many times before I was old enough to appreciate it, I think. But it's brilliant.

This is a great list of 48 unanswered questions on Lost. Speaking of Lost, it will produce five more episodes this season, bringing the total to 13 of the 16 they were supposed to do, and when it returns for those episodes it will be at 10 on Thursdays following Grey's Anatomy.

BSG tidbits: Season 3 will be out on DVD March 18th. Season four will premiere on April 4th, with two catch-up specials showing March 28th. The writers are back at work on the show and it looks like they'll actually get to finish it. We'll get everything they shot starting in April, and then we might not get the second half of the final season until 2009. Yikes.

I don't understand the Jane Fonda on the Today Show controversy at all. She said a naughty word, but in fairness, it was the title of one of the Vagina Monologues, so I don't get how that's so bad.

Mitch Peleggi, aka Walter Skinner, will be in the new X-Files movie. Yay! I thought he was great on the series.

The Smurfs in 3d? I just...have no words.

Looks like the Justice League movie is moving forward without Batman or Superman, since they're both currently engaged in their own movie franchise. But I ask you, is it worth seeing a Justice League movie without them?

Transformers 2 is a go. Hm. I think maybe one was enough.

Turns out we'll be getting *both* Coreys in Lost Boys 2. Thank god for that. For a while it looked like we'd have to survive with only one, and that just won't do.

J.J. Abrams new show on Fox, Fringe, has added Joshua Jackson to the cast. OMG Pacey's back on TV!

Disney Interactive has announced Discs of Tron for the XBox.

I think I might have mentioned this earlier, but SciFi announced they're going to show The Sarah Jane Adventures and the new season of Doctor Who starting in April. In fact, they're going to be on Friday night right before BSG. Sounds like we're going to get the good Doctor in a similar fashion to the way BBC America is airing Torchwood, with only a small lag between airing in the UK and airing here. The Beeb hasn't actually announced when this show is starting in the UK, a peculiarity of UK TV that they do that a lot, but it's starting on SciFi on April 18th, so one would assume it's starting sooner than that in the UK.

The Knight Rider movie did well enough that NBC is considering making it a series. Ugh.

The new Clone Wars animated series got picked up by Cartoon Network. I like the look of it. I wonder if the stories will be any good.

Ok, enough of that. I'll put all the returning show info I can find in the next post.

The Golden Globe nominations were announced this morning. Once again I've seen exactly zero of the nominated movies. Which is even worse than the Oscars because there are two film categories and 12 movies total, seven dramas and five musical/comedies. This year is vaguely unusual because three of the five musical/comedy nominations are actually musicals. I didn't realize that Charlie Wilson's War was a comedy. I'm looking forward to seeing it, though, because it was written by Aaron Sorkin and also received a best screenplay nomination. I also kind of want to see Sweeney Todd, but I can probably wait for video for that one.

I did just watch Ocean's Thirteen on video last week. Fun but dumb. Lots of eye candy. Not much else there.

In TV news, this week we ran out of episodes of How I Met Your Mother and Pushing Daisies. Pushing Daisies is such a fun show. It got three Golden Globe nominations, show, actor and actress. I think Kristin Chenoweth deserves a best supporting actress for her part, too, but there are fewer slots for those in the Globes. Here's hoping the accolades will help it return when the strike is over. I'm still a couple weeks behind in HIMYM. Am I way off the mark in assuming we still haven't met the mother?

There is a Firefly mini marathon on Sci-Fi tomorrow. They're running Serenity through Bushwhacked. Twice. Not that there aren't enough episodes of this show or anything, but with eight hours dedicated to Firefly, don't you think they could show eight episodes out of the possible 14 instead of four? That doesn't make a ton of sense in my mind. But if I haven't already forced you to watch, now's your chance to get hooked. Trivia fun fact: the name of this blog is a line from episode six, "Our Mrs. Reynolds".

The new KITT for the upcoming Knight Rider movie was unveiled this week. It's a (drumroll please) Mustang! Boooring. I am, however, amused by the news that Will Arnett is going to be the voice of KITT.

The big strike news this week, I suppose, is that the TCA canceled the Winter Press Tour. Although not as big as the summer tour, which Tim Goodman of the Chronicle has dubbed "death march with cocktails", it's still always been a chance for the networks to trot out their midseason shows and sometimes talk about pilots in the works. This begs the question, if it's pilot season for next year's fall TV and there are no writers, what's going to happen to the fall shows? Some pilots squeaked in before the strike was on, but nobody's moving on anything until the strike is over. Curiouser and curiouser. Also today in strike news, the first batch of pencils were delivered to the media moguls. Apparently somebody called the police to prevent the pencils from being delivered to Universal. Idiots. Take the pencils, give them to the child laborers you have "writing" your reality shows. Don't these people know anything? At a buck a box, think about how much money they're saving in writing materials alone. That will more than make up for the 3% of revenue of internet downloads that the writers want if not also covering the four cent per DVD increase they'd also like. What do they think the studios are? Made of money? Oh, right, they are, because there are people out there who write the movies and shows they make their money off of (and actors and directors and all the other people who work for a living in Hollywood). For f*ck's sake would you people please just pay the writers, actors and directors in a equitable fashion and let us all get back to sitting on our asses watching TV and movies?!

I leave you with the Lost season 4 teaser that's apparently being shown in movie theaters. Which apparently I would know if I ever went to the movies anymore.

Here's not only the top ten list that Barney read at the end of last week's HIMYM, but the rest of the list that didn't make the cut. I can't believe CBS let something like this out.

Turns out these days I am some sort of technology anti-Midas.  About a week ago my Tivo hard drive started to die.  I blame the fact that I've watched a bunch of stuff that had been hanging around and I think I released some bad sectors into the wild that had been held hostage by some Good Eats.  So I thought I'd get clever and replace the hard drive with an even bigger one, not that I need any more tv.  Cut to 10 hours of attempting to get a new hard drive online and I now have a 320 gig hard drive convinced it's 120 gig and refusing to get any bigger.  I know how to fix it, but it would involve losing all the saved recordings I already have.  So maybe I'll wait until Sci-Fi runs another Firefly marathon and do it then.  Yes, I already have it on dvd, but I like having it on the tivo.  This in addition to the fact that I've been trying to assemble my first computer from scratch with what can be kindly referred to mixed success.

The upshot being I missed last night's Simpsons and I really need to put a computer work table in my office so I can work on these things somewhere other than the floor.  Everything's ok for now, and I think I'm in good shape for my shows returning from their winter breaks.  How I Met Your Mother and The Class returned tonight.

House is back tomorrow.  I hope they're going to wrap up the crazy cop storyline.  The Daily Show and Colbert Report are back as well.

And I actually saw a movie this week!  Casino Royale is at the Parkway.  I really liked it.  And Daniel Craig...

One of the funniest episodes of How I Met Your Mother ever was the episode called "Slap Bet".  There's an article over at TV Squad that includes a montage of the rules and the slaps, and Lily as the Slap Bet Comissioner.  There's a shorter one on YouTube, but this one's funnier and way more complete.  The article also clears up any confusion you might have had about the rules.

Well, I can't seem to get the AOL video thing to link in properly, so here's the YouTube one, but you should really follow the link over to TV Squad and check it out.

So the Golden Globe nominess were announced yesterday.  You'd think I would have been all over that, but instead I spent the day in geek land trying to debug a weird problem and didn't end up posting.

The first thing of note is that I have seen exactly none of the films nominated in any of the major categories.  The only film I've seen that was nomiated at all was DaVinci Code for Best Score or some such.  Sad, really.  I gotta get out more.

There was some good stuff in the tv categories, thought.  24, Lost and Heroes all got Best Drama nominations.  Hugh Laurie, Kiefer Sutherland, Zach Braff, Jason Lee and Steve Carell all got nominated in their respective Best Actor categories.  Sarah Paulson (Harriet) got the only nomination for Studo 60, and Masi Oka got a Best Supporting nod for Heroes.

Once again, BSG gets snubbed.  And Desperate Housewives and Grey's Anatomy, two shows I don't get at all, got a bunch of nominations.  And no love for Veronica Mars or How I Met Your Mother either.

The Golden Globes are in January.

Apparenty, Eddie Izzard isn't going to be on 24 this season.  I just read that somewhere today and now I can't find it again, so I hope it's not the crack talking.

NBC ordered more scripts for Studio 60.  Not a full season order yet, and no guarantee that they'll air the ones they've ordered.

NBC is changing up their Thursday lineup.  They've pulled 30 Rock from Wednesday.  The new Thursday night lineup is going to be My Name is Earl, The Office, Scrubs and 30 Rock.  leaving Thursday as the only night NBC isn't going for the "cheaper" reality/game show programming from 8-9.  20 Good Years appears to have been pulled for real.  So it looks like Scrubs is coming back earlier than we thought, which is great news.  I love Scrubs, and NBC has been jerking them around for years.  The good news is they're bringing it back, the bad news is they're putting it in the death hour of Thursday at 9 up against Grey's Anatomy, CSI, etc.  I hope it does well and I'm glad I only have CSI as one of my shows so I can record Scrubs too.  Scrubs returns November 30.

Nightmare Before Christmas is airing on Cartoon Network tomorrow night.

ABC has set the return date for Lost.  It's coming back Feb 7th.  In it's absence, ABC is airing a new show called Daybreak.  It's like Groundhog's Day but set as an LA cop show where the central character has to stop his girlfriend's murder.  So not with the funny.  Daybreak stars Taye Diggs and has another Joss Whedon alumnus in the cast in Adam Baldwin (Firefly, Angel).  I like Taye Diggs.  Someday he'll have a show that stays on the air.  Maybe this one's the charm.

Liev Schreiber is joining CSI in January.

There was a whole to-do this week about Michael J Fox doing ads for candidates in favor of stem cell research.  Isn't he Canadian, anyway?

These short stories are great.  Because everything relates back to Joss in some way.

We were right.  After the Borat movie, that character is spent.  And there's a bidding war going on for the Bruno movie, which doesn't exist yet.  Bruno is the third character Sasha Baron Cohen played on Da Ali G Show.

I think I mentioned this already but I'm too lazy to go check. Nathan Fillion (Captain Mal from Firefly/Serenity) will be on Lost November 8th.  It's a good week for former Firefly peeps as Alan Tudyk (my pilot) will be on CSI November 2nd.  Which just happens to be the same night the Parkway is doing a screening/sing-along of Once More With Feeling, the Buffy musical episode.  More Joss related goodness for everyoine.  And since we're already here, Nathan Fillion's latest movie, Slither came out on dvd this week.  Not that I'm dying to see a gross out horror movie, but it's still relavent.

Sesame Street: Old School Volume 1 came out this week too.  So if you're dying to have the old pinball counting video on dvd, now's your chance.

For you How I Met Your Mother fans out there, there's a contest to submit your own Barneyism.  I think this will be more fun than the Transformers' Optimus Prime dialog contest.

I have watched this week's BSG, but that's for another time.  This one's already too long.  And a new record for 5 Joss references in one post.  Ha!