7 posts tagged “joss”

Sorry to shout, but HELL YEAH! Joss has signed a deal for seven episodes of a new series on (ahem) Fox called Dollhouse. With the impending writers strike, which could start any day now, we won't see this show until all that's resolved, but if it goes quickly we could see it as soon as this winter or spring. More later when I should actually be awake instead of now when I should be asleep.

The rumors that have been floating around are true.  Nathan Fillion, Captain Mal from Firefly, is returning to tv as the lead of Tim Minear's new series Drive, a midseason replacement for Fox.  Tim Minear was the other half of the Firefly creative team along with Joss, of course.  And Fox, of course, was the braintrust that cancelled Firefly in the first place.  Drive is about a cross country race, and that's pretty much all I know.  That and the fact that I'll be watching when it starts in March.

Because it's been at least two weeks since I harped on stuff in any way related to Joss Whedon, here's a crapload all at once.

Jane Espenson, who wrote for Buffy and Firefly, wrote tonight's episode of Battlestar Galactica.  She's got another episode coming up before the end of the season.

Mark Sheppard, Badger from Firefly, has a 3 episode arc on BSG.  The last three episodes of the season.  He shows up in a recent BSG roundtable podcast.  This podcast is something like three hours long and super meandering.  I haven't gotten to the end of it yet, but there are spoilers if you squint and tilt your head, so if you don't want to know anything about the end of the season, don't listen.  They haven't said anything about plot specifically, but we find out his character's occupation and who he's working with in the cast.  Which was enough to draw a couple conclusions.  If you really want to know, ask me.

Joss did three recent interviews.  In the one for tvguide, he declares his love for BSG.  And he talks about the upcoming Buffy Season 8 comics.  There are also interviews out there for Fanboy Radio and EW.  Find 'em yourself if you care.  It's just good to see Joss out there and talking again.  The last time he expressed this much love for a show, it got him a guest spot on Veronica Mars.  Apparently BSG has surpassed VM in Joss' world as the best show on tv.

Astonishing X-Men #19 cover art has been posted.  It comes out this month and is the first issue in the last six issue arc that Joss is writing before he moves on to Runaways.  I'm still working my way through Runaways, but I'm really digging it.  And I'm getting really impatient for the trade paperback of the just finished X-Men arc.  I don't have the patience to read comics as they come out.  I need the whole story.

And finally, there was supposed to be a big Firefly/Serenity convention this weekend.  Lots of ins and outs, lots of what-have-yous later, it got cancelled.  There are some seriously pissed off Browncoats out there.  Remember, these are the people who were instrumental in getting a movie made from Firefly.  But more tellingly, the actors from the show really love this 'verse.  Adam Baldwin (the man they call Jayne) showed up on Thursday night in Burbank anyway and sat in the bar and had a few rounds with the fans.  Mark Sheppard showed up this morning.  How great are these guys?  Either one of them would have gotten an appearance fee for showing up at the con, but came out to support the fans for free when they got totally screwed.  AB and Nathan Fillion are supposed to show up tomorrow at a last-minute organized "Browncoat Backup Bash", organized by the SoCal and NorCal Browncoats.

Shutting up now.

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!

Ok, so I'm not loving the new Doctor, but it was pretty sweet tonight when they introduced Sarah Jane and K-9.  I managed to remain spoiler free for this season even though it aired in Britan a while ago.  So not only was Anthony Stewart Head (Giles from Buffy) the bad guy, but we got Sarah Jane and K-9!  I think my brain is going to fry from crossing the streams of my pop culture heritage.  Old Doctor Who from when I was young and Jim used to sit on me and make me watch the fourth Doctor (with Sarah Jane), Giles from the Buffyverse and things Joss, and new Doctor Who and Battlestar Galactica.

Never said I wasn't a huge nerd.

Marvel just announced that Joss Whedon will be taking over Runaways starting next year.  This means almost nothing to me except that it's yet another Joss comic I'm going to have to buy.  First I have to get the rest of the Astonishing X-Men comics, then there will be new Buffy and Serenity comics.  I've got to get Alan to weigh in on the Runaways thing.  In fact, I'll send him an invite right now...  Alan, am I really going to have to wait until February to get AXM vol 3 Torn?  That's what Amazon says, and I don't know how to find the real answer.  Marvel's site is about as friendly as a comic book store.  It looks like the last issue of the Torn arc comes out next month.  Does it really take 5 months for the trade paperback to come out after the last issue of the arc?  Anyway, the upshot is, more comics for me.

I'm going to start posting my pop culture stuff here.  But to get started, here's a video of Veronica Mars Season 2 bloopers.  And since everything relates back to Joss Whedon, look for the man himself a couple of minutes in.  His love of the show caused the creator to cast him in a guest role as employee of the month in Season 1.  The outtakes from that episode appear here.  Look for the man at about 3:25.