TV is bad for society

Drunk threatened city with TV remote

Thu Feb 7, 2008 9:27am EST

CANBERRA (Reuters) - A drunken man’s threat to blow up half a city with his television remote control forced Australian police to declare a state of emergency at a luxury golf resort, a local court heard Thursday.

Geoffrey Martin Fryatt, 57, a resident of the Fairways Golf and Lifestyle Retreat in Brisbane, was arrested by elite paramilitary police after terrifying neighbors with a knife and threatening to detonate a store of chemicals with the TV remote.

“One push of the button will blow up half of Brisbane,” Fryatt shouted in the standoff last May before police in the Queensland state capital opened fire with rubber bullets.

Fryatt’s lawyer told the Brisbane District Court that his client lost control after losing much of his life savings in a fraud carried out by his finance broker, local media said.

“People are genuinely scared of sudden explosions,” the judge said, sentencing Fryatt to a year’s probation. “Frightening members of the public with threats of bombs and bomb hoaxes has a much greater impact than it once did,” she said.

Fryatt accepted probation, but said he was concerned it could interrupt plans to travel overseas to do humanitarian aid work, the Brisbane Times newspaper reported.

“Let’s get you right before we send you off to a third world country,” the judge said.

(Reporting by Rob Taylor, editing by David Fox)

 Daqui.

Committ Me Baby One More Time

E a Britney voltou pra Pinel.

Dessa vez, dizem, por vontade própria (ela ainda tem isso? vem em rosa bebê?).

Nas palavras da nossa comentarista para assuntos Britney, Mel B:

“Eu me apavoro com essas bolsas de aposta “quando a Brit vai morrer”. Tipo ela é uma PESSOA! Uma pessoa que todo mundo vê que tá doente. Que mundo mais sem noção esse que nós vivemos? Pessoas servem pra dar showzinho e era isso… Agora, deus me livre comer uma vaca!”

2008 on the block

O incentivo que eu precisava para voltar a blogar aqui (que é o lugar onde eu descarrego minha obsessão pop independente de mídia) apareceu online no sábado, mas eu não vi porque fui exilada nos confins do Texas:

New Kids On The Block Stage Comeback

Obrigada à People por deixar minha semana mais feliz!

Even Unicorns Say “I’m Sorry”

A boa notícia do dia (para mim) é:

Posted: Mon., Sep. 10, 2007, 9:56am PTTBS renews ‘My Boys’
Network orders third season of comedy
By STEVEN ZEITCHIK

TBS has renewed ‘My Boys’ for a third season.

TBS will renew its single-in-the-city comedy “My Boys” for a third season, sources said Monday.
“My Boys,” which concludes its second season Monday night, garnered an average of 1.5 million total viewers this summer. Figure is up slightly over the 1.4 million it averaged in its first season, which aired primarily in the fourth quarter last year.

Net is expected to pick up eight episodes for the third season.

Turner net ordered 13 episodes for the first season of “My Boys” but scaled down its order this year to seven episodes, including Monday night’s one-hour finale.

Betsy Thomas created “Boys,” the Sony Pictures TV skein that stars Jordana Spiro as a female sportswriter among a cast of overgrown adolescent men in Chicago.

TBS has been using its reruns of “Sex and the City” as a lead-in to the series and even parodied the show from its Time Warner cable sibling in an episode this season.

TBS has been looking to develop and air more original sitcoms, with prexy Steve Koonin saying he is aiming for four original halfhours in primetime and four in latenight. Net recently renewed the family-oriented “The Bill Engvall Show” for a second season.

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Acabo de descobrir que essa temporada terá apenas 7 episódios, o que talvez explique o sumiço do episódio 19: o episódio 20 que saiu na semana passada é o 19, e o de hoje, duplo, é o 20 (season finale).

[Update: O mundo é cruel e injusto e, realmente, falta um episódio. O 19. O EPISÓDIO COM PARTICIPAÇÃO DO RYAN REYNOLDS! Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

O que é bom, porque significa que amanhã dá pra começar a maratona de My Boys! Yay!

Vi o primeiro episódio (14) no final de semana, e não achei tãããão frustrante quanto alguns spoilers me levaram a crer. Acho que a questão do cliffhanger foi bem resolvida, bem de acordo com os personagens, sem fechar porta alguma. O que não quer dizer que eu não tenha ficado frustrada com a situação. Sete anos assistindo Dawson’s Creek traumatizam uma pessoa. 

A long time ago, we used to be friends…

… mas o público não gostou, e Veronica Mars foi cancelado!

 Ok, quem disse isso foi o Ausiello, mas ele é um cara geralmente confiável. O The Futon Critic jura de pé junto que ainda tá no limbo.

 Um minuto de silêncio pelos nossos amigos de Neptune:

Eu sei que ainda não vi a nossa temporada como deveria. Travei no episódio 10. O ritmo andava quebrado, e quando eu tenho vontade de estrangular a Veronica? Não é um bom sinal. Enfim. Aguardo a series finale para fazer a maratona de episódios que a série merece e comento aqui.

 Quanto ao suposto spin off/quarta temporada mostrando a Veronica no FBI? Ainda bem que desistiram. Pode não ser totalmente out of character pra *ela*, mas acabaria com toda a magia da série. E eu respeito demais o trabalho do Rob Thomas pra querer que ele se submeta a isso. Foi mais longe do que qualquer um de nós esperava… Cupid não teve a mesma chance (mas tinha a Paula Marshall em tempo integral…)

 Postado por Roxy

Aww- wait for it - some!

Renovado!

 Postado por Roxy

Back from the dead

Título com duplo sentido - fala tanto do blog quanto da notícia abaixo, tirada do Pop Watch

First Look: The new ‘Buffy’ comic

From comics she was born, and to comics she shall return: Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s post-cancellation adventures will soon begin anew — penned by Joss Whedon himself — in the pages of Dark Horse Comics. Here’s an exclusive cover image (by artist Georges Jeanty) from issue No. 1. As you can see, she’s kept in shape during her hiatus. (Dark Horse will debut No. 1 at Comic-Con this week.) This isn’t Buffy’s first foray into comics. And it remains to be seen if it ranks anywhere near Joss Whedon’s best foray into comics: the all-too-brief “future slayer” saga Fray, which follows the dystopic advetures of Buffster’s 24th-century successor. (Some will persuasively argue that this is Joss’ best comics effort. I will counter with a spin move and the old axe-to-the-head. So watch it.)So what’s going on in the extended Buffyverse? Well, you may recall the show ended with the creation of an army of Slayers. Now they’re organized, and the tide has turned in favor of the good guys. Ah, but you know how much Whedon hates winners: Soon an “old enemy” surfaces (Dark Horse is cagey on Big Bad’s identity), and Dawn starts “experiencing serious growing pains.” I hope that means the Scoobies will be fighting a mutant, undead Alan Thicke.

postado por Roxy

It’s Official: Veronica Mars Renewed, Everwood

Dead

Straight from the horse’s mouth, Rob Thomas just e-mailed me to confirm that Veronica Mars has been renewed for a third season. The show got a 22-episode order that, depending on ratings, can be reduced to 13. Very reliable sources, meanwhile, are also telling me that One Tree Hill will be back and that Everwood is, in fact, dead. Talk about injustice.

Thanks, Ausiello!

“Why does Michael Bay get to keep on making movies?”

Provavelmente, a notícia mais assustadora de 2006 (no geral, e não só até agora):

“Michael Bay is resurrecting the Friday

the 13th series. As if Jason could ever die.”

(Cortesia do Pop Watch)

[Edit]

[Paulo diz:]
Isso me preocupa… Michael Bay devia ficar com seus porta-aviões e deixar o Jason em paz.

[Roxy diz:]
Jason… em um porta-aviões… hmmm

[Paulo diz:]
Melhor manter a idéia por aqui… Não espalha.

[Roxy diz:]
Putz! Eu ia colar esse diálogo no blog, pra complementar o post…

[Paulo diz:]
haha… Cola lá então. O Michael Bay não vai ler mesmo…

(Diálogo eMeéSeêNico meu e do Paulo comentando o fato)

Joss Whedon is my master now

Sim, ele é. Como diz a camiseta que o digníssimo me deu de presente, Joss Whedon é mestre. Esse artigo pro TV Guide é a prova (em especial o último parágrafo…)

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Guest Columnist Joss Whedon Eyes the Future of TV

Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly, cocreator of Angel

Many people have asked me, “Joss, what is the future of television? What will we watch? And how will we watch it? Surely you must know, for you are wise, and slender.” I usually smile and say nothing, because I wasn’t actually listening to the question. But it’s a good one, and I think it’s time I let you in on a few highlights of Television-to-Be.

The networks will all be creating exciting, innovative new spin-offs of today’s shows. Approximately 67 percent of all television will be CSI-based, including CSI: Des Moines, CSI: New York but a Different Part than Gary Sinise Is In and NCSI: SVU WKRP, which covers every possible gruesome crime with a groovin’ ’70s beat. (Jerry Bruckheimer will also have conquered Broadway with the CSI musical “FOLLICLE!” starring Nathan Lane as a frenetic but lovable blood spatter and Matthew Broderick as lint.)

Lost has that one-of-a-kind alchemy that really can’t be copied. Therefore, look for the original series Misplaced, as well as Unfound, Not So Much with the Whereabouts and Just Pull Over and Ask!

In a stunningly cost-effective move, CBS will air How I Met Your Biological Mother, That Bitch, which is just old episodes of How I Met Your Mother with snarkier narration. HBO’s Westminster will continue the trend pioneered by Deadwood and Rome by making 19th-century England really dirty and weird, like Jane Austen with Tourette’s. (Actually, I can’t wait for that one.) Also, the constant slew of cable mergers will result in the creation of CinePax, a channel that’s just very confused about its morals.

Every year another film actress gets “too old” for film leads and finds a (sometimes much better) home on TV. This trend will continue a few years hence when the aging but feisty Dakota Fanning headlines CSI: Vancouver Made to Look Like Chicago.

Obviously, we’ll see advances in technology. TiVo, iPods, streaming video — the way we watch TV is changing dramatically. It’s on our phones, in our cars — even projected on specialized eyeglasses. But don’t listen to the talk about having shows beamed directly into your brain. That’s science-fiction nonsense. Shows will be stored in the pancreas and will enter the brain through the bloodstream after being downloaded into your iHole.

And what of me? My short-lived series Firefly was the basis for the epic action film Serenity (now available on DVD! I have little or no shame), and the future will see even more incarnations of this visionary work, as it returns to TV as Serenity: The Firefly Years, then back to film as Firefly: Serenity’s Sequel, back to TV as SereniFly, and finally end as the direct-to-eyeglasses series Choose a Damn Name Already. I promise it’ll be as heartwarming and exciting as the original Serenity, now available on DVD. (Explain again this thing you call shame….)

That’s all I can tell you, except for one last thing: Veronica Mars will still be on. Veronica Mars will still be on. We clear about that?

Bye-ee!