Sarah is in Puerto Rico. Kevin is in Vegas. Scott is home alone in the apartment, which means… PARTY TIME! And by “party time” I mean turning the heat down (I hate being hot) cereal for meals other than breakfast (sarah hates when I eat it too much) and not posting on the blog because I’ll be busy editing “An American King” and doing another re-write on “Nice Guys Finish Last.” Have a party-licious weekend!
Forget “Lost” “24” or any other show that normally has you on the edge of your seat. Tonight, on “The Office,” when Roy uttered the lines, “Jim Halpert is dead.” I almost peed myself. The above photo is from when Roy got a DUI after Pam canceled the wedding. My god I’m scared for Jim!
Kristin at E! found out what some were wondering. It seems that Nate and Jennylee did have sex:
Myth 6: Jennylee and Nate Never “Sealed the Deal”
Au contraire, mon frère! At least, according to Miss Megan, who proudly announced to me that Nate and Jennylee totally got it on! “I know everybody thinks they didn’t have a chance to sleep together during the show, but I’m here to tell everyone that Nate and Jennylee had sex on the last night in the house.” And just for that bit of saucy info, I say Megan and Scooter totally deserve the money. Congratulations, kids!
You have DAYS to enter the “Wildfire” t-shirt contest. The contest ends Sunday at 11:59p.m. Basically (for those of you who don’t know) the ABC Family Channel (or at least one of their marketing partners) has given me a “who will she choose?” shirt to give away. If you want it all you have to do is send an email to (scottking@scottking.info) with the subject line saying “Wildfire is the best teen drama on tv.” Then give your mailing address. On Monday I’m using a number generator to assign a winner, so hurry up and get those emails sent! (the only catch is that you have to live in the continental US).
Wow. So there was a death on “Grey’s Anatomy” tonight. It was sad, but I was more upset about seeing Lamb killed on “Veronica Mars.” Which death hit your the most?
And now a guest post by Lisa of Neptune Comics.
Here are my alternate endings for Civil War. They’re all silly! Almost as silly as the way they really ended it.
- Cloak accidentally teleports 24’s Jack Bower into the Marvel Universe. Jack is carrying two nuclear bomb brief cases. Unfortunately, as he falls to the ground the nukes go off, destroying the Marvel Universe in a large nuclear explosion, along with Jack Bower. This leads to a later 24/New Avengers crossover.
- Scarlet Witch appears within the crowd of Marvel characters fighting and shouts, “You’re All Mutants,” reversing the outcome of House of M as well as altering the face of the Marvel Universe until the next event undoes it all once again.
- Captain America takes the killing blow, severing Tony’s head, only to discover that he’s actually a cloned Tony Stark. As the other heroes fight, we see more cloned characters. Turns out that the entire thing was manufactured by Mr. Fantastic/Reed Richards as a joke on Captain America/Steve Richards and all of the other characters are actually clones. (Read on …)
If you are a fan of “The Office” you have to checkout this blog. In it, an attorney writes about what would happen if “The Office” took place in the real world. For example, the “Ben Franklin” stunt would have cost Dunder Mifflin at least $800k in legal fees and last week’s episode would have cost at least $300k.
“Business School” - LITIGATION VALUE: $30,000 (But it could have been much higher)
“Business is always personal” is probably not the best motto for a manager. It could lead them to act impulsively. Like, say, moving an employee’s desk from the front of the office to an “annex” inhabited by the employee’s chatty, fashion-crazed, quasi (ex?) girlfriend as a punishment for suggesting that the company could someday go out of business. But … would it be illegal? Maybe. Or at least it would be if Ryan’s speech could be considered a protected activity under Sarbanes-Oxley, the anti-discrimination laws, or some type of state whistleblower statute. Because Ryan’s speech (well, the part of it we could hear) probably did not implicate any of these statutes, Dunder Mifflin will likely dodge a bullet.
Also, remember tonight’s episode is directed by J.J. Abrams and that Rainn Wislon is hosting THIS Saturday’s SNL.
The “Heroes” spoofs are really starting to hit the internet, but this one really made me laugh.
Fantastic Four 2, “Rise of the Silver Surfer” is months and months away from being released, but Ioan Gruffudd (Reed Richards) is already talking about the third film. He basically says the entire cast is signed to do a third movie and that its already part of his production schedule. He also says that the second movie ends on a semi-cliffhanger that leads into the third film. Below is the full section of the interview:
Question: Now, Fantastic Four, the first one did very well commercially but was not exactly embraced by the critics. So how surprised were you that a) the film did as well as it did; and b) that it spawned a sequel which nobody really expected? (Read on …)
Another crazy sea creature was found. This time it’s a 990 pound squid whose tentacles are as thick as tractor tires!
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A fishing crew has caught a colossal squid that could weigh a half-ton and prove to be the biggest specimen ever landed, a fisheries official said Thursday.
If calamari rings were made from the squid they would be the size of tractor tires, one expert said.
The squid, weighing an estimated 990 pounds and about 39 feet long, took two hours to land in Antarctic waters, New Zealand Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton said.
The fishermen were catching Patagonian toothfish, sold under the name Chilean sea bass, south of New Zealand “and the squid was eating a hooked toothfish when it was hauled from the deep,” Anderton said. (Read on …)
Civil War issue 7 was released today and I have a sum up from my comic book store owner, Lisa, about how it ends: (Read on …)
“Amazing Spider-Man” issue 538 came out today and in it Aunt May was shot.
Addison Montgomery-Shepard may be leaving Seattle Grace for her own show. It seems that ABC and “Grey’s Anatomy” producer Shonda Rhimes are in talks of giving Kate Walsh her own spin-off.
This is all according to the Wall Street Journal which says Rhimes has yet to settle on plot details such as whether Addison would leave Seattle. She is, however, planning a May sweeps episode that would focus on Addison and serve as a back-door pilot for the new show.
Should that happen, it would likely push another Rhimes project, about a group of female journalists in New York, on to the back burner.
Sci-Fi sent out a press release announcing that Amanda Tapping (Samantha Carter) from “Stargate SG-1” will join “Stargate Atlantis” when SG-1 ends this spring. Tapping has played the character for 10 years on SG-1, which recently became the longest running science fiction show ever.
Atlantis will resume production on the fourth season in Vancouver, Canada, starting next month. Tapping will appear in 14 of Atlantis’s 20 episodes. The new season will introduce a powerful new race, new cast members and mark the loss of beloved friends.
The final episodes of Stargate SG-1 and the remainder of the third season of Stargate Atlantis will air starting April 13, leading into the series debut of Painkiller Jane.
Dear TV gods, why do you hate me? Why did you allow ABC to renew contracts with Marc Cherry and the whole “Desperate Housewives” cast for another four seasons? Why do you plague and torture me? The show used to be watchable, but now its just painful.
The only good news about the contracts (which could keep the show on air till May 2011) is that this doesn’t mean the show is renewed for four years. It simple means that IF the show is renewed the cast and Cherry will be back.
Cherry said he has no plans to develop projects beyond “Housewives,” though if he does it’ll be for ABC. The plan is to creatively close up the show around the time his deal ends.
“I think that, at the end of my deal, and after seven seasons, it will be a good time to call it quits. I don’t want anyone else to run the show, and I don’t want us to fade away” he says.
Sylvester Stallone announced today that the new “Rambo” movie will be called “John Rambo” and that filming begins Friday.
According to the story line posted by the film crew, Rambo is hired by Christian missionaries while working as a snake hunter in Thailand to deliver medical and religious supplies to the persecuted Karens of Burma. The missionaries are captured and Rambo is saddled with the job of rescuing the surviving missionaries.
If you ever thought car security wasn’t dramatic enough, this Tesla-coil automobile protector should satisfy your desire for spectacle. Attaching a 4-inch coil to a boom on the roof of his car, Australian Peter Terren created what is no doubt the coolest-looking theft deterrent to ever be built into a motor vehice. Terren captured the photo above, showing the coil’s ring of electricity (which he calls the Eye of Sauron, after the character in The Lord of the Rings), with time-lapse photography.
Lisa passed this onto me and it cracked me up. A man in an apartment building heard a woman screaming because she was being raped. The man immeadatly grabbed a sword, an old family heirloom, ran upstairs and kicked his neighbors door in, all in an attempt to help the woman who was being raped. Well it turns out that it was just a really loud porn DVD!
Oconomowoc - Instincts took over, James Van Iveren says, when he rushed out his door to the sound of a woman being raped in an apartment above.
“It was a woman screaming,” he recalled Tuesday. “She was screaming for help.” (Read on …)
Mario Cantone, who played Anthony Marantino in the now finished “Sex and the City”, has talked to Worst Previews about the movie version - which may be further along than first thought:
“There’s nothing definitive yet I know the script is being written and I know it will be brilliant because Michael Patrick King is writing it. I know that I’m in it. I have a nice part in it, I’m told. If it happens, we should film it in the early fall I think, but I hope it stays on course because I would love to do it.”
Michael Patrick King was the executive producer of the series. Talk surrounding the film version got a boost in December when it was revealed that casting holdout Kim Catrall may finally be interested in being a part of the project.
Even though EVERYONE already knew it was going to happen, DC finally decided to announce “Countdown,” their new weekly series. I don’t really care about it, but I want to pose one question… What is DC counting down to? Answer: Obviously, the next big crossover stunt that will be poorly written and not make sense!
People keep asking me why I didn’t apply for Stephen Spielberg’s and Mark Burnett’s new show “On the Lot.” It’s a reality TV show about becoming a director. Kevin applied and sent in our short “Hundred Dollar Bill.” …I didn’t apply because I HATE directing and don’t want to ever be one.
However, the producers of “Project Runway” and “Top Chef” have begun pre-production on “America’s Next Producer,” a 10-hour reality-competition series and I’m really interested in it.
Casting calls start in march and wanna-be contestants will have a chance to win $100,000, an office in LA, and a first-look deal with TV Guide.
Tell me you picked up the “Lost” reference last night on “Heroes.” Nathan said that by announcing people with powers to the press would be a big mistake and that if he were a normal person he would “round us all up and stick us in a lab on some island in the middle of the ocean.”
Even funnier is that USA today talked to “Lost” producer Carlton Cuse who said “Damn. I guess no one’s gonna be surprised when Charlie explodes in our finale and takes out the island in a nuclear blast.”
Someone emailed me asking about the site and I had never heard of it. I did a quick google search and found this explaination:
Artist Caleb Johnston has taken a number of these examples of 19th century publishing technology and put them together in a 20th/21st century publishing technology, namely a Flash interactive, and produced a work in which these detailed engravings of people, plants, animals, anatomical diagrams and decorative letterforms animate, morph, and dissolve into one another in novel ways.
The module is interactive in that it depends on you move you rmouse around to find “hot spots” within each image tableaux, and click on them to trigger animated sequences. Click, or re-click, on enough of them in a given image and you will trigger a progression to the next collage in the sequence.
Everyone mentioned “Ghost Rider” ranking in 44 million dollars over the weekend, but they were a little premature because the final numbers show that the Marvel Comics movie actually made $51.5 million! It’s the largest Presidents Day weekend debut ever and proves that comics are still cool.
Although a good opening weekend is impressive, the good news for Sony/Marvel is that even with a stiff drop off percentage, the movie is going to be able to pass the $100 million mark while still in theaters. If you factor in overseas numbers and DVD sales, then “Ghost Rider” becomes a genuine hit.
I personally don’t care that “Ghost Rider” is a hit. I’ve never read a comic with the character in it and I read a fair amount of comics. But this still effects me because it just helps prove to Hollywood that comics adaptations are still popular and not just a weak fad.
Aint it Cool first claimed to have heard from ‘reliable sources’ that Shia LaBeouf (”Constantine”, “Holes”) is going to play Indiana Jones’ son in the upcoming “Indiana Jones IV”. Rumors also have it that it’s a comic relief role, which would make sense.
When “Nip/Tuck” comes back for its next season it will run for 22 episodes. That’s ten more than it normally does.
“‘Nip/Tuck’ is one of the most wonderfully strange and original television series ever produced — and it consistently delivers some of the best episodes on television,” says John Landgraf, president of FX. “We felt we owed ‘Nip/Tuck’s’ fans and FX’s viewers nothing less than Ryan Murphy’s inimitable vision for the series.”
Under the new deal, which reportedly runs into eight figures over the next three-plus years, Murphy will remain the showrunner of “Nip/Tuck” (which Warner Bros. TV produces) for its fifth season, which will run for 22 episodes. That’s the show’s biggest order ever; no previous season has lasted more than 16 episodes.
We have a week left in the “Wildfire” contest so make sure you send me those emails.
To enter, you have to email me (scottking@scottking.info) by Feb. 26th. In the subject line put “wildfire is the best teen drama on tv” and in the body of the email I need your name and address. On the 26th I will use a random number generator to select a winner.
Also, don’t’ forget. You can check out the show on MySpace.
This is for people like Samantha who get lost no matter what. It’s called the Dandella (like dandylion) and it’s a GPS navigation system. Instead of showing confusing maps and such, the Harry Potter type wand merely points in the direction you are supposed to go. To recharge the Dandella’s battery or to program a new destination you simply place it into a docking cradle that looks like a flower vase
Why has no one else mentioned that in 29 years a massive asteroid is going to strike the planet and possibly kill all life? …or at least be realllllyyyyyy close to hitting us.
An asteroid may come uncomfortably close to Earth in 2036 and the United Nations should assume responsibility for a space mission to deflect it, a group of astronauts, engineers and scientists said on Saturday.
Astronomers are monitoring an asteroid named Apophis, which has a 1 in 45,000 chance of striking Earth on April 13, 2036.
Although the odds of an impact by this particular asteroid are low, a recent congressional mandate for NASA to upgrade its tracking of near-Earth asteroids is expected to uncover hundreds, if not thousands of threatening space rocks in the near future, former astronaut Rusty Schweickart said.
The cliché plot line of “Armageddon” and “Deep Impact” doesn’t seem so ridiculous anymore, does it?
Poor guy. I hope I never go like this.
HAMPTON BAYS, N.Y. - The partially mummified body of a man dead for more than a year has been found in a chair in front of his television, which was still on, authorities said.
Vincenzo Ricardo, 70, apparently died of natural causes, said Dr. Stuart Dawson, Suffolk County’s deputy chief medical examiner.
Police found Ricardo’s body this week when they investigated a report of burst pipes.
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The home’s dry air had preserved his features, morgue assistant Jeff Bacchus said.
“You could see his face. He still had hair on his head,” Bacchus said.
Ricardo’s wife died years ago, and he lived alone, Dawson said.
“He hasn’t been heard from in over a year. That’s the part that baffles me,” he said. “Nobody sounded the alarm.”
Neighbors said they had thought Ricardo was in a hospital or nursing home.
“We never thought to check on him,” said neighbor Diane Devon.
This is freaky in a cute kind of way. A duck was born with four feet, which apparently isn’t that uncommon, but the big news is that the duck is healthy.
LONDON, England (AP) — Webbed feet run in Stumpy’s family, but he’s the first to have four of them.
A rare mutation has left the eight-day-old duckling with two nearly full-sized legs behind the two he runs on. Nicky Janaway, a duck farmer in New Forest, Hampshire, 95 miles (150 kilometers) southwest of London, unveiled the duckling to reporters on Saturday.
“It was absolutely bizarre. I was thinking ‘he’s got too many legs’ and I kept counting ‘one, two, three, four,”‘ Janaway said.
Stumpy would probably not survive in the wild, but Janaway, who runs the Warrawee Duck Farm in New Forest says he is doing well.
“He’s eating and surviving so far and he is running about with those extra legs acting like stabilizers,” Janaway said.
The mutation is rare, but cases have been recorded across the world. One duckling named Jake was born in Queensland, Australia, in 2002 with four legs but died soon after.
Here is a cute picture of Bean (Sarah’s cat) and I sleeping. Also I want to remind everyone about the “Wildfire” contest and that the blog will be quiet becuase I’m stuck in classes all day Monday.
Britney Spears checked into a rehab facility on Thursday. She checked herself out yesterday and today she shaved her head. I’m serious. Britney Spears is bald. Rumor also has it that she got MULTIPLE tattoos. Here is the popular You Tube video.
“She just wanted something real small on her wrist, something dainty,” Max Gott, the tattoo artist at Body and Soul in Sherman Oaks, told the TV station. “She got some cute little lips on her wrist.”
Personally I think she just found out about how I had to shave my head last week for a short film and she wants to be like me!
Some bad news was released in this week’s “New Joe Fridays.” It seems Joss Whedon’s length on “Runaways” is only going to be six issues. Whedon was put on the book to keep fans happy after Brian K. Vaughan said he was leaving so its retarded to have him on the book for such a short time.
Q: “razorwing77” - How long is Joss Whedon going to be writing Runaways? Just six issues? What are the plans for the series after that?
JQ: Joss is on for only six issues or Runaways, razorwing77. I know, lets all do a collective, AWWWWWW.
However, we are in discussion with someone truly special to hopefully take over after Joss is done. Let’s keep our fingers crossed and hope the timing works out.
I have been keeping an eye open for Joss Whedon interviews to learn as much as I can about “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” season 8. He has already let some big things slip, like Buffy NOT dating the Immortal. So I was excited when I found a post on Wikipedia that tracked down other spoilers from Whedon interviews.
The following plot details have been revealed in preview pages[3] and in MTV[1] and TV Guide[5] interviews with Whedon. In addition to the fact that the story takes place “at least a year and a half” after the events of “Chosen”,[6] placing it in the latter half of 2004, the following facts have been revealed: (Read on …)
MySpace launched a comics section. It has a CBR news feed and some contests, but otherwise I really don’t see the point.
MySpace Comic Books is here! This is your community for the best in comics, manga, and graphic novels. In addition to the latest comic book news and interviews, MySpace Comic Books spotlights the most exciting projects, creators and events in the industry – not to mention comics by MySpace members themselves! Stay tuned for special features, contests, exclusives and more — just for MySpace members.
Hellboy creator Mike Mignola will be the Guest of Honor at this year’s Baltimore Comic-Con which runs on Sept. 8th & 9th (The above photo is Lisa & Craig with Dan Didio at last year’s convention). Here is the full press release I got by email:
BALTIMORE, MD (February 12, 2007) — Hellboy creator and designer of Disney’s Atlantis Mike Mignola will be the Guest of Honor at this year’s Baltimore Comic-Con. The convention will be held Saturday and Sunday, September 8-9, 2007, at the Baltimore Convention Center.
“We’re extremely happy to make this first of many announcements concerning this year’s Baltimore Comic-Con,” said show promoter Marc Nathan. “Mike Mignola has been one of the most requested guests since we started the show, and it’s great to finally have him on board. It’s also exciting to have so many popular guests returning as well as the wonderful new ones we’re adding.” (Read on …)
Man. “Grey’s Anatomy” was good last night. I don’t even have anything to say other than, “Dammit is it next Thursday yet?????” But here is a post from the “Grey’s” blog by show creator Shonda Rhimes.
You all have some pretty strong feelings about this. I’ve been reading your comments. STRONG feelings. Which I respect. Grey’s is in its third season and we’re doing something a little…different. It’s about time we did. Because, just as I said when you all shouted your horror about the Meredith/George sex, I remind you that we writers like to follow the characters here and we try very hard not to make story just to make story. We like to have a point. Meredith being dead is about…well, you will see what it is about next week. She was in pain, this girl. And…
…okay, I don’t want to talk about that. Meredith being dead at the end of this episode. I can’t. Not yet.
I have faith in Shonda and the other writers. If they really kill off Meredith then I’m sure they have a reason and if this whole thing is just a “sweeps stunt” I’m sure they’ll do something to make it more than just a stunt. Dammit, is it next Thursday yet?
