La cadena laSexta lleva unas semanas probando una curiosa estrategia que ha resultado funcionarles bastante bien. Tras el programa ‘Buenafuente’ reponen la emisión de ‘El intermedio’, programa que la cadena emite en el access prime time. Sí, es un poco raro que un mismo programa se reponga tres horas después de finalizar, haciendo una especie de sanwich entre el access y el late night, pero así es.

En principio la medida no parece mala. Se repone un programa de producción propia, lo cual es lo más barato del mundo y además se le da a los espectadores una segunda oportunidad para verlo. El pero está, claro, en quienes veían aquella opción que antes ocupaba su lugar: esas series que la cadena llama “de culto”.

Lo de “series de culto” siempre me pareció cuanto menos gracioso, y más que un calificativo real es un eufemismo de “series que en otro horario no vería ni Perry”. Sobre todo porque han emitido series menos comerciales que sí podríamos considerar bajo la etiqueta de “de culto” como ‘Larry David’ (‘Curb your enthusiasm’) y series muy normalitas a las que no rinden culto ni en casa de su creador, como puede ser la recientemente estrenada ‘Ayúdame, ayúdate’.

El caso es que buenos títulos han pasado por ahí, a horas intempestivas, como ‘Rockefeller Plaza’ o ‘Me llamo Earl’, y ahora por obra y gracia de ‘El intermedio’, pasarán a verse más tarde todavía, concretamente a las dos de la madrugada. Quizás ahora sean más de culto que nunca.

Yo personalmente estoy siguiendo ‘Aliens in America’ en versión doblada, y el periplo me está costando bastante. No sólo por la tarde que empieza, sino porque ha habido algunos parones y mucha falta de seriedad a la hora de emitirla. Parece que dan por hecho que nadie la ve y poco les importan esos seguidores. Yo, por mis horarios puedo permitirme quedarme hasta tarde viendo la tele, y muchas veces aguantaba con ‘Buenafuente’ y seguía para ver la serie. Pero ahora, ‘El intermedio’ mediante me corta bastante el royo.

En cuanto a la audiencia, la reposición de Wyoming no ha tenido datos muy estables pero sí ha seguido una pauta, hereda unos datos de share similares a los que consiga esa noche ‘Buenafuente’, su predecesor en la parrilla.

Así, es normal que la cadena vaya a mantener la reposición de ‘El intermedio’ en la franja y las series más tarde aún, y quienes queramos verlas nos tocará descargarlas, grabarlas o no dormir.

GO! premiered at 6.30 last night on D99 and D88 (regionals).

Here are some more videos of presentation of the Nine Network’s new youth channel.

Knowfirst loved The Big Bang Theory marathon and enjoyed Aliens In America as well.

myFanbase gerade mit der Twittermeldung: Samstag, 25.04.2009 – “Um 14:20 Uhr startet auf ProSieben die neue Serie “Aliens in America”. Alle Infos zur ersten Folge bei uns http://www.myfanbase.de/index.php?mid=1992&pid=2628 ” – schöner Artikel und ich werde mir die Serie mal anschauen.

Here is a video of Courtney Cox getting ready for a shot of Cougartown. It was recently announced that she’s more than pissed at someone calling her “Janice Dickinson” by mistake. Yah, I’d be super cougar pissed too.  That’s embarrassing!

Friends’ alumn Courtney Cox films scenes with the cast from her new ABC comedy pilot Cougar Town this week in Los Angeles.

Cox plays a 40-something single mom of a teenage son who starts dating again (and just happens to enjoy dating the younger set). The name of the show also refers to the name of the high school football team in Florida where her character (Jules) lives.

Also pictured in some of the photos are her co-stars Brian Van Holt (House of Wax), Josh Hopkins (Swingtown) and Dan Byrd (Aliens in America).

Others cast in the show include Christa Miller (Scrubs), wife of Scrubs and Cougar Town creator Bill Lawrence and Busy Philipps (Dawson’s Creek, Freaks and Geeks).

Cougartown is not even listed as in production on IMDB…sounds like its going to be a winner!!!!  anyone have more info on this film? Great concept….I think it’s got some life to it.

ABC greenlit a slew of pilots on Wednesday, including the Courteney Cox-Bill Lawrence project “Cougar Town,” a project starring Kelsey Grammer and one from Cedric the Entertainer.

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Every not-so-often, along comes a show that’s different. Wonderfully different. Pushing Daisies, TV Guide’s Matt Roush writes, “restores my faith in TV’s ability to amuse, enchant and entertain.” It’s the story of Ned, a lonely pie maker whose touch can reanimate the dead. Cool, but there’s a hitch. If Ned touches the person again, the miracle is reversed. If he doesn’t, a bystander goes toes up. What to do? Easy: Team with a private eye, bring murder victims back just long enough to discover whodunit, and collect the rewards. Things go well until Ned’s boyhood sweetie is the next dear departed, and he can’t resist bringing her back for keeps! Dig the wit, style and quirky romance: If you’re not laughing, you may need a visit from Ned.

Pushing Daisies is many things at once: detective show, romantic comedy, whimsical fantasy and above all, a story about a guy who bakes pies and has the ability to bring dead people back to life. Somehow all of these things come together to make one of the most enjoyable, funny and bittersweet shows to come along in a long time. A lot of that magic comes from the near-perfect casting – Lee Pace (The Fall, Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day) as Ned the Piemaker is wonderfully reserved and adorably neurotic; his facial expressions alone provide some of the most moving and hilarious moments in the series. Anna Friel as Charlotte “Chuck” Charles, Chi McBride as Emerson Cod and Kristin Chenoweth as Olive Snook round out the regulars at the Pie Hole and veteran actresses Swoosie Kurtz and Ellen Greene are great as Chuck’s eccentric aunts whose passions include synchronized swimming, amateur ornithology and rare cheeses. Pushing Daisies exists in a world where people regularly break out into song to express their feelings, where death is never gory and usually played for comic effect, and where every color on screen is richly saturated and vibrant, creating an oddly timeless Edward Scissorhands-like world.

Bryan Fuller, the creator of cult favorites Dead Like Me and Wonderfalls has perfected his style with Pushing Daisies; this series has a broader appeal than the previous shows. Each imaginatively produced episode has such snappy writing paired with ghoulish sensibilities, heart wrenching romance and classic caper-style crime fighting, making every moment completely un-missable. The DVD release of Season One contains all nine original episodes and a behind-the-scenes featurette. —Kira Canny

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Squee! It’s Dan Byrd guest starring on tonight’s Greek. We begged you to watch cross-cultural comedy Aliens in America, but as evidenced by its cancellation you didn’t, so instead you may recognize Byrd from the short-lived Clubhouse or from guest spots on Boston Legal, Ghost Whisperer, Joan of Arcadia, or CSI: Original Flavor, among others. While he’s often been featured on dramas, his dry wit and razor-sharp timing as a pothead who’s made a virginity pledge should make Greek even more giggly. Tonight at 9 Eastern on ABC Family.

Susannah and I have been kicking back at the Emmys for a good long time now. We’ve wept. We’ve wailed. We’ve gnashed our teeth. Personally, I’ve worn sackcloth and ashes, but that’s just my general fashion aesthetic.

Part of the issue is that we can’t put our finger on what the problem is–something’s wrong (really, Academy–Entourage? Really?), but what is it? We’re inclined to blame the Emmy categories–is Pushing Daisies really the same kind of beast as Two and a Half Men? Should Dirty Sexy Money–or Boston Legal, for that matter–really be considered a drama? We’re embarrassed to admit, however, that every new categorization scheme we tried went exactly nowhere.

We considered doing away with “Drama” and “Comedy” and going instead with “Half-hour”/”Hour” or “Single-camera”/”Multi-camera”, both of which are already used in the technical and animated categories. In today’s television landscape, however, that left us with a couple of strong contenders and a couple we could argue about in the half-hour or mutli-camera categories while overloading the hour/single-camera even more than the current drama category already is. We toyed with the idea of honoring more actors by creating lead, supporting, and ensemble categories. These might allow for, say, Hugh Laurie (lead), Robert Sean Leonard (supporting), and Omar Epps (ensemble) or Steve Carell (lead), Rainn Wilson (supporting), and Ed Helms (ensemble) to be nominated for the same show, or for the large ensemble casts of, say, Lost or Friday Night Lights to be considered separately from shows that focus on true leads, like House or Life. The details necessary to make that work, however (“if the character appears on-screen for less than 30% of the broadcast…”), both felt arbitrary and were, frankly, nearly impossible to hammer out. We played with the possibility that there just aren’t enough slots available to honor all of the great performances out there, so we tried adding and dividing up categories differently–”Classic Sitcom”! “Workplace Drama”! “Speculative Fiction”! “Human Interest (read: Soap Opera”)! Each of those seemed just as arbitrary as “Comedy” and “Drama,” though–is Grey’s Anatomy a workplace drama or a human interest show? You could argue either category for Mad Men. We were stumped.

And then it occurred to us: maybe the categories are the problem–and maybe that means there shouldn’t be any categories at all. This was a strangely liberating idea. We kept the sex split, both because it seems less arbitrary than the above and because we feared our lists would be swamped with male roles otherwise (try filling out the female comedy roles under the traditional categories–brutal). We limited ourselves to people on the official Emmy ballot, which meant excluding favorites because of production-based eligibility problems (goodbye, British-based Doctor Who crew), because of genre (sorry, Venture Brothers–we’ll catch you next time), and because they simply didn’t appear on the ballot for reasons beyond our understanding (who dropped the ball on submitting Dan Byrd from Aliens in America?). We began with a list of 40 actors of each sex, then narrowed the list to 30 and ranked them. By assigning points to those rankings, we were able to compare and combine our lists to create a category-less Bacon Emmys. After complaining that there just weren’t enough spots to honor all of the excellent performances out there, we were pretty surprised to find that in the end we shared 21 ranked male actors and 21 ranked female actors–with one tie in the Lead Actor in a Drama category leading to 21 official male Emmy nominees in the “major” acting categories this year, that means our numbers are pretty much right on the real numbers. Some other patterns surprised us, too:

Male actors (in alphabetical order):

• Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
• Steve Carell, The Office
• Kyle Chandler, Friday Night Lights
• Gaius Charles, Friday Night Lights
• Henry Ian Cusick, Lost
• Glenn Fitzgerald, Dirty Sexy Money
• Neil Patrick Harris, How I Met Your Mother
• Ed Helms, The Office
• Michael Hogan, Battlestar Galactica
• Hugh Laurie, House
• Robert Sean Leonard, House
• Zachary Levi, Chuck
• Damian Lewis, Life
• Zeljko Ivanek, Damages
• Jack McBrayer, 30 Rock
• Chi McBride, Pushing Daisies
• Lee Pace, Pushing Daisies
• Wendell Pierce, The Wire
• Andre Royo, The Wire
• Michael K. Williams, The Wire
• Ray Wise, Reaper

Female actors (in alphabetical order):

• Julie Benz, Dexter
• Connie Britton, Friday Night Lights
• Rose Byrne, Damages
• Kristin Chenoweth, Pushing Daisies
• Glenn Close, Damages
• Tina Fey, 30 Rock
• Anna Friel, Pushing Daisies
• Ellen Greene, Pushing Daisies
• Christina Hendricks, Mad Men
• Holly Hunter, Saving Grace
• January Jones, Mad Men
• Angela Kinsey, The Office
• Swoosie Kurtz, Pushing Daisies
• Mary McDonnell, Battlestar Galactica
• Elizabeth Mitchell, Lost
• Adrianne Palicki, Friday Night Lights
• Amy Pietz, Aliens in America
• Jamie Pressley, My Name Is Earl
• Sarah Shahi, Life
• Sonja Sohn, The Wire
• Natalie Zea, Dirty Sexy Money

For the record, Susannah’s top two ranked actors I didn’t list were Lost’s Michael Emerson and FNL’s Jesse Plemmons, while my top ranked she didn’t list were Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s Charlie Day. For the women, her top two ranked picks I didn’t list were The Riches‘ Minnie Driver and Lost’s Evangeline Lily, while my top picks she didn’t list were Tricia Helfer of Battlestar Galactica and Sunny’s Kaitlin Olson.

These 42 actors represent 17 shows, which isn’t as many as the real nominees (24 shows). So maybe the Emmys do a better job of spreading the wealth than we would. On the other hand, they spread that wealth by nominating Charlie Sheen and Mariska Hargitay, and…yeah, we’re not going to apologize for not spreading the wealth quite that far. In fact, TV Bacon and the Academy agree on slightly fewer than 25% of the nominees (ten out of 41/42). It’s a supporting-heavy list, although that’s slightly skewed by self-submissions we’d place elsewhere (in what universe is Connie Britton supporting?)–that may reflect the current popularity of the ensemble shows we had such a hard time categorizing. It’s a very, very white list, especially for the women. Thank goodness for The Wire–if we remove their four candidates, 35 out of 38 of the remaining nominees are white. We’re still doing a little better than the real Emmys, who, including The Wire (from which they chose zero nominees), had four minority nominees out of 41 total. While we’ve both had America Ferrera and Edward James Olmos on our lists in the past, even including them wouldn’t hide the whitewash that is American television in 2008.

Perhaps most interesting, however, is that after all our complaining about the traditional categories–and we’re still plenty irked about several exclusions among the real nominees–it wouldn’t take us long to declare winners in each of those. Adding together our rankings to create a “winner,” we’d have to go exactly four names down our list of female actors to fill the four traditional categories, as our top four were Connie Britton (supporting actress in a drama), Glenn Close (lead actress in a drama), Kristin Chenoweth (supporting actress in a comedy), and Anna Friel (lead actress in a comedy). The pattern for the men isn’t nearly so clear, since we’d have to go five whole places down our list to declare winners in the four traditional categories: Andre Royo (supporting actor in a drama), Lee Pace (lead actor in a comedy), Alec Baldwin (lead actor in a comedy), Kyle Chandler (lead actor in a drama), and Jack McBrayer (supporting actor in a comedy). If we’d hewn even more strictly to the Emmy rules and judged a single episode the actors submitted, Baldwin’s tour de force journey through 70s sitcoms might well have pushed him over the top. So after all our complaining and rearranging–are the categories really the problem after all?

What do you think? How would you have rearranged the Emmy categories? Who do you think was robbed? Are you coming after me with pitchforks because it was my list that kept John Krasinski out? Will the Emmys ever get it right?

Ainda na semana passada eu falei aqui da idéia de refilmar Anos Incríveis.

Coincidência ou não, assistindo as reprises de domingo acho que encontrei uma versão do seriado, e o nome dessa versão é Aliens in America.

Sim, eu sei que a série já foi cancelada e teve baixíssima audiência nos EUA.  Comecei a assistir, eu admito, apenas para ver Scott Patterson (o eterno Luke de Gilmore Girls) em ação com seus lindos olhos azuis.

Fiquei encantada com todos, desde Justin Tolchuk (Dan Byrd), um rapaz de 16 anos que não se encaixa em nenhum dos padrões de sucesso em uma escola americana e acredita que vai, pela primeira vez, ter um ano sossegado na escola já que ninguém o encheu no primeiro dia,  seus pais, Gary Tolchuk (o Scott) e Franny (Amy Pietz, de Caroline In The City), sua irmã Claire (Lindsey Rachel Shaw), cuja beleza é a principal responsável dele não ser mais tão zoado, além do fato dele ter tirado o aparelho dentário.

Mas quem me deixou encantada mesmo foi Raja Musharaff (Adhir Kalyan) , um jovem paquistanês que chega para a casa da família em um programa de intercâmbio. Ele com certeza não é o amigo mais desejado por um jovem americano, principalmente quando resolve usar roupas típicas na escola.

O primeiro episódio foi super leve, apresentando esse hall de personagens. O programa é narrado em primeira pessoa por Justin, em estilo absurdamente semelhante ao de Anos Incríveis e tem tramas simples, que falam da adolescência em sua maneira mais simples, sem histórias de amor e sexo absurdas, sem drogas e, talvez, até sem rock and roll.

Uma família, em verdade, muito parecida com a de qualquer um de nós e aí, talvez, more o motivo de seu cancelamento, cujo problema maior pode ser, simplesmente, lavar a louça, arrumar novas maneiras de fazer dinheiro e acabar o dia ileso na escola, sem ser puxado pela cueca.