5
Oct
2012
Friday Five – Appointment TV Shows
There have been a lot of shows in my life I made special time for. Throughout high school Friday nights were for The X-Files, and Wednesdays for Sliders. More recently Wednesday became Enterprise night, before that moved to Friday. And so help you if you wanted to do anything that conflicted with The Sarah Connor Chronicles. At the moment, most of my appointments are concentrated onto Thursdays, and lets just say I won’t be doing anything on Friday nights for a while.
There once was a time, mostly back in the 80’s and early 90’s, where a TV show had to have a catchy theme that explained what you were about to watch that played under the opening credits, like the Gilligan’s Island theme. And these opening themes were sometimes very long, the various Star Trek themes were upwards of two minutes each! The average runtime of a half hour show (minus commercials) back then was close to 25 minutes. Nowadays, it’s barely 21 minutes, and rather than catchy songs, they go with descriptive show titles like The Mob Doctor or Animal Hospital that explain the premise. Theme songs have given way to just splashy title cards with a show’s title to make way for more commercials and more profit. The last TV show with a truly good theme was Friends, and that’s stretching it. I for one greatly miss them. I went for themes that to this day I can still belt out. Man, TGIF had a lot of awesome songs, I think the only thing I missed was Step By Step.
31
Aug
2012
Friday Five – Saturday Morning Cartoons
I’m going to pick shows that I actively woke up early on Saturdays to watch, and shows that were aired predominantly on Saturday mornings only, so that excludes a bunch of picks from my list like Ninja Turtles, Batman, Pokemon, Animaniacs, Eeek! the Cat and Tiny Toons, which all could have made it otherwise.
9
Aug
2012
Alf coming back, and not in POG form
No, this time, our favorite cat eating Alien Life Form from Melmac, Gordan Shumway, is coming back in a new movie.
Good news everyone! On yesterdays earnings call, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced that they had locked up a exclusive agreement with Joss Whedon through 2015, which includes both writing and directing the sequel to the $1.5 billion worldwide grossing (yes, that’s billion, with a ‘B’, and that doesn’t include any merch, just ticket sales) Avengers, and that along with that, he’ll also be developing a Marvel based TV show for ABC.
I’ve discussed my love of Zenescope before. Now, in addition to their Grimm Fairy Tales Animated Series, it looks like there is going to be a live action television series based on their series of Wonderland books.
In case you missed Part 1 of my recap, get all caught up here.
Well, let’s just jump right into it, shall we? When we left off CM Punk had just called Jericho bullshit and stormed up off the ramp with his best sad face. And then what happened? Read on after the jump