TV Talk

""A lot of times in interviews people will say to me, 'How are you different than Liz Lemon?'" [Tina Fey] said to the gathered crew. "I can't believe I didn't think of this answer until tonight, but the way that I'm different from Liz Lemon is the TGS crew are a bunch of jerks who don't help her ... They don't care. And in real life, nothing could be farther from the truth."" - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

"It sounds extreme, but it's something we must prepare for. 30 Rock has one episode left. The Office only has a handful. B---- in Apartment 23 and Ben and Kate were ostensibly canceled last week. Community, Parks and Recreation, and Happy Endings all have uncertain futures." - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

Yeah. I've fallen behind on watching New Girl (Tuesdays is just packed, though slightly less so now that Ben and Kate and Apt 23 were unjustly cancelled), but it's not my top comedy... My choices would all be in the list that Fox (the article author, not the TV network) ticked off, though. - Andrew C (✓)

Interesting - SteVe C

"30 Rock is uniquely skilled at eating its cake and having it, too, while crowing "Isn't cake ridiculous?" and making you crave cake." - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

"30 Rock has evolved from an inside-showbiz farce with sporadic fourth-wall-breaking sight gags and meta dialogue to a weekly cyclone of surreal tomfoolery." - Andrew C (✓)

"The Jamie Kennedy Falling Apart At The Seams New Year's Eve 2013 Spectacular, as I have decided to call it, is the antithesis of the Dick Clark New Year's Eve special. If Clark was the trusted authority figure who made sure everything went swimmingly, Kennedy is more like the creepy uncle whose idea of discipline and order is making the 15-year-olds he hangs out with promise they'll get good and drunk before playing with the illegal fireworks he's bought them." - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

"When he sneeringly tells a visibly unimpressed crowd, "Percentages had a big year this year. The 99 percent taking on the 1 percent, Mitt Romney not caring about the 47 percent, and then there's the 8 percent, which was the Rotten Tomatoes score of my last movie," it's unclear whether Kennedy is deliberately trying to punish the crowd with the worst material he can imagine, or genuinely just dying with awful jokes. " - Andrew C (✓)

""First Night 2013" is what every New Year's Eve broadcast should be but isn't: It's wild, outrageous, profane, leering, unpredictable, and populated almost exclusively by people who don't seem to know or care what they're doing. I watched the broadcast in a coffee shop in Chicago's Lincoln Square neighborhood and engendered lots of dirty looks for my regular bursts of guilty laughter.... more... - Andrew C (✓)

"Tina Fey and Amy Poehler may be leaving TV -- they may even be, as Poehler joked on Sunday, "going home with Jodie Foster" -- but with such a generous legacy of goofiness and grit, there's no question they're leaving it in much better shape than they found it in." - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

"Since the early '80s, networks have increasingly chased younger viewers, usually in the 18-to-49-year-old demographic, because said viewers are supposed to spend their money more freely and be more likely to try out new brands. Thus, they're more attractive to the advertisers who underwrite the broadcast-network business model." - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

"This has, by and large, become A Different World's reputation ever since: a good idea for a series that was torn down ultimately by an inability to really grapple with its premise, destroyed by network notes and the wrong lead. Many viewers were aware the show continued to exist for five more seasons, but the show's reputation seemed to form almost entirely around that first season.... more... - Andrew C (✓)

from Sept 2012, but I didn't see it till now. Also, it's been 25 years????? - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

We old - Eric - seven eleven

""Z" would be a script-to-series order, with a decision likely made in January or February. If USA, which has had the script for about a month, decides to greenlight, "Z" would go straight to series without a pilot. Set in modern-day Los Angeles, "Z" will chronicle the rise of Diego Moreno from an orphaned teen and raising his sister with little supervision, to an infamous hero fighting to save the city." - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

"Over the entire run of the show, more than a third of all the episodes ended in Guilty verdicts, while another third ended in plea bargains. 80% of episodes ended in solid wins: either Guilty verdicts, plea bargains, or implied victories." - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

"High on the ideas list at The CW, besides the words "Vampire Ponies" followed by a series of hopeful question marks, is finding some way to extrapolate The Hunger Games to the small screen for the network's own predominately teenaged girl audience. [...] now it's going straight to the source with The Hunt, a show that aims to adapt The Hunger Games by basically making its reality show conceit an actual reality." - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

"In the one-hour competition series, 12 teams of two are abandoned in the wilderness, forced to spend a month foraging for food, water, and shelter, while also "capturing one another" in some manner, such as using makeshift nets, or through convincing them that their adrenaline-fueled clinging to each other in desperate circumstances constitutes a genuine romance worth taking seriously.... more... - Andrew C (✓)

looks interesting - Bluesun 2600 from Bookmarklet

"Much as Governor Chris Christie once argued that Jersey Shore was negatively affecting the public's perception of New Jersey, which had until then been regarded as a Renaissance-era Florence but with Bon Jovi, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin has written MTV an angry letter that MTV executives will definitely read and not just post on an office bulletin board somewhere to laugh at." - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

I enjoyed K-Town, but it felt different. I really liked Joe, for his no shit attitude at work, Young for his aspirations, and Steve was a down to earth guy. It seemed less exploitative than Jersey Shore or this is likely to be. - Gimminy

"Tearing "arts and entertainment" from its programming body like two unnecessary, fancy-schmancy sleeves continues to pay off in spades for A&E--spades that can be used for all kinds of hole diggin' that might make for successful reality TV like Duck Dynasty, which is now officially the network's biggest show ever. Wednesday's second season finale became the most-watched telecast in A&E history, topping all network and cable shows for the night with some 6.5 million viewers (including 3.9 million adults 18 to 49), eclipsing the highs set nearly a year ago by Storage Wars, easily destroying stuffy A&E shows of yore like Biography, and even outdoing that episode of Storage Wars where they bid on a taxidermied Peter Graves." - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

"It's going down in Los Angeles on Feb. 9 and 10 - pegged to the Feb. 7 premiere date for the show's fourth season - at Los Angeles City College, where many of the exteriors were shot for Community's first season." - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

"According to Variety, he'll also work in producing the series Power, which concerns a New York nightclub owner who "skirts the line between legitimacy and criminality"--themes so memorably captured in 50 Cent's hit song, "In Da Club," what with its lyrics, "You can find me in da club / Bottle full of bub / Skirting the line between legitimacy and criminality / I'm an antihero leading the sort of double life that makes for compelling modern cable drama / So come give me a hug if you're into archetypes such as this." It will be written by The Good Wife's Courtney Kemp Agboh, who is not as good at rapping." - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

"The genius of Suburgatory is the way its candy-coated surface--the very thing that makes it possible for the show to have outright awful episodes--makes the emotional wallop it can pack all the more unexpected." - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

O.o Wow - Soup in a TARDIS