Grid Effect

We’re not sure how pithy we’ll keep it today. It is fairly boring at work so we might just continue scribing nonsense until the phone rings, someone calls our name, we run out of topics or we decide to finally go sexually harass the new girl down the hall. We’ve been procrastinating on that and it’s about time we upheld our image. If she thinks she can just waltz around here and do the job she is paid to do without being denigrated in some way, she has another thing coming.

Kristen Bell, also known as the hot blond in Forgetting Sarah Marshall as Sarah Marshall, will be joining the cast of Heroes this upcoming season. At least if you’re like me and detest this series, you now have incentive to watch. Then again, if you are like me, you’d also rather bungee jump with no cord than watch more than five minutes of something like Heroes, which I thought was canceled for some reason.

Everyone can breath a sigh of relief, because The Simpsons will be make it to a 21st season. And thank God, because if I had to go through life knowing there were only twenty seasons of The Simpsons, I just might have to go find a life worth living, and now I don’t need too. At least not now. But mark my words, I’m going to finish that script one of these days.

Sienna Miller appears to have a proclivity for melodramatic actors on ham-fisted ABC dramas, as she has now been courted successfully by two of the three brothers on Brothers and Sisters. I’m sure it’s just a big coincidence that a woman who could date practically any guy she wanted too fell for two guys who are working together on the same series for the better part of the year. But there are two other theories that might be at play here: 1) She’s dating the new one as some sort of revenge on the first one, or 2) Not that this series in any way resembles an actual family, but she is living out some sort sick, elaborate, incestual fantasy that reminds us Deliverance for some reason, can’t figure out why, though. Anyways, I think theory number two is most likely.

Really, I shouldn’t be so judgmental. Guys usually don’t go for women like this.

If you care about this sort of thing, this guy is predicting that Mad Men will clean up at the Emmy’s. We didn’t read much of the article, but we assume the theory is related to the fact that many of the Emmy voters grew up around the same time the series is set (early 60’s), are extremely liberal and like seeing their mystique of this time period stripped away. Either way, I hope he is right. Although, I wouldn’t be too disappointed if this were another Wire situation with the Emmy’s completely ignoring what is the best series on television. Again.

Also, because we can never have just one Mad Men link, Jon Hamm describes the second season “like swimming a marathon underwater“. Funny, that sounds like something his character might say, only not terribly clever. I’m assuming it means that it is long and at a tepid pace, but were to lazy to think much more about it. Still, a good interview from Mo Ryan.

A little FX news before we tip on out:

Nip Tuck creator Ryan Murphy says the series has three more seasons in it before they will retire it in 2011. Wow, that doesn’t seem like much if you haven’t watched the series at all, but I would actually subtract four and a half from what he plans on doing from here on out. The last season was such a jumbled mess of dead end plotlines, red herrings and soap-opera contrivances that we have a hard time believing that audience plans to come back for a sixth season. Sure, we were never grand appreciators of the series, but the difference between seasons 1 through four and five is virtually unprecedented.

The FOX cable network also purchased some comedy series called Testees, which just by its name is sure to be awful. But on the bright side, in that same link you will see they picked up 39 more episodes of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia. We assume that’s on top of this season debuting in a couple months, so we have four more seasons of Sunny to look forward to. That will make any soulless TV fan’s day.

Alright, we’re done for the day, back tomorrow with some links most likely.