Grid Effect

After a weekend of avoiding television except for a Mad Men rerun last night, we have nothing new to offer. It’s pretty much like every Monday with HBO being bought out by ABC. Wait, ABC didn’t buy out HBO, and HBO is just making the conscious decision too air exclusively unwatchable on Sunday nights? Well, OK then. I guess that just like me, HBO has no legitimate excuses.

Naturally, this means we’re going to post a few links that we deem newsworthy, before calling it a day at noon. Hey, we’re not exactly trying to cure cancer here.

For those interested, the new trailer for Woody Allen’s upcoming movie starring Larry David, Whatever Works, is online now. I can only watch it without audio, but from the looks of things it would appear David is playing a pretty similar variation of himself like that he does on Curb: same mannerisms, same neuroses and the same wardrobe, modified to fit an NYC climate. In other words, we’re going to see it the second it’s released in Columbus, which might happen some time in 2010.

"Get me something I can fucking eat!"

SNL alum and out of work for ten years television star Julia Sweeney is developing a series about a food critic. This seems like it actually has a lot of potential, which means it probably won’t get picked up, but we feel it necessary to alert you anytime a funny SNL cast member of yore is involved in something that has promise. Besides, if the character is anything like Andy Portico, I don’t see how this show can miss.

Looks like FOX gave MadTV the boot and the show is looking for a new home. If you were unaware that MadTV was still on the air up until reading this, trust me, you’re not alone.

And BJ Novak, fresh off his hiatus from The Office to work on Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorius Basterds, has jumped back into the TV world with both feet and made his directorial debut. It’s for a mini online episode, but still, it’s more directing than he’s done in the past. The guy is immensely talented, before the year is over I’m sure he’ll have started his own chain of mini-restaurants, branded his own mini fashion line and built a mini-house on an online episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Is there anything this kid can’t do at a tenth of the capacity most people do it? I kid BJ, the screen grab is a head shot of Creed, so I’m pretty certain it’s funny.

That’s it for now. This is kind of mailed-in so we might post later again today, though probably not.