Grid Effect

I apologize for not posting on Friday, I have probably watched forty hours of basketball since Thursday night and come Friday morning, my brain was already synched with a bunson burner in the form of a 64 team bracket page. Besides, there was literally nothing worth discussing as the tourney forced every other network to resort to reruns and the like. Set aside that pathetic “new repeat” that The Office attempted to pull (if you weren’t baited in by it, more power to you) and we have a virtual non-existent five days as far as scripted/reality television is concerned. So what do we do here at Grid Effect when there is nothing new or we have writers block? Well, we give you links of course:

David Cross will be playing Howard K. Stern in a Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode that mimmicks the Anna Nicole Smith saga. This is eerily similiar to when Dave Attell was playing Tobias in the Bluths made for TV movie. Also, Amy Ryan, aka Beadie Russell from The Wire will play the astronaut who lost her damn mind and drove across the country in diapers in an alternative episode of the series.

Spielberg is pitching a comedy to Showtime about a woman with multiple personality disorder. It seems that for some reason, in compiling links for this page, I always stumble into what this mans viewing habits are. I know he was a big fan of Alias and currently watches Heroes, now he’s looking to create a comedy? It seems like Spielberg is attempting a leap from film to television, like so many before him. Of course, no one has made the leap who has been as immensely successful as Spielberg, I loved Munich.

Here’s a fairly lengthy article detailing the life and times of Felicia Pearson, the woman who plays Snoop on The Wire. Lets just say the role as Snoop isn’t a far cry from home.

The Apprentice is rumored to be heading to Chicago for yet a sixth season. because, you know, what better way to rejuvenate a dying series than move its locale around and upset as many people in as many cities as possible?

Finally, in case you haven’t noticed by now, Bravo is repeating every Friday Night Lights episode on the weekends. This is a good sign for the potential longevity of the series.

Anyways, it should be a more eventful week around here, we have The Black Donnelly’s tonight, Survivor and FNL on Wednesday and potentially The Office on Thursday (unsure whether they cancelled it or not for the NCAA Tournament).