Grid Effect

Exceptionally busy today because I work with tedious, demanding retards; so this will be pithy, to say the least.

Mad Men (coming off an epic penultimate episode) has been signed back to AMC, but they haven’t bothered to contract any of the actors, writers or showrunner. Correct me if I am wrong, but isn’t this usually how these things are done? Isn’t everyone going to barter for bigger contracts and take some of the money out of that ungodly marketing budget. Also, what would be the point of resigning the actors and everyone else if they do not have the rights to the series? Of course, you could say the same thing about contracting the series with none of the characters…Let’s just move on.

Someone's contemplating the potential success of a The Day The Earth Stood Still remake.

FOX News is questioning if Family Guy went too far likening the McCain/Palin campaign to Nazi’s. I’m not really sure what “too far” means, but it is just ridiculous, unoriginal hyperbole from an overrated prime time cartoon. If anyone went too far it was FOX, when they actually contracting this series past the first season after its comeback. We really hope South Park puts this fucking idiot in his place. Again.

Jeff Probst is desperately trying to convince everyone that we should have cared about the elephant watching on Survivor last week. I understand the production aspects behind it and the quality of such footage in that regard. But if I gave a shit about elephants I would have watched them in captivity at the zoo at some point since I was 12. But I don’t, so I haven’t.

CBS is committed to keeping Survivor in the lauded Thursday night 8pm timeslot despite the series dropping 50% in ratings since 2000. I don’t really monitor these things because Nielsen’s might be the most flawed ratings system/poll in the country, but if their viewership was cut in half, doesn’t that imply that they are still bringing in about 12 million viewers a night? That isn’t much for CBS, but it is still enough to beat out NBC and FOX, so long as American Idol isn’t in season.

Speaking of tumbling ratings, Life On Mars has dropped about 25% from its premiere. Remember when we said we had intentions of watching this show and would have recapped it if it wasn’t airing in Thursdays? Yeah, well, we watched it. And it could be airing on Tuesdays and we’d pretend like this shit never existed. Basically, a detective somehow teleports from 2008 to 1973, and with very little hesitation, starts solving crimes 35 years in the past. It requires too many leaps of faith and had too many stock characters to keep our interest past the first twenty minutes. Not exactly a ringing endorsement, but there’s your review.

Sony is hellbent on marketing their Seinfeld DVD’s, and in doing so they have created a bus that travels to different parts of the country in an effort to get the word out to audiences who may be unfamiliar with it (namely: college students). Part of their effort is giving free candy to campus dwellers, because apparently Sony is under the impression that since 25 is the new 18, the new 18 is actually 7.

Probably it for today, back tomorrow with something akin to links. Or probably just links.