Grid Effect

We hate going into the weekend with an episode recap being our final post, it feels so impersonal. So here are some links to varying degrees of TV news. Enjoy.

Supposedly a television adaptation is being made for The Conversation, the 1970’s critically acclaimed Coppola film starring Gene Hackman as a bumbling, troubled private-eye doing all he can to pose as competent. It’s a brilliant piece of film making that I recommend to everyone, and if placed in the right hands it could translate well on television. It does beg the question of, why now? I mean, the advancements in technology and everything make it much more plausible for a series, but does anyone the networks target actually know of this movie? You might as well just rename it “Inspector Gadget” and call it a day. At least it’s AMC doing it, after Mad Men they can go back in history and adapt Duck Soup for television and I’ll probably tune in.

Mark Wahlberg will make a cameo on Entourage. This will be his second cameo on a series that he gets a producers credit on, but we are pretty sure it is a no-show type of gig for him. We watched a couple episodes recently and while it was generally lighthearted and enjoyable, our dislike of several of the characters only inflamed. But we’ll still watch it, because we have the will of a prairie dog running from a lion.

I can't figure out why guys like this show.

Alan Sepinwall speculates that NBC’s plan of 3,600 hours of Olympic coverage might be too much. That all depends, I suppose, on what’s being aired vs. what would be aired in its place. If you were to do a rundown of what NBC channels usually offer, you would probably say, “hey, I’d take archery over Dan Abrams any day!” But you might be singing a different tune around the 1,800th hour. So yeah, I think it is safe to assume that 3,600 hours of anything is too much. I could be eating lollipops and steak while Victoria Secret models blew me and I updated my Fantasy Football teams, and after about three weeks I’d be willing to call it quits. If I never slept during those 21 days that would come to only 520 hours. In no way do I feel like I took this out of context.

And finally, We mentioned half of this before, but Wendell Pierce (The Bunk) and Clarke Peters (Lester Freamon) are signing on to star in David Simon’s new series about the New Orleans music scene, Treme. We were going to watch the series any way, but now it’s official: We would leap over a volcano to watch this. Dignity, Governor, dignity I say, above all else…

Enjoy the weekend, back Monday all hungover, shiny and new.