Grid Effect

With Friday Night Lights in reruns last night, that makes three straight days without any decent scripted television (short of The Daily Show and Colbert Report). So what beter time for some links:

Survivor is going last for at least sixteen total seasons. The network must be pessimistic about its longevity, because a two season extension is somewhat underwhelming.

You stay classy, FOX. Seriously, stay classy. We don’t have enough implied subjugation in this country without you making a reality show perpetuatiing it.

Not surprisingly, the recent ousted Apprentice contestant, Carey, is agitated with the plethora of backhanded insults towards his sexual orientation on Sunday’s episode.

It comes as expected that Kevin Federline has to be self-deprecating too stay in the public eye.

Apparently, I waasn’t the only one who thought Maria Menounos stage exit interviews were comically terrible. Of course, I am not a producer on the show. Some of them didn’t find it so hysterical.

Sounds like Ricky Gervais is enjoying that extra money from exporting The Office, because now he wants too make a US version of Extras. In related news, Ken Jennings, yes, of Jeopardy fame, thinks the US version of The Office is “contrived” when compared to its British predecessor. Amazingly enough, on his blog, everything isn’t described in the form of a question.

Jesus, when I was six, and up until I completed first grade, I lived in Muncie, Indiana; the city where they shoot the new CBS reality series Armed and Famous. And now, the mayor sees it as a positive experience. Lets just hope this is an example of small town, midwestern cordialness and they do not actually believe that anything positive can come from having Wee-man and Latoya Jackson wreak havoc on their quite town.

Some Brits are upset with Ricky Gervais believing that he referred to them as idiots for being incapable of grasping the humor in American shows like Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Simpsons. While I have never heard him call anyone an idiot, he has implied that a US audience has a more refined sense of humor, which one can intepret however they want. While series’ like his, CYE and Arrested Development do indicate a fundemental understanding of intelligent humor, other shows like According To Jim and Two and A Half Men do not. So don’t feel too down, British people. We have plenty of low brow comedy in this country that gets much better ratings than anything Gervais watches.