Grid Effect

Welcome back, hope everyone had a great 4th, full of cheap fireworks, grilled artery cloggers and red, white and blue apparel. As a result of the two night festivities, I called off work for this morning, making my post extrodinarily late. eight hours of drinking on the 3rd, ten hours of poker on the 4th, and a combined seven hours of sleep occasionally has its setbacks; one of which being delayed blog posts.

To compensate, and when I say to compensate I mean to short change egregiously, here are a few links. Not several, the television industry is known for its patriotism, especially if it generates viewers, so, for the most part, they tend to take off the week of the 4th. Onto thine links…

As expected those still working for Dennis Leary have come to his aid ever since the hatchet job Jack McGee did over at TWoP. At least Leary gets to pretend he’s dead on his series. McGee, he has no such creative outlet.

The Big Ten and the SEC, finally setting their differences aside and are coming together to be jointly accused of sexual harrassment. There is almost always a lot of gray matter in these cases, but of course, they always evokes staunch opinions. Call me crazy, but I’m guessing Woody Paige anticipated this, hence he left the world wide leader to return to the Denver Post. Of course, if it turns out Ms. Ragone is lying, then she should suffer an immense amount of reprecussions. But she won’t, because this country is fucked.

Kate Walsh is under the impression her new series, Private Practice, trumps her former show that inspired her own spinoff, Grey’s Anatomy. Listen, I wouldn’t watch either of these series for the world, in fact if I was at gun point all that would come of it is a conversation. But in the history of television, has a spin off ever surpassed its inspiration? Not to my recollection. Anyways, it’s good to know Kate Walsh can be as catty as the audience her new and former series’ pander to.

Apparently people are still discussing Studio 60? Why can’t we just all agree that it was a self-important, humorless (despite how hard it tried to be otherwise), narcissistic show with a misguided tone and unnecessary commentary? It wasn’t influential or original in any way, so I’m always surprised at the excessive amount of concern this invokes. Aaron Sorkin is involved, but what does he have to his name other than the overrated, steaming heap of nonsense that is The West Wing?

It looks like I’m on a crowded wagon for those who think Entourage is slipping. Thing is, I’m really not sure what the writers can do to improve its critical and commercial standing. Maybe kill of Eric, or have someting go wrong, like catastrophically wrong, or give more time to Marvin and Ari and less to Turtle and Drama, or write better jokes, or cut back the repitition with the same tired themes. Yeah, this will prove to be a daunting task.

That’s all we have, back tomorrow with a network fall preview.