Grid Effect

We are running very short on watchable television these days here at Grid Effect. With the exception of maybe one more new South Park episode tomorrow night (It’s either on hiatus now or is going to be after tomorrow), we are left with four series’, that air only two separate days:

The Office: Two or three episodes remaining
Survivor: Fiji: Half a season
Entourage: Six episodes remaining
The Sopranos: Six episodes remaining

In short, content is going to be a real bitch in the coming weeks. Rescue Me and It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia begin their fouth and third seasons in June, but about the same time or shortly before then, all four of the aforementioned shows will be going on hiatus as well.

Anyways, here are some links to numb your pain…

Carla Gugino is apparently under the impression her character keeps up with or matches Ari Gold…Has she even watched the show before? Is she aware of what an attack dog he was before she was contracted for a five episode arc? This is like Richie Aprile vs. Tony Soprano, there is no comparison.

The most recent winner of The Apprentice apparently never served as project manager. If you are like everyone else in the country and do not watch the show, that essentially means she didn’t deserve to win. From the bits and pieces I watched and the two episodes I recapped, she seemed well-adjusted, intelligent and attractive (which is probably the most likely component in explaining how she was hired), but if you never lead a team in the task of creating widgets for GM (This is a generalization, I have never actually seen them do this), how can you be entrusted to lead a project along the lines of constructing a high-rise condominium? Oh, that’s right, because its bullshit. Either way, Good luck to her, I am sure she is a perfectly fine “Apprentice”. Though at this point its almost a disservice to win the “award”.

TNT is using cameras to film Charles Barkley going to work. As mundane as it sounds, I envision a stretch limo with a mini craps table, a few glasses of Dalwhinnie on the rocks and a couple stogies being intricitally involved on this “drive” to work…For those of you who are unfamiliar with Sir Charles, he tends to have a penchant for decadence. Depending on long the drive is, things could get a little ugly.

Here’s the NBC schedule for sweeps (There are four more Office episodes left, including a one hour finale).

And finally, I’m a little late with this, but Survivor’s next home will be China. Not to be alarmist, but by my estimation, this is the first step towards a war of biblical proportions. China hasn’t been too susceptible to host American entertainment projects, is it necessary that we start with reality television? I mean, China’s government has voiced complaints about Yao Ming’s assimilation to the US (by all accounts he still isn’t familiar with sarcasm, so he can only be so assimilated), I cannot imagine the reaction when they are exposed to the likes of Rocky, Lisi & Boo.

More to come, if there is anything else worth mentioning in the next six or seven hours.