Grid Effect

Early work meeting today, so I took the initiative and got this done last night during The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. As much as it pains me to let this eat into my free time, my career as a grifter didn’t take off like I had once hoped, so I’m being rundown with the standard nine to five and I feel like Stanley Hudson at this point. Anyhow, enough wallowing, onto the links…

Lindsay Lohan’s mom, Dina, is attempting to put together a reality series with E!, in which she would occupy her time with trying to turn her sons into “stars” rather than helping her daughter poison her liver. Because Lindsey isn’t going to be young forever, she better get those boys started early. What is with this family? I thought the father was the crazy one, not I hear the mother a step above an aging coke whore? But in all honesty, considering her daughter has, whether its a publicity stunt or not, been in rehab twice before the age of twenty. In order to avoid that front row seat on her roller-coaster to hell, she might want to reconsider this.

Larry David is supposedly divorcing his wife of fourteen years. According to this report from Page Six (Two straight links to the gossip rags at the NY Post, I feel dirtier than usual), LD was taking exception to her growing fame with An Inconvenient Truth. For whatever reason, I think that is bullshit. But hey, it’s The Post, when have they ever been wrong about anything? At the very least, maybe he can salvage the experience and turn it into a decent sitcom.

Arrested Development got a shitty syndication deal with a video game network, so I guess it shouldn’t be terribly surprising that The Office cannot find a decent buyer.

We do not watch The Shield ’round these parts, but the season finale is supposed to blow your hair back. Maybe Vic Mackey simultaneously throws two people into a wall during an interrogation (I kid, I kid, I hear its a good series, just never got around to watching it).

Tyra Banks could be taking her reality modeling series to New York, explaining why my cousin recently moved to Hoboken.

Ben Silverman, recently hired NBC Entertainment President, will stay on Ugly Betty as an executive producer. Umm, isn’t this a slight conflict of interests? This guy must be promising, if they are willing to ignore his other professional obligations and his reportedly semi-reckless lifestyle to offer him the job.

To give you an impression of how thought provoking and outrageously insightful The Wire is, the Washington Post is allowing David Simon & Co. to film from their offices. Even All The Presidents Men had to film elsewhere.

A psuedo-review is in for John From Cincinnati, and it’s not looking too promising.

Dania Ramirez is joining the cast of Heroes. You may know her better as Blanca, AJ Soprano’s ex-girlfriend. If her superpower is fending off the affections of dimwitted, well-intentioned but misguided twenty-somethings, then, well, she probably won’t be around very long.

Speaking of The Sopranos, The Emmy Committee has pushed back the cutoff for two weeks, seemingly solely for The Sopranos. Now that, my friends, is influence.

Finally, several alumni from the old series Freaks and Geeks have major and small roles in the comedy, Knocked Up (In addition to several Office cameos). I have never seen the old Apatow series, which by all reports was canceled prematurely, but if it is anything like his most recent theatrical release, then I might have to buy the DVD’s. Yes, that’s a recommendation, think Forty Year Old Virgin but ten times funnier.

Back tomorrow with some undetermined material.