Tonight’s episode of Boston Legal, as I mentioned a little more than a week ago, will be an episode combining footage from the 1957 television drama, “The Defenders,” starring William Shatner, with a storyline that involves the firm in a sequel to that fifty year-old television program. This sounds so cool. 🙂
Category Archives: Television
On an Upcoming Boston Legal Episode
TrekToday ran an article a few days ago about the renewal of Boston Legal for a fourth season. This from their news item on the renewal is intriguing: Boston Legal‘s producers planned an episode using footage from the 1957 Studio One drama The Defenders, with a 26-year-old Shatner. In the episode currently scheduled to airContinue reading “On an Upcoming Boston Legal Episode”
On Taking Deep Breaths
I will not get medieval on someone’s ass. I will not get medieval on someone’s ass. I will not get medieval on someone’s ass. I am tired of people who think Doctor Who is a series about Rose. Excuse me, but Doctor Who survived a long damn time before Rose Tyler, and it’s going toContinue reading “On Taking Deep Breaths”
On Great Simpsons Quotes
Michael Chabon, while beating up Jonathan Franzen: Ooh, you fight like Anne Rice! Of course, the highlight of tonight’s episode was J.K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson, editor of a poetry magazine. 🙂
On Hugh Laurie's SNL
Hugh Laurie, of Blackadder, Jeeves & Wooster, and House fame, hosted Saturday Night Live tonight. Unfortunately, it wasn’t especially funny. Laurie’s monologue was amusing. The joke he made about being “bottom” in the Royal Shakespeare Company was quite inspired (even if the audience seemed slow on the uptake). The skit based on Most Haunted wasContinue reading “On Hugh Laurie's SNL”
On Television Shows
Shamelessly stolen from Ross and others: What TV show(s) do you find yourself watching the most?Presently, not that many. The only ones I’m building my week around these days are Boston Legal and House. Television, just not that important to me these days. What if any TV shows do you own on DVD?Chittering Cthulhu, thereContinue reading “On Television Shows”
On Remembering Moonbase Alpha
Let us not forget: September 13, 1999 marks the 7-year anniversary of the tragic events at Moonbase Alpha, where all 311 of the base’s inhabitants were lost and presumed killed after terrorists set off a thermonuclear chain reaction on the moon’s Nuclear Waste Disposal Area 2. The resulting catastrophic explosion blasted the Moon out ofContinue reading “On Remembering Moonbase Alpha”
On the Animaniacs DVDs
The Animaniacs DVDs are coming, on July 25th. We’ve known for a while that the release would be in the summer. An exact date is just gravy. I know what I’m buying come July. Call me happy. 🙂
On Doctor Doctor
A completely random search in iTunes made me realize how much I’d love to see Doctor Doctor, the Matt Frewer medical sitcom of the late 80s, released on DVD. I’ve not seen it in years. There’s probably nothing remarkable about the series at all. But for some reason I have fond memories of the showContinue reading “On Doctor Doctor”
On Gumby
Okay, the credits for tonight’s Simpsons may be the most inspired thing I’ve seen in a while. Rolling clay balls! Gumby! Can the rest of the episode match the creativity in seeing Gumby? We shall see.