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Weekend Shopping Guide 9/15/12: Outland Rock

The weekend’s here. You’ve just been paid, and it’s burning a hole in your pocket. What’s a pop culture geek to do? In hopes of steering you in the right direction to blow some of that hard-earned cash, it’s time for the FRED Weekend Shopping Guide – your spotlight on the things you didn’t even know you wanted…

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While there seem to be some out there that feel it’s on the decline and it’s upcoming last season should be it’s last, I actually loved the now-penultimate 30 Rock: Season Six (Universal, Not Rated, DVD-$49.98 SRP). Yes, the characters and situations are getting more and more surreal, but the show was built to accommodate the absurdity – And any season that gives us a pair of new live episodes is ace in my book. Bonus materials include audio commentaries, deleted scenes, and featurettes.

There’s a part of my house where the wifi from my router just doesn’t seem to want to reach with any strength. Sure, it’s there – but ghostly and intermittent. Sadly, this also happens to be my den, which makes doing anything with my games systems or a laptop a nightmare. Until I put the Bounce WiFi Enhancer ($24.99) on top of one of my router’s antenna, and pointed it towards my den… And saw all of my signal troubles go away. Ridiculously simple solution, but it worked a charm.

Fans of Bloom County had been teased when that strip ended that Berkley Breathed’s humor and beloved penguin, Opus, would live on in a new strip. That tease became a reality a few months later with the introduction of the Sundays-only Outland (IDW, $39.99 SRP), which has gotten its own much-deserved release in its entirety as the next hardcover collection from the fine folks at IDW. Now we just have to get the upcoming Opus collection and we’re all done.

Hey hey! Another month, another pair of new classic Doctor Who releases to delight all of the completionist fans. First up we get William Hartnell’s 1st Doctor in Doctor Who: Planet Of Giants (BBC, Not Rated, DVD-$24.98 SRP), in which an accident while landing shrinks the Doctor and his companions. Second, we get a special edition of Colin Baker’s 6th Doctor adventure Doctor Who: Vengeance On Varos (BBC, Not Rated, DVD-$ SRP), which adds in a whole bunch of new bonus material. As usual, both releases are packed with commentaries, featurettes, ephemera, and more.

It’s really an awful film in so many ways, but because it’s about an event I was fascinated about as a child and the actual production execution is so grand even though the story is ridiculous, I have a special place in my heart for James Cameron’s Titanic (Paramount, Rated PG-13, 3D Blu-Ray-$54.99 SRP), which gets a serviceable if not fantastic conversion to 3D in time for its high definition release. Bonus materials include audio commentaries, featurettes, deleted scenes, and more.

And speaking of James Cameron and the Titanic, Cameron’s lovely documentary about the actual wreck with simply stunning footage, Ghosts Of The Abyss (Walt Disney, Rated G, 3D Blu-Ray-$44.98 SRP), is now available in 3D, and makes a perfect viewing companion with his messy fictional flick. Bonus materials include an extended version of the feature, plus a behind-the-scenes featurette.

It’s always a cause for concern when a brilliant show produces new episodes years after their last outing. Would the brilliance still be there? Will it ruin your warm feelings to see an inferior product? Thankfully, the Absolutely Fabulous: 20th Anniversary Specials (BBC, Not Rated, DVD-$24.98 SRP) are every bit as wonderful. It’s just sad that there are only 3 of them, plus a bonus Sport Relief special.

I did want to love a sitcom featuring Christina Applegate, Will Arnett, and Maya Rudolph, but Up All Night (Universal, Not Rated, DVD-$39.98 SRP), but this “adjusting to a newborn” comedy just never seemed to find its footing. I have hopes the second season will find a voice, but I’m not counting on it. Bonus materials include deleted/extended scenes and a music video.

We’re still in good territory with Roseanne: Season 5 & Roseanne: Season 6 (Mill Creek, Not Rated, DVD-$14.98 SRP each), which have been re-released at a dirt cheap impulse buy price. Snap them both up and relive some of the final years before it all went pear-shaped. And speaking of budget releases from Mill Creek, you can also pick up the complete series – that’s all 91 episodes plus commentaries, featurettes, interviews, and bloopers – of Grounded For Life (Mill Creek, Not Rated, DVD-$44.98 SRP).

When you’ve got Kristen Stewart and Chris Hemsworth playing the titular Snow White & The Huntsman (Universal, Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$34.98 SRP), which reimagined the whole thing as a action-packed teaming of the two against he evil queen (Charlize Theron), you’ve got to expect little more from the film that a decent watch with an occasional groan. And that’s just what you get. Bonus materials include an audio commentary and featurettes.

For those of you who still watch the pandering emptiness of Big Bang Theory (Warner Bros., Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$54.97 SRP), the fifth season is more of the same, including a decided increase in guest stars and wacky t-shirts. Bonus materials include a trio of featurettes and a gag reel.

ABC Studios drops a trio of new seasons this week – the fourth season of Castle (ABC Studios, Not Rated, DVD-$45.99, the fifth season of Private Practice (ABC Studios, Not Rated, DVD-$39.99, and the eighth season of Grey’s Anatomy (ABC Studios, Not Rated, DVD-$45.99. All 3 contain featurettes, deleted scenes, outtakes, and more.

It’s an average show, but the reason you watch the generational cop drama Blue Bloods (Paramount, Not Rated, DVD-$55.98 SRP) is for Tom Selleck. Yes, you do. The second season set contains all 22 episodes plus commentaries, featurettes, deleted scenes, and a gag reel.

So there you have it… my humble suggestions for what to watch, listen to, play with, or waste money on this coming weekend. See ya next week…

-Ken Plume

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September 15, 2012
Weekend Shopping Guide 8/17/12: Communing With Sharks

The weekend’s here. You’ve just been paid, and it’s burning a hole in your pocket. What’s a pop culture geek to do? In hopes of steering you in the right direction to blow some of that hard-earned cash, it’s time for the FRED Weekend Shopping Guide – your spotlight on the things you didn’t even know you wanted…

(Please support FRED by using the links below to make any impulse purchases – it helps to keep us going…)

It’s a bittersweet affair, listening to the audio commentaries on the Community: Season 3 (Sony, Not Rated, DVD-$45.99 SRP) set and hearing creator Dan Harmon talk about all of the things the show would be tackling if they got a 4th season (which they have) just a few short weeks before he was informed by Sony that he was fired as showrunner. Still, the season is a fitting send off for his era of the show, containing all of the whimsy and sincerity that has made it beloved. The set is also loaded with bonus features, including audio commentaries on every episode, featurettes, deleted scenes, and actually funny outtakes.

As a kid, I was always fascinated by gyroscopes – particularly the ones that I bought just about every time I would visit a museum gift shop lo, those many years ago. And they were always a pain to get going. Ah, but the Precision Gyroscope ($11.99), with its pull cord, is so much easier to operate, and makes mucking around with one of those little wonders of balance the fun it always should have been.

There are plenty of new-to-Blu-Ray catalogue releases I’ve been looking forward to this year, and right near the top has been the near-unbearable anticipation for the fully restored and remastered Jaws (Universal, Rated PG, Blu-Ray-$29.98 SRP). And the work they’ve done on the film doesn’t disappoint. It’s become clichÃ© to say a film has never looked better, but it’s absolutely true here, as film looks even better than brand new, considering the printing and projection shortcomings of its original release. As far as bonus features go, you get all of the features from the previous DVD special addition, plus the addition of the troubled documentary fan-produced The Shark Is Still Working, which has been floating around the festival circuit for years and finally finds a home here. So overall, yes – Yes, you must get this Blu-Ray. Now.

And while you’re on a Jaws kick this week, be sure to pick up the newly re-released and expanded edition of screenwriter Carl Gottlieb’s The Jaws Log (Newmarket Press, $16.99 SRP), his journals on the making of that landmark film. Just don’t ask him who wrote the Indianapolis speech.

I’m really starting to get spoiled, what with two classic Doctor Who releases coming every month – And this month is no different, bringing us a special edition of the very first adventure versus the Autons for Jon Pertwee’s 3rd Doctor in Doctor Who: Spearhead From Space (BBC, Not Rated, DVD-$24.98 SRP), and an Ace-era foray to the Psychic Circus for Sylvester McCoy’s 7th Doctor in Doctor Who: The Greatest Show In The Galaxy (BBC, Not Rated, DVD-$24.98 SRP). Both are loaded with commentaries and featurettes, and both are worth picking up.

While The Smurfs And The Magic Flute (Shout Factory, Rated G, DVD-$14.83 SRP) may be the first feature film starring Peyo’s little blue creations, it bothered me when I saw it as a kid because none of the voices matched the ones then being heard regularly on Saturday mornings, as the film was actually produced overseas and later dubbed into English. This new release looks a heck of a lot better than the crappy VHS tape of the early 80’s, and there a clutch of bonus featurettes, as well.

It’s been awhile sing they’ve done an official release, but the latest biography to come down the pike from A&E’s Bio channel is Barack Obama: From His Childhood To The Presidency (Bio, Not Rated, DVD-$19.95 SRP) – And the title pretty much covers its subject matter and timespan.

The fine folks at Shout Factory have really stepped up their classic TV releases in recent years, taking over for aborted efforts by studios like Sony and Universal, and wrapping the DVD releases of shows long after many of us had given up hope. The latest clutch of titles on glorious life support include the 5th and final season of Kojak (Shout Factory, Not Rated, DVD-$44.99 SRP), the second and final season of S.W.A.T. (Shout Factory, Not Rated, DVD-$44.99 SRP), the seventh and final season of Designing Women (Shout Factory, Not Rated, DVD-$44.99 SRP), the complete second season of The Rookies (Shout Factory, Not Rated, DVD-$44.99 SRP), the complete third season of Hazel (Shout Factory, Not Rated, DVD-$34.93 SRP), the seventh season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent (Shout Factory, Not Rated, DVD-$49.97 SRP), and the complete second season of Fantasy Island (Shout Factory, Not Rated, DVD-$39.97 SRP). Heck, they’ve even picked up and released the third season of Diff’rent Strokes (Shout Factory, Not Rated, DVD-$29.93 SRP)!

And if that weren’t enough, Shout also continues to release the massive Nickelodeon catalogue, with the most recent being the 2nd volume from Cat Dog: Season 1 (Shout Factory, Not Rated, DVD-$19.93 SRP), the 2nd volume from Danny Phantom: Season 2 (Shout Factory, Not Rated, DVD-$19.93 SRP), and the 2nd volume of The Angry Beavers: Season 3 (Shout Factory, Not Rated, DVD-$19.93 SRP). Keep bringing it, Shout!

It’s a little late to the party, but Titanic: 100 Years In 3D (History Channel, Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$29.95 SRP) is remarkable for featuring actual high definition 3D imagery of the infamous liner taken at the wreck site. Fascinating, fascinating viewing for buffs.

Parents might want to pick up the entire 52-episode set of the science-adventure series The Magic School Bus (Scholastic, Not Rated, DVD-$79.95 SRP), featuring a teacher and the supernatural bus that takes her class just about everywhere you can imagine. Except Tijuana. It is a kid’s show, after all.

Collecting a trio of shows shot in London, Manchester, & Edinburgh, Jay & Silent Bob Get Old: Tea Bagging In The UK (Industrial Entertainment, Not Rated, DVD-$19.95 SRP) is essentially a pair of discs collecting the video versions of the duo’s previously released tour podcasts. But now you can both hear *and* see them. At the same time.

The show’s become a creative mess, but diehards will delight in the complete third season of Glee (Fox, Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$69.99 SRP), which finds the Gleeks on the road to both the Nationals and their graduation., which means there’s plenty of fresh blood joining the group and plenty of hand-wringing. Oh, and singing. Bonus materials include featurettes, deleted scenes, and more.

Root around in America’s garbage with the latest releases from the “History” Channel – American Pickers: Volume Four (History Channel, Not Rated, DVD-$19.95 SRP) and Pawn Stars: Volume Five (History Channel, Not Rated, DVD-$19.95 SRP). Neither contains any bonus features, and you’ll be heard-pressed to find history, either.

Sideshow has done an incredible job in bringing animated characters to the three-dimensional world via their 1/4-scale premium format line, with the most recent standout being the incredible Captain Hook added to a list that includes Snow White‘s Evil Queen and Sleeping Beauty‘s Maleficent. Well, now you can add their buxom and beautiful Jessica Rabbit ($324.99), which captures Roger’s wife in full-on nightclub sultry mode, dressed in her glittering gown and standing on a light-up base. As if that weren’t enough, you even get a separate penguin waiter from the Ink & Paint Club. Just look at how gorgeous this is…

So there you have it… my humble suggestions for what to watch, listen to, play with, or waste money on this coming weekend. See ya next week…

-Ken Plume

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August 17, 2012
Weekend Shopping Guide 3/30/12: Not Too Distant Future

The weekend’s here. You’ve just been paid, and it’s burning a hole in your pocket. What’s a pop culture geek to do? In hopes of steering you in the right direction to blow some of that hard-earned cash, it’s time for the FRED Weekend Shopping Guide – your spotlight on the things you didn’t even know you wanted…

(Please support FRED by using the links below to make any impulse purchases – it helps to keep us going…)

It’s been a few months, so that means another much-anticipated addition to the MSTie library with Mystery Science Theater 3000: Volume XXIII (Shout Factory, Not Rated, DVD-$59.97 SRP). For this set, we’re back to the pair o’ Joel, pair o’ Mike ratio, all 4 being from the Comedy Central era. From the Joel Era, we have King Dinosaur and The Castle Of Fu Manchu, while the Mike Era delivers Last Of The Wild Horses & Codename: Diamondhead. The set is also packed with bonus featurettes, interviews, vintage promos, and trailers.

Sure, they’re a bit of a novelty, but for goofball geeks and kids, the Angry Birds Speakers ($49.99-$59.99) are actually pretty darn spiffy, allowing you to hook up your iPhone, iPod, or iPad and play music that sounds pretty good for the prize and size. You can choose from either a red or black bird, or get the evil helmeted pig.

I still don’t think we’ve gotten enough perspective on the events and repercussions of 9/11 to make a truly remarkable film about it, but Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Warner Bros., Rated PG-13, Blu-Ray-$35.99 SRP) makes a decent go at it, brining the drama down to human level by focusing on the fallout to an 11-year-old boy who finds a key in the belongings of his father (Tom Hanks), who died in the Towers, and sets out to find the lock it opens. Treacle is kept at bay, and the story manages to be quite affecting. Bonus materials include a quartet of featurettes.

While James Cameron’s film has the edge in the effects and actual mechanics of the sinking, the far more accurate portrayal of the real people and events leading up to the disaster – and the exclusion of saccharine fiction – makes A Night To Remember (Criterion, Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$39.95 SRP) the so-far definitive cinematic take on the voyage of the RMS Titanic. The new Criterion release is a glorious high-def remaster, featuring an audio commentary, a making-of documentary, an archival survivor interview, and additional historical documentaries. A must-have.

I would have hoped it would have been better timed to be released alongside the big screen adventures, but at least we still get the second and final volume of the animated The Adventures Of Tintin (Shout Factory, Not Rated, DVD-$19.93 SRP) TV show from the early 90’s, which brings us up to the final Tintin story, Tintin And The Picaros.

I’m a big fan of the various documentaries that Top Gear co-presenter James May has done over the years, all of which contain an almost boyish enthusiasm for the various subjects at hand. He goes enjoyably DIY with the first series of James May’s Man Lab (BFS, Not Rated, DVD-$24.98 SRP), tackling many a task with a very rah-rah approach. Fun!

Fifteen seasons of South Park (Paramount, Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$57.99 SRP)? I can’t believe it, either. After a shaky, often superficial first few seasons, the show has now grown into a very pointed, very funny satire that manages, through its record production schedule, to stay bleeding edge topical. In fact, that lightning fast process is detailed in the included documentary 6 Days To Air, which features alongside a clutch of mini-commentaries and deleted scenes.

Packed with the Hollywood luminaries that received their career start from him and chronicling his profitable existence as the King of the Quickie, Corman’s World: Exploits Of A Hollywood Rebel (Anchor Bay, Rated R, Blu-Ray-$29.97 SRP) is lovely new documentary about the one and only Roger Corman. Bonus materials include extended interviews and a special message from Roger.

So there you have it… my humble suggestions for what to watch, listen to, play with, or waste money on this coming weekend. See ya next week…

-Ken Plume

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March 30, 2012

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March 16, 2012

Backlash: The Bat-Oscars

Are the Oscars As We Know Them Doomed? We Can Only Hope….

As the entire world seems to pause for a moment for the Inauguration of President Barack Obama, some of regular life goes on, even in Fantasy Land, better known as Hollywood, USA. The Motion Picture Academy announces their nominees for the Oscars this week and with nothing better to do than talk out their collective asses, a fair portion of the entertainment media are squawking about whether or not the awards can survive if they don’t crown a ‘popular’ film Best Picture (read: Batman: The Dark Knight).

There’s some logic to the argument if you look at the awards in a purely television special / ratings extravaganza event. Last year’s Oscar telecast was one of the lowest rated in years and some attribute that to a lack of a popular choice among the moviegoing public, something for them to ‘root for’, as though this were a NASCAR race. I’m sure the network would love for there to be a choice like The Dark Knight among the Best Picture nominees on Thursday and they might get their wish. Fact is, Christopher Nolan made a pretty good film in a year when some of the most interesting films to come out of Hollywood were in genres traditionally ignored by the Academy. Filmmakers have finally figured out that viewers can take their heroes with some flaws, something comic readers have been able to handle since the 1960’s. The heroes of Iron Man and The Dark Knight appeal to the general public in a time when the world is viewed in ever-darkening shades of gray, making those films as relevant as any to hit screens in recent years. If Warners can manage to not completely fuck up Watchmen (which I still have my doubts about), it might even be in this conversation a year from now. But to actually state that not nominating a film like Dark Knight for Best Picture could signal the end of the Oscars as we know it is such a complete load of bullshit that you could smell the odor in Australia.

It has also been something of a banner year for the much-maligned (usually with good reason) Animated Feature Film (or, as I like to call it, “The Oscar We Just Give to Pixar Every Year They Release a Film”). Pixar, as usual, made a good showing, this time with Wall-E and proved once again that the important part of any film, animated or otherwise, is a good script. For that reason, Wall-E is even being mentioned as a potential nominee in some of the non-traditional categories for animated films, such as Best Screenplay and even as a possible longshot for Best Picture. Disney, long absent from any conversation concerning a good animated feature that wasn’t co-produced with the aforementioned Pixar, managed to release Bolt, a film that looked a whole lot like it escaped from Pixar (in some respects, that’s just what it did). Even some of the releases geared straight for the kid market weren’t as mind numbing as they’ve been in the past. Just as a bit of full disclosure, I have actively voted against some Pixar films in the past when I’ve thought another film deserved the honor more, which is why the critic’s group I was a member of at the time gave the award to Wallace & Gromit over Cars. There will be a year when an animated feature is in the mix for Best Picture but this won’t be that year. The year it does happen, that film will have to defend itself against some pretty good animated films that came before it.

First of all, the argument that the nomination & win of a “populist” film would be some sort of groundbreaking event is not only inaccurate, it’s ignorant. Titanic was a massively popular film, the highest grossing film of all time to date (Dark Knight currently sits at number two) and it took home the Best Picture award that year. So there’s the ‘blockbuster’ argument cut off at the knees. You can’t even make the ‘fantasy film’ argument any more since Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King made a pretty good showing that year, including taking that Best Picture statuette home to Hobbiton. Previously, high grossing science fiction or fantasy films would be thrown the bone of a nomination without a snowball’s chance in hell of winning. Films like Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark and others really just took a spot away from films that might have had a slim chance of winning Best Picture. The way the Academy is structured now, any SF / fantasy film that is good enough to get a nomination in the Best Picture category has as good a chance to win as any other film that’s nominated.

Which brings us back to The Dark Knight. I can’t remember a year when everyone from the film fans to us blowhards in the media haven’t carped on and on about how lousy the films were all year, only to be faced with a pretty tough decision when comes time to vote for the various awards. This year is no exception, with some really good films being considered as the nominations are being made. Gran Torino is possibly one of the best films Clint Eastwood has ever made. Slumdog Millionaire is this year’s “out of nowhere” film that is not only an art house choice but popular with general audiences that have seen the film. There are far more than five films that can be mentioned in this conversation but only five will be nominated. To say that Dark Knight should only be considered because of its popularity is the traditional slap in the face that these kinds of films almost always get from the ‘traditional’ press and members of the Academy who rely on the DVD screeners because their iron lungs won’t fit into the theaters. Thankfully, those contingents have been getting marginalized as time goes on, partially due to the internet but also because so many of the ‘old guard’ are either passing away or have figured out that a fantasy film no longer involves Buster Crabbe and might really be worth watching, even if the great-grandkids have a picture from the film on their lunch box or have downloaded it to their iPhone.

The Dark Knight won’t be any kind of ‘hero’ to the Oscars regardless of whether it gets a Best Picture nomination or not and it shouldn’t be. The history of the Academy Awards is full of Best Picture winners that are little more than cheap rentals (if you can find them on video at all) while the runners up have gone on to become cherished classics of the medium. I have no doubt that, a decade from now, Dark Knight will be remembered and viewed a lot more than most of the films in the Oscar discussion this year. But the Oscars shouldn’t be about what film will be best remembered a decade from now but what the voters believe is the best film now. And that’s the way it should be, regardless of ratings or any other external influence. Of course, it won’t be that way, it probably hasn’t been for a whole lot of years and may never be that way again but we can all hope.

–KJB

January 26, 2009
TV Or Not TV: 9/15 – 9/21

Welcome back for a very special TV or Not TV.

OK, it’s not really all that special. This week we’re taking a look at the new shows on the ABC Fall Schedule. There’s a reason why, however, I’ve been saving ABC for last. They’ve got two new shows. Yes, that’s right, just two.

Opportunity Knocks (Premieres 9/23) ““ This new show from Punk’d creative team Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg‘s is a reality show made me think they almost lifted Brian Lynch‘s Party Truck USA idea. Instead the show concept is this: semi-truck game show pulls up infront ofÂ your house and uses objects and clues in the house to quiz the family as to how well they know one another. Cash prizes involved. I’ll wait to see to base judgment.

Life on Mars (Premieres 10/9) ““ This show is a BBC import. The Americanized versionÂ was executive produced by David E. Kelley and stars Jason O’Mara as a present day police detective who, after a car crash, wakes up as a detective in the 70’s. The show has had lots of buzz because Kelley’s pilot “didn’t hew close enough” to the BBC original, so Kelley walked. A new pilot, a change of location and an entire recasting of everyone but the lead means this is one you have to catch just to see what turned out in the end.

Well, I hope you were able to get through all of that and now you still have an appetite for the TV viewing opportunities out there this week.

MONDAY

SCIFI ““ 7:00 PM: If you’ve put off getting caught up in LOST-mania but you’ve always wanted to watch it from the beginning, now is your chance. You can sit back, relax and enjoy four hours of lost every week on Monday night.

ABC ““ 8:00 PM: Oh look, someone else is airing Batman Begins.

CBS ““ 8:00 PM: Get ready for the return of The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother and Two and a Half Men by watching tonight’s repeat of the season finale.

TUESDAY

NBC ““ 8:00 PM: Last year’s edition of The Biggest Loser using couples was a great one, so they are keeping the concept going with this year’s edition: The Biggest Loser: Families. Husband-Wife and Parent-Child teams vie to lose big and win bigger. This show is a great motivator and great entertainment.

CBS ““ 9:00 PM: Will it be Dan or Memphis who walks away with the half mill tonight? Which one of the jury members will win the $25,000 pity prize from America’s vote? After tonight you won’t hear me say Big Brother again for at least four months.

FOX ““ 9:00 PM: Let’s see if Fringe can keep up the creepy momentum that they started with the pilot.

ABC ““ 9:30 PM: The ABC news department is stretching for ratings with Primetime: UFOs”¦ Seeing is Believing. I haven’t seen a hubcap hung from fishing line in a long time, this should be fun.

WEDNESDAY

CBS ““ 8:00 PM: Two episodes of The New Adventures of Old Christine try to prime you for next week’s season premiere.

HIST ““ 8:00 PM: How could you not watch Monster Quest tonight with a title like this? Bigfoot in New York.

CW ““ 9:00 PM: If you missed this week’s new episode of 90210 yesterday than you can catch it tonight.

THURSDAY

MAX ““ 8:00 PM: Matt Damon steps away from F’ing Sarah Silverman long enough to try to uncover his real identity in The Bourne Ultimatum.

NBC ““ 8:30 PM: Get ready for next week’s premiere of My Name is Earl and The Office by watching both shows season finales.

USA ““ 10:00 PM: Unfortunately after tonight we’re going to have to wait until 2009 to see more of Burn Notice. Don’t miss it.

FRIDAY

You know the recommendations aren’t going to be good for a night when the writer leads off with”¦

OXYGEN ““ 8:00 PM: The entertaining Legally Blonde and the dismal Legally Blonde 2 are back-to-back tonight.

BRAVO ““ 8:00 PM: More proof that a sequel is too much of a good thing comes from Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Dangerous.

BBCA ““ 8:00 PM: Forget all that other crap. Enjoy 80 minutes of Monty Python’s Flying Circus and enjoy the universal language of pure comedy.

SATURDAY

TNT ““ 8:00 PM: Queen Latifah finds out she is terminally ill so she does what we all do, sells all her stuff and lives it up in Europe in Last Holiday. I’m not really recommending this, this is what we call filler.

FOOD ““ 9:00 PM: Two hours of Dinner: Impossible lead up to Iron Chef: America. Keep healthy snacks handy or this could be trouble.

NBC ““ 11:29 PM: James Franco hosts SNL. I predict a Seth Rogen surprise visit.

SUNDAY

ABC ““ 8:00 PM: Every fashionista and star f’er will be tuning in for the 60^th Prime Time Emmy Awards. I’m not one of them. No, really, I’m not.

NGC ““ 8:00 PM: At last Titanic: The Final Secret is revealed! Wait, was there something we still didn’t know? Turns out there was. The guy who found the famed cruise ship was actually on a secret Navy mission to examine submarines lost during the Cold War. Who knew?

FOX ““ 9:00 PM: Robot Chicken did a much better Star Wars special, however you might find the Family Guy‘s Blue Harvest chuckle-worthy. Some items I found funny, a lot of it felt like too drawn out of a joke. You decide.

– Will Wilkins really wishes there were better things to watch on Friday nights.

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September 14, 2008

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