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Venture Brothers Review: "The Revenge Society"
16 November 2009 11:23 AM, PST
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Last night, The Venture Bros. brought back several untied loose ends from season three and packed them all into an amazing half hour of television. Questions such as what happened to Phantom Limb and the Orb were answered and you can find out how in our "The Revenge Society" recap.
We're just here to give you some thoughts about the episode in our review:
We wonder how Brock would have handled things when the Guild showed up. Unlike Sgt. Hatred's hilarious antics with Hank, we're pretty sure he would have laid low and out of their way like he did during the "Trial of the Monarch." So for once... we're almost kind of glad to have Hatred. Almost.
How hilarious was the flashback to Phantom Limb's grandfather? We loved the council men were a bunch of kidnapped musicians including Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper, and Eno. Sure makes David Bowie
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Right Now on TV Squad
14 November 2009 12:03 PM, PST
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Our brothers and sisters over at TV Squad have busted through the boob tube and brought with them the following juicy bits of must-see eye candy.
The creator of BBC's science fiction series Torchwood recently talked to TV Guide about the show's fourth season.
Heroes fans may be interested to know a British show about young people with super powers is premiering on E4. Here's a sneak peek.
Time to decide which is the best TV theme song of all time: Gilligan's Island or Happy Days.
Sesame Street is celebrating its 40th birthday, and here are the five biggest controversies in the show's history.
Marti Noxon, a writer who has worked on Mad Men and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, will be writing the remake of 80s horror flick Fright Night.
...and finally, fans of Mad Men and fans of X-Men can join forces to enjoy this series of mash-ups from Madatoms.
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- Matt Bradshaw
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TV Review: AMC's 'The Prisoner'
14 November 2009 11:51 AM, PST
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Sure. Like many critics and TV aficionados, I'm a "Prisoner" snob. I own Patrick McGoohan's 17-episode classic on video (not all that useful currently) and on DVD (already outmoded, with a spiffy new Blu-Ray set on shelves). In grad school, I wrote at least two lengthy papers that used "The Prisoner" as a primary text, including one comparing the show to "Gilligan's Island" as a study in 1960s displacement narratives as seen through British and American cultural prisms. Let me add that I'm a pretentious "Prisoner" snob. So I know as well as anybody that AMC's six-episode miniseries reinterpretation
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What's the best TV theme of all-time, Happy Days or Gilligan's Island?
12 November 2009 12:04 PM, PST
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I know, I know, you're thinking, those are the only two choices I get, Happy Days and Gilligan's Island? Yes, according to this poll over at AOL Television. For the past several weeks they've pit various TV show theme songs against each other in a tournament, and the two finalists, for some reason, are Happy Days theme and the Gilligan's Island theme.
Now, it seems like these aren't the "best" theme songs, just the ones that readers and TV fans thought were the most iconic, or maybe it's the fact that they both have lyrics and that's what readers were looking for?
Continue reading What's the best TV theme of all-time, Happy Days or Gilligan's Island?
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Top Chef: Natalie Portman Hosts a (Veggie) Dinner Party
29 October 2009 1:18 AM, PDT
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Natalie Portman paid a visit to the seven remaining chefs this week -- and threw them a delightful curve ball. While the contestants were prepared to cook a meat-heavy dinner in Tom Colicchio's Craftsteak restaurant, the actress waltzed in before they started prepping, announced she was a vegetarian and that she expected some upscale, creative fare. Jen C. summed up the group’s sentiment. "I'm thinking, 'Oh s—t," she announced. Cue the panic!
TV Dinners: First, though, the chefs had a Quickfire challenge to contend with -- this one sponsored by TV Guide, which tasked them with re-imagining a TV dinner inspired by a classic show. (Think Gilligan's Island or, a modern classic, like Seinfeld!) Guest judge Paul Bartolotta and Padma took their seats on a sofa and ate from an elegant tray -- none of that plastic-wrapped stuff here, thank you -- before declaring Kevin the winner for his Sopranos-inspired meatball dinner.
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Vic Mizzy: Pay tribute to the man behind the 'Addams Family' snaps
20 October 2009 2:42 PM, PDT
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Thanks in large part to Nick at Nite, practically everyone over 25 can quickly conjure the iconic theme songs for 1960s TV series The Addams Family and Green Acres, and that is the deeply impressive legacy of composer Vic Mizzy, who died of heart failure yesterday at 93. Much like his snazzy, jazzy name, Mizzy established the bright, percussive, lyrically clever, and insanely catchy template for TV theme songs that remains relevant decades later, from The Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island on through to Cheers, Friends, and The Big Bang Theory. Embedded below is the snappy Addams Family theme performed by Mizzy himself,
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Pay tribute to Vic Mizzy: The man behind the 'Addams Family' snaps
20 October 2009 2:42 PM, PDT
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Thanks in large part to Nick at Night, practically everyone over 25 can quickly conjure the iconic theme songs for 1960s TV series The Addams Family and Green Acres, and that is the deeply impressive legacy of composer Vic Mizzy, who died of heart failure yesterday at 93. Much like his snazzy, jazzy name, Mizzy established the bright, percussive, lyrically clever, and insanely catchy template for TV theme songs that remains relevant decades later, from The Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island on through to Cheers, Friends, and The Big Bang Theory. Embedded below is the snappy Addams Family theme performed by Mizzy himself,
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The One-Page Screenplay: Caprice Crane's Cross Road Blues
19 October 2009 4:40 PM, PDT
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Caprice Crane writes lupine one-liners for Heather Locklear on the CW's Melrose Place, but she's also a bestselling author and daughter of Gilligan's Island's immortal Tina Louise. After graduating from Nyu in the '90s and penning a bunch of "comedy, dramedy, news, reviews, biography, rock-star hagiography, promotions, and devotions" for MTV (including the legendary bad video countdown 25 Lame, featuring an incensed Vanilla Ice), Crane began work on the revamped 90210 and her books Stupid & Contagious and Forget About It.
Now, on the heels of her brand new book Family Affair comes Cross Road Blues, a one-page screenplay aimed squarely at the suburbanite who dreams of an easy, murder-tinged path to retirement.
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Weird stuff from the past: Letterman meets The Avengers
12 October 2009 10:27 AM, PDT
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It's always odd when pop culture personalities show up in comic books. It's the print equivalent of the Harlem Globetrotters showing up on Gilligan's Island.
This comic book is from 1984 and features The Avengers meeting...David Letterman! He was on NBC back then doing Late Night and in the comic The Avengers go on the show. For some reason.
[via Pop Candy]
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And now, Mary Ann from Gilligan's Island shows you how to peel a potato
22 September 2009 3:09 PM, PDT
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Hey, it's National Potato Month! If you find yourself making potato-oriented meals and you just hate peeling the spuds, Dawn Wells from Gilligan's Island is here to help. In this video, she shows you how to peel a potato quickly and without jamming a peeler into your thumb. Though I think peeling one would be faster.
[via Boing Boing]
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'We Live in Public': A portrait of an Internet visionary — or was he?
30 August 2009 12:10 PM, PDT
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The Internet is good at many things, but one thing it's great at is selling future visions of itself -- speculation as reality. That's what went on in the dotcom boom, when a thousand what if? on-line gimmicks created a thousand virtual millionaires. And it goes on, too, in We Live in Public, a fascinating documentary that nevertheless partakes of a kind of visionary-hard-sell, cult-of-the-Internet, the-future-is-now cachet. The movie won this year's Sundance Grand Jury prize, but I confess that when I finally caught up with it just the other day, I found it at once resonant and naive -- often at the same time. We Live in Public wants to be a bold statement, but it's as much a hermetic product of its time as the hot-house Internet prognostication it traffics in.
An opening title informs us that "this is the story of the greatest Internet pioneer you've never heard of,
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- Owen Gleiberman
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'We Live in Public': A portrait of an Internet visionary — or was he?
30 August 2009 12:10 PM, PDT
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The Internet is good at many things, but one thing it's great at is selling future visions of itself -- speculation as reality. That's what went on in the dotcom boom, when a thousand what if? on-line gimmicks created a thousand virtual millionaires. And it goes on, too, in We Live in Public, a fascinating documentary that nevertheless partakes of a kind of visionary-hard-sell, cult-of-the-Internet, the-future-is-now cachet. The movie won this year's Sundance Grand Jury prize, but I confess that when I finally caught up with it just the other day, I found it at once resonant and naive -- often at the same time. We Live in Public wants to be a bold statement, but it's as much a hermetic product of its time as the hot-house Internet prognostication it traffics in.
An opening title informs us that "this is the story of the greatest Internet pioneer you've never heard of,
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- Owen Gleiberman
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'We Live In Public': Yesterday's Future Revisited, By Kurt Loder
27 August 2009 10:51 PM, PDT
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Josh Harris: Internet prophet or fascist dream merchant?
Josh Harris living the "Quiet" life in 1999
Photo: Interloper Films
Josh Harris was an emotionally stunted early computer nerd who came to New York City in 1984 with $900 in his pocket. He got into high-tech market research and made a bunch of money. He pioneered chat rooms and then Web TV before it was really feasible (dial-up was a stumbling block). He surfed the big Internet wave, became a name player and by the end of the '90s was worth $80 million. How did he do this? And what ever happened to him?
He did it by inventing the future. Well, by inventing the way people would live in the future. Or so he thought. But would they? Do they?
"We Live in Public," Ondi Timoner's new documentary about Harris, prompts a number of questions — about the future of privacy, the decay of intimacy,
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Gilligan's Island: Watch the One and Only Full Cast Reunion
18 August 2009 3:27 PM, PDT
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As the filming of the third season was winding down, Gilligan's Island creator Sherwood Schwartz was told that by CBS execs that the sitcom had been renewed for a fourth year. This didn't come as much of a surprise since the show was well-rated, despite being aired opposite the popular Monkees series. Though the critics hated Gilligan's Island and the network was embarrassed by it, the public loved it.
According to his book, Schwartz called his cast with the good news and took Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer, Tina Louise, Russell Johnson, and Dawn Wells to lunch to celebrate. With higher salaries in their future, the actors made various plans and Wells and Johnson even purchased houses.
After several weeks, Schwartz thought it was odd that he hadn't received the paperwork from the CBS Business Affairs office. He later
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Gilligan's Island: Watch the One and Only Full Cast Reunion
18 August 2009 3:27 PM, PDT
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As the filming of the third season was winding down, Gilligan's Island creator Sherwood Schwartz was told that by CBS execs that the sitcom had been renewed for a fourth year. This didn't come as much of a surprise since the show was well-rated, despite being aired opposite the popular Monkees series. Though the critics hated Gilligan's Island and the network was embarrassed by it, the public loved it.
According to his book, Schwartz called his cast with the good news and took Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer, Tina Louise, Russell Johnson, and Dawn Wells to lunch to celebrate. With higher salaries to come, the actors made various plans and Wells and Johnson even purchased houses.
After several weeks, Schwartz thought it was odd that he hadn't received the paperwork from the CBS Business Affairs office. He later found out that Gilligan had been removed from
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Gilligan's Island: Take Part in a Special Tribute to Bob Denver, Today!
12 August 2009 6:35 AM, PDT
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There are few faces that are more closely identified with classic television than that of the late Bob Denver. One of his characters is so recognizable that you just have to wear a white hat and a red shirt to be called "Gilligan."
Denver starred in not one but two hit television shows. In The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, he played Maynard G. Krebs, television's first beatnik. Opposite Dwayne Hickman's regular-guy Dobie Gillis, Denver is the ideal comic sidekick.
After four years of that, Denver segued to the starring role in Sherwood Schwartz's Gilligan's Island. Working with Alan Hale Jr. and the rest of the sitcom's cast, Denver displayed his talent for physical comedy and treating absurd situations with honesty.
Gilligan lasted for just three seasons but the show became so popular in syndication that two animated series and
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Gilligan's Island: Take Part in a Special Tribute to Bob Denver, Today!
12 August 2009 6:35 AM, PDT
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There are few faces that are more closely identified with classic television than that of the late Bob Denver. One of his characters is so recognizable that you just have to wear a white hat and a red shirt to be called "Gilligan."
Denver starred in not one but two hit television shows. In The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, he played Maynard G. Krebs, television's first beatnik. Opposite Dwayne Hickman's regular-guy Dobie Gillis, Denver is the ideal comic sidekick.
After four years of that, Denver segued to the starring role in Sherwood Schwartz's Gilligan's Island. Working with Alan Hale Jr. and the rest of the sitcom's cast, Denver displayed his talent for physical comedy and treating absurd situations with honesty.
Gilligan lasted for just three seasons but the show became so popular in syndication that two animated series and three reunion movies followed. Denver and the other
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Video: Michael Jackson's Last Film Role
8 July 2009 6:30 PM, PDT
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Michael Jackson had a 30 second cameo in "Men in Black II" and to expand on that, he appeared in a 2005 movie called "Miss Cast Away," starring Eric Roberts and the guy from "Joe Millionaire." In addition to Jackson, the movie is also the last time we see Bob Denver and Pat Morita. "Miss Cast Away" was released on DVD in 2005 and is directed by longtime Jackson friend Bryan Michael Stoller. It is a spoof that attempts to combine "Cast Away" with "Miss Congeniality," "Planet of the Apes," "Love Boat," "Gilligan's Island," "The Sixth Sense," "Jurassic Park," and more. The trailer for this ridiculous movie is below. And we also included a video of Stoller interviewing Jackson, while he is being interviewed by a giant Ape.
Trailer:
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Behind the Scenes:
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Gilligan's Island: The Movies that You Haven't Seen
6 January 2009 3:16 PM, PST
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Last week, the 'net was abuzz with the news that a new deal was made to finally make a Gilligan's Island movie. It'll be interesting to see what kind of storyline this new film will have and how it'll compare to the original cast movie ideas that never happened.
Gilligan's Island follows a group of wacky castaways that have been shipwrecked on a deserted island. No matter how hard they try, their escape attempts always fail. The cast of the 1960s sitcom is made up of Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer, Tina Louise, Russell Johnson, and Dawn Wells.
In addition to multiple cameos over the years, the sitcom inspired two animated series (The New Adventures of Gilligan, Gilligan's Planet) and three reunion movies (Rescue from Gilligan's Island, The Castaways on Gilligan's Island, and The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island). Louise is the only castmember who distanced
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Gilligan's Island: TV Show Creator wants Michael Cera and Beyonce for New Movie
2 January 2009 5:08 PM, PST
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Yet another classic television show, Gilligan's Island, may be headed for the big-screen. There've been numerous movie plans in the past will this one actually be made?
Gilligan's Island was created by Sherwood Schwartz (The Brady Bunch) and follows a diverse group of people who've been shipwrecked. Though there are only 98 episodes, the sitcom became incredibly popular in syndication and the characters have become a part of popular culture. The original castaways are Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer, Tina Louise, Russell Johnson, and Dawn Wells.
Most of the castaways reunited for different projects over the years, including three TV movies (Rescue from Gilligan's Island, The Castaways on Gilligan's Island, and The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island), two animated series (The New Adventures of Gilligan and Gilligan's Planet), and guest-spots on shows like Alf, Baywatch, and Roseanne.
There's been talk of doing a big screen movie version
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