The State of Scary TV
‘The Returned’ and ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ join ‘The Walking Dead’ in offering high-quality horror.
December 21, 2011
Today in Nerd News: OMG!! THE HOBBIT TRAILER IS HERE!!!
Dan Silver: After raking in billions of dollars at the Box Office, and winning numerous Academy Awards, it was only a matter of time before the Hollywood suits came back to search for their “precious.” But as the title states, The Hobbit took “an unexpected journey” — through financial and studio turmoil, rights ownership disputes, […]
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R.I.P.: How to Make it in America
I humbly accept that How To Make It In America was not a particularly good television show, if we’re going by the standards of, say, good television shows. And yet I continued to watch it until the end. That’s not so strange, I guess; that happens all the time. I am one of those people […]
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Chris Paul vs. RuPaul vs. Ron Paul: Your Definitive Guide
An Olympic medalist and NBA superstar. A right-wing ex-gynecologist who wants to legalize heroin. A famous drag queen and reality TV host(…ess?). What do they have in common? They’re all going to be on your TV this spring, and they all have the same name. Thank goodness, Grantland is here to help you tell them […]
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December 20, 2011
Five Possible Saturday Night Live Sketches for Lana Del Rey
Warning: ideas not not-terrible.
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Molly Grades the Charts: The Top Ten of 2011
The keyword for the Billboard chart in 2011 was “ANTHEMS.” Anti-bullying anthems (Selena Gomez, “Who Says”; Katy Perry, “Firework”; Lady Gaga, “Born This Way”), party rock anthems, anthems for regular weekday night non-rock pre-work partying. Tons of pop-rap pap where diet-inspirational verses were soldered awkwardly to soaring adult-contemporary choruses. Videos with cinematic spoken intros (The […]
Read moreViral Video of the Day: Michel Gondry’s Taxi Driver
Michel Gondry — who’s probably relieved that thanks to Green Lantern, his January non-blockbuster The Green Hornet will not go down as 2011’s worst superhero movie with “green” in the title — gets back to his let-us-make-un-film-with-stuff-we-bought-at-Yarn-Barn roots with a three-minute
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I Would Like to Help You Get Your Show Canceled
Only 7.3 percent of all television shows make it to a second season. I actually have no idea if that’s true, because I don’t know anything about successful television shows. The only shows I’ve worked on have been canceled.
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Oscarmetrics: The Case for Brad Pitt, Plus Six Questions That Could Reshape the Race
The next month of the Oscar campaign — from today until January 13, when nomination balloting closes — is in some ways the most interesting phase of the process. There are no more tea leaves to read, no more wild cards, no more embargoes on the expression of opinion, no more “precursor” awards that could […]
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B.S. Report: Andy Greenwald, Alan Sepinwall, Dave Jacoby and Joe House on Homeland and Reality TV
Spoiler alert! With season one of Homeland in the books, I couldn’t resist breaking down the series (and the season finale) with Grantland’s Andy Greenwald, hitfix.com‘s Alan Sepinwall and this week’s special guest co-host, Joe House. (Fine, I guess he’s just a guest co-host — it’s not like he was an especially hard booking.) At […]
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Perfect Stocking Stuffer: The Soulquarian Box Set
Happy Holidays, Grantland. Here is your stocking stuffer for the person who has everything. They won’t have this, ’cause it didn’t exist until now: The Soulquarian Box Set. Put it in your phone. Put it in the cloud. Put it in your hearts and minds. Put it on Facebook. Santa has decided you were extra […]
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Punk’D Returns to Strike Fear In the Hearts of B-List Celebrities Everywhere
And more industry news.
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