Following up on my post earlier this week – Conan O’Brien tells NBC to suck it. Now I will admit to loving drama, hating NBC (they cancelled Life!), and never liking Jay Leno; so I love this. NBC is getting exactly what they deserve. You might be seeing the move that turns NBC into a cable network. Conan goes to Fox at 11 PM, cleans Leno’s clock, so now both primetime and late night are a shambles at NBC.
It’s what TV has become , that they couldn’t give Leno or O’Brien time for his show to build – the way Late Night with Conan O’Brien did. If you look at the shows that wouldn’t exist if they couldn’t wait – Seinfeld, The Office, 30 Rock, X-Files, etc. Not every show is Lost or ER – a smash hit out the gate. And for every Lost we have 3 Heroes – a show that looks good early, but can’t keep it up.
It’s been 4 short months since Jay Leno single handedly ruined NBC television. So now he goes and ruins late night once again. The fact that Leno won the battle against Letterman had nothing to do with quality, it was luck and following Johnny Carson. To prove my point, here’s a top 10 list of late night talk show hosts better than Jay Leno.
Jon Stewart
David Letterman
Conan O’Brien
Craig Ferguson
Stephen Colbert
Wanda Sykes
Jimmy Fallon
Jimmy Kimmel
Carson Daly
Mike “The Situation” (from the Jersey Shore)
OK – maybe it’s a stretch on those last two, but honestly I enjoy Jersey Shore more than Leno.
I’d like to give Conan O’Brien a little advice – don’t take the 12:05 spot. Settle with them, take the money, and run to Fox. There you can bring back your old show, and clean his clock.
So CSI Miami has decided to mimic the other CSIs only without the talent or quality. They were tired of people laughing at them (I thought they were laughing with us). So now CSI Miami might as well be NCIS (that’s not a complement). How have they changed?
No more snappy Horatio one liners
No more quick removal of the sunglasses
No more Alex making mental love to her corpses
No more Horatio talking to Eric – because there’s no Eric
They even added more ugly – er – normal looking CSIs. (Of course the guy they replaced Delko with could be a model).
The problem here is that the scripts are still ridiculous and the acting still horrible, but without the pithy humor to distract us from all that. I often said that I liked CSI Miami because I thought the writers and actors were in on the joke. I mean seriously, Elizabeth Berkley? Mala noche justice? Do you think we can respect you after 8 years of that kind of cheese? As Whitney would say – “Hell to the no”.
This is promoted as a “flash” mob – but it’s more like a “meticulously planned and choreographed” mob. Anyway the second night of Bollywood Hero appears on IFC tonight. And yes, it features music by Michael Penn.
At long last here’s some new music from Michael Penn. This is from a soundtrack he did for the upcoming IFC mini-series Bollywood Hero staring Chris Kattan. Track two has a little help from Mrs. Penn: Aimee Mann.
Following up on my post earlier this week – Conan O’Brien tells NBC to suck it. Now I will admit to loving drama, hating NBC (they cancelled Life!), and never liking Jay Leno; so I love this. NBC is getting exactly what they deserve. You might be seeing the move that turns NBC into a cable network. Conan goes to Fox at 11 PM, cleans Leno’s clock, so now both primetime and late night are a shambles at NBC.
