allisnow: (tv // trek // surrounded by morons)
Two headlines on SCI FI WIRE that made me laugh/want to poke my eyes out.

Number one:

Wizard's First Rule, a fantasy TV series based on Terry Goodkind's book series, debuts in syndication on the Nov. 1 weekend, Disney-ABC Domestic Television and ABC Studios announced...

Wizard's First Rule follows the travels of woodsman Richard Cypher (Craig Horner), who discovers his own magical powers. With the help of a mysterious woman, Kahlan (Bridget Regan), and a wise old wizard named Zedd, Richard must stop a ruthless tyrant from unleashing an ancient evil and enslaving the world.


A TV series of Wizard's First Rule? Are you kidding me? That book was so unspeakably horrible that just the title gives me the creeps. I mean I'm going to have to watch the first episode just so I can laugh myself sick, but... *shudders*

Bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad BAD.

Number two:

SCI FI's original series Tin Man also received eight nominations in technical categories, including outstanding single-camera picture editing for a miniseries or a movie; outstanding art direction for a miniseries or a movie; outstanding special visual effects for a miniseries, movie or a special; outstanding costumes for a miniseries, movie or a special; outstanding hairstyling for a miniseries or a movie; outstanding makeup for a miniseries or a movie (non-prosthetic); outstanding sound editing for a miniseries, movie or a special; and outstanding sound mixing for a miniseries or a movie. Tin Man is now SCI FI’s most nominated original program for a single year.


Tin Man? Seriously? I understand some people enjoy... um... that kind of thing, but I thought it was pretty lame. At least it didn't get any writing/directing awards, but still... Nine noms? Seriously?
allisnow: (etc // roe v wade)
But, I'm bored.

1. Bold the shows you've watched every episode of
2. Italic the shows you've seen at least one episode of
3. Post your answers


50. Quantum Leap
49. Prison Break
48. Veronica Mars
47. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
46. Sex & The City

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Prison Break, Veronica Mars and CSI some of the best shows -- ever?

Ahh, this list is from some British magazine. That explains a good portion of its lameness.

Exit question: which TV shows should have been on this pathetic excuse for a list?
allisnow: (tv // dr quinn // sully)
I've finally gotten to watching to my S1 DVDs of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.

*makes inarticulate sounds of love for Sully*

o_0

Apr. 19th, 2008 05:58 pm
allisnow: (movie // robin hood // fangirling)
President Bush to make appearance on Deal Or No Deal

President George W. Bush will make a surprise appearance on the NBC game show Deal Or No Deal to thank an Iraqi war veteran contestant for his service to his country. The episode will be airing this coming Monday...

The President's segment was pre-taped at the White House. The contestant, Captain Joseph Kobes, was on the program to try and win enough money to pay off his parents' home. He is a Purple Heart and Bronze Start recipient who completed three tours of duty in Iraq.

Whatever your opinions on the whole political situation, you have to admit that three tours of duty is pretty impressive. The good Captain does deserve a personal thanks from his country and getting one from his President is a nice touch.
allisnow: (etc // evil genius)
Last seen with [livejournal.com profile] greenconverses: Find the opening sequence for one of your favorite old TV shows and post it to your LJ. Bonus points for datedness or obscurity. Play as many times as you like.

The quality of the video here is awful, but as I thought this was the coolest show ever:



Alex was hot.

Holy crap is this the first episode???

LOL at the million year old computer.

Number two... and you know, I can't remember exactly why they were trying to find her.



I guess it's just that she was a brazen bitch in a red trenchcoat who went around stealing stuff.

I have to admit, the special effects and the set-up for the plot were pretty ahead of their time.

And just to really embarrass myself:



Tommy/Kim was hot. yall. Well, mostly it was Tommy who was hot. (Also, Billy = Daniel, right?)
allisnow: (tv // family guy // evil monkey)
I uploaded my favorite part of last week's "Family Guy" episode, because my dad hates FG and he still continued to crack up at this scene and imitate the voice.

perspective

Nov. 1st, 2007 09:04 pm
allisnow: (movie // music // batshit about curtains)
I'm at 1,129 words. Now I only have to do that like 50 more times!

*keeps going, cause goal is 2000*

Also, Survivor: bwahaha, take that bitch.
allisnow: (movie // robin hood // pissed)
SciFi's "lets run Flash Gordon 5 minutes long" scheme is really starting to piss me off. If I wanted to watch crap, I would tune in at 8pm.

#249,066,419 that the SciFi channel blows.
allisnow: (etc // giants // duck snort)
So steroids are back in the news because Marion Jones has admitted to using them during the Olympics. And I swear, every other name out of the news anchor's mouth is 'Barry Bonds'.

Now I understand that Barry is not a media darling and there's a lot of people out there who for whatever reason don't like him. I think after fifteen years those of us who are SF Giants fans got to see a different side of him, just day to day, the way he bonded with his teammates and supported him team and interacted with his family.

As far as the steroid crap goes, well, we do have something called 'innocent until proven guilty' -- Barry has never failed a drug test and never been indicted. If you want to talk about baseball players who have admitted to taking steroids, there's Jason Giambi and Jose Canseco.

Anyway, this most recently came up on Neil Cavuto's show, so I emailed a very trucated version of the above to him... maybe I'll get on tv!
allisnow: (etc // evil genius)
So I've been watching this reality show on WE called "American Princess". The premise is that the show picks a bunch of unclassy American gals and sends them over to Britain to compete over a 'actual title'. The girls are catty and bitchy or else fairly socially clueless, and the competitions are... well, sometimes they're things that make sense, like acting appropriately in certain situations. Sometimes the challenges make less sense because they're things like how to put on a tea party, which, c'mon, a princess is gonna have someone to make tea for her. ;)

The judges are an etiquette coach and a former butler of Princess Di's, and they spend a lot of time standing around laughing because the girls don't know how to make tea or create a centerpiece or play cricket. Sometimes they have a point because a lot of the times they give the girls the information and they're just not listening because they're bimbos. But sometimes, well, I want to smack these snotty Brits* around and find out how well they'd do playing a baseball game without any knowledge of the game, or barbecue a hamburger, or, well, any of the stuff they're expected to do on shows like The Apprentice.

One of the gals who made it through tonight was criticized by the judges for being a "tomboy" and not having enough "sex appeal". Kind of sad that that's a requirement. I bet you could go back through history and find plenty of unattractive princesses.

* I'm not saying all Brits are snotty, but the ones on this show certainly can be.

And here's a question -- if this is for the American princess, why do they have to know how to do all this Brit stuff?

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