What? Alien 4 was almost as bad as X Men 3. I read the novelizations a few years ago and Alien 4 was a pretty descent book so I thought I misremembered how horrible the movie was so I went out and rented it. It was worse than I remembered. What a waste of the talented Sigourney Weaver.
Also, no Fringe this week?
Thursday nights on FOX have been preempted until November. So no Fringe and no Bones.
Turner Classic Movies has been showing some cool old horror movies as well. Last week they showed "Videodrome" - uncut and uncensored. So, watch TMC as well if you want to catch some interesting old horror movies.
Why is Cabin Fever smug and hateful?
Clone Wars is getting better this season.
I've given up on Dollhouse, sorry.
Having been the person who watched that football game up till the time it bumped 60 minutes I have to say I LOVE me some football. Number one sports in American, Football is King. Long live the King!
Doesn't the Winter Games start next month? If that's the case I think new episodes of shows are not going to be around that long. They'll hold off on a lot of those until next year so they don't lose the ratings. Fringe will have to do this because they've already lost so much moving it to Thursday. They go up against the Olympics they are going to hurt themselves even more.
Karas that will NEVER happen. Because back a few years ago a network cut a game that was running long and had a very lopsided score (something like 20-3) only to have the team that was behind go on a scoring streak in the last five minutes of the game and win. Since the network cut away, noboby got to see one the greatest comebacks in sports history. After the outcry from sports fans everywhere no network has ever dared to cut away from any sports broadcast regardless of how lopsided.
As for counter-programming against the Olympics. Ratings for the Olympics (especially the winter Olympics) have been slipping for years now. At some point a savvy network executive (there has to be at least one such creature out there) will realize there is an audience out there to grab and end the policy and giving the Olympics a wid berth.
Thorin, you're refering to the infamous Heidi Game. In 1968, the Jets were playing the Raiders. The Raiders were down 32-29 with 65 seconds left in the game and NBC went to commerical and never came back to the game instead they flipped the switch to the made for tv movie Heidi. Little did NBC know, but the Raiders would go on to score 14 more points in a little over 30 seconds and win the game 43-32.
Hobbs, I blame you! ;-)
Well, as someone who would rather be watching 60 Minutes, or, for that matter, Heidi, I have to protest. I think an hour and a quarter is a record but the football routinely goes over by 45 minutes. Why don't they program a rerun or something after the football so if the football goes over they can cut the rerun and the rest of the evening's programming isn't shoved back and nobody misses anything improtant?
Well, I know why. They don't want the football audience turning away from a rerun and watching some other channel. But I really don't care about the football. IMHO, football is a big waste of time. I wouldn't care if they showed football and let those who like it watch, except when it inconvieniences me. If a movie I want to watch runs over the alloted time, they cut the movie to make it fit, even if it means sacrificing important or entertaining scenes. Why are sports so special?
Instead of showing it live, they should prerecord the football, then they could cut out the time outs and the time wasted between plays and just show the parts where actual play is going on. Then they could cut out the boring parts if it goes long or put in commentary padding if, for some unimiganiable reason it runs short. And it would fit in it's assigned running time.
They prerecord the Olympics. They prerecord most sports except football and baseball.
I think I'll go watch my DVD of Sum Of All Fears again and watch them nuke the football stadium. Maybe several times.
Kara S
They don't prerecord basketball or boxing unless the fight was in Europe. Also, I'm pretty sure if they cut out all the time wasted in football games they wouldn't be able to advertise.
The answer to your question of "Why are sports so special" is probably because they can't show a rerun of the game unlike the movie or whatever is that gets cutoff probably ends up being shown again at a later time or with an eventual dvd release.
Anyway, Nip/Tuck is back!! Just wanted to get that out there.
Also, I finally got around to watching Firefly and Serenity. I'm not a Whedon fan but I really liked the series, sad I didn't catch it when it first aired.
Karas! LoL. Don't worry, somewhere in an alternate universe, sports are the mainstay of television, but all games are routinely interrupted because scripted programming runs over its time limit. "Family Guy ran late again! I missed the first part of the game! Can't they just remove the cutaway jokes so the show is shorter?"
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Actually, I liked Alein 4. Wynonna Ryder made a good android and the Ripley hybrid clone idea was cool. Wonder whatever happened to the clone...
Have I mentioned lately how much I HATE FOOTBALL!!!!! Or rather, how much I hate sporting events which are scheduled to end at 07:00 but go into overtime untill 08:15. If 60 minutes is scheduled to start at 07:00 then it should start at 07:00. If the football game isn't over yet, too damn bad.
Kara S