Fried Gold wrote:Now if only someone would put Hollyoaks out of it's misery.
God only knows what I'll do if I bump into Phil Redman one of these days
Fried Gold wrote:Now if only someone would put Hollyoaks out of it's misery.
colonel_lugz wrote:Fried Gold wrote:Now if only someone would put Hollyoaks out of it's misery.
God only knows what I'll do if I bump into Phil Redman one of these days
colonel_lugz wrote:Fried Gold wrote:Now if only someone would put Hollyoaks out of it's misery.
God only knows what I'll do if I bump into Phil Redman one of these days
silentbobafett wrote:OC SHUT DOWN: THANK FUCK INDEED
LOST and the flashbacks: I get why they're there! I think a 5 year old can work that out! But just cos they are there for that reason doesn't mean it always works and some times you really wonder what the fuck they're on about!
The best thing that can happen to Lost is get cancelled! Either that or they sort themselves out! Because I can't but help feel you are being led up the garden bath.
I'll put my kids college fund on a bet right now: that hints, ideas and storylines set up in the first series or so of Lost will NOT be solved or finalised when it all ends.
The simple reason is that they kept shoving in so many and getting so carried away that there is no way they can solve them all. IF, however, they solved some, gave more clues to a few etc as the went along... then I would trust in the film more
I just don't think the show I loved in the first year (I was looking proud at my model last night while blaring that awesome score out of me stereo) will have anything much to do with the fnal series...in a bad way
Leckomaniac wrote:I just watched the musical episode of SCRUBS and it SUCKED BIG TIME. I was so excited for this particular episode and it was as bland as possible. I mean talk about a let down.
Complete and utter rubbish.
buster00 wrote:Leckomaniac wrote:I just watched the musical episode of SCRUBS and it SUCKED BIG TIME. I was so excited for this particular episode and it was as bland as possible. I mean talk about a let down.
Complete and utter rubbish.
Yeah, it didn't really accomplish anything, did it? It didn't generate laughs; it's as if the producers/cast just did it to try to show off or something. Points for effort, but negative points for execution.
tapehead wrote:Considering the shorter format, and Scrubs' much less emphasized narrative - it's a sitcom that often relies on a series of skits, with little story going on - I thouhgt the musical ep was good. Perhaps not as many laughs, but the songs were fun and the brain tumor patient story line worked nicely. Not on par with 'Once More With Feeling', but it also seemd like it was the actual cast members were singing (something that cant, I think, be said for Buffy) - a nice little musical showcase episode.
tapehead wrote:I see your point, they might indeed be better off leaving this aspect to occasional interludes, like we've had with Teds Barbershop quartet - but I thought their 'duet' with Carla was a standout number, and I guess I just kind of enjoyed it to see such a different ep of the show.
It doesn't come off great in comparison to Buffy, but then, what does
It sure as hell wasn't 'Cop Rock'
Fried Gold wrote:The Scrubs musical - about 60% of it worked for me. The idea of the patient hearing music was good one. I just don't as much of the episode needed to be musical. It would have played nicely next to more of the usual dialogue.
Fried Gold wrote:I'm sure some people would use the musical episode as evidence of the show "jumping the shark".
I don't think so. But, for me, it is the first real blip the show has had. Which is good for a programme in it's sixth year.
Fried Gold wrote:Are you that old, Peven?
Lord Voldemoo wrote:"Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader" is on.
I want to move away...soon.
buster00 wrote: I already have enough contempt for Americans.
Lord Voldemoo wrote:STUPID PEOPLE MAKE FOR GOOD TV!!!!
tangerine wrote:OT: yo CKK, pleasure meeting you, haven't seen you before. one farking freaky av you got going there.
back to topic: my roomie made me watch Australian Princess yesterday. I was- has anyone seen it? what is the deal? haven't we come any further than this? I mean, that ugly butch chick with way too much make-up, what is it she calls herself, 'Expert of Etiquette'..... that woman needs to get laid.
MonkeyM666 wrote:Oh... did that show make it over here...
hell... that flopped big time back home, I'm shocked that it was sent over. Must have been a package deal with Neighbours... (same production company and network I beleive)
MonkeyM666 wrote:I know a guy who wrote for it for a while... an ex-bf of a good mate.
and my dad wrote for it in the 80's, and A Country Practice... he did a few eps of that.
MonkeyM666 wrote: I beleive that one is found on Google Video.
thebostonlocksmith wrote:Has anyone been watching the new series of peep show (series four)??? I can't understand why these guys went and made 'that mitchell and webb look' it is dire by comparison... Peep Show however is brilliant...
Yahoo Article wrote:LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The founder and former president of the Tennis Channel is launching another sports-themed channel, this time focusing on activities that can be done on mountains in summer and winter.
Steve Bellamy's company, Atonal Sports and Entertainment, is set to launch the Ski Channel -- an advertiser-supported network with distribution on video-on-demand (VOD) and multimedia platforms -- as early as first-quarter 2008. Bellamy said the channel has a long-term affiliation agreement with Time Warner Cable but declined to give specific details.
The network will focus on sports including skiing, snowboarding, hiking, biking, camping, climbing, cross-country skiing, rock climbing, backpacking, orienteering, kayaking and caving as well as numerous off-slope activities. The majority of the content is original and will consist of entertainment, reality, news, destination, travel, real estate, equipment, instruction and magazine shows as well as professional mountain sport events.
Bellamy, who calls himself an "avid psycho skier," said he had the idea for the channel more than 10 years ago, before launching the Tennis Channel.
"We are going to be providing content in everything you can do on a mountain, and since that's literally hundreds of activities, it's well-served by VOD since consumers will be able to get specific content (when they want it) and not be encumbered by having to wait through the television wheel of a linear network," said Bellamy, who was president of the Tennis Channel for seven years before leaving in May.
Bellamy added that user-generated content featuring great stunts and big crashes also will be part of the network's programming.
In addition, the Ski Channel has reached charter-advertising agreements with such brands as Panasonic, Mirage Resorts, Marquis Jets and Fender Guitars.
"The Tennis Channel has probably done more for the sport of tennis than anything since Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs (in 1973), and I certainly hope the Ski Channel will do the same for the mountain industry," Bellamy said.
Bellamy is the founder and CEO of Atonal, which owns tennis and golf facilities in and around Los Angeles as well as media businesses including Atonal Films and Television and Palisades Studios.
CNN wrote:'General Lee' auction ends at almost $10M
If bids are real, 1969 Charger owned by actor John Schneider has sold at close to a record for any car.
By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNNMoney.com
POSTED: 4:40 p.m. EDT, May 4, 2007
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- If the bids are real - and the eBayMotors.com auction was stopped once for fake bidding - a modified 1969 Dodge Charger, painted to look like the General Lee from the TV Show "The Dukes of Hazzard," nearly became the most expensive car ever auctioned.
The auction closed at $9,900,500 at 1:00 pm Friday. That puts it just $1.1 million away from the $11 million paid for a 1931 Bugatti Type 41 Royale Sports Coupe sold by the auction house Christie's in 1987. To date, that is the highest price ever paid for a car at auction, according to Christie's.
The car was used in the show, which typically went through several cars per episode during its 6-year production run in the early 1980s. But this one is owned by John Schneider, who played Bo Duke in the series, a role that was only slightly less central than that of the car.
"I'm excited as I can be but I'm not going to believe it until my banker calls and says 'buy me a beer'," said Schneider after the auction ended.
As the auction progressed, eBay officials contacted several of the top bidders and were assured that their bids were genuine and that the bidders could afford the millions they were bidding, said eBay spokeswoman Catherine England.
A winning bid on eBay consititutes a legally binding contract, England said.
After an earlier run-up in the bidding which went as high as $6.7 million, eBay officials disqualified several bids as facetious.
After that, all bidders on the car were required to register before bidding.
The car was also used in the 2000 TV Movie "The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood," a Dukes reunion film. Recently, it had a central role in the movie "Collier & Co., Hot Pursuit," a limited-release film produced by, directed by, distributed by and starring Schneider.
Schneider decided to auction the car in order to finance production of a sequel to that film.
Asked if the price may have gone so high because bidders wanted to help Schneider makes his next film, Scheider replied: "They sure weren't around the first time I was trying to raise money."
Ordinarily, a production-used General Lee would be worth about $150,000 to $200,000, said McKeel Hagerty, president of Hagerty Insurance, a collector car insurance company. About 20 of those are known to exist in reasonably good condition.
The opportunity to buy the car from "Bo Duke" himself would add some value, he said. But not millions of dollars.
"There is no basis in my experience in the collector car world to justify that kind value," Hagerty said of the eBay bids.
At the time Hagerty made that statement, bids for car had reached only $2.7 million.
Schneider owned the car even before its use in "The Dukes of Hazzard." He leased it to Warner Bros. for its original on-screen appearances.
The car has been extensively modified since then.
"I do something nice for the General about once a year," said Schneider.
The car now has a 725 horsepower Hemi motor, Dodge Viper brakes and a roll cage, all of which allow it to race at over 200 miles per hour.
Unlike the those on the TV character General Lee, this car's doors do open. There is a scratch near the driver's side window where Schneider, as Bo Duke, jumped into the car. Schneider left the scratch, figuring it only increases the car's value.
"On a scale of coolness of 1 to 10," said Schneider, "this has got to be a 12."
"The Dukes of Hazzard" centered around Bo Duke and his cousin Luke, played by Tom Wopat, working to undo the evil plans of the powerful and corrupt J.D. "Boss" Hogg, played by the late Sorrell Brooke.
Every episode included at least one spectacular car chase over the dirt roads of the fictional Hazzard County, Georgia.
"It speaks to the passion around the show and how iconic the General Lee is," said Andy Holeman, vice president of consumer marketing for Country Music Television, said of the auction when bids had reached $2.7 million.
CMT airs nightly reruns of the show and sponsors the annual DukesFest in Nashville Tenn., an event that last year attracted 70,000 people and about 150 cars painted to look like the General Lee.
This year about 200 "General Lees" are expected at the June 2-3 event.
"The show, the car, is a phenomenal thing that is embedded in the American consciousness," said Ben Jones, the actor who played the mechanic Cooter Davenport on the show. He also served as a congressman.
In a 2004 survey conducted by Hagerty Insurance the General Lee was named America's most popular TV or movie car. The second most popular was the 1968 Mustang driven by Steve McQueen in the movie "Bullitt."
Bidding on Schneider's General Lee closed at about 1:00 pm eastern time on Friday.
When production on Schneider's planned "Collier & Co." sequel gets rolling, Schneider said, he'll have to start gathering all the pieces.
"My first call has got to be to the people who own the car," he said on Thursday.
He'll need to rent it back from them.
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