For seven long years, NBC's "The Office" has been a cornerstone of primetime comedy. With a phenomenal cast of characters and brilliantly written episodes, the series never failed to entertain.
In purely quantitative terms, cable programming dominates broadcast TV. The amount of airtime occupied by cable-exclusive shows towers over primary network programming from CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX and PBS and overshadows their combined production almost 100-fold.
Courtesy of Daemonstv.com Comedians are good at so many things being funny at parties, being funny in movies, being funny in casual conversation but who would have ever imagined that an award show hosted by and for comedians could have turned out funny as well?
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As Dartmouth enters the Spring midterm season, students begin scouring the web for the best procrastination aids available.
There is no better way to get laughs online than by simultaneously parodying both contemporary rap music and classic science fiction.
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Courtesy of TVGuide.com The usual axioms about the quality of direct-to-DVD movies do not hold true for "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: A Very Sunny Christmas" (2009), a special, double-length episode of the FX comedy packaged as a standalone DVD. "It's Always Sunny" follows the ridiculous antics of five raunchy Philadelphians called "the gang." The group includes four twenty-somethings, along with Danny DeVito as the father to two of the half-wits. The show is vulgar, tactless and utterly hysterical.
This past Sunday, AMC premiered a six-part miniseries, "The Prisoner," a remake of a 1960s series of the same name. The original was a historical landmark in science fiction television perhaps best known among members of our generation for its repeated parodying on shows like "The Simpsons." Remaking the cult show makes sense in today's faddish climate of sci-fi reboots, but over the past years, such reimaginings have bombed spectacularly (see: "Knight Rider" (2008), "Bionic Woman" (2007)). ABC's "V," which premiered this month, has thus far been the lone exception. Unfortunately, the ill-advised "Prisoner" belongs in the former camp. The pilot episode aptly named "Arrival" opens with Michael (Jim Caviezel of "Passion of the Christ") lost and disoriented in a barren desert. With only scarce memories of his previous life, Michael is taken to the Village, a totalitarian seaside town masquerading as a utopian society. Caviezel is identified only as Number Six.
Courtesy of examiner.com Over the past decade, science-fiction programming has declined rapidly in quality. Sure, there is an entire cable network dedicated to the genre (SyFy, formerly the Sci Fi Channel), but unless you feel like paying for cable programming, network TV has very little to offer. Recent science-fiction series on the networks have all been disappointments, and many have seen quick cancellation: Shows including ABC's "Invasion" (2005), CBS's "Threshold" (2005) and NBC's "Bionic Woman" (2007), for example, all come to mind. The few relative hits in the sci-fi genre, NBC's "Heroes" and "The Sarah Connor Chronicles," meanwhile, are pretty much circling the drain. When the track record is this poor, fans have a legitimate reason to be skeptical whenever the networks market a new project as the next sci-fi hit. Based on the pilot of ABC's much-anticipated action-drama "V," however, sci-fi fans may have reason to celebrate. "V" is already critically acclaimed, and appears to be a ratings hit: The series premiere, which aired last Tuesday at 8 p.m., garnered 13.9 million viewers, ranking first in its time slot and first for all new series premieres this season. A reimagining of a 1984 miniseries, "V," which recounts the story of technologically advanced aliens invading Earth, provides an imaginative spin on the cliche of the alien invasion. The series does recall some previous incarnations of this theme: The show's pilot features a scene eerily reminiscent of "Independence Day" (1996), in which the visiting mothership fleet appears in over 29 major cities around the globe.