The More You Know: Crispy chicken with walnuts edition
Posted by Dan
May 4th, 2007 at 09:37am
In 30 Rock Gilmore Girls Heroes News Studio 60 Survivor The Office
It’s just as delicious as it sounds.
- Alias’ Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Esposito are divorcing after four months.
- Justin Timberlake will have an HBO concert special this summer.
- Entertainment Weekly has five different covers this week, each with a different set of Heroes cast members. The one with Adrian Pasdar makes him look like some sort of demon. Or maybe a Boston terrier. And here’s the story.
- And the first season of Heroes is out on DVD August 28.
- Two things you probably have limited enthusiasm for — the show Weeds and Matthew Modine — are coming together.
- In “fixing things that aren’t broken” news, will The Office expand to be one hour?
- TV Guide brings some insight into the Gilmore Girls’ demise.
- Amanda Peet mourns Studio 60.
- Kathy Griffin took a nosedive… but the important news is that she has a new Bravo special in the works called (wait for it) “Everybody Can Suck It.” How can you not love this woman?
- The same magazine that named “you” as its Person of the Year has named America Ferrera and Tina Fey as one of the 100 most influential people. Draw your own conclusions.
- Everybody actually loves Survivor’s Yau Man.
- Not only is Jay Leno not funny, but Latinos confuse him.
haha, that picture of Kathy Griffin on the ground is crazy! I used to think she was so obnoxious but then I was sick one day and watched TV all day and caught one of her specials and now I don’t understand why everyone doesn’t love her! She’s hysterical.
Amanda Peet mourns Studio 60? If it’s cancelled, she has to receive the bulk of the blame. Her unplanned (I guess) pregnancy really screwed up this entire enterprise. I know this is a politically incorrect point of view, but I would like to know what people think about this. She really hurt all of the people working on this show in particular, and those of us that loved it less personally.
Just imagine what would have happened to Gilmore Girls if Alexis Bledel or (worse) Lauren Graham had decided to procreate during the first season. Well, at least we would have been spared the disappointment of this last season.
Maybe Rory could have set off on her own and gotten a job as a maid at the another Inn in the next county. Or in the second case, the ‘gilmore girls’ could be a trio with an infant Lorelai (the fourth?), nicknamed ‘Loly’ perhaps. Who would the daddy’s be? Max? Dean? Maybe Bradley Whitford could ride in on a white horse and make the surprised Mommy his new project.
Brad Cooper divorcing Jennifer Esposito? Cause he realised he’s gay and running back to me? Hello!
Just because she’s pregnant in real life doesn’t mean she has to be pregnant on the show. Look at Julia Louis-Dreyfuss in Seinfeld. So I can still blame the writers for that one — if they thought her being pregnant was going to change the fundamental direction of the show, they didn’t have to write it that way. Amanda Peet may have bad timing, but I still blame the writers (Writer, really) for everything that went wrong with that show.
Well my dear, I love you dearly, but as I’ve told you I disagree here. Just after screeching out of the gate leaving tire marks on the road, Studio 60 should have been getting traction when this preganancy came up (If you doubt it, rewatch the first half dozen West Wing Episodes - AS had little idea who his characters were until a couple of months had gone by. They even reorchestrated the theme song after the first month!).
So just as they should have been settling in, the whole thing was thrown up in the air. For about a month Ms. Peet carried a raincoat around and then they took a hiatus and finally gave up. Admitting that the skinny girl (who they by this time had garnered the nickname ‘fatty’ on the set) was indeed power-brokering for two.
Seinfeld is different than a dramatic show. Even Gilmore Girls made Sookie pregnant (twice!) and it would have been a lot easier to hide Melissa McCarthy’s pregnancies than it would have been for Amanda Peet!!!
No. To quote Josiah Bartlett: (Amanda) “really rogered” this show, which was starting to fall into an interesting examination of network politics and art (which AS could have really written) and had to fall back to a kind of saccharin love quartet, which had little to do with the subject at hand and which the author surely never anticipated when he started this enterprise.