An Interesting New Show Premiered Tonight...................

America’s Port provides an unblinking view of this vibrant and colorful nerve center for global trade—the Port of Los Angeles. Get an inside look at this massive complex and the intrepid individuals charged with keeping it running smoothly and securely 365 days a year. It’s a dynamic and dangerous 24/7 operation.
-America's Port Blog


Okay, maybe I am a little biased. I watched this show tonight and it was great. If you have The National Geographic Channel. This show is going to be on regularly on Mondays at 10pm Eastern, 7pm Pacific. Then repeat at 1am ET and 10pm PT.

Why?????????????

"It seems that NBC prez Ben Silverman is still invested in the series that put him in the map: The Peacock net has ordered an Office spinoff, set to premiere this winter in the 9:30 slot after the original series.

Mmmm...no wonder they didn't have room for Scrubs (which, by the way, is entirely MIA from NBC's new schedules for 2008-09). According to the Hollywood Reporter, the series would launch as an episode of the original U.S. Office, and then go out on its own.

We're working on answering these burning questions:

• Would any of The Office writers (Greg Daniels, Mike Schur, Paul Lieberstein) move over to the new series? • Would it be a Dunder-Mifflin branch elsewhere in the Rust Belt or maybe a whole new industry in a whole new place? • Would the new series poach any cast faves from The Office? (Keep your paws off Stanley!) • Who will be our new Pam and Jim? • Any chance this is too much of a good thing, like those hour-long installments of The Office earlier this year? Or is this another great element of Comedy Night Done Right?"

-Yahoo!

Why? This is the problem with TV today. Or more so Entertainment. They have a great Idea Then they decide that they are going to make more of something just to make money. I love "The Office- An American Workplace" just as much as "The Office." But if you take away any part of the ensemble then the rest just fall flat. And if they start a whole new industry or company can we take another Michael Scott or David Brent for that matter? Are we gonna have another Tim/Jim, Dawn/Pam type thing going on? What about Gareth or Dwight? It may be funny but the greed of these people. What ever happened to letting things end while they still have some dignity? I would have suggested that "The Office- AAW." should have ended after the third season. As much as I love it I don't want to get tired of it. They should have done three seasons and then like the original series have a Christmas Special or something to tie up the loose ends. That is why the British have much better television. They don't overkill. People start losing interest after the third season usually. And in some cases the writing loses some of the spark that helped a series become great. I see this happening with The Office. The storylines are starting to become strained. This is also happening in other series currently on. ER- How many times can your Emergency Room explode. Come on already end it, you have no dignity left. 24- I used to love watching 24 but the series is the same thing every season. Then there are shows killed before their time. Arrested Development is one that comes to mind. It had the opportunity to be brilliant for a couple more seasons. Firefly- Who knows how great this show could have been. I am not saying that I won't watch a spin-off of The Office, but I will be very skeptical of it.

Updates..........

Here are some updates on various things:

• Apparently AD Movie is being held up by a single cast member holdout. They won't say who it is, but we do know who it is not so far. Jason Bateman, Jeffrey Tambor, Michael Cera, David Cross. That leaves a lot of people to choose from.
• Also Arrested Development is now on Itunes. All three seasons now on Itunes.
  
• Also AD is on HULU.COM. Just in case you want to watch for free and not support AD.
• I just tried to guilt people into buying AD.
• Apparently The Office will be back on April 10th. Not April 3rd like everyone thought.
• You mean I have to wait another week.
• Yes
• X-Files Movie is tapped to be released in late July. A new one that is. They brought everyone back for a second movie.
• I am going back to The Office. Don't you just feel bad for Toby sometimes.
• I was just thinking. The last thing we saw from The Office was Dwight and Mose playing table tennis.
• David Wallace hates his HR guy too.
• Oh I think everybody needs to check out the show Airline. It is on the Bio channel everyday at 1pm pacific or 4pm eastern. They follow around Southwest Airlines and all the knucklehead passengers.
• Andy it is KIT-KAT BAR!
• 
  
• I just put a blank line in and then told you about it.
• Oh I was noticing last night that Conan has been on The Tonight Show a lot since the beginning of the year. Maybe they are trying to familiarize him with their audience.
• While watching I saw a commercial for Tito's Taco's. I have been kinda craving that for a couple days so that did not help me at all.
  
• I am supposed to post something for small group thing Tuesday but haven't got the info yet.
• I wish that MLB would get a channel like the NFL and NHL have. Cause then I wouldn't have to watch the Eastern Sports Propaganda Network. Except for the sporting Events.
• The Angels open up on Monday in Minnesota.
• Dodgers open up on......... I don't really care
• I have a fourth ticket to the Ducks game on April 6th. If anyone wants it I'll sell it to you for what I bought it $20.00.

Greatness...............

Here is a little bit of the genius of Monty Python.

Here Is A Cool New Site..........

It is called hulu.com it is a site that opened today. You can sign up for free and it is an on demand video site. They have tv shows and movies that you can watch for free. I was just watching tv and saw people talking about it so I signed up and it looks like it is gonna be a site that I visit alot.

It isn't that I don't have anything to say but...........

I keep finding stuff that I think is funny. Last night I was watching the WEST WING. It was the episode HAPPY BIRTHDAY ABBY. There is a huge birthday party for The first Lady. The secret service wouldn't let Donna in. Later Josh finds out why and tells her. Then ABBY, CJ, Donna, and Amy go to get drunk. Donna mentions that they changed the border and the town she was born in was now in Canada. Later back at the party Abby says she has a surprise later for Donna. This is the surprise. I fell off the couch when the President came in.

this is great videoness......................

Part 1: A Daily Show (sorry the embedding wouldn't work so I linked it below.?

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=155946&title=late-night-tangle

Part 2: The Colbert Report (again with the embedding)
http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/index.jhtml?ml_video=149103


Part 3: Late Night With Conan O'Brien

What to do...............

Well with the Writers Strike going on I have been forced to try new things. So here is a list of the television series I have checked out to see if any are worth watching. I am just going to list them as I think of them so there really is no order of favorite to least favorite.

1. "Firefly". SCIFI/WESTERN. Great show with great writing. If there ever was a show that was cut short this is it. Lasted 14 episodes and of those only 11 were aired. I would highly recommend to anyone who likes to watch tv.

2. "The West Wing". DRAMA. Well after watching Studio 60 last year and liking it. I decided to check out Sorkin's earlier work. It is a great show I watched the first two seasons in almost one sitting. I am excited to watch this show every time I get a chance. Also recommended to all television fans.

3. "Six Feet Under". DRAMEDY? Well this show is a really dark show. But it is written extremely well. But I can only take so much of it at a time. So I would recommend to check out but this show is not for everyone.

4. "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" SCIFI. I liked Firefly so much that I wanted to check out Joss Whedon's earlier work.(Created FIREFLY). But this was just hard to take the acting was horrendous. It was so bad I couldn't make it out of the pilot episode. I couldn't tell about the writing but I will give Whedon the benefit of the doubt. I would not recommend.

5. "LOST". DRAMA? I watched the pilot of this show and just loved it. The story telling in it was just fascinating. I am waiting for it to come up on my netflix so I can watch more of it. I would definitely recommend the Pilot at least cause I have not seen anymore of it.

6. "Dexter". CRIME DRAMA? Well you see Dexter is a serial killer. But he is also a crime scene investigator. This show is well written and as I have only seen the pilot I would definitely check it out again. Also CBS is going to start airing the early seasons in Mid February. Recommend unless you are queasy because while they don't show all of the killing there is quite a bit of blood.

Well that is all I can think of at the moment. If I think of any later I might just add them. For now this list is complete.

The Colbert Report.......

Last night on The Colbert Report.

Stephen Colbert is a great entertainer, but the reason he has resonated so strongly with audiences particularly during this administration is because he has a core of earnestness that deeply reflects a strong moral sense and a desire to educate, illuminate, and do good works. If you think I'm being overblown, all you need to do is watch last night's episode of The Colbert Report, which was uniquely inspiring, edifying and touching — all while still managing to be completely hilarious.

It was an amazing television moment. After paying his respects to Monday's debate and busting out a pretty darn good Tom Cruise imitation, Colbert made a segue which, in retrospect, was brilliant: Moving from Clinton and Obama's bickering over who loved Reagan more to the evidence provided by Tom Brokaw's book, Boom! Voices of the Sixties, which, in addition to quoting Hillary Clinton discussing how Ronald Reagan finessed the balance of his role "beautifully" on page 404, contains an early segment devoted to the Reverend Andrew Young, the "last surviving member of Martin Luther King's inner circle at the Southern Christian Leadership Council," and lifelong, steadfast civil rights activist. Colbert got to that — eventually — after first introducing a documentary-style segment (in the style of Brokaw's "1968" documentary, complete with soundtrack) about the Charleston Hospital workers union strike of 1969, which was settled by the young, er, Young, who negotiated with a vice president of the associated Medical University of South Carolina — "the only administrator willing to meet with Young was the newly-appointed vice-president of the medical college, who had taken up the position just days before the strike was called." The two worked behind the scenes to finally end the strike — and on the hundredth day, they came to an agreement, awarding raises to the striking workers.

That administrator? James Colbert — Stephen's father.

Colbert doesn't say so in the episode, but his personal history is a matter of public record, and the story of his father is a sad one: In 1974, when Colbert was ten years old, his father and two of his brothers were killed in a plane crash. As if this wasn't moving enough, Colbert then brings out (or, runs triumphantly over to, as is his wont) Andrew Young himself, his guest on the program. It is pretty poignant even if you don't know the full story, hearing Young explain to Stephen how he worked with his father. More than that, Young tells Stephen — pretty seriously, it seems — that he is his "destiny" and that Stephen has the power to end the writer's strike. In a clip that the WGA should blast to every studio, network and media organization across the country (which we have below, of course), Young said the current striking writers weren't a whole lot different than the striking hospital workers in 1969, fighting to be paid the same wages as their white counterparts — in both cases, said Young, it was about a small amount, fair money for fair work, but more than that it was about respect. He called on Stephen to start the behind-the-scenes work to start settling the strike...just like his father. Even though Colbert is as jovial and joke-cracking as ever during this, it is hard not to respond to all of this — the historical and personal context, the moment of the meeting between Young and Colbert, the fact that Stephen was actually getting a mission from this giant of the civil rights movement and American history. Who turns down Obi Won Kenobe? Probably not Colbert, who has always had a thing for fantasy. Liken Young to Gandalf and it's pretty much a done deal.

You'd think that would be enough for one episode, right? Well, it wouldn't be Colbert if there wasn't a rousing musical finish (think: Guitarmageddon, writing the songs that make the whole world sing with Barry Manilow). This was accomplished with a rousing rendition of...well, watch it yourself. But it's amazing: Stephen, Andrew Young, Malcolm Gladwell, the Harlem Gospel Choir ...and Colbert's writers, who presumably had nothing to do with the creation of that episode. Which people like Jeff Zucker are probably pointing to as evidence that we don't really need writers, which of course makes perfect sense: All they need to do is find TV hosts with the wit and talent and heart of Colbert who happened to have had fathers who negotiated the end to a history-making strike with a giant of the civil rights movement. I know. Hollywood boulevard is crammed with 'em.

Sorry, Malcolm Gladwell, for mentioning you so late — I totally agree with you about that potato-knife thing. Nice haircut!

Watch all three segments below. If you can only watch one, watch the middle one — Andrew Young, who is amazing. The whole thing is amazing, actually.

http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/player.jhtml?ml_video=148029&is_large=true

http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/player.jhtml?ml_video=148028&is_large=true

http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/player.jhtml?ml_video=148027&is_large=true

Could it finally be happening..............

I hope So!!!!!

Another reason to hate FOX............

Ok so last week I decided that I was gonna watch "Firefly". Brent used to tell me how good it was and that I should watch it. I never really got around to it. This television season There is a new show that I can't miss. Chuck. In it is an actor Adam Baldwin. He is a great part of the show because he is always doing or saying something funny. Not knowing who he was but recognizing his face I had to look up what he has been in. He was in Firefly and the movie Serenity(based off firefly). So I decided to Netflix it. About a half hour into the pilot I was hooked. Now I have completed watching the first seven episodes and I can't wait until the next disc come from netflix. Then as I was reading up about it I realize that the show was canceled after 12 episodes. But 14 were produced so there are 14 to watch. And this show has gained huge numbers of fans since it was canceled. I was devastated because I love this show. They made the movie because of the support they got from the fans. I already hate FOX because the canceled my favorite show all time "ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT". Both of these shows were screwed by FOX. Because I didn't know about AD until it was in it's third season. And Firefly until Brent told me about it. It seems that Firefly had it worse though because FOX decided to not advertise the show and then show the episodes out of order so everybody was confused and wouldn't watch.
So today I was searching around for firefly stuff and I found a survey to see which character your personality is most like. So I took it and the results below. Also is a link below if anybody wants to know who their character is.

Your results:
You are Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic)

Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic) 80% Derrial Book (Shepherd) 70% Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command) 60% Jayne Cobb (Mercenary) 55% Dr. Simon Tam (Ship Medic) 45% Malcolm Reynolds (Captain) 40% Wash (Ship Pilot) 40% Inara Serra (Companion) 40% Alliance 35% River (Stowaway) 20% A Reaver (Cannibal) 10%

You are good at fixing things. You are usually cheerful. You appreciate being treated with delicacy and specialness.

Click here to take the "Which Serenity character are you?" quiz...

You may have seen it on tv...........

Here on the west coast the ILWU launched it first commercial. Well recently they released a holiday version. here it is.

So today while I was sitting here youtubing it..................

all day. Well most of the day. I also watched the USC destruction of Notre Dame. Back to the subject of the post. There is a scene from the show SCRUBS that I just can't get out of my head. It is a scene that shows the greatness and randomness of the show. It features Carla asking Turk if their son wanted to take dance while his friends play football. Turk then proceeds to start singing "Safety Dance". The song is from the early eighties by the band MEN WITHOUT HATS. It is the only song of theirs to catch hold here in the states. Also I found that the episode "My Bright Idea" features the song "All of the Words" by Kutless. (which happens to be one of my favorite bands). The scene is where Carla finds out that she is pregnant. To me I don't really get how the song fits in this scene, but who cares kutless made into primetime television. It rocks.

Here is the scene with Turk doing his thing......

Also after you watch the real song shows up as the second little box below.


And here is the scene featuring Kutless..........

So i go today

to the website imdb.com and i see a headline that reads "Michael Cera fired from 'Knocked Up'". If you don't know who Michael Cera is he played George Michael on FOX's brilliant comedy "Arrested Development". Here is the link to watch it is greatly funny. http://www.filmthreat.com/index.php?section=features&Id=1960.
Also below are two videos of Cera doing his thing.





Oh how i miss the days of Arrested Development

You got to know when to... WIIIIIIIILLLLLLLMMMMMMMAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

i know i have not posted in a couple weeks. but i am here now. so how 'bout the office this week. i loved the randomness of the whole group singing "the Gambler" and then the flinstones song at the end. ryan(the temp) was really getting into it. also watching heroes this week. that show rocks. i hate having to wait a whole week in between episode and next week is the season finale so it will be months until a new episode.
Maybe i am weird but i really like the character of SYLAR. he has a dry, dark humor about his character.