Join Alaisdair & Todd as they discuss the heartbreaking cancellations that happened last week across all the networks. You can listen below or subscribe to us on SoundCloud!
Showing posts with label abc. Show all posts
Showing posts with label abc. Show all posts
0
TV Podcast #4 Cancellations
Labels:
abc,
cancellations,
cbs,
fox,
nbc,
podcast,
soundcloud,
tvcast
0
Sarah Chalke is one of comedies greatest actresses, more famous for her role as Dr Elliot Reed in the 9 seasons of Scrubs, after a few appearances in Cougar Town Chalke is back in the lead role as a divorcee who has moved home after her marriage has ended. With her young daughter in tow, they move back to her crazy parents house Elaine (Elizabeth Perkins) and Max (Brad Garrett) who play a crazy, cooky elderly parents who have no boundaries or censor.
The pilot episode basically sets the scene as to what is happening with the show and the history of these crazy characters. All of which are intriguing with their own quirks and style of humour that just makes this show work. A lot of comedies have fallen flat this season and this is the start of the summer series with shows that the networks are unsure about. If this is anything to go by, hopefully the show will grow and become a winner.
Chalke shines as the lead in this show and really commands the screen and identifies herself as a completely different character from Dr Reed. Perkins and Garrett are the perfect parents, their dysfunction is so in sync and the two are hilarious to watch.
If you are looking for a great comedy show to start watching this summer definitely check out How To Live With Your Parents.
Review by Alaisdair "Arrow" Dewar
REVIEW How To Live With Your Parents S01E01
Labels:
2013,
abc,
how to live with your parents,
scrubs,
summer shows
Sarah Chalke is one of comedies greatest actresses, more famous for her role as Dr Elliot Reed in the 9 seasons of Scrubs, after a few appearances in Cougar Town Chalke is back in the lead role as a divorcee who has moved home after her marriage has ended. With her young daughter in tow, they move back to her crazy parents house Elaine (Elizabeth Perkins) and Max (Brad Garrett) who play a crazy, cooky elderly parents who have no boundaries or censor.
The pilot episode basically sets the scene as to what is happening with the show and the history of these crazy characters. All of which are intriguing with their own quirks and style of humour that just makes this show work. A lot of comedies have fallen flat this season and this is the start of the summer series with shows that the networks are unsure about. If this is anything to go by, hopefully the show will grow and become a winner.
Chalke shines as the lead in this show and really commands the screen and identifies herself as a completely different character from Dr Reed. Perkins and Garrett are the perfect parents, their dysfunction is so in sync and the two are hilarious to watch.
If you are looking for a great comedy show to start watching this summer definitely check out How To Live With Your Parents.
Review by Alaisdair "Arrow" Dewar
0
Cooking shows and talent shows are plaguing our television screens at the moment, with so many it can seem hard to keep up with the "in" show of the moment. ABC have created their own show called The Taste and combines the culinary skills of Masterchef with the talent credibility of The Voice, how does this work? Each contestant cooks a dish and it is served on a spoon to the four judges who cannot see who cooked the food. Each judge says yes or no based on the taste and then they get to meet the person that made it.
The four judges are Anthony Bourdain who is like the Simon Cowell of this group, he seemingly feels like a no holds barred judge who tell it like it is. Brian Malarkey who is the two sentence nice guy who doesn't say a whole lot, Ludo Lefebvre an extremely sexy French chef who has a strong palette and knowledge of food and finally the sexy and charismatic Nigella Lawson, domestic goddess who has crossed the border and also serves as an executive producer on the show.
The first episode is a 2 hour spectacular and they have done a great job of introducing the concept of how the show works and it definitely chooses substance over style. What I loved was a lot of wanky professional wannabe chefs that you get on these kind of shows are shown the door as they over complicate food and people who know how to make something taste good prosper. My favourite contestant was definitely Lauren, a young girl who made an alluring flourless chocolate cake with pistachio crumble.
The judges really work well together, and each brings a different view to the table and this keeps things interesting. Each judge gets to choose 4 chefs to cook with and one by one each week they will do the blind taste test and the judges could even send their own chefs home.
This is a fantastic idea for a show and it has been executed seamlessly. If you are a reality show junkie you will love this new addition, if you just like cooking you will also get something out of this as it presents itself without any pretention and shows the kind of chefs you want to see on television.
The Taste is showing Tuesday nights at 8/7C
REVIEW - The Taste S01E01
Labels:
2012-2013 season,
abc,
review,
the taste,
the voice
Cooking shows and talent shows are plaguing our television screens at the moment, with so many it can seem hard to keep up with the "in" show of the moment. ABC have created their own show called The Taste and combines the culinary skills of Masterchef with the talent credibility of The Voice, how does this work? Each contestant cooks a dish and it is served on a spoon to the four judges who cannot see who cooked the food. Each judge says yes or no based on the taste and then they get to meet the person that made it.
The four judges are Anthony Bourdain who is like the Simon Cowell of this group, he seemingly feels like a no holds barred judge who tell it like it is. Brian Malarkey who is the two sentence nice guy who doesn't say a whole lot, Ludo Lefebvre an extremely sexy French chef who has a strong palette and knowledge of food and finally the sexy and charismatic Nigella Lawson, domestic goddess who has crossed the border and also serves as an executive producer on the show.
The first episode is a 2 hour spectacular and they have done a great job of introducing the concept of how the show works and it definitely chooses substance over style. What I loved was a lot of wanky professional wannabe chefs that you get on these kind of shows are shown the door as they over complicate food and people who know how to make something taste good prosper. My favourite contestant was definitely Lauren, a young girl who made an alluring flourless chocolate cake with pistachio crumble.
The judges really work well together, and each brings a different view to the table and this keeps things interesting. Each judge gets to choose 4 chefs to cook with and one by one each week they will do the blind taste test and the judges could even send their own chefs home.
This is a fantastic idea for a show and it has been executed seamlessly. If you are a reality show junkie you will love this new addition, if you just like cooking you will also get something out of this as it presents itself without any pretention and shows the kind of chefs you want to see on television.
The Taste is showing Tuesday nights at 8/7C
0
It is that time again, the cancellation canteloupe has decided it is time for the bitch in Apartment 23 to depart from ABC's schedule. Let's look the history of the television comedy series which is only in its second season.
The series follows June, as she moves to New York City to pursue her dream job, until she finds out that it no longer exists and she ends up moving in with a con-artist party-girl named Chloe. The two don't get along at first; however, when Chloe's attempts at scamming June backfire, they end up forming an unlikely friendship.
The show debuted on April 11, 2012 as a mid-season replacement during the 2011-12 season. On May 11, 2012, ABC renewed the show for a second season.
Starring Dreama Walker, Kristen Ritter and James Van Der Beek who infamously played himself, the show's first season was a hilarious, laugh-filled romp through New York City with some truly out of this world characters.
When Season 2 debuted it felt like some of the bitchiness and shock value had left the series and all that remained was a pale shadow of the debut season. Viewers plummeted from 6.5 million to a mere 4 and has struggled to keep the same numbers since.
ABC have now pulled the show from the schedule indefinitely and replaced it with a double episode of Happy Endings.
What is the future of Don't Trust The B In Apartment 23...we will update you when we know more!
Cancellation Canteloupe strikes again!
Labels:
2012,
abc,
cancellation canteloupe,
dont trust the bitch in apartment 23,
james van der beek
The series follows June, as she moves to New York City to pursue her dream job, until she finds out that it no longer exists and she ends up moving in with a con-artist party-girl named Chloe. The two don't get along at first; however, when Chloe's attempts at scamming June backfire, they end up forming an unlikely friendship.
The show debuted on April 11, 2012 as a mid-season replacement during the 2011-12 season. On May 11, 2012, ABC renewed the show for a second season.
Starring Dreama Walker, Kristen Ritter and James Van Der Beek who infamously played himself, the show's first season was a hilarious, laugh-filled romp through New York City with some truly out of this world characters.
When Season 2 debuted it felt like some of the bitchiness and shock value had left the series and all that remained was a pale shadow of the debut season. Viewers plummeted from 6.5 million to a mere 4 and has struggled to keep the same numbers since.
ABC have now pulled the show from the schedule indefinitely and replaced it with a double episode of Happy Endings.
What is the future of Don't Trust The B In Apartment 23...we will update you when we know more!
0
Introducing Cancellation Cantaloupe
That's right! The Cancellation Cantaloupe is here to bring you the weekly updates on shows that are cancelled, renewed or in danger of any of the above!
Wielding his mighty axe this week, CC headed over to ABC to confirm the freshman series Last Resort and 666 Park Avenue will NOT be receiving any more episodes past their initial order of 13. ABC has cancelled the two drama's due to abismaly low ratings and will be moving in another direction for next years new shows.
In cable land FX have confirmed that the hit show American Horror Story will be returning for a third season and will star Jessica Lange. The Ryan Murphy show has become the top rated on the network and is an international hit.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Popular Posts
-
It actually hurts me to say that this episode was not great. I could just be that the last couple of episodes raised the bar too high... -
I don’t care if it’s too early to say, this is my favourite episode in season 3 of A Game of Thrones . ‘And Now His Watch Has Ended’ is ... -
This week’s episode of The Big Bang Theory sees the return of guest star Bob Newhart as Doctor Arthur Jeffries a.k.a. Professor Proton. ...
-
The other week I was concerned that Futurama had lost it's touch, but this week's episode blew that concern right out of the water....
-
Holmes spots something suspicious on a recently deceased corpse in a hospital morgue after conducting a few experiments on some unwitting ... -
This week's episode had the Liars decoding Alison's diary but little did they know that the A -Team is closer than they think. In... -
Following the last few episode that have lacked the action and excitement until usually around 35 minutes in. Don't get me wrong, ...
-
After the somewhat disappointing ‘2-D Blacktop’, the second episode in the one-hour premiere of Futurama , ‘Fry and Leela’s Big Fling’, rem...
-
In this week’s episode of Futurama we meet the long-awaited girlfriend of Doctor Zoidberg, and watch as Bender pursues his new life-long d...
-
The New Normal is NBC's answer to ABC's hit comedy Modern Family, the difference is The New Normal is very political and in your fac...
Partners
MOG
