Day: September 20, 2004

Can I beat Mark Coale? No, probably not.

It’s scary how the first scene was a total reenactment of a column from I’m Back For More Cash. And not perfectly good. What a bad sign.

The articles just aren’t being translated interesting. Tony goes off the deep end in his columns to because excess Luna city is hilarious in print. It’s just lunacy on TV; TV Tony comes off as a guy who acts like he’s put upon by life but mostly because he doesn’t actually listen to everyone.

It all sounds like stuff Tony might say but it doesn’t sound like Tony, if that makes any sense?

Whoever’s using the laugh track needs to lay off to the max.

Michael Jamal Warner as Too Cool For School not Michael Wilbon is quite P. Total P. The rest of real people should be happy with their portal. Well, TV Michael’s kind of a dolt, but maybe that’ll improve. And if this doesn’t work out, TV Elizabeth is totally on the next angst WB show.

The “surprisingly good host” part was painful. I think this is what the Suntimes mini review referred to as them adding George aspects, because it felt like a stupid thing he’d do. Worked better there.

The singing, the singing.

The problems I have with the Benefactor in neat list form

1) Cuban is playing his role too serious; the game is set up to kick of people by whim and wacky bits, and he’s treating it like Life or Death. He goes out of his way to rap up the tension (and kills the mood) of every scene because They Might Lose RIGHT NOW. If things are supposed be semiwhimisical, then he’s got act that at least a little bit.

Mark’s (supposedly) giving this a million away for fun, but it doesn’t appear he’s not having fun and the contestants aren’t really having fun. It

Heads Up:

As the JLU half season ends (hey Flash kinda grunted! HAWKGIRL! They’ve completely 180ed me on the JLU concept and I’m happy to be wrong), Samurai Jack returns to Cartoon Network next Saturday.

5:00 Birth Of Evil
6:00 Episode XLIX - NEW
6:30 Star Wars Clone Wars: 1-5
7:00 Episode L - NEW
7:30 Star Wars Clone Wars: 6-10
8:00 Episode LI - NEW!
8:30 Star Wars Clone Wars: 11-15
9:00 Episode LII - NEW!
9:30 Star Wars Clone Wars: 16-20
(all times CST)

Birth of Evil – or maybe just one part of it – won the Emmy for Best Cartoon Under An Hour, and the Star Wars stuff (presumably all of it) won the award for the Best Cartoon Over An Hour. I suspect they’ll be smart enough to promote it a lot – actually, I gotta figure that’s why they’re throwing 4 new episodes out there at once.

I can’t believe Amazing won AGAIN – that was the two minutes I watched, and mostly on mute because of the awful gimmick. Looking at the rest of the winners, the Emmys may be pretty dumb but they at least help save shows I like so I’m all for them.

I also can’t believe neither CBS is repeated the Amazing Race finale nor ESPN is repeating the WSoPoker Tournament of Champions. Well, I know ESPN is at some point, just not listing it in the near future. How annoying.

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I wanted to write a little more about the IWA-MS shows, but my energy level has completely plummeted in the last 30 minutes and I’m calling it a night. Maybe tomorrow.