Archive for the ‘Television: U.S.A.’ Category
Geekly Speaking About… “Top Gear USA” Episode 2
My ongoing technical difficulties have persisted, but now that I’ve finally got a clue and later edited out the parts with the poor audio, I’m happy to say that the analysis and live commentary on “Blind Drift,” the second episode of Top Gear USA is ready for your listening pleasure. You can check it out [...]
In: Podcasts, Television: U.S.A. · Tagged with: Adam Ferrara, Dominic Monaghan, Podcasts, Rutledge Wood, Tanner Foust, Top Gear U.S.A.
Geekly Speaking About… “Top Gear USA” Episode 1
Thanks to some technical difficulties which were not present when we conducted our tech test about 1.5 hours before its premiere last night at 10:00 pm, we were unable to produce the audio for the live commentary between myself and Kara Dennison as we watched the first episode of the U.S. version of “Top Gear.” [...]
In: Opinions/Editorials, Television: U.S.A. · Tagged with: Adam Ferrara, Buzz Aldrin, liveblog, Rutledge Wood, Tanner Foust, this will either be awesome or awful, Top Gear U.S.A.
Trailer Watch: “Top Gear” USA
Oh dear. Mentioned during the “60 Minutes” segment on the original U.K. show, the U.S.-based version of the show will feature these three guys: Adam Ferrara: A comedian and actor, his biggest credit to date is starring as Chief Nelson on “Rescue Me.” Tanner Foust: A stunt driver whose credits include two of the The [...]
In: News, Television: U.S.A. · Tagged with: this will either be awesome or awful, Top Gear
“Top Gear” on “60 Minutes”
This past series, Jeremy Clarkson was thrilled that A-list celebs like Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz were showing up on their “little car show” to do a lap around their track. It’s hard to tell just how aware they’ve been that they’re actually big news in the US — not only are they a hit [...]
In: Television: British and Canadian, Television: U.S.A. · Tagged with: 60 minutes, james may, jeremy clarkson, news coverage, powerrrrr, richard hammond, The Stig, Top Gear, we knew that already
Stephen King’s The Dark Tower coming to big and small screens
I am tempering my excitement. This has the potential to be absolutely amazing or a destructive travesty of one of modern fantasy’s epic works. In an exclusive over at Deadline, Universal has announced that they’ve acquired the rights to Stephen King’s The Dark Tower and will be turning the seven volume epic fantasy into a [...]
In: Books, Movies, News, Television: U.S.A. · Tagged with: based on a novel, Movies, Ron Howard, Stephen King, The Dark Tower, this will either be awesome or awful, TV
Neil Gaiman’s Sandman + Supernatural‘s Eric Kripke = Gigantic mistake?
If you’re a fan of British author Neil Gaiman’s former monthly comics series Sandman and have always wanted to see a live-action version, then The Hollywood Reporter has news for you. Over at their Heat Vision blog, reporters Borys Kit and James Hibberd broke the exclusive news that Warner Bros. TV is “in the midst [...]
In: Television: U.S.A. · Tagged with: Comic Adaptation, Neil Gaiman, Sandman, this will either be awesome or awful
Kara’s Video of the Day: Rex Was Almost Your Lawyer
So the American legal drama/Tennie vehicle “Rex Is Not Your Doctor Lawyer” will likely never be seeing the light of day — it’s just recently been passed over for the fall 2010 TV season as well, and the set’s allegedly been dismantled. However, a YouTuber has been kind enough to pass along a snippet of [...]
In: Television: U.S.A. · Tagged with: david tennant, legal drama, rex is not your lawyer, who's not who
Lincoln’s Video of the Day: The Venture Bros, Season 4.5
If you’re not familiar with The Venture Brothers, shame on you. One of the most child-of-the-eighties-referencing and nerdy shows out there, it’s up to the second half of it’s fourth season, telling a coherent story from episode to episode, and it’s consistently hilarious. Now, we have a preview of what’s to come.
In: Television: U.S.A., Trailers · Tagged with: The Venture Bros, Trailers
Fresh TV Meat: “Covert Affairs” and “RuPaul’s Drag U”
“Covert Affair” had two things going for it even before I watched it: Piper Perabo, star “Coyote Ugly – of one of the movies a girl will stop and watch the rest of the way no matter what she is in the middle of doing and Christopher Gorham, whose credentials I really don’t know much [...]
TV Ghoul Pool: Ugly Betty
Betty and I had a very special relationship. I accidentally tuned into the premiere of “Ugly Betty” while waiting for “The Office” to come on. I thought it was a Movie of the Week event (which are a secret passion of mine – “The Counterfeit Contessa” is why I love both Tea Leoni and Chuck [...]