New TV Thread: I Hear NNY Helped Break Stories for FNL

[hannah]

I am so behind on entertainment news! What's the release date?

And I haven't watched Firefly because... because... well, I found the first five minutes of the first episode boring, and then I got sucked into watching something else. I shall return soon enough.

[hannah]

Did you watch Max/Tempus Fugit yet?

[Andrew_TSKS]

So My So-Called Life is on DVD now

wait wait... now? brandon's had it on dvd for years.

also, i love the awkward dialogue on that series. the characters sound like real people.

[hannah]

Oh shit the second after I posted that a friend of mine forwarded me the Variety article. http://www.variety.com/VR1117975124.html if anyone is interested.

[dieblucasdie]

I am so behind on entertainment news! What's the release date?

And I haven't watched Firefly because... because... well, I found the first five minutes of the first episode boring, and then I got sucked into watching something else. I shall return soon enough.

July 25, 2008!

nny, it was out on DVD back when they first started putting TV shows on DVD, but it went out-of-print.  They just re-released it.

edit:  hells yeah they're filming in Vancouver and not LA!

also the first five minutes of "Firefly" are pretty much nothing like the rest of the show.

[Andrew_TSKS]

the first season, what with the mid-90s hair and overalls because overalls were for some reason a fashion thing then

good grief, yes. do you not remember that? or did you block it out or something? girls wore overalls, especially short overalls, ALL THE TIME in the 90s. pretty much starting right at the beginning of the decade, as i remember.

[Andrew_TSKS]

nny, it was out on DVD back when they first started putting TV shows on DVD, but it went out-of-print.  They just re-released it.

this makes sense. brandon's dvds of mscl are in 5 separate single-disc packages that are all in a box set, rather than the single-package-with-multiple-discs that they do now. apparently he paid $100 for it then. it's $45 on amazon now.

[elpollodiablo]

Joss Whedon, huh? I just never got it. Buffy, Angel, Firefly, none of it.

[dieblucasdie]

of course not

[Andrew_TSKS]

i like his comics. never seen his tv/movie work.

[jebreject]

you'd dig firefly, andrew. a lot, i suspect.

[heather marie]

Hannah, maybe we should watch Firefly together. I can't get into it but Richard won't drop it. Every night it's like, "So... are we going to watch Firefly?"

[dieblucasdie]

you are all philistines!

[slow west vultures]

i still can't get over this.

Creed (from the Office) was in the 60s group that sang "Sha la la la live for today."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuuVIJ1hnOM

from the story

http://www.stereogum.com/archives/video/the-scrantones-cover-radiohead.html#more

 He's easily one of my favorite characters on the show, and on the episode where Michael outs Oscar, he has one of those fake interviews where he's like "i have no problem with anyone being gay.  i had a lot of sex in the 60s with multiple partners, and its possible a guy slipped in there"  which was kind of funny, and fit his character - but finding out he actually was a 60s musician, makes his character even more amusing. 

[elpollodiablo]

Re: The Wire

I'm pretty sure I know how Omar's gonna go. Count on Michael getting him about 3/4 of the way through next season.

[dieblucasdie]

hey pollo, do we know

how long Avon is in for?  I assume that he'll just have prison scenes?

[dieblucasdie]

Ah never mind, I remember:

I don't know if they ever say if they got him on more charges, but the parole violation means he's in for at least the last 4 years of his original sentence.  So he's still in prison barring a time-jump.

[ellaguru]

nny, it was out on DVD back when they first started putting TV shows on DVD, but it went out-of-print.  They just re-released it.

this makes sense. brandon's dvds of mscl are in 5 separate single-disc packages that are all in a box set, rather than the single-package-with-multiple-discs that they do now. apparently he paid $100 for it then. it's $45 on amazon now.

It's not just a re-release. I mean, it is, but the old release had no extras and the new one has a ton of extras.

[elpollodiablo]

Ah never mind, I remember:

I don't know if they ever say if they got him on more charges, but the parole violation means he's in for at least the last 4 years of his original sentence.  So he's still in prison barring a time-jump.

Yeah, don't count on seeing Avon on the street again. It was preposterous enough that he got out in se. 3. Though not quite so preposterous as Omar's relationship with Bunk and McNulty over the course of the series. Obstruct justice much? But yeah, Avon's gotta do at least the rest of his sentence. Maybe we'll see some more of him and Wee Bey?

[dieblucasdie]

Actual season 5 spoiler:

Yeah, Avon's going to be back for at least a couple episodes.  Don't know about Weebay.

[kadiekatRN]

i still can't get over this.

Creed (from the Office) was in the 60s group that sang "Sha la la la live for today."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuuVIJ1hnOM

There are a few Office deleted scenes devoted to this, in which the real and fictional Creed overlap.  Definitely Booze Cruise (Season 2), a mention in Product Recall (Season 3).  Also, the Karaoke in Benihana Christmas (Season 3), Creed is singing his own song, "Spinnin' and Reelin'."

[slow west vultures]

i'll have to look for those.  i don't have the dvd's but i think i'm going to have to borrow them now.  i read the bio on his own website, and i think i really need to hear his solo cds.  dude is just too funny/weird. 

[dieblucasdie]

Sweet Georgia Brown, is Big Shots ever unwatchable!

[hannah]

Hannah, maybe we should watch Firefly together. I can't get into it but Richard won't drop it. Every night it's like, "So... are we going to watch Firefly?"

I am down for this, m'lady. And perhaps if we hate it we can at least discuss the relative attractiveness of each cast member. I like doing that.

[lastclearchance]

And perhaps if we hate it we can at least discuss the relative attractiveness of each cast member. I like doing that.

Come to think of it, I don't really know a Firefly fan who hasn't done that.