Category: Television

The writers strike is unofficially over, a few weeks before the Oscars.

Seeing how there is tons of news covering the issue, I am going to keep this simple and concise:

1. Writers should start getting back to work by Monday.
2. Most shows would begin writing scripts and reworking the storylines.
3. It would take 6 – 8 weeks to get up and running.
4. For those continuing the season: Expect 4 – 6 episodes left, airing in April (late) – May.
5. Other networks may scrap the season and begin production for next season (Aug – Sep).

The writers strike has also affected Movies, as most scripts were placed on hold. Expect production to resume; with releases (Da Vinci code 2) showing up sometime in the Winter.

More information can be found [here].

Posted by K.

I am ending the year and beginning the new one while watching what some people say is one of the best TV shows ever made, Twin Peaks. I can’t ask for a better new years than this.

Its a short 35 second trailer not really showing much or hinting to anything. Season 4 starts in February. If you haven’t watched season 3 this might contain a spoiler. [YouTube]

I just started watching this show and so far its pretty cool. Its starring Donald Sutherland, William Baldwin and most importantly Peter Krause who played Nate Fisher on my favorite TV show ever, Six Feet Under. In Dirty Sexy Money, Peter plays the role of a lawyer who when his father passes away is forced to take over his job taking care of one of New York City’s wealthiest families. There is more information on Wikipedia, its a good show.

I’ve recently gotten addicted to the TV show Rules of Engagement. They are in their second season now but I never thought it would be interesting, for some reason I used to read the name and think it was a TV show related to lawyers and the military. Probably because I keep thinking about the movie of the same name. Luckily by accident I downloaded and episode and after watching the first one I was hooked. The show stars three great actors, Megyn Price who plays the wife on Grounded for Life, David Spade which everyone knows from Just Shoot Me and finally my favorite actor from the bunch, Patrick Warburton who played David Puddy, Elaine’s boy friend on Seinfeld, Johnny Johnson on News Radio, The Tick on The Tick and the voice of Joe Swanson on Family Guy. A truly amazing actor and super funny in his own simple way. For more information you can check out the IMDB page. [Link]

They’ve put Jack Bauer in a suit and Tony Almeida is back but as a bad guy! It looks like its going to be one heck of a season. If you are having trouble loading the video above here is a lower quality version on [YouTube]

Here is some info on season 7 [Link]

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A friend of mine is directing this new show on Bahry TV called Bhar w Bahar. It’s a cool Kuwaiti cooking show thats really fun to watch. The video above is of the promo while the second video below is of the pilot episode. The show is aired every Saturday at 4PM then re-run at 10PM and on Tuesdays at 9PM and Thursdays at 4PM. You can get the Kuwaiti station Bahry TV on NILESAT 10892H.

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I just found out tomorrow night the US version of Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares is going to premier in the States. In the show Ramsay Gordon visits a failing restaurant and he has one week to help the owners turn it around. Every episode is a new restaurant which makes the show really entertaining. The UK version was one of my favorite shows so I can’t wait to watch this. [Link]

I was checking out an old commercial for Red Rock Cider that starred Leslie Nielsen and it reminded me a lot of the Naked Gun series. I actually thought that the commercial was based on the movie but it turned out it was based on a TV show called Police Squad! Naked Gun was based on that show and for some reason I just found out about it now. I am a huge fan of Naked Gun so these episodes of Police Squad! are like a godsend. I downloaded all the episodes, 6 in total which means I am going to go through them really fast. They’re great though and full of non stop humor.

Thanks Fadi!

If you’ve watched 24 past season 5 click on continue.

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And while I am at it.. here is Flona [YouTube]

I just finished watching two seasons of the TV show Carnivàle and it turned out to be really weird.. but in a good way. I love HBO they have the coolest shows. I started watching this show not knowing what to expect, all I knew was that it was based in the early 1930’s during the great depression and follows a traveling carnival. The show turned out to be a lot more then that and features some of the strangest characters you are bound to see in a show. I heard that the show is currently playing on Orbit but if you haven’t watched it from the first episode I would get it on DVD instead. Not one of my top 5 favorite shows ever but easily fits into my top 10. [Link]

I loved the show The Wonder Years so I found this link on Digg very interesting. The most interesting part though is that I never knew Juliett Lewis, David Schwimmer, Giovanni Ribisi, and Dustin Diamond were on the show. I need to rewatch it all again. [Link]

From last nights episode. [YouTube]