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Well, technically, that's back I believe. (at least that's what the commercials say) They've been saying new episodes every Monday. I don't know if that's like...never before seen ones...or if they've started filming again. ←

Roswell (although by the third season I kind of agreed with the decision), The $treet, Futurama, Family Guy, Stark Raving Mad, The Mountain, Norm and most recently Dead Like Me (which I'm just now catching on TMN).

Fastlane's ratings were actually pretty good for a Friday show if I remember. It was just way too high budget, although I'm sure they could have had success by pairing it with 24. It was nothing revolutionary, or even that good really, but perfectly watchable. FOX is definitely trigger happy, although Arrested Devlopment's season 2 ratings are certainly not going to convince them to change their ways. Is the show's numbers even up from last year?

While we're on the topic of female songstresses, I must admit to partiality with regards to Vanessa Carlton's new album Harmonium. More piano > *.

I guess my constant whoring of Colm Wilkinson would make it less surprising, but yeah, stage musicals are cool. Other then that, I have various guilty pleasures ranging from S Club 7 and Jennifer Lopez to Afroman, Linkin Park, Saliva and Staind. Yeah I know every Staind song sounds the same. I can live with it.

Man, if there were ever a game to hook a North American audience it was definitely that one. Plenty of near-violence, plenty of scoring and most importantly, plenty of passion. And fuck, I can't remember the last time I saw a head butt in hockey. Great stuff.

I thought it was funny that he gave his little Silent Bob-esque speech towards the end. As for Earl, Jason has pretty good taste in picking projects. While Garcia may have done "Yes, Dear", it was for a network that at the time was pretty much exclusively marketed to older demographics, so you can understand the constraints. EDIT: It should also be mentioned that Garcia was a producer on Family Guy.

I was gonna say "The Inside" would almost certainly suck because it wasn't good enough for Peter fucking Facinelli, but I guess there's hope if he was booted from the show instead of left on his own accord. Wonderfalls was a good show that fell apart after the pilot IMO. Never saw his other two shows though. I should mention that article forgot about "The $treet", another bad ass FOX dramedy that got the axe after a couple months.

Three Days Grace are a Christian rock band all of a sudden? Methinks this guy needs to do a bit of research beyond the band's name.

Grind - ** (4/10) From various producers/directors/writers who brought you various films you don't want to see, Grind came out approximately 5 months before You Got Served, and serves as a foul reminder of that ill-fated film. Sports themed movies generally take one of two themes these days: either it involves a team of miscreants who get to know each other and end up winning the big game, or a group of unbelievably talented athletes who just need a chance to show off their skills. This movie and YGS both chose that pidgeonhole, and in the process took away any hope of originality. You know that the good guys are going to get their big chance at the end, at they're going to ace it. You know that the male lead will get the girl. Most importantly, you know there will be plenty of juvenile teenage hijinks throughout. That's pretty much "Grind" inside and out. The cast is perfectly alright at doing exactly what the script and director called for, but there's just nothing to work with here. I'm sure that entire scenes were scripted with a single phrase "Skateboarding Montage". Adam Brody is wasted here as fodder for stupid gags a la Vince Vieluf, not that he could have done much good in this muddled mess. Thumbs down.

Colm Wilkinson - Stage Heroes Irish-Canadian stage actors > *.

Dirty Work I find is an aquired taste, but I'm a big fan of Norm Macdonald and thus really enjoyed it. Artie Lange, Jack Warden and Chris Farley are all really funny in it, and Adam Sandler, Don Rickles and Chevy Chase all have cameos. It probably would have done well at the box office had Don Omelhyer not practically cancelled all the promotional stops for the tour on NBC because Norm made fun of his buddy OJ Simpson. I'm not sure if this was obscure everywhere (as it was Australian), but there was a film made a couple years ago called "The Night We Called It A Day". It starred Joel Edgerton, Rose Byrne, Portia De Rossi, Melanie Griffith and Dennis Hopper, with Hopper playing Frank Sinatra on a visit to Australia. I thought it was really funny; the cast was charming and Hopper played a fantastic Sinatra. Finally, speaking of Sinatra, "Come Blow Your Horn" was on a couple of weeks ago and it's one of his funniest in my opinion. It was based on a broadway hit and features Sinatra both singing and acting in the lead role. Barbara Rush and Jill St John both play eye candy, but the supporting cast's real diamond is Lee J Cobb, who gave a rare yet brilliant comedic performance. I was going to say "Kissing Jessica Stein", but I guess that's really not that obscure since most followers of Indy films will already know of it.

You should probably just wait it out. It goes from horrible to mediocre with the twists, so I wouldn't want to make the end excruciating by spoiling it now.