He made this video for the Parks and Recreation season 2 DVD five years ago. Woah.
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Year: 2015
News: Marisa Tomei to recur on Empire, drama investment halved, BBC job cuts + more
Internet TV
- Rockmond Dunbar to co-star in Hulu’s The Way
- Trailer for Netflix’s Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp
UK TV
- BBC to cut 1,000 jobs
- Investment in TV drama has dropped 44% since 2008
- TVPlayer to add subscription service
- Wednesday ratings
US TV
US TV show casting
- Marisa Tomei to recur on Empire
New US TV show casting
- Jonathan Whitesell to recur in ABC Family’s Beyond
- Brian Tyree Henry, Lakeith Lee Stanfield and Zazie Beetz to co-star in FX’s Atlanta
US TV
Review: Zoo 1×1 (US: CBS; UK: Sky1)
In the US: Tuesdays, 9/8c, CBS
In the UK: Acquired by Sky1
Imagine what would happen if all the animals in the world suddenly decided that humans were screwing things up and they were going to run the planet instead.
Well, we’d be screwed, that’s what. Even putting aside what would happen if it was just the ants – they’d win all by themselves – even with overpopulation, there’s only seven billion or so of us and there’s 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 insects, just for starters, and they’re all largely bastards to begin with.
Okay, so let’s dial it down a notch and imagine it’s just zoo animals – and only a few of them at that – as well as maybe some cats. Not quite so worrying, is it? I mean, we’ve always suspected the cats were out to get us, haven’t we?
Yet so far, that’s all the thrills and spills we’ve had from Zoo, CBS’s latest attempt to capture the summer lightning in a bottle that was Under The Dome.
Based on James Patterson’s (Women’s Murder Club) novel of the same name, Zoo is initially set in two locales: Botswana and Los Angeles. In Botswana, US ex-pat James Wolk (Lonestar) is jaded with life and off running safaris for tourists, when he starts to notice some lions acting strangely. They’re ganging up with each other to kill people and are even using battle strategies to do it.
Uh huh.
Meanwhile, newspaper reporter and conspiracy theorist blogger Kristen Connolly (House of Cards, Houdini, The Whispers) is getting all het up about some lions that escaped the local zoo, killing their keepers and some innocent bystanders. She blames the food, but person-hating animal pathologist Billy Burke (Revolution) reckons it’s all just a freak incident – until he goes looking for all the missing pet cats, that is…
Uh huh.
If that sounds ludicrously bad, then you’re right and you haven’t even been exposed to the toxic dialogue and characters yet. Frankly, with TV like this, the world probably would be better off with the animals in charge.
Here’s a trailer. Try not to laugh too hard.
US TV
Preview: Impastor 1×1 (US: TV Land)
In the US: Wednesdays, 10.30/9.30c, TV Land
In the UK: Not yet acquired
There’s a long tradition of comedy shows about men and women of the cloth. Think All Gas and Gaiters, Oh, Brother!, Oh, Father!, Troubles and Strife, Rev, Father Ted, The Vicar of Dibley. Ironic, isn’t it, though – all those shows are from this side of the Atlantic, rather than the very much more religious US. You could probably have a long think and come up with some US comedy shows about reverends, but you’d be hard pushed.
Maybe it’s too serious a subject for the US to tackle – at least, head on. But when they can come at it at an angle, maybe not.
TV Land – the comedy network for people who like things the way they used to be when they were young – is currently trying to bring a relatively younger audience, and given it was probably the last US network to have a go at a religious sitcom with The Soul Man, it seems fitting that they’re giving it another go with Impastor. The Soul Man was, of course, about an R&B singer who becomes a preacher. Whether it was ’too black’ for TV Land’s audience, only TV Land can say, but Impastor is certainly a whole lot whiter. But that doesn’t mean TV Land is forsaking diversity. Oh no.
Michael Rosenbaum (Smallville, Breaking In) is gambling addict and small-time criminal Buddy. When all seems lost and even his girlfriend Aimee Garcia (Dexter) has deserted him, he decides to take his own life by jumping off a bridge. Fortunately, at the last moment, a vicar on the way to his new job intercedes. Unfortunately for the vicar, he plummets to his own doom instead and Buddy seizes the opportunity to take his place… and perhaps his possessions, money, etc. Except Buddy turns out to have an accidental talent for ‘pastoring’.
If only he didn’t have to pretend to be gay, too.
Here’s a trailer and if you’re quick, below it is the entire episode:
News: Spike acquires 19-2, Transporter, Suits renewed, a Fatal Attraction mini + more
Film trailers
- New trailer for The Transporter Refuelled
UK TV
- Spike acquires: Canada’s 19-2, Transporter: The Series
- Fox UK acquires: Canada’s The Fixer
US TV
- USA renews: Suits
- Tuesday ratings
US TV show casting
- Chesley Crisp promoted to regular on Fresh Off The Boat
- Liam Garrigan to recur on Once Upon A Time
New US TV shows
- AMC developing: comedy Foodies
- Fox developing: Fatal Attraction mini-series
New US TV show casting
- Lilah Richcreek to star in ABC Family’s Gorgeous Morons
- Kevin Alejandro replaces Nicholas Gonzalez on Fox’s Lucifer
- Laurence Fishburne to star in A&E’s Roots