The Talon

[SeeyaroundSV]

Thanks triplet, Syncos, and Tomwelling4sups!

 

[blksuperman2]

Hello,

I'm a friend of Serene's and she told me this was the hangout to say hi at.

A little bit of short background on my Superman "fandom": first thing I ever saw was Superman: The Movie, have since seen pretty much everything else and like the first two Donner movies and the Timmverse most of past incarnations. Started watching Smallville in Season 2, became a huge fan in Season 4. For all its faults it is my favorite. I'm a huge Erica Durance fan and her Lois Lane is the reason I've stuck faithfully by the show through the years, and the main reason I'm enjoying Season 8 the most of any season thus far. I guess that's about it!

Anywho, hello everybody and I'm glad I got to join the forum.

Welcome. Stay awhile and enjoy the ride that is the SV forums.t:

 

[Serene]

Hello,

I'm a friend of Serene's and she told me this was the hangout to say hi at.

Grab a stool at the bar and place your order. The prices are good at this joint.

Great to see you made it here (thanks again to Cmill).

Anyone else running around like CRAZY because of the holidays? I'm waiting for the "fun" part to start happening.

 

[RakuMon]

Is anyone at the Hype aware that there site is infected? I keep getting redirected to shady looking website whenever I try to log on. Pretty soon, my work servers are going to start blocking SHH.

 

[triplet]

http://www.sockandawe.com/

LOVE this game.

Try it. Over 21 million people have, and I guess it's crashing their server, but you can hurl shoes at a virtual President Bush...

I got as good as 11 shoe hits in 30 seconds.



It's cathartic.

 

[Mikelus]

^^ Thanks!

Poor shoes, working non-stop lol.

 

[triplet]

^^ Thanks!

Poor shoes, working non-stop lol.

LOL!

I tried it again and managed to get 12 hits...

 

[Syncos]

LOL!

I tried it again and managed to get 12 hits...

My first try I got 14 hits, only missed one virtual bush.
I guess that's what I get for growing up as a twitch gamer.

 

[Zorex]

Grab a stool at the bar and place your order. The prices are good at this joint.

Great to see you made it here (thanks again to Cmill).

Anyone else running around like CRAZY because of the holidays? I'm waiting for the "fun" part to start happening.

Hey 'Rene, ready for the snow? I fly into O'Hare for Christmas tomorrow, and... well, we'll see when I actually GET in. I heard you guys are in for a doozy...

 

[Serene]

Hey 'Rene, ready for the snow? I fly into O'Hare for Christmas tomorrow, and... well, we'll see when I actually GET in. I heard you guys are in for a doozy...

Yeah, we just had one storm roll through, but this one's supposed to dump a lot more snow and sleet - up to 11 inches they're saying for this region. I hope your flight isn't too early in the morning. Hopefully, the roads and airport will be under more control by the afternoon.

The kids are all crossing their fingers for a snow day, of course.

 

[triplet]

My first try I got 14 hits, only missed one virtual bush.
I guess that's what I get for growing up as a twitch gamer.

My kids laugh at me when I try to play games with them... I used to play some games with them when they were younger, but now they laugh at me.



Did you guys see that Brian Robbins, one of the producers on Smallville (Tollin/Robbins) got a pilot order for a show that Alan Ritchson is in.

I think it's a college football single camera comedy, at least I hope so. I can't stand watching the studio three camera ones...

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i8cb71d29182efee6befe516f25c35cf3

Spike series' goal: be a football hero

Network greenlights comedy 'Blue Mountain State'

By Kimberly Nordyke
Dec 19, 2008, 12:00 AM ET



Spike TV is heading to the college gridiron, greenlighting a football-themed comedy pilot from Brian Robbins.

"Blue Mountain State," from Lionsgate and Robbins' Varsity Pictures, is a half-hour scripted comedy in the vein of "Animal House." The project, written by Chris Romano and Eric Falconer ("The Sarah Silverman Program"), follows three incoming freshmen attending Midwestern college football powerhouse Blue Mountain State who must quickly adapt to college life and juggle football, girls, classes and nonstop hazing.

Robbins ("Smallville") is executive producing and will direct the pilot, which goes into production in February. Robbins' producing partner Sharla Sumpter Bridgett along with Romano and Falconer will serve as co-exec producers.

Former NFL running back-turned-actor Ed Marinaro ("Sisters," "Hill Street Blues") stars as the team's coach. Darin Brooks ("Days of Our Lives") plays Alex, a talented quarterback content to ride the bench while partying with his best friend, Sammy (Romano), who aspires to be the school's mascot. Sam Jones III ("ER") plays Craig, the school's top recruit and future pro whose life already is mapped out for him by his controlling girlfriend, Denise (Gabrielle Dennis, "The Game").

The cast also includes Alan Ritchson ("Smallville") as Thad, a senior on the football team who loves hazing incoming freshman.

Spike TV first entered the original scripted comedy business this year with "The Factory." No decision has been made regarding a second season of that series.

Through their WMA-repped Varsity banner, Robbins and Sumpter Bridgett have produced TV series including "The Nick Cannon Show." Romano and Falconer are repped

 

[SeeyaroundSV]

Thanks for the welcome blksuperman2!

Grab a stool at the bar and place your order. The prices are good at this joint.

Great to see you made it here (thanks again to Cmill).

Anyone else running around like CRAZY because of the holidays? I'm waiting for the "fun" part to start happening.

Thanks Rene! And thanks to Cmill for helping me join.

I have all my shopping done. Good thing too because the snow storms do not seem to want to stop this month. I couldn't even get my car out of the alley yesterday. I so want to move out of the midwest someday sooner than later, I hate cold and snow!

 

[Syncos]

Anyone else running around like CRAZY because of the holidays? I'm waiting for the "fun" part to start happening.

Started my shopping Thursday night, finished Friday afternoon. But I've been running around with a mix of freelance design work and family things, and the girlfriend's family things. I'm exhausted.

 

[The Incredible Hulk]

BTW any of you guys on Facebook? My wife got me into the thing and now I'm pretty much addicted...

 

[Cmill216]

Facebook is my best friend.

 

[Prison Mike]

I never got into it or myspace.

 

[mellyM]

BTW any of you guys on Facebook? My wife got me into the thing and now I'm pretty much addicted...

I am, but i'm not sure what you do with it really. I mostly throw things at people. I PM'd my name if you want to add me.

 

[Serene]

BTW any of you guys on Facebook? My wife got me into the thing and now I'm pretty much addicted...

I've had one for a while, but I didn't use it very much. Lately though, everyone I know seems to have one, including many of my co-workers.

They were teasing me because I have so few friends.
It feels a little invasive to me... I dunno.

 

[Cmill216]

Looks like SV's got some new competition. Fox is moving Bones to Thursdays at 8.

 

[triplet]

Okay, I'm just going to post this here, does Sam Jones have a thread?

Maybe not, but I'm not going to bother looking... Looks like he was cast in the same football dramady Pilot that Aquadude was cast in, but they also talk about another show in this that might be funnier, or more pathetic (depending on your viewpoint) if I could say the name of it on here, that is.

http://www.zap2it.com/tv/news/zap-pilots-foxwerewolvesspikefootball,0,3854628.story

Pilots: Female Werewolves Find Home at FOX
Spike TV developing college football comedy
Zap2It.com

December 22 2008

FOX is taking another spin into the supernatural, ordering a pilot script for a dramedy about a group of friends who are also werewolves.

The project, called "*****es," and comes from film writer Michael Dougherty ("Superman Returns"). FOX has given it a script commitment, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Elsewhere, Spike TV has ordered a pilot for a college-football comedy called "Blue Mountain State."

As described, "*****es" sounds kind of like "Sex and the City" crossed with "The Howling." It centers on four women in New York who turn into wolves at every full moon, and all the attendant problems that causes. The HR calls the script "a quirky urban fairy tale."

The writing team of Gretchen Berg and Aaron Harberts ("Pushing Daisies," "Pepper Dennis"), who have worked on several series, will executive produce along with Dougherty, who's making his first foray into television. His other credits include "Trick 'r Treat" and "X-2: X-Men United."

Spike's "Blue Mountain State" follows freshman players at a football powerhouse who must adapt to life away from home and suffer hazing from their older teammates. The cast includes former college football star Ed Marinaro ("Hill Street Blues") as the team's coach and "Smallville" veterans Sam Jones III and Alan Ritchson as two of his players.

"Sarah Silverman Program" scribes Eric Falconer and Chris Romano wrote the pilot and will executive produce with Brian Robbins ("Smallville," "Varsity Blues"), who will also direct.

Looks like another gem from Brian Robbins....



I hope it works out for Dougherty, so he doesn't ever write another feature like ever.

 

[KBX]

Ever since Spike screwed me over with Blade, I don't think they will ever take scripted TV shows seriously again. This werewolf as football players doesn't appeal to me at all.

 

[triplet]

Ever since Spike screwed me over with Blade, I don't think they will ever take scripted TV shows seriously again. This werewolf as football players doesn't appeal to me at all.

The article is a bit confusing, I agree, but the werewolf idea is like "Sex in The City" crossed with "The Howling" dramady, sorta like a supernatural Gossip Girl with more sex and werewolves.

The football comedy is what Sam Jones is in and is called "Blue Mountain State" and has nothing to do with werewolves...

 

[LexFactor]

Looks like SV's got some new competition. Fox is moving Bones to Thursdays at 8.

I read that this was a possibility. Do you think it will have much of an impact on Smallville?

 

[RakuMon]

Ouch! If this doesn't prove Dawn Ostroff is one of the most incompetent network heads, I don't know what does.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081221/ap_en_tv/ap_on_tv_my_network_tv

Surprising success for My Network TV
By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer David Bauder, Ap Television Writer – Sun Dec 21, 3:05 pm ET

NEW YORK – For the past three weeks, the upstart My Network TV has accomplished something that would have been considered unthinkable just two years ago.

The network, quickly cobbled together by a group of Fox-owned local stations after the 2006 merger of the WB and UPN into the new CW left abandoned stations with nothing to put on the air, has averaged more prime-time viewers than the CW.

My Network TV is the only one of the six English-speaking broadcast networks to grow this season. Its average of 1.76 million viewers each night is up 750,000 from last season, according to Nielsen Media Research.

Given an opportunity to gloat, My Network TV President Greg Meidel plays it cool.

"Do we get excited about beating the CW three weeks in a row? Sure," said Meidel. "I'd rather win than have a tie."

Professional wrestling is the turnaround's chief driver. The CW used to air World Wrestling Entertainment matches, but let them go because wrestling clashed with its strategy of appealing primarily to the young women who obsess over "Gossip Girl." My Network picked it up and the Friday night package is the network's most popular program of the week.

Even discounting the wrestling, My Network TV is up. Its executives abandoned the network's initial programming strategy — prime-time, English-language telenovelas — in favor of movies and nonfiction programming.

"We want to provide programming that's entertaining, that's fun to watch and easy to join in progress," Meidel said.

Make no mistake, My Network would like you to set aside time for its shows. But that's tough for a new network, so it favors material like "Jail," a series from the producer of "COPS" that follows a person in the first few days of incarceration, and "The World's Funniest Moments," a collection of YouTube-like videos hosted by Arsenio Hall. They're designed to catch the eye of someone idly surfing through the channels.

For that reason, My Network TV has avoided dating games or competition shows that stretch over several episodes, fearing viewers won't make the commitment, Meidel said.

The network also happened upon a new niche of shows related to magic. Its "Breaking the Magicians Code" has done well, and will soon be joined by "Masters of Illusion," where tricks presumably not outed by the previous show are performed.

The network has movie nights, and a week ago tied for its biggest audience ever with the holiday evergreen "Home Alone."

My Network TV's success shows that with all the new media, there's still power in traditional broadcast television distribution, said John Rash, an analyst for the ad buying firm Campbell Mithun. My Network is shown on 10 Fox-owned stations and has 170 affiliates.

Unlike the CW, My Network doesn't really have a clear identity for viewers, Rash said. But that could be an opportunity.

"They have the ability to redefine the network and build from their surprising success relative to the lack of a clear consumer definition," he said.

The CW partly blames its defeats of the past few weeks on a schedule filled with reruns. Its executives wouldn't talk publicly, but they believe their approach of making some high-quality scripted shows appealing to a certain audience will ultimately pay off.

"The CW has a sound strategy," Rash said. "It needs more applicable programming."

Appealing to a niche is one approach, but Meidel said he believes there's still money to be made in going after a broader audience.

"Our goal as a team is to create real value for our affiliates," he said.

 

[The Incredible Hulk]

Okay, I'm just going to post this here, does Sam Jones have a thread?

Maybe not, but I'm not going to bother looking... Looks like he was cast in the same football dramady Pilot that Aquadude was cast in, but they also talk about another show in this that might be funnier, or more pathetic (depending on your viewpoint) if I could say the name of it on here, that is.

http://www.zap2it.com/tv/news/zap-pilots-foxwerewolvesspikefootball,0,3854628.story




Looks like another gem from Brian Robbins....



I hope it works out for Dougherty, so he doesn't ever write another feature like ever.

fantastic, another ****** werewolf series

And *****es? really? Female wolves arent even called *****es, those are female dogs. Female wolves are simply called she-wolves.

This sounds like something Dawn Ostroff would wet herself over