"In this economy, to know you have you two years of work ahead is amazing. Also, in the TV world, that almost never happens. Maybe you're lucky if you get one ... the other thing that's really great is that weknow we're going to shoot two seasons and then it's going to be done. So even for our writers, for all of us, we can really have a strong sense of a full arc that we're creating.Cripes, the show's writers even know how to do the toughest thing: When to call it quits. (No, it did not slip notice that Steven Soderbergh's Moneyball will not be made into a movie just yet. It just didn't rate a post, since it's understood that in Hollywood, all that "turnaround" means is everyone turns around before they lie again.
"I don't think there's any scenario where they will be like, 'oh, let's keep it going for another season.' Full intention is two more seasons and that will be it."
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Monday, June 22, 2009
Two more seasons of 'FNL' ...
There is an off-chance some of you might be fond of Friday Night Lights (it might have been mentioned here a time or two), so it wouldn't do to not share an interview that Connie Britton did with Entertainment Weekly's Michael Ausiello which was posted yesterday. Mrs. Coach says the series will run two more seasons it's been guaranteed, then it will be a wrap.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Afternoon snark break ...
Today's theme, "You'd be excused for thinking ..."
... Senators owner Eugene Melnyk and the crying Giants fan are one and the same. ("Anybody that says we should blow up this organization should get their own bomb and go blow themselves up." Brutal.)
... Nothing Doug Gilmour — Dougie! — did before he played for the Leafs matters . It's forgotten that he was nails in the greatest hockey series ever played, the 1987 Canada Cup, which seems to have been left out of the official hagiography (give Steve Simmons credit for noting he was just as good in Calgary as he was in Toronto).
... The biggest Super Bowl story is how many or how few middle-aged sports columnists have been sent there by their newspapers. No disrespect to the heroes on Prime Time Sports who chewed this over for far too long yesterday, but it's a non-issue. Super Bowl coverage is paint-by-numbers pack journalism and the best stories are found someplace else.
... All the sportswriters who referenced John Updike's famous essay about Ted Williams probably never read any of Updike except his famous essay on seeing Ted Williams' last home run. Poz is a glorious exception. Anyone who would call it "the Ted Williams article" (Maclean's) needs to do more reading.
... the shorter version of CBC's defence of Mike Milbury using the word "pansification" was that, "People are so stupid they don't even realize it's a gay slur."
... Everything about the Detroit Lions organization has to be changed, but they must not touch the Honululu blue colour scheme.
... Friday Night Lights is the one prime-time show which is most willing to dig into the effects of the recession on average Americans, but it will probably be cancelled before it can.
... The reason the press conference announcing the end of Ottawa's 51-day transit strike was delayed was because everyone had to walk. Apparently, the drivers' union reps left for the press conference in a 40-foot-long limousine — well, they couldn't take the bus!
This post is worth nothing; this is worth noting
... Senators owner Eugene Melnyk and the crying Giants fan are one and the same. ("Anybody that says we should blow up this organization should get their own bomb and go blow themselves up." Brutal.)
... Nothing Doug Gilmour — Dougie! — did before he played for the Leafs matters . It's forgotten that he was nails in the greatest hockey series ever played, the 1987 Canada Cup, which seems to have been left out of the official hagiography (give Steve Simmons credit for noting he was just as good in Calgary as he was in Toronto).
... The biggest Super Bowl story is how many or how few middle-aged sports columnists have been sent there by their newspapers. No disrespect to the heroes on Prime Time Sports who chewed this over for far too long yesterday, but it's a non-issue. Super Bowl coverage is paint-by-numbers pack journalism and the best stories are found someplace else.
... All the sportswriters who referenced John Updike's famous essay about Ted Williams probably never read any of Updike except his famous essay on seeing Ted Williams' last home run. Poz is a glorious exception. Anyone who would call it "the Ted Williams article" (Maclean's) needs to do more reading.
... the shorter version of CBC's defence of Mike Milbury using the word "pansification" was that, "People are so stupid they don't even realize it's a gay slur."
... Everything about the Detroit Lions organization has to be changed, but they must not touch the Honululu blue colour scheme.
... Friday Night Lights is the one prime-time show which is most willing to dig into the effects of the recession on average Americans, but it will probably be cancelled before it can.
... The reason the press conference announcing the end of Ottawa's 51-day transit strike was delayed was because everyone had to walk. Apparently, the drivers' union reps left for the press conference in a 40-foot-long limousine — well, they couldn't take the bus!
This post is worth nothing; this is worth noting
- Check out The Tao's thoughts on William Houston leaving The Globe & Mail.
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