Posted by bunnyfear on Tuesday, January 12th - Filed under: Late Night, NBC

I am very proud of Conan O’Brien today. After I read the story and his statement ,my first and final emotion was nothing less than pride. He’s right. Everyone knows he is right and though everyone expected the congenial host to step aside and let Leno/The Network have their way, he didn’t.

I am  not a part of the Leno hate and even stated in our weekly podcast that this past summer’s ”Leno hate is bullshit” because it was. He’s not a bad guy. He’s just a lame duck who can’t quite let go and honestly….who hasn’t been put in that position before? Obviously not the position of a host of a comedy institution but of not wanting to let go of a place that you felt welcome, loved and successful. That was Jay and so I get it.

 Jay Leno simply should not have accepted the 10/9 offer. I think he should’ve tried something new and a bit different. I  would love for Jay to host a show in which he talks to his guests about entertainment. You can’t argue against his interview style that relaxes most. A 30 minute show in which Jay and company discussed movies, television, music, past/future projects. That would be awesome.

It is a sad state that even if you’re out to promote your incredibly moving drama you must go on a comedic talk show to do it. Tell us a funny anecdote before we show your clip about atrocities of the holocaust  I think Jay could deftly handle a show that is part Charlie Rose/part Dinner for five with a small bit of Inside the Actor’s Studio…. But that’s just my idea. 

Most believe the move for Conan to the Tonight Show was far too early and its unfair that Jay was dethroned so quickly  but we’ve all read the stories or watched the movies about Jay’s succession of Johnny Carson. Jay must’ve knew that karma of his actions during that situation was bound to resurface and resurface it did. Johnny never struck me as a vengeful person but I hope he is smiling somewhere.

Conan deserves this shot and the Tonight show is an institution that can work, will work, and deserves to work in its rightful time-slot. To move it to 12:05 (technically the next day) was a ridiculous idea. I don’t want Conan to leave NBC but he is so very right in not accepting the time-slot jump. Conan  took his time and thought this decision out. He didnt make it lightly and most importantly he didn’t do it for his self. I truly believe he did it not just for his staff who work to put a show on every day but for the Tonight Show itself… Lest it fall into the pit of network maligned shows.

 So Conan I know your parents will tell you this and perhaps quite a few sycophants but here is a fan who just thinks you do a pretty good show and knows this decision wasn’t easy and I want to say I’m proud of you man. I truly hope to see you at 11:35 for many years to come.

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Posted by bunnyfear on Monday, July 27th - Filed under: BBC America

Right.  Russell T. Davies you are a Tosser. Now I’ve gotten that out of the way.  I know I should be ever so grateful for these miniseries that are supposed to grip and entice us all. After all due to a variety of piss poor contract neogitations we don’t have much to look forward to from you lot. BTW with all the ridiculousness that you put your celebrities through in the UK you’d think you all would be better at writing a good contract. If an American TV star said “k look I don’t want to come back to the series and so what I’ll do is come back for a few episodes here and there and then I’m off that’s cool right?” You think we’d stand for it? So whatever I hate your ridiculous inability to understand what is proper contract technique  but moving on.

Chilren of Earth was shite. Pure shite. Oh okay that’s going a bit far what was good about it? Well of course the best thing you have going for you is Captain Jack Harkness who is brilliantly played by John Barrowman and you have the fascinating world of Torchwood , spinoff of the absolutely amazing revamp of Doctor Who.  Outside of that you have the idea that if you were to show us a miniseries then you would have a captive audience so good on you for realizing that and then you have……..crap.

We start with a somewhat interesting concept of all of Earth’s children stopping/speaking in unison. a message, an otherwordly message we come to believe, is emitting from them. What is going on? It’s crazy and mad. We also have ,for some idiot reason, the government trying to shut down Torchwood (set up, in essence, to deal with this sort of thing). Of course its because they are trying to cover up a shameful past. Right, whatever.  I won’t explain the miniseries any further. If you’ve seen it then you know what happened.

So first off tell me why am I supposed to be afraid of something called 4,5,6. Is sequentaility something fearful in the UK? In the rest of the world its nothing more than a random bit of numbers. It is a lazy name and all I can think is that the name came about like R2D2 except we got a funny sort’ve interesting name there and here we got laziness.

So what the fuck is the 4,5,6? Why should I be afraid or it?  I understand it came to earth in a blaze of fire and an annoucement that controlled all children to make them scream, speak and point at the same time.  Other than that why am I to be afraid of them? At no point did it show any kind of power that would cause all the nations of this earth to bow down to this alien and give it 10% of the Earth’s children? Are you insane? At least blow up the white house, toppel the eiffel tower or burn down London Bridge. Do SOMETHING to show that we should be completely afraid of this power but come about in a blaze of fire and speak in a gassy chamber and never be completely seen? Fuck right off.  I’d be more afraid of Freddy Krueger than this farty gassy alien.  But whatever.

Also Is this it? Is Russell T. Davies and party damned and determined to make us all think that all people in Natonal government are spineless people ready to roll over on anything? My God I’ve never seen a more pathetic form of propoganda than the fact that during EVERY single involvement of the govenment  they do more harm than good.  But fine continue your good anarchist fight there Russell.

And we pause just for a moment to tell BBC America that they need to learn when to cut away from a  show better.

Next we have Gwen Cooper ready to cry every few minutes. The makeup artist on that show simply must have invested in the best run-free mascara and eyeliner as they use it in gobs on her and then she is ready to cry at the drop of a hat.  Should she not be made of tougher stuff?

Last we have Captain Jack acting out of character for half of the show. Is this done to add new depth to the character or just because it seemed like a good way to add drama to the show? Whatever your reasons are…stupid move.

So wow 5+ hours of my time to see this absolute pile of poo.

Thanks! Thanks a lot! At least I may be able to count on you to not cast a gothy/twilight person as the next Doctor. Oh wait….

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Posted by AmbrosiaView on Tuesday, July 21st - Filed under: CBS

Craig Ferguson I\’m Yours

If Jimmy Fallon didn’t suck so hard then I never would’ve known how great Craig Ferguson is but I do now.

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Posted by bunnyfear on Saturday, July 18th - Filed under: FOX, futurama

Well ya know now there is just no point.

Thank you Fox for continuing to be utterly shite.

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Posted by bunnyfear on Monday, July 13th - Filed under: Uncategorized

You know what? Kings was too good for you lot and you don’t deserve it. Enjoy the rest of the crap on TV.

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Posted by bunnyfear on Wednesday, July 1st - Filed under: TV Thoughts

I know this is  a TV blog and that is why I write this. My first memory of Michael Jackson is also my first memory of life is also my first memory of television. I remember as a baby touching the TV (one of those big floor units). I was hoisting my baby self up by using the television as support and the reason I was wanting to stand up was because I wanted to touch the cartoon version of Michael on my TV. As I’m not old enough to have been around when the first show was aired I’m sure it was a rerun or perhaps a special but I remmeber it. They were all jumping around but the one I liked the most and the one I tried to catch with my hand was Michael….That is when I fell inlove. Throughout my life on a variety of venues I would see Michael Jackson. He would show up at various award shows and when he would perform oh wow it was bliss. I loved him. I got a tingly feeling all over my body, one that I would argue rivals the feeling I have felt when falling in love. It wasn’t an obsession. At no point did I start to collect pieces of hair or even every copy of his music in various forms but I did own a casette of off the wall and I played his cd’s over and over again. I can’t begin to tell you how great it was to see interviews when he’d reveal small details that made me respect him even more as an artist and as a person.  I’ve never fainted at seeing him in person because sadly…I never got the chance to see him in person. As I was young and he was young I was always waiting for that moment in which he’d announce another set of North American tour dates and I was going to be there. Recently I curiously thought how cool it would be to see all the Jackson 5 get back together just once more and part of me really thought it was going to happen one day. I loved Michael Jackson so very much that at this point I simply can not be online and part of me barely is leaving the house. There are far too many reminders all over the internet. Also I am completely off all network television. I’ve started playing xbox for the first time in my life. I simply can’t deal with any of the news surrounding his leaving us. I’m not sure how much time it will take for people to stop talking about it but as people love the dirty details of life then this will take some time. I loved Michael. Purely and true. I’m not talking about a fan who just thought he was cool or even just adores his work. After all I love Joss Whedon but when he dies (heaven forbid it’ll be anytime soon) I will be sad but I won’t mourn like this. I’m also not talking about a person who is obsessed with him ( I suppose if I were then I would be heading to the viewing but logically I just can’t). I’m not even talking about how you’re in love with someone in a relationship but just pure love. Not asking anything more of him except for what he had already given me….wonderful music, a great spirit, and most importantly something extraordinary put into the world whose likes will never be seen again. So this is my brief forway into the internet for the first time in a week and I say it here publically because love should be shared with the world (yes that is cheesy).  But Michael should any of the various theories exist where you are able to read this then please know that there is an ache in my heart because I do so very much miss you being in this world and I love you. You were…….Phenomenal.

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Posted by Matthew on Tuesday, March 24th - Filed under: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Go to BittenByBooks website today and tomorrow to ask Amber Benson (Tara from Buffy the Vampire Slayer!) questions about her new book, BTVS, even Twitter.  There is also a contest to win a copy of her new book, Death’s Daughter.  I recommend reading the site interview where she discusses her love for writing and Charlaine Harris.

Follow Amber on Twitter (amber_benson) for updates and thoughts.

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Posted by bunnyfear on Saturday, December 13th - Filed under: Veronica Mars

Dear Dawn,

Can I call you Dawnie? I think its a cute name and for some reason the use of this nickname on Buffy The Vampire Slayer always made me like that character better and perhaps it’ll work here. So anyway how are you? I can not admit to hoping you’re fine. In fact I really kinda hope perhaps your home is infested with termites right now. I would hope for worse. Coming as a rant from someone on the internet I should be hoping for worse but then I would come off as a nut and more importantly termites are really effin annoying in ones home.

So I just watched the Season 4 Pitch of Veronica Mars and I gotta say. It was really great. I don’t know why I hadn’t watched it before now. I suppose because watching it would solidify the fact that the show was gone forever. However having seen it I’m kinda okay with that fact. Season 3 took Veronica in a weird direction though admirably the first part of the season and the last part were somewhat decent and the final episode more than recovered what it had before. Of course it was too late by then.  But then you and others were presented with this Season 4 pitch and its new possibilities for the likable character of Veronica Mars in the F.B.I. world and you turned it down.

Why? I think I deserve an explanation. A true one. Not some crap about feasibility but something about why you’d turn that show down. Sadly America is more than happy to give its time to pretty much any policing force type drama out there so you already have that market. You have the possibility of that audience but what if? What if someone aimed for something more than a man putting on and taking off his sunglasses slowly? What if someone decided that dialogue and true mystery might work? You had it handed to you on a silver platter with Rob Thomas and Kristen Bell (who will be a star yet especially after her turn in Forgetting Sarah Marshall).

But forget all that…. What I want to know is how you saw that pitch and turned it down yet greenlight some of the things that make it on CW’s air. Is it just cost? I admit that despite the fact the public knows far more about the TV industry these days I can’t quite understand this reasoning. Yes its more expensive than a reality show but its far better than privileged. Do you just want to put crap on the CW? I know CW has a far, far way to go before it ever becomes an award winning network for ya know…excellence in TV but surely you want to try to get there. Do you think its going to be happening any time soon with Chuck Bass? I promise you if you had (or will?) put Veronica Mars Season 4 on the air then she would’ve landed you an Emmy. After all the show came pretty close in the obscure land of UPN (and how often did that happen? you worked there you should know)

So as you are(strike through) reading (strike through) this in your termite infested home I just want to know….why? and I want to suggest fixing this right now. What about being the little network that gave a damn about what it puts on the air? I’m not saying all 7 nights heaven forbid! Keep your Gossip Girl and America’s Next Top Model. Even keep your 90210 remake which is really, really not good but what about a tiny little pocket in there. How about Tuesday? How about 8/7c and how about giving Veronica Mars Season 4 the opportunity it deserves to be seen by an audience who is more than happy to spend money on your advertising dollars if you give it good TV. Because sometimes it takes years for some networks to find the show that defines them as great. You have the opportunity right now. So ya know call up terminix and then get Rob Thomas on the phone. He is not doing anything important whatsoever right now because

Dear Rob,

No! Bad Rob Thomas! I am not going to watch cupid! I am not! No! Stop working on that show right now and work on getting Veronica back out there either a movie (even made for TV would work, comic, or ya know how about Season 4?

Thanks,

A fan

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Posted by TVBunny on Thursday, September 25th - Filed under: ABC, Grey's Anatomy

McArmy is friggin hot. OMG so hot. so, so, so, so hot

that is all.

oh and thank you Shonda. God bless you.

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Posted by TVBunny on Tuesday, September 9th - Filed under: Raising The Bar, TNT

I panned Raising The Bar before it even premiered so now is the time to watch. I must say that its fun to see so many familiar faces, Zack , Malcolm’s Mom, That chick from E.R., Gunn from Angel, Wallace of Veronica Mars and Ricky of My So-Called Life ( Wilson Cruz!).  The first thing I am struck by is how this show reminds me of Law and Order just a few minutes in. It’s the Practice but with  younger lawyers and judges here.  So I guess this is supposed to be legal drama 101 for the younger generation. As I recall I mentioned something along the lines of betrayal and redemption occurring in my last review. These prognostications made sight unseen and entirely based on 30 second promos of the show.  In this episode I can check and check those off as they both very sadly occured.  The showing finds two cases being held simultaneously. One in which Percy Daggs (Wallace of VM) is accused of accosting a school mate. One in which an innocent man is being railroaded into jail despite Zack’s beliefs that he is not guilty. In this episode Zack’s legal adversary is his girlfriend. She is playing hardball and knows it. She requests to pause the relationship because of the case. Zack agrees but he is so sure that she’s being silly. Sure she’ll fight hard to win but so will he. The thing is her defintion of hard means fighting dirty.  This means tampering with his witness so that he is deported.  Zack’s old buddy with access to a  jet comes to the rescue in time for Zack (fine his characters name is Jerry!) to win the case but he feels betrayed more than he could ever imagine…. even if the entire audience saw it coming  500 miles away.  So this show which I panned even before it aired remains to be exactly what I thought it would be–formulaic mediocrity.  I can’t really imagine anyone liking this show.  I suppose it may appeal to the same audience that likes The Hills and Laguna Beach. It doesn’t require much thought and the people are very pretty.  So there ya go Steven Bochco. You’re a half a step above The Hills.  What would TV do without veterans  to bring back the same crap over and over again? Try something new? Ye gods well thats just crazy thinking.

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