Jeremy Clymer is a freelance writer and stand-up comic who lives, works, and keeps it real in the Midwestern state of Michigan, USA. No, not that part of Michigan. The other part.
The media blitz for Muppets Most Wanted is gaining momentum as we get closer to its release date. For today's Superbowl festivities we get a double dose of Muppets as a new trailer for the film is unveiled as well as a Toyota ad featuring Jim Henson's creations and Brooklyn Nine-Nine's Terry Crews.
So far season 3 of Girls has been its most fast-paced yet, both in terms of character development and in term of the sheer number of jokes fit into a single episode. There have been some fantastically quotable lines this season, the best of which so far came from Ray in last week's episode. All good things must come to an end, though, and this week's episode, "Only Child," is the first sign that perhaps the momentum the show has established over the last four episodes is not entirely sustainable in the long term.
Sharknado was a runaway success for the SyFy network, if you ignore ratings and go purely by Internet buzz. It become a bit of a Twitter sensation, prompting a seemingly endless stream of jokes like "What's next? Sharcano?" (The answer to that hypothetical question is yes, but only in book form.) It's only natural, then, that SyFy would follow it up with a sequel, and that sequel is Sharknado 2: The Second One.
Let's say you're Robert Rodriguez and you've just launched a channel aimed at Latino audiences. How do you make the channel stand out among the hundreds of other options most cable subscribers have? Well, taking one of your most popular films and adapting it into a TV series to run on your new network is certainly a good start. Rodriguez is a guy with some series business savvy, so that's exactly what he has done with From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series.
Peter Capaldi! He was great in The Thick of It as the uber-aggressive and foul-mouthed Malcolm Tucker, and if he can bring even half of that gleeful crankiness to his role as the 12th Doctor on Doctor Who then we're in for a real treat with the season to come. But what is he going to look like in his role as everyone's favorite time-traveling alien? We had a few fleeting glimpses before, particularly in the 2013 Christmas special, but now the BBC has given us a glimpse into his regular costume.
On last week's episode of Girls, Hannah's editor David made an unexpected appearance at her birthday party, clearly out of his mind on drugs. It was a bit odd. Here was a character who had really been marginal at best so far, mostly there for the purposes of complicating Hannah's life with uncomfortably personal writing assignments that exploited her emotional nakedness. All of a sudden, here he was acting way out of character and putting himself front and center in a way that raised the obvious question, "OK, so what's going on here?"
By now everyone is pretty well aware that someone, somewhere tanked The Hateful Eight by leaking the first draft of Quentin Tarantino's script for the movie. After the leak, most likely by one of the film's actors or the agent of one of the actors, Tarantino pulled the plug on the project, opting instead to publish the script and table the movie for the foreseeable future.
When last we heard of Ron Howard's planned big screen adaptations of Stephen King's The Dark Tower series, they were in a state of suspended animation, not quite dead yet not quite alive. Well, it appears the films are still on life support.
With the success of shows like Once Upon a Time and Sleepy Hollow on the small screen, network TV executives are no doubt feverishly chasing down every last option for taking an old idea, polishing it up a bit, and then unleashing it as something with only the most tangential of relationships to the original. This time around they've dug up the corpse of The Wizard of Oz, which was recently exhumed and paraded around Weekend at Bernie's-style by Disney for Oz the Great and Powerful but will now be adapted into a 10-episode TV series for NBC called Emerald City.
In this week's episode of Girls, titled "She Said OK," Adam gives Hannah a birthday gift of a necklace with a tooth on it. "It's either mine or Caroline's," he tells her about the tooth. "My mother put them in the same box."