Posts Tagged ‘News’

Television News: Jimmy Fallon Named Successor to Conan O’Brien, Absolutely No One Happy

By Sam Wunderl • Apr 28th, 2008 • Category: Television, Televsion & Film

Fallon Shmallon

True story: a few days ago, I thought, “Hmm, you know who has seemingly dropped off the radar? That Jimmy Fallon guy. Thank God, he sure was annoying!.” Cut to a few days later, and Jimmy Fallon is now replacing Conan O’Brien in February 2009. The guy went from being nowhere to being in my face every single weeknight in no time at all!

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TV News: Finally That Show About Me Got Picked Up

By Sam Wunderl • Apr 24th, 2008 • Category: Television, Televsion & Film

Alternate Title: I didn’t know we’d be getting a Friday Night Lights spin-off about Tim Riggins so soon

Sue Naegle, new president of HBO, has picked up her first show. It’s called Hung. Here’s a synopsis from Variety:

Hung opens on a man who was once a high school sports legend, but is now plodding along in middle age as a struggling father and high school basketball coach. His luck begins to change, however, when he figures out a way to use his best asset.

They’re referring to his penis.

The show is created by Colette Burson and Dmitry Lipkin, creator of FX’s The Riches. Hopefully this show, along with Alan Ball’s vampire series True Blood, will reinvigorate HBO’s schedule, which has been sagging after the finales of two of their best known series (The Sopranos and The Wire) and a string of misses (John From Cincinnati, Tell Me You Love Me).

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