Stump the King: Morgan Spurlock
Last week was a historic one for me. Something happened that has never happened before and it actually happened twice.
Last week, as I often do, I wrote reviews of a few TV shows. The first review was for a new documentary series on Showtime. I didn’t really like the show but I made a comment on how beautiful I found a young lady who was featured on the show. Well, much to my surprise, not only did she read the review but she wrote to thank me for the compliment. I was certainly flattered but I was even more surprised that someone I mentioned would actually take the time to write me.
That same week, I wrote another review of the FX series 30 Days. This particular episode featured a nice woman named Kati who spent a month with a same sex couple raising a group of kids. I wasn’t really surprised to see the amount of comments this review received considering what an controversial topic the show covered. However, I never expected that Kati herself, would take the time to write me and comment on how much she enjoyed the review.
I’ve been working for TV for a little over a year now and this is the first time anyone has written me to comment on how I reviewed them or their work and to make it more surprising, it happened twice in the same week,
As the week came to an end and the messages started to dwindle, I had a chance to reflect on what this means exactly and I came to a conclusion that simply reinforced what I have often thought… I am awesome!
Now for this week’s question…
What was the name of Morgan Spurlock’s character in his only acting appearance?
Congratulations G! You got the correct answer.
300 Sequel News
Collider spoke with 300 producers Mark Canton, Gianni Nunnari and Bernie Goldmann at the recent Saturn Awards and got them to reveal that not only are they working on a Blu-ray edition of the film but they’re also planning a sequel and/or prequel. Frank Miller is busy working on a brand new story and director Zack Snyder says that if they think it could work as a movie, they’re going to make it!
I know some people would prefer 300 to stay as a standalone film, however this is Hollywood. 300 was a surprise hit for Warner Bros, having septupled (x7) its budget, so it makes business sense to jump on the sequel bandwagon.
What are your thoughts?
No surprise there: Disney working on a Camp Rock sequel
What should come as no surprise to anybody: Disney is now hard at work to the sequel of its High School Musical trilogy follow-up, Camp Rock. The Disney Channel is hoping to broadcast the sequel in spring or summer of 2009.
The first Camp Rock debuted to 8.9 million viewers on Friday night, the second highest viewership ever for the network (but still far below the 17.2 million they got for High School Musical 2).The movie stars the Jonas Brothers (Joe, Kevin and Nick), who had a following before the movie was released. With that in mind, shouldn’t the ratings have been even higher? Maybe it’s just that they’re no Zac Efron.
With the High School Musical phenomenon moving to theaters, Disney does have to do something to pick up the slack. Admittedly, I am not the target demographic for this genre, but it was once described to me as “this generation’s Grease”, which seemed pretty accurate. Although, to my knowledge, Grease didn’t spawn these sort of copycat milk-it-till-it’s-dead follow-ups.
Oops! ABC posts wrong version on Men in Trees online
Apparently, ABC has posted the wrong season finale of Men in Trees on their site. The show had filmed two endings: one in case it was renewed and one in case it was canceled. On deciding which ending to use a few months back, executive producer Jenny Bicks said, “One is a little more of a cliffhanger. It may also depend on how we want to end the season regardless. They’re both very effective endings.”
Rob Owen of TV Q&A at the Post Gazette discovered that ABC had posted the “we’re not canceled” cliffhanger ending online by mistake earlier this week. One of his readers asked, “Much to my surprise the episode on the Internet had a different ending than what was shown on TV. It ended with Jack’s ex-girlfriend, Lynn, leaving their baby girl on the doorstep of Marin’s house and driving off.”
Owen confirmed that ABC had indeed posted the wrong ending online for a short time. He also expects that Warner Bros. will save both endings for a DVD release.