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October 2006

"House"

October 31, 2006

This summer, I was one of many reporters interviewing a producer of "House" about what's coming this season. She apparently had a very good time toying with us, giving out dribs of information, or turning the interview around by asking what we wanted to see on the show.
I told her I wanted to see House [...]

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Reese and Ryan

October 30, 2006

TMZ.com is reporting that Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Philippe have separated. (Story here.) Have to wonder if their respective career arcs were a factor. Both good actors. But Witherspoon's got strong box office and an Oscar (although, as I said last week in a column, she was better in "Election" than in "Walk the Line"). [...]

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More "Wicker"

October 27, 2006

From today's e-mail:
On December 19th, Anchor Bay Entertainment will be re-releasing the original 1978 horror classic The Wicker Man as a 2-disc Special Edition DVD set, featuring an all-new audio commentary from director Robin Hardy and actors Christopher Lee and Edward Woodward. Presenting the acclaimed international version, fully restored from original vault materials with 11 [...]

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Catchup Night: "Lost," "Veronica," Bits

October 27, 2006

Before we get to anything else, here's the latest (and hysterically funny) check out what the "Nobody's Watching" gang has done with "Lost" in this video. Hysterically funny, and with a surprise guest.
Well, not so much a surprise now.
Anyway, because Thursday was a night of reruns, the bride and I were able to get to [...]

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Another Movie Night

October 26, 2006

I may have to have the Cone of Silence attached permanently to my head where TV shows are concerned. I saw nothing in real time last night because I was at another movie screening, this one for "Stranger Than Fiction," the Will Ferrell-Emma Thompson comedy.
After sitting unhappily through "Running With Scissors," I was relieved to [...]

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NBC Shuffle

October 25, 2006

From today's announcements:
NBC will return the Emmy Award-nominated "Scrubs" and move freshman comedy "30 Rock" to Thursday nights beginning November 30 to form a new two-hour 8-10 p.m. (ET) comedy block with "My Name Is Earl" and "The Office." The change will follow a special super-sized night of comedy two weeks earlier on Thursday, November [...]

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Long Tuesday

October 24, 2006

Watched "Studio 60" this morning, and my issues with this show are too many to go into now. Disappointment growing by the week. Wrote a HeldenFiles and Pop Quiz for tomorrow, and a mailbag column for Thursday. Came home and began watching the DVD of "Mission: Impossible III" for my DVD column, which — like [...]

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I Love This Ad!

October 23, 2006

Michael J. Fox has weighed into a political race in this spot. It's very powerful and makes its point both in what Fox says and in how he looks.
It reminds me of some other forceful ads from bygone days, especially a couple of anti-smoking spots. One featured William Talman, who played Hamilton Burger on "Perry [...]

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Jessica and Nick News

October 23, 2006

The following is in People online:
Jessica Simpson says she realized that her marriage to Nick Lachey was over when he opted out of accompanying her to Africa on a charity trip in October 2005.
"I went there on our three-year wedding anniversary," she tells Jane magazine for its November issue. "He stayed home."
Now, Nick [...]

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It's Never Too Early for Holiday Shopping …

October 23, 2006

After I wrote about a new "Daniel Boone" DVD in a recent column, the following arrived in the e-mail:
Do you know someone who used to run around in that iconic coonskin cap? If so, the Fess Parker Daniel Boone gift basket, available at www.fessparker.com, may be the perfect holiday gift. The Daniel Boone series recently [...]

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Jane Wyatt, "Amazing Race," Odds and Ends

October 23, 2006

My new world order continues in the office and out. On the office side, I've begun two new things: "The HeldenFiles," bits and pieces about personalities and pop culture, which will run Sunday, Wednesday and Friday; the first one appeared yesterday. Today saw the first "Talking Points," a roundup of news and cultural items from [...]

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'"SNL's" First Season on DVD

October 20, 2006

After dealing with years of patchwork "best-ofs," this is really good news, notwithstanding the misspelling of Jane Curtin's name:
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON
Street Date: 12/5 Price: $69.98
Just in time for the holidays, the eight-disc set comes in specially designed gift packaging with a limited-edition collectible book, audition footage and cast interview that [...]

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Oh, THAT 8 p.m. Ban!

October 20, 2006

More about NBC's supposed plan to turn the 8 p.m. hour into a cheap reality zone, this with NBC Entertainment President Kevin Reilly quoted in Daily Variety:
Reilly also downplayed earlier statements by NBC U TV honcho Jeff Zucker that the net would get out of the scripted game altogether in the 8 p.m. hour. For [...]

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New Morning, New Name

October 20, 2006

Some of you may have noticed last night that the name on this blog as changed to "The HeldenFiles Online." Although I wrote about things other than TV under the old "Beacon TV" name, the change aims to make clearer that the blog will range wide on cultural issues. ("Kuo Time," below, is one example.) [...]

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"Grey's" Blues

October 19, 2006

The bride and I had a double feature of "Grey's Anatomy" tonight, finally catching the episode from a week ago, followed by tonight's. Regular readers here know I've been pretty obsessive about the show. But right now I'm not feeling the love for it much.
I'll make my peace with the Izzie thing. I still don't [...]

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Kuo Time

October 19, 2006

For the last several days we've been hearing about David Kuo, once the director of faith-based initiatives for President Bush, who has described in some detail his disenchantment with the Bush administration.
In an excerpt from his new book in Time magazine, Kuo said: "George W. Bush, the man, is a person of profound faith and [...]

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Great Line …

October 19, 2006

From a press release about the Oct. 23 episode of "Two and a Half Men":
If there's still any misconception that just because there's a kid on the show, it's a "family" show, this episode should easily clear that up.

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Bad News for Reality-TV Haters

October 19, 2006

You may already have seen the reports that NBC Universal is slashing its budget, cutting jobs and reorganizing. But here's the scary part of the story, from today's Wall Street Journal
Among NBC Universal's most significant moves is its decision to stop scheduling expensive dramas and comedies during the 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. time slot. [...]

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Welcome to the Other Blog

October 19, 2006

If you stumble across this, it's a test of a new blog format that may succeed my current "Beacon TV" (soon to be renamed "The HeldenFiles Online"). I'll see be posting to the previous blog for the time being, so don't change your bookmark. In fact, even though the name is changing, we'll keep the [...]

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"Lost," "Veronica Mars" And Such

October 19, 2006

Last night the bride and I went to the Students Against Multiple Sclerosis lip-synching fund-raiser over at the University of Akron. I hope someone gets YouTube a video of Brian Dominguez's splendid performance. But, once again, it meant a night of delayed viewing. We checked out the "Dancing With the Stars" results (which had no [...]

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