Renew: According to Jim

Sometimes a cancel is not forever, just like the case of Jericho (do you remember the „nuts” story?), or now the case of According to Jim.

ABC ressurected the comedy for the next season, after initially leaving it off the new season’s schedule. The new, seventh season will consist of 18 episodes, but other details are not published. James Belushi, who is the star and the executive producer of this multi-camera comedy, was very happy about the decision and promised us a very great season. Other important character and star of the show is Courtney Thorne-Smith, who played Allison on the well-known series, Melrose Place , was very excited about the next season.

Despite of the last season’s low ratings (little over 6 million viewers per week) the network decided to renew the show, and I think the main reason was the 2007-2008 schedule, because ABC will broadcast three comedies on the new schedule, but all of them are single-camera (for example Carpoolers), and as I mentioned, According to Jim is multi-camera show. So, it’s interesting to know that sometimes a cancel is not sure, but I think in the case of According to Jim, it is a good thing.

Not a real CANCEL!: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

Yesterday was a tragic day for fans of Studio 60 on the Sunset strip, because their favourite show has come to the end. But, fortunately, Aaron Sorkin wrote a nice happy ending for the show and its characters. Note: The other part of the article containing spoilers.

Jordan and Danny finally got their adoption papers and their new daughter, Rebecca will be their key to happiness in the future. I think the last scenes were too romantic, Sorkin tried to show a happy family life and future in a few minutes. I think, he shouldn’t have to do that, all the plot lines wrapped up in a hurried but exciting 5 minutes. Simon and Jack continued their quality work and they answered all the opened questions, they left. And in the end when we find out that Tom’s brother and the two missing soldiers are okay...it was very nice and suprising
scene! But that’s all the good part. I think this show was deserved the cancel because in the last episodes Sorkin made the Studio 60 some idiot and lame romantic show, and this is not the real Studio 60 feeling.
In the final episodes, there are a lot of things, which are very unneccessary and don’t mean anything. And from the ratings, you can see that others probably thinking like me. In the second half of the season not have turned out to be as good as it could have been, but the conlusion: it was a nice show. Some say that the main reason of the cancel was that its target audience didn’t get the feeling of the show. It’s not true, because this kind of shows have no target audience. This shows are for the tv-shows addicts and fans of Sorkin. And for Cancel-addicts.

Flight of the Conchords 1x01

Sorry guys about the long-term break, I had some technical issues with my notebook, but now I’m back. In this review, we check the Flight of the Conchords out.

This is the HBO’s new comedy series, which is about the life of a new zealandian parody duo („the fourth popular”), which consists of Bret and Clement. They attempt to break into the american music scene (exactly to New York) with the help of their manager, Murray and their only, obsessed fan, Mel, who is not an average girl. They have other interesting friends, which characters are very unneccesary. So, this is the main story, but truly, there is no storyline. It’s just a funny show about two guys and some of their friends, no hiding advertisements, no dramatic actions, no disgusting sex issues or other shit.

Other reviews say Flight of the Conchords is like popular movies, such as Zoolander or Napoleon Dynamite, but I think isn’t true. Zoolander has a nice story, but the Conchords is like a good stand-up comedy with some, lame story-idea. This is a very original production with a small sketch-show feeling but this is the main problem. Every episode is almost the same, just the jokes are changing. I don’t like this kind of shows and I’m sure that the audience will share my opininon. The humor of the series and the facial expressions of Bret and Clement are very good, but after some time, I couldn’t laugh anymore.

New infos about cancelled Veronica Mars

After the cancel of CW’s dramatic teen-soap, "Veronica Mars" everybody was disappointed and angry. Unfortunately, The CW is not CBS to change its decision (remember the Jericho case) so Veronica was cancelled forever.

But the story of Mars may continue on the big screen and in a comic book, reports Toronto Star. The leaders of DC Comics and the creator of the show had a meeting last week and they agreed to do a comic series. The storyline is ready, according to Rob Thomas, executive producer, Veronica will go to the FBI academy in the comic book, which story will be the virtual season 4 for the show.

After the cancellation many fans start to send Mars Bars to the CW’s building to save Veronica like fans of Jericho did, but according to Thomas, the story of the teenaged private eye was ended forever on TV. But I think Rob Thomas didn’t want to continue the story because he has now two other works, the ABC’s mid-season series „Miss/Guided” and a pilot called Party Down. So, calm down folks, Veronica Mars is over.

John from Cincinnati 1x01

This is a new HBO show, just days after the Sopranos finale, and it looks like pretty lame and strange (yes, this is the exact word for this show).

John from Cincinnati is about a family and its new friends: a man and a boy. The Yost family is in trouble when a man who was spumed by the Yosts years ago is arriving to the city to take a revenge. Meanwhile a wealthy boy wants to learn surfing so he goes to the Yost family, which consists of Mitch Yost, the father, his wife, Cissy, their drug-addicted surfer son, Butchie and Butchie's 14-year-old son, Shaun who is also a surfer or just wants to be a surfer. And here comes John from Cincinnati, a stranger who has a lot of money and a lot of secrets. He is a very crazy and strange guy, but easily befriends Butchie, who is a true loser.

This is the main storyline and the fate of this 10 part series is seems to be very bad, I think, because all the characters are very forgettable and boring, so maybe the story is the only chance to attract the viewers, but according to the first episode, this is not a chance. Altough the creator of this show is David Milch who is the man behind Deadwood, I can’t find any clues of creativity…yes, there are all kind of stuff, like drug abuse, boozing, surfing and so on, but it is not a mini-series, John from Cincinnati is just a short teen soap.

Despite of the good and well-known actors, for example Luke Perry or Luis Guzman, I don’t think that the acting was very good in this first episode. But in spite of all this crap, the show offers unique opportunity to know Imperial Beach, the last shoreline before the US and Mexican border, but I think this is not enough to sustain the interest of viewers through 2-3 episodes.

Supergirl is coming!!!

A new character will join the CW’s long-running Superman-saga, Smallville. After a few attempts of showing extraordinary superheroes, a new legend, The supergirl will join the cast in this fall, reported the network, Monday, June 11.

This won’t be a new idea, if you remember, some other DC Comics characters have made appearances in the show, for example, The Flash, Aquaman or Cyborg. But this case is different according to the executive producer, Al Gough because Supergirl will a fix member of the crew for the new season of Smallville. The seventh season of Clark Kent’s story will get new power and spark. It is important, because I think the last two seasons were very bad and boring, but maybe the new character will help the show to renew.

According to the network's homepage, the new season will premiere with the arrival of Kara, Superman’s 19-year-old cousin born on Krypton. Kara also has superpowers, and she can fly, not like Clark. But Lex and the others are also interested in the new girl and it makes the story very interesting.

Note: Casting for the Supergirl role is currently underway but I think a very hot girl will be the winner.

Clair Forlani and Dougray Scott got married

Famous actress Clair Forlani and tv-series star Dougray Scott were married in Italy on Friday, June 8.

They met almost two years ago, and Dougray proposed to the girl last September. The Scottish actor played Ian Kavanaugh on Desperate Housewives, who tried to get Susan’s love but unfortunately he failed. But all cancel addicts know that Dougray played a nice character on the cancelled „Heist”, which was a very good thief-thing show.

According to imdb.com, Scott was a main character of various kind of movies, like Mission Impossible 2 or Dark Water. But the truth is: I don’t know this guy before I found some information about him on Internet. But Claire Forlani is a famous american actress, she played Anthony Hopkins’s daughter on Meet Joe Black and she was the love of Freddie Prinze Jr. On Boys and Girls. Good luck guys!