Well it had to happen sooner or later. U2 left NY. Is Get On Your Boots losing that new car smell already? Incredible concert at Fordham University for the Good Morning American audience…more incredible that I got up to watch it. I’m on a different shift for some reason. Sure where is Charlie Jade when you need him, or course maybe SciFi moved it to an even more obscure and insignificant time slot…maybe it only plays on DST at the moment you change your clocks back…very SciFi-ish, don’t you think?
So I had a very brief hiatus and have a list of TV notes to share. But I’ll move right on to the big news…last night was American Idol night, the first night for the 13 contestants, yes a baker’s dozen this time. And tonight is American Idol night where they vote off two and announce some other changes in the way American Idol works. If I didn’t know any better I’d start to think that Bernie Ecclestone from F1 racing was reorganizing the show. I digress, we all know if American Idol ran like F1 it would be under a 2 hr time constraint and this would be the only post I’d have to write a week.
I don’t know about the rest of you but I pretty much haven’t found the time to sit through the total American Idol experience in a couple of seasons. You know the one where you start the season with auditions, move to the Hollywood auditions, and then we finally get to the final 12 (13) where we view American Idol for a good couple hours two nights in a row, not to mention all the other TV news on the topic that you can follow ad infinitum until we have a winner and sometime in the summer you can watch a collection of audition highlights, as if the real thing wasn’t painful enough the first time around.
Anyway, it’s been awhile since I caught the show and I was pleased to watch the first episode and make my pick for which contestant I think the next American Idol should be…I’ll phrase it that way since there is no guarantee the rest of the American public will see it the same way as I, in good sense. Adam Lambert folks. Man should be a lead singer in a rock and roll band already. What is happening to America I ask? His friends must be too busy playing Guitar Hero to form a band.
If you want some American Idol news and you’ve found I’ve only shown up to see who got voted off in a couple weeks because I just don’t have all that time to cover American Idol, then please visit American Idol at Today for all the unvarnished American Idol news. That is where I’ll catch up if I miss something important. However, I really like that Adam Lambert. I might have to tune in each week and check it out.
I know you were all probably thinking TVScape was turning into a U2 site, what can I say? From all the commercials and hype you would think it was the biggest thing on TV this week…okay, let’s face it, it is. They are really working the David Letterman late show. Wonder how great the Good Morning America show will be tomorrow. These guys rock and give 110 percent. I remember when they did Saturday Night Live one year they played an extra set before the SNL cameras shut off.
Okay, I’m ready for some Primetime. Don’t tell anybody but I saw Life on Mars for the first time last night. I know! And I’m sorry I’ve been missing it…and I’m sorry to tell you they just announced it will be canceled. Maybe they should have called it Life on Pluto.
This is the story of my life. But have no fear fans they get to finish out their 17 episodes which will afford them enough time to finish the story line. This simplifies things for me because if I want to collect the series in the future on DVD I only have to purchase one season. How cool is that. That being said, perhaps we will be lucky enough that on that note, they can put together a compilation of the music from the show.
Too bad it is canceled; too bad we can’t get SciFi to pick it up because of the nature of the story. Cop gets hit by car and time travels to 1973…i.e. we have a bunch of cool writers that can only write about cool cops in the 70’s and the music was better back then than it is now and this will only fly if we turn it into science fiction…I tell you if SciFi picked it up it would be easier on the brain than Charlie Jade. You think I’m kidding, why do you think they play it at 3/2 am Central time?
Well, if you still care about Life on Mars visit them at ABC to watch full episodes or listen to the Life on Mars radio (they played Go Now by the Moody Blues and Rocket Man by Elton John last night).
What do you think Michael Imperioli will do next? Will it include more or less hair? Will it matter? Well have to go, U2 is on again.
More fun with U2 on The Late Show With David Letterman last night. They got to read the Top 10 List with Dave last night. Topic, “Things U2 has learned over the years…”
Well, The Edge may have got something started with Sting when he made a Freudian slip in the answer to #5 “Cool name: The Edge. Uncool name: The Itch” – The Edge supplied the answer of Sting for Uncool name. Certainly all in good fun, I mean he could have said any number of things, including Prince or how about Meatloaf.
Read the list here or view the list reading here. Find other highlights at CBS’ Late Show site including the performances of both Magnificant and Breathe from performances on Monday and Tuesday. Tonight they will be singing I’ll Go Crazy and the guest is Jon Stewart, definitely worth a look see if Dr. Phil wasn’t your cup of tea last night. Good thing U2 was on or I would have avoided the show completely.
And of course don’t forget that tomorrow at 7 a.m. on Good Morning America (GMA) they’ll wake up America.
It must be said that there are some things that are on TV that we shouldn’t watch, let alone that they shouldn’t be on TV. Hands down as worst show I saw so far this week…and thank the powers that be if there was something worse on that I missed it…of course this is so bad I couldn’t wait a week to look for something worse, was My Big Red Neck Wedding on CMT (Country Music Television for the uninitiated).
I caught an excellent movie, one of my favorites…more about that later, on CMT this evening and as it was late and I was busy writing I left it on CMT to keep me company until I finished my work…the remote was only a foot away from me so I don’t know why I didn’t change the channel.
My Big Red Neck Wedding is more sad than funny. Even sadder was Tom Arnold’s monologue throughout. Somebody quick, call his agent and put him in an awful sitcom and take this show off the air, it will do humanity some good. It’s my duty not to share air times with you to protect you from the pain I suffered this evening. All I can say is enter at your own risk, if you do, don’t say I didn’t warn you.
U2 is spending the week with Dave Letterman leading up to the big Friday morning concert at Good Morning America. All for the release of No Line On The Horizon which was released today. Of course there are numerous YouTube videos from U2’s first Letterman appearance this week but they are being disabled left and right so I’ll post a link to a new song from No Line On The Horizon, Breathe.
We’ll keep you up to date on the Letterman U2 front. Meanwhile at BigShoes we’ve posted links from our U2 archives to celebrate U2 at BigShoes. It includes a CBS clip from YouTube of the four Irishmen helping Dave out during the Nor’easter.
If you’re a U2 fan and you had to pick your favorite concert tour, do you think you could? I’d have to put some thought into it. I know my personal favorite may be Rattle and Hum, love the guitars, so I might be leaning that way…even though Vertigo had it going on.
Fancy that, I’m celebrating BigShoes’ birthday this week and tomorrow one of my favorite bands, U2, releases their twelfth studio album, No Line On The Horizon. Things couldn’t get any better…or could they? U2 is scheduled to perform on the March 6th airing of Good Morning America. This is big TV news of course, and is U2’s second morning television show appearance. They kicked off Good Morning America’s Summer Concert Series in 2005 during their Vertigo tour.
I’m a huge U2 fan, especially of their live performances and am very excited to share and I’m prepared to schedule my DVR if I’m not available at the time of their performance. I can’t see why I wouldn’t be since the only time I ever missed a U2 concert that I had wanted to see was due to pregnancy.
What are we going to talk about on TV Scape? Anything and everything! There is going to be TV commentary, head’s up to what’s new and a few look backs to what was. I’m your TVScape guide. TVScape is not celebrity centric. It is also not limited to primetime, daytime or any particular genre. Let’s talk about our favorites and then some.
So who am I and am I qualified?
After a year blogging for one of Today’s first network blogs BigShoes (visit for our March celebrations) and about half that time blogging for WritelyApplied as the Today.com network grew, I couldn’t put off the itch to return to television entertainment blogging. I had the pleasure a while back to blog on my favorite USA and SciFi TV shows. Although those blogs are no longer around I still miss writing about Monk, Psych, In Plain Sight and Ghost Hunters. I teased myself with daughter-related movie reviews at BellaOnline Daughters but it wasn’t enough and it wasn’t blogging.
After some thought and a mind I couldn’t reel in from planning content for a couple of new blogs, I decided to make the jump last week and added TVScape and The Inside Soap to my blog roll. I hope in a few weeks time as we get the blogs rolling that you would do the same. Don’t forget to share your favorite shows and sites related to TV & Entertainment.
Welcome to TVScape! Let’s tune in and see what’s on.
Enjoy TV? Me too. It transcends all seasons. Not a movie goer anymore? Have trouble getting out or aren’t really a hobby person? Want to live vicariously via your armchair? Don’t worry if there is nothing on, today you can download your favorite programs or new television premieres to a DVR to catch up on later, view them online or find repeat programming in the future.I don’t think TV is the boob-tube that people like to refer to it as. German film maker and director Alexander Kluge said of television, “Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of.”
What are you dreaming of? Do you have something you want to learn, a place you’d like to travel to? Or do you want to find the next great TV detective to partner with to solve mysteries?
Television introduces both entertainment and knowledge into our homes. TV is what we make of it. It is either an escape, a way to relax alone or with family and friends, and a tool to educate. TV Scape is the new guide to television, any genre, any channel, any age. Let’s tune in and see what’s on.
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It must be said that there are some things that are on TV that we shouldn’t watch, let alone that they shouldn’t be on TV. Hands down as worst show I saw so far this week…and thank the powers that be if there was something worse on that I missed it…of course this is so bad I couldn’t wait a week to look for something worse, was My Big Red Neck Wedding on CMT (Country Music Television for the uninitiated).
What are we going to talk about on TV Scape? Anything and everything! There is going to be TV commentary, head’s up to what’s new and a few look backs to what was. I’m your TVScape guide. TVScape is not celebrity centric. It is also not limited to primetime, daytime or any particular genre. Let’s talk about our favorites and then some.
