TV Scape

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.

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.