Tonight the producers of the 2009 BET Awards plan to remember Michael Jackson. They may be scrambling to pull it together in time but as a black artist Michael Jackson deserves recognition for his entertainment achievements. Setting his questionable celebrity status aside for his peculiarities does not take away his talent.
Many talents in the industry will be there and as other black entertainers are honored for their work in music, television and the movies, it is believed some sort of tribute has been put together to honor Michael Jackson, the man who is being reported as the first black artist to make his way to MTV.
Don’t miss it from 8:00 PM to 11:30 PM eastern as it hopes to be must see TV.
And here is a must see YouTube video showcasing the choreography and singing talents of Michael Jackson.
Woohoo, it is Sunday, it is Mother’s Day and it is In Plain Sight night on the USA Network. They got my number. Guess what mom is watching?
Well, I’m making my rounds updating blogs for Mother’s Day and wanted to share some comedic relief. For the mom’s who don’t know how they do it and don’t know how any mom with just one child then they have does it here is a word from Jeff Dunham and puppet Peanut. If you get a chance look for Dunham’s specials on Comedy Central or check him out live in a city near you on Stubhub.
Oh and if you can’t get a sitter, that would be me usually, you can check him out whenever you want at a DVD in a room near you. That is how I check out most my movies…remember when grandmas lived in the same town as you? I don’t.
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.
