Here’s a deleted scene from Parks & Recreation featuring the wonderful Aubrey Plaza. So far this season she’s been given a lot more to do but I could always do with more Aubrey Plaza. That perpetually bored and unimpressed look of hers is awesome.
Bloopers for HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER
Whilst I absolutely love How I Met Your Mother I haven’t plunked down the cash for the show on DVD yet. Therefore I hadn’t seen the bloopers from the first four seasons until I stumbled upon them on Youtube.
To say they’re awesome is an understatement. These guys and gals goof around not only like they’re best pals but like they could be my own best friends too. It’s this kind of chemistry on set which translates to chemistry on screen.
Below are the four blooper reels.
COMMUNITY 1×01 review
Title: “Pilot”
Written by: Dan Harmon
Air date: Sept 17th 2009
After it’s discovered that Jeff’s (Joel McHale) law degree is from Columbia (the country not the college) he’s forced to attend Community College in order to earn his degree and continue to practice law. He sets up a fake Spanish group in order to hit on Britta (Gillian Jacobs) but more show up to his group than planned.
I’ve already done a script review for the pilot so I won’t go over this too much, other than to say that it sticks very closely to what I remember was in the script. I’ll use this quick review to comment on how the script actually plays out on screen. And that, in a word, is fantastic. All that I noticed which didn’t make the transition from the script was the second encounter with the black cafeteria lady in the hallway. It’s a shame because that was another great exchange between her and Jeff but they probably needed to cut something to get the right length for the episode.
On the cast front, the standouts from the pilot are certainly Jeff, Abed (Danny Pudi) and Duncan (John Oliver). Chevy Chase really doesn’t do much in this episode other than seem a little creepy. All three female characters also come off as a little bitchy, but I’m sure there’ll be development in that regard.
FINAL RATING: 7/10
CONCLUSION
The pilot episode contains most of what was in the script save for a few minor adjustments and one or two cuts. It’s an enjoyable episode which sets the groundwork for future episodes but it’s not the knockout that you hope pilots will be, although this may be because I was already aware of what happened due to reading the script. I think with some development of the female characters and the show establishing more of a biting edge, rather than the safer middle ground which most sitcoms take, that it could be a good addition to NBC’s Thursday comedy block. It’s also worth noting that whilst Ken Jeong has been added to the cast he does not appear in this episode.
RENO 911 cancelled
Thomas Lennon has written on his Twitter that Reno 911 has been cancelled. He writes:
Reno 911! was cancelled at 1:30 pm today. Won’t be wearing the shorts again.
I really enjoyed that show. It’s kinda like Cops on crack.
Trio from ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT reunite
A mini Arrested Development reunion is in the works with Will Arnett, Mitch Hurwitz and Jim Vallely teaming up for a new single-camera comedy for Fox.
The project is being written by the trio and is set to star Arnett as a rich Beverly Hills jackass who falls in love with a charitable tree-hugging woman who can’t stand his lifestyle or values.
Despite my idiot friends not liking it, I think Arrested Development is second only to Seinfeld as the best sitcom of all time. That means I’ll always pay attention to anything which involves alumni from the show, no matter what the premise is.
Now if only that movie version of Arrested Development would get off the ground.
(source = The Hollywood Reporter)
Louis C.K. joins PARKS & RECREATION
Hell yeah. Probably my favourite comedian working today has joined NBC’s Parks & Recreation for a multi-episode arc.
The comedian will portray a Pawnee police officer and potential love interest for Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler). Louis will first appear in the second episode and then in several segments thereafter.
This is great news. NBC now has probably the best lineup of any network all week with their Thursday comedy block of Parks & Recreation, The Office, Community, and 30 Rock, and it’s great to see them adding to this by casting talent the quality of Louis C.K. Despite the lukewarm reception to Parks & Recreation for it’s first season I absolutely loved it, and the addition of Louis C.K. shows me that the show is going to get better and better and develop more of it’s own voice separate from The Office.
Role on September 17th when all these kick-ass shows start up again.
(source = Variety)
Big changes coming on SCRUBS
I figured there’d be changed on Scrubs with the departure of Zach Braff and Sarah Chalke, but I certainly didn’t expect this significant of a change.
Michael Ausiello writes:
Scrubs boss Bill Lawrence said his cancellation-defying comedy would undergo an extreme makeover in its ninth season, and, man, he wasn’t kidding. When the show returns next winter, the action will shift from the hospital to the classroom and make med-school professors of John C. McGinley’s Dr. Cox and Donald Faison’s Turk.
“It’ll be a lot like Paper Chase as a comedy,” Lawrence tells me. “It’s going to be a different show. It’ll still be life-and-death stakes, but if the show is just Scrubs again in the hospital with a different person’s voiceover, it would be a disaster and people would be mad.”
Of course, Sacred Heart won’t go away altogether. Although J.D.’s old stomping ground no longer will serve as the show’s base of operations, the students will occasionally rotate through its halls — and bump into many of its familiar faces. In addition to McGinley and Faison, both of whom are expected to be full-time regulars alongside a quartet of newbies (most of them playing students), Scrubs vets Zach Braff, Sarah Chalke, Judy Reyes and Ken Jenkins have agreed to make guest appearances. (Neil Flynn has a costarring role as Patricia Heaton’s husband in the new ABC sitcom The Middle, so his name-challenged Janitor will be MIA.)
“Med students in their first three years have to spend anywhere from 10 to 50 percent of their time at a hospital,” Lawrence explains. “And that’s when you’ll see some of the [original cast members]. Continuity-wise, Sacred Heart will still exist with those people still working there.”
But Lawrence insists “half the cast, if not 60 percent of it,” will be comprised of freshmen, one of which will be more recognizable than the rest. “[ABC] is really after us to hire a big name,” he reveals. “So one of them will be fairly famous.”
(source = The Ausiello Files)
New poster for THE GOODE FAMILY
Here’s a cool new poster for ABC’s new animated show The Goode Family, which has unfortunately just been moved to Fridays. Hopefully the show will still be able to find an audience and survive.
Click the image for a larger view.
BETTER OFF TED to return for summer run
It appears that ABC is bringing back Better off Ted to burn off it’s remaining episodes during the summer. Variety says:
Alphabet still had six episodes of “Ted” left from its midseason run earlier this year; those segs will now air Tuesdays at 9 p.m. starting June 23, behind new reality competish “The Superstars.”
It’s good news if you ask me because there’s usually nothing of interest on over summer and I really enjoyed Better off Ted for the few episodes that have aired.
New clip from SONS OF TUCSON
Here’s a little clip from the upcoming comedy SONS OF TUCSON set to star Tyler Labine. You can check out my review of the pilot script here.