Before the press wanted Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s opinion about world affairs, CBC wanted to know what he thought of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. How awwwdorable was the 11-year-old during that 1983 interview?
And he is right, Jedi was the best of the first or the last 3 Star Wars movies, depending on how you look at it.
It is the first Monday after the Emmys and that means it is time for the start of the fall season on broadcast TV. As much as this pains to me say, this is the weakest one for new shows in a really long time. Since there are a lot of shows premiering over the next few weeks, I am going to put them all in one post on a daily basis from, what I think is, best to worst.
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The best show of the night goes to a new one and that is Manifest that debuts on NBC at 10p. Michaela (Melissa Roxburgh) and her family went on vacation with her brother, Ben (Josh Dallas), his wife Grace (Athena Karkanis), their twins, Cal (Jack Messina) and Olive (Luna Blaise) and their parents (Malachy Cleary and Geraldine Leer) and it is time to go home.
Michaela is ready to get home, but she will do anything not to travel with her nagging mom. When the airline opens up 4 seats, she decides to go along with her brother and his son who is battling cancer. Cal’s diagnosis is grim, so Ben wants to spend some time alone with him. They just have no idea what will happen next.
Their flight seems normal until they hit some turbulence. Once things level out, it is time to land at JFK. Air traffic control tells them to land at a nearby airport instead. When they get there, they find out that it has been 5 and 1/2 years since they took off. No one has aged a day in that time, while everyone else on the ground, including their family, has.
After several hours of quarantine, the passengers are reunited with their families. Now, they have to adjust to being together again. That is not the only difference, they start hearing a voice in their head that tells them to do something. They do not understand and that is something we are going to find out.
While I really like the pilot, I am cautionary optimistic because we have been down this road before with sci-fi shows. They give a good pilot and then it is all downhill from there. Hopefully, this will break that pattern. Please break the pattern because there is a lot of potential here.
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Hey older people, remember what life was like before CDs and MP3s? We used to listen to music on things called cassettes. Every now and again, the tape would get stuck in the player and then we would have to wind it back in very carefully. It was beyond frustrating. You just wanted to scream.
Since Millennials were born after CDs took over, they do not know our pain. But now some do thanks to Me TV. That means it is time for another race between them and Baby Boomers to see who can do it faster.
How did they do? Shockingly one of those young whippersnappers was able to do it in half the time of the oldies. But then they beat the youngins by just as much time.
Now I will be having nightmares of when my Big Chill soundtrack got stuck in the tape player. I cried for days. Almost as many as when I saw the movie.
As we know Kevin Hart is not the bravest of men. About two years ago he went on First We Feast and suffered greatly for it. Now that he has another movie coming out, he was invited back for another go at it. This time, he and Tiffany Haddish, his Night School co-star, took part in Truth or Dab.
Basically, it is like Truth or Dare, but instead, they have to eat a very hot wing if they opt not to answer the question or get it wrong.
They each took turns and it started off easy, but you knew that was not going to last. The second question they asked Kevin, “Are you a card-carrying member of the eat a booty gang?” He debated how to answer and finally decided to eat the wing instead of admitting whether or not he eats a$$. He screamed in pain and I laughed so hard that I was in pain.
Then it got worse for him when he was asked to answer a math problem that he got wrong. That meant he had to eat even a hotter wing and I got a heartier laugh. Both of us were crying but for different reasons.
When it comes to Haddish, she showed him who is spicier by handling it better than him. Did expect any less from her? And I expect a lot of laughs from their movie Night School that comes out on Friday.
Oh and before I forget, I felt his pain every time he burped. Anyone who eats hot sauce all the time knows the heat, repeats. Haha!!! That and if it burns going in, it burns going out.
In 2011, Robert Greenblatt left Showtime to become the Chairman of NBC. At first, I hated him because I blamed him for cancelling Queer As Folk at his old job, and then I was told it was the producers’ decision, not his. Therefore, I had a new approach about him running the network.
You probably do not know his name, but he has done a lot to help make NBC successful after Jeff Zucker nearly destroyed it. He helped launch The Voice, The Chicagos, Smash, live shows, Undateable: Live, This Is Us, The Good Place, brought back Will & Grace and so much more. Today, as the fall season begins, NBC is the only network who is going into the season strong with new and old shows.
His departure surprises me because the network is in a very strong place. My theory to why he is leaving is that the death of Craig Zadan, who co-produced the live musicals, hit him hard. Since Greenblatt loves to do live television and Broadway, I think he will be joining Zadan’s old partner Neil Moren.
That is just my guess. He told his staff in a memo, “It is with very mixed feelings that I have decided to leave NBC after nearly eight years. I love this network and our parent company, but since NBC is back on track and has achieved such great success I think it’s time for me to turn to a new challenge.”
Before NBC, he and his producing partner David Janollari, who ran The CW for a short time, created shows like Six Feet Under, One and One, and Eve. I wish him the best and my thanks for creating so many enjoyable shows.
Who will be replacing him? His shoes are so big, it is going to take two people. George Cheeks, Co-President, Universal Cable Productions and Wilshire Studios, and Paul Telegdy, President, Alternative and Reality Group. Both who served under him and will continue with his vision that has served the network so well. Or else!
