Last year it seemed like NBC would air anything, but this season that is no longer the case. First they decided to push the Whitney season premiere to an unknown date. Then they decided to burn off the failed pilot Mockingbird instead of straight out picking up The Munsters reboot. (Watch the promo below and you will see they are making the right choice.) And finally they have opted to cancel Next Caller before ever airing a single episode of Dane Cook’s unfunny sitcom according to Deadline. I watched that pilot and I have to say it was the worst one of the season. I think this is the worst fall season of my lifetime, so that says a lot.
So I guess after a sh!tty season last year and a so far successful one this year, NBC has finally developed some long overdue standards. Now let’s hope they keep it up because remember they are the network that thought Chelsea Handler’s life was funny enough for a sitcom. They were wrong and they paid the price.
The cast of Celebrity Apprentice All-Stars was announced today on Today and I am so f*cking excited to see the new season when it debuts in March on NBC because they are so f*cking awesome. They are Bret Michaels, Claudia Jordan, Gary Busey, Lisa Rinna, Lil Jon, Dee Snyder, Dennis Rodman, Brande Roderick, Stephen Baldwin, Trace Adkins, Marilu Henner, Penn Gillette, Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth La Toya Jackson. I expect lots of cussing, yelling, tears and blood shed and that makes this season ever more exciting.
I am especially curious how Omarosa will do because personally I think it might be too soon for her to do it after losing her fiance’ Michael Clarke Duncan just over a month ago. She probably will be very emotional.
And on that note, I don’t watch the Today show but I have to say that Matt Lauer really comes off as the d!ck he is rumored to be. I cringed watching him because he came off as such a jerk, I don’t know how people watch him every morning.
Ever since I read they were thinking of redoing The Munsters, I have been against it. I guess I am not the only because NBC has decided to pass on picking up Mockingbird Lane as a weekly series. Instead of being out all the money they put in it, they have decided to air it on October 26th at 8p before Grimm.
After reading the description of the show in the NBC press release, I am even happier that they passed on it. How awful does it sound? Nothing like the original that is good as is!
In “Mockingbird Lane,†sweet little Eddie Munster (Mason Cook) is a normal kid about to enter the horrors of puberty. Truth is, he’s about to discover that for him becoming a teenager means growing hair in truly unexpected places — as in all over his body — every time the moon is full! Eddie’s got it pretty good though. His loving, supportive, run-of-the-mill family includes his mom Lily (Portia de Rossi), the daughter of Dracula; his dad Herman (Jerry O’Connell), who brings new meaning to “Frankensteinâ€; and Grandpa (Eddie Izzard), who would give Dracula a run for his money if he weren’t actually Dracula! Of course then there’s creepy cousin Marilyn (Charity Wakefield), who’s really the odd one because she’s so completely normal.
Buying a house these days is a nightmare, so Herman and Lily are shocked that no one scooped up the rambling Victorian mansion at 1313 Mockingbird Lane that was the site of a series of grisly hobo murders. Settling into their new place, they’re quickly onto the mission at hand: to gently ease Eddie into the reality of his werewolf adolescence. But it’s not always so easy to accept that your child is a little “different†from the rest of the kids. Meanwhile, Herman, who works as a funeral director, is suffering from a heart condition. Since he’s made up mostly of spare parts, he knew his makeshift heart would eventually give out. No worries though, because Grandpa, who is pretty good at procuring body parts, is on the case. All Herman cares about is finding a new heart with the same capacity to love Lily as much as he has for so many decades.
I wonder what NBC will do if the pilot is a huge hit, but considering it is airing on a Friday night the chances of that are as likely as Fred Gwynne, Al Lewis and/or Yvette De Carlo doing a guest Spot on the reboot.
We are just a few weeks in to the new fall season and NBC is the first network to give full season orders to some of its new shows. Not only did they pick up one show, but they picked up 3! Monday night’s Revolution will be keeping the lights on even though they don’t have any power. Matthew Perry has something to be happy about even though his character doesn’t because Go On will be going on through May. And looks like we are going to see Shania give birth because NBC will carry this show to full term.
Have to say NBC made the right choice to give these three shows the back 9. Now can they please do the same for Guys with Kids and Animal Practice?
Tonight at 8p Animal Practice makes its timeslot debut on NBC and I spoke Kym Whitley about the show. Kym plays Juanita, the nurse who pretty much runs the animal house and I talked to her about working with all of those animals. When I asked what that was like she said, “I am an animal lover. I love every single animal. Maybe not a snake. But I am definitely an animal lover.” She added, “I love training animals. So it is fun because we are blending two worlds together.” As we saw in the pilot they did have a snake on the show, so when I asked her what if they told she had to work with one what would she do. She told me the producers work with the actors to make sure they are comfortable working the animal they have chosen for them. So what it is the most interesting pet she has worked with so far? She told me, “A fox that only comes out at night.”
That had to be an experience, and what has she learned from this experience. Thus far the show has taught her, “I have had cats and I have had dogs. Pretty much you live with them and you don’t think about it because they are part of your life. Until this show, now I am like, I really got to start paying attention to my animals. Like, they can really do some things here.” Can we see her four-legged babies on the show. As of now no because she has been waiting because she “didn’t want to rush it.”
Now the big star (besides the talented and funny Kym Whitley) on the show is Crystal the Monkey and I had to find out from her, who is the biggest Diva on the set. She didn’t hesitate to tell me, “Crystal is by far the biggest Diva on the set. Crystal wants bananas, coffee in the morning, she gets her nails done, she has to have her hair combed and she takes 3 naps.” Of course she was joking. And it is her humor, the writing and the wonderfully put together ensemble that make up the enjoy Animal Practice. The NBC sitcom is so much that 4 out 5 vets recommend it, the lone hold out doesn’t have a television.
