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Tuesday Brings The HOUSE And BOSTON LEGAL Season Finales!!
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It’s a reality world!
The third- season finales of both “House” and “Boston Legal” got squeezed out of May sweeps thanks to “On The Lot” and “Dancing With The Stars,” respectively.
But the scripted finales are here now, now that we’re safely past the Memorial Day weekend.
Fox says of tonight’s “House” finale, titled “Human Error”:
Cuban couple Esteban and his sick wife, Marina Hernandez, are pulled from the ocean during a dangerous rescue at sea while en route to the U.S. on a mission to reach Dr. House. Marina's medical records from Cuba were lost in the shipwreck, so the team runs a series of tests to determine the extent of her illness. When Marina's heart stops during a routine cardiac catheterization, the diagnostic mystery deepens. House debates with the team whether it was human error or a still-to-be-determined illness that caused Marina to flat-line, and the team fights to keep Marina alive on a bypass machine long enough for her husband to say goodbye, knowing that nothing short of a miracle can save her. Meanwhile, Foreman prepares for his last day of work at Princeton-Plainsboro, and Chase accuses House of trying to win Foreman over in order to dissuade him from leaving, prompting House to make a very rash decision that affects the whole team.
ABC says of tonight’s “Boston Legal” finale, titled “Trial of the Century”:
Alan Shore and Denny Crane represent two brothers accused of killing their abusive father, and Clarence Bell and Jerry Espenson take on a huge gambling establishment when a woman alleges that her out-of-control gambling debts were the fault of the casino.
“On The Lot”: 8 p.m. Tuesday. Fox.
“House”: 9 p.m. Tuesday. Fox.
“Boston Legal”: 10 p.m. Tuesday. ABC.
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I don't watch much TV because of the hours I work, yet I spend far too much time reading about stuff I don't watch, except maybe once in a bluemoon...
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What is up with you people?
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DENNY CRANE, BITCHES!!!!!!
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I'll watch it on DVD. Boston Legal is too corny for my tastes. Although, you could argue the same for House. Let me guess...the patient has some rare disease...and House figures out what it is. His swarmy, smart ass attitude is what keeps me watching. Even though in the real world a dickhead like that could never get a job.
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back to back on one night.
And then, nothing until fall, as Reality Television conquers the airwaves. if I wanted to see reality I'd look out my car windshield. -
on the "House, M.D." writing staff that decided to name Omar Epps character "Eric Foreman"? (You remember, the geek lead from "That '70s Show" had the same name.) What were they thinking? by the way, kids, you may have to be of a certain age to appreciate it, but Lisa Edelstien (Dr. Lisa Cuddy) IS the sexiest woman on TV. On the "Lost" finale, including the clip show, Jack Shepherd went from being a fluffy haired and charming Derek Shepherd ("Grey's...") to a scruffy and strung out Greg House in three hours. And they call "Heroes" derivitive.
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"Boston Legal" has Captain Kirk and Odo on staff and has had guest appearances from 7-0f-9 and Quark. Which Star Trek cast members would you like to see on "Boston Legal"?
I'll start. Let's get Yeoman Janice Rand in the courtroom and clear up those prostitution charges once and for all. {and has that anorexic chick that played T'pol been doing anything lately?) And how about Sulu? George Takai's staged the comeback of the decade. And his punchline was the best thing on that Shatner Roast. -
...until I actually watched a whole show (half way through this season). Even thought it's a paper thin liberal rant posing as a sit-com it's really pretty entertaining.
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I'm almost with ya on Lisa Edelstein, and I'm only 23. I wouldn't say she's the hottest, but she's definitely top ten. But she is a vegan in real life, which is a definite minus. As for the Eric Foreman thing, it's something I had never thought about. Probably because no one really uses first names on House (for the life of me I can't remember Dr. Chase's first name). Also, I wouldn't really call Heroes derivative. The first season was more like a really hot chick you meet in a bar. She teases you all night, then when you finally get her home and you're ready to close the deal she starts puking violently.
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Don't worry, Vegans can still eat your meat if they want to... Know what I mean? Nudge, nudge, wink, wink...
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I'd vote for Alexander Siddig (Dr. Bashir)as the next logical Deep Space 9 alumnus after Quark and Odo (good on them to escape hours of prosthetics to make a living with their homely mugs).
After Syriana and 24 he's in serious danger of being typecast as the Arab extremist. I bet he never dreamed that his best roles would be on Star Trek. -
a miracle ... or Dr Gregory House! sorry, just had to write that. House is a great show, i'm surprised it doesn't get more attention from coax.
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Well, at least in the show she does. She gave it to Chase. Funny. Very Funny. Good writing can make any predictable concept work.
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Sometimes I think the final season of The Practice (which introduced Alan Shore and, eventually Denny Crane and associates) was actually better than Boston Legal. Remember the episode where Alan Shore got a client released because they couldn't find the murder weapon, then casually slipped the knife out of his own inside jacket pocket and placed it in a dumpster on his way home? The time he realized up in the treehouse that the childhood best friend he'd just successfully defended really was guilty? The time he talked Lisa Edelstein, an opposing witness, out of her clothes? (that was when she went from "who's that actress, I've seen her around" to being someone whose name I wanted to learn.) Originally Alan Shore was ruthless and borderline evil but willing to use his powers of bad to accomplish good. Actually the amoral lawyer willing to defend the guilty for money was the original Bobby Donnell story arc, but Alan Shore took it so far over the top he made Bobby look noble by comparison. Over the years Alan has become nicer and more diplomatic and compassionate... and slightly less perverse. The show has also drifted from McBeal style "dramedy" to hour long sit-com at times. And it's burned through an awful lot of hot female cast members (Rhona Mitra, Lake Bell) and African American cast members in its run. And if there's any flaw the regular ensemble is a little too large to give all the main cast members something to do more than once a month or so. And tonight we get this story about Denny and Alan defending two boys accused of killing their parents? Torn not from todays headlines but from a paper used to line a drawer a decade or so ago. "Case of the Century", just not this century. [I actually don't remember which year or century the 'Mendenez' Brothers case was from.]
And even as someone who agrees with most of the heavy handed political speechifying on the series, I still find it embarrassingly one sided sometimes. Though Brad's arguments about wearing his uniform for the wedding because someone has to stand up for the troops was rather moving.
If it seems like I have complaints, well, I have reservations, sure, but it's still one of my favorite non-sci-fi/genre programs. Yes, the characters change and evolve, as does the show. The show gets more slapstick because Kelley's still struggling to find a direction and keep it afloat. I think he's still pissed over losing the Sunday time slot. Alan is a shadow of his original self, but then he was on such a self destructive path he had to turn himself around and become a decent human being or he would have been fired long ago. And Denny gets more comedic, but Shatner, at his age, is doing the best work of his career and if Crane's Alzheimers didn't actually progress and worsen, well, how realistic would that be? I love this show and I'll step up and say so even if it only gets one talkback a year. Hey, plus Gail "Donna Abondando" O'Grady back in her old NYPD Blue time slot, how hot is that? And what other show is giving us an elderly Shelley Berman as a senile judge? This is the series "Philly" and "Justice" failed to be and "Shark" wishes it was. Defense rests. -
I mean, in fact it's just CSI, only that the victims are still alive. And Dr. House is just another cranky doctor, like Dr. Geiger (Chicago Hope), Dr. Becker (Becker) or Dr. Cox (Scrubs).
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Yes, but I would venture to guess it's a lot less expensive. Also, Napoleon, since you say "If I wanted reality I'd just look out my windshield", should I take that to mean you drive with your eyes closed?
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Wait a second, House is great!! Ok, ok it IS formulaic. Each week his staff wrongly diagnose some rather unwell dude which almost kill him/her/it then at the last minute (usually 38 minutes in), he makes some incredible statement such as "hey, wait a second, did you say you were a PISCES? so, you were born in March...and, as we all know, March sees the annual mating season of the lesser-spotted warble-fly...My GOD! You have Warbles Diesease!" Love it!
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Orrr.. House gets grumpier and more cynical while he tries out some new painkillers, stumbles about making everyone's life hell, makes a slightly racist joke to Foreman, then finds a patient who we THINK has 'touched his heart' but then he ends the show with another snippy remark! Yay House!! You were ace in Blackadder!
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...is based around Cameron's lips and Cuddy's cleavage
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May 29, 2007 8:35:02 AM CDT
Oh trust me Xiphos, a real life House would have a job
by richard cranium
I spent years working at a big hospital, and a lot of the Doctors out there are just as assholish as House. I really do dig this show though. The thing is, I have no idea why I enjoy it so much. Because as has been pointed out already, it is formulaic as hell, and it is basically just another CSI ripoff. I think it's just that Hugh Laurie is just that damn good in that role.
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are two of my favourite shows. ive been edging to house recently as there needs to be more stabilty in the team makeup of BL they do burn though cast members quickly. im also tired of alan winning all the time. the cast on the whole is marvelous. its just lost some of that edge for me recently
house is brilliant. yes if formulatic (is that even a word?) but it still is rather good. hugh lauries steals the show, cuddy is a fine looking woman indeed. again the whole team is really good and play well of each other. i would however like to see more arcs. and we need to see stephen fry in that mix. if house is holmes and wilson is watson. ........................fry needs to be moriaty -
Let's see, Sherlock H is based on a real MD.This show is full of so much win.
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Other asshole characters on TV are (or eventually become) watered down once we find out that they actually have a Heart of Gold (TM). Dr. Cox on Scrubs is a great example. Every episode is about him putting up a tough front, but us finding out that things really do get to him, he really does care, he really does love his co-workers and his wife and his kids, he's more or less open-minded and liberal and politically correct, blah blah.
But House is actually an ASSHOLE. A real ASSHOLE. He does not have a heart of gold. He does mean things to people for the sheer fun of it. He says horrible things to people who are in grief because a loved one is dying. He doesn't just skirt the edges of appropriateness, he says exactly the wrong thing to exactly the wrong person over and over again. He does drugs. The one person who is actually friends with him--Wilson--is the one that he is the most thoughtless to. He is racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-religious, etc etc. He truly embodies that much-talked-about ideal of not being prejudiced by being equally prejudiced to everyone.
So all that might be nice for a little shock value, but House keeps it fresh by making all of this rudeness and inappropriateness part of an ongoing conversation about philosophy. Sure, maybe it's pop philosophy at about the level of The Matrix, but I think using this group of characters to try to work out the show's primary question of whether people are ultimately motivated by altruism or self-interest is interesting and intelligent.
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Yeah, the show practically defines the meaning of the word "soapbox" (and even brought one into court in one episode, if I recall correctly), but the show is so refreshingly un-politically correct and sometimes has something pretty worthwhile to say in the middle of all those one-sided closing arguments by James Spader.
With all the STAR TREK guest appearances on BL, not including the Shat and Odo as regulars, I keep hoping Nimoy will turn up someday as well as Patrick Stewart or Jonathan Frakes. Takei would be awesome as well, but at least he's getting screen time on HEROES these days.
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True.
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What we really need is for Christian Clemenson to get back in touch with his co-workers from Brisco County Jr. and get them to show up. Anyone for Bruce Campbell showing up in a few episodes?
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A dickhead like that would never get a job? what planet are you on dude? In my world the more of a dickhead you are the more job opportunities you get. I REALLY need to move out of Washington, DC.
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I didn't think much of House at first. Just another doctor show about a old, grouchy doctor that solves all the cases that no one else can and really is great guy once you get to know him.
But it really isn't that kind of show. House is a prick, pure and simple. One of those brilliant people that takes it upon themselves to indulge in just about ever kind of destructive behavior they can just to spite the world.
Another thing I like is House is wrong sometimes, sure he will pull something out of his ass at the last minute and save the day. But many times that is only due to his abused staff doing or saying something that lights that bulb above his head. that is sort of the beauty of the show for me, if it wasn't for the poor doctors forced to work with House he would end up killing a lot of patents though his stubborn, arrogant behavior. -
Rarely are an actor/character matched so well as they have been on this show. Good drama, decent acting, some nice eye candy (let's hear it for Cameron) and a towering lead performance. And it's funnier than most sitcoms.
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He always calls his team by their last names. Reminds me of 24 this year - Kari Matchett's character was Lisa Miller. I always wondered what happened to her after she left WNYX.I would love to see Nimoy on BL, maybe as an old law school nemesis of Denny Crane. And let's get Avery Brooks to guest star too.
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it was a bit too bad they used the final year of the series as a long form pilot for "as yet untitled Practice spinoff/Fleet Street/Boston Legal", but they still manages to quite satisfactorily provide closure to all of the main character story arcs. With the enmity Alan built up with his old partners it's unlikely street lawyer Jimmy Berluti would ever come to Crane, Poole and Schmidt seeking assistance, or that Alan would want to go into Judge Eugene Young's courtroom, but I hold out hope. Loved the episode with Chi McBride reprising the Principal Stephen Harper character from Boston Public? Remember how they did a "Practice/Boston Public" cross over episode once, and on a different episode of The practice a witness stated she knew it was almost 8:00 when she was walking her dog because she wanted to get home in time to watch the TV series "Boston Public"? Great moments in contradictory TV crossover history.
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except 'too bad, it used to be great. It still is, it's just evolved into a different sort of show and some people are resistant to change.
Originally Alan Shore was like a cunning reformed super-villain, capable of doing or saying anything no matter how ruthless or unethical, to achieve a good end. He was also one of the most sexually obsessed and perverse characters ever allowed on TV. He's been tamed and toned down because he would have been fired otherwords but he's still a wildcard and a rampant womanizer incapable of committing to a relationship. And Denny Crane does get, well, worse or stupider or sillier as his Alzheimers progresses and the show becomes more comedic. It's still touching to see him in his lucid moments on the balcony, coming to grips with his struggle to maintain his dignity even as he knows he's losing it. The series is a rollercoaster of changes in tone and direction, and i wish they weren't so casual about the cast changes - it seems vaguely desperte. But where else are you going to get characters like Clarance or "Hands" Espenson. Poole, for that matter. Or Alan Shore, Shirley "I'm Schmidt!" Schmidt or... well, DENNY CRANE! -
Also, a special shout or to Meredith Eaton as the incredibly sexy Jewish dwarf Bethany. You know why she has to be Eaton? Because if she was fukken she'd break.
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I never got into medical dramas- Ben Casey, Dr. Kildare, the Nurses, Marcus Welby, Medical Center, General hostipal, ER...
The I spent some time in a hospital.
Long story, but in spite of the surgery and needles, pleasant memories of living in bed, catered meals, daily whirlpool baths, visits from pretty, friendly nurses, etc.
When I got home I totally got hooked on "Diagnosis Murder", one of those simple old folks shows that are easy to understand when you're full of vicodin. I was also walking with a cane for a while.
So I'm totally hooked on "Grey's Anatomy" now and "Private Practice" later, but most of all "House, MD". A grizzly, sloppy dressing, gray haired crank popping pain pills and walking with a cane, intelligent and sarcastic but maybe not bright enough to realize how abrasive he is and how when he needs his friends he won't have any left. How could I not identify? How could I not love this guy? Like him? I want to be him! [Although I kinda thought giving him a motorcycle and a black leather jacket was a little too desperate a ploy to "cool" him up. Still, gotta make the actor happy sometimes.] -
There's something odd about House, something quirky and detached. And oddly enough, it comes about due to a real world circumstance. Hugh Laurie naturally speaks with a pronounced British accent. When portraying Greg House, he not only has to memorize his lines and emote while delivering them, he also has to continuously concentrate on getting the inflection, pronunciation and American accent of Every Single Word correct. Now that's an impressive acting challenge. Trying to think of a comparable example, I just imagined Rosie Perez trying to play a character with a Japanese accent and I think I hurt myself LOLing.
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Who said Chase Got herpes from my girl Cameron?
I must have missed that episode...
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Sure it's formulaic, but 30% of the episodes are very well-written formula, while the other 70 are pretty sloppy and lazy. Every good episode that makes me want to watch the show regularly is always immediately followed by three bad ones. It's kind of frustrating.Boston Legal on the other hand, is just band. Every fucking scene ends with a zoom-in to reaction. House's arcs may be formulaic, but at least the folks behind it know more than one shot.
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Er, Boston Legal is just BAD. No idea where that N came from...
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In overall viewers and the precious age 18-49 demo. If you're a Veronica Mars fan, prepare for more angst..http://tinyurl.com/236xl2
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In nailing an American accent even though he's a raging Brit. I was floored when I saw SciFi channel's Battlestar Galactica first-season special and was simply stunned to hear his real-life accent.
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yes, it's formulaic: it's a medical procedural after all. But it's also one of the best written shows on tv. Sure, the formula leads to a certain amount of predictability: the first diagnosis is almost always wrong. And some of the story arcs aren't as good as others: David Morse's cop freezing everyone's accounts, for instance, was stretching credulity. But the show is consistently well-written, with arguably the most compelling lead character in any series on tv.
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Manhole on the planet.
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That was a bad on me.
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I wound up watching House once because this girl I was dating had a crush on LL Cool J, and he was on one episode. I watched it and was automatically hooked, based on Laurie's performance alone. I'd say it's up there with Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman, where you just want to sit back and watch this actor, with this character exist. I could careless about the medical stuff most of the time, or the general storylines (they are so formulaic afterall) but I know as soon as House walks into a scene it's going to be gold.
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I mean, in the incredibly remote unlikelihood someone in a westmore time zone is both planning to watch house - or in the middle of watching it - and reading this.
Anyway... I did not see that ending coming. Okay, House raises the dead and argues with God over the credit, nothing new there. I mean the subplotz. I naively expected them to somehow wrap up the "Foreman quits" arc this episode. Instead House fails to get Foreman to stay, fires Chase, Cameron quits and C&C get back together romantically. And much to Cuddy and Wilson's dismay, even though he's lost his entire team, he rather callously doesn't seem at all disturbed by it. Instead he gets a new guitar and sits back relaxed and distracted. Leaving the impression that the entire show could go ahead and pull a major overhaul with a new team supporting cast next season. Nope, I really did not see that coming. And that scene with House and the patients husband relaxing, drinking liquor and smoking cigars, no way that wasn't a deliberate tribute to Boston Legal. Cute. -
They shoot, they score. They rip a case from the headlines and then namecheck the Menendez Bros. in the first paragraph. Odds against them Denny pulls a so crazy it might work strategy out of his ass and keeps his undefeated run intact. "Hands" and Clarance take on an impossible case the opposing attorney doesn't even take seriously, Shirley has so little confidence she insists on sitting in, and Jerry pulls out his wooden cigaret shewing tough guy act, slips in a little insider information and rather than call his bluff the casino folds its cards and cuts the gambler a check for her money back and a tidy hush up profit. It only got silly when their celebratory hug/hop went on wa-a-ay too long. Denise gets the episode off for maternity leave but Brad shows up to show off a baby with the greatest infant expressions ever - either they CGI's the kids smirks or that baby can act. And they end with a half-hearted nod to the popular breaking the fourth wall gimmick they've kind of moved past lately. "I can't wait until next season" "I wonder what the future has in store?" The good news is, another year in the same former NYPD Blue time slot. It may not be Sunday with a hit show for a lead in, but it's comfortable and familiar. {Actually, since Fox still closes it's doors at ten after all these years, they do have a hit as a lead in: "House".)
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from House and Boston Legal, respectively--very nice indeed!I do watch House regularly, but could not really get into Boston Legal. But if I surf in and lil Constance is on screen, well, I linger a while. She is great in everything she does.Hugh Laurie is an amazing actor, and House is the perfect character for him to play. Probably, I will never believe him in any other role, now, though. (like that dude who played Radar O'Reilly in M*A*S*H
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is beyond me, though, given their track record for retaining trash and canceling quality.
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In my [unpublished] superhero novel "The Power" there's a supervillain named Dr. Chromium who's unaware his compatriots call him "Dr. Chromdomium" behind his back.
I liked Constance Zimmer as the streak-haired surfer ex-nun on "Joan of Arcadia" and - big guilty pleasure - as "Penny" on the sit-com "Good Morning, Miami". Fox has stood by The Simpsons for an incredible run - yes, I know the quality has varied - and is hanging in there with "King of the Hill", "Family Guy" and "AmDad", apparently having learned the errors of their way from the premature cancelations of Family Guy and Futurama and the way they mishandled The Critic.
I brag that I have never seen "Idol" but it keeps a lock on not only the #1 slot but often 1 and 2 whenever it airs. And Fox has also stood by "Cops" and "Most Wanted", which are by some regarded as TV's original 'reality shows'. I'm told "24" is very popular, though reportedly season 6 was not a match for last years best season ever.
Sure, it's easy to gripe about the way Fox tossed aside Wonderfalls, Greg the Bunny, Andy Richter Controls The Universe, a personal favorite of mine "The Loop and so on. But they were willing to lose money while waiting four years for Arrested Development to find an audience, gotta give them some props for that. And they supported The X-Files for nine years, which I guess most people think was at least a couple too long. House is probably in my top five current shows - maybe third behind Lost and Heroes, at least when there's no new "Venture Brothers". And House is probably my current favorite Fox series, edging out old fave The Simpsons and another crime procedural I enjoy a lot - "Bones". They go for the MullySculder vibe with Brennan and Booth, but the show is well written, fairly intelligent, often quite funny, with a good cast with good chemistry, state of the art gross out graphicness, and I've had a serious Michaela Conlin fan crush for the whole run of the series. If I thought it would help I would implore Fox to switch the Bones time slot on next years schedule to avoid the log jam of Private Practice, Bones, Criminal Minds and The Bionic Woman. I can do the watch one/tape one thing, but that leaves me dropping Criminal Minds and leaving Bionica unsampled. Can't they look at the scheduling problem and do something about this? And is Fox ALWAYS going to be a junior league make pretend TV network or are they EVER going to pick up a third prime time hour? -
If you look for "Blackadder", "Jeeves and Wooster" or "A Bit of Fry And Laurie". and if you look up Fry and Laurie you can find a lot of their routines and some musical numbers on YouTube. If you were familiar with his comedy past first, it could take a while to get used to him as Greg House. If you know him from "House, MD" first, though I can see how it would be hard to accept him in any other role. Sort of like trying to get into "The New Dragnet" with Al Bundy as Joe Friday. Hope he's being well paid for "House" and socking away the paycheck so he won't have to worry about being typecast. Although really, if he shaved, combed his hair, put on a coat and tie and smiled, it might be hard to recognize him as Greg House.
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"dennycranelaw.com, pictures, bio's, hobbies i once captured my own spaceship, multi-talented"
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doh! and bloddy hell all of house's staff have left him!
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Anybody else notice House's address - 221? Nice tribute to Sherlock Holmes. Thats who House is, after all. Guess it would have been too much to add a B.
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Everyone's gone. Who will House lust after, intimidate and belittle now. A fresh new cast that's what? Good idea!
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I'm glad to see that the showrunners have tried to keep a nice HiDef shot of Cameron's ass in every episode lately. For last night, just look to her last scene. Nice lighting guys!
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Anybody check this out yet? It's an official BOSTON LEGAL site pimped out to look like Crane, Poole & Schmidt's site.
Oh, and be sure to click on "Submit" on the Partner Login: Authorized Access Only section. From there, you'll go to a series of file folders (Denny's actually says the words "Denny Crane" when you click on it). Be sure to check out the "To Do" and "Saved E-mail" sections. Fucking PRICELESS.
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Well, now, I doubt that I actually inspired Dr. Chromium's compatriots to call him Chromdomium, but I like it! (presumably he, too, is bald)I hear you on Connie--I watched both those shows just to see her. Joan was a good show all around, though. Good Morning Miami had unrealized potential, but was missing the beat here and there. Connie was THE reason to watch, and THE reason to grieve when it was cancelled.I hear you on Fox, sir. They have stuck by some things, as you mention, but the list of things they have dumped prematurely makes a strong case for their scattered random approach--which to me means I can never trust them to do a sensible thing.Other networks cancel shows mid-way thru the first season less often, and usually it is not utterly incomprehensible, as it is with Fox. NBC canceled the remake of the BBC's Coupling real fast, and deservedly so. Andy Richter, Private Eye, though very well done and funny (I liked it) was a little too quirky to find a large mainstream audience. Fox sort of stood by Arrested Development, and sort of screwed it over, IMHO. It was like they kept it close so they could abuse it longer! I gave up on it because I could never reliably FIND the damn show. I got the full dvd set instead. Fox started out as the upstart, airing the shows the other networks would not dare take a chance on, but I guess they aged, and are sitting back in the rocking chairs on the front porch, living vicariously through others.
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Sometimes a House is a Holmes. And a Wilson is a Watson. And being a multi-instrumentalist subs for being a bad violinist. And Vicodin addiction is this years 7% solution of injectible cocaine. And that show with House in the pawn shop puffing on the Holmes style pipe while shopping for his cane ("it has flames on it to make it look like I'm going faster") was priceless. I'm a homeowner so I don't know for sure, but I assume a 221b apartment would be the upstairs aparatment, and 221a the downstairs. With his limp and his pain, I don't see Greg doing any more stair climbing than necessary.
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Television Listings magazine [dot com] posts this Omar Epps interview from their print edition. http://tinyurl.com/28u5h4
"Epps: I will be back. Obviously, it will be different — but I don't think even the writers know how yet." I don't think anyone but the writers saw the Chase firing or the Cameron resignation coming. So no one lined up to interview them in time to comment on the season finale developments. But this may not be the total recasting 'Game-changer' it appears to be and there may yet be ways to restore the shows status quo for another few seasons. Either or, fine with me. I like the formula they have, but as long as we get a weekly fix of House making inappropriate remarks to Cuddy, with her patented blend of exasperated but tittilated indignant reactions, I'll keep tuning in.
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You're dead on but for one nitpick: According to Doyle, Holmes was actually a very good violinist.
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Shatner is our Lord.
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...for the combined "House"/"Boston Legal" talkback to fall off the front page. Oh well, we tried to show some love for two of the best non-sci-fi genre shows on TV. All the "Cool" kids are off talking about Rosie O'Donnell, Transformers and Harry's new DVD player. Nipples on this and little miss gotta eat, brother! Yadda yadda yadda. SEVENTY-SIXTH! As someone mentioned in the "Sorkin/Studio 60" talkback, if you prefer intelligent television, you're too old. Not to brag, but a 76 post talkback and I contributed 15 (plus four more with my 'name' in the headers - "Hi" back to Jamie Bamber - Do I know you?) - about one fifth or 20%. Has anyone so totally owned a single talkback like this? Like I said, silly thing to mention, forget I brought it up. But I'm going to hit 'post comment' any way.
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I own this talkback because I am the HAND OF FATE. And because I am so much prettier than you.
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--- @ JTS [tm] Napoleon Park wrote: All Pirates, All The Time... "So, You Think You Can Pirate." "Are You Smarter Than a Pirate?" "National Pirate Bee." "National Pirate Night." "American's Funniest Home Pirates." "America's Most Pirates." "Extreme Makeover: Pirate Edition." "Pirate Swap." "Superpirate." "Ex-Pirates Club." "On The Pirate." "Hell's Pirate." "America's Got Pirates." "Pirates Or No Pirates." "American Pirates." "The Next Best Pirate: Who Is The Greatest Pirate Impersonator?" And let's not forget the original that started it all: "Pirates". "Bad Pirates, Bad Pirates, what'cha gonna do...?"
Marylee asked: "How about Pirate Whisperer?" Well, the premise was that I was taking titles of Reality shows and replacing one word with "Pirate", but since there is a cable reality series called "Dog Whisperer" sure, why not?
And obviously I missed "America's Next Top Pirate", "The Pirate Life" and "Survivor: Pirate Cove". Oh, and "Who Wants to Have A Pirates Booty?" and "The Weakest Pirate," if we're blurring the distinction between reality shows and game shows.
I should also mention the two musical reality/game shows I actually watched: "Rock Pirate: In Excess" and "Keel-haul Me Baby, One More Time"
Laura suggested "Law and Order: High Seas" which doesn't actualy insert the word Pirate. Though I suppose since they do their 'ripped from todays headlines' stories they're nearly a reality show, unlike "CSI: Caribbean".
And someone at AICN also missed the reality show point but came up with a clever pirate themed medical drama: "E.Arrrr"
I took my list from the broadcast listings since I only have basic cable. I guess if we go to MTV, another source credited as "where it all started," we have "The Real Pirates" "Road Pirates" and "Pirat'd".
I don't know that many cable reality chows. "Miami Pirate Tattoo", "Pirate Chopper" , "The Surreal Pirates"...
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send proof to judywice [at symbol] yahoo dot com. I'm NOT very pretty so you're probably right. And that's five posts with my name in the header to two for you. thanx. lost.rules: yes it does, but it was Karev who gave syphilis to Olivia who gave it to George (who hopefuly got it cleared up before he tagged in on Meredith, Callie and Izzie) On "Grey's Anatomy". Gotta keep your medical soaps and STDs straight.
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