From the new the Game of Thrones production promo and Jason Segel’s hosting duties on Saturday Night Live to a new Sarah Silverman television project, the Expendables 2 poster and more, 411's Porfirio Diaz breaks down the Right, wRong, and Ridiculous from the week in Movies/TV!
Welcome to Week 126 of The 3 R's for the Movie/TV world.
The plot of CBS’s new sitcom 2 Broke Girls sounds like some other shows—two waitress roommates trying to save enough money to open a cupcake shop and make it big— but it’s a far cry from the kinds of shows that used to target 20-somethings.
The show is written and produced by Whitney Cummings, a comedian whose jokes mostly follow a general outline: Women are crazy and men are broke losers.
New CBS comedy series “2 Broke Girls” is attracting criticism for their portrayal of a Korean character and their alleged use of racial stereotypes.
The character of Korean immigrant Bryce (Han) Lee, as played by Matthew Moy, runs the diner where the “2 Broke Girls” (played by Kat Dennings and Beth Behrs) are employed. As we mentioned in our recap back in September , the only drawback to the series premiere was that Moy's character certainly "walked the line of turning into a stereotype."
Qué lejos queda 2009. Hace tan solo dos años y parece una eternidad para las ficciones. Esa temporada se estrenaron 'Cómo conocà a vuestra madre', 'Community', 'Modern Family', 'Parks and Recreation' y 'Glee', un puñado de series que todavÃa se mantienen en forma. 2010 fue un año pobre (por no decir desastroso) en producciones cómicas y en este inicio de curso de 2011 las apuestas de humor de la mayorÃa de cadenas habÃan despertado muchas expectativas. Nada más lejos de la realidad. Las nuevas comedias han arrancado sin fuerza, faltas de ideas y tendentes a la mediocridad. '2 Broke Girls' es la única dispuesta a romper esta tendencia y situarse a la altura de las ficciones veteranas. Repasamos sus muchos fallos y pocos aciertos:
Whatever happened to Must-See TV? In this DVR-reliant digital age, plenty of television executives are wondering exactly that. “It’s been a very challenging six months for us. It’s no secret that NBC is in fourth place,” announced new network chair Robert Greenblatt at NBC’s TCA press tour this week in Beverly Hills. No secret indeed, as even the Peacock’s own late-night hosts and comedy actors have taken open digs at the channel since its decline in recent seasons. Community ’s Joel McHale opened the presentation showcasing the network’s fall schedule with a few bada-bing shots of his own.
LONDON/BURBANK: Channel 4 has scooped up the U.K. premiere broadcast rights to 2 Broke Girls from Warner Bros. International Television Distribution.
The show is written by Michael Patrick King ( Sex and the City ) and comedian Whitney Cummings. CBS in the U.S. will launch the series this fall.
Mired in last place among the major television networks, NBC is so eager to get out of its slump that, come next month, it rolls the dice with a primetime soap opera inspired by Hugh Hefner's Chicago nightclub venture of the early 1960s.
You've probably already heard about "The Playboy Club," a controversial entry in the fall programming sweepstakes that trades on a renowned sexy brand.
Channel 4 has brought the rights to US sitcom 2 Broke Girls, more than a month before it airs on CBS.
It stars Kat Dennings and Beth Behrs as girls from opposite ends of the social spectrum who wind up as waitresses in the same Brooklyn diner.
The series is written by Michael Patrick King, who has previously worked on Sex and the City, and stand-up Whitney Cummings.
MEMORY LANE When John Adams first toted his drum to a Cleveland Indians game, he didn't think he'd still be doing so 37 years later. It's just that the old stadium's seats didn't make for optimal "seat-banging," and he was looking for an alternative. But then the drum-beating caught the attention of Bob Sudyk of the Cleveland Press newspaper. "He interviewed me and he said, 'Are you going to come to all the games?' and I said, 'I don't know,'" Adams recalled for MLB.com. "He said, 'Are you going to be at Tuesday's game?' and I said, 'I don't know, I don't think so.' But when he wrote the article, he said, 'If you want to hear John, come out to tonight's game, and you'll hear his drum.' So, not to make a liar out of Bob, I showed up with my drum, and then I came to the next game and the next game and the next game."
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