Glee – The Rhodes Not Taken – Live-blog/chat
Glee’s back tonight, featuring guest star Kristin Chenoweth, bowling and, of course, a whole lot more singing. Will the show keep the quality up through this fifth episode (yes, can you believe it’s been five episode already?) Check back with us here at 9 PM EST, where we’ll be chatting it up with you, the readers, on what we think of the episode and the show in general (seriously, if you haven’t tried our chats yet, check them out; they’ve got polls and other goodies, and the iPhone interface is really slick!)
See you then!
The Week in Clack – RIP Ted Kennedy
Michael Jackson’s still making news, this time ensuring that his death was a tragedy. The official report out of the LA coroner’s office was that Jackson’s death was a homicide, brought on by the mixture of drugs he was being prescribed for his sleep disorder. So he very well may not have been too frail for those London concerts … but we’ll never know.
- In related news, A&E is going forward with the Jackson family reality show. Exploitation or honor? You decide!
- The passing of Ted Kennedy brought all kinds of specials honoring this last of the dynasty. Read the rest of this entry »
TV on DVD for July 21st
We’re still a week away from the #1 DVD release of the summer, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some fine wares hitting shelves this week. A few of USA’s favorite characters show up, with season sets for Psych and Monk. Speaking of characters, has any show had a more unique collection of them than Pushing Daisies? And The Mighty Boosh? It’s just a character bonanza this week. You can also be on the lookout for new offerings from Stargate, Prison Break, Route 66, SpongeBob, and a host of others. My pick of the week would be Pushing Daisies. The big list is after the jump.
Pushing Daisies – Only one more to go
At least we’ll have the comic book continuation. It’s worked tremendously well so far for Farscape, Buffy and Angel. That said, Pushing Daisies charm is so much in the narration, the bright pastels and the whole tone of it visually and aurally that I fear it will be lost in the translation to a words-and-static-images format.
That being said, there’s also that strangely frenetic and beautiful grown-up storybook dialogue that would read just fine. I can certainly put the right voices with the right words. At any rate, since Bryan Fuller pretty much told me (you do know we hang out… oh yeah, all the time!) that the series finale wasn’t going to be satisfying in any way, I’ll be looking for those comics to continue the story.
In “Casting Clack”, CliqueClack brings you a summary of the TV casting news released throughout the week, be it the addition of a series regular, a new recurring cast member, a guest star, or even someone making a cameo.
Let thee be warned! The following casting news may contain slight spoilers about the roles the actors will play. If you are highly allergic to spoilers avoid this post.
This week, we have casting news for: Lily, Dancing With the Stars, CSI, ER, and many others. Read the rest of this entry »
Where are you going with yourself, Pushing Daisies?
You remember Chuck’s dad, right? Poor guy took a dirt nap when Chuck inadvertently brought his mother back to life, only to lose her again that night to a kiss on the forehead. With Dwight Dixon in the picture, snooping around Vivian and digging up caskets to get a locket, the idea was hatched to unearth him (after twenty years no less!) and ask him what he might know about everything.
Now I’m no expert on human decomposition (I usually don’t stick around long enough at the crime scene – badumpBUMP!), but I would think twenty years on a dead body, no matter the embalming technique, wouldn’t be nearly as generous as the writers and makeup artists gave us here. And that’s not all they gave us on that front either. Chuck got thirty seconds to have her last hellos and goodbyes with the man she loved and lost so suddenly so long ago, but is thirty seconds really long enough? How can it be, right?
Pushing Daisies – Secrets are getting harder to keep buried
(Season 2, Episode 7 – “Robbing Hood”) 
I hope the writers are going to have time to wrap up the Dwight Dixon storyline before the cancellation hammer comes down and slashes Pushing Daisies from the schedule forever. Things are chugging right along and we’re getting dangerously close, as well, to the aunts finding out about Chuck and perhaps secrets about Chuck’s parentage coming out as well.
With six episodes left, there’s plenty of time to get to that, but there’s no guarantee that ABC will keep it on the air that long. Now that the word has come out that the series is canceled, it may shed more viewers and get to that point where ABC questions whether to keep it on the air. Assuming that they do, and they really should, the writers knew they had only a 13-episode commitment, so maybe they planned for that and at least set up a conclusion of sorts. It’s really irritating to commit to a series only to have it end mid-stride.
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