And a part of that good start has to do with these two men:
The Biggest Loser is back on Monday nights. I got addicted last time... to Trainer Bob. He is HOT. I love a guy with a six pack and forearm tatts who can do 20 push ups with a 150kg fatty on his back. If he was my trainer I would be flab-free in no time. Although I suspect I'd probably just want to sit back and watch him doing push ups...
I'm slightly disappointed there's no Mo this time around, but I'm hoping at least one of the contestants will be one of those great Mo-style philosophers and come up with a line to beat Mo's classic "I'm a rib-eye kinda guy myself" comment. That guy cracked me up.
Returning to our screens tonight, we have the highly under-rated former child star Jason Bateman in Arrested Development. I love that he still looks every bit as cute as he did on Silver Spoons (I always preferred him to Ricky Schroder). I love that he still has a full head of hair. I love that he finally won an Emmy last year. He should have won it this year, but they decided to give it to that creepy guy from Monk.
But I hate that Channel Seven will only screen this show on late night TV where it has very little chance of finding a decent audience. Whichever wanky suit at Seven made this decision should be lynched. This truly is one of the best comedies ever made and definitely a rare thing from the Americans. Great writing, great acting, quirky storylines, interesting doco-style camera techniques, no laugh track and best of all, its narrated by Richie Cunningham himself. What the hell is it doing in an 11.30pm timeslot?
Meanwhile, Seven chooses to serve up drivel such as Beyond Tomorrow and Dancing with the "Stars" (aka Dancing with the C-listers) in the earlier timeslots and pass it off as 'Australian content'. Seven don't deserve to have the rights to Arrested Development. They also don't deserve the rights to Scrubs - another quality comedy - but that's a whole other blog.
If only our ABC was funded decently, they might have been able to grab Arrested Development and put it in a decent timeslot, like they did for Little Britain and Black Books.
If only our ABC was funded properly we too may have fantastic initiatives like this one they have at the BBC.
If only my childhood dream of marrying Jason Bateman was achievable.
And if only Trainer Bob was my trainer.
I'll stop now before it gets weird.
2 comments:
oh she was awful! and people were dipping their food into the fondue after she'd licked it! gross.
Just get the AD DVDs. They are just *so* funny. This year has been good so far for my TV. AD and firefly.
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