R.I.P. 30 ROCK R.I.P COMMUNITY R.I.P. PARKS & REC

also strange how in this world i can watch a youtube video of home camcorder footage of a computer screen playing a pirated stream of a television show, my head hurts

not to mention that most of the tv show footage in question is of a diegetic film projection, so there's like five nested screens here, I might die over here

You're angling for a consulting credit on Revolution, aren't you, silby? I'm onto you...

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So this Revolution is pretty much a rip-off of SM Stirling's Emberverse series then?

yes, that seems to be a likely scenario

30 Rock had a good run, it's for the best. This season was by far the worse.

Nah.

under control, off the money.

You know how you could tell shows were NBC shows just by looking at them for the past few years? Heroes, The Event, The Cape, Harry's Law, etc etc? I was watching the Revolution trailer and, even though I knew it was an NBC property the whole time, it didn't look or feel like one. Maybe they've at least turned a corner here.

They downloaded a new Final Cut filter, iirc.

hey, hey - Harry's Law at least recruited the old Boston Legal editing and music team

this has been the best 30 rock season in several seasons

Revolution looks a bit like Jericho--which also a bunch of 1776 jive mixed in with the disaster/sf--but probably done better.

looks pretty low budget and bad for a network show, imo, especially comparing it to something like Fallen Skies

First thing I noticed in the Revolution promo was how crisp and new their clothes looked, supposedly after 15 years of no electricty. And then I couldn't un-notice it. I know it's possible to continue with fine tailoring by hand or water/animal-powered looms, but it's not fucking likely everyone would continue to do that as they struggled to survive.

try explaining that to an nbc suit

So Community apparently isn't alone: The Office will also be getting a regime change, although apparently not coupled with the complete overhaul which had been discussed.

You guys can breathe easily now: Rules of Engagement will be back for a seventh season.

i saw the Revolution promo in the theater before The Avengers and i thought it was gonna be a movie

Also: holy shit, my interest in reading a book about the history of NBC's last few decades has apparently retroactively spurred the universe (and Warren Littlefield) into action.

i'd much rather hear about the failing years of the past decade tbh (The Office/30 Rock on)

So Community apparently isn't alone: The Office will also be getting a regime change, although apparently not coupled with the complete overhaul which had been discussed.

It can't get much worse at this point, a change might improve it slightly.

So Community apparently isn't alone: The Office will also be getting a regime change, although apparently not coupled with the complete overhaul which had been discussed.

with the showrunner and one of the most senior writer/exec producers leaving, it would be hard not to have a "regime change"

Paul Lieberstein is doing the Dwight Shrute spinoff.

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Um.......yeah? I don't understand your scare quotes.

well we've already discussed itt Lieberstein leaving, and Kaling's series got picked up weeks ago

https://twitter.com/SenJohnMcCain/status/226074304410968064

RIP

http://c0014394.r32.cf1.rackcdn.com/x2_d80304e

I hope he's not actually playing John McCain but a fellow city council member with a maverick past.

I've forgotten the finale but doesn't Ben take the DC gig?

yeah spoilers or whatever but they're filming in washington d.c. right now, there's pictures of andy and april right outside the white house

rip something

http://gawker.com/5941190/amy-poehler-and-will-arnett-are-separating-so-go-home-and-break-up-with-your-boyfriend-because-love-is-a-lie

aw man

:(

I saw that yesterday. Makes me genuinely bummed out.

they've made a huge mistake

maybe they'll work things out and get back together

Why do celebrities get married at all? At least there are no kids involved. Oh, wait ...

yeah anyone who is married for nearly a decade and has kids and then breaks up because they are unhappy together is a real monster

Unless the divorcing parents are complete assholes to each other and around their kids, kids in divorced families turn out okay for the most part.

They did last a pretty long time, I admit that. It just seems that celebrity marriages often don't even meet the modest margin of the 50/50 national average or whatever. Kids in divorced families do generally turn out OK. Celebrity kids, on the other hand ...

This was Arnett's second marriage, I guess. The third Mrs. Arnett should get something good in writing first.

it'd probably be impossible to quantify but i do wonder if divorce rates ARE higher for celebrities or if you just get a skewed impression since splits get so much more press than long happy marriages.

First, you must establish measurable criteria for celebrity.

Everyone that's been divorced twice is a monster, I'm glad they are finally getting called out on the carpet, don't stop speaking out Josh

tbf will arnett IS a monster

http://www.officialpsds.com/images/thumbs/The-Missing-Link-psd27995.png

Just look at him....I pity those kids

i had a feeling and i just checked -- it was oct of last year that kim and thurston announced that they were splitting up
does this have to happen once a year or something? geez.

Susan Sarandon & Tim Robbins split in 2009. Who was it in 2010?

i stopped believing in love when eva longoria and tony parker couldn't make it work