The Bluth Company Newsletter
Production of "Arrested Development" has recently shut down again, this time due to leading man Jason Bateman's surgery to remove a benign polyp from his throat. The show will go on temporary hiatus, but ultimately return, according to the show's creator. I thought they were on hiatus already. FOX hasn't aired a new episode since October 3rd. Like a certain professional football team that I root for, and its head coach, it's also conceivable that a health scare could serve as an excuse to cut ties.The show is scheduled to run on Monday nights throughout November, with finished episodes already in the can. Meanwhile, non-fans like these are starting to backlash against the constant demands of Arrested fans that they patronize and support the show. I even read a political pundit last week who linked America's "rejection" of this show to a rejection of Hollywood's elitist worldview and its mocking of family values. Everybody's got an agenda to push.
Frankly, I don't care if your taste runs to the traditional television form or the revolutionary shows for "snobs." I will say this, though. It reminds me of the reader who wrote to Roger Ebert's "Movie Answer Man" last year and chided him for always praising black and white movies, which the reader viewed as evidence of the critic's pretentiousness. Ebert's response: Who's more pretentious, a person who watches all movies, or one who only watches those in color?
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"Curb Your Enthusiasm's" Susie Essman appears on Conan O'Brien Tuesday night. Her character, Susie Green, just started an advice column on hbo.com.
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Quote of the day: D.L . Hughley on "the Daily Show," discussing outed spy Valerie Plame--
If your wife was a CIA agent, that would be the coolest thing in the world-- she could never talk about work.
posted by CM @ 7:47 PM
1 Comments:
The comparison to the Rams' Mike Martz is a good one, but I also think that a health issue like this could have the opposite affect. Consider too when Phil Hartman was killed and Newsradio, a show in danger of cancellation, gained what could be called a reprieve because shutting down the show may have appeared heartless. Just a thought.
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