Pajiba After Dark 9/22/09

"The Forgotten" Has Its Own Built-in Pun

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Miscellaneous | Comments (16)

Besides the weekend, Tuesday night is the crappiest night of television, which is why the first Pajiba Movie Club is scheduled for tonight (9 EST — be here!). Here are the low-lights:

8:00

— “90210” on The CW.

— “Dancing With the Stars” results show on ABC.

— “The Biggest Loser” on NBC.

— “NCIS” has its seventh-season premiere on CBS.

9:00

— “18 Kids and Counting” on TLC. The Duggars go on a diet!

— “Melrose Place” on The CW.

— “NCIS: Los Angeles” premieres on CBS. Chris O’Donnell really needed a job.

— “Wareouse 13” has its season finale on Syfy.

10:00

— “Sons of Anarchy” on FX.

— “The Good Wife” premieres on CBS. This is the show with Julianna Margulies and Chris Noth. I’ll give it a shot, however, because of Josh Charles.

— “The Forgotten” premieres on ABC. I’m not even sure my fondness for Christian Slater can compel me to tune in. It’s from Jerry Bruckheimer. The logline: “From executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer comes a crime show in which a team of dedicated amateurs work on cases involving unidentified victims. After the police have given up, this group must first solve the puzzle of the victim’s identity in order to then help catch the killer. They work to give the deceased back their names, lest they become — The Forgotten.”

— “The Jay Leno Show” has Pee Wee Herman and Amy Poehler.

FYI: Letterman has Bill Clinton (one night after Obama) and LeBron James. Conan has Rebecca Romijn, Lisa Lampanelli, Monsters of Folk.

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Can we stand together as one and say that we will not take the world's triviality and stupidity laying down? That we will not refer to SciFi Channel as SyFy?

Posted by: coryo at September 22, 2009 7:18 PM

Motion seconded.

Posted by: Three-nineteen at September 22, 2009 7:59 PM

Is Glee on tonight?

Posted by: Ari at September 22, 2009 8:15 PM

I'm a big believer in people calling themselves whatever they want. It may seem stupid as shit to us but what the hell we don't have to go by that name, they do. If my mom can change her name to Allison Wonderland, these morons can be SyFy.

Posted by: Jadashay at September 22, 2009 8:27 PM

Being Erica is on the CBC. Pretty mild entertainment from Canada.

Posted by: NY not NYC at September 22, 2009 9:11 PM

Notice to everyone not on the SoA bandwagon: now would be the appropriate time to check yourself, lest you wreck yourself.

Posted by: trippdup at September 22, 2009 9:14 PM

The difference from where I'm sitting (i.e. not being her son), Jadashay, is that Allison Wonderland is an awesome name.

Posted by: coryo at September 22, 2009 10:24 PM

It is an amazing name, but not her given name, she got to pick it out. And trust me her mom hates it more than anyone here hates SyFy, and still calls her Theresa 25 yrs after the change.

Posted by: Jadashay at September 22, 2009 10:43 PM

DWTS was the women competing, not a results show. I dug it. Also The Good Wife is pretty good so far.

Posted by: Amy at September 22, 2009 10:47 PM

I wonder how much did it cost them to make that stupid name change.

Between the name change and them taking the Twilight Zone off the air on weeknights, I'm done with them

Posted by: Candy at September 22, 2009 11:51 PM

The Colbert Report just broke out their Atone Phone for Rosh Hashanah, which now has three numbers. 1-800-OOPS-JEW (press 2) is for Jewish people who want to apologize to Stephen. 1-800-MOPS-KEY (press 1) is for people who have mop-related questions. 1-800-MOSS-LEW (press 3) is for buying moss for landscaping.

Then, Stephen approved of the fake lesbian make-out session in Whip It. After that, Stephen and Jeff Goldblum auditioned for the movie Battleship (Goldblum: "D9." Colbert: "Miss! F4.")

I really don't understand why this show doesn't get more play on this site.

Posted by: Three-nineteen at September 23, 2009 12:14 AM

SoA is amazing! This season has Henry Rollins as a scary rapist white supremacist. What more can you ask for?

Posted by: lilredtrixie at September 23, 2009 12:41 AM

Notice to everyone not on the SoA bandwagon: now would be the appropriate time to check yourself, lest you wreck yourself.

Just left a "Come Aboard" sign one page over. But yeah, things are getting interesting. And by interesting, I mean fun. And by fun, I mean what other show has a doctor beat a porn star's advances on her man by having said doctor screw the hell out of her guy in the bathroom like they're teenagers?

Posted by: Fredo at September 23, 2009 2:06 AM

Very disturbing forehead to body ratio on Slater.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at September 23, 2009 7:34 AM

I write blurbs for a living, and the blurb-writer for The Forgotten should be fired. The pompous use of "lest" is strike one. Combine it with the super melodramatic hyphen, and that's strike two - And Three.

Other words that should never be used in TV blurbs: hence, whither, dandy, and "Jim Belushi".

Posted by: marya at September 23, 2009 10:44 AM

Slater has always possessed a fivehead. You just couldn't notice it before because he had more hair back then.

Posted by: bignick at September 23, 2009 10:49 AM

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