By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (26)
We’ve been woefully neglectful of television industry news this week, so in order to compensate, here’s some quick hits covering the highlights and the not-so-highlights of the week:
Highlights
Lowlights
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Posted by: kayla at January 29, 2010 9:14 AM
That old Le Femme Nikita show was pretty sweet. I am a fan of Peta Wilson and the show had a lot of cool things going on. I'd be surprised if the new one could surpass it, but the initial premise does sound promising.
Posted by: Forbiddendonut at January 29, 2010 9:24 AM
The . . . Cape? That was the best they could do? It took a roomful of adults to come up with . . . The Cape. Why not The Jockstrap or The Merkin? Hell, my daughter named herself Chocolate Wondergirl earlier this week AND SHE'S 5.
Posted by: Tracer Bullet at January 29, 2010 9:26 AM
NBC does happen to have more Indian-American actors than most networks, if you count Lester on Chuck, Jack's Assistant Jonathan, and Abed from Community (Who IS a goddamn GEM). Maybe that whole Indian Customer Service reps thing is possible there.
Ooh! And Aziz Ansari and Mindy Kaling.
Are Indians the secret to Thursday night's success?
Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at January 29, 2010 9:48 AM
I always wanted to be Nikita. Except when she gets hurt.
The CW is a silly, silly network, but I"m still going to put a little hope out there.
Posted by: Cindy at January 29, 2010 10:03 AM
"NBC is developing a new show with an interesting premise: It centers on a recently demoted manager of a novelties company who is shipped off to India to manage a ragtag group of customer service reps."
So what's it gonna be called, "Gunga Ho"?
Posted by: bleujayone at January 29, 2010 10:09 AM
And EE just became a battle for second place. Nice job, bleujayone .
Posted by: Tracer Bullet at January 29, 2010 10:35 AM
I'll mourn Ugly Betty, although I don't really imprint on TV shows. End 'em after a few years, I say. But UB had some really edgy gay humor (with Mark) and some unique gay characters (with Justin), and I thought they dealt with that stuff in a really healthy and mature way. I'm not used to American TV being healthy and mature!
Posted by: The Wandering Parakeet at January 29, 2010 10:45 AM
I loved loved loved La Femme Nikita. I like Peta Wilson, she was great, but the best part of the show was Roy Dupuis who played Michael. So sexy.
Posted by: zygomatique at January 29, 2010 11:00 AM
2) a make-over show called “Transform,” which will transform people both inside and out
So is this what we've come to now? Plastic surgery on people's internal organs?
Posted by: Anne (in Reno) at January 29, 2010 11:03 AM
Two things:
1) It hurts my heart that Townsend and Daltrey continue to perform as The Who. Moonie and The Ox are dead. Do Townsend and Daltrey feel they need the name recognition to get people to pony up the ticket price? They could call themselves Painful Rectal Itch (also a fine name for a jam BTW), and still fill arenas.
Fucktards.
2) I would do naughty, naughty things to Mindy Kaling.
Posted by: Groundloop at January 29, 2010 11:14 AM
I loved La Femme Nikita. Shoot I watched The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen because of Peta Wilson.
Posted by: DoubleH at January 29, 2010 11:19 AM
"NBC is developing a new show with an interesting premise: It centers on a recently demoted manager of a novelties company who is shipped off to India to manage a ragtag group of customer service reps."
This has already been done in the UK. I think it was called 'Mumbai Calling' with Sanjeev Baskar. It wasn't very funny. So NBC are just copying the format....
Posted by: Alex the not so odd at January 29, 2010 11:28 AM
Why WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYY are they digging up La Femme Nikita again? That fucking story was told, the USA series explored everything and then some. They'll cast the usual bunch of generic idiots. I'll be surprised if they don't stick Mischa Barton in there somewhere.
Posted by: BarbadoSlim at January 29, 2010 11:47 AM
You forgot about the Indian on Heroes, Optimus. His name is like Jarminder Suresh or some such shit. Fucking Indians have trippy ass names.
Apparently NBC does love itself some Indians. I think NBC actually stands for "Nothing But Curry".
Posted by: John Denver's Wingman at January 29, 2010 11:58 AM
I'm not sure how I feel about the writers and directors of The Office branching out so much. Instead of having all these awesome people focusing on one show they'll have to break up the funny between a bunch of shows and we'll be the ones to suffer. Please don't give us another season 4 of Office.
Ugly Betty had so much potential! It could've been fantastic, if only they had stuck to the original story from Betty la fea, which was an AWESOME show. But no, they had to Americanize the shit out of it and ruined everything that was good about Betty. I just completely forgot it ever existed. Baaah. I'll go watch the Colombian version on youtube instead.
Mohinder was the one reason I kept watching Heroes after the second season. He's a beautiful, beautiful man.
Posted by: figgy at January 29, 2010 12:15 PM
Abed IS a Gem. Best thing about that show, and there are several great things about Community.
Sendhil Ramamurthy (Heroes) Is a GORGEOUS man. If he and Naveen Andrews (LOST) teamed up I think the poles would reverse, or a black hole would form at the center of the planet or something. Too.Much. Hotness.
Posted by: Lindsey with an 'e' at January 29, 2010 12:52 PM
I'd love to see a new version of Nikita. Loved Peta Wilson, hated Roy Duphooey (dude cannot FIGHT arg!), loved the redhead, the geek etc etc... but damn I wish it was on almost any other network than CW. God, they cheese up and ruin everything (I'm looking at you, Legend of the Seeker)...
...Whedon is out of work, isn't he? Wouldn't it be sweet to see his take on the Nikita character? Only with, please god, someone who can act?
Posted by: Stella at January 29, 2010 1:21 PM
...Whedon is out of work, isn't he? Wouldn't it be sweet to see his take on the Nikita character? Only with, please god, someone who can act?
Posted by: Stella at January 29, 2010 1:21 PM
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Nooooooooope, he will just cast Eliza Dushku and fail, again.
Posted by: BarbadoSlim at January 29, 2010 1:28 PM
Posted by: Groundloop at January 29, 2010 11:14 AM
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Mangled Baby Ducks. With a name like "Mangled Baby Ducks" ...
The Stones ... Springsteen ... The Who ... is there a rule you can't do the halftime show if you're under 60? Shit, I have another eight years before they call me.
Posted by: , at January 29, 2010 1:41 PM
Bah. They've earned the right to keep calling themselves The Who. I caught them on tour a couple years ago - they still rock, and they certainly don't pretend like those guys weren't a big part of the band. They honor the legacy appropriately onstage.
Posted by: DarthCorleone at January 29, 2010 3:03 PM
It centers on a recently demoted manager of a novelties company who is shipped off to India to manage a ragtag group of customer service reps.
this was the plot to the movie outsourced.
Posted by: rawr at January 29, 2010 3:08 PM
Sendhil Ramamurthy (Heroes) Is a GORGEOUS man. If he and Naveen Andrews (LOST) teamed up I think the poles would reverse, or a black hole would form at the center of the planet or something. Too.Much. Hotness.
Why welcome to Kelly's fantasy land Lindsey with an "e"! Step past the moat, mind the alligators dearie - they're hungry. Let me just open the gate, walk right through those doors and put on your 3D glasses. See how pretty and sweet it is in here? Like cotton candy.
Sendhil and Naveen wrapped cotton candy!
Posted by: Kelly at January 29, 2010 4:30 PM
so ok Nikita went rogue, cool, I can finally imagine her finally having her happy ending with Michael, after all his son is in his college years so I can imagine they are fucking in every room of his house and finally opening a flour shop. my only problem is how the heck a girl can replace nikita since she become the freaking head of the organization????
Posted by: rio at January 29, 2010 5:37 PM
The NBC show is in fact a television adaptation of the movie Outsourced.
Posted by: DarthCorleone at January 29, 2010 8:16 PM
Kelly, dude, we have GOT to dirty this fantasy land joint UP. Alligators, nice. Now as for the hot men, where in here do we tie them up and get them to beg us to stop running peacock feathers up and down their inner thighs?
Posted by: Lindsey with an 'e' at January 30, 2010 2:56 AM
It's weird. I really loved Ugly Betty during it's first season. It was one of my favorite television shows. Then after that season ended, I completely forgot about it and when I was reminded that there was a new season, I didn't care at all. I completely lost interest in one of my favorite tv shows after one season for no apparent reason. I don't get it. I guess I just couldn't commit to the quirky goofiness for a long stretch of time.