Here are some recent news and notes about television that are strike related.
- Of course, the biggest news is that the Golden Globes show has been cancelled. As of right now, here's what NBC plans to air. At 8pm, a news special highlighting the performances of the nominees. At 9pm, a special press conference will air where the winners of the Golden Globes will be announced. At 10pm, an Access Hollywood like show covering all of the celebrities at parties. Apparently, the WGA won't let them go to the actual awards show, but has no problem with them still having parties.
On one hand, this idea is somewhat appealing because I get tired of the bloated awards shows filled with humorless banter, frivolous video packages, tiresome speeches, and annoying musical numbers. However, the actions of the WGA to prove a point in this strike has become equally annoying. It's clear that whenever this gets resolved no one is going to come out of it a winner, so lets just end this thing right now.
- In order to fill some airtime, CBS has officially announced that it will air the first season of Showtime's critically acclaimed series, Dexter. Episodes will air on Sundays starting on Feb. 17. No word on how long the episodes will be given how much CBS will likely have to edit out to make the show appropriate for network television. Looks like I won't have to Netflix that one after all.
- Starting Feb. 28, Reaper will be moving to Thursday nights at 9. That's bad news for fans of this show and Lost since they'll now be airing head to head. However, Reaper doesn't have too many new episodes left, so it shouldn't be a problem for very long.
- On Jan. 24, which is a Thursday, NBC will air two new episodes of Chuck. One will air at 8pm and the other at 10pm. With so few precious episodes of our shows left, I have no idea why they are burning two of them on one night, but that's the TV biz for ya.
- And if you're interested to see how the late night talk show hosts are coping with being back without their writers, check out this hilarious video from a recent Conan O'Brien:
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Let me urge you to Keep Dexter on your Netflix. Apart from the langauge and the sex, most of the violence (graphic) will be cut out. Dexter rarely kills someone in a nice way.
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