Matt has never seen Saved By The Bell. His best friend and I tried to school him by making him watch the "Friends Forever/Zack Attack" episode a number of years ago, but he just. didn't. get. it. Well, maybe now I can try and school him again, because Lifetime is producing a behind-the-scenes movie of the kids on the show. Things could get interesting.
Up until one week ago, I had no idea that there was a children's book series about butts. That being said, when I found out that there was not only a book series, but also a television show, produced by Teletoon, I had to check it out. The Day My Butt Went Psycho takes place in a world where butts live beside their humans, not on them and the story's hero, Zach and his butt, Duce must fight evil butts and protect the world.
Have I mentioned the butts?
There are Goth Butts, Butt Unicorns, Old Butts, Alien Butts and a whole bunch of bad butts.
Ah Netflix. First, there was Lillehammer, then House of Cards and Orange is the New Black. With more and more Emmy and Globe noms every year, Netflix is really pushing original programming (not to mention saving Arrested Development, too). While they have mostly stayed within modern drama/comedy, their new show, Marco Polo is a period drama centering around, well, you guessed it, the intrepid Italian explorer.
Last week, I got a chance to visit the set of the Steven and Chris show, as they've really ramped up the look for the holiday season. It was fun being in a studio talking about all the gorgeous decorations and helping me feel festive since we are in the middle of moving (next week, FINALLY) and I don't have a tree or an inch of decorations up! The set is a take on Santa's workshop and the guys were really excited to show all the gorgeous pieces to me.
Every year, we head down to Toronto's Fan Expo Canada in early August to browse comics, up-and-coming movies, and all the rest. One of my favourite parts of the convention is just walking around and seeing all the amaizng do-it-yourself costumes that people worked on just for this early-Halloween fun.
Listen, Emmy Awards, it's not me. Not this time, at least. I know that pop culture can be exhausting, divisive, and downright rude, but last night's telecast of your ceremony was awful. The most entertaining things were a ping pong joke and a dance number that didn't really have anything to do with television.
For those into this sort of thing, Fan Expo Canada happened a few weeks ago (more on this year's Expo in coming weeks), and one of the things that drew me in was the new Mattel produced show — Max Steel. The show is a multi-platform show for kids which uses cool CGI, online content, games and the like to immerse kids in the high-stakes world of the titular star.
In OMG this is adorable news, a family from Ireland was on a star tour recently, and when their bus stopped outside Aaron Paul's house, he came down to chat with them. Apparently, he does this all the time. The McNeive family's dad filmed it all and posted it on YouTube for us to all enjoy:
The Prime Time Emmy Award nominations were announced on Thursday, and one major show's nomination means big things for how we consume episodic television. Netflix original series, House of Cards was nominated for best drama and people (myself included) are surprised (Jason Bateman is also nominated for Best Actor, Comedy for the now-Netflix produced Arrested Development). Why are we surprised? Because Netflix is not television. It's an online platform that we can watch on our televisions, but it's not a network.
