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Houseguests In One Sentence

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Just because I can, I’m going to pull a single sentence from each houseguests’s bio. It will be the sentence that most grabs me from each one.

Angie: “She is proud that she was the Guinness-chugging champion for women at Irish Kevin’s bar in Key West.”

April: “She admits to being OCD and can’t sleep at night if the bottles in the refrigerator aren’t lined up properly.”

Brian: “The political office that would interest him is that of Vice President.”

Dan: “He doesn’t think that America would have been ready for a female president and if Hillary Clinton had won the presidency, he would have moved out of the country.”

Jerry: “Jerry is a diehard Big Brother fan and hasn’t missed one episode in all nine seasons.”

Jessie: “His favorite foods are pancakes, oatmeal, fish and bananas and he also eats Hamburger Helper.”

Keesha: “Keesha considers Hooters an important part of her life.”

Libra: “She has been married for seven years and has three children: a 4-year old girl and recently gave birth to a medical rarity… 4-month old twins, one black and one white.”

Memphis: “He currently works as a ‘Mixologist,’ which he insists should not be confused with a bartender.”

Michelle: “Michelle has always spoken her mind and was the only person to jump up at her brother’s wedding when the priest asked if there were any objections.”

Ollie: “The things he would like to accomplish are financially oriented, i.e. earning enough money to be set for life by making a smart investment, creating the next best invention and/or winning the lottery.”

Renny: “She claims to have outfits, as well as wigs, for any and all social occasions.”

Steven: “He is a champion bull rider in the gay rodeo circuit.”

This’ll Be A Clusterfrak

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While we all sit around waiting for the Saturday schedule to be posted, keep this in mind, from The Live Feed:

Director Kevin Smith has agreed to moderate Sci Fi Channel’s “Battlestar Galactica” panel at Comic Con. This could push the typically packed venue into fire marshal-shutdown level of geek engagement.

Comic-Con should give away a Golden Ticket that gets the winner in and out of any and all rooms whenever you want, so I could find the winner and steal it.

Five Days Until Big Brother

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“CBS announced today the identities of the 13 houseguests who will compete in Big Brother 10,” reads the press release someone forwarded to me. “This season will feature a back-to-basics approach, kicking off with no casting twists and a return to the original format that has made Big Brother one of the most popular summer series on television.”

And sure enough, the Big Brother section of the CBS website is up and running. Enough with all the well-crafted narrative programming I keep talking about here — it’s almost Big Brother season.

One more bit from the press release: “This season, Houseguests will move into a brand new, all-American home with a traditional look, with a rocking chair on the front porch, Victorian stenciled windows and a lush flower garden.”

Comic-Con Schedule “Leaks”

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It’s not really a leak, per se. Rather, the schedules for each individual day are beginning to be posted to the Comic-Con website, even though they are not yet linked from their programming page. As of this post (or, rather, the previous one), the schedules for Thursday and Friday are available.

Update: While we all wait for the Saturday schedule page to actually include the Saturday schedule, what follows after the jump is my initial take on the panels I’m interested in on Thursday and Friday. These two days are scheduling fusterclucks, and I’m not looking forward to how Saturday will look.

Update: Comic-Con apparently caught on to the fact that these schedule pages were easily discoverable to anyone who knows their very obvious URL scheme, and has taken them down. But the fine folk of Galactica Sitrep have posted pdf files of the Thursday and Friday schedules for you to download.

Update: Actually, it seems the Thursday schedule page remains on the site and accessible at the URL above.
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Dr. Horrible To Play Friday Night At Comic-Con

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While they haven’t yet put up any links on the programming page, pages for two of the days already exist on their website: Thursday and Friday. The latter of which, of course, includes this:

1:30-2:30 Joss Whedon— Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and the writers and cast of his new short film, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, will show never-before-seen clips while Joss also discusses Buffy Season Eight, the Fray crossover, and the upcoming Serenity comic focusing on Shepherd Book. Ballroom 20

But it also includes this:

10:45-12:00 Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog— The story of a low-rent supervillain (Neil Patrick Harris as Dr. Horrible), the hero who keeps beating him up (Nathan Fillion as Captain Hammer), and the cute girl from the laundromat he’s too shy to talk to (Felicia Day as Penny). This musical in three parts, created for the Internet and written by Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon, Zack Whedon, and Maurissa Tancharoen, premieres in its entirety on the big screen at Comic-Con. Room 6B

So not only a panel in the afternoon, but the entirety of the musical will show later that night.

Strike.TV Launches

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While the teaser video has been available for days, no one was bothering to talk about it late yesterday and then today, presumably as a result of their press release going out. But, any rate, Strike.TV is up, at least in terms of the website being launched. Long in the works since the days of the writers strike, the project’s teaser certainly tells you who will be involved, but gives no sense at all of whether the shows will be any good.

Long-Lost Metropolis Footage Found

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While this isn’t about television, it’s so monumental that it gets a free pass here. According to an article in the German magazine Zeit, negatives containing the long-lost footage from the original cut of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis have been discovered in Argentina. Plans for restoration and re-release (in some form) now are underway.

In any culture worthy of that term, this would be major headline news. It’s a phenomenal moment in film history that should be trumpeted by anyone who actually cares about our cultural heritage. I have no idea if outlets such as CNN (not to single them out) care. At least ones such as Sci Fi Wire and Ain’t It Cool News do.

Update: For the sake of posterity, there’s the search of Google News showing the news spreading.

Update: AICN has, from a .pdf file of Zeit’s print edition, photographs of some of the rediscovered footage.

What Is Happening

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Laura Roslin, Emmy Finalist

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Last week, it was the finalists for series, a pool of ten that will be reduced to five nominees. Now comes word from The Envelope (via, in our case, Galactica Sitrep that amongst the ten finalists for Best Actress in a Drama Series is Mary McDonnell.

Once finalists have been narrowed down to the smaller lsits of actual nominees, they will be announced on July 17.

Update: I only just noticed that The Envelope has several finalist lists already, and thankfully amongst the Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series finalists is Michael Emerson from Lost.

Can Fox Shows Be Licensed Or Not?

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Last year, in October, there came a sudden licensing crackdown on theatrical showings of episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (See here, here, and here for details.) We were, at the time, ultimately told (see the comments) that in fact Fox had suspended such licensing for all of its television properties.

There were many theories at the time (including speculation that perhaps getting a cut from such usage was on the table in the then-looming writers strike, although that does not appear to have been the case), and in the just-linked discussion there’s some suggestion out of the company that handled issuing the licenses that some “third party” in fact had demanded their “fair share” of such licensing.

None of that ever has been confirmed, so far as I know. And no one that I know of has been able to get a firm picture of the specifics and the details from anyone high up enough to know them.

I bring all of this up because now comes news that a charity event has been prohibited from showing any Buffy episodes but is being permitted to screen episodes of its brother series Angel. And that comes on the heels of the recent announcement that Comic-Con has been permitted to license the musical episode of Buffy to screen as the convention’s final Sunday event.

All of which, of course, only further complicates the already complicated issue, and makes it even more unclear than it already is just what the Hell is going on.

On the off-chance that someone actually in the know happens across this post: Please email me and help us all understand the reality of the issues involved and what properties are and are not affected by those issues.

Update: I had completely forgotten all about this MTV article which detailed the various positions, and pegged a large bill the Screen Actors Guild had “sent 20th Century Fox Television a six-figure bill for unpaid actor residuals”.