<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4216431524482988639</id><updated>2012-02-15T23:08:15.283-08:00</updated><title type='text'>ugly betty</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4216431524482988639/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4216431524482988639/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>buydvdezy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11494158742403210012</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_bGR426SZLwc/Sj77Lf2hFSI/AAAAAAAAAB8/HdVrOLdQZJw/S220/2.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>124</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4216431524482988639.post-1044188649094185588</id><published>2010-07-11T20:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-11T20:58:06.839-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Keeley Hawes and Ed Whitmore uncover ‘Identity’ on ITV1</title><content type='html'>The last time fans saw &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks DVD&lt;/a&gt;, It was as DI Alex Drake in the BBC series '&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-192-Numb3rs-Season-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Numb3rs DVD&lt;/a&gt;' where she was solving the day-to-day crimes of a 1980's London. &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD&lt;/a&gt; Fans that have missed their weekly &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under DVD&lt;/a&gt; will be pleased to know that she will be returning to UK television screens on Monday in a brand new &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park DVD&lt;/a&gt; show.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise DVD&lt;/a&gt;" deals with the complex crime of identity theft.  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DiFusco will be appearing as Sergeant Williams in TRACERS on Saturday, August 7, 2010.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4216431524482988639-4897474016502607346?l=buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com/feeds/4897474016502607346/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com/2010/07/theater-review-trek-in-park-highlights.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4216431524482988639/posts/default/4897474016502607346'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4216431524482988639/posts/default/4897474016502607346'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com/2010/07/theater-review-trek-in-park-highlights.html' title='Theater review: &apos;Trek in the Park&apos; highlights &apos;Star Trek&apos; as religion'/><author><name>anny</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315668263439464374</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4216431524482988639.post-422045524663676142</id><published>2010-07-11T20:52:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-11T20:52:50.082-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Emmy Nomination for Controversial ‘South Park’ Episode</title><content type='html'>The censored “&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park DVD&lt;/a&gt;” episodes that satirized the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise DVD&lt;/a&gt; picked up an Emmy nomination for outstanding animation program on Thursday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks DVD&lt;/a&gt; episodes, simply titled “&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-192-Numb3rs-Season-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Numb3rs DVD&lt;/a&gt;,” were televised in April and came under a severe amount of scrutiny because some interpretations of &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD&lt;/a&gt; visual representations of the prophet. 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We do not have network approval to stream our original version of the show &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;,” the Web site says.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; is sure to heap new attention onto the episodes that invoke the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-192-Numb3rs-Season-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Numb3rs DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;.“We’re extremely proud of ‘&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;’s’ tenth overall Emmy nomination and hope that the series will be honored with its fifth &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; later this year,” a Comedy Central spokesman said in an e-mail message.The spokesman declined to say whether the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park seasons 1-12 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; televise the episodes again.Asked for a reaction to the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise seasons 1-4 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;, Mr. Stone and Mr. Parker simply wrote in an email message: “Ball don’t lie.”Broadcast TV got a major shot in the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks seasons 1-7 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; when Fox's perky high-school musical comedy "Glee" nabbed the most Emmy nominations for &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-192-Numb3rs-Season-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Numb3rs seasons 1-5 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; series, 19, and ABC's mockumentary comedy "Modern Family" received 14.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the TV &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck seasons 1-5 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; continued its long-running love affair with programs about &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under seasons 1-5 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;, showering HBO's $200 million World War II miniseries "The &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park DVD&lt;/a&gt;" with the most nominations of any program -- 24.NBC got a big smack in the kisser when the TV Academy snubbed the triumphant return of "&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise DVD&lt;/a&gt;" in this year's list of contenders, but fawned over "&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks DVD&lt;/a&gt;" with a nom in the best variety program derby. &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-192-Numb3rs-Season-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Numb3rs DVD&lt;/a&gt;, of course, is the guy who walked from the show after just seven months when NBC tried to move the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD&lt;/a&gt; show to a post-midnight time slot. 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Seriously…&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4216431524482988639-7083634981031038993?l=buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com/feeds/7083634981031038993/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com/2010/06/medicine-how-science-fiction-failed-us_28.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4216431524482988639/posts/default/7083634981031038993'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4216431524482988639/posts/default/7083634981031038993'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com/2010/06/medicine-how-science-fiction-failed-us_28.html' title='Medicine – How Science Fiction Failed Us'/><author><name>anny</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315668263439464374</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4216431524482988639.post-1432559395747372724</id><published>2010-06-28T20:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-28T20:11:30.084-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Medicine – How Science Fiction Failed Us</title><content type='html'>As I was writing last week’s article and the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise DVD&lt;/a&gt; before it, I started thinking about all those future space men (and &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks DVD&lt;/a&gt;) who would invariably end up injured in these &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD&lt;/a&gt;. 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The &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under seasons 1-5 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; (for comparison to our medical technology) is the scene in &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park seasons 1-12 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; IV: The Voyage Home when Chekov is in the Operating Room because he is suffering an epidural hematoma caused by a torn &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise seasons 1-4 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;. The 1986 solution for this is to drill a hole in the patient’s head to relieve the pressure, and then examine the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise DVD&lt;/a&gt; afterward. 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As a doctor specializing in Infectious Diseases at one of the nation’s best teaching &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;, he has for more information and access to information on the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; of medical technology. However, since he is busy and currently unavailable for comment, you’ll have to settle for my opinion.&lt;br /&gt;If &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; has failed us it’s in that it only presents the extremes. 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At least in Whedon’s ‘verse, there were doctors practicing legitimate medicine with &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; and a failure rate likely similar to modern medicine (in &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; most maladies had a cure, even if it was difficult to get – and if a cure wasn’t available, a workaround usually was, like in the case of Picard’s Shalaft’s &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I suppose what I want from my &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise seasons 1-4 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; is less moral application and more development. 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Seriously…&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4216431524482988639-1432559395747372724?l=buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com/feeds/1432559395747372724/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com/2010/06/medicine-how-science-fiction-failed-us.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4216431524482988639/posts/default/1432559395747372724'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4216431524482988639/posts/default/1432559395747372724'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com/2010/06/medicine-how-science-fiction-failed-us.html' title='Medicine – How Science Fiction Failed Us'/><author><name>anny</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315668263439464374</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4216431524482988639.post-61748272323659731</id><published>2010-06-28T20:09:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-28T20:09:38.279-07:00</updated><title type='text'>New Troubles at Al Gore's Current TV</title><content type='html'>LOS ANGELES (&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park DVD&lt;/a&gt;) - Al Gore, the world's pre-eminent environmentalist, has embarked on his toughest recycling challenge: his own cable channel &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise DVD&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For much of the past year, Current TV &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks DVD&lt;/a&gt; has been quietly undergoing an overhaul that will change just about everything but the struggling &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD&lt;/a&gt;. 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But I loved the notion of &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD&lt;/a&gt;, this tortured soul. I think the reason people find such a fascination with vampires is because they are possibly &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under DVD&lt;/a&gt;. I think that for all of us, there’s a demon within.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mitra says the role of &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park DVD&lt;/a&gt;also helped her come to grips with losing her Irish mother four years ago. “I’ve dealt with addiction in &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise DVD&lt;/a&gt;,” she says. “And as a child of that, you spend your life trying to understand so that you can release yourself from it. I find playing this character to be &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks DVD set&lt;/a&gt;.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s turning out to be a great diversion for the residents of Shreveport, &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD set&lt;/a&gt;, as well.The series is being shot on city streets, soundstages, and on the grounds of a real gated community called &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under DVD set&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We’ve shot inside and outside the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park DVD set&lt;/a&gt;, and the neighbors come over to have little parties,” says Hatem. “They get glasses of wine and watch &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise set&lt;/a&gt;.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The idea in setting the show behind gates is that, &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;, you’re protecting yourself from the outside world,” says executive producer Grant Sharbo. “But what happens is that the real danger is from within.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That resonates with &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;, who believes there is nothing more terrifying than the notion of living in an exclusive community.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“I think it would feel like having &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; and being closed off,” she says. “I’d find it very stagnant, repressive, and &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;. Having seen where my mom grew up in Ireland, and how religion can impose that sort of community &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise boxset&lt;/a&gt;, I’m for open fields. Get me to the top of a mountain and away.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But for now, she, too, is stuck behind the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;, along with everyone else who thinks they’re safe.“They’ve let a Hollywood film crew into their gates,” jokes Hatem. “So they’re getting a real taste of danger.”&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4216431524482988639-4714319493170276098?l=buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com/feeds/4714319493170276098/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com/2010/06/bloodthirsty-couples-live-american.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4216431524482988639/posts/default/4714319493170276098'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4216431524482988639/posts/default/4714319493170276098'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com/2010/06/bloodthirsty-couples-live-american.html' title='Bloodthirsty couples live the American dream behind ‘The Gates’'/><author><name>anny</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315668263439464374</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4216431524482988639.post-7168460905808990067</id><published>2010-06-21T19:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-21T19:28:12.178-07:00</updated><title type='text'>TRUE BLOOD Recap: “Beautifully Broken”</title><content type='html'>Last week’s third season premiere of &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise DVD&lt;/a&gt;  quickly got me back in the vampire mood.  It’s fantastic summer entertainment, and the first episode of &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks DVD&lt;/a&gt; teased some interesting possibilities for the new season of &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD&lt;/a&gt;.  This &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under DVD&lt;/a&gt; episode, of course, walked just a bit further down those narrative paths.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hit the jump for a review of “&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park DVD&lt;/a&gt;,” the second episode of season three of &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise set&lt;/a&gt; after the jump.Bill yanking his head into frame with a werewolf ear in his mouth, blood flying everywhere, is a pretty cool opening &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks DVD set&lt;/a&gt;.   But Bill’s storyline did nothing to thrust us deeper into the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD set&lt;/a&gt;, as I was hoping.  Instead, the pack was merely doing the bidding of the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under DVD set&lt;/a&gt;, Russell Edgington, gallantly positioned atop a pristine white horse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not sure exactly what to make of the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park DVD set&lt;/a&gt; just yet, other than wonder just how many layers of the vamp government we’ll explore over the run of the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise boxset&lt;/a&gt; show.  I didn’t realize that Bill was such a “&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;” vampire.  What does that entail, exactly, given the relative lack of &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; in Bill’s diet?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In addition to &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;, we also met Tara’s new vamp friend, Franklin Mott, and Lafayette’s new nurse friend, Jesus.  At least, from the way they edited the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;, I presume that Jesus will achieve some sort of prominence this season.  He was awfully smiley toward &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise seasons 1-4 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;, whom I’d be happy to see with a steady boyfriend.  And Buffy’s Spike has primed me to like bad boy bloodsuckers with &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks seasons 1-7 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;, so I welcome Franklin as a necessary spice to the Tara-centric storylines.  Don’t know if he’ll be a worthy Eggs replacement…The &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck seasons 1-5 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; of last season was True Blood at its best, though more contemplative than I would like the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under seasons 1-5 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; show to be with any sort of consistency.  The steady, tranquil depiction of Godric reminded me that the mind behind &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise DVD&lt;/a&gt; also created personal favorite &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park seasons 1-12 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;, so I was happy to have him back, however briefly.  And boy, can he pull off an SS uniform.  Likewise, as terrible as it sounds, &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks DVD&lt;/a&gt; looks positively dashing as a Nazi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Speaking of which, it’s an episode of &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD&lt;/a&gt; like this that makes it so clear that for narrative purposes Sookie should always be paired with &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under DVD&lt;/a&gt; over Bill: “You’re going to invite me in, so I can protect you. Or have passionate, &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park DVD&lt;/a&gt;.  How about both?”  I’m assuming both are indeed imminent in the coming episodes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gotta love Anna Paquin’s impersonation of Bill’s catchphrase, “&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise set&lt;/a&gt;.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hoyt is such a sweet presence among the rest of the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks DVD set&lt;/a&gt;, and I can’t help but root for his (&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD set&lt;/a&gt;) romance with Jessica.  Her farcical adventures with the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under DVD set&lt;/a&gt; — spraying Lysol everywhere, wielding a chainsaw, losing the body — continue to be adorable.  &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park DVD set&lt;/a&gt; has definitely become a highlight of the show for me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ultimately, I liked the episode of &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise boxset&lt;/a&gt;, but I feel more teased than satisfied.  Such an approach makes perfect sense for the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;, but “&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;” continued to introduce new elements with a tantalizing ambiguity, and then moving on.  I guess I forget that &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; has always been structured as a mystery, ifa bit less directly in season two.  I’m ready to dive in to the werewolf lore, which I suppose will come when Alcide comes on stage.  I just hope it’s sooner rather than later.  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People who watch this &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD&lt;/a&gt; have become accustomed to seeing some serious violence and I don’t think the last episode of &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under DVD&lt;/a&gt; was any exception.&lt;br /&gt;Couldn’t they have left us with one little gory execution to cling to &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park DVD set&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;This was the episode of the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise set&lt;/a&gt;.  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The dead queens are back!”  But I was sad not to see &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise seasons 1-4 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; in all her bare-boobed glory and Joss Stone (whatever her Queen name was, &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks seasons 1-7 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;) with her fakey German accent in tow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know she’s not dead but &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck seasons 1-5 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; doesn’t mean I was any less pumped to see her.  I also loved that the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under seasons 1-5 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; were upset with Henry rather than being all fawny and lovey as they were when they were regulars on the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park seasons 1-12 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; show.  They’re already dead so why not talk a little trash?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now that we are talking about the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park DVD&lt;/a&gt; and chilluns, let me just make a side note here:  I HATE, HATE, HATE when they substitute one kid for another playing the same &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise DVD&lt;/a&gt; to show us that the kid is getting older.  This is the old Chrissy Seever trick from “&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks DVD&lt;/a&gt;.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember when that kid went from being a newborn one &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD&lt;/a&gt; season to being a second grader the next?  Talk about discombobulating.  Tonight we saw &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under DVD&lt;/a&gt; get about three years older than he was in the last episode of &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park DVD set&lt;/a&gt;.  I can’t stand that!  I know they are trying to help give us a sense of his approximate age when his pop croaked but &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise set&lt;/a&gt; still bothers me.  I get rather attached to TV children, I’ll admit it.  I don’t like seeing them go away and transform into a totally different &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks DVD set&lt;/a&gt; without any warning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I always have to pause The &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD set&lt;/a&gt; right before baby Simba turns into teenager Simba just to savor that last, precious moment.  Not that I watch The &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under DVD set&lt;/a&gt; regularly or anything.  Don’t judge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I feel like I learned a very useful line from tonight’s episode of &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;.  Remember when Queen Catherine (the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise boxset&lt;/a&gt;) is trying to save her ass from the chopping block and she says to the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;, “I am but a woman with all the imperfections natural to the weakness of my sex”?  This is a good one!  I am going to &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; this line out next time I get pulled over or get called out for doing anything bad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’ll say it when I’m late for work, when I don’t have enough money to tip the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;, when I accidentally rear-end someone in traffic, whenever!  I think it will help me out of some sticky situations.  It sure helped &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park seasons 1-12 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;!I am a sucker for montages set to music and tonight’s episode of &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise seasons 1-4 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; had a good one.  I have to admit that I get chills whenever old scenes from shows are matched with sad music.  I get all misty and &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks seasons 1-7 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; makes me want to go back and watch the show from the beginning all over again.  I really loved seeing all his kids when they were &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck seasons 1-5 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;, even more than that I loved seeing sexy Jonathan Rhys Meyers as the young King.  And also, Hottie McHotterson &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under seasons 1-5 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; with him!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We got to see both &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park DVD&lt;/a&gt; die as yucky old codgers tonight and it was really nice to see them as hot youngsters for a brief instant. &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise DVD&lt;/a&gt; took us back to the good ole days when the show was new.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Overall, I liked this last episode of &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks DVD&lt;/a&gt;.  It wrapped up most of the plotlines neatly yet made me feel a strong desire to go buy a big, heavy book about &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD&lt;/a&gt; post-Henry VIII so I can find out more.  What are your thoughts about the conclusion of this show?  Any comments or feelings to share &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under DVD&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4216431524482988639-2823146280081147341?l=buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com/feeds/2823146280081147341/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com/2010/06/tutor-review-series-finale.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4216431524482988639/posts/default/2823146280081147341'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4216431524482988639/posts/default/2823146280081147341'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com/2010/06/tutor-review-series-finale.html' title='The Tutor Review: Series Finale'/><author><name>anny</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315668263439464374</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4216431524482988639.post-641433575500580397</id><published>2010-06-21T19:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-21T19:25:03.359-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Exclusive News about....</title><content type='html'>Last week I posted a quick &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under DVD&lt;/a&gt; saying that I would wait until this week to write about both of these &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park DVD&lt;/a&gt; episodes, but that "The &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise DVD&lt;/a&gt;" was a "&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks DVD&lt;/a&gt;." Having had a week to reflect on that&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD&lt;/a&gt;, I'm not so sure that's the case, and yet I still think "The &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under DVD set&lt;/a&gt;" is a very or at least reasonably good &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park DVD set&lt;/a&gt; episode, but perhaps not an effective setup for "&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise set&lt;/a&gt;," unless you enjoy bait and switch. The tone and feel of "The &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks DVD set&lt;/a&gt;" is vastly different than "&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD set&lt;/a&gt;" (how about from here on out I refer to the episodes as &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; respectively?), and a fairly inconsequential amount of the information the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; episode delivers has much of anything to do with the second half. Probably the single most important bit that carries over from one episode to the next &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise boxset&lt;/a&gt; is the Doctor, Amy, and Rory seeing future versions of Amy and Rory off in the distance at the very start, but we'll get to that in &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; plays like one part spooky horror story and one part &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under seasons 1-5 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;. It's a clear homage not so much to the classic &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park seasons 1-12 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; series Silurians tales, but other stories from the Jon Pertwee era like "&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise seasons 1-4 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;" and "The &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks seasons 1-7 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;." Heck, even the earth swallowing people up takes me back to Peter Davison's "&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck seasons 1-5 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;." One of the things that I've really enjoyed about this &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under DVD&lt;/a&gt; season is the conscious decision to go for more rural settings, as opposed to the urban backdrops which so dominated the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park DVD&lt;/a&gt;. It's given the season a much different texture, and one that's a welcome &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise DVD&lt;/a&gt;, and you can't get much more rural than the countryside, an old church and &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks DVD&lt;/a&gt;, and a tiny cast. In so many ways both THE and CB are perhaps the closest to classic "&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD set&lt;/a&gt;" the new series has yet produced, which I'm not entirely sure is a good thing, because trying to hammer an &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under DVD set&lt;/a&gt; into a new box is an often dicey proposition, and I quite honestly am not sure if it works all that well here. The best episodes of the new &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park DVD set&lt;/a&gt; have been the ones that did something with "&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise set&lt;/a&gt;" that we've never seen before, and if the new &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks DVD set&lt;/a&gt; series has proven anything, it's that it's best to keep moving forwards.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And yet there were numerous great moments in &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD set&lt;/a&gt;. One of them was the scene where Amy woke up encased in &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;. 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Thing is, I really, really liked Elliot in THE, but by the time we got to CB, he could've been any character of &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under seasons 1-5 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;, and his only function seemed to be that the young are the most open-minded people on the planet, which is a nice, and perhaps &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park seasons 1-12 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;, but not one I needed or cared to see hammered home. The final reveal of the underground Silurian city is another &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise seasons 1-4 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;, but it's also one whose promise isn't really met in CB. It looks as though we're going to be getting something monumental in &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks seasons 1-7 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; that we ultimately never really get. I'd never go so far as to call these two episodes "&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck seasons 1-5 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;" or to say I didn't like them, but when compared to the previous "&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under DVD&lt;/a&gt;" (think, "The &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park DVD&lt;/a&gt;," "The &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise DVD&lt;/a&gt;," and "&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks DVD&lt;/a&gt;"), this seems to be lacking in ambition and scope. I had really high expectations for this 90-minute block – &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD&lt;/a&gt; that ultimately weren't met.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under DVD set&lt;/a&gt; (or whatever we are or aren't calling them at this point) were one of the great concepts in classic "&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park DVD set&lt;/a&gt;." Instead of the two old sci-fi standards of "&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise set&lt;/a&gt;" or "we go to them," the idea was that "&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks DVD set&lt;/a&gt;" were here long before "us." Humans became the invaders on their own soil. Writer Malcolm Hulke did a solid job filling out and exploring these ideas in J&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD set&lt;/a&gt;'s second serial, "Doctor Who and the Silurians," and then he came back a few years later with "The &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;," in which the Doctor met the aquatic relatives of the Silurians, and then 10 or so years later Peter Davison encountered both races in the year 2084 in the lackluster tale "&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;" (which wasn't written by Hulke). All three tales are available on DVD in the "&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise boxset&lt;/a&gt;" boxset, and in each of these stories amounted to a moral dilemma for &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;, as he tried desperately to broker peace between the two species, and they always ended badly, with no &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;. This new two-parter (or at least CB) tells the same story, once again, which isn't a problem for anyone who hasn't seen all the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under seasons 1-5 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;, but for those of us who have, when all is said and done, there's bound to be a "&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park seasons 1-12 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;?" as the final credits roll.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, maybe not, as CB finished off with a &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise seasons 1-4 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; that has little to do with the story, and more to do with seasonal Pandorica arc (there seems to be a lot of that this &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks seasons 1-7 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;). The ending of CB is such a narrative shock that it leaves one forgetting how rote much of what came before really was – &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck seasons 1-5 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;, at least for old school fans, and since I am one, I can't write from any other perspective. The only major difference between this tale and the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under DVD&lt;/a&gt; serials of old is that it ends on a considerably happier note, and instead of some mass slaughter, the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park DVD&lt;/a&gt; go into hibernation for another thousand years. Really what the story feels like is, ironically enough, a setup for the return of &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise DVD&lt;/a&gt;, presumably next season, which I welcome, because there surely must be a great deal of untapped potential in this &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks DVD&lt;/a&gt; provided someone actually takes us there. So much of the dialogue and so many of the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD&lt;/a&gt; in this story seem inspired by or ripped directly from all the previous homo reptilia &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under DVD set&lt;/a&gt;, that I'm surprised Malcolm Hulke didn't get a co-writing credit next to Chris Chibnall. But I'm loath to hold any of this against the story, because the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park DVD set&lt;/a&gt; needed to be re-established for modern audiences unfamiliar with the originals, and Hulke did such a bang-up job back in the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise set&lt;/a&gt;, that maybe there was almost no other way to accomplish this than by going back to the concept's roots, given how original it is as sci-fi &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks DVD set&lt;/a&gt;. The Silurians are a fascinating enough race that they deserve to get the same kind of returning screentime that the Daleks and the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD set&lt;/a&gt;. This could go on for a long time on this series, with all kinds of twists and turns along the way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Probably the most frustrating aspect of CB in particular is the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; ongoing insistence at brokering peace between the two species. On three occasions he's learned that this &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;, so why would he possibly think it would be a success this time? Why is he so optimistic? The &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise boxset&lt;/a&gt; seems worse than ever before, so why is he being so **** blind to the truth? Once again, for anyone who's seen the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; serials, this just makes no sense. I'm very interested to hear opinions from fans that've never seen the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; serials, so by all means, fill up the comments section below with your thoughts on this story.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4216431524482988639-641433575500580397?l=buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com/feeds/641433575500580397/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com/2010/06/exclusive-news-about.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4216431524482988639/posts/default/641433575500580397'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4216431524482988639/posts/default/641433575500580397'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com/2010/06/exclusive-news-about.html' title='Exclusive News about....'/><author><name>anny</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315668263439464374</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4216431524482988639.post-8943684295399598325</id><published>2010-06-21T19:23:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-21T19:23:56.037-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Anil's absence spooks Dalal Street</title><content type='html'>MUMBAI: On Dalal Street money is made both from fights and &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD&lt;/a&gt;. In 2005, after the two Ambani brothers divided the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under DVD&lt;/a&gt; and carved out several new companies, the de-merger exercise created enormous value for the group's &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park DVD&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And when last month the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise DVD&lt;/a&gt; signed an agreement to bring an amicable end to the animosity of the past years, &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks DVD&lt;/a&gt; again made some good money, a jaw-dropping Rs 50,000 crore as of Friday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Despite this &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD set&lt;/a&gt; gain, shareholders' mood on Friday was somewhat dampened as Anil Ambani did not turn up at &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under DVD set&lt;/a&gt; investors took it as a negative sign for the groups' stocks and pulled down all the nine scrips into the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park DVD set&lt;/a&gt;. RNRL led the slide with a 7.5% drop.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Consider this. After a series of &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise set&lt;/a&gt;, demergers, listing of newly created companies and acquisitions, the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks DVD set&lt;/a&gt;, Mukesh's RIL and Anil's ADAG, together control nine companies now with a combined market &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; of about Rs 4.84 lakh crore, as on Friday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And on June 19, 2005 a day after the demerger of the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; was announced, the total market capitalisation was Rs 2.3 lakh crore. That's a jump of 120% to the wealth of the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;'s shareholders in just five years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, the&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise boxset&lt;/a&gt; fades a bit if these returns are compared against the 180% jump in the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; during the corresponding period: the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck seasons 1-5 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; index was near the 6,500-level on June 19, and exactly five years later, on Friday it closed at 17,571.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of the two factions, &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under seasons 1-5 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; was the biggest value creator with Rs 2.6 lakh crore. In the last five years, its &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park seasons 1-12 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; capitalisation has jumped more than four times to Rs 3.45 lakh crore now. On the other hand, &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise seasons 1-4 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;, that was carved out of the erstwhile Reliance Energy and listed in February 2008, destroyed about &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks seasons 1-7 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; worth of shareholders' wealth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since May 23, 2010, the day the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD&lt;/a&gt; between the brothers were diluted to pave the way for a "&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under DVD&lt;/a&gt;'' relationship, the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park DVD&lt;/a&gt;'s shareholders have become richer by a little over Rs 50,000 crore. During this less-than-a-month period, &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise DVD&lt;/a&gt; has risen over 41% to its Friday close at Rs 63 on the BSE.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Friday, however, after the younger of the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks DVD&lt;/a&gt; failed to make an appearance at RIL's AGM, investors felt that things between the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD set&lt;/a&gt; were yet to get back to the pre-division days. 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These people aren't entirely mistaken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; models of battle hardened troopers (ranging from &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; to modern day CIA &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-164-Spooks-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Spooks DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;) can pose, be displayed and accessorized with &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; from extra ammunition pouches to decked out M4A1 assault rifles. &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-214-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Seasons-1-4-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise boxset&lt;/a&gt; spend considerable amounts of time and money collecting, trading and even customizing them for optimal badassness.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4216431524482988639-8943684295399598325?l=buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com/feeds/8943684295399598325/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com/2010/06/anils-absence-spooks-dalal-street.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4216431524482988639/posts/default/8943684295399598325'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4216431524482988639/posts/default/8943684295399598325'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com/2010/06/anils-absence-spooks-dalal-street.html' title='Anil&apos;s absence spooks Dalal Street'/><author><name>anny</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315668263439464374</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4216431524482988639.post-9134127526065154551</id><published>2010-06-11T18:55:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-11T18:56:23.952-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Opposition to JC on TV (Comedy Central, that is)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dYz4-XD7NoA/TBLpNM49kRI/AAAAAAAAAHI/OMPc-To4bW4/s1600/5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 225px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dYz4-XD7NoA/TBLpNM49kRI/AAAAAAAAAHI/OMPc-To4bW4/s320/5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5481700109471027474" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Opposition is being organized against a new animated show-&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park DVD&lt;/a&gt; to feature Jesus Christ in a modern day setting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-192-Numb3rs-Season-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Numb3rs DVD&lt;/a&gt; show is in the “idea” stage at Comedy Central, but some people are already doubtful about its merits.   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Dark Season proved to be a success for the BBC and initially a second &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-192-Numb3rs-Season-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Numb3rs DVD set&lt;/a&gt; was considered but ultimately never materialised although a novelisation of the series was released.&lt;br /&gt;In 1992 Davies moved from the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD set&lt;/a&gt; to Granada Television writing for the successful CITV series Children’s Ward - &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-322-Queer-As-Folk-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Queer As Folk DVD set&lt;/a&gt; in a hospital. One of the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under DVD set&lt;/a&gt;'s episodes written by Davies won a BAFTA. 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In 2009, Shores toured his one-man show "&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;" playing thirty-four cities which segued into stand-up performances in many cities, including New York City's &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-322-Queer-As-Folk-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Queer As Folk DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;. Shores is legally married to Jason Dottley and is the proud father of Rebecca (20) and Caroline (17). He is represented by Creative Artist Agency and his publisher is Samuel French, Inc. 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How do our surroundings and circumstances define us?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4216431524482988639-5026874056778150781?l=buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com/feeds/5026874056778150781/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com/2010/06/united-states-of-tara-finds-its.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4216431524482988639/posts/default/5026874056778150781'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4216431524482988639/posts/default/5026874056778150781'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com/2010/06/united-states-of-tara-finds-its.html' title='&quot;United States of Tara&quot; finds its identity'/><author><name>anny</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315668263439464374</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4216431524482988639.post-5397706313718115186</id><published>2010-06-02T23:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-02T23:21:07.727-07:00</updated><title type='text'>EW Includes Lara, Master Chief, Kratos, Niko, and Nathan Drake Among Top 100 Characters of Past 20 Years</title><content type='html'>Entertainment Weekly, noted for their coverage of film and television topics, &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park DVD&lt;/a&gt;last week released their list of the 100-greatest characters of the last 20 years,&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-192-Numb3rs-Season-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Numb3rs DVD&lt;/a&gt;. Included in the list were Lara Croft, Master Chief, Nathan Drake, Kratos, and Niko Bellic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The list was topped by &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD&lt;/a&gt; (though technically he's been around for just over 20 years). Here's the top 10:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Homer Simpson from The Simpsons&lt;br /&gt;2. Harry Potter from the Harry Potter series&lt;br /&gt;3. Buffy from Buffy the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-192-Numb3rs-Season-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Numb3rs DVD set&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Tony Soprano from The Sopranos&lt;br /&gt;5. The Joker from The &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD set&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. Rachel Green from &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-322-Queer-As-Folk-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Queer As Folk DVD set&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. Edward Scissorhands from Edward Scissorhands&lt;br /&gt;8. Hannibal Lecter from The Silence of the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-322-Queer-As-Folk-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Queer As Folk DVD&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9. Carrie Bradshaw from &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under DVD&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10. SpongeBob SquarePants from SpongeBob SquarePants&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lara Croft was the first video game character to crack the Top 100, coming in at number 17.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Master Chief ranked at number 59, and Niko, Nathan, and Kratos came in at number 93 under the header, "&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under DVD set&lt;/a&gt;".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It would be easy to get upset and claim that this list is &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park DVD set&lt;/a&gt;. After all, as a gamer, it's easy for us to say that &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-192-Numb3rs-Season-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Numb3rs DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; is a far superior character to, say, &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;. 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This is a pretty robust list, but what makes gaming's inclusion more &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-192-Numb3rs-Season-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Numb3rs seasons 1-5 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; is that, ten years ago, nobody at Entertainment Weekly would have thought about putting a game character on the list.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Games are increasingly becoming a part of popular culture. &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-341-Nip-Tuck-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Nip/Tuck seasons 1-5 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; characters are advertised on Big Gulps at &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-322-Queer-As-Folk-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Queer As Folk seasons 1-5 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; (I'm looking at you, Kratos), major game productions often cost more than making blockbuster movies, Modern Warfare 2 was the biggest &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-158-Six-Feet-Under-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Six Feet Under seasons 1-5 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; release OF ALL TIME, and movies are more and more frequently being made based on game adaptations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, the fact is, Edward Cullen from &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park seasons 1-12 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; is nowhere near as great a character as Master Chief, Nathan Drake, Kratos, &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-581-South-Park-Seasons-1-12-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;South Park DVD&lt;/a&gt; or heck, probably just about every video game character ever created. 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I've never bought for one second that Owen loves anyone other than Cristina or that &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls seasons 1-7 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; would trade Owen for surgery or even that Teddy was a Badass Cardio Goddess (that would be Cristina Yang).  Still, the flip side of that coin is that the same writers who gave us the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-308-Greys-Anatomy-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Grey's Anatomy seasons 1-5 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; (as my friends and I have taken to calling it) also wrote We Matter, The Burke Talk, The Kitchen Scene, The Hug of Life 2.0, "I need for there to be &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-590-Desperate-Housewives-season-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Desperate Housewives DVD&lt;/a&gt;", "That is the woman that I love.  You shoot her, you TOUCH her and I will kill you", and "I'm trying to save your guy.  Now please go and try to save mine!"  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Owen jumps in front of the bullet, which lodges in his shoulder.  &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-308-Greys-Anatomy-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Grey's Anatomy DVD set&lt;/a&gt; basically says that he can kill everyone or just Derek.  Avery stops working on Derek and tells Clark that he will bleed out momentarily and flatline.  Sure enough, a flatline appears and Clark is convinced that his mission has been accomplished.  &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD set&lt;/a&gt;, bawling hysterically.  Her reaction reassures Clark that Derek is dead, and he leaves.  After he leaves, we see that Avery disconnected some wires but that Derek was never in danger.  They continue working on him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The last scene I’ll talk about in detail is another involving Bailey, her patient Mary, and Dr. Percy.  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After the shock of pleading for &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-590-Desperate-Housewives-season-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Desperate Housewives DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;, the frantic attempt to save Percy, and trying to calm Mary, now she comes to the realization that Percy will die.  And she loses it.  She screams hysterically, yelling at the futility and inevitable doom of the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-157-Entourage-Seasons-1-6-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Entourage DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.  She has her moment of weakness and then gathers herself, summoning the courage and backbone we know she possess.  This time she tells Percy the truth: he is going to die.  But she and Mary will be with him every step of the way.  At this point I need &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;, which should be the official sponsor of Grey’s Anatomy.  He asks Bailey to tell Reed that he always had a crush on her and that he died brave.  *sniffle*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The episode was too intense and intricate for me to relay every detail, but I can say that Seattle Grace will never be the same.  Percy and Reed were killed.  Meredith found out she was pregnant, but the day’s heart-stopping stress was too much to bear and she suffered a miscarriage before she could tell &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-308-Greys-Anatomy-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Grey's Anatomy DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;.  Owen was shot in the shoulder.  Alex was shot and nearly died.  Derek was shot in the chest.  These are the lives that were affected and will be changed forever.  This was easily the best episode of the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-157-Entourage-Seasons-1-6-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Entourage DVD&lt;/a&gt;, and of the entire series, in my opinion.  I’ve never been so enthralled by a network television show.  I’m used to HBO giving me the realness, but not ABC.  Best. Episode. 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(Let’s not forget the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD set&lt;/a&gt;, and can we have a brief moment of silence for Reaper, Privileged, and Aliens in America, as well?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over the years, the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-157-Entourage-Seasons-1-6-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Entourage DVD set&lt;/a&gt; has morphed into a niche network that’s making smart choices, though diversifying its product will be the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-590-Desperate-Housewives-season-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Desperate Housewives DVD set&lt;/a&gt; to broadening its audience and gaining viewership. &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-590-Desperate-Housewives-season-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Desperate Housewives seasons 1-5 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;, I don’t think that will ever happen. 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And as the star of the new CW show &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;, she will get to tote guns and perform her own stunts, look sultry, talk sassy and just be an all-around badass. Based on the Luc Besson French film (also, with an &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-308-Greys-Anatomy-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Grey's Anatomy DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;) and the USA series La Femme Nikita (&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-590-Desperate-Housewives-season-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Desperate Housewives DVD&lt;/a&gt;), Maggie will portray the spy-assassin turned rogue against the agency that created her. The show also stars ER’s Shane West.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nikita certainly stands up against the sexy, fun side of the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-157-Entourage-Seasons-1-6-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Entourage DVD&lt;/a&gt;, but it doesn’t scream “&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD&lt;/a&gt;” like their flagships &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-308-Greys-Anatomy-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Grey's Anatomy DVD&lt;/a&gt; or 90210. Yet I’m excited to see what the CW does with something so different than the rest of its lineup, and with a high-octane producer like McG (&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-590-Desperate-Housewives-season-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Desperate Housewives DVD set&lt;/a&gt;: Salvation, Human Target, Mission: Impossible III), it’s sure to be a wild ride.&lt;br /&gt;A snugger fit is the new show Hellcats, starring Aly Michalka (&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-157-Entourage-Seasons-1-6-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Entourage DVD set&lt;/a&gt;, Phil of the Future) as a pre-law student who joins her university cheerleading squad, but only because she’s losing her scholarship. Miraculously, this is the only way she can stay in school. &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD set&lt;/a&gt; stars as her less-than-together mother, and Ashley Tisdale (the High School Musicals) plays the quintessential, snarky team captain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s not the most original of ideas, but it definitely looked fluffy, &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-308-Greys-Anatomy-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Grey's Anatomy DVD set&lt;/a&gt; and energetic. 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Apparently it was, as executives turned into swaying robots and sat back down before she even got into the second song.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But in all seriousness, the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-157-Entourage-Seasons-1-6-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Entourage DVD&lt;/a&gt; will never be able to compete with the other Big Four, which is why I believe Ostroff is making the smart choice is branding the network as “&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD&lt;/a&gt;”. “D” in this instance stands for digital. 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So I’m happy with their decision to take small chances and not mess with what isn’t quite broken.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4216431524482988639-6975014079410831776?l=buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com/feeds/6975014079410831776/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com/2010/05/cw-upfront-tv-to-talk-about.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4216431524482988639/posts/default/6975014079410831776'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4216431524482988639/posts/default/6975014079410831776'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com/2010/05/cw-upfront-tv-to-talk-about.html' title='The CW Upfront: TV to Talk About'/><author><name>anny</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315668263439464374</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4216431524482988639.post-4677459191934330282</id><published>2010-05-25T19:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-25T19:29:07.581-07:00</updated><title type='text'>'Grey's Anatomy' Has Misleading Miscarriage</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dYz4-XD7NoA/S_yHKZu5YrI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/ti11mS5eH10/s1600/grey.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 212px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dYz4-XD7NoA/S_yHKZu5YrI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/ti11mS5eH10/s320/grey.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475399859751707314" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last Thursday's season finale episode of &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-308-Greys-Anatomy-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Grey's Anatomy DVD&lt;/a&gt; featured much turmoil in the hospital -- sudden deaths, a shooter, relationship drama, and, by the end, &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-590-Desperate-Housewives-season-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Desperate Housewives DVD&lt;/a&gt;  caused by the stress of it all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most of the time when I watch &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-308-Greys-Anatomy-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Grey's Anatomy DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;, I do so knowing that my doctors don't really talk about their love lives while I'm under the knife (&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-157-Entourage-Seasons-1-6-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Entourage DVD&lt;/a&gt;). They don't really all trade sex partners back and forth like horny teenagers instead of respected surgeons and mostly, I watch knowing it's fiction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, the (&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD&lt;/a&gt;) episode did feature something that, had I been pregnant, would have had me clutching my belly with worry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;**Spoiler Alert**&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In last Thursday's episode, &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-590-Desperate-Housewives-season-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Desperate Housewives DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; (the doctor for whom the series is named) suffers a miscarriage after her husband and love of her life is shot right in front of her.&lt;br /&gt;It's implied, though never implicitly stated, that the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-157-Entourage-Seasons-1-6-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Entourage DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; was caused by stress. After all, prior to this, she had been developing morning sickness and had a positive pregnancy test just earlier that morning, both indications that the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; was moving in the right direction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As someone who spent the first four months of both of my &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-308-Greys-Anatomy-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Grey's Anatomy DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; plagued by stress over the health of the babies and my potential for miscarriage, the show concerned me, so I decided to do a little research.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dr. Sarah Jeffers is &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-590-Desperate-Housewives-season-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Desperate Housewives DVD set&lt;/a&gt; from Atlanta, Georgia. Her practice, Atlanta Women's Specialists, works out of Atlanta's Northside Hospital. "There is no direct cause and effect relationship between acute &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-157-Entourage-Seasons-1-6-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Entourage DVD set&lt;/a&gt; (like the one encountered by Meredith Grey) and an increased risk of miscarriage," says Dr. Jeffers, who added, "We also have no proof that even prolonged stress like depression or something similar could cause an early &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD set&lt;/a&gt;."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although there are some studies that have been inconclusive and others that &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-308-Greys-Anatomy-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Grey's Anatomy DVD set&lt;/a&gt; there may be some link, the show's oversimplification of the matter is simply not rooted in fact, says Dr. Jeffers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In fact, 50 percent of &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-590-Desperate-Housewives-season-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Desperate Housewives seasons 1-5 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; are caused by a chromosomal abnormality. The other 50 percent could be caused by "other factors such as heavy smoking and maternal medical factors, autoimmune disorders, obesity, history of previous &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-157-Entourage-Seasons-1-6-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Entourage seasons 1-6 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;, and a few others," according to Dr. Jeffers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Notably absent from the list? Seeing Dr. McDreamy shot before your eyes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, yes, let's enjoy &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls seasons 1-7 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; for the eye candy and the drama, but let's leave the medical facts to the real doctors of the world.&lt;br /&gt;According to an interview with Patrick Dempsey after the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-308-Greys-Anatomy-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Grey's Anatomy seasons 1-5 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; finale on Thursday, the actor doesn't believe Grey's Anatomy will last longer than it's two more contracted seasons.  He quotes, "I think most &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-590-Desperate-Housewives-season-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Desperate Housewives DVD&lt;/a&gt; go through a cycle and we're certainly probably coming to the end of our cycle."  Patrick also stated that he believes it's hard to come up with new stuff for the story lines after so many episodes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is Patrick &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-157-Entourage-Seasons-1-6-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Entourage DVD&lt;/a&gt;'s belief of this cycle end indicative of what the writers and the producers of the show believe?  Budget cuts have also forced the use of a sound stage or green screens as opposed to the actors being flown in every week for &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD&lt;/a&gt;.  A combination of lower ratings and lower finances might bring Patrick's forecast to reality.  Shonda Rhimes has also taken on yet another ABC show-&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-308-Greys-Anatomy-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Grey's Anatomy DVD&lt;/a&gt; for next season, Off the Map, about doctors in a clinic on a tropic island.  I'm not quite sure of ABC's strategy in offering so many dramatic shows in a clinical setting.  It seems as if ABC might need some fresh ideas.  Or, they believe that Off the Map could be a replacement for our beloved Grey's Anatomy in the near future.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4216431524482988639-4677459191934330282?l=buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com/feeds/4677459191934330282/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com/2010/05/greys-anatomy-has-misleading.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4216431524482988639/posts/default/4677459191934330282'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4216431524482988639/posts/default/4677459191934330282'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com/2010/05/greys-anatomy-has-misleading.html' title='&apos;Grey&apos;s Anatomy&apos; Has Misleading Miscarriage'/><author><name>anny</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315668263439464374</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dYz4-XD7NoA/S_yHKZu5YrI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/ti11mS5eH10/s72-c/grey.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4216431524482988639.post-257407424298772253</id><published>2010-05-25T19:26:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-25T19:26:58.238-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Will Google TV succeed where Microsoft, Apple, and others have failed? Only if it can deliver the right content.</title><content type='html'>In a recent column, I mentioned the idea of using the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD&lt;/a&gt; as television remote. I also suggested that the device might even be used to deliver rich interactivity to the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-590-Desperate-Housewives-season-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Desperate Housewives DVD&lt;/a&gt; watching experience. As if on cue, Comcast announced last week that it is working on an iPad app that will let people control their Comcast XFinity service. They are also exploring ways to add levels of &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-308-Greys-Anatomy-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Grey's Anatomy DVD&lt;/a&gt; and control to their own set top boxes.&lt;br /&gt;I also got calls from two other major tech companies who told me that they too saw the potential of tablet to interact with &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-157-Entourage-Seasons-1-6-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Entourage DVD&lt;/a&gt;. They can see either a dedicated tablet-like device that would serve as a remote or special apps that would control smart Blu-ray players or set top boxes, along the lines of what I predicted in the aforementioned column.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had assumed that the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-590-Desperate-Housewives-season-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Desperate Housewives DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; of making the iPad and other tablets the center of smart &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-157-Entourage-Seasons-1-6-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Entourage DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; interactivity was quite a ways off. Given Comcast's statement and the feedback I got from other tech companies, we might see the beginnings of this as early as this fall. This idea is important in light of Intel and Google's Smart &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; concept. As I stated in my column, I see the tablet letting people interact with their TV in what we call a "&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-308-Greys-Anatomy-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Grey's Anatomy DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;," delivering easier ways to interact with and control the television content.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At last week's Google I/O event, Intel, Google, Sony, and Logitech unveiled Google &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-590-Desperate-Housewives-season-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Desperate Housewives seasons 1-5 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;. I hinted at the announcement in a column last week discussing the future of television. The Logitech remote used in the Google &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-157-Entourage-Seasons-1-6-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Entourage seasons 1-6 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; solution isn't a tablet—it's more of a conventional remote. I'm not sure how well this translates into controlling on-screen information and programming guides in this new smart &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls seasons 1-7 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; experience. But Eric Kim, the senior VP of Intel's consumer business, told me that he too sees tablets as possible devices for controlling TVs. He fully expects that Intel-based tablets will be tied to &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-308-Greys-Anatomy-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Grey's Anatomy seasons 1-5 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; in the future.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Intel uses the term Smart &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-590-Desperate-Housewives-season-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Desperate Housewives DVD set&lt;/a&gt; to describe this venture. As the company points out, the television is the favorite screen in the home. Intel researchers found that US consumers spend at least five hours a day in front of the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-157-Entourage-Seasons-1-6-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Entourage DVD set&lt;/a&gt;. Researchers also point out, however, that consumers worldwide downloaded two billion hours of Internet video in February alone. Ten to 15 million households in the US already stream video to a &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD set&lt;/a&gt; set at least once a week. According to Wilfred Martis, the general manager of Intel's retail program, "Intel is intent on delivering a &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-308-Greys-Anatomy-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Grey's Anatomy DVD set&lt;/a&gt; system that provides the integration of broadcast and Internet content." This is at the heart of the company's Smart TV initiative.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Intel officials also told me that they believe the Smart &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-590-Desperate-Housewives-season-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Desperate Housewives DVD&lt;/a&gt; program will deliver video telephony to the home via their technology. Future set top boxes and smart Blu-ray players will be able to deliver Internet video to the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-157-Entourage-Seasons-1-6-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Entourage DVD&lt;/a&gt;, so it's relatively easy to extend that feature to a videophone. By adding a camera to these systems, one could use Skype or other Internet video telephony services to put the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD&lt;/a&gt; at the center of family video conferencing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of of the big questions surrounding the marrying of broadcast and Internet content to the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-308-Greys-Anatomy-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Grey's Anatomy DVD&lt;/a&gt; screen is the quality of the content itself. Having YouTube content on your TV is one thing, but what people really want to watch on their &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-590-Desperate-Housewives-season-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Desperate Housewives DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; are programs like Desperate Housewives, CSI, and The Big Bang Theory. Networks are starting to offer more of their programs via the Internet. In order for &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-157-Entourage-Seasons-1-6-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Entourage DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; to work, they'll need to be more aggressive with their Internet offerings. People want these programs on demand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Movie content is important as well. Best Buy recently announced that &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; will be using CinemaNow to compete in the movie streaming space. CinemaNow features content from all of the major studies. Sonic Solution, the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-308-Greys-Anatomy-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Grey's Anatomy DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; that owns CinemaNow, has renamed the service RoxioNow. The renamed software will be powering movie services for a lot of PC OEMs in the future. The Best Buy service is potentially a big deal for services like &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-590-Desperate-Housewives-season-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Desperate Housewives DVD&lt;/a&gt;. It is the only movie service that can deliver new movies on demand. Unlike Netflix, which can only stream older &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-157-Entourage-Seasons-1-6-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Entourage DVD&lt;/a&gt;, due to its licensing agreements, CinemaNow can stream movies to users the day they are released on DVD. It will be years before Netflix can stream Avatar. CinemaNow was able to stream it the second it was available on DVD and &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-308-Greys-Anatomy-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Grey's Anatomy DVD&lt;/a&gt; studios start streaming more TV programs over the Internet and movie studios release their movies earlier through CinemaNow, the allure of a service like &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-590-Desperate-Housewives-season-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Desperate Housewives DVD set&lt;/a&gt; will become all the more compelling to consumers. It may not make them dump their &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-157-Entourage-Seasons-1-6-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Entourage DVD set&lt;/a&gt; providers completely, but if TV shows and movies can be delivered on-demand to TV sets, devices like Google TV can easily become mainstream products.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My chief concern is how &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD set&lt;/a&gt; will be positioned. If users see it as a connected PC, it will fail. On the other hand, if it is positioned as a consumer electronics device that delivers Internet video, &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-308-Greys-Anatomy-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Grey's Anatomy DVD set&lt;/a&gt;, and movies to television seamlessly, it certainly has a chance of catching on. 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And you'll never guess who's going to try to beat down Dwight Schrute and Michael Scott from The &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OK, you probably can because he's already mentioned up there, but a new sitcom starring Shatner called &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls seasons 1-7 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;! My Dad Says. (You know, based on that "&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD&lt;/a&gt;" thing all the kiddos are talking about.) It's from Will &amp;amp; Grace producers David Kohan and Max Mutchnick and will air opposite &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD set&lt;/a&gt;, after Big Bang, on CBS' Thursday nights at 8:30.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other moves: Survivor goes to Wednesdays at 8. &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; moves to Fridays at 9. CSI: Miami is now Sundays at 10.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other very exciting but more expected news, Alex O'Loughlin and &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls seasons 1-7 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; are coming to your living room Monday nights (10 p.m.) this fall in CBS' redo of Hawaii Five-O. Hooray for the living undead back on TV! 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But the key question is: Which actresses can sell d–chettebaggery as expertly as Adrian Grenier? (I’m thinking Taylor Momsen.) 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It will run in the first quarter of 2011, Ms. Ibanez said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Telemundo executives also offered a preview of a new reality series for &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-308-Greys-Anatomy-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Grey's Anatomy DVD&lt;/a&gt;, the cable channel under the aegis of Telemundo that is aimed at viewers 18 to 34 for whom English is often a primary language.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The series, “&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-308-Greys-Anatomy-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Grey's Anatomy seasons 1-5 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;” is about Janney Marin, known as Chiquis, the daughter of Ms. Rivera, a popular Mexican musician. The other title character is the daughter’s friend, Raquel Cordova, known as Raq-C, a D.J. on a Los Angeles radio station.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As they do each year during their pre-upfront briefings, the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-308-Greys-Anatomy-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Grey's Anatomy DVD&lt;/a&gt; executives played up the benefits to viewers — and advertisers — of Telemundo’s decision to produce its programming internally rather than buy &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-308-Greys-Anatomy-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Grey's Anatomy DVD set&lt;/a&gt;, as Univision does, from external sources. (Univision acquires its programming from Grupo Televisa, the Mexican TV giant, but announced in December that it, too, would operate an internal production unit.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We believe in original content,” said Don Browne, president at &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-308-Greys-Anatomy-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Grey's Anatomy DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;, who described such shows as “the absolute core of our business.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By producing its own programming, &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-308-Greys-Anatomy-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Grey's Anatomy DVD&lt;/a&gt; is able to offer advertisers in categories like automobiles, packaged goods and telecommunications a chance to integrate their products into the plots of the telenovelas and &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-308-Greys-Anatomy-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Grey's Anatomy DVD set&lt;/a&gt;. 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Telemundo, however, still significantly trails Univision, which has long been the No. 1 network for &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-308-Greys-Anatomy-Seasons-1-5-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Grey's Anatomy DVD&lt;/a&gt; viewers.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4216431524482988639-167008450823897539?l=buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com/feeds/167008450823897539/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com/2010/05/upfronts-how-do-you-say-mcdreamy-in.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4216431524482988639/posts/default/167008450823897539'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4216431524482988639/posts/default/167008450823897539'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://buydvdezyuglybetty.blogspot.com/2010/05/upfronts-how-do-you-say-mcdreamy-in.html' title='Upfronts: How Do You Say ‘McDreamy’ in Spanish?'/><author><name>anny</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315668263439464374</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dYz4-XD7NoA/S_Cr2-aPmkI/AAAAAAAAAFA/NcbsS_QkK-M/s72-c/abierto-480.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4216431524482988639.post-6167278995391325274</id><published>2010-05-16T19:36:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-16T19:36:44.818-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Celebrity Scoop: Matt Czuchry</title><content type='html'>If the rivalry between law-firm contenders on "&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD&lt;/a&gt;" has seemed civil, Matt Czuchry says the gloves are coming off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The former "&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD set&lt;/a&gt;" co-star has a big episode of the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; law drama Tuesday, April 27, as his firm's former partner (returning guest star Kevin Conway) becomes the opponent in a case -- and tries to lure ambitious young attorney Cary Agos (Czuchry) to his side.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's not an impossibility, since Cary has spent the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD&lt;/a&gt; show's season competing with Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies) for a permanent job only one of them can land.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We've seen from the very beginning that he's ambitious and willing to do what &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls seasons 1-7 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; takes to get to the top," Czuchry says of Cary. 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After all, her &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD set&lt;/a&gt; show, Parenthood, is still shooting in Los Angeles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But when your boss, a big Hollywood mogul with roots in TV, tells you to jump on a plane, you say, "&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"It was explained to me that Ron Howard, when he was doing Happy Days, had success in traveling the country and talking about the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls seasons 1-7 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;. So this was like Ron Howard wanted me to come here," Graham says, laughing. "You don't say no to that."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Howard's involvement with Parenthood goes way back. He directed the original 1989 film starring Steve Martin, a tender and funny exploration of family ties.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following year, he executive-produced the TV &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD&lt;/a&gt;, starring Ed Begley Jr. (and a young Leonardo DiCaprio). And Howard serves in the same supervisory capacity on this remake, which debuted in March and has already been renewed for a second season.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As struggling single mom Sarah Braverman, Graham is part of a remarkably rich and deep cast, including Peter Krause, Bonnie Bedelia, Craig T. Nelson, Erika Christensen, and &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD set&lt;/a&gt;. Even the youngsters in this witty generational saga, such as Mae Whitman and Savannah Paige Rae, are scene stealers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Graham was a late addition to the ensemble, replacing Maura Tierney, who withdrew from the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;show after shooting the pilot in order to deal with health issues.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The new Sarah hasn't watched a frame of that pilot, nor has she seen any of the previous Parenthood iterations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Some people would do all the research. I'm too sensitive," she says. "As an actor &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls seasons 1-7 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; would never be helpful to me to see what another actor did with a part."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From her first scene, Graham, 43, has been making the role her own.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Lauren, in addition to everything else, has great comedic chops," says executive producer Jason Katims (&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD&lt;/a&gt;). "Over time, the character has evolved in that direction. It's what typically will happen in a TV series: You see what an actor brings to the role and you start writing for that. Lauren has really done an incredible job of finding unexpected moments of humor that weren't in the script."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the face of it, Sarah's life is no picnic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"She's somebody who feels like a loser, who feels not particularly proud of the job she's done," says Graham, nestled in a sound studio at &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD set&lt;/a&gt;. "This is somebody who just can't get a break. She married the wrong guy, is having trouble with the kids, and is now living in her parents' house while working as a bartender."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's a long way from the charmed character Graham will always be identified with: the unsinkable Lorelai on TV's &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While Sarah is often at a loss for words, especially when dealing with her truculent teenage daughter Amber (Whitman), Lorelai had a hummingbird's tongue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The reams of dialogue she could handle with seeming effortlessness was a lesson in professional expertise," says Edward Herrmann, who played Lorelai's father on &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls seasons 1-7 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;, in an e-mail.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"As a classically trained actor myself, I know how damned hard &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD&lt;/a&gt; is to handle that kind of tricky syntax-bending stuff and still seem light and easy in manner. She is brilliant at it."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As different as Sarah and Lorelai may be temperamentally, they have one thing in common.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"It didn't occur to me that it was another single mom. I thought, 'Do you think anyone will care?' So, of course, the first 10 interviews I did [for &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD set&lt;/a&gt;] all started with, 'So, another single mom . . . ' I was like 'Whaaa!' " says Graham, doing a pretty fair Lucy Ricardo imitation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps her vibrant personality is due in part to her tropical &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;. She was born in Hawaii, where her father was taking an intensive language course before being posted to Vietnam by the Agency for International Development, a federal foreign aid program rumored to have ties to the CIA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"People always say, 'Ah, your dad was a spy,' " Graham says. "My dad, who leaves his coffee on top of his car nine times out of 10, was definitely not a spy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I was born in Hawaii but I was only there a couple of weeks. My mother was a missionary kid who grew up primarily in Japan. We went there when my dad went to &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD&lt;/a&gt;. My first word was heso, which means 'belly button.' "&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After her parents divorced, Graham was raised by her father in the Washington, D.C., area.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Breaking into TV, the actress assumed she'd always be cast as the sassy sidekick or the kooky coworker.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"It was only after I got a couple of those parts that I began to imagine I could be considered attractive enough to be a lead," she says. "I never saw myself that &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls seasons 1-7 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt;. But with every pound I'd lose, I'd get more opportunities, which was really interesting to me."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After she grabbed attention on shows like Caroline in the City, NewsRadio, and Conrad Bloom, &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD&lt;/a&gt; anointed her as Lorelai, a character so indelible Graham may never escape it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She got an inkling of immortality last year while playing Miss Adelaide in a Broadway revival of Guys &amp;amp; Dolls.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"These young, young girls would come to the show, fans of &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD set&lt;/a&gt;," she says. "Suddenly I realized, 'Oh my God, I'm going to be someone's Laverne &amp;amp; Shirley,' something I grew up knowing only through reruns."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If Parenthood has a decent run, Graham may one day be just as associated with Sarah Braverman. So far the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; show is holding its own, especially among 18-to-49-year-olds, in a tough time period, Tuesday at 10.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I hope they leave us there," she says. "I'd rather compete at 10 than against all the &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD&lt;/a&gt;shows on at 9. I don't blame anyone for watching them. It's easier to tune in to the dancing."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That raises the question: Has Graham ever been approached by Dancing With the Stars?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"No," she says with mock hauteur. 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This funny and poignant play examines the sacrifices we make - or avoid - for our families.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; is thrilled to be staging another world premiere of a play by Annie Weisman," said Christopher Ashley, Artistic Director for La Jolla Playhouse. "This new work is Annie's artistic voice at its very best."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Performance times for Surf Report are Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 7:30 pm; Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 pm and Sundays at 7:00 pm. Matinees are held on Saturdays and Sundays at 2:00 pm. Single tickets go on sale Sunday, May 16, 2010. 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She was also recently seen at The Goodman Theater in The Crowd You're With (&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD set&lt;/a&gt;) and at The Old Globe in The Women and Since Africa. She has played leading roles in theatres across the country including Arena Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, Mark Taper Forum, Ojai Playwrights Festival and &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; seasons with the Dallas Theater Center. She holds an M.F.A. from the University of Minnesota which she attended on a Guthrie Fellowship and has won numerous critical awards. She is currently recurring on the new &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls seasons 1-7 DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; series Justified. Her other television credits include four seasons on Evening Shade and many guest star roles including Weeds, &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD&lt;/a&gt;, Without a Trace, Cold Case, The West Wing, Frasier, Law &amp;amp; Order: Criminal Intent, Ally McBeal, The Practice, The Division and Dallas among others. She also appeared in the film As Good As It Gets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gregory Harrison (&lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD set&lt;/a&gt;) is widely recognized for his role as "Gonzo Gates", the cocky young surgeon in the hit &lt;a href="http://www.buydvdezy.com/goods-307-Gilmore-Girls-Seasons-1-7-DVD-boxset.html"&gt;Gilmore Girls DVD boxset&lt;/a&gt; series Trapper John, M.D. Harrison has appeared in over 60 plays, 20 films and in numerous performances for television. 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