Sunday, July 18, 2010

Weekend News Dump



It's the Weekend News Dump. Because it's the weekend. And we're dumping news. The Weekend News Dump.


  • In surprising yet highly welcome news, Daniel Tosh has officially become the most-watched host on Comedy Central as the ratings for the summer season of Tosh.0 have eclipsed those of both Jon Stewart's Daily Show and Stephen Colbert's Colbert Report. Clearly the reason is that Tosh.0 features more puke. Never doubt the ratings power of puke. Oh, and also because it's damn funny. That's probably part of it, too.
  • HBO has ordered Luck to series, which seemed to be a mere formality given the Milch/Mann/Hoffman/Nolte core of the show. Alan Sepinwall raises a good point, however. What will the show's shelf life be once the notoriously overprepared Dustin Hoffman begins receiving new pages of dialogue from series creator David Milch in the midst of shooting a scene, a stunt that Milch is legendary for pulling on a regular basis? Maybe we should enjoy the first season while we can when it premieres in early 2011.
  • My fifteen-year-old self loves this. MTV has announced that Mike Judge is at work on new episodes of Beavis And Butt-head that will air on the cable outlet sometime in the near future. The structure will stay the same as the show's 90s heyday -- scripted episodes that also include the characters commenting on contemporary music videos. The biggest news here, surprisingly, isn't the resurrection of the series but that, shit, MTV IS GOING TO BE PLAYING VIDEOS AGAIN. Kinda.
  • Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch attracted a whopping 8.5 million viewers (without question a record for the network) for its season premiere on Tuesday night which dealt with the death of Captain Phil Harris. Not to be crass but we'd venture to guess that those numbers will stay as a series high seeing as the show's star is, to put it delicately, an ex-human.
  • Community is the latest series to get into the Betty White business. And by latest we mean the 268th.
  • Sharktopus. Just saying.

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