Media Update!

First of all, Rescue Me's season three begins tonight on FX. You should be watching the second best show currently on TV. The Shield's number one. Sure you probably haven't seen that last two seasons but it doesn't matter. Watch it.

The Da Vinci Code: boooooring

X-men: The Last Stand: eh. I'm getting tired of this blue hue that seems to be in every comic book movie these days. Do they all use the same cinematographer? Is this a standard now set for all comic book movies? All it does is scream we shot this on a set. Is it really a Last Stand when there are only six good X-men fighting. This could've been a much better three season TV show with the story of each movie being the finale of each season. Then you could include other X-men and not have some lost in the shuffle. One more question: Halle Berry won an Oscar? Really? Are we sure this happened? Are we sure that was Halle Berry?

Lost: I'd like to thank the creators for the last four episodes of Lost. You've reeled me back in you bastards. Now please say you've learned your lessons from this season.

During my once a week "Let's see what's in heavy rotation on the music video channels" viewing I came across a show on FUSE called "Dance-Off, Pants-Off." If you can't tell from the title, the concept is that people dance and strip while a music video plays in the background. Oh what I would've paid to be in the meeting where they came up with this. People earn money coming up with these ideas, and they can live with themselves. In case you think this show is simply about the sex, here is the highest rated "dancer."














I completely apologize for that.

Channel B: What? You haven't heard of Channel B? That might be because it only exists in my head. Over the past few years, films that were at first lost to the world unless you wanted to pay $180 for a crappy VHS copy are being made available on DVD. There is obviously a market for these cult films. Why can't there be a channel that feeds that market as well? I've based my idea on the Z Channel. If you don't know of Z Channel, I recommend the documentary Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession. It was one of the first pay cable stations back in 1974 and they were all about the art of cinema. They showed "1900" in it's full 5 hour form. They showed the severely edited Once Upon a Time in America and then showed the full four hour director's cut back to back.

Channel B though isn't designed for the art house crowd. It's for those who snuck out of bed on weekend nights to watch the local channel's late night monster movies. It's for those who lived for the Saturday Afternoon movies. I don't plan this to be like a Sci-Fi classics channel. It's simply a channel for those that enjoy those movies on the fringe of popularity in both the mainstream and art house. What I have planned so far is that Friday night is the horror night. I'd bring back Fritz the Night Owl, and do a six hour block of horror movies. Saturday morning and early afternoon is your black and white "Creature Features." Saturday night would be the "Crapfest." This is where we'd have a double feature of wonderfully crappy movies. This is where the "R.O.T.O.R." and "For Your Height Only" would be shown. Sunday night would be director's choice. That would be where a director or a group of directors would pick a movie of importance to them. They would talk a little before and after it to place it in context to how it influenced them. del Toro, Tarantino, Anderson, Gilliam, and others would bring in their movies, and get to share. Then there is still the special event days like the Samuel Z. Arkoff day or month, or the Shaw Brothers month or day. Clearly this is all in it's early stages, but once I make my first billion you can plan on seeing Channel B among the 200+ channels you already receive.