Here we go with some more juicy F(un)-Facts. As I wrote last time, everybody is in love with "fun facts" these days. Well, anyone can give you actual information, but I find the really fun facts are un-facts.
*President Bush reportedly thinks Jimmy Smits' return to Prime Time TV in "Cane" will somehow help the country get past "this whole immigration thing."
*Until a CBS suit suggested they sex it up by making it about vampires, "Moonlight" was originally supposed to be a mysterious, sexy Yeti who roamed the night as a private eye.
*The titular character in NBC's "Chuck" is already the fourth most popular Chuck in TV history (as measured by Q rating), right behind Chuck Connors, the original Chuck Cunningham, and former Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Chuck Noll. (Chuck Norris wasn't included due to considerations of fairness to the other participants.)
*During filming of "K-Ville" in New Orleans, producers arranged for 100,000 gumbo doughnuts to be delivered to local policemen. When the policemen took offense, producers diverted the doughnuts for Katrina relief. They now sit in a FEMA trailer.
*The producers of "Cavemen" originally wanted Fred Flintstone to star, but negotiations stalled quickly when Flintstone changed his representation to an agent who, rumor has it, hates Geico with a passion.
*NBC's new "Bionic Woman" was, in an early scrapped pilot, constructed from animal dung. Focus groups hated the concept, though, asking why the scientists didn't use human dung. the show eventually, of course, went in another direction.
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"*Until a CBS suit suggested they sex it up by making it about vampires, "Moonlight" was originally supposed to be a mysterious, sexy Yeti who roamed the night as a private eye."
ThatI would watch!
'Cause it's a Yeti, not 'cause it's a mysterious, sexy Yeti.
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