The new season of Key & Peele has brought a lot of joy into my life, but this sketch, which captures the absurdity of what the character Urkel did to Family Matters, might be the funniest thing to appear on TV this year. I'll never forget you, Reginald VelJohnson.
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If you're anything like me (or "Weekly" Chowhound C.J. Hamm) you've got a fondness in your heart for the classic '90s sitcom, "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," Will Smith's catapult to greatness (and DJ Jazzy Jeff's occasional catapult to the ground).
But for Smith's co-star Alfonso Ribeiro, his time on the Fresh Prince was notable mostly for his portrayal as comic-relief cousin Carlton:
I was pigeonholed as an actor based on that character. There were years when casting directors wouldn't call me in, because they felt "Oh, well he's Carlton, and that's not right for this role."
Still, a rough period in his career or not, Ribeiro knows what America wants, and he broke it out last night's episode of "Dancing With The Stars." Now, if you'd like, you can watch the entirety of Ribeiro's segment from last night's show here, intro and judging included (Spoiler: He and partner Witney Carson crushed it) here. But if you're a busy person with little time to waste, why wait? We gotchu covered, bae:
You've still got it, Carlton Alfonso. You've still got it.
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Last week, I wrote about the teases of new Twin Peaks material on Twitter, but today there's a payoff as Showtime has announced that the cult favorite is returning to television for nine episodes set in the present day. The bad news: the episodes won't air until 2016.
I need to pace my freaking out since it'll be at least fourteen months until the new episodes air, but for obsessed fans of the show like myself, this is great news to start off a work week.
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The obsessive folks at the Welcome to Twin Peaks fansite noticed something on Twitter today: both of the creators of cult-favorite TV show Twin Peaks posted the same tweet, seemingly hinting at a rebirth for the show:
Dear Twitter Friends: That gum you like is going to come back in style! #damngoodcoffee
— David Lynch (@DAVID_LYNCH) October 3, 2014Dear Twitter Friends: That gum you like is going to come back in style.
#damngoodcoffee
— Mark Frost (@mfrost11) October 3, 2014Their possibly-jumping-to-conclusions analysis:
We just had The Entire Mystery Blu-ray release, so that’s not what they’re tweeting about. Now with David Lynch recently hinting at a return to Twin Peaks (“Just wait and see!” ), could a revival finally be fact instead of rumor? Are we going to see a third season (on Netflix perhaps?) or will there be a sequel (or another prequel) to the Twin Peaks movie?
With Netflix seemingly throwing money at any creative idea they can turn into a stream, a new Twin Peaks product for them almost makes sense. I'll believe it when I see it, but for the rest of the day at least, I'll be occasionally squealing about the idea of my favorite weirdo-mystery show returning.
In the meantime, revisit Bob Grimm's review of The Entire Mystery Blu-ray set.
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THE ROOSEVELTS: AN INTIMATE HISTORY chronicles the lives of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential family in American politics. It is the first time in a major documentary television series that their individual stories have been interwoven into a single narrative. This seven-part, fourteen hour film follows the Roosevelts for more than a century, from Theodore’s birth in 1858 to Eleanor’s death in 1962. Over the course of those years, Theodore would become the 26th President of the United States and his beloved niece, Eleanor, would marry his fifth cousin, Franklin, who became the 32nd President of the United States. Together, these three individuals not only redefined the relationship Americans had with their government and with each other, but also redefined the role of the United States within the wider world. The series encompasses the history the Roosevelts helped to shape: the creation of National Parks, the digging of the Panama Canal, the passage of innovative New Deal programs, the defeat of Hitler, and the postwar struggles for civil rights at home and human rights abroad. It is also an intimate human story about love, betrayal, family loyalty, personal courage and the conquest of fear.
A film by Ken Burns. Written by Geoffrey C. Ward. Produced by Paul Barnes, Pam Tubridy Baucom and Ken Burns.
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A quality double-header of documentaries on KUAT tonight, starting with a tribute to Robin Williams at 8 p.m. and followed - on an entirely different note - the story of World War II hero Noor Inayat Khan.
From the documentary's press release:
In August of 1943, the last surviving clandestine radio operator in Paris desperately signaled London for additional weapons and supplies for the French underground. The Gestapo was closing in and she knew her time was limited. Everything depended on her. How did a Sorbonne educated musician, a student of child psychology, and an author of a book of fairy tales became a daring spy who died fighting the Nazis?With an American mother and Indian Muslim father, Noor Inayat Khan was an extremely unusual British agent, and her life spent growing up in a Sufi center of learning in Paris seemed an unlikely preparation for the dangerous work to come. Yet, it was in this place of universal peace and contemplation that her remarkable courage was forged.
When the Nazi’s invaded France in 1940, she fled to England with her widowed mother and three younger siblings and could have waited out the war in relative safety. But, she felt compelled by the lessons of tolerance and inclusiveness of her upbringing to take an active role in opposing the Nazis. She joined Britain’s Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, and was recruited as a wireless operator into Winston Churchill’s Special Operations Executive (SOE), secretly returning to Paris to support the French Underground as England prepared for the D-Day invasions.
After the penetration and arrest of her entire network by the Gestapo, Noor became the only surviving radio operator in Paris during four crucial months of the war, coordinating the air-drop of weapons, supplies and agents, and supporting the rescue of downed allied fliers. She was ultimately betrayed by a French collaborator and interrogated for months by the Gestapo. She never gave up any information, not even her real name, and she organized two breakouts from Gestapo headquarters. For this and the damage she did to the Nazi’s war efforts, she was executed in Dachau. 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of her birth.
Khan was also recently memorialized on the Rejected Princesses blog. Her story really is incredible, so set the DVR now.
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I've been at work, I take it Christine is getting the ol boot?
— Timothy Brecht (@timstinks) September 5, 2014
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When it comes to most TV offerings, I'm always behind schedule. Just ask my coworkers. It's rare when I start to watch something from the beginning and really get into it. I'm always late, and really, I don't care. Even everyone kept chiding me for not watching HBO's "The Wire," and after reading amazing reviews of the show, I didn't budge. But last year, I finally did, exploring this new world of binging on several seasons of television at once (well, OK, more like several weeks)—and I fell in love with the men and women of "The Wire." I fell in LOVE.
So when news flew through the internets that HBO was remastering the show and would rerun the series beginning tomorrow, it made sense that reporters and blogger types were professing their joy. However, it was a little early. HBO is remastering David Simon's beautifully written show, but the date has been pushed back.
According to Indiewire, indefinitely.
Hurry, people, hurry:
Hence the fervor when news hit earlier today that David Simon's criminally-ignored (pun intended) magnum opus (magnum Omar) was being digitally remastered at HBO. The speculation only grew with an ad surfacing online claiming the pretty new versions of a the dark, early aughts series would start running September 4 (see below), and fans claiming to have seen the ad running on the premium cable network over the weekend.HBO representatives have confirmed "The Wire" is being remastered, but the release date has been pushed back indefinitely. Episodes are "still being reviewed," and information outside of that is scarce. September was originally the target date for the remastered versions to air, but now the project is considered to be a "work in progress." An executive at HBO said the ad, which titled the release as "The Wire Replay Marathon," aired prematurely.
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Tonight's a night I've been awaiting for awhile - which might say something about the general excitement of my life in general, but whatever - the premiere of Black Jesus on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim.
The show, from Boondocks creator Aaron McGruder, is basically what the title promises: a show about Black Jesus, and as you probably could guess, a bunch of white Christians are proceeding to lose their minds, probably not because of the Black part, but perhaps because the show's Jesus smokes a lot of weed and turns water into Cognac (although you have to imagine the black part's not super comfortable either).
From the One Million Moms petition site, which almost reads like a backwards ad for the show, if I didn't know better:
The late night programming on the Cartoon Network, known as Adult Swim, plans to air the non-animated show "Black Jesus" portraying Jesus as a "black guy living in the hood." The show depicts him living in Compton Gardens and makes a mockery of our Lord. The foul language used in the trailer, including using the Lord's name in vain, is disgusting. In addition, there is violence, gunfire and other inappropriate gestures which completely misrepresent Jesus. This is blasphemy!"Black Jesus" is set to premiere on August 7 at 11:00 pm ET/ 10:00 pm CT, unless we intervene. Adult Swim plans to blaspheme Jesus on a weekly basis. This mockery will be similar to "South Park" and "Family Guy," but much worse since the entire program will be based on lies about Christianity.
For what its worth, the New York Times seemed to like the show, at least:
Slink Johnson, an imposing actor with a suitably beatific expression, plays Black Jesus, who may be the son of God or may just be a big-talking con man with an unusual game. The show’s central joke is that these two options aren’t all that different.Wearing brown robes and a permanent crown of thorns, Black Jesus walks the streets of Los Angeles with his Compton posse, a small, mostly useless band of apostles. He encounters unbelievers — Latino gangbangers, cops, a churlish apartment manager (Charlie Murphy of “Chappelle’s Show”) — and he dispenses homilies on forgiveness and faith. He also serves as the wheel man on a trip to buy a pound of marijuana. “All you need me to do is drive the car and watch over all your guys’ good graces?” he asks.
Weed takes the place of loaves and fishes for this 21st-century holy man. He has a bad habit of bogarting other people’s joints, and a running story line involves his efforts to turn an abandoned lot into a community garden whose vegetables will feed the people as well as hide the marijuana plants. As he clears trash from the lot, he sings to himself, “This little light of mine/We gonna grow some pine.”
Yes, it's almost certainly blasphemous, based on the definition of that term, but conservative Christians protesting a show that's entirely created to upset people like them? Definitely predictable and almost certainly counter-productive.
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