SHODAN LIVES

This might be the greatest DVD cover of all time.

(Breaking Bad, season 2)

Treme.

I can’t wait.

Jimmy Fallon, Brian Williams, and The Roots slow jam the news.

Mike’s guide to Lost filming locations.

It’s funny to think that there are so many houses and buildings just barely through the trees while they’re galavanting around the island.

“I wouldn’t mind kissing that man between the cheeks, so to speak.”

Shooting “on-location” has apparently been redefined…

(ebert)

The Wire — 100 Greatest Quotes.

(hnd)

Mad about Mad Men

Benjamin Schwarz has some very reasonable bones to pick with Mad Men.

Watch Cowboy Bebop

You can watch every episode of Cowboy Bebop online here, as well as the movie.

Best anime around, especially for those skeptical of anime in general.

Sometimes you can’t see the TV from everywhere, so you improvise.

Tonight’s in-flight movie contains scary robots. Parents stongly cautioned.

Interview with George Pelecanos

George Pelecanos interviewed by the WSJ on their new culture blog, Speakeasy. He talks about his new novel The Way Home and his job as a writer on David Simon’s new post-Katrina series, Treme.

I read his novels The Night Gardener and Hard Revolution. Most of his work, or maybe all, is set in DC. He’s definitely got a knack for capturing the inner city experience, and I can see why Simon called on him (along with Boston and New York crime novelists Dennis Lehane and Richard Price) to write on The Wire.

Summer Programming Advisory

Sepinwall is reviewing Sports Night and The Wire season 2 this summer.

I love it when people revisit great things from the past. I was never a massive Sports Night fan, but watching it while reading reviews and blog comments almost feels like revisiting it with a new group of people.

Also, Myles McNutt (another great TV writer) is watching and reviewing Deadwood, a show I still have not watched but would love to.

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

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The cast of ‘Glee’ - Don’t Stop Believin’ (Journey cover)

This new show stars Jane Lynch, of my new favorite, Party Down. Actually I think she’s left Party Down for this one, so lets hope it’s good.

AV Club interviews Bill Lawrence

Interview with the creator of Scrubs and Spin City, Bill Lawrence:

You’re gonna be hard-pressed to be successful if you’re on a network and not partially owned by them, because they have no financial incentive to support you. The only creative changes I noticed… I tell everybody, but The Todd is not allowed to wear his thong anymore, because it’s the Disney company. Sorry man. So even like, in the Bahamas episode the other week, there’s a shot of him on the beach flexing, and they made us cut the shot in half. I’m like “Are you sure? This guy’s been in a thong 900 times.”