Los Angeles Acting News

Amazing Race
Survivor
Project Runway (great season just finished)
The Daily Show (election time, best material)
Countdown with Keith Olbermann
The Rachel Maddow Show (bright, funny, left leaning journalism)
Little Britain USA
Californication
True Blood
The Life and Times of Tim (fun adult animation)
Bizarre Foods
No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain
Baseball Playoffs (I hate TBS, prefer FOX)
The Office
SNL Weekend Update on Thursday (they have a hard time being funny once a week, but twice a week…)

It’s fall.

Football season has started, the baseball playoffs are around the corner, and the air (everywhere but in Los Angeles) starts to get a bit crisp.

But most importantly, it’s time for the Fall TV Season to start.

Over the next few weeks, I’ll let you know what you should watch and what you should avoid.

Sunday night, things got under way with the sixth season premiere of Entourage. It was good, solid episode, with lots of Ari Gold screaming and yelling. Ultimately, it was a bridge to this season from it’s last season. I don’t have any real clues as to where it’s going, but I’m sure I’m going along for the ride.

Entourage was followed by the series premiere of Alan Ball’s new show True Blood. More on that tomorrow,

And there’s Fringe tonight. The only new show I’m actually excited about. Keep searching for the Remote Possibilities.

As a teacher of comedy, I’m always hearing from my UK students, that their favorite program is Little Britain. Even though old episodes are broadcast on BBC America, I’ve never seen it. When I heard HBO was producing an American version, I was skeptical at best. British comedy is very British. It doesn’t always translate.

But funny is funny. And Little Britain USA is laugh out loud hilarious.

Matt Lucas and David Walliams are terrific writers and performers. Their character work is spot on and occasionally lapses into the area where the viewer is laughing so hard, they are gasping for breath. They are so wrong, they are right. They are so crude that every episode leaves me waiting for the next one.

Catch it and laugh.

I love lists. They make people argue with each other.

Let me know if i’ve left anything off this list or if you think anything that I included shouldn’t be here.

1) All About Eve
2) Sunset Blvd.
3) Tootsie
4) Waiting for Guffman
5) The Producers
6) Bullets Over Broadway
7) Network Broadcast News
9) Adaptation
10) The Player