Two episodes in, according to EW, Fox has already decided to pick up The Mindy Project for a full season, while ordering six more episode of Ben and Kate, which I believe brings that show to 19 (or nearly a full season). Despite a sudden interest in comedies, the new season has been scarce with quality ones, and — for better or worse — the Fox freshman comedies are the best of the bunch, although I am finding Matthew Perry’s Go On increasingly likable. The Mindy Project is kind of a mess, but a mess with the right ingredients to be a solid sitcom, while Ben & Kate is my favorite new sitcom of the season (and second favorite show, behind The Last Resort), even if Ben is grating.
In other news, guess who is coming to NBC’s Community this season?
The fourth season of Community — which we already know will include mustache rides and a take on The Hunger Games, plus guest stars Matt Lucas, Malcolm McDowell, and James Brolin, is now also adding Brie Larson in a guest role. The details of her character have been kept under wraps. In case you need reminding, Brie Larson is fantastic.
Not so fantastic? CBS is turning the Cameron Diaz movie, Bad Teacher, into a television series. I had a lot of hope for that film — how bad could a raunchy, sexpot Cameron Diaz character be? — but it was ultimately disappointing, thanks to the writing of Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg, the guys who wrote Year One, as well as the Ghostbusters 3 script (no wonder it still hasn’t been made). They’ll be serving as exec producers on the project. The good news, according to Vulture, is that it comes from a writer on Community and Happy Endings, Hilary Winston.
Finally, NBC is also greenlighting Bear Grylls’ first network series, an action-adventure reality competition, Get Out Alive, set to air next summer. Details are scant; all we know is that it will feature teams of two engaging in a competition “beyond their most extreme imaginations in the wild.” NBC has ordered eight episodes of the series.
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“…an action-adventure reality competition…”
FOR WHY????????
The only thing left for Bear Grylls is to cut off one of his own fingers and eat it.
Chris Messina alone warrants a full season of The Mindy Project,but Mindy Kaling is good, too. All these years I hated her on The Office, turns out I just hated her character.
Ditto.. on both points.
I’ll see that ditto and raise you an assertion that Tobolowsky and Barinholtz are also funny.
Oh, and that one receptionist lady is dreamy as hell.
I congratulate you on not making some kind of Brie on Brie joke. It would be too easy… although I would like a double slice of that.
Mmmmm…triple cream Brie…
The Mindy Project deserves a full season to find itself. I mean, it’s not perfect, but that subway scene at the end of the second episod was kind of great.
I’m kind of liking Go On too. Needs more John Cho though.
Bear Grylls is not only a charlatan, he is actually dangerous. Anyone who follows his survival advice will not survive. This politically correct moron remembers to take a backpack, and a sheath knife, but forgets to heed the first rule of survival: have a gun. Even most military ground and air forces carry a pistol, and emergency water and rations. If Grylls was knowledgeable enough to follow the basics he wouldn’t have to eat snakes and bugs; and drink his own piss.
His show is hazardous to your survival.
Apparently, NBC needed a funny sitcom, when they programmed Bear Grylls.
Even someone who bails out of a perfectly good airplane, would carry a survival kit, with a pistol and ammo, instead of just a full bladder.
Filmdrunk actually said that the original Bad Teacher script was really funny, so maybe the show will be good.
The closest I would come to watching The Mindy Project is DVRíng it so I can watch the after credits 30 seconds on The New Girl.
Some real survival expert needs to teach UnBearable Grylls how to make a solar still, so he won’t have to drink hs own pee.
I sent you a comment about the laughing loon who is only a heartbeat away from running this country. But, you apparently did not want to print it. Why was that?
Try this one.
He never had a real job. He was a community organizer who became head of state legally, and was a national socialist. Obama? No. Adolf Hitler, who tried to exterminate
all Jews.
Obama is an Equal Opportunity exterminator. His Gestapo will consist of nameless, faceless bureaucrats who will order physicians to withhold expensive life-saving treatments for all the elderly citizens, whether Jewish or not. His answer to life-saving treatment or senior citizens was “give them an aspirin.”
However, his Green agenda will be expanded: Soylent Green.
Oops! Here is the missing “f” from “or senior citizens.”
Attn: RNC!!!
FIRE CANDY CROWLEY NOW!!!
Republicans are the best people to run this country.
But, the worst to campaign for the job.
Thanks to the boneheads at the RNC, tonight Mitt Romney had to debate BOTH Obama and Candy Crowley. Who did the morons at the RNC approve to moderate the last debate on Monday? Rachel Maddow??oo