Vote for Alphas on People's Choice 11/8/11

November 8 starts the voting for the People's Choice Award.  Don't know who the nominees are, but I personally voted for Alphas every day and hopefully lots of others did too.  If it didn't make it to the nominees, we can write in the show.  Just do it!

http://www.peopleschoice.com/pca/nominations/vote.jsp?pollId=110026

Alphas...Serialized or procedural...new producer...GTAV

So I am gathering seemingly useless information because of my obsession with a certain TV show - Alphas.  For one, I learned about TV show formats - serialized vs procedural.  People are tweeting and blogging about this topic, and armed with my new knowledge about TV show formats I think Alphas is serialized.  Will the change of producer from Ira Stephen Behr to Bruce Miller for Season 2 significantly change the Alpha format?

http://seriable.com/serialized-vs-procedural-television-series/

Another awesomely useless  thing I learned comes from following Alpha-actor Ryan Cartwright's twitter - that GTAV will be coming in 2012. Most awesome though,  after reading his tweet about the youtube trailer, I saw an ad on TV for some other video game (sadly I did not pay attention to what the other game is) that said XXX video game out-GTAVs GTAV.  And I "got" the gist of the ad - thanks to a celebrity tweet - sweet!

This is so much more fun than following politics.  Blogging and tweeting and following is so much more fun than doing laundry.

Halloween is over BOO! (hoo)

I just love all the scary movies on TV during Halloween.  I watched so many of the classics from the 40s, 50s and 60s - black and white and not as much slasher gore.  I also watched a lot of new stuff on TV like Zombie Apocalypse which was like watching someone play a video game, but the characters were real people and the movie showed those real zombies blowing up every which way any video game designer could imagine. The story was so lame and it was laughable at times.  What a waste of Ving Rhames.  But you have to put up with the bad in order to discover the good.  American Horror Story is SO GOOD!  Its just straight ahead gothic horror and its in color and there's plenty of good clean scary fun gore.  Tim Minear is a producer and wrote at least one of the episodes (Halloween 2).  Some cool actors from other of our favorite shows are popping up as ghosts - won't spoil it - you'll just have to watch it.  But now its November and no more scary movies - thank god for amazon streaming and FEAR.net on demand.  Mwaaaaaaaaa...

Speaking of Joss Whedon...Tim Minear is BAAACCCCKKKK

Another Joss "alum", Tim Minear is a consulting producer and writer on American Horror Story.  Minear was an assistant director on the film Platoon, and wrote episodes for several television series including The X-Files, Zorro (1990 TV series), and Lois and Clark. He later wrote, executive-produced, and directed episodes of Strange World, Angel, Firefly, Wonderfalls, and The Inside (which he also created, with Howard Gordon).

Minear had another series, Drive, airing on Fox in April 2007, however it was cancelled by the network after only four episodes.^[1] Drive was set to return with two additional episodes on July 4, 2007, but these were rescheduled to July 13 and then cancelled.^[2] This continued his tradition of short-lived work on Fox.

Minear often works with Joss Whedon, and his work is typically characterized by a sharp, black humour and an ability to portray characters who are sympathetic and understandable, but morally ambiguous. An example of this is Angel Season Two, where Minear wrote all of the key episodes in the "beige Angel" arc.

Joss Whedon's Avengers

While some are waiting for GTAV's release in 2012, I am waiting for Joss Whedon's Avengers' release in 2012.  Check out the trailer http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848228/