The Loquacious Limey

[The Limey] – After nine endless, pain-riddled weeks MTV’s latest hype-driven insult, Jersey Shore has vacated our screens. But rather than give the public a few weeks of BS-free silence the ‘network’ is now leaking stories on how the ‘cast’ of this mindless farce are supposedly demanding more money to do it again.
The offer from [...]

[The Limey] – On Monday every D-list starlet’s favorite outlet for self-serving stories, those ubiquitous ‘friends’ spoon-fed a laughably transparent tale to the down-market tabloids that Lindsay Lohan was engaging in ‘knife play’ and ‘cutting herself’ from despair.
The resulting attention then gave Ms. Lohan the chance to ‘graciously’ speak to the media directly, firmly denying [...]

In a story even more risible than yesterday’s news of a failed pageant queen’s new fame-seeking lawsuit, US Magazine now reports that the indisputable king of the airheads has decided to update his name.
In the future, please call him ‘King Spencer Pratt.’
And the 26-year old star of MTV’s high-saccharine soap, ‘The Hills’ appears perfectly serious [...]

After a banquet of hype about how ‘brave’ they both were to be shooting in Mexico at the height of the ‘Swine Flu’ scare stories, the results of Heidi and Spencer’s ill-judged sojourn – Heidi’s new video – have been released to the world.
And a more accomplished example of compound mediocrity it truly is hard [...]

Is it just me or is anyone else fed up to the teeth with all the self-serving hype about Watchmen?
The movie is based on a 23-year old comic strip, so it could be argued that with a target audience of such obvious intellectual simplicity you need to promote the film version with the subtle restraint [...]

Now it’s getting ugly. When Writers don’t work, the shows don’t happen. And the fall-out is becoming depressing – All the folks who work the cameras, lighting, sound, make up, wardrobe, catering and a dozen other fields are getting caught in the net. And some are getting fired. The scripts might not come…but the [...]

It seems the Writers strike is already bearing some fruit. First, the Producers are getting worried [That's good.] Second, some of the most mediocre examples of the television medium will vanish, or fade to re-runs as their scripts disappear. ‘Desperate Housewives,” “Back to You,” “‘Til Death,” “Two and a Half Men,” “Old Christine,” and others [...]