Good News: Hulu announced the addition of Comedy Central’s THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART and THE COLBERT REPORT to their digital library. Bad News: I still can’t take Hulu episodes on a plane, train or automobile. Not to mention watch them outside of the US. [Source]
Good News: 20th Century FOX has been quietly working on a pilot based on the Canadian hit series LITTLE MOSQUE ON THE PRARIE. Bad News: The last show that featured a Muslim protagonist — ALIENS IN AMERICA — was quietly cancelled when nobody bothered to watch. [Source]
Good News: We’re that much closer to a FRIENDS Reunion. Bad News: Because FX cancelled Courtney Cox’s pet project DIRT. [Source]
Good News: SWINGTOWN just received the endorsement of a lifetime, albeit from an incredibly unlikely source. Bad News: The Parent’s Television Council never learns. I mean who isn’t tuning into SWINGTOWN after PTC President Tim Winter calls it “one of the most sexually indulgent programs we’ve seen on broadcast television in a long time.” [Source]
By: Amrie Cunningham [My Take on TV]
Since FX was kind enough to send me the first two episodes of the second season of DIRT, I have to say that I’m pretty excited / interested in what they’re doing this year. Here are four reasons to check out Season 2 of DIRT, premiering tonight at 10PM on FX.
1. Courteney Cox is really great as magazine editor Lucy Spiller. We’re used to seeing her as a loveable “Friend” or as a cutthroat news reporter in the Scream movies. She is something else in the role of the editor who was stabbed at the end of season 1. She’s back with a bit of a vengeance, trying to make her magazine succeed. I’d be afraid to work with her character, for sure.
2. I feel more invested in the relationships this season. The friendship of Lucy and Don Konky (Ian Hart) is really celebrated. He’s on his meds to treat schizophrenia, and she’s really there to help take care of him. Holt McLaren (Josh Stewart) still loves Lucy and you get the feeling in the first two episodes that there might be hope for them. And Lucy and Willa (Alexandra Breckenridge) have reached a détente, and they seem to work better this year.
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By: Amrie Cunningham [My Take on TV]
Recently I had the great opportunity to interview one of my personal favorites, Courteney Cox, star of DIRT [and that little show about six friends and a coffee shop]. In anticipation of DIRT’s second season, premiering this Sunday March 2 at 10PM on FX, Monica, umm… I mean Courteney was kind enough to spend a half an hour chatting it up with some of the sleazy and underhanded brilliant and good-looking reporters that DIRT so easily loves to dish about.
I was wondering, this season feels a little bit more ripped from the headlines, and we were just curious to know if that was something of a conscious choice, just following the past year of what’s gone on, or if it was just accidental?
Courtney Cox: No, it’s absolutely a choice. We thought that would be a good way to just start the season, and it is absolutely ripped from the headlines. We usually do a hybrid of celebrities and then add to the story like maybe what happened to cause this to happen to them or sum it up in a different way just for fun. But yes, it’s definitely relatable this year and I think it makes for just a more exciting television show.
Are there any other celebrities, because right now we have some story lines that are a little bit a la Nicole and Paris and David Hasselhoff, are there any other celebrities that we can expect to see something from? Any little tidbits you can give us on that?
Well, there is definitely going to be, in almost every episode you’ll see something that you will recognize, and that’s kind of hopefully the fun of it that you’ll be able to guess who this person we might be talking about, even though it’s not really about them. It could be about, like I said before, just a couple of people or a couple of situations. But yes, every episode there is that relatable kind of relatable story line.
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WOW, talk about a serious news day! First off, a shamless plug. If you’re looking for a little entertainment during the commercials of tonight’s GOLDEN GLOBES stop by theTVaddict.com as we, and by ‘we’ I mean myself (thetvaddict), podcast pal Ari, BATTLESTAR nerd Lauren et al, Live Blog the Golden Globes. For more details, including how you can enter to win free stuff from theTVaddict.com Swag Shop, click here. And now, on to the news…
FRIENDS REUNITE ON FX’S DIRT
Turns out when they sang ‘I’ll be there for you…’ Jennifer Aniston really meant it. According to reports leaking from the January Television Critics Association Press Tour, the former Mrs. Pitt will guest star on the March 27 season finale of Courtney Cox’s new FX drama DIRT. The two haven’t worked together since FRIENDS ended in May of 2004. Aniston will play Tina Harrod, a tabloid editor and competitor of Lucy Spiller (Courtney Cox).
SCRUBS TO GET A SEVENTH SEASON
Television’s most heartwarming and entertaining comedy will most likely be returning for a seventh (and final!) season. According to creator Bill Lawrence, should NBC pass on bringing the show back, it will find a home at Touchstone’s corporate cousin, ABC. “Since every produced episode makes a ton of money for Touchstone,” Lawrence says, “they told us not to write a finale for this year.” Continues Lawrence, “We’ve essentially been told that NBC is really happy with how we are doing. I would say it’s better than a coin flip we are back on NBC.” Lawrence also says that the show would not continue without star Zach Braff, but he “feels pretty good” that Braff is on board for a seventh and final season. 
Even with the lukewarm reviews, audiences still flocked to the series premiere of FX’s newest drama DIRT. In fact, 3.4 million viewers tuned in to watch Courtney Cox return to television as Lucy Spiller — the no-nonsense editor of a celeb-obsessed coincidentally named ‘Drrt”. If you missed the premiere, you can now download the episode for $1.99 on iTunes. Check it out by clicking here.
Also available on iTunes for the first time ever is the first season of STAR TREK THE ORIGINAL SERIES. The first twenty-nine episodes, in case you missed the reruns that have been airing for over thirty years, are available by clicking here.
Courtney Cox’s return to television starts tonight on FX, as the network launches its new show DIRT (10PM FX Network). Cox stars as ruthless tabloid editor Lucy Spiller, who’s job is to dig up ‘dirt’ on celebrities (hence the title!). While I have yet to see the pilot (*cough cough* thanks for the screener FX), I’m very much looking forward to the show. Sure, word on the street — and by street I of course mean the internet — has been less then positive. But Courtney Cox and an intruging premise makes DIRT must see TV for this TV addict (or at least must give a chance TV). Check out what fellow critics around the net are saying:
“There’s little verve in any of “Dirt’s” depressing Hollywood machinations.” Maureen Ryan
“Dirt will be a love-it-or-hate-it proposition for most viewers. And, frustratingly, I can’t decide which side to take.” Zap2it
“The show takes basic-cable porn about as far as you can imagine, and there are drugs and deception and other displays of human weakness that we somehow account more awful and interesting when magnified by stardom.” LA Times
“Based on the first three episodes provided for preview, “Dirt” is a rare misfire from the drama-development folks at FX. It’s a show where neither the world being created nor the characters populating it are remotely convincing – or interesting.” NY DailyNews
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