“The Nine” – Another Casualty of the “New” Drama

So much for seeing what really went down during those 52 hours in the bank. ABC has announced that effective immediately, it is pulling the freshman drama The Nine from its schedule. The show, which only aired seven episodes, will be replaced this week by a special edition of 20/20 (Nov 29th) and then Primetime will take over the Wednesday 10pm timeslot. According to Zap2it, ABC has said that The Nine will return later this season but they aren’t sure when. Yeah, I’m not holding my breath on this one.

I know I’m making a circle argument here, but let me just say that THIS is why people are hesitant to tune into shows like The Nine in the first place. Why would people want to invest time in a show that you have to watch week in and week out when networks are so quick to pull them from the air? People have been burned in the past and aren’t going to take the risk with these new layered-paced-dramas if the networks continue to pull them mid-season.

Forgive me for bitching about the problem without offering up a solution. Again, it’s a circle argument. People aren’t going to watch a show if they think the networks are going to pull it, and networks are going to pull a show if people aren’t watching. But I think the networks (and I mean all the networks) need to take a step back and figure out to approach these relatively new kind of dramas. This is the same problem that plagued Alias and continues to plague Lost today (although lucky for Lost fans, the ratings are good).

Maybe the answer lies within the recent trend of September/January premieres. Maybe more complicated dramas have their time split with other similar type shows (i.e., Lost and Day Break). Yes, the viewers get less episodes, but they also aren’t faced with a ridiculous amount of reruns throughout the season. The networks would benefit too, as it is less of a risk to commit to 10-12 episodes rather than a traditional full season of 22. Just a thought.

Anyway, here’s to hoping the networks figure out their issues before viewers get too gun shy to even watch new dramas. And let’s too hope that The Nine makes it way back on to the schedule, because I really, really want to know how this whole hostage thing plays out.

P.S.  In case The Nine is over for good, can someone start to look for another show for Scott Wolf? How about Grey’s Anatomy? Scott played a doctor or Everwood and a doctor on The Nine. He will fit right in there. He could play McBailey! Oh no that won’t work. How about McDimples? Yup, done and done. McDimples it is.

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All I Want For Christmas is…

It’s the day after Thanksgiving, so I guess it’s officially the start of the Christmas season (at least in my little corner of the world). What are you asking Santa for this holiday season? Have you been naughty, nice or perhaps a little bit of both? I figure I might as well start my Christmas wish list today. And I think we all know by now what’s first on my list (after world peace, of course).

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Is he seriously not the MOST expressive man in all of TV? Adorable!! Thanks to Andemarg for creating this

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Grey’s Anatomy TR Knight on “Sesame Street”

Awhile back I posted some adorable pictures of Grey’s Anatomy star TR Knight on “Sesame Street”.  The episode has now aired and it’s up on YouTube.com (of course it is).  Check out Dr. George O’Malley in his new gig as Private “I”.  It’s actually quite adorable.

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Give Me My Remote is Thankful for…

Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on what we are most thankful for. Of course there are our families, friends, health, yada…yada…yada. But here’s a few other things that I’m thankful for this year. The list is short and in random order (do you really think I’m MORE thankful for McDreamy’s hair than hugging Jason Dohring?…come on now). I’m hoping that you all will leave a comment and add to GMMR’s Thanksgiving

• McDreamy’s hair
• TiVo
• YouTube.com
• An almost full season of Veronica Mars
• My GMMR recappers: Julie, Jim Mosby, Michelle, Jo, LaLa, Brian, Whirl
• Meeting Jenna Fischer
• Wentworth Miller’s parents
• TWoP
• Jailbait Ivan
• All the wonderful people that I have met because of GMMR
• MySpace
• Cafepress (for keeping me in business)
• Office Tally, DuckyxDale, TV with MeeVee, TV and Sympathy, Fatback & Collards
• Livejournal
• Visiting the set of Veronica Mars
• Lorelai and Rory’s witty repartee
• My 42 ” flat screen HDTV
• Talking to John Krasinski
• John Krasinski (in general, I’m thankful for him)
• House’s vicodin addiction
• Sara Ramirez (Callie, Grey’s Anatomy) for working it out in that dancing scene – you go girl
• Robin Sparkles and Swarley
• The Hussies
• Ellen DeGeneres’ dancing
• Why, Sexy Love, Ramalama (Bang Bang), Sexy Back
• To those who keep giving Scott Wolf TV shows
• Anything and everything having to do with The Office (cast, crew, writers, security – everyone)
• BuddyTV
• Hugging Jason Dohring
• My handy dandy notebook (aka my laptop)
• Watching Arrested Development online (for FREE)
• Dick Casablancas
• James Gunn and his red hats
• Every single reader who has taken the time to leave a comment. Comments=love
• Finally discovering Battlestar Galactica
• My celebs interviews (how did I get so lucky?): David Denman, John Krasinski & Jenna Fischer, Jason Dohring, BJ Novak, Bret Harrison, Benji Schwimmer
• The OC finally being good again
• Bill Simmons (aka The Sports Guy)
• Conan O’Brien (the best of late night)
• The Daily Show (for breeding very funny people)
• NBC for keeping Studio 60 on the air (hey I still like it)
• Jim and Pam (sigh)

…ok the list could go on and on. But I’d rather hear from you!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

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Veronica Mars Recap and Contest!!!

So it’s become tougher and tougher for me to find the time to write show recaps. It bums me out more than you know. Lucky for me, and you, GMMR has some ridiculously superb recappers who have been kind enough to take on the shows for me.

Such is the case with this week’s episode of Veronica Mars, which I got around to watching around 1am this morning. Julie, a VM mega fan, sent along her take on last night’s episode. And in honor of Julie’s always fantastic recaps, we are going to have a little VM giveaway.

Prize: Any one “Veronica Mars” item from the GMMR Store
To enter:
(Step 1) Leave a comment on this post and share your thoughts on what you think of Veronica Mars so far this season (you hating it, loving it, loving LoVe, loving Piz?…anything)
(Step 2) Head over to TV and Sympathy and find out the title of Julie’s post from 10/24/06 (the day she met her TV boyfriend Jason Dohring)

(Step 3) Email me (info[at]givememyremote[dot]com, Subject line: VM CONTEST) the title of Julie’s 10/24 post. Don’t forget to leave a comment first.

I’ll randomly choose a winner among all the correct entries. The winner will then be able to choose a Veronica Mars related item from the GMMR Store and I will send it along. Here’s are what you have to choose from:

Ok, now on to Julie’s recap….

Title: “Lord of the Pi’s”
Original Airdate: 11/21/06
After two truly stellar episodes, it’s pretty disappointing to see such a flat showing with this week’s episode, “Lord of the Pi’s”, particularly since it was scribed by one of my favorite Veronica Mars writers, Diane Ruggiero. Still, I felt better watching last night’s poor episode knowing that the show is already secure with its full season order.

Even so, let’s break it down. What did we learn?

Picking up from last week, we find that Logan and Veronica are still quarreling. Did she suffer amnesia and forget how he totally loved and cared for her last week? Because if so, BOO. He wants her to back away from the rape case to avoid getting hurt; she doesn’t want to listen. Guess who wins? If you guess that Logan hires someone to follow V around and protect her, you’d be right.

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House Recap: “Whac-a-mole”

Title: Whac-a-mole
Original Airdate: 11/21/06

Packs of wild, screaming kids sure are a scary. Having to placate and control said kids in a Chuck-E-Cheese type venue? Even scarier. It’s enough to make one want to vomit – repeatedly. And that’s exactly what one teenage employee does during a very nausea-inducing little boy birthday party celebration. This teenager, played by guest star Patrick Fugit (aka Cameron Crowe’s not-so-fictional teenage version of himself in “Almost Famous”), then starts having a heart-attack after all the vomiting. Yikes! Obviously, this is a job for The House Team (as if that was ever in doubt…).

I have to say, it’s good to see indie-movie actor Patrick Fugit on a popular show like House. The guy has definitely got talent, so I think it’s great that he’ll be seen by a broader audience than usual. And he certainly has a meaty role here to sink his teeth into. After the heart-attack, we soon learn that his character is an 18-year old orphan whose parents recently died, and who now is the sole caretaker for his younger siblings: an 11-year old girl and an 8-year old boy. Ouch. Plus, now he has this mysterious illness that is alternately causing him to vomit profusely, seizure, choke, and get heart attacks. He even bleeds through his ear and nose and IV-poked arm at one point. Yeesh. Poor kid just can’t seem to catch a break – and neither can his siblings, who are still hurting over their parents’ recent deaths. One would think such a tragic story would melt even House’s bitter, sarcastic, misanthropic heart…

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Gilmore Girls Recap: “Introducing Lorelai Planetarium “

Title: “Introducing Lorelai Planetarium”
Original Airedate: 11/21/06

Early in the morning and Lorelai is on the phone leaving Rory a message to please call her, STASAP (Sooner Then As Soon As Possible). She wants to see Rory that very day and man does she seem anxious. Chris hands over coffee and insists Rory will call her when she wakes up. In the living room Chris starts talking of ways to redecorate the house, something about waterfalls, reclining chairs and giant flat screen TV’s. His wife (can you believe I am writing that?) is appalled but soon realizes he’s kidding. Sneaky Chris admits it, well except for the flat screen TV thing. He’s down with living in Star’s Hollow and the whole small town deal but he wont compromise on the TV. Hard to believe Lor, lover of the all powerful boob tube, doesn’t want one. I would sell my soul for a shiny LCD TV. Okay not my soul, but I hear kidneys can get you top dollar, and I have two of those.

Rory calls, finally awake after avoiding her mothers phone calls since 5am. She wants to know how her parents trip went but Lor promises she’ll tell her everything when she comes over that night. Too bad Rory can’t make it since she has a study group. Her mother makes up a story about French snails for dinner and plainly guilt’s her daughter into coming over. I want to become a mother simply for that power. After hanging up the phone Chris is excited to tell their daughter about the marriage but Lor thinks maybe she should talk to Rory alone at first. Chris points out they agreed to tell her together and Lor knows he’s right; she’s just so used to it being just her and Rory. Lor will just feel better once Rory knows and Chris is certain that she’ll be happy. Which of course has to mean that she won’t be.

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