TV cancellation isn't as permanent as it used to be. "Community" is moving to Yahoo, we're allegedly going to get another "Arrested Development" season on Netflix soon, and the "Entourage" cast will soon be infecting a movie theater near you. But many more shows stay canceled than get to come back, even as we wish it were otherwise. And because it's fun to think about the possibilities, we've decided to do a wildly unscientific poll to determine what show you'd most like to have back, with our first Uncanceled Showdown bracket, featuring 32 shows that we're guessing some or many of you would prefer to have back in your lives. Some of these shows ended prematurely because they were too expensive ("Deadwood"), some because the network didn't know what to do with them ("Freaks and Geeks"), some because they simply ran out of steam ("Twin Peaks"), and some because they had...
- 8/12/2014
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
After the surprising news that "Heroes" will be coming back with a 13-episode event series titled "Heroes Reborn," it's game on for bringing shows back from the dead. After all, does anyone remember what "Heroes" was like toward the end of its original run? Not exactly something you'd be itching to see brought back to life.
With that in mind, here are five shows we would love to see revived and given a bit of an updated spin by NBC, be it by remake or continuation.
'My Two Dads'
This time around, it's about a gay couple who, back in college, when they were both still in the closet, slept with the same woman. Now said woman has died and left her 13-year-old daughter to this couple that is used to their lives as fashionable DINKs (double income, no kids) -- but which one is the father. Dick Butkus...
With that in mind, here are five shows we would love to see revived and given a bit of an updated spin by NBC, be it by remake or continuation.
'My Two Dads'
This time around, it's about a gay couple who, back in college, when they were both still in the closet, slept with the same woman. Now said woman has died and left her 13-year-old daughter to this couple that is used to their lives as fashionable DINKs (double income, no kids) -- but which one is the father. Dick Butkus...
- 2/23/2014
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Freaks and Geeks Episode 14 ‘Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers’
Written by Judd Apatow & Bob Nickman
Directed by Judd Apatow
Aired 10/10/2000 on Fox Family
When I think of the long-term potential missed out on Freaks and Geeks, episodes like ‘Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers’ come to the forefront of my memory. It’s an episode about two non-main characters (Bill and Millie) giving unexpected depth to their characters, family situations, and teenage lives. They come in very different forms – one from the death of a family member, and the other from a family gaining one – but they tie back to this similar idea of teenage rebellion, of how forcing ourselves to not deal with something emotional only makes things worse in the long run.
‘Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers’ is almost a what-if proposition; what if Millie were to play the role of Lindsay on the show? Being a much more stringent believer of faith,...
Written by Judd Apatow & Bob Nickman
Directed by Judd Apatow
Aired 10/10/2000 on Fox Family
When I think of the long-term potential missed out on Freaks and Geeks, episodes like ‘Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers’ come to the forefront of my memory. It’s an episode about two non-main characters (Bill and Millie) giving unexpected depth to their characters, family situations, and teenage lives. They come in very different forms – one from the death of a family member, and the other from a family gaining one – but they tie back to this similar idea of teenage rebellion, of how forcing ourselves to not deal with something emotional only makes things worse in the long run.
‘Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers’ is almost a what-if proposition; what if Millie were to play the role of Lindsay on the show? Being a much more stringent believer of faith,...
- 8/2/2013
- by Randy
- SoundOnSight
Freaks and Geeks Episode 13 ‘Chokin’ and Tokin”
Written by Judd Apatow
Directed by Miguel Arteta
Aired 3/20/2000 on NBC
The last episode to air before NBC canceled Freaks and Geeks, ‘Chokin’ and Tokin” displayed many of the things that made the show great: layered characters (both major and minor), a stark look at the transitions of life, and a show that challenges the foundations of faith. It may very well be the best episode of the show, despite the absence of Kim Kelly, and how isolated the various plots of the episode are – what it lacks in narrative cohesiveness, it makes up for in poignant character moments.
As most people do, I remember ‘Chokin’ and Tokin” as The One Where Lindsay Smokes Pot – but in reality, her story doesn’t get going until the second half. The first half takes a hard look at the “stoner life”, showing how dependent Nick...
Written by Judd Apatow
Directed by Miguel Arteta
Aired 3/20/2000 on NBC
The last episode to air before NBC canceled Freaks and Geeks, ‘Chokin’ and Tokin” displayed many of the things that made the show great: layered characters (both major and minor), a stark look at the transitions of life, and a show that challenges the foundations of faith. It may very well be the best episode of the show, despite the absence of Kim Kelly, and how isolated the various plots of the episode are – what it lacks in narrative cohesiveness, it makes up for in poignant character moments.
As most people do, I remember ‘Chokin’ and Tokin” as The One Where Lindsay Smokes Pot – but in reality, her story doesn’t get going until the second half. The first half takes a hard look at the “stoner life”, showing how dependent Nick...
- 7/25/2013
- by Randy
- SoundOnSight
It didn't take long for everyone to bug out after Busy Philipps revealed the name of her second daughter, Cricket Pearl. And while we agree it's quirky, we also think it's cute - especially since it seems as if she and husband Marc Silverstein aren't settling for mundane monikers any time soon. The couple are also parents to Birdie Leigh, 4½. So as people continue to chirp about Philipps's choice, we're giving you four more reasons we can't get enough of the always-entertaining actress. 1. She's a nature lover - at least when playing the name game BIrdie - named after Lady Bird Johnson...
- 7/12/2013
- by Anya Leon
- PEOPLE.com
Freaks and Geeks Episode 10 ‘The Diary’
Written by Rebecca Kirshner (Teleplay), Judd Apatow & Rebecca Kirshner (Story)
Directed by Ken Olin
Aired 1/31/2000 on NBC
As most episodes of Freaks and Geeks do, ‘The Diary’ begins innocently, and slowly snowballs into a brutally honest story about identity. The cold open takes this a step farther: it suggests that some of these characters are trying to run away from it, as Kim and Lindsay stand at the side of the road trying to hitchhike a ride into town. Lindsay talks about a whole “other world” out there that she wants to embrace, dreaming about the possible people that could pick them up. Maybe it’ll be an artist, or some creepy guy that will murder them: but it will be someone else from someplace else, exactly the person Lindsay thinks she wants to be.
Reality, however, has other plans: the man who picks...
Written by Rebecca Kirshner (Teleplay), Judd Apatow & Rebecca Kirshner (Story)
Directed by Ken Olin
Aired 1/31/2000 on NBC
As most episodes of Freaks and Geeks do, ‘The Diary’ begins innocently, and slowly snowballs into a brutally honest story about identity. The cold open takes this a step farther: it suggests that some of these characters are trying to run away from it, as Kim and Lindsay stand at the side of the road trying to hitchhike a ride into town. Lindsay talks about a whole “other world” out there that she wants to embrace, dreaming about the possible people that could pick them up. Maybe it’ll be an artist, or some creepy guy that will murder them: but it will be someone else from someplace else, exactly the person Lindsay thinks she wants to be.
Reality, however, has other plans: the man who picks...
- 7/3/2013
- by Randy
- SoundOnSight
Freaks and Geeks Episode 8 ‘Girlfriends and Boyfriends’
Written by Judd Apatow & Paul Feig
Directed by Lesli Linka Glatter
Aired 1/17/2000 on NBC
‘Girlfriends and Boyfriends’ begins with Lindsay entering McKinley for another day of school. On her way to the patio, she passes by the other cliques you typically see in high schools dramas – jocks tossing around a football, nerds with their binders in hand, and the like. She notices them, but quickly dismisses them as she heads outside (reminding us that Freaks and Geeks is not a show that operates within cliches, allowing us to reset our expectations for the stories to follow)… that is, until she passes Generic Couple Making Out in the hallway, and becomes fixated on their grope-y embrace. If the title didn’t already give it away, that moment reveals the sole focus of the episode: sex and relationships.
Word is getting around school that Nick...
Written by Judd Apatow & Paul Feig
Directed by Lesli Linka Glatter
Aired 1/17/2000 on NBC
‘Girlfriends and Boyfriends’ begins with Lindsay entering McKinley for another day of school. On her way to the patio, she passes by the other cliques you typically see in high schools dramas – jocks tossing around a football, nerds with their binders in hand, and the like. She notices them, but quickly dismisses them as she heads outside (reminding us that Freaks and Geeks is not a show that operates within cliches, allowing us to reset our expectations for the stories to follow)… that is, until she passes Generic Couple Making Out in the hallway, and becomes fixated on their grope-y embrace. If the title didn’t already give it away, that moment reveals the sole focus of the episode: sex and relationships.
Word is getting around school that Nick...
- 6/19/2013
- by Randy
- SoundOnSight
Freaks and Geeks Episode 6 ‘I’m With The Band’
Directed by Judd Apatow
Written by Gabe Sachs & Jeff Judah
Originally aired 11/13/99 on NBC
At its core, ‘I’m With The Band’ is about fear. Fear of failure, fear of exposure… and most of all, the fear of the unknown, as seen with the two focal points of the episode: Nick and Sam, finding a genius balance between the depressing (Nick) and the hilarious (Sam). The dichotomy is necessary: for all the realistic and painful things we can all see waiting in the shadows for these characters in the future, there’s none more heartbreaking on the entire show than Nick Andopolis.
For Nick, his biggest fear in the world is turning out like his hard-ass dad, who never cracks and a smile and holds a particularly low opinion of his son’s academic and non-academic pursuits, particularly his noisy drumming...
Directed by Judd Apatow
Written by Gabe Sachs & Jeff Judah
Originally aired 11/13/99 on NBC
At its core, ‘I’m With The Band’ is about fear. Fear of failure, fear of exposure… and most of all, the fear of the unknown, as seen with the two focal points of the episode: Nick and Sam, finding a genius balance between the depressing (Nick) and the hilarious (Sam). The dichotomy is necessary: for all the realistic and painful things we can all see waiting in the shadows for these characters in the future, there’s none more heartbreaking on the entire show than Nick Andopolis.
For Nick, his biggest fear in the world is turning out like his hard-ass dad, who never cracks and a smile and holds a particularly low opinion of his son’s academic and non-academic pursuits, particularly his noisy drumming...
- 6/6/2013
- by Randy
- SoundOnSight
Freaks and Geeks Episode 1 ‘Pilot’
Directed by Jake Kasdan
Written by Paul Feig
Aired 9/25/1999
If there’s such thing as a perfect pilot, Freaks and Geeks‘s first hour is it. Most pilots are mish-mashed groups of scenes with some overly constructed jokes, an audience-grabbing plot hook, and numerous scenes where characters explain who other characters are. ‘Pilot’ is the exact opposite of that, a beautiful, detailed photograph into a high school in suburban Detroit on the first day back from summer vacation. From that first scene, where an overwrought confession of love between a football player and cheerleader (“I just love you so much… it scares me”) is shoved off-frame to introduce us to the ‘freaks’, Freaks and Geeks established itself as a different kind of high school show, one that wasn’t afraid to be honest about shitty high school life when you’re not “one of the cool kids.
Directed by Jake Kasdan
Written by Paul Feig
Aired 9/25/1999
If there’s such thing as a perfect pilot, Freaks and Geeks‘s first hour is it. Most pilots are mish-mashed groups of scenes with some overly constructed jokes, an audience-grabbing plot hook, and numerous scenes where characters explain who other characters are. ‘Pilot’ is the exact opposite of that, a beautiful, detailed photograph into a high school in suburban Detroit on the first day back from summer vacation. From that first scene, where an overwrought confession of love between a football player and cheerleader (“I just love you so much… it scares me”) is shoved off-frame to introduce us to the ‘freaks’, Freaks and Geeks established itself as a different kind of high school show, one that wasn’t afraid to be honest about shitty high school life when you’re not “one of the cool kids.
- 6/5/2013
- by Randy
- SoundOnSight
Freaks and Geeks Episode 5 ‘Tests and Breasts’
Directed by Ken Kwapis
Written by Bob Nickman
Aired 11/6/1999 on NBC
If anyone needed proof that James Franco was going to be a great actor, all they had to watch was his show-stealing performance in ‘Tests and Breasts’. But the tale of Daniel Desario is a tragic comedy – and following on the heels of ‘Kim Kelly Is My Friend’, firmly establishes the streak of cynical realism underneath the touching character moments and hilarious conclusions. Last week it was Kim’s disturbing life, and next week it will be Nick’s reality check – but this week belongs to Daniel, who has a profound impact on nearly every character on the show in this episode.
Daniel’s goal in ‘Tests and Breasts’ is simple: recruit Lindsey to help him cheat his way through an algebra test (a class Lindsey took last year, she notes at...
Directed by Ken Kwapis
Written by Bob Nickman
Aired 11/6/1999 on NBC
If anyone needed proof that James Franco was going to be a great actor, all they had to watch was his show-stealing performance in ‘Tests and Breasts’. But the tale of Daniel Desario is a tragic comedy – and following on the heels of ‘Kim Kelly Is My Friend’, firmly establishes the streak of cynical realism underneath the touching character moments and hilarious conclusions. Last week it was Kim’s disturbing life, and next week it will be Nick’s reality check – but this week belongs to Daniel, who has a profound impact on nearly every character on the show in this episode.
Daniel’s goal in ‘Tests and Breasts’ is simple: recruit Lindsey to help him cheat his way through an algebra test (a class Lindsey took last year, she notes at...
- 5/24/2013
- by Randy
- SoundOnSight
Freaks and Geeks Season 1, Episode 4 ‘Kim Kelly Is My Friend’
Directed by Lesli Linka Glatter
Written by Mike White
Aired 9/5/2000 on Fox Family
It always boggles my mind that NBC never aired ‘Kim Kelly Is My Friend’ because of the ‘darker’ material surrounding Kim Kelly’s home life, because it’s such an important episode in establishing her character for the rest of the series. Written by Mike White (creator of Enlightened, and writer of Orange County and School of Rock), ‘Kim Kelly Is My Friend’ takes what’s been an archetype character to this point, and fills her out in three detailed and devastatingly poignant dimensions.
When the episode begins, Kim’s up to her usual antics, terrorizing freshman with her friend Karen (a young, particularly nasty Rashida Jones). Karen is shorter and slighter than Kim (and with dark hair), but she provides a mirror to judge Kim’s...
Directed by Lesli Linka Glatter
Written by Mike White
Aired 9/5/2000 on Fox Family
It always boggles my mind that NBC never aired ‘Kim Kelly Is My Friend’ because of the ‘darker’ material surrounding Kim Kelly’s home life, because it’s such an important episode in establishing her character for the rest of the series. Written by Mike White (creator of Enlightened, and writer of Orange County and School of Rock), ‘Kim Kelly Is My Friend’ takes what’s been an archetype character to this point, and fills her out in three detailed and devastatingly poignant dimensions.
When the episode begins, Kim’s up to her usual antics, terrorizing freshman with her friend Karen (a young, particularly nasty Rashida Jones). Karen is shorter and slighter than Kim (and with dark hair), but she provides a mirror to judge Kim’s...
- 5/15/2013
- by Randy
- SoundOnSight
Freaks and Geeks Episode 2 ‘Beers and Weirs’
Directed by Jake Kasdan
Written by J. Elvis Weinstein & Judd Apatow
Aired 10/2/99
The problem with most second episodes of television shows is they spend too much time re-establishing the story beats and relationship dynamics between characters from the pilot, just in case there’s a few million extra people tuning in after hearing about the first episode (spoiler: this very rarely happens… these days, most shows are lucky to maintain an audience through the second episode). ‘Beers and Weirs’ has a much better way of handling the second episode of a series: throw all the characters in the same location and observe their interactions. It’s a really organic way of adding complexities to the relationships on the show, all under the conceit of a high school trope – partying when the parents go way – with an absolutely ingenious twist.
The funny thing about...
Directed by Jake Kasdan
Written by J. Elvis Weinstein & Judd Apatow
Aired 10/2/99
The problem with most second episodes of television shows is they spend too much time re-establishing the story beats and relationship dynamics between characters from the pilot, just in case there’s a few million extra people tuning in after hearing about the first episode (spoiler: this very rarely happens… these days, most shows are lucky to maintain an audience through the second episode). ‘Beers and Weirs’ has a much better way of handling the second episode of a series: throw all the characters in the same location and observe their interactions. It’s a really organic way of adding complexities to the relationships on the show, all under the conceit of a high school trope – partying when the parents go way – with an absolutely ingenious twist.
The funny thing about...
- 5/1/2013
- by Randy
- SoundOnSight
Freaks and Geeks Episode 1 ‘Pilot’
Directed by Jake Kasdan
Written by Paul Feig
Aired 9/25/1999
If there’s such thing as a perfect pilot, Freaks and Geeks‘s first hour is it. Most pilots are mish-mashed groups of scenes with some overly constructed jokes, an audience-grabbing plot hook, and numerous scenes where characters explain who other characters are. ‘Pilot’ is the exact opposite of that, a beautiful, detailed photograph into a high school in suburban Detroit on the first day back from summer vacation. From that first scene, where an overwrought confession of love between a football player and cheerleader (“I just love you so much… it scares me”) is shoved off-frame to introduce us to the ‘freaks’, Freaks and Geeks established itself as a different kind of high school show, one that wasn’t afraid to be honest about shitty high school life when you’re not “one of the cool kids.
Directed by Jake Kasdan
Written by Paul Feig
Aired 9/25/1999
If there’s such thing as a perfect pilot, Freaks and Geeks‘s first hour is it. Most pilots are mish-mashed groups of scenes with some overly constructed jokes, an audience-grabbing plot hook, and numerous scenes where characters explain who other characters are. ‘Pilot’ is the exact opposite of that, a beautiful, detailed photograph into a high school in suburban Detroit on the first day back from summer vacation. From that first scene, where an overwrought confession of love between a football player and cheerleader (“I just love you so much… it scares me”) is shoved off-frame to introduce us to the ‘freaks’, Freaks and Geeks established itself as a different kind of high school show, one that wasn’t afraid to be honest about shitty high school life when you’re not “one of the cool kids.
- 4/24/2013
- by Randy
- SoundOnSight
By Carson Blackwelder
Television Contributor
***
In the world of TV, love dictates all.
All viewers have their favorite couples from past and present: From Lucy (Lucille Ball) and Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz) to Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) and Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey), on-screen romances fill fan blogs and magazines.
But what about those secondary characters and their budding relationships that fly under the radar? Some of the best TV relationships have been those of sidekick characters or best friends, and it’s often their relationships that are more endearing than those of primary characters.
Here’s my list of the top 10 secondary TV couples and the adorable moments that make them so great:
10. Woody Boyd and Kelly Gaines (NBC’s Cheers)
Kicking off the list is the prime example of how opposites attract.
Woody Boyd (Woody Harrelson) and Kelly Gaines (Jackie Swanson) exemplified this by coming from vastly different backgrounds on NBC’s hit Cheers.
Television Contributor
***
In the world of TV, love dictates all.
All viewers have their favorite couples from past and present: From Lucy (Lucille Ball) and Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz) to Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) and Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey), on-screen romances fill fan blogs and magazines.
But what about those secondary characters and their budding relationships that fly under the radar? Some of the best TV relationships have been those of sidekick characters or best friends, and it’s often their relationships that are more endearing than those of primary characters.
Here’s my list of the top 10 secondary TV couples and the adorable moments that make them so great:
10. Woody Boyd and Kelly Gaines (NBC’s Cheers)
Kicking off the list is the prime example of how opposites attract.
Woody Boyd (Woody Harrelson) and Kelly Gaines (Jackie Swanson) exemplified this by coming from vastly different backgrounds on NBC’s hit Cheers.
- 2/13/2013
- by Carson Blackwelder
- Scott Feinberg
InsideTV Podcast: Busy Philipps talks pregnancy, 'Freaks and Geeks', and the future of 'Cougar Town'
From Freaks and Geeks’ Kim Kelly to Cougar Town’s Laurie Keller, Busy Philipps has made a career out of playing lovable loudmouths. Off screen, the actress possesses the gift of gab as well, which is why we invited one of our small screen faves to call in to this week’s edition of the InsideTV Podcast! And call in she did. In a freewheeling discussion, Busy tells us all about her “disheartening” frustration with the lack of support from Cougar Town’s previous network, ABC, as well as some big changes for Laurie this season on the comedy’s new home of TBS.
- 1/22/2013
- by Dalton Ross
- EW - Inside TV
Though we may never see a televised "Freaks and Geeks" reunion, Vanity Fair has given us the next best thing.
The magazine's comedy-focused January issue, edited by "F&G" executive producer Judd Apatow, has a wealth of material related the quickly canceled but fiercely loved 1999-2000 series, including photos from the set and an extensive oral history of the show.
What caught our eyes most, though -- in addition to the awesome reunion photos like the one attached to this post -- was creator Paul Feig's breakdown of what might have happened had the show survived for a second season. Here are some of his thoughts:
Lindsay (Linda Cardellini): "I was hoping the second season would open with her being taken out of a concert on a stretcher while Queen's 'Tie Your Mother Down' plays. That's all I had. But I thought it would be interesting -- she comes back,...
The magazine's comedy-focused January issue, edited by "F&G" executive producer Judd Apatow, has a wealth of material related the quickly canceled but fiercely loved 1999-2000 series, including photos from the set and an extensive oral history of the show.
What caught our eyes most, though -- in addition to the awesome reunion photos like the one attached to this post -- was creator Paul Feig's breakdown of what might have happened had the show survived for a second season. Here are some of his thoughts:
Lindsay (Linda Cardellini): "I was hoping the second season would open with her being taken out of a concert on a stretcher while Queen's 'Tie Your Mother Down' plays. That's all I had. But I thought it would be interesting -- she comes back,...
- 12/7/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Twelve years after "Freaks And Geeks" was yanked off the air after a brilliant season about the triumphs and trevails of high school, the cast and creators reunited to reminisce about the series with "Vanity Fair."
What started as a small idea based on Paul Feig's high school experience became a success when series creators Feig and Judd Apatow pitched their outside-the-box show to networks. Eventually, NBC took a leap of faith -- sort of -- when the peacock network agreed to air the show on Saturday nights.
"The reviews were great, and the premiere had a really high rating," Feig remembered. "The first Monday back I stood on a table and read the ratings and everybody cheered. And the next week we just dropped huge. And Joe Flaherty [who played Harold Weir] was quoted as saying, 'Yeah, Paul never came back in and read the ratings to us again after that first week.
What started as a small idea based on Paul Feig's high school experience became a success when series creators Feig and Judd Apatow pitched their outside-the-box show to networks. Eventually, NBC took a leap of faith -- sort of -- when the peacock network agreed to air the show on Saturday nights.
"The reviews were great, and the premiere had a really high rating," Feig remembered. "The first Monday back I stood on a table and read the ratings and everybody cheered. And the next week we just dropped huge. And Joe Flaherty [who played Harold Weir] was quoted as saying, 'Yeah, Paul never came back in and read the ratings to us again after that first week.
- 12/6/2012
- by Leigh Weingus
- Huffington Post
Though it lasted only a single season on NBC, Freaks and Geeks is justifiably beloved — for presenting an unvarnished take on adolescence in the Dawson’s Creek era, for perfectly mixing comedy and drama, and for launching the careers of big names like Judd Apatow, Paul Feig, James Franco, Seth Rogen, and Jason Segel. And it’s not only fans who have a special place in their hearts for Freaks — since its cancellation, nearly every member of its cast and crew has said that working on the series was the high point of their career.
That’s a sentiment that...
That’s a sentiment that...
- 12/6/2012
- by Hillary Busis
- EW.com - PopWatch
The Outdoor Media Association has pledged $1.6million worth of inventory to help raise awareness of the Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation’s Indigenous Literacy appeal.
The announcement:
The Hon. Adrian Piccoli, Nsw Minister for Education, today announced a major new community sponsorship donated by the Out-of-Home (Ooh) industry to the Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation (Alnf). The sponsorship recognises the right of all Australian children to learn to read and write.
The national advertising sponsorship is valued at $1.6 million annually and 2012 marks the beginning of a three year commitment by the Ooh industry to the Alnf’s annual Wall of Hands Indigenous literacy appeal – a national movement committed to improving literacy standards for Indigenous students.
Charmaine Moldrich, CEO of the Outdoor Media Association (Oma), said that the Ooh industry is in a space of its own being the one remaining broadcast channel communicating to a large and growing audience across the nation.
The announcement:
The Hon. Adrian Piccoli, Nsw Minister for Education, today announced a major new community sponsorship donated by the Out-of-Home (Ooh) industry to the Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation (Alnf). The sponsorship recognises the right of all Australian children to learn to read and write.
The national advertising sponsorship is valued at $1.6 million annually and 2012 marks the beginning of a three year commitment by the Ooh industry to the Alnf’s annual Wall of Hands Indigenous literacy appeal – a national movement committed to improving literacy standards for Indigenous students.
Charmaine Moldrich, CEO of the Outdoor Media Association (Oma), said that the Ooh industry is in a space of its own being the one remaining broadcast channel communicating to a large and growing audience across the nation.
- 6/21/2012
- by Cathie McGinn
- Encore Magazine
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Scarface! Directed by Brian De Palma (Dressed to Kill) and starring Al Pacino (Carlito’s Way), the movie that’s everyone’s favorite cocaine-drenched guilty pleasure made its Blu-ray debut on Sept. 6. And Universal Studios Home Entertainment has given Disc Dish two copies of the Scarface Limited Edition Blu-ray Steelbox to give away to a pair of lucky readers!
The contest giveaway will give readers a chance to check out the winners of Universal’s National Fan Art Contest, wherein fans created Scarface-inspired artwork using classic Tony Montana images from the film. Universal selected the top 25 based on creativity, originality and quality, and then 10 fan favorites were included as exclusive art...
And make sure you enter our other contests.
Scarface! Directed by Brian De Palma (Dressed to Kill) and starring Al Pacino (Carlito’s Way), the movie that’s everyone’s favorite cocaine-drenched guilty pleasure made its Blu-ray debut on Sept. 6. And Universal Studios Home Entertainment has given Disc Dish two copies of the Scarface Limited Edition Blu-ray Steelbox to give away to a pair of lucky readers!
The contest giveaway will give readers a chance to check out the winners of Universal’s National Fan Art Contest, wherein fans created Scarface-inspired artwork using classic Tony Montana images from the film. Universal selected the top 25 based on creativity, originality and quality, and then 10 fan favorites were included as exclusive art...
- 9/22/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
I went to see Red Riding Hood this weekend and no I won't defend that choice and no I won't pretend there was anything redeeming about it. The worst part, as Dan mentioned in his review last week, were the dull and douchey love interests that were packaged just so to make the teenagers swoon. Modeled after the dull and douchey love interests in the Twilight juggernaut, these boys (one tall and blonde, one short and dark) prompted the sane moviegoers among us to snigger in our sleeves.
But then I found out last night that "My So-Called Life" is streaming on Netflix Instant and while my first instinct was to lace up my Docs, dust off my plaid shirt and watch a few episodes, I started thinking about the problem that is Jordan Catalano. I used to find that kid dreamy but with the benefit of experience and hindsight one thing is plain.
But then I found out last night that "My So-Called Life" is streaming on Netflix Instant and while my first instinct was to lace up my Docs, dust off my plaid shirt and watch a few episodes, I started thinking about the problem that is Jordan Catalano. I used to find that kid dreamy but with the benefit of experience and hindsight one thing is plain.
- 3/16/2011
- by Joanna Robinson
This weekend, the Freaks and Geeks cast met up for a PaleyFest panel and discussed what their alter-egos might have gotten up to since the last time we saw them. The cast of Undeclared was also there, as was Judd Apatow, the creator of both short-lived-turned-cult-classic TV shows. So, where are the F&G characters today? According to Busy Philipps, a.k.a Kim Kelly, F&G's resident bad girl actually grew up to be Philipps' current character, Laurie Keller from Cougar Town — but not before getting seriously into Nirvana in the early '90s. Samm Levine thinks Neal Schweiber's geekiness finally paid off, in the form of becoming a Silicon Valley millionaire and marrying a supermodel. Apatow also discussed the plans he had for the characters' short-term futures. In the follow-up season that never was, Linda Cardellini's Lindsay Weir was going to [...]...
- 3/14/2011
- Nerve
Watching the casts of two of the greatest gone-before-their-time shows to ever exist walk the red carpet last night at PaleyFest’s Freaks and Geeks/Undeclared reunion, it was hard not to notice how everyone had changed (or, if you’re Samm Levine, haven’t changed). This made me wonder: Where would all the characters be if we met up with them ten years later? So because I’m geek, I asked some of the stars.
Samm Levine (Neal, F&G): “Neal went to Stanford. He was top of the class, and he married a beautiful supermodel who was...
Samm Levine (Neal, F&G): “Neal went to Stanford. He was top of the class, and he married a beautiful supermodel who was...
- 3/13/2011
- by Sandra Gonzalez
- EW.com - PopWatch
The cast of Freaks & Geeks, along with its follow-up, Undeclared, are reuniting for PaleyFest. Creator Judd Apatow, along with Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, Joe Flaherty and others are coming together for the 28th annual festival to take questions from the audience about the shows (alas, no James Franco).
The Freaks & Geeks panel is one of 13 at the event, which includes panels for The Walking Dead, Supernatural, True Blood and Parks and Recreation (full list here), and gets underway on March 4 in Beverly Hills. Here’s the full list of F&G participants:
Judd Apatow , Executive Producer Freaks & Geeks ; Creator / Executive Producer Undeclared
Paul Feig,...
The Freaks & Geeks panel is one of 13 at the event, which includes panels for The Walking Dead, Supernatural, True Blood and Parks and Recreation (full list here), and gets underway on March 4 in Beverly Hills. Here’s the full list of F&G participants:
Judd Apatow , Executive Producer Freaks & Geeks ; Creator / Executive Producer Undeclared
Paul Feig,...
- 2/4/2011
- by James Hibberd
- EW - Inside TV
Variety is reporting that a 10-year reunion for the cast of Freaks and Geeks will be staged for an event at PaleyFest 2011. Apparently Judd Apatow revealed the reunion through his Twitter over the weekend and the Paley Center has since confirmed the fact that a Q&A with the cast and producers is possible.
The official announcement regarding the TV festival won’t hit until next week, but it seems like a safe bet.
The American comedy-drama television series was created by Paul Feig and executive produced by Judd Apatow and aired on NBC during the 1999–2000 television season. Eighteen episodes were completed but the series was canceled after only twelve had aired.
A fan-led campaign persuaded NBC to broadcast three more episodes in July 2000; the three remaining unaired episodes were not seen until September of that year, when the cable network Fox Family Channel aired them in syndication. Despite a...
The official announcement regarding the TV festival won’t hit until next week, but it seems like a safe bet.
The American comedy-drama television series was created by Paul Feig and executive produced by Judd Apatow and aired on NBC during the 1999–2000 television season. Eighteen episodes were completed but the series was canceled after only twelve had aired.
A fan-led campaign persuaded NBC to broadcast three more episodes in July 2000; the three remaining unaired episodes were not seen until September of that year, when the cable network Fox Family Channel aired them in syndication. Despite a...
- 12/9/2010
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
"Freaks and Geeks" is now airing on IFC, and we thought we'd take this opportunity to revisit the show that launched a thousand bromance movies. Every week, Matt Singer and Alison Willmore will be offering their thoughts on that night's episode.
Episode 14
Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers
Written by Judd Apatow & Bob Nickman
Directed by Judd Apatow
"You couldn't see through my cloud of smoke / You held my heart, now it's bloody and broke / And is your green army jacket the only thing keeping you warm tonight? / Lady L!" -- Nick
Matt: There's one really important aspect of "Freaks and Geeks" that we haven't talked about enough in this column, and that's its use of music. "Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers," a streamlined but very solid episode from Judd Apatow and co-writer Bob Nickman, is a good place to bring it into our discussion because features examples of all the...
Episode 14
Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers
Written by Judd Apatow & Bob Nickman
Directed by Judd Apatow
"You couldn't see through my cloud of smoke / You held my heart, now it's bloody and broke / And is your green army jacket the only thing keeping you warm tonight? / Lady L!" -- Nick
Matt: There's one really important aspect of "Freaks and Geeks" that we haven't talked about enough in this column, and that's its use of music. "Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers," a streamlined but very solid episode from Judd Apatow and co-writer Bob Nickman, is a good place to bring it into our discussion because features examples of all the...
- 9/30/2010
- by Matt Singer
- ifc.com
"Freaks and Geeks" is now airing on IFC, and we thought we'd take this opportunity to revisit the show that launched a thousand bromance movies. Every week, Matt Singer and Alison Willmore will be offering their thoughts on that night's episode.
Episode 10
"The Diary"
Directed by Ken Olin
Written by Judd Apatow (story) & Rebecca Kirshner (story and teleplay)
"Who wants their kid to have sex and do drugs? Nobody." --Daniel
Alison: The search for identity and one's place is in the crowd is a central theme of "Freaks and Geeks," and in this episode, everyone's fighting to change how they're perceived and have been labeled by those around them. Lindsay wants her parents to see Kim as she sees her, as a fearless friend and not a sinister "bad banana" (and what's wrong with apples, I ask?). Kim needs Lindsay to think of her as someone worth standing up for,...
Episode 10
"The Diary"
Directed by Ken Olin
Written by Judd Apatow (story) & Rebecca Kirshner (story and teleplay)
"Who wants their kid to have sex and do drugs? Nobody." --Daniel
Alison: The search for identity and one's place is in the crowd is a central theme of "Freaks and Geeks," and in this episode, everyone's fighting to change how they're perceived and have been labeled by those around them. Lindsay wants her parents to see Kim as she sees her, as a fearless friend and not a sinister "bad banana" (and what's wrong with apples, I ask?). Kim needs Lindsay to think of her as someone worth standing up for,...
- 9/3/2010
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
"Freaks and Geeks" is now airing on IFC, and we thought we'd take this opportunity to revisit the show that launched a thousand bromance movies. Every week, Matt Singer and Alison Willmore will be offering their thoughts on that night's episode.
Episode 6: I'm With the Band
Directed by Judd Apatow
Written by Gabe Sachs and Jeff Judah
Originally aired November 13, 1999
"Hey, I want to play it again. Put more dry ice in the bucket!" -- Nick
Alison: Matt, I may have told you in passing that I thought "Beers and Weirs" was the series' most painfully awkward episode. Obviously, I was wrong. "I'm With the Band" is an absolute symphony of watch-with-your-hands-over-your-eyes moments, culminating in two sequences in which characters venture into new experiences and are rewarded with reoccurring nightmare-type outcomes.
Let's start with the geeks. The show has established Sam's discomfort with his own pre-pubescent physicality (and physicality in general) before,...
Episode 6: I'm With the Band
Directed by Judd Apatow
Written by Gabe Sachs and Jeff Judah
Originally aired November 13, 1999
"Hey, I want to play it again. Put more dry ice in the bucket!" -- Nick
Alison: Matt, I may have told you in passing that I thought "Beers and Weirs" was the series' most painfully awkward episode. Obviously, I was wrong. "I'm With the Band" is an absolute symphony of watch-with-your-hands-over-your-eyes moments, culminating in two sequences in which characters venture into new experiences and are rewarded with reoccurring nightmare-type outcomes.
Let's start with the geeks. The show has established Sam's discomfort with his own pre-pubescent physicality (and physicality in general) before,...
- 8/6/2010
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
"Freaks and Geeks" is now airing on IFC, and we thought we'd take this opportunity to revisit the show that launched a thousand bromance movies. Every week, Matt Singer and Alison Willmore will be offering their thoughts on that night's episode.
Episode 5: Tests and Breasts
Directed by Ken Kwapis
Written by Bob Nickman
Originally aired November 6, 1999
"In movies like that, they sensationalize certain things. But in reality those things don't usually happen." -- Coach Fredericks
Matt: When Coach Fredericks (Thomas F. Wilson) says that line, he's calming Sam's fears about an alarming porno film. But he's also speaking to the "Freaks and Geeks" ethos of realism over sensationalism. Tonight's episode "Tests and Breasts," written by Bob Nickman and directed by Ken Kwapis, really embodies that style of storytelling. It's full of moments when the show could veer into melodrama or exaggeration but never does.
Take that storyline with Sam.
Episode 5: Tests and Breasts
Directed by Ken Kwapis
Written by Bob Nickman
Originally aired November 6, 1999
"In movies like that, they sensationalize certain things. But in reality those things don't usually happen." -- Coach Fredericks
Matt: When Coach Fredericks (Thomas F. Wilson) says that line, he's calming Sam's fears about an alarming porno film. But he's also speaking to the "Freaks and Geeks" ethos of realism over sensationalism. Tonight's episode "Tests and Breasts," written by Bob Nickman and directed by Ken Kwapis, really embodies that style of storytelling. It's full of moments when the show could veer into melodrama or exaggeration but never does.
Take that storyline with Sam.
- 7/30/2010
- by Matt Singer
- ifc.com
"Freaks and Geeks" is now airing on IFC, and we thought we'd take this opportunity to revisit the show that launched a thousand bromance movies. Every Friday, Matt Singer and Alison Willmore will be offering their thoughts on that night's episode.
Episode 4: Kim Kelly Is My Friend
Directed by Lesli Linka Glatter
Written by Mike White
Originally aired September 5, 2000
"Kim Kelly's a psycho. She and Karen Scarfolli -- they're violent. They run around the school being evil." --Sam
Alison: A confession: Kim Kelly is my favorite "Freaks and Geeks" character, and this episode -- written by Mike White, who appears as Kim's "brain damaged" older brother Chip -- is one of the series highlights for me. Throughout the first few episodes, Busy Philipps has been unrelentingly terrifying as Kim, territorial, intimidating and blessed with an uncanny ability to zoom in on people's weak spots -- like her "joke...
Episode 4: Kim Kelly Is My Friend
Directed by Lesli Linka Glatter
Written by Mike White
Originally aired September 5, 2000
"Kim Kelly's a psycho. She and Karen Scarfolli -- they're violent. They run around the school being evil." --Sam
Alison: A confession: Kim Kelly is my favorite "Freaks and Geeks" character, and this episode -- written by Mike White, who appears as Kim's "brain damaged" older brother Chip -- is one of the series highlights for me. Throughout the first few episodes, Busy Philipps has been unrelentingly terrifying as Kim, territorial, intimidating and blessed with an uncanny ability to zoom in on people's weak spots -- like her "joke...
- 7/23/2010
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
Today is James Franco's 32nd birthday! And based on his face, I bet the celebration will be even better than God's Vagina. So how should he ring in his 32nd year on this Earth? 1) By skipping class to make out with Kim Kelly under the bleachers while throwing scraps of cafeteria food at the McKinley High Viking mascot. (I bet he's a multitasker.) 2) By figuring out how to suction out Peter Parker's goo, so he can use Spider-Man's web-making powers to unleash a Silly String attack on the residents of Port Charles when he inevitably returns to General Hospital as killer artist Franco.
- 4/19/2010
- by Kate Ward
- EW.com - PopWatch
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