Kristen Bell Tweets To Encourage A Veronica Mars Movie

Fans of Veronica Mars will always be clamoring for a Veronica Mars movie to be made. Now Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars herself) is helping support their effort.

Over the past couple days, Kristen (@IMKristenBell) has been tweeting like crazy to try and get #VeronicaMarsMovie trending and help get support for various petitions and Facebook groups. See and go join here if you a fan of the movies:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5559438802
http://www.petitiononline.com/vmmovie/petition.html
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=97750248959&ref=ts

As you know, I love Veronica Mars pretty much more than any other TV show I have ever seen, and I would die to see a movie. Unfortunately, the studio doesn't believe it'll make enough money, so it's up to fans of Veronica Mars to help make it successful by joining these causes and help make #Veronicamarsmovie a Trending Topic. So who's up to the challenge?

The Sarah Scoop: @KimKardashian 's First Choice Emmy Date

Another post by me @sarahscoop!

The Sarah Scoop: @KimKardashian 's First Choice Emmy Date: "According to E! Online Kris Jenner wasn’t necessarily Kim Kardashian’s first choice for her date to the Emmys, instead it was most likely..."

Guest post: Upcoming Television Shows Preview

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Fall is almost here and you know what that means… brand new television shows! This year there are a lot of new shows premiering; some with your favorite veteran actors, and some with a lot of new faces. From thrillers to comedy, there is something new for everyone, so let’s sit back and get a feel for some of the new shows you’ll be watching this season.




Blue Bloods (CBS)

Blue Bloods is a police drama set in New York about a family of cops. Tom Selleck plays Frank, the chief of police, whose father was also chief. Donnie Wahlberg plays his oldest son Danny - a blunt investigator and Iraq War vet who uses questionable tactics to close cases. Will Estes plays Jaime, the youngest son who is fresh out of the police academy, and rounding out the cast is daughter Erin, who is assistant district attorney, played by Bridget Moynahan. Blue Bloods was created by some of the people behind The Sopranos, but this show looks at life on the other side of the law, and the family dynamics involved with multiple generations of police.

The Event (NBC)

The Event is a conspiracy thriller that follows Sean, played by Jason Ritter. Sean is on a search for his missing girlfriend Leila (Sarah Roemer), and comes across a vast government conspiracy and unwittingly begins to expose the biggest cover-up in history. Sean’s journey affects many people including the U.S. President, who is played by Blair Underwood. Laura Innes, Bill Smitrovich and Scott Patterson round out the cast of people whose futures are uncertain in a world where a massive global conspiracy could affect all of mankind.

Outsourced (NBC)

In this workplace comedy, newcomer Ben Rappaport plays Tom, an American who works at one of the world’s largest novelty companies, and who just passed the management-training course. After a little downsizing, Tom is sent to India to look after a group of customer service representatives that aren’t very experienced when it comes to American culture… or customer service. In order to keep his job, he must teach them the tools of the trade, without too much culture clash. The sales team includes many characters including the socially awkward Gupta (Parvesh Cheena), Manmeet (Sacha Dhawan), a young romantic who loves America, and Rajiv (Rizwan Manji), who plays the assistant manager that wants Tom’s job.


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Lazy Saturday

I know I've been throwing a lot of guest posts at you guys lately, and while they are really wonderful (they are! please check them out and comment on them!) I thought I'd bring you guys a little more personal comments.

This past week I moved into my apartment at Temple University and met my three new roommates. Classes have been good, we haven't done all that much yet. I'm least looking forward to my audio/visual newsgathering class, but very much looking forward to my Design For Journalism class. I'm looking forward to adding some skills to my resume and being able to apply them to this blog (and I'm very much looking forward to adding a custom domain to this blog if I start working and get the money to do so--woo hoo!)

TV-wise, not much has started yet, but I can't wait til the fall premieres. Also, my roommates turned me on to two new TV shows--It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia as well as Project Runway. Today I'll probably catch up on last week's Weeds and watch the series Tin Man I mentioned earlier, as well as work on some blogs for Sarah Scoop!

Also--tomorrow I'll be headed to a dusk-til-dawn Drive-in movie-a-thon so I'll be missing Keeping Up With The Kardashians, but I'll try to catch up Monday!

Guest Post: Scott Pilgrim vs the Animation

This Guest post was brought to you by Sara Allen of  www.inkandpixelclub.com 

Scott Pilgrim vs. the Animation is an animated short created to promote the live-action film Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Both the short and the movie are based on Brian Lee O’Malley’s excellent Scott Pilgrim graphic novels. The short debuted on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim block on August 12 and is still available to view on Adult Swim’s website.

The animated short tells how Scott met and briefly dated his band’s drummer, Kim Pine. This part of Scott’s history is fully explored in the comics – in the first chapter of volume 2 – but is only mentioned in passing in the movie. So it’s an ideal subject for a four-minute special. Because this story wasn’t originally meant as an introduction to Scott and his world or a stand-alone narrative, it may be more meaningful to people who have read the comics (which I recommend) or seen the movie (which I also recommend). But even if you aren’t familiar with the story already, the short will whet your appetite for the movie and give you and introduction to Scott, the world he lives in, and the video game styled boss battles he has to fight.

The voices for the main characters are provided by the actors from the film. Even the characters that don’t appear in the movie are voiced by actors who play different characters in the film. Normally it drives me crazy to see “face” actors taking parts that would otherwise go to professional voice actors. (I do consider Mae Whitman a real voice actor because of the large amount of voice work she’s done alongside her onscreen performances, most notably as Katara on Avatar: The Last Airbender.) But between the animation being a teaser for the movie and all of the actors actually doing a pretty good job, I’m happy with the results and I’m making an exception.

Since Scott Pilgrim began life in comics form, animation is an ideal medium to retell his story with. In fact, as much as I did enjoy the movie, part of me still wishes that it had been animated instead of live-action. I felt that way even before I saw Scott, Kim, and their various friends and foes in animation, and watching the short only made it clearer how well an animated Scott Pilgrim works. The style is just about as accurate to O’Malley’s artwork as it can possibly be. Flash animation can often result in characters that look like a group of cutout pieces being tilted back and forth to simulate movement, but that’s not the case here. Animation studio Titmouse Inc. has done quite a bit of work for Cartoon Network before and certainly isn’t slacking off on this project. Details like changes in the shapes of the characters’ eyes add to the illusion of life and the animation in the fight scene is surprisingly fluid and dynamic. It’s a lot of fun to watch and extremely faithful to the source material.

Scott Pilgrim vs. the Animation is a lot of fun. It’s a great introduction to the tone and content of the Scott Pilgrim world for newcomers and a wonderful homage to the comics for longtime fans. So whether you loved the movie, loved the comics, or don’t know a thing about either, check out Scott Pilgrim vs. The Animation.

What's up for TV this fall?

What can you expected to see covered here? Here's the list of shows I'll most likely be covering here or at Sarah Scoop (make sure to check here for even more posts that I write--some of my TV-centric ones will probably be going there as well--I'll try to post them here as well but I'll be busy):

Sunday: Keeping Up With The Kardashians

Monday: How I Met Your Mother

Tuesday: Glee

Wednesday: Nothing as of now, I probably will find something

Thursday: Big Bang Theory

Any suggestions?

Guest Post: Piper Perabo in New TV Series COVERT AFFAIRS Plays a Realistic CIA Field Agent

In the new drama series “Covert Affairs” on USA Network, Piper Perabo stars as Annie Walker, a 28-year-old CIA trainee yanked from her training at “The Farm” for a critical mission in D.C. and then kept at CIA headquarters rather than finishing her training.

What makes this spy thriller believable (as a TV drama) starting with the first episode is the scene in which Annie is hauled in to speak with a trainer and she believes she is about to be cut from training.

She blabbers that she’ll take retake the exercise.  She asks if it was the driving course or the deception training.

The reply is that she was better on the driving course than any woman they’ve ever had and better on the deception training than anyone in a decade.

Then she is told she is being yanked from training to immediately report to Langley – CIA headquarters.

And, yes, she does silly newcomer things and is then introduced to her new secret world by Auggie Anderson (played by Christopher Gorham), a Langley analyst blinded on a special ops mission.  (His computer has a Braille keyboard.)

What I like best about this new series is that it is relatively realistic.  Perabo is not Angelina Jolie in the new movie “Salt,” a CIA operative who functions more like Spider Man than a real CIA field operative.

Perabo’s Annie Walker is an active field agent but she doesn’t do any superhuman feats.

What’s more, during her polygraph exam in the first episode it is established that she speaks six languages.  (Thanks to having traveled around the world in search of herself.)  And this language ability is integrally woven into the episodes.

Although “Covert Affairs” takes the usual TV dramatic license with the realities of jurisdiction between the CIA, the FBI and local police, it does provide an interesting insider’s look into CIA covert operations.

I highly recommend this show for its entertaining plots and for its realistic portrayal of a female action heroine.  And the show rightly takes its place alongside a sister show on USA Network that I also highly recommend – “Burn Notice” – in which a female operative is also realistically portrayed.

Learn more at www.usanetwork.com/series/covertaffairs/

Phyllis Zimbler Miller writes about social media and military-related topics.  She is the author of the novel Mrs. Lieutenant and co-author of two other books.  Read her blog at Miller Mosaic Power Marketing.