Posts tagged Ryan Murphy
Coming Soon: American Horror Story
Oct 3rd
When Does It Start: Wednesday 5th October at 10pm EST on FX
In A Nutshell: Haunted houses get the TV treatment… is this the new True Blood / Walking Dead?
What’s It About: Meet the Harmon family – whose lives are about to get a whole lot weirder!
Dad Ben (Dylan McDermott) is a psychiatrist who’s recently been caught cheating on his wife Vivien (Connie Britton). Together the two have a teenage daughter called Violet, and decide to move from Boston to Los Angeles to patch up their fractured relationship. But their new home is anything but a peaceful retreat… it’s full of secrets and horrors – many of a sexual nature. Get ready for lots of dead babies, sex, jolts and psychotic behavior… courtesy of Glee and Nip/Tuck boss, Ryan Murphy.
Why I’m Saying Goodbye To Glee!
Sep 28th
Sorry Glee – we’re breaking up!
Yep, after 2 full seasons, The Glee Project and a whole load of downloads I’ve finally decided that Glee has gone from must see TV to totally un-essential viewing.
As regular Remote Patrolled viewers will know I’ve been up and down on the quality of Glee for quite some time. Season 2 was erratic at best, but also featured some terrific moments in amongst all the gratuitous guest stars, Sue Sylvester silliness and inconsistent storytelling. But now, just 2 episodes into Season 3 I’ve realized the magic has gone…
Last night’s episode ‘I Am Unicorn’ was the tipping point. It wasn’t that the episode as a whole was terrible. But it was boring. Really, really boring. And for a series to be in such bad shape a couple of episodes in is not exactly an encouraging sign.
First Look: American Horror Story
Aug 19th
Here’s another show I’ve VERY excited about for the Fall – and which I think has the makings of a huge hit for FX.
Check out the just released teaser for American Horror Story, the new series that aims to do for haunted houses what The Walking Dead did for zombies and True Blood did for vampires.
Horror Story stars Dylan McDermott and Connie Britton as Ben and Vivian, a couple who move into a new house with their kids, after Ben commits adultery. But the house seems to know exactly what’s on the family’s minds and feeds on their fears…
Also along for the ride is Jessica Lange – who clearly realizes after Grey Gardens that all the best roles for women are on TV these days. Plus look out for Francis Conroy from Six Feet Under as the couple’s housekeeper and Denis O’Hare aka King Russell from True Blood.
As you probably know, American Horror Story is Executive Produced by Ryan Murphy of Glee infamy. Let’s just hope this show’s a little more consistent and less erratic than the fast fading Fox hit.
Have to say though – this trailer does look terrific – and as a big horror fan, I’m certainly excited for the series’ potential…
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The Glee Project Is Good: So Why Aren’t People Watching?
Jun 16th
One of the interesting things about TV is that you really never know what’s going to hit – and what’s going to miss!
Take The Glee Project for example, Oxygen’s reality spin off of the smash hit Fox show. As I explained in my Coming Soon piece, Project follows 12 all singing and dancing hopefuls vying for a 7 episode guest starring role on the hot high school musical show.
With a built in audience, plenty of promotion and a sleepy summer TV season I was certain The Glee Project would open to big numbers for the network. But it didn’t. Instead just 455,000 viewers tuned in Sunday night (adding up to a paltry 0.2 18-49 share). That’s not much better than the Paris Hilton flop The World According To Paris, which managed just 409,000 viewers in its premiere (cheers!)
Coming Soon: The Glee Project
Jun 7th
When Does It Start: Sunday June 12th at 9pm EST on Oxygen
In A Nutshell: 12 budding singing stars compete for a 7-episode guest-starring arc on the next season of Glee.
What’s It About: To be honest there’s not much I can add to the description above – the format is still under wraps!
What we do know is that Glee Executive Producer Ryan Murphy is over-seeing this spin-off (though lightly I suspect) which offers budding musical stars the chance to appear on Fox’s high school musical smash.
The contestants are the usual gamut of big voices and big egos, but in keeping with the Glee ethos there’s also plenty of hard luck back-stories. Alex lost his father to cancer, Matheus is just 4’9‿ tall and Hannah is plus size. But who will impress the judges and end up scooping that guest star slot?
Check out The Glee Project promo video here…
The View: The Glee Versus Kings Of Leon Feud
Jan 27th
It’s one of the silliest arguments of the moment – but still it rumbles on…
By now you’ve probably heard about the argument between Glee creator Ryan Murphy and rock band Kings Of Leon.
To summarize – Ryan was pissed that Leon wouldn’t allow their music to be featured on his show and called them ‘self centered assholes’ in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. Then the Kings of Leon drummer, Nathan Followill, Tweeted that the openly gay Murphy should ‘see a therapist, get a manicure and buy a bra’… to which Murphy responded by accusing the band of homophobia… Nathan apologized…. and the debate rumbles on…
At which point, in step the ladies of The View for their take. Which as usual involves Whoopi kind of excusing the band’s behavior (it’s Mel Gibson all over again!)
Here’s my take – I’ve taken a few potshots at Murphy in the past and think he could and should have been more tactful in his initial interview. I also did find the Kings of Leon statement kind of offensive, but more in an ignorant than a malicious way…
But overall I do agree with Murphy’s instinct regarding the band. Stop taking yourselves so seriously guys. Glee has a lot More >
