Now Available for Your Viewing Pleasure: Part 2- Sports Night 10th Anniversary Edition

Yea, this show was great and was canceled. This show had great writing, great acting, critical praise, and a large cult following, but ABC decided that it wasn't fit enough to remain on air. Who stared from Sports Night? umm everyone. Felicity Huffman of Desperate Housewives fame, Joshua Malina aka Will Bailey from West Wing, William H Macy who is in effing everything, and that kid in Dead Poets Society who was obsessed with Chet Danberry's girlfriend. Who wrote the series? Well that would be Aaron Sorkin who created a little known series call The West Wing.

The premise of the show was about a fictional Sports Television news show and the pitfalls that would occur. I always enjoy a television series that doesn't just rely on the typical tv cliches: police procedural drama, legal drama, and medical dramas. It is as if everytime a network can't steal a television series from another country that just try to figure out another way to spin some type of procedural shit. Back to Sports Night, they pretty much made fun of sports news shows such as Sportscenter using the rapid fire speaking Aaron Sorkin is known for from West Wing.


The show was canceled after 2 seasons by ABC, but after being given offers by mutiple other stations such as HBO and Showtime, Sorkin decided to go against those offers and focus on his developing series The West Wing. Looking back on it now, I kinda want to punch him in the face, but also I love my West Wing, so I guess I can't hate too much.

Now Available for Your Viewing Pleasure: Faerie Tale Theater The Complete Series

What, you have no idea what this is? Well I used to own this entire series on, wait for it, yes VHS. All 23 episodes of it! Anyways, gist of the show was that every episode retold a fairy tale using famous actors. Originally on Showtime circa 1982 to 1987, as a young child I was completely oblivious to all of the, uhh, advanced nature of the revisioned fairy tale series. Pretty much ever major actor did a stint as some important fairy tale figure, like Matthew Broderick as Prince Charming in Cinderella, Jeff Goldblum as....a pig in The Three Little Pigs, and of course James Earl Jones as the Genie in Aladdin. Even major directors from Tim Burton to Francis Ford Coppola had some role in the series. Thinking back on it now, pretty much every episode was messed up and scary in some way, which obviously meant I loved it. Now I am really mad mom gave all 23 of those VHS tapes away.

Well you can obtain the entire series in non VHS format today where ever crazy 80s television series are sold (which obviously means everywhere!...duh)


I forgot about Gregory Hines as Puss in Boats. He just dances in everything!

Also available:
For the desperately still waiting for this show to get better: Desperate Housewives Season 4
For the cubicle restrained employee: The Office Season 4
For the 7 people that watch this show (not counting my mom and I): The Big Bang Theory Season 1