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Buzz News Roundup, 11/17
- Monk has been renewed for an eighth — and final — season. — Variety
- ABC's official midseason schedule adds Scrubs and The Unusuals to Wednesdays — and drops Life on Mars and Pushing Daisies. — The Futon Critic
- Aaron Eckhart will star in the action film Battle: Los Angeles.
What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday
All of the new DVD releases hit stores (and Netflix) on Tuesdays. So each week in What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday, I sort through the best of the batch and tell you what to add to your queue. In addition to the titles below you can also rent The Ruins starring Jena Malone and the sixth season of Monk.
TV Tonight: Monk and Psych on NBC
In this season's second "Hey, we're out of shows, so let's repurpose something from our cable sister!" move, USA's Monk and Psych get a bigtime airing tonight on NBC. The shows are airing in repeats on Sundays for the next several weeks to fill the void left by the writers' strike, a la Dexter on CBS.
Buzz News Roundup, 2/20
- Russian novelist Mikhail Bulgakov's book The Master and the Margarita will be adapted for the big screen, writes Hollywood Reporter.
- ABC has announced return dates for its shows, including Grey's Anatomy; details are at The Futon Critic, or you can just check out my guide to post-strike TV.
- Director David Yates will reportedly return to the director's chair for the seventh and last film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, writes ComingSoon.
- Variety reports that Kelsey Grammer will once again play Ebenezer Scrooge in the indie satire An American Carol.
- U2 is back in the studio in Ireland to record their next album, Billboard reports.
- According to ComingSoon, Harry Potter, 300 and Sweeney Todd lead the nominations for this year's Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films' Saturn Awards.
- Monk has been renewed for a seventh season on USA, writes the Hollywood Reporter.
- Variety has news that Tyler Perry's signature character Madea will get her own animated TV series for kids.
- How I Met Your Mother and The Big Bang Theory will swap time slots starting in March, writes Zap2it.
Link Time! 12/18
- Popwatch wonders if it's about time an award were given out for best CGI character, and would give one out to Nicole Kidman's character's monkey daemon from The Golden Compass.
- Cinematical claims you can be the best Santa ever if you pick up some crazy movie memorabilia on eBay, like the college outfit worn by Rachel McAdams in The Notebook.
- TV Bloggin hops on the news that Monk and Psych will start airing on NBC in January.
- The Amazon Screening Room investigates the supposed video evidence of what Bill Murray's character really said at the end of Lost in Translation.
- TV with MeeVee has a great video of everything that exploded on CBS shows this year.
- Stereogum has the new video for M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes."
- Give Me My Remote wants to know your favorite holiday-themed TV episodes of all time.
- Check out the MTV Movies Blog for a shot-by-shot analysis of the Dark Knight trailer.
- Vulture presents a pie chart version of Pitchfork's top 100 tracks of 2007.
TV Tonight: Monk and Psych Get Some Holiday Spirit
Apparently, this is the week of one-off holiday specials on cable. Following Monday's holiday installment of The Closer, tonight brings seasonal episodes of Monk and Psych on USA.
First up is "Mr.
TV Tonight: "Monk" and "Psych"
USA is making quite a name for itself this summer, between the success of "The Starter Wife" and the strong premiere of "Burn Notice." Tonight, two of its more established shows — "Monk" and "Psych" — return to start their new seasons, with a special appearance by Sarah Silverman on "Monk" as Monk's biggest fan.
This is the sixth season of "Monk," a consistent if not always spectacular drama that has delivered a boatload of well-deserved award nominations for star Tony Shalhoub.
What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday
All of the new DVD releases hit stores (and Netflix) on Tuesdays. So each week in What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday, I sort through the best of the batch and tell you what to add to your queue. In addition to the titles below, Black Snake Moan also comes out on DVD today, but from my review you can see that I wouldn't highly recommend that film.
TV Tonight: "Monk" and "Psych" on USA
USA really seems to like its screwed-up detectives. Two of the network's original series, "Monk" and "Psych," focus on crime-solvers who are unconventional at best — and total frauds at worst. New episodes of both shows start airing tonight, Jan.
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Monks Use Internet to Sell Bread
Imagine this, you're a monk whose community is "wholly ordered to contemplation," you don't listen to the radio, you don't watch television, and yet you sell bread in your high-tech internet store! I'm not 100% sure how this works out with the monks' way of life, but in a few weeks, their bread will be available online. For more than the last 50 years, the monks at the Abbey of Genesee (in upstate New York) have been baking thousands of loaves each week and selling them to the local supermarkets.
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