At 7:00 today, channel twelve again aired a sit-com. It was called My 11:30. This time it starred Jeff Goldblum. I haven't seen him on TV since the original iMac ads. The story line was based around Jeff's character's visit to a shrink. In a series of flashbacks the audience is introduced to his fast-paced job, crazy neighbor, and broken marriage. The show was written by Paul Reiser and it definitely had a Mad About You vibe. I also recognized Brian Stokes Mitchell in the cast. Actually, i recognized his voice first; he appears on the cast recordings for the musicals Ragtime, Man of La Mancha and Kiss Me Kate. I wonder how may broadway stars dream of breaking into television? I guessed he is willing to give up singing for an audience for more money.
I did some more research on that other sit-come that starred Maccaulay Culkin and Busy Philips and found out that it's called Foster Hall. I found someone that attended the taping of the pilot less than a month ago. Apparently Conan O'Brien's production company is behind the thing.
This week happens to be Kids Week on Jeopardy. They had a whole category devoted to Reading Rainbow and LeVar Burton read all of the answers. The only question i got wrong the whole game was from that category. My perfect sweep was ruined because i couldn't identify Stellaluna from her picture. Who is this crazy bat? My favorite episode of RR ever was the one where James Earl Jones read Bringing the Rain To Kapiti Plain. "Butterfly in the sky...i can go twice as high."
Posted by Matthew at May 4, 2004 08:25 PM