Each week I take 5 news items from the current week from the entertainment industry, list them out here and then give my take on them. This is Take 5.
1. Netflix splits apart – For me this is big news, for others maybe not so much. Netflix is splitting the DVD mailing and Instant Streaming businesses apart. Streaming will still be Netflix, while the DVD mail will be Qwikster. They will be completely separate, meaning no queue sharing. Before when I looked up a movie it was either streaming or not, now I’ll have to look through two different sites. That is really annoying. The only bright spot on this is that Qwikster will have a provision to allow for video game rentals which would hopefully save me some money when I cancel my Gamefly account.
2. 28 Million People Watch 2 and a ½ Men Season Premiere – I’ll be honest I checked in for the first 5 minutes to see how they got rid of Charlie Sheen. After his contrition tour that he has been on the past few weeks. I found this to be a little bitter. Killing him off is fine but to spend 5 minutes ripping him apart seemed a bit too much. I couldn’t bring myself to watch the rest of the episode. It was pretty bad before I turned it off. The next scene looked to fart jokes for comedy. This just reassured me that I made the right decision to not watch the show in the first place.
3. Avatar Lands Announced at Walt Disney – The Disney theme parks will soon be home to new lands based on the movie Avatar. I saw Avatar and thought it was a pretty good movie. Not great, but good. And while maybe having one ride or simulator for it may be cool, I don’t think that they will be able to capture the Harry Potter magic with this. Particularly since the sequel won’t come out until 2014. We have no idea what that movie will have or even if it will be good. I feel like there are other franchises to be mined instead of taking a gamble here.
4. The X Factor Premiers on FOX – No other show in history has ever had Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul and a black guy with glasses judge singers while a guy with an AUSTRALIAN accent introduces people. That’s right Australian. So it was American Idol with a different host and a live audience. And was it just me or did it sound like some of the noise from the live audience was piped in. It sounded very fake and there was way too much cheering. In reality, I don’t really care about these early rounds. I didn’t watch them on Idol and if I watch it next year I won’t watch them on X-Factor. I’m more interested in where the competition goes next and how will that differ from Idol.
5. Katie Holmes to guest star on How I Met Your Mother – Okay, in reality I don’t really care that much about Katie Holmes she started out a decent actress who could have been something, but now she seems to have been abducted by a cult. Still, it doesn’t upset me that she will be on one of my favorite shows. I am more excited about who she will be playing. Quick spoiler for those that don’t want to know, look away now and come back next week. She is playing the slutty pumpkin. Which shows what this season will be about. Ted going back over his obsessions. He saw Victoria this week and will obviously meet up with the pumpkin again soon. Maybe he’ll get to meet the girl from his date match as well.
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