Take 5 - 10/21/11

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. Sherlock Holmes 2 Trailer – There are currently two Sherlock Holmes franchises going on. One is a British television series and the other is the American Robert Downey Jr. movies. Fortunately both are so different in their take that there is room for both of them. I prefer the television series but the addition of Moriarty to the movie should make for an epic battle on the big screen. The trailer promised more of what I liked about the first movie, which is all I really want.

2. The Walking Dead Premieres Huge – Who doesn’t love a zombie? Apparently no one since the second season premiere had a record breaking debut. The first season was good but not great television. It will be interesting to see where the series goes from here. I am pretty familiar with the comic but the show has already left that in the dust.

3. NBA Lockout Continues – While I am not really a basketball fan, and could care less about whether the season is saved or not, it is a shame that so many people will be out of work for the next 6 months. And not the players but the people that work at the stadiums or in bars close to stadiums. They will get hit by this the hardest since they don’t make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.

4. Tigers Lose the ALCS – Yeah, maybe this isn’t a big news story for a lot of people but I am a Tigers fan. In the end the toll of the 162 game season was just too much for them. They came into the playoffs tired and injured. It caught up with all of them. Looking forward to next season and how they’re going to fill in their holes during the off season. Go Tigers!

5. Ice Cream Sandwich Unveiled – This is the next Android operating system and will but any android tablets and phone on the same operating system. I like the idea of Android. Open sourced software that is developer and user friendly, nothing wrong with that. The problem lies in how it is rolled out. Google leaves it up to the device makers to conform it to their system and get it out. With so many different devices several people get left behind. Still ICS looks pretty sweet, and delicious.