I don’t know how many of you are fans of the show Castle staring Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic, but I am a big fan. One of the interesting tie ins of the show is the book Heat Wave, “written” by Filion’s character on the show. Here’s where it gets interesting to me, the book is supposedly the same one that the TV character was working on in the first season. It came out in stores about the same time the second season started and all of the characters talk about it in the early episodes. Here comes the big joke. Several characters mention an extremely steamy sex scene on page 197. Now I did not buy the book (I’m not that big a fan), but I recently was able to get it out of the library (I had been 46 out of 89 hold requests). Being curious, and a guy, I flipped to the afore mentioned page and guess what, the book ends on page 196 with the characters heading for the lead character’s apartment to spend the night together. Denied!!!! I think that is the greatest and funniest fake out ever done with a piece of tie in merchandise. Kudos to you ABC!
Archive for January, 2010
I caught the final broadcast of The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien Friday which was a sad but ultimately uplifting broadcast. Conan made a gracious exit and gave a very heartfelt goodbye to his fans, and took the high road, where instead of bitching about his recent treatment by his network, he thanked them for the opportunities he has been given over the past 20 years. Whether or not you sided with Jay Leno or Conan during the fiasco of host shuffling NBC was attempting, Conan showed himself to be a class act with they way he ended his time at the network and I look forward to what he will do next come this fall.
Hulu.com has apparently changed it’s streaming parameters. It was a channel I had enjoyed quite frequently; watching old horror movies like Bucket of Blood and Terror In the Haunted House; and watching favorite TV shows like The Incredible Hulk and The A-Team, or catching up on missed episodes of Castle. A couple of weeks ago I was laid up in bed sick and Hulu was a great comfort to me as I pulled it up on my netbook and watched episodes of The Hitchhiker and The Fall Guy. So imagine my surprise this weekend when I went to watch Attack of the Puppet People and suddenly I can’t watch it because my netbook doesn’t have the proper flash drive program and it wanted me to download one from them. Not likely. So suffice it to say I’m not going to be visiting Hulu again. To be honest it has been having problems for a while, both Buck Rogers and The A-team are both leaving later this year. As they are both Universal shows, can The Incredible Hulk be far behind? Ah well, things change right.
