TV Shows

[Quasimoto]

Anyone heard of or seen the show Dexter on Showtime?  Caught the first episode and I've been hooked since.

[Father Demon]

There's a couple of us that are watching Dexter.  I think Feva is one, and I know I do.

farging awesome show!

[PhillyPhreak54]

Yea little Peyton is definitely about to die.

That dude annoys me. Probably because he does in fact remind me of Peyton and he annoys me too.

Tonights episode was meh. Nothing substantial except for some relationship bullshtein. Stanley the farmer needs to go ahead and plant his seed in that IRS agent already.

Peyton Jr. is going to feel like an even bigger dooshbag when he finds out that his old lady is preggo. He didn't even let her talk before he told her he was hittin the bartender.

Next week looks good. China drops propaganda on the town. Two more episodes until the break.

[Feva]

There's a couple of us that are watching Dexter.  I think Feva is one, and I know I do.

farging awesome show!

Yeah, I watch it.  Love it.  Great show.

[SunMo]

i didn't think people actually watched Showtime, interesting

[mcnabbmvp]

Anyone heard of or seen the show Dexter on Showtime?  Caught the first episode and I've been hooked since.

yeah its a pretty cool show. i missed this weeks though.

[MDS]

What the farg. This night sucks without Lost.

[mpmcgraw]

Jericho>Lost

[Seabiscuit36]

Soriano>Burrell

[mpmcgraw]

So we are all in agreement.

[mussa]

i can really deal without all the gay relationship girly crap in Jericho the past episode...in my mind they are ruining it by wasting time on unimportant shtein. there needs to be more action. the US just got blasted by nukes, i don't give a shtein about someone you were about to marry or im pregnant, blah. this is the apocalypse, not fargin days of our lives.

[MDS]

why the hell wont peyton die yet?
also, ravenwood is the dumbest name ever.

cbs spoiled who died in their own episode preview for the fall finale. its the bitchy grocey store owner. there.

[Quasimoto]

i didn't think people actually watched Showtime, interesting

Weeds and Dexter are the shtein. 

Dexter is probably the first show in a long time that I actually really like.  The concept is ingenious.

[MDS]

Anyone heard of or seen the show Dexter on Showtime?  Caught the first episode and I've been hooked since.

On the word of you degenerats, I downloaded the first 4 episodes. Terrific, terrific stuff. Really messed up, I love it. Michael C. Hall is brilliant. Why the hell are they hiding this on Showtime? Did HBO pass? Too far for them? Not sure, but I'm really liking it. I wonder if Dexter would kill Art. I think it's justifiable.

[SunMo]

Gail Shister | A ray of sunshine for 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia'
By Gail Shister
Inquirer Columnist

The sun continues to shine for local lad Rob McElhenney.

FX has ordered a 15-episode, third season of Robbie Mac's sitcom, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the network announced yesterday. Production begins in March for a summer debut.

Sunny's future had been heavily clouded.

Though its ratings improved 15 percent over the previous season, Sunny averaged only 1.3 million total viewers last season, and didn't bring in big advertising dollars. Still, FX Entertainment chief John Landgraf has faith in the show.

"The bottom line is that I believe in it creatively," he says. "I think it's really funny, a comedic expression of FX's brand. I love working with the guys. We just had to figure out how to produce it more cost-efficiently."

To that end, creator-executive producer McElhenney and his costars agreed to no salary hikes until (or if) FX orders additional seasons. Then the real cheesecake begins.

"John and FX are really hanging their butts out there for us this year, because we're not a big hit," says Robbie Mac, 29, a St. Joseph's Prep grad. "They're investing in the show, which we appreciate. It's not a big issue with us. We're being compensated very well."

Also, Landgraf says he wants to increase the number of episodes produced each season (seven in the first; 10 in the second). A basic-cable show must have at least 80 episodes to reach syndication, he says.

Sunny costars Glenn Howerton, Charlie Day and Kaitlin Olson as politically incorrect Philly pals running a loser bar here. Danny DeVito, who joined the cast last season, will return for all 15 episodes. In addition, he's agreed to stick around for up to three more seasons.

"We didn't even have to ask. He offered," McElhenney says. "Danny had a really good time and we all became good friends. He likes hanging out with us."

Though twice the age of his costars, DeVito is a regular at off-campus cast parties.

He brought his wife, Rhea Perlman, daughter Lucy and several of her friends to a "high school" blast at Day's house. The theme: Dress the way you did in high school.

For Robbie Mac, that meant earrings, flannel shirt and black combat boots.

At the Prep, "I loved it, but I was a real pain," he recalls. "I overcompensated for being small and underdeveloped by being obnoxious and loud. I was a major headache for my parents and the school."

Speaking of major headaches, McElhenney and his buds Howerton and Day wrote virtually every episode the last two seasons. This season, three to four staff writers will be hired.

"It's a big deal," Robbie Mac says. "Hopefully, it will be easier than last year, but you never know. If it doesn't work out, we're prepared to write all 15 episodes. We've got it down to a science."

McElhenney wants to shoot on location in Philly for two weeks this season - double last season's total. The odds "are likely," according to Landgraf.

Hit comedies on basic cable are rare, and Sunny has the potential to become FX's first. Landgraf says he's holding back several other sitcoms in development so Sunny doesn't have to share the spotlight this season.

"People expect our original series to take risks. We tend to have characters on our air who are complicated and dark. The characters on Sunny are worthy to stand on the same stage as antiheroes like Tommy Gavin Rescue Me], Vic Mackey The Shield] and Christian Troy Nip/Tuck]."

On the personal side, Robbie Mac is riding a wave. Literally.

After Sunny wrapped production in July, he learned how to surf during his travels to Central America and Mexico.

"I'm a terrible surfer," he says. "I can paddle out, get up and surf, but I almost get into a fistfight every time because I cut off the other surfers. I don't do it on purpose. How else am I going to learn?"