NBC Hates You and Is Incredibly Stupid
Case 1: Despite the Knight Rider TV movie being incompetent beyond measure in all facets (acting, writing, effects, writing, writing, writing), NBC has gone ahead and ordered an unknown number of TV episodes, starring the same less charismatic, faux-Dane Cook who shrugged his way through the TV movie. I think this is an act of aggression by NBC to its viewers, and frankly, would be willing to talk about countermeasures.
Case 2: I saw the above Knight Rider news in an article at the Hollywood Reporter, where I also saw this, which leads me to believe NBC is both mean and dumb. See, NBC has ordered a show titled Kings, starring Ian McShane. Now get this:
The Michael Green-penned “Kings” is loosely based on the story of King David. It stars Christopher Egan as a pure-hearted young warrior who joins the court of the charismatic and authoritative King Silas (McShane).
I’m no vastly overpaid TV exec, but I’m pretty goddamned sure America is not and has not been looking for a TV show about King David. Who approved this? Who the living hell thinks this will be on for more than two weeks? Why not a show on the wacky adventures of Job, as he tries to deal with family life at the birth of civilization, while God afflicts him with ever curse and tragedy known to man to see when he’ll break! Starring Ray Romano as Job! Sigh.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.