Free ice cream from Murdoch won't erase facts...

...Fox TV hasn't fielded a truly interesting TV show in their Animation Domination bloc for years.

I mean, let's get real here. The Simpsons is just plain played out, and has been for about a decade and a half. Family Guy, American Dad and The Cleveland Show? Three aspects of another played-out series by Seth McFarlane, which as anyone who's watched South Park has seen, is basically written at random. King Of The Hill is over, and Mike Judge is busy resuscitating Beavis and Butt-Head. (Please let it be a retro show, please, please, I want to see Daria Morgendorffer abuse B&B for her twisted psychological experiments again, and I'd like to see Quinn have to deal with B&B!)

The Fox PR girls who were there dropped hints of something new that might show up as a mid-season replacement, but they told me News Corp ninjas would drop in to my home and kill me in my sleep in the dead of night if I mentioned anything more so I'll leave it at that.

So even with that known, I accepted their "Death By Stewie" sundae creation (basically a hot fudge sundae with sprinkles) and it tasted that much better knowing it was free, I was being treated to it on Murdoch's dime, and that I was going to find the nearest hot spot and give the entire bloc a deserved razzing. I suppose that posting my phone pics of their truck gives them free publicity. But hey, that's entertainment.

Sweeney Todd gets the unkindest cut of all from WB...

From RottenTomatoes.Com:

Looks like everyone who was looking forward to a gory and funny version of the Stephen Sondheim classic musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Steet is going to be sadly disappointed. Warner Brothers Pictures, one of the three studios involved with the production (Paramount and Dreamworks SKG are the other two) has mandated lots of cuts to bring the movie in as a PG-13 American release.

Of course, in this day and age of unrated video releases, we'll probably get to see everything cut from the theatrical release. Still, it's a goddamn Grand Guignol musical about a vengeful murderer and a meat pie cook who uses extra special meat (long pig) for her pies, for crissake! It wasn't meant as family fare. This is about as retarded as putting a sunny happy ending on Blade Runner.