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Fox Orders 13 Episodes of 'Bob's Burgers'
by Michael D. Ayers, posted Dec 1st 2009 2:30PM
Fox has announced a new addition to its Sunday night animated comedy bloc.According to the Hollywood Reporter, the network will serve up 13 new episodes of 'Bob's Burgers.' The show is based on Loren Bouchard ('Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist,' 'Home Movies') and Jim Dauterive's ('King of the Hill')12-minute presentation, with a voice cast that includes H. Jon Benjamin, 'Flight of the Conchords' alum Kristen Schaal (pictured), Eugene Mirman and 'Important Things with Demetri Martin' writer Dan Mintz.
The show centers around Bob, a struggling burger joint owner, his "tightly wound wife" and their three reckless kids. Bouchard told the Reporter that the original idea was to write a show about a family of cannibals, but the latter aspect was ultimately dropped -- probably for the best, considering the family runs a burger joint.
Flight of the Conchords -- an early look
by Julia Ward, posted May 17th 2007 9:08AM
Had I known that television shows were just going to premiere all their pilots online well before their air dates, I wouldn't have had to move all the way to Los Angeles for the insider privilege. But, we, the internet savvy, are being rewarded for our pop culture geekitude with such treats as HBO's online premiere of Flight of the Conchords over a month before its broadcast on June 17th at 10:30PM. You can watch New Zealand's "fourth most popular folk parody duo" in their stateside series debut on the show's MySpace site or, starting Monday, at HBO.com.Finally, a sequel to Backdraft
by Adam Finley, posted Feb 22nd 2006 12:19PM
You might think that fifteen years is too long to wait to make a sequel to
Backdraft, but that's only if you're Ron Howard. If you're alternative comics Eugene Mirman, Jon Benjamin, and
Sam Seder, you forge ahead and make a sequel anyway, despite not really knowing a whole lot about the original film.
It's called Backdraft II: Backdraftier, and I haven't seen anything this funny in quite some time.
Please, won't you share in my
joy? Mirman explains he wanted to make sequels to movies that didn't need a sequel. That makes absolutely no sense,
and that's why it's brilliant.
[via The Onion AV Club]
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