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Sweeps stunts are tame in February
by Anna Johns, posted Feb 3rd 2006 8:11AM
November sweeps stunts brought us stormtroopers on The
Apprentice, a live debate on The West Wing, a dead chick on Lost and Medium in 3-D. Why
are February ratings so tame? One word: Olympics.NBC is expected to kick some television tail when it covers the Olympics every single night from February 10-26. Going into this month, the networks are touting some pretty uninteresting guest stars on the shows that need a boost. And that's about it. Oh, there is also going to be some sh*t going down on The O.C., but you don't want the spoilers, do you?
Here are some highlights for February sweeps, which began yesterday and run through March 1:
Fred Armisen's iTunes playlist
by Anna Johns, posted Jan 9th 2006 9:32AM
Fred Armisen, one of few funny things about Saturday Night Live these days, has a celebrity
playlist on iTunes that is about unusual as Fred seems to be. The strangest track has to be "====" by Oval
(pronounced o-VAL, according to Fred). I'm not even sure that it's music. It sounds like a sound check with an
over-modulated microphone. Second most unusual track: Pocket Calculator by Kraftwerk. It sounds like a video
game. Fred says he saw the band recently and "For their encore, they didn't appear on stage. It was robots of
them. What is better than that? Seriously, what?" Okay, I have to agree that would be pretty awesome. The rest of
the list includes familiar groups like Wilco, Talking Heads, Gorillaz, The Clash and Sleater-Kinney. And, of course, he
included a Prince song. After all, Fred does a kick-ass impression of the guy.TV Squad Hot Topics
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