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GOP vice-presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, have voiced her approval of the hilarious SNL skit over the weekend. In the skit, SNL alum and 30 Rock star (and a personal fav of mine, mmmmmhm) Tina Fey, appeared as the the potential future VP alongside Amy Poehler returning as Hilary Clinton.

Hollywood.com reports that Palin was left “stunned” by Fey’s impersonation because Palin actually attended a Halloween party dressed as FEY:

Republican Palin was watching from home–and has since sent her approval.

Her spokesperson Tracey Schmitt says, “She thought it was quite funny, particularly because she once dressed up as Tina Fey for Halloween.”

In other TV news, Hell’s Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares celebrity chef, Gordon Ramsay, has been cleared over the slayings of Puffins on his UK show, The F Word. While on site in Iceland, Ramsay was filmed killing, skinning and serving Puffin hearts (a delicacy there) to customers. Puffins are an endangered species…but not in Iceland! Case closed.

TRL is going the way of American Bandstand and countless other gauges of American pop music. Off the air. After ten years of Total Request Live, the viewer based music video countdown show will be retired. Gone are the days of Britney Spears, The Backstreet Boys, me, Justin Timberlake, Xzbit and Eminem rambling on about their music, lives, whores and vapid movie careers. Now we’ll have to go to every other show on TV for celebrity promotions.

MTV has been mum about reason for TRLs cancellation but internet speculation points to sagging ratings and not enough “hook ups and scantily clad 13 year olds.” After the countdown show ends its fabled run in November, MTV will will be putting the “M” back on “TV” with FNMTV (ooooh, edgy), which features Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz chatting up other artists while showing music videos and two live performances. Music videos will also be streaming with user comments from MTV’s web site. Think G4 but with revenue.

When asked about TRLs demise, Enimen issued the following statement:  “I’m going to miss `TRL.’ … Where else will I be able to start feuds, defend my honor vigorously and act like an angry teenager on national TV? Oh wait … The VMAs!”

Who knew that TRL was still on the air to begin with? Any favorite moments from the show? Personally, I was fond of Shakria’s performance of “Hips Don’t Lie” (which they do, I know).

ABC & CBS Fall Preview

NBC & Fox Fall Preview

The CW is to thought-provoking television as MTV is to music videos. But don’t confuse the CW’s lack of high-brow material for poor ratings and lackluster popularity. The hybrid network of the WB and UPN has spawned a large array of raunchy, racy, risque, and a whole host of other r-worded shows. Some of them are carry overs from the old networks (Smallville, Everybody Hates Chris, Supernatural, One Tree Hill, and more) but Gossip Girl has been the CW’s tent pole. Kids love shows about spoiled bitchy rich girls with relationship problems. Especially the hot ones.

Anywho, CW knows its audience and has carpet-bombed the competition with a slew of more shows aimed at the 12-18 female demographic. And perverts.

90210: How can a network lure more kids and nostalgia loving thirty-something’s? Take a beloved show from the ‘90s, recast it, keep the premise and turn up the sex, and viola. Hit! This time instead of Brandon and Brenda Walsh, we have Annie and Dixon Wilson. They’re new to Beverly Hills. Watch as they adapt and be treated heartlessly by the natives only to become them in the end. And something tells me this is going to be a pretty incestuous group too. Brenda (Shannen Doherty) and Kelly (Jennie Garth) will be reoccurring characters for looking for a connection to their past. As time goes on for the show…I’m sure the rest of the cast will as well. It’s not like they having anything else going on.

Surviving Suburbia: Bob Saget is an asshole. There, I said it. I don’t know the man, but something screams “asshole” and if you’ve ever seen something scream “asshole” then you’d better listen. In his new un-Full House show, Bob plays a guy who lives next to a family with a hot UNDERAGE daughter. Hilarious moments ensue.

Witness the disaster the of ABC and CBS Fall Preview schedule.

Compared to ABC and CBS, NBC’s fall line up is liking having Seinfeld, Cheers, and Friends all back together again. Well, not really, but you get the point. Fox probably has the most anticipated line up with edgy dramas and fanboy wet dreams with Fringe and Dollhouse (coming out this January). Don’t get too excited though, Fox shows are notorious for getting people engaged, only to remove their popular shows because of lack of viewership (i.e. Arrested Development, Firefly). Actually…get excited! ALL OF YOU! Send potatoes or dandelions to Fox Headquarters!

NBC:

Knight Rider: Was I the only one that was excited about the possibility of a new Knight Rider series, only to guffaw my way through the pilot (aka, “TV EVENT”) that aired a few months ago? Terrible writing, inane action, and enough posturing from Justin Bruening that he can have his own special issue of Tiger Beat. (Tiger Beat’s still around, right?)

So enough people must have watched the terrible, TERRIBLE pilot to warrant a reboot of the series. KITT has some modifications and perhaps a more plucky attitude but if the shows writers don’t kick it up a notch with some somewhat interesting plots, Knight Rider will go down in flames…which would actually be kinda cool.

Show will be canceled in: 6 weeks

My Own Worst Enemy: No other show has been as hyped as this one. Which means that no network has more to lose than NBC. Christian Slater’s new TV series about a dual personality hitman/family man (what, the two can’t be the same?) proves interesting on the surface but time will tell if this format will grow annoying to its audience. I like Christian Slater. He has this down-to-earth coolness about him…maybe it’s just because I have a copy of Broken Arrow stuck in my VCR. (It’s been there a while)

Show will be canceled in: 3 seasons

Kath & Kim: I’m a big fan of American rip-offs of British shows. Three’s Company, The Office, Snorks. But for every hit, there’s also Coupling. I’m sure the producers of Kath & Kim, the latest of a long line of UK rooted shows, comes to NBC. The premise shows potential as a twenty-something gal moves in with her mom after her separation from her dear hubby. Hilarity ensues as the two discover that their relationship is not like it was during the roaring ’90s.

Out of all the shows coming out this year (besides Fringe), Kath & Kim shows the most potential thanks to its strong writing, wit, and Selma Blair showing some whale tail.

Show will be canceled in:  I think we have a winner.

Crusoe: Hour long drama about Robinson Crusoe. This seems more appropriate somehow on BBC America, Discovery, or maybe The History Channel. The audience isn’t here. It can’t be.

Show will be canceled in: 3 weeks.

Fox:

Fringe: The most anticipated show of the fall schedule, Fringe comes from the mind of JJ Abrahams (Cloverfield, Lost) so it’s sure to pack the punch of a wood elf. Annoying, intriguing, and cute.

After an inbound flight to Boston arrives with all its passengers dead, FBI agent Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv) is determined to discover the hideous secrets stemming from one question: Why? The show will be heavy on science just as X-Files was heavy on nonsense. Featuring a largely unknown cast, Fox is gambling that there’s enough room for TWO weird-ass shows. I think there is plenty of room in that pool.

Show will be canceled in: 3 season

Do Not Disturb: A comedy based in a hotel <stab myself in the face>

Fox will be lucky if this dirge will last more than 2 episodes. Even with Jason Bateman directing the pilot and TV failure/veteran Jerry O’Connell leading this troupe, Do Not Disturb will check out will before 10 am.

Show will be canceled in: 2 episodes

Hole in a Wall: I feel dirty just writing about it let alone watching it. When I first saw a preview of this gameshow, I think I went into shock because I woke up in a pool of Coke Zero and salsa. The premise goes a little something like this:

A hole is cut out on a wall. Based on a Japanese gameshow (of course)Contestants will have to contort themselves into that shape or the moving wall, which is rapidly approaching, them will knock them into a pool… If this show isn’t alarming to you about the state of our society then it’s too late for you. This show screams “Parlor” from Fahrenheit 451. Similar to Wipeout without the laughs, Hole in a Wall (sigh) is destined to be a prime time hit especially riding the shame train after Moment of Truth.

It’s that time again. Fall is a time for falling leaves, back to school, and of course, watching shows that will be soon be canceled. Oh sure, not ALL shows will be terminated after two, maybe three episodes, but let’s be honest for a moment. Most of the shows are going to suck. Here’s a quick look at some of the shows coming up later this month.

ABC:

Thanks for the WGA strike, ABC will only be kicking off two shows. Yeah, two shows that will disappear moments after I hit publish on this blog.

Opportunity Knocks: We’ve all seen the commercials. A semi-truck pulls up to some “unsuspecting” upper middle class home and will be placed on a game show set built on their front yard. I’m bored already.

How about this, make that truck pull up to some home in projects. Then watch the hilarity.

Show will be canceled in: 3 weeks

Life on Mars: A cop is hit by a car and is blasted to 1973. “Where’s my cell phone?”, “Where’s the recycle bin?” You get the picture.

Show will be canceled in: 5 weeks

CBS:

Who doesn’t one-hour dramas? CBS thinks YOU don’t apparently. Here’s how to entice yours truly to watch more CBS: Make the Ghost Whisperer two hours. Take out all cast members sans Jennifer Love Hewitt. Now have JLH walk around in a towel (see I Know What You Did Last Summer for details). There, I said it.

The Worst Week:

Boy meets girl. Boy must impress “conservative” parents. Boy, if that doesn’t say hilarious theme for 10 seasons, I’m not sure what does. While we’re on the subject, why is it always the conservative parents that need to be enlightened? Let’s have a show where the lefty hippies get a job? Well that sounds just as boring, I guess.

Show will be canceled in: 6 weeks

The Mentalist: Dr. House is a psychic cop.

Show will be canceled in: 4 weeks

Gary Unmarried: Hey, HEY, how about a comedy about a broken family? A recently divorced buffoon dad and bitchy wife bicker about their kids. It’s funny because it’s true! With a cast featuring Jay Mohr, Jaime King, and Ed Begley Jr, I could maybe see this show actually work.

Show will be canceled in: 3 seasons

The Ex List: At a party, Bella (Elizabeth Reaser) is told by a psychic that the guy she is going to one day marry, is somebody she knows. She then goes on to investigate every person with a penis to find her potential hubby. Think How I Met Your Mother meets poop.

Show will be canceled in: 3 weeks

Eleventh Hour: A biophysicist and “science advisor” (?) investigate crimes and utter weirdness in another sci-fi X-Files rip off.

I wish a science advisor would follow me around. I’d ask him or her challenging questions like “Hey, if I ate this pencil, how quickly would I bleed to death from a punctured organ?” or “If I cut off my left foot, could I staple it on my back? how quickly would it turn black?” I pretty much know the answers but what’s the point of having a science advisor if you can’t ask questions about self-mutilation?

Are you looking forward to any the shows coming this fall? Sound off below!

Stay tuned to a rest of the fall preview offering from NBC, Fox, CW, and Cable.

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