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Sarah Prince
Since the People’s Choice Awards and One Tree Hill aired back to back on Wednesday, both of which I insisted on watching live, I didn’t get a chance to watch NBC’s new sitcom Are You There, Chelsea? until today. Given that the first two of the aforementioned shows were less than satisfactory to say the least, I wondered if I’d made the right decision; maybe the sitcom would’ve brought more cheer to my otherwise lacklustre evening. However, after watching the sitcom, I can’t help but feel cynical because I didn’t even laugh once.
Whenever I occasionally watch reruns of That 70s Show, I always identify with the redhead, Laura Prepon’s character Donna, the most. I don’t remember why anymore, as I prefer watching Two and a Half Men and Seinfeld in syndication now, so I haven’t seen the retro-based comedy in a few years, but that much I know. As such, I was pleased to learn that Laura Prepon would be starring in NBC’s new mid-season show.
In September 2010 I watched Chelsea Handler’s stand up routine at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas confident that she’d make me laugh on my birthday, given her reputation as a comedian and author. Now that some of those same stories she jokingly shared over a year ago now serve as material for the NBC sitcom she produces and has a recurring role in as the protagonist’s catholic sister, I hope the show will exceed expectations, just as Chelsea did when I saw her live.
It’s one thing to upload only the photos that showcase your most attractive features or selectively tweet links related to your industry, but it’s quite another to publicly over-share the minutiae of your daily life. Too few social media users consciously filter the information they post online – a pattern which MTV Canada’s producers are capitalizing on to capture viewers’ attention in the network’s latest show, Creeps.
MTV used their ever so popular Jersey Shore as the lead-in for Creeps’ series premiere on January 5. Creeps proves that Canadian broadcasters indeed have a knack for creating engaging, interesting and timely original content, as it revolves around the over-sharing trend that we are all too familiar with in 2012.
Each episode examines young Canadians’ social media profiles and introduces viewers to Facebook-aholics and Twitter junkies. For example, in the first episode, we met Rashida James (@thatsSOrara) who has 300+ Twitter followers. In a recent tweet, she admitted she “doesn’t know 90% of the people” appearing in her news feed.
Spreading some holiday cheer, courtesy of Israel’s adorable and talented Fountainheads’ latest.
Filmed in Israel, uploaded in London, Ontario, Canada.
Happy Holidays!
McDonald’s Canada’s Originals and Lisa Kudrow’s Web Therapy are only a couple of web series garnering lots of online attention and buzz. I just caught the first episode of Shit Girls Say and now I understand why it deserves a place on everyone’s YouTube playlists – male and female viewers alike.