Old TV shows...

Lately, I've been watching mostly old TV shows like Hardcastle & McCormick or Scarecrow and Mrs King and Riptide last night. Awesome, awesome stuff. Back then, there didn't have to be any long arcs, characters brooding etc. It was simple fun!

And another thing that I adore - the man touching! Back then, in the 70s and early 80s, men could touch, really touch, on TV without the viewers and TPTBs going ape-shit about them behaving "like homos" *rolls eyes*

Especially in Riptide you get a lot of man-touching between Nick and Cody. And they live together. On a boat... *giddy* Okay, so I have a one-track mind but these two are like Jim and Blair from The Sentinel but in Riptide, it's not the superhero and his sidekick - not that I minded it in TS because I really adored Blair being the trouble-magnet in 90% of eps, woo! - but more the relationship of two equal, butt-kicking, handsome men. Oh, and then there's Murray of course :P

Oh, and since I managed to get my hands on some eps of Scarecrow and Mrs King - thank you, eMule - I'm enjoying that TV show too! They really really need to release this series on DVD! I would be among the first ones to buy it because Amanda rocks my socks and I adore that she solves crimes with simple common sense, one normal human being among master spies who over-think just about everything! I love characters like that and I think that's why I like Sheriff Carter from Eureka so much - he's the only guy with his common sense intact in a town full of nutjobs, really :D

Quiz

That's actually true. At 10 AM, I usually start working. The perks of being single and working at home ;)

Will Reaper do better or worse in SPN's slot?

Some time ago, I would have said that Reaper would do worse. Not by terribly much, but definitely worse. Now, I'm not so sure...

Last night's repeat of Reaper brought in 1.89 mil. viewers and 0.7/2 demo going against the repeat of NCIS and an original ep of American Idol. The last repeated episode of Supernatural - on Jan 24th - went against the repeats of both Grey's Anatomy and CSI and brought in only 1.84 mil. viewers and 0.7/2 demo...

I'm NOT saying that I don't want Reaper to succeed. Although I'm not a fan, I know that there are fans of this show on my flist and to be honest, Reaper and Supernatural would fit together perfectly, better than either of those shows and Smallville. But I don't want it to succeed at the expense of SPN because if the CW should pick just one of the two, guess which one they would choose?

A-Team

I was just reading something about A-Team when I came across this:

George Peppard always resented the fact that his The A-Team co-star, Mr. T, became a bigger star than him. According to Dirk Benedict, George refused to even speak to Mr. T directly and asked him (Dirk) to relay messages. Also, the cast of The A-Team was invited to visit the Netherlands in 1984, but George Peppard would not attend when he heard that Mr. T was also invited.

Huh. Arrogant much?

But I also found some funny quotes by Dirk Benedict aka Face:

• (On the A-Team) I enjoyed it immensely. By nature I'm terribly serious, so as an actor I tend to want to be silly. It was a comedic show, almost like a cartoon. We just had to hang on to enough reality to make it possible for adults to watch it. The actors I worked with, especially Mr T and Dwight Schultz were very funny people. It was pretty much four years of laughter.
  
• You know I tried treating my wives like Big Brother treats me and it got me nowhere. I gave them tasks, gave them rewards...!
  
• When the ship is sinking and someone's having great time and happy about it, you throw them overboard.
  
• (On the new Battlestar Galactica's Starbuck) People kept asking me about Starbuck being a girl and I finally wrote what I thought for a British magazine called Dreamwatch. It was called Starbuck: Lost In Castration, and a lot of people got really angry -- 'this chauvinist pig, this angry bitter old actor, how dare he?' It was about why you can't have a character like Starbuck in a show today -- a cigar-smoking, drinking, womanizing lovable scoundrel. The feminist movement got rid of those guys. In the war against masculinity, the only way that character could work was to make him a woman.
  
• Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.
  
• Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails.
  
• America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.

He sounds like a cool guy :)