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The Emmys That Should Have Been Awarded (September 20, 2004)

Who watches HBO? Who cares about miniseries? Here's what my favorites should have been in as few categories as necessary.

Best TV Actor: Bernie Mac, "The Bernie Mac Show". Why isn't the Emmy's considering this actor?

Best TV Actress: Alyssa Milano, "Charmed". Who cares what her hair is? Alyssa is bewitching anyway.

Best Supporting TV Actor: Ashton Kutcher, "That 70's Show". Playing dumb roles weren't this popular since Vinnie Babarino.

Best Supporing TV Actress: Emily Procter, "CSI: Miami". Has the IQ of 10,000 Britney Spears combined. Maybe more.

Best TV Series: Las Vegas

Best Looking TV Actor: ladies, pick 'em yourself!

Best Looking TV Actress: tie: Jennifer Aniston, "Friends", Brooke Shields, "That 70's Show"

Show That Should Have Been Cancelled Last Season (for 2003-04): "ER"

Show That Shouldn't Have Been Cancelled Last Season: "Stripperella", Spike TV

Most Critically-Acclaimed Show D.T. Doesn't Care to Watch: "Arrested Development"

Show That Went Most Downhill: "Malcolm in the Middle."

Most Missed Show From Last Season: tie: "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer", "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch", "Futurama"

Least Missed Show From Last Season: like anyone cares

Show That's Most Improved: "According To Jim"

Most Annoying New Show To Be Renewed: "Hope and Faith"

Best New Show Idea For 2004-05: Blue Collar TV

Worst New Show Idea For 2004-05: Listen Up

Show That Should Delcare It's The Final Season: "Scrubs", like anyone really cares about this unfunny show? (note "NYPD Blue" and "Everybody Loves Raymond" say it's their final seasons)

Network Nobody Cares To Watch For Non-Sports Programming: ABC

Best Network For Programming Other Than Sports: CBS.

Best Network For Sports: Fox

Network That Should Consider Getting an NFL Broadcast Package: UPN

Network That Should Consider Bringing Back Daytime Game Shows: NBC

Worst Trend in TV: reality series.

Best Trend in TV: sports in prime-time. We need more of that, ABC and Fox!

Least-catered audience: children. Why not put the kids shows on from 6-8pm when they're home from school and play?

Over-catered audience: women. Like they want to watch nothing but celebrity talk shows and serials?

Network You Won't See a Man Watch: Lifetime.

'Sabrina' Conjuring Up Big-Screen Bow (September 14, 2004)

San Quentin cellmates still suffering from Friday night Melissa Joan Hart withdrawl symptons after the WB netlet unceremoniously cancelled her TV show last "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" year? Are they doing well with a boring Friday drama starring another ingenue, Amber Tamblyn, or a middle-aged teenage-looking Kelly Ripa on an unfunny sitcom?

Well, that's life on TV nowadays. Few smart and sexy blonde babes parade the TV land nowadays. Sarah Michelle Geller put down her stake when "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" called it quits. Pamela Anderson Lee's show "VIP", was cancelled last year when her production studio went bankrupt. All the blondes we're getting on TV nowadays are ditsy and undesirable such as Paris Hilton and Jessica Simpson.

Well, I can't do anything about that, but at least one of the series from the cancellation past of recent are planning to be on the big screen.

We all know the names: Spider-Man, Batman, Superman, The Hulk. And now you can add Sabrina.

"Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" has cast her spell on Paramount Pictures, which has signed a deal to co-produce a live-action film based on the Archie Comics character, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

"While the movie will be empowering for girls, it is going to have the action and science-fiction fantasy that appeals to boys," said Archie Comics Entertainment president Allan Grafman, who will serve as a producer.

"Sabrina" is the second motion picture deal for Archie Comics Entertainment, which was founded last year by Archie Comics Publications chairman Michael Silberkleit and president Richard Goldwater to develop the company's comic book characters -- including Archie, Betty, Veronica, Jughead, Katy Keene, the Mighty Crusaders and Josie and the Pussycats -- into entertainment properties. It has partnered with Miramax Films to develop "Betty & Veronica."

Paramount Television produced the long-running TV series "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch," starring Melissa Joan Hart (news), which aired on ABC and the WB Network from 1996-2003. "Sabrina" made its comic book debut in the early 1970s.

"Sabrina," has previously enjoyed life as a sitcom starring Melissa Joan Hart as the titular witch.

Sabrina is the teen who lives in Greendale, nearby Riverdale where Archie and his pals live, with her pal Salem, a wizard trapped in a cat's body.

Sabrina debut in the second season of CBS's long "Archie" series run, with the second season called "The Archie Comedy Hour" in 1969. The following year, "Sabrina and the Groovie Ghoulies" was spun-off from "Archie", along with a separate Archie Comics cartoon series "Josie and the Pussycats." The first two series were produced by the now-defunct Filmation Studios. The "Josie" series was produced by Hanna-Barbera.

Maybe there's hope for a "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" motion picture. If not, at least we can still see Sarah Michelle Gellar in the other popular 70's cartoon-era TV-turned-movie franchise, Scooby-Doo!


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