Oooh, looks like Stephen Colbert has a roll on the Simpsons’ millionth season premier Sunday. We love that. The comic genius seething through that studio during production must have been nauseating. Also Lionel Richie is on there as himself.
Whatever else Fox has going that you might find interesting, you have to love that they’re putting all their season premiers on iTunes for free. That will make the “what to watch, what to record” choice a little easier Sunday, but not much.
I doubt Ken Burns will make a documentary about how rad the Simpsons is (are?), But he sure did make one about that big war that happened a while ago in black and white, and that seems to be the nutritional main course on a lot of plates this season.
Burns has been talking, one or two paragraphs at a time, apparently, with Time. He said most of the doc’s themes that evoke that other war that’s on news channels these days are pretty much universal and not a direct allusion. Okay, whatever.
Everybody says The War is totally great, but it seems like the televised equivalent of vegetables to us. MeeVee said it’s good for you, and Tim Goodman thinks you most definitely should “slog” through it. Enticing. But we will definitely be watching because deep down, we’re suckers for grainy footage of big explosions.
While we really do feel the Simpsons is the best thing ever to happen to images and sound, there’s a good chance, given the free download of that show, that we’ll be vicariously on a transport Sunday night, heading across the Atlantic to an epic, seven-part struggle.
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