What... No Billboards?
Last week, the producers of Lost planted a fake commercial within Lost for the fictional "Hanso Foundation." This alternate-reality-meets-actual-reality campaign continued this week, as a newspaper ad for the fictional Hanso Foundation turned up today in The Philadelphia Inquirer. Check it out...
Dishonorable Discharge
With the series finale of The West Wing coming up this Sunday, NBC had planned to telecast a one-hour retrospective of The West Wing in the hour preceding the Wing finale. However, last week NBC announced that it was scrapping the retrospective in favor of a repeat of the first-ever episode of Wing. Seemed like a strange decision on the network’s part; after all, this is NBC, and NBC is famous for its long-goodbyes whenever one of its long-running series is about to turn out the lights for the last time. From the final days of Seinfeld to Frasier to Will & Grace... NBC has been famous for its clip-laden retrospectives.
This week, however, the truth behind the decision has come to light… and it looks as if the cast
of The West Wing ended up sinking the retrospective. Yes, you read that correctly: the cast. The reason? Money. It seems that several of the cast members were asking for a serious salary in return for an appearance in the special. Unfortunately, the budget for the look-back was not large enough to accommodate the stars’ demands. So... goodbye televised retrospective. How’s THAT for gratitude? Classless move, ex-West Wingers.
As you can see, the "ad" references "Bad Twin," the manuscript that Sawyer was reading in last week's episode of Lost. Damn... this is getting good.
So, what'll be coming next for the followers of Alvar Hanso? Your guess is as good as mine.
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Dishonorable Discharge
With the series finale of The West Wing coming up this Sunday, NBC had planned to telecast a one-hour retrospective of The West Wing in the hour preceding the Wing finale. However, last week NBC announced that it was scrapping the retrospective in favor of a repeat of the first-ever episode of Wing. Seemed like a strange decision on the network’s part; after all, this is NBC, and NBC is famous for its long-goodbyes whenever one of its long-running series is about to turn out the lights for the last time. From the final days of Seinfeld to Frasier to Will & Grace... NBC has been famous for its clip-laden retrospectives.
This week, however, the truth behind the decision has come to light… and it looks as if the cast
of The West Wing ended up sinking the retrospective. Yes, you read that correctly: the cast. The reason? Money. It seems that several of the cast members were asking for a serious salary in return for an appearance in the special. Unfortunately, the budget for the look-back was not large enough to accommodate the stars’ demands. So... goodbye televised retrospective. How’s THAT for gratitude? Classless move, ex-West Wingers.
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