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The animated duo will watch the MTV hit and UFC wrestling in addition to music videos
About a year ago, MTV president Van Toffler was having trouble sleeping. "I was eating Fruit Loops and Cap'n Crunch out of the box and flipping through the dials when a Lady Gaga video came on," he says. That's when he had the idea: Bring back Beavis and Butt-Head. "I felt like there was a whole crop of new artists — and what the world sorely missed was the point of view that only Beavis and Butt-Head could bring."
The new show, which debuts later this year, will be very familiar to fans of the Nineties original. "They'll be self-contained segments with the boys in different situations like they used to be," Toffler says. "But this time around, they'll watch Jersey Shore, UFC matches and user-generated videos from YouTube, in addition to music videos." All of the programming will be displayed on the duo's TV, even if it comes from YouTube — "like silly videos of cats playing music."
The show's creator, Mike Judge, who went on to create King of the Hill and direct the cult classics Office Space and Idiocracy, is returning to helm the new series. "In the years since Mike quit doing Beavis and Butt-Head, he realized that there was a lot to make fun of," says head writer John Altschuler, a veteran of King of the Hill. "We just kept coming up with ideas that Mike thought would have made good Beavis and Butt-Head episodes. Then one day, Mike said, 'Maybe we should just actually make some good Beavis and Butt-Head episodes.'"
Beavis and Butt-Head would be in their thirties by now, but they will remain the teenagers they were during the original run. "They'll have the same intelligence," Toffler says. "They're the same boneheads sitting on the same couch, commenting on things through a really simple prism." He has no fear that younger viewers won't respond to the show. "Look how popular South Park and Family Guy are," he says. "These boys are beloved characters, and even if you didn't know them the first time around, it doesn't take more than 30 seconds to fall in love with them."
MTV plans to promote the program across multiple media platforms. "It will be much more viral this time around," Toffler says. "We're going to plant seeds of the characters throughout social-media networks like Facebook and Twitter, in addition to traditional programming on television and, potentially, in theaters. It's formatted very well for the Internet because it's short-form."
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/exclusive-new-beavis-and-butthead-will-tackle-jersey-shore-and-more-20110216The animated duo will watch the MTV hit and UFC wrestling in addition to music videos... more
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By ANTHONY McCARTNEY, AP Entertainment Writer – Mon Dec 21, 6:38 pm ET
LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles County coroner’s office says it has completed an autopsy of Brittany Murphy but will defer releasing a cause of death until after toxicology tests are complete.
It says there was no evidence of trauma to Murphy’s body.
Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter says the autopsy was completed Monday.
Murphy died Sunday after collapsing in the bathroom of her Hollywood Hills home. Winter says her family told coroner’s investigators she had been suffering from flu-like symptoms in the days before her death.
for full story, Videos< Photos....http://ctpatriot1970.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/coroner-completes-brittany-murphy-autopsy-it-says-there-was-no-evidence-of-trauma-to-murphys-body/By ANTHONY McCARTNEY, AP Entertainment Writer – Mon Dec 21, 6:38 pm ET
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Preview for The Goode Family.
The show is set to premiere on ABC mid-season Wednesday, May 27, 2009 in the 9pm hour with back-to-back episodes.
Show description:
A new animated series from Mike Judge, creator of "Office Space","Beavis and Butthead"and"King of the Hill." "The Goode Family" is obsessed with doing the "right" thing, whether it's environmentally, politically or socially. Unfortunately their efforts often have unintended comic consequences.
**Sounds like a clean show[pun intended] What do you think?Preview for The Goode Family.
The show is set to premiere on ABC mid-season... more
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Check out some video with the creator of “Office Space”, writer/director Mike Judge and the official movie trailer for his new film, “Extract”, starring Jason BatemanCheck out some video with the creator of “Office Space”, writer/director... more
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It seems that the long-running animated comedy “King of the Hill" is over the hill at Fox, the media reported.
The Fox Broadcasting Company took the decision to stop picking up any more episodes of the series, thus making room for “The Cleveland Show” and “Sit Down, Shut Up,” two animated comedies that will definitely have a broad audience.
Created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels, “King of the Hill," which focuses on a suburban crazy Methodist family, has been on the verge of cancellation in the past but only now the network will actually cancel the show.
The 250-episode mark will be reached in May and the last episodes of the series, now in its 13th year, are likely to be shown in the summer of 2009. Ratings for the animated comedy have been quite flat during this season.
One of the two new-entries at Fox, “The Cleveland Show,” is the follow-up of the popular animated American television sitcom “Family Guy.” Created by Seth MacFarlane, the series centers around the character of Cleveland Brown and his family.
“Sit Down, Shut Up” is written and executive-produced by Mitchell Hurwitz (the creator of the sitcom “Arrested Development”) and executive-produced by Eric and Kim Tannenbaum (spouses and business partners), and Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein (known for the animated series Mission Hill, The Simpsons and Futurama). Both series (“Sit Down, Shut Up” and “The Cleveland Show”) are due to start being broadcasted in early 2009.It seems that the long-running animated comedy “King of the Hill" is over... more
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