Early Buzz: Louis C.K., 'Hangover' and more news
It's Friday! The weekend kind of crept up on me, so right now my biggest plan is to catch up on a bunch of TV shows (and preview some new ones I've gotten in the mail).
I'd like to wish a happy belated birthday to longtime devoted reader BIG BUSINESS, who celebrated yesterday. Hope it was awesome!
A few headlines:
- Watch a new trailer for The Hangover Part III.
- Louis C.K. did a Reddit AMA.
- Roger Ebert's Twitter account will go on through his wife, Chaz.
- Spinner does an absolutely horrible job of ranking R.E.M.'s albums.
- Billboard ranks the top 10 Coachella performances.
- Here's a handy guide to TV premiere dates.
- Why on earth are they remaking Point Break?
- History is planning a miniseries about Houdini starring Adrien Brody.
- Longtime Woody Allen collaborator Mickey Rosehas died.
- Stars of The Office will head to Scranton, Pa., for a final "wrap party."
- Is Netflix more popular than cable?
- Get well soon, Rhett Miller!
- TVGuide.com talks to Doctor Who's new companion.
- Time Out ranks the top 25 TV series set in New York.
- Go the F--- to Sleep is headed to the big screen.
- HBO has ordered a pilot from Glee's Ryan Murphy.
- ABC Family has kind of an odd take on Batman Begins.
- Yoko Ono is publishing a sequel to a poetry book first released 50 years ago.
- "The 20 Best TV Series Finales."
- This poster collects a bunch of Internet memes.
- If I could grow facial hair, I might do this.
- A study shows that people addicted to Twitter and Facebook showed withdrawal symptoms when forced to go "cold turkey."
- "Man Who Voiced Charlie Brown Pleads Guilty to Threatening Plastic Surgeon."
- A tiny poem by Charlotte Bronte sold for $140,000. (Seriously, you need a magnifying glass to read it.)
- And finally, dig these Arrested Development-inspired record sleeves.