"I disagree [that TV has become a director’s medium]. There’s a perfectly good medium for directors, and it’s called film. TV is a writer’s medium. I am chauvinistic toward writing because that’s where I came from. And when executives get excited about getting a superstar movie director to direct the pilot of a new TV show, I think to myself, That’s all well and good, but what happens after that? That superstar director goes away, and you’ve still got 100 hours to fill. Who’s the first person on the ground making those 100 hours happen? It’s invariably the writer."

— Vince Gilligan, throwing out some truth bombs in the current New York Magazine. (via lizdexia)

tags: #30 rock #baby come back

bossypants:

end of the tv year

tags: #ALSKDJFAL;SD #dying #about me

danieldempsey:

My dude straight loving him some nsync.

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tags: #lollllll

adamusprime:

an interesting development

today is a good day:

• going to get all my shit done
• going to an advanced screening of The Kings of Summer!!!!!!!!
• got free tickets to go to a midnight screening of Scream and a Q&A with Wes Craven!!!!
• weeeee!!!

It’s 4am and today I’ve

• failed a midterm
• gotten slightly tipsy off of shitty scotch and weird asian wine, but like just enough so that it forces you to look at your life and your choices and question what you’re even doing, and then get sad and tired
• gotten into an argument with my roommate who has been annoying me a lot recently 

i’m not tired but I have class in 5 hours and I’m upset and frustrated make this month go away

tags: #I... don't know how I feel about this? #jimmy fallon

lizdexia:

popculturebrain:

The change will occur after the winter Olympics and the show will move to New York.

But Mr. Leno said in an interview: “The main difference between this and the other time is I’m part of the process. The last time the decision was made without me. I came into work one day and — you’re out.” He added that this time around, “There really aren’t any complications like there were the last time. This time it feels right.”

Creating that feeling was the stated aim of Steve Burke, the chief executive of NBC Universal, who took a lead role in the current change effort to insure that Mr. Leno would receive full respect for his contributions to the network.

“Clearly our goal has been to make this a smooth transition,” Mr. Burke said in a telephone interview. “Jay deserves to be treated like someone who has done a wonderful thing for our company for two decades.”

RIP Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, only the good die young. The Roots and the entire Late Night staff better go to Tonight.

I feel very, very conflicted about this.