Everyone Overseas Wants To See A Terminated America

Funny little news today about the internet, about foreign box office, about annoying reality shows on CBS and bizarro ones on Canadian TV. Plus news on your home movie about furries.

Curious about what people are watching online? I mean, you know it happens. You’ve seen it happen. You never thought it would happen to you, but then one day you find yourself in a fitful late-night stupor, devouring episode after bootlegged episode of Supernatural until you barely even recognise yourself anymore, and… Um. They’re watching Lost, and Grey’s Anatomy, and Gossip Girl mostly. Completely legally too! Lost, for example, accounts for a whopping 36 million video streams on US ABC’s website. That’s a lotta nerdy grad students without regular TV catching up at the library. A lot. [Variety]

Terminator Salvation may have nuked the fridge (and, um, the rest of the world) in the US, but it’s playing strongly—number onely!— elsewhere. It made $US46.1 million over the weekend, bringing its total international cume to a healthy $US165.5 million. [THR]

Oh, good. CBS has ordered more episodes of I Get That a Lot, the hidden camera show in which smug celebrities pretend to be regular people who just look like they’re Jessica Simpson and then in the end, oops! hahaha!, yes it is me oh golly no I’m not a regular like you, no I’m rich. So, bye! [Variety]

A young girl named Skyler Samuels has just been cast in the film Furry Vengeance. No, not the Furry Vengeance you’re filming in your basement with your creepy neighbour Ruth and that Humphrey B Bear costume you found out back of the Channel Nine studios. I should hope that you don’t have plans to cast a young girl in that kind of film. No, this is with Brendan Fraser and involves angry CGI animals or something. [THR]

Christine Jeffs, who directed Little Miss Dead People, has signed on to steer the movie Wonderful Tonight. It is a film about a lothario and the young girl he meets, knocks up, and falls in love with. Basically it’s about your friend Scott, except it takes place somewhere indie and cutesy rather than Tampa. Oh, and in this one he falls in love with her, instead of fleeing madly in the middle of the night. [Variety]

Canadian TV now has a show called Conviction Kitchen, about a fancy Toronto restaurant (they have tablecloths!) that hires ex-cons with no food experience to cook behind the line. [THR]