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Thursday, May 21, 2009
Small Screen

Chuck Exists Only To Sell Subway Sandwiches

6:33AM Hamilton Nolan | Last month TV comedy Chuck had that Subway sandwich product placement that was so laughably flagrant we thought, “This will surely hurt the credibility of ‘Chuck!’” How young and naive we were. Turns out that that Subway deal is literally the only reason that Chuck still exists: More »
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Small Screen

Desperate Chuck Fans In Futile Sandwich Frenzy

11:37PM Hamilton Nolan | NBC went and sold the most blatant product placement in TV history in its show Chuck, and what do you know, it worked! Not for Chuck; that shit is getting cancelled. But for Subway, yes! More »
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Saturday, April 18, 2009
Small Screen

NBC Sells Its Nonexistent Soul For A $5 Subway Sandwich

12:21AM Hamilton Nolan | US network NBC has shockingly ruined the integrity of its dramatic show Chuck by allowing Subway what is perhaps the most blatant (and therefore laughable!) product placement in network TV history. Mmm, smell that chicken teriyaki. More »
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Friday, August 29, 2008

‘Strangers’ Sequel ‘2 Strange 2 Maskier’ Gets Greenlight

5:40AM Seth | Low-budget suspense movie The Strangers, which managed to pretty effectively scare the crap out of us, is getting a sequel. It promises to cover all the rooms in a house Liv Tyler wasn’t chased through by a trio of masked psychopaths not explored in the original. [Variety] NBC gives Chuck gets a full-season order, while America’s Got Talent—which seems on course to reward a male Britney Spears impersonator $1 million—got a fourth season. [Variety] Lonelygirl15 is returning for LG15: The Resistance. Could someone be a doll and fill Aaron Sorkin in on what’s happened in the plot until now? [Variety] ABC is hot for a comedy pilot from Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd that would follow three families as their lives are documented by a Dutch filmmaker. None of the families are Caveman-American, to our knowledge. [THR] George Clooney is in negotiations to star in Jason Reitman’s adaptation of Walter Kirn’s frequent-flyer-mile-addiction novel, Up in the Air, effectively bumping this project up to First Class. (Feel free to use that, THR.) [THR] More »
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