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January 3, 2007
The Knights of Prosperity, tonight
Some more new television starts tonight, with The Knights of Prosperity on ABC. This show is produced by Donal Logue (a big favorite of ours) and follows the exploits of some guys in NYC who decide to break into Mick Jagger's apartment and steal stuff.
Working titles included Let's Rob Mick Jagger (Mick didn't want his name in the title, though he does appear in the pilot) and I Want to Rob Jeff Goldblum (who was considered for the role of heist target, presumably until the producers realized that Jeff Goldblum isn't funny.)
This show did a lot of filming in Hell's Kitchen and all around Times Square, so I've been excited for it. Tom Shales at the Washington Post falls all over himself to praise it: "knee-slappingly and side-splittingly funny stuff, or as close to that as TV gets these days." He loves characters like frustrated janitor Eugene Gurkin (played by Donal Logue), fatman Rockefeller Butts, and Louis Plonk, the lovable virgin.
And as an added bonus, which gorgeously no-nonsense bitch-queen from 24 makes an appearance? Reiko Aylesworth! Our eyes were glazing at the prospect of having to go watch Alien vs. Predator 2 just to see her again, so we're very grateful to ABC for resurrecting our old favorite.
Alessandra Stanley at the Times likes it too, even if she uses the show to try to make some indecipherable point about women in TV comedies. She notes that The Knights of Prosperity and In Case of Emergency (also premiering tonight on ABC) both feature groups of losery men and one beautiful woman who hangs out with them. My favorite show that fits that formula was The Lone Gunmen, an X Files spinoff that was hastily cancelled after 13 episodes. This show probably won't last much longer (unless they choose Alex Trebek or Willem Dafoe to be the next targets, as one character suggests) but it's already a pioneer in the promising new celebrity heist genre.
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Yeah, I see what you mean. I recently saw The Fly for the first time on TV and, while it is very hilarious when the insect transformation really moves into overdrive and his jaw falls off in a squelch of bug-slime, psycho bugman JG sort of superceded The Tall Guy's lanky goofball JG for me. Oh, but I just remembered how funny he was in Igby Goes Down. So OK, Jeff Goldblum can certainly be funny. But that shot of Mick Jagger running his hands through the warm yogurt bath on KOP was perfect.
Posted by: Amy at January 5, 2007 10:00 AM
Woah woah woah. Jeff Goldblum isn't funny? What kind of "funny" are we talking about here? He and Christopher Walken are possibly the two guys on earth who are funny when they're just standing there looking around. And aren't you the one who made me watch "The Tall Guy," possibly more than once?
Posted by: Matthew Saunders at January 4, 2007 5:20 PM