Party Down cater Jack Bauer’s party for killing his 1000th terrorist? I smell a crossover film!

It seems like for the past decade or so, any time a beloved show goes off the air (even when the audience who loves that is teeny tiny) rumors spring up about a continuation of the series in grand movie fashion. Of course all the fan letter writing campaigns and online petitions in the world usually can’t do much to help them get made. Of course there are the exceptions, like Sex and the City, but overall TV shows don’t end up making it to the big screen. Or when they do it’s a weird, tongue in cheek remake of a show from the 70’s or 80’s. I’m looking at you Dukes of Hazzard, The Brady Bunch, Starsky and Hutch, Get Smart…well, you get the point.

But a few months back we got some exciting news: an Arrested Development movie is actually going to be made! Then news on a Party Down movie! Then Entourage! Then 24! The floodgates have opened up, and the struggling movie business has seemingly decided this is the new trend. They’ve already done comic books (and show so sign of stopping), video games (somehow Resident Evil movies continue to get made), and toys (though Transformers will live on, the new, undoubtedly awful Battleship movie should pretty effectively kill this trend), so why not TV? I mean at least those shows, particularly 24, have a built in fan base. And even cult favorites like Arrested Development and Party Down, far more popular after cancellation, have great potential to make money. Those guys are used to working on TV budgets and their fans will surely pay to see their favorite show live on multiple times in theaters.

So I say hoorah for this new trend! Now please apply it to every canceled TV show I’ve ever loved.

A Sopranos movie? Don’t stop believing

HBO has always merged the ideas of movies and TV to make a unique channel (as you well know, it’s not TV, it’s HBO), and it seems like their eyes are now firmly set on the big screen. Yes, a channel that existed to play big screen movies on the TV, which then began making original TV shows, is now looking to bring many of those shows to the movie theater. Everything comes full circle!

After the success of the Sex and the City movies, HBO has become convinced that their original shows are so good that people will be willing to drop $10.25 to see them at the movies on top of the monthly cable bill. First up is the long rumored The Sopranos movie, which has been murmured about from the moment that Journey song started up and the screen went black on the finale of The Sopranos. Based on all the whining about the finale on the internet, executives probably just dreamed a potential movie up as a way of calming down the hysterical masses. But will a movie ever happen? Nurse Jackie star Edie Falco recently said she is very open to reprising her role for a movie, but that she isn’t sure it will ever materialize. As much as I would love to see one last hurrah for Tony Sopranos and those wacky gangsters, the more time that passes the less likely a movie becomes. At this point it might be more realistic to predict a movie based on that Facebook app Mafia Wars. But if they do make a Sopranos movie, I hope we at least get an uplifting ending like Return of the Jedi, complete with all the characters who were murdered on the show in ghost form, smiling as Tony dances with Ewoks.

The second HBO series looking to make the leap to the big screen is Entourage. How fitting that a show about a movie star would eventually be turned into the movie. Mark Wahlberg (creator/producer of Entourage), currently touring the talk show circuit in support of The Other Guys, seems more interested in getting the Entourage movie made than anything he’s actually appearing in. What would the movie be about? I’m sure it would be about a group of guys who are continuing to live problem-free in Hollywood, hooking up with beautiful women and struggling to find something to do with their time since they never seem to work. You know, kind of like every episode. But a movie would really be worth it for the guest stars! I mean this is a TV show that has had everyone from Val Kilmer to Stan Lee on. That’s a wide net. I have a feeling an Entourage movie could potentially have the biggest number of nonessential cameos ever. And I freely admit I would still get excited and say “Oh look, it’s Jaleel White!” Yeah, in my dream Entourage movie Urkel from Family Matters shows up. It would be great.

Finally there is the long, long, long rumored Arrested Development movie, which never seems to get made but will also never go away. Since before the brilliant show even got canceled fans have been clinging to the idea of a potential movie, and for awhile it seemed like there was only one problem: Michael Cera. Supposedly he wanted to see a script first (like a movie script by the Arrested Development writers would be anything but fantastic), but he seems fully on board now, answering the question over and over again while promoting Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. He’s basically played the same character ever since he left the show, so why not embrace it? With the last of the cast in place, now there’s just the little issue of actually making a movie. The script is apparently in progress, as it has been for 4 years, which means maybe we will get an Arrested Development movie in time to celebrate the show’s 25th Anniversary.

Let’s be honest - some of us have been suffering withdrawals after last month’s hurricane of finales for popular shows like LOST, Law & Order, American Idol and 24. As quickly as it’d began, the dust had settled and we were left all alone, moping and eating bonbons in bed, swearing that no other shows could replace our beloveds.

Ah, but there’s hope for a rebound this summer! The sun is shining, birds are singing and a new collection of TV shows are parading into our lives. Maybe we can find boob tube love again in a summer fling!

Who will win your attention? The sexy vampires of True Blood or the bad boys from Entourage? Maybe you prefer the more PG-13 comedic stylings of Golden Girl Betty White in her new sitcom Hot in Cleveland? On the talent show front, you can choose from the fantastic dancers on So You Think You Can Dance, or the equally phenomenal chefs from Top Chef: DC. Then again, perhaps your tastes lean toward bottom-of-the-barrel fluff (and no one’s judging you here) where your options are America’s Got Talent, Real Housewife Bethenny Frankel’s spin-off Bethenney Getting Married or Ali Fedotowsky’s second chance at love on The Bachelorette.

Let us know which show you’re MOST excited to watch this summer in our latest poll below!

Hey now, ’tis the season to get your priorities in check!  This means breaking up with your crappy significant other.  Today, we got two new break-ups to announce:

Entourage’s Jerry Ferrara and Jamie-Lynn Sigler!  The Hills‘ Brody Jenner and Jayde Nicole!  Both DUNZO!

It’s not entirely clear who’s losing out in these break-ups, if you ask me. These trashy duos just bring each other down - especially Brody and Jayde.  I used to fancy Brody a classy guy.  Guess I was way wrong.

Who’s gonna want you now, Jayde Nicole, huh?  WHO’S GONNA WANT YOU NOW?!!

Womg?  Could this video of my man Matt Damon freaking out on Entourage star Adrian Grenier be real?

(Good Jeremy Piven cameo, bee tee dubs)

As you can see, Matt Damon goes kinda nuts on Adrian Grenier during this supposed PSA filming for Damon’s charity OneXOne.org.

The folks at Defamer think it’s fake - that it’s a big Matt Damon Entourage cameo / charity publicity stunt - and I tend to agree.

Matt Damon would never be so rude.  xoxo, MD!

UPDATE: Here’s an extended version!  Thoughts?

Oh snap!  This is awkward.  Reporter Dan Harris hasn’t done his research!

In an interview with Entourage star Jamie-Lynn Sigler on ABC News, Harris asks Sigler if beautiful women are willing to date “fat dudes” in real life - like she does on the show.

Unfortch, the “fat dude” she’s dating on the show (Turtle) is the same “fat dude” she’s dating in real life (Jerry Ferrara).

Get it?  Jerry Ferrara plays Turtle.  On Entourage.  And Jamie-Lynn Sigler is dating him.  He’s the fat dude.  Watch as it goes down:

Embarassing!  For everyone involved.

[Source: New York Magazine]

As a fan of Entourage, I’m not one to call out its weaknesses but, as a fan of Entourage, I’ve gotta say, that show is boring as hell.

As usual, College Humor has picked up on the one-plotness of the show and put out a great parody, entitled “Every Week on Entourage.”  Check it out:

Ridonk!  Following President Barack Obama’s admission that he looooooves HBO’s Entourage, the fine folks over at Landline TV decided to cast Barry in a presidential version of his very favorite TV show.

Feast your eyes on the pilot episode of Obamtourage:

Lawlz!  I’ve gotta admit, I’m pretty into the Hillary Clinton character, and I wish that Joe Biden had more lines. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on the other hand, could’ve been better.  He’s WAY cuter in real life, after all.

FUN FACT: Entourage’s Ari Gold is based on real-life talent agent Ari Emanuel, brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, one of the dudes spoofed in this vid.

FUN FACT #2: Character Josh Lyman on The West Wing is supposedly based on Rahm.  So basically a spoof of a spoofed person is the brother of a guy who’s also been spoofed in one of the same spoofs.  Wait, did I get that right?

But I digress.  Back to Obamtourage!  Definitely a job well done, no?  Definitely one of the less cringe-worthy spoofs I’ve seen in a long, long time.  Kudos to Landline TV!

Entourage: The Movie?  Could the HBO show be following the footsteps of Sex and the City and hitting the big screen?

The Evil Beet reports that there might be an Entourage full-length film in the works.  A casting call for movie extras went out today.

Attention all bros and braaahs: click here to apply!

I enjoy the show quite a bit, but I’m not sure I’d be able to stomach a full movie. The plot will surely follow the filming of another Vincent Chase project.  BRO-RING!  And talk about a total big screen BROVERLOAD!!!

That whole Medellin snooze was wearing me out towards the end there, you guys.  I’m getting tired just thinking about it.  We know your movie’s gonna suck, Billy Walsh.  Kevin Connolly said so, and his intuition is ROCK SOLID!  Seriously, people, Kevin Connolly would probably say Entourage: The Movie is a bad idea.

Pipe down back there, Mark Wahlberg.  And say hello to your mother for me.