Some Pre-Lunch TV "Gossip"

In case you haven't heard...

• Gossip Girl's Chace Crawford has just confirmed what the blogosphere has been buzzing about for weeks-- he will be replacing Zac Efron in the remake of Footloose. It's gonna be "more mature" and "edgy", y'all! While beautiful to look at, Chace Crawford has yet to prove his acting chops to me. That being said, yes I will put down my $12 to see him do an angry dance montage in a warehouse!
  
  
• And while we're on the subject of Gossip Girl leading men, the only sex symbol on that show (as far as I'm concerned), Ed Westwick, has supposedly landed the role of Heathcliff in a big-screen adaptation of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. Gemma Arterton will be playing Catherine opposite Westwick. If you're on the same wavelength as me, you're probably asking yourself, Who the eff is that?? They say she was a Bond Girl. I had to google her, so unmemorable was she. I say scratch her off the cast list and hire Blair Waldorf.
  
  
• The Game has been canceled. Are you surprised? The folks over at Concrete Loop seem to think it's a Black thing:

  "For the record, I won’t be watching the LAME-ASS CW ever again, nor promoting any of their current or upcoming shows on Concrete Loop. They never promoted The Game or Everybody Hates Chris as much as Gossip Girl or 90210. And don’t get me started on One Tree Hill, that show is beyond garbage but always gets picked up every season. I guess picking up Tyra’s show (America’s Next Top Model) meets their black quota for the season. And don’t get me started on Girlfriends, y’all saw how they did that show."

  I never watched the show myself, so I couldn't really speak on whether this had to do with ratings, the recession, or race. But I will say this: if my people tuned in to watch these positive predominantly-Black comedies as often as they tune in to watch the f*ckery that is Making the Band and College Hill, maybe those shows would have a little more longevity. Just sayin'...
  

That's all.