The TV Zone

Broke yesterday, just posting on 'Zone now...sorry for delay...been enjoying the latest from Alec Baldwin (see below) too much:

Heder's coming to CC.

Jon Heder. Napoleon Dynamite Heder.

Here's the pull-quote from the release; show bows next year, and it's a ten-episode order.

" Produced by Gary Sanchez Productions, the production company led by Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Chris Henchy, distributed by Debmar-Mercury, the untitled, multi-camera sitcom for COMEDY CENTRAL will star Jon Heder as an out of work computer IT specialist who leaves the big city and returns to his small home town, where he moves back in with his parents and younger brother. Ferrell, McKay and Henchy will write and produce the series."

Naturally, this is a big deal...Heder's wonderful.

Now, if the series adds the great Jon Gries (Uncle Rico), Aaron Ruell (Kip), Efren Ramirez (Pedro), Tina Majorino (Deb), Haylie Duff (Summer), and OF COURSE, Shondrella Avery (Lafawnduh)....then I'll get really trully excited about this show.

But only until it does....

Below, a Top Tenner frrom '07; not even gonna bother adding a "favorite scene" from the movie. Just too darned many.

OK, let's get a really quick review up here:

"Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire"

Thumb up or thumb down?

I'm going to be really courageous and go with a...thumb sideways.

There's definitely some funny stuff here, but not nearly enough; also, some first-rate comic actors, too, like Matt Lucas ("Little Britain USA") and Sean Maguire - he's Krod - is good here too. It's a nearly-all-Brit cast, and as you know, the Brits do genre satire better 'n anyone else in the solar system...the holy grail being "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

As mentioned, Matt Lucas as the evil Chancellor Dongalor is the standout; also good, Philly comic Kevin Hart as hapless magician Zezelryck.

But the series (Comedy Central, 10) needs to be funnier, much funnier. Maybe in time...

Grade: B