Web Worth Watching

Aaaaaaand we're back...Strange right!? Well anyway welcome to one of many new segments here at Palaba's Posts, Web Worth Watching!

We here at P's Posts have always been focused on bringing you the best way to stretch your internet dollar by sharing some of the best free entertainment and services on the World Wide Web. We continue this proud tradition by scouting through the mire that is the web to bring to you the things actually worth your time.

First up we have the superb Brit wit of Mr. Bean. Viewers new to Bean need to beware drinking liquids while watching. Vet's of Mr. Bean feel free to mumble along!

Really if you haven't had the experience of uncontrollable laughter caused by the classic mad cap antics of Rowan Atkinson's slap stick everyman, please do yourself a favor and click the link HERE

George Carlin

Nova now on Hulu!

I know it may seem like I'm gushing a little much over Hulu, but we are now 4 days into Hulu's Days of Summer promotion and already we've been given some real gem's. So far Hulu has added 2 movies, Lost in Translation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, as well the slapstick classics The Three Stooges 1934-1936.(see the widget toward the bottom of this very page!) Thursdays new addition has me down right giddy. Now available to watch on Hulu.com is arguably television best documentary series NOVA. NOVA has been a long time PBS favorite of mine, the documentary is always interesting, intelligent and fair. Check out a couple of episodes below or click HERE to view all the episodes posted on Hulu. The only real downside I can see is now we have to sit through 2 commercials in the beginning instead of one

Daily Show, Colbert Report, Hulk and more added to Hulu!

Welcome back to Palaba's Posts! I'm sorry for the lengthy leave of absence but I'm proud to say I am, as of May 25, a happily married man. We were married on the shore of the Chester River (Chesapeake Bay) on Maryland's beautiful eastern shore. But I know thats not why you're here, you're here for the free stuff. This post marks a new beginning for us here at Palaba's Posts. It had come to my attention that you the readers of Palaba's Posts were more interested in the links to all the free entertainment on the web and less interested in what I have to say. So with that in mind we are re-dedicating our e-existence to bringing you the finest free entertainment these inter-webs have to offer. In the future I pledge more fun less hyphens!

As many readers know I am a huge fan of the site Hulu.com and now my unhealthy obsession grows again! Hulu has added The Daily Show and The Colbert Report to it's already massive offerings of content. Also if you need a little more Lou Ferrigno in your life (and let's be honest, who doesn't?) Hulu has also added the 70's classic The Incredible Hulk in what I can only imagine is for Marvel's latest big screen offering.

Here's a couple of vid's to get you started:

Almost every episode of South Park online for FREE! (Legal too!)

The brilliant Trey Parker and Matt Stone along with the wonderful people at comedy central have started streaming virtually every episode of South Park online Hulu style. The site looks great, you can choose from a small fan favorites section or select the season and episode and magically a new window pops up for your viewing pleasure! The site is entirely add supported with both banner adds and some commercials during the episode, it's still less than on TV. The site also has flash games, a production blog, forum, an episode guide and clips from the upcoming episode. The site is still in it's beta, only problem I had was with the chat, but a friend told me he couldn't get full screen to work, but mostly it's very smooth. I don't know what you're waiting for go, watch the episodes, and click on the adds so with any luck Comedy Central will realize what a good idea this is and put more shows on the air. (With any luck Reno 911) Check it out at www.southparkstudios.com when your done please come back here and tell me YOUR favorite episode in the comments so I can go watch and laugh too.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Seasons 1 & 2 available on Hulu

Hulu Now Free And Open to Everyone

You no longer have to receive an invite to watch all the shows and movies on Hulu.com. In addition to all the shows and Hulu now has a total of 74 full length movies. If you haven't had a chance to check out this free site I highly recommend it. I get my Simpsons, My Name is Earl and 30 Rock from Hulu. (They just need to hullry with the full episodes of Futurama)This site is totally free, which as I'm sure you can guess means it's supported by adds, but it seems to me to be far less adds than network/cabel TV. I just hope that under the new contract the writers are getting paid off this too, I'd hate to think that sites like Hulu could be the demise of new quality shows. Although I think the WGA took care of that with the latest strike.

Here's what I'm watching:

The Simpsons: Dial "N" for Nerder








The A-Team: The Out-of-Towners







The Tick: The Terror

The Wire: Blogs

Just in case you haven't noticed we here at Palaba's Posts are big fans of HBO's The Wire, but believe it or not we're not the only ones! It seems the series finale of The Wire has inspired many a post, especially at The New York Entertainment's blog Vulture. So for you other blog readers who can't get enough of The Wire here's some of reading material:

Vulture:
‘The Wire’: One Last Long, Boozy Irish Wake for David Simon’s Accidental Masterpiece
Ten Questions Left Unanswered by the ‘Wire’ Finale
Actor Ptolemy Slocum on the Emotional Last Night of Shooting ‘The Wire’
‘The Wire’ Finale's Montage: A Shot-by-Shot Commentary
Debating the Legacy of ‘The Wire’
Sternbergh on ‘The Wire’ Finale: The Anti-‘Sopranos’
BREAKING: Eliot Spitzer Completes Tommy Carcetti's Character Arc
David Simon Still Has Some Things to Say
Looking for Vulture's Coverage of ‘The Wire’?

Newsweek New York Times TV Squad Salon Chicago Tribune TV Guide AOL Variety NPR USA Today Entertainment Weekly and Barack Obama

Lazy Sunday : The Wire finale edition

Well it's here. We all knew that eventually what has been called the greatist show on television ever, is coming to an end. The Wire has changed what millions of people expect from television, shows who's theme is meant to be gritty or "real" seem like Fisher Price compared to The Wire. As most Baltimore natives who watch the wire will tell you, every character no matter how minute or major, is based on at least one real person. Events like Hamsterdamn or McNulty's serial killer may be completely fictions, but their reaction and message is very real. Join us here at Palaba's post as we take a quick look back at the Best Television Drama Ever! If you feel the need to say goodbye HBO has a "Public Record" for you to leave your mark HERE. I left my words HERE










For an extra treat check out this interview with the phenomenal 12 year old actor Thuliso Dingwall who plays Kenard aka Omar's killer

Warner Brothers to join Hulu

Embedded TV fans rejoice! Bruce Rosenblum, Warner Brothers TV's president said in a talk with Stanford law students that a deal with Hulu is "imminent." As you may or may not know I am a big fan and an avid watcher of Hulu.com, so I am excited about the addition of WB TV shows and possibly some movies. This article also speaks to Warner Brothers future use of celluar content. We may soon see Smallville and Reaper on Qualcomm based MediaFLO, which provides us full TV shows on cell phones via Verizon Wireless' V-Cast Mobile TV (and AT&T's service, whenever they get around to launching it.) If you haven't gotten an invite to Hulu's private beta yet, no worries TechCrunch thinks they will be out of beta and available to everyone in March! But if you can't wait that long than here's an episode of the Simpsons to hold you over.



And here's the Arrested Development pilot because, well, I love this show!

Sara Silverman is F#@*ing Matt Damon/Jimmy Kimmel is F#@*ing Ben Affleck

Sara Silverman is F#@*ing Matt Damon:



Jimmy Kimmel is F#@*ing Ben Affleck:

More Fun with Jerry O'Connell

I know this video is around a week old now, which in Blog time is like forever, but I was in the mood for a little more Jerry O'Connell. And some Rebecca Romjin never hurt, well not me anyway. I guess I just meed to petiton Hulu to run a little Sliders now and again.

What the Smurf?

Comingsoon.net Has the Surfinist scoop on the new CGI Smurf movie. I was a big Sumrf fan, like most people my age and I can see this making for a good family friendly flick. So If you can't smurf enough Smurfs and wanna check out the Smurfiest CGI of toy favorite three apple high blue rodants, you can smurf it out HERE

Now that the WGA strike is over, who won?

TheFutonCritic has a great breakdown of the final agreement the WGA and the AMPTP settled on. The guide is well put together, and even offers a comparison to the old contract. Was it worth it? You let me know.

Check out the guide HERE

HBO.com has an interesting interview with Michelle Paress, who plays Alma Gutierrez on The Wire. She tells of her very humble acting roots, apparently she auditioned for the role of Carcetti's secretary but David Simon had other ideas. It also seems like I'm not as up on my Wire trivia as I thought I was, I didn't know she was married to Larry Gilliard Jr, who played one of my favorite roles in the wire, D'Angelo Barksdale. Check out the interview HERE

If you are at all like me, and just can't talk about the Wire enough, HBO.com wants you to tell them your predictions for the end of the series. Let them know what you think HERE.

Well whatever they decide to do, I'd like to see the stories continue in comic book form, similarly to Buffy the Vampire slayer, or Star Trek. I know The Wire isn't science fiction, but Simon has created his own "universe" with it's own set of rules and physics, it's a world where Carcetti and O'Malley can both exist (Carcetti mentioned him in a dedication to new development on the waterfront, that isn't a grain peir. (I loved that scene) Also in Simon's Baltimore Murphy Homes stood for five years longer than they lasted in this reality. Ok maybe it's too fanboy, but I can dream can't I?

Remember the live action Tick?

No? then do yourself a favor and watch this pilot. Ah, I miss the tick.

TV Feud continues? Wayne Brady created Stephen Colbert?

You Decide

Stewart vs. Colbert vs. O'Brien Fight Video! Genius!

Last night I witnessed what I believe was the best post strike TV! Without their writers the collective late night talk show hosts Conan O'Brien, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert brought to a head their recent feud regarding "who created" Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. I know there will be many haters, naysayers and ne'erdowell who will complain that it was just a giant waste of time. To them I say it was a giant funny waste of time! Now make sure yo have 25 min and 58 sec to laugh, or you could play them all at once.

It started last night on The Daily Show



It continued on The Colbert Report



And it concluded on Late Night with Conan O'Brien with not only the inevitable brawl but a special message from Mike Huckabee

Max Headroom tells UK's channel 4 to get ready for digital!

The Wire: Maurice Levy loves Robert McClintock?

All over blogs, big or small you can read all about this weeks shocking episode of The Wire, If you haven't seen it I'm not gonna spoil it for you. (click here if you just got to know) I am going to write about what I believe to be overlooked as so many details in the wire are. In one scene we are treated to the inside of Baltimore's scummiest of lawyers, Maurice Levy's law offices. Now you may have read of David Simon's tip of his hat to the real Baltimore quite often and in this instance it featured one my favorite artist, Robert McClintock. Levy's walls are covered with his work!

Robert McClintock is a self described "HYBRiD PHoTO-DiGiTAL ARTiST" meaning he uses photographs and paint, as well a Mac with a giant monitor. McClintock catches Baltimore's fun and quirky landscape as well as Simon depicts it's dirty not-so-underbelly. Was Simon hinting that the fun and loud Baltimore exists within it's dark seedy urban blight? Some times it's difficult to remember that David Simon's Baltimore, Robert McClintock's Baltimore and John Waters' Baltimore are all the same Baltimore and all were once Barry Levinson's Baltimore.

Whenever your in Baltimore's Fell's Point, I recommend you stop by McClintock's studio it's at 1809 Thames Street. If you need a zip for Google Maps it's 21231, which is coincidently right next to where NBC would shoot the external shots of the police precinct in Homicide.

Check out his site for some more of his great artwork HERE

Or check out his MySpace Page HERE

Oh and I caught wind of a rumor the character Detective John Munch, played by Richard Belzer,who is currently on Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, is going to make a cameo on an episode of this season's Wire. For those who don't know Belzer first played Munch on the Baltimore based Homicide, and will be setting some sort of record for most appearances in different TV shows as the same character. It seems this time TV is giving Simon a nod seeing as he wrote Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, which became Homicide: Life on the Street. (Ok so he's really giving himself a nod, but I think he deserves it.)