Catching Up With the Greenlight - 
by Guest Columnist
[Doing guest coverage of Project Green light is sg-dub. You can read his blog at http://weakisht.blogspot.com/.]
Guesting for the first time on tvgasm to recap a show about first time writers and directors is, I think, rather fitting. Being new 'round these parts, I have set my goal pretty low: I only hope to do better than the first two Project Greenlight movies did. At the very least, I promise I won't squander the $2,000,000 retainer tvgasm paid me - at least not right away.
As b-side mentioned in a recent post, this season of Greenlight has some serious potential. Of course, at the time of this writing it is now 4 episodes old, so we've got some catching up to do. Some changes are in place for this, the third season of Greenlight. Miramax has shifted the blame - er, responsibility - to it's subsidiary, Dimension Films. HBO, apparently intent on showing only quality original programming, also dumped the cursed show so it is now seen on Bravo. The channel change means that the show will have no more nudity and no more cursing yet will retain all the suck we've come to expect. Hooray.
Bravo has quickly become the channel for "alternative" (a.k.a. gay) programming. I'm not sure when this shift occurred, but I'm thinking the endless hours of the Cirque de Soleil played some part. Before we knew it, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Blowout, Boy Meets Boy, Manhunt, and Project Runway caused the boys from Provincetown to Greenwich Village [Editor's Note: sg-dub operates out of the East Coast tvgasm offices] to squeal with delight. Staying true to Bravo's preferred demographic, gay couple Ben Affleck and Matt Damon return once again to give star power to this nearly all male "cast" of writers, directors, producers, and Dimension honchos. Mmmmmm, "honchos."
Let's get to the show already. The first episode introduced us to all of the key players in the project, none of which particularly stood apart from the rest. Just a bunch of studio guys in brightly colored collared shirts, jeans, and loafers. I couldn't tell, but I'd wager none of them were wearing socks. Speaking of "Sox"... Ok, Ben and Matt, we get it. You are from Boston. You like the Red Sox. Enough with the stupid freaking Red Sox hats all the time. Is there some Massachusetts law that if you get on a reality TV show, you must surgically attach a dirty Red Sox cap to your head? It became immediately apparent that the studio and its producers are intent this time around to produce a - gasp - profitable movie, integrity be damned. Then again, this is Hollywood and I think all integrity was damned there long ago... I'm talking Fatty Arbuckle days. (It was part of my tvgasm contract to work in "Fatty Arbuckle" somewhere, somehow.) As before, the final three scripts were chosen via online voting. Yeah, leave it up to the public. Smart. The same public who just made "Sahara" number one last weekend.
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