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ROLLING EYE
The future of TV
Repeating the acclaim that greeted The Newsroom, entertainment editors were amazed to discover they weren't as cool as they thought they were when Ken Finkleman appeared on the cover of every newspaper and magazine in the country this week. Coverage included reviews praising his innovative-if-you've-never-seen-a-Fellini-movie new series, More Tears, in which he plays a cynical, self-obsessed TV news producer.
In the wake of his success, Finkleman announced plans for several more shows for the CBC. Some of these prospective ideas were leaked to eye and they, unsurprisingly, show that the future of television is truly in Finkleman's hands.
. Lotteries Are for Losers: Finkleman plays a cynical, self-obsessed PR flack in the Ontario Lottery Corporation forced to put a happy spin on the fact that the $22 million Super 7 jackpot has just been won by recently raided drug offenders.
. More Focus: Finkleman plays a cynical, self-obsessed Globe and Mail editor who must survive the internecine politics of the newspaper business and ponder whether there is truly such a thing as "Canadian culture" while maintaining a busy schedule of picking up women in health clubs.
. No Street Sense: Finkleman plays a cynical, self-obsessed street hotdog vendor who has trouble juggling the demands of his wife (a rose peddler), his son (a rickshaw driver) and his son's mistress (a segment producer on Daniel Richler's Big Life).
. At Least They Find Me Handy: Finkleman plays the cynical, self-obsessed producer of The New Red Green Show who, in hopes of changing the rules to allow female members, strives to become the president of the Possum Lodge, failing to realize that the Lodge is merely a fictional construct.
. The Singing Detective: Finkleman plays a cynical, self-obsessed character in this comedy-drama loosely based on the series of the same name by Dennis Potter except with "more smoking and better-looking babes."
-- JASON ANDERSON
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