Video Selections: Television, 7/9

I’m slowly warming to HBO’s new Flight of the Conchords. As a generality, hipster comedy is often just so much fluff intermingled with a hot soundtrack and thrift store costuming, as if it’s OK to package garbage in a kitchy but slick package that twenty-somethings can relate to. But against my hater instincts, I have to report that there’s actual comedy here - even the musical interludes, more often than not, are beyond eye-rolling reproach. A welcomed inclusion to the Conchords ensemble is comedienne Kristen Schall as freaky-fan Mel. (Schall can also be seen guest-hosting over at VBS.tv’s video Do’s and Don’ts and Friends.)

Mel’s video Stalker-blog | If You’re Into it | Flight of the Conchords podcasts - iTunes

— Luckie Louie - still dead. Louis CK - not at all. Videos. (GreenCine)

— NYT on ex-Arrested Development wunderkind Michael Cera and his weekly web-only series at clarkandmichael.com.

— Liz Lemon alert. Cracked Magazine compiles the 10 Best 30 Rock moments.

— Check in on Parker Posey and Six Feet Under alum Lauren Ambrose in clips (1 - 2 - 3) from the still-in-developmental stage The Return of Jezebel James. Created and produced by Gilmore Girls scribe Amy Sherman-Palladino, slated for eventual fall deployment on Fox. (Spout)

— Nicole Kidman checks her (Nintendo) brain age. (Dave and Thomas)

tedzee | Permalink | July 9 2007 | Comments (View)