OMG - Britney to guest star on Will & Grace

[Brent]

NBC has pulled the episode. It was apparently going to deal with "Crucifying"

[GalvestonDuck]

NBC has pulled the episode. It was apparently going to deal with "Crucifying"

So it wasn't a "done deal" as they said in an earlier report. Hmmm...sorry, Helen.

I think the "crucifying" reference was "Cruci-fixin's," which was going to be the name of the cooking segment that Spears' character (a conservative Christian) was going to have or try to have on Jack's show.

Part of the problem could have been that the ep would have aired on April 13th (if the article was correct), which was the Thursday before Good Friday.

Dang it, I miss Brandon Tartikoff. Now that man KNEW good programming.

[Brent]

She's guest starring in Thursday's episode, but the plot and her part defintely changed.

Thursday, March 30 2006

WILL & GRACE --(8:00PM-8:30PM) --(TV-14 LD)

"Buy, Buy Baby"

JACKTALK GETS A NEW LOOK- BRITNEY SPEARS AND WANDA SYKES GUEST STAR- After a large corporation takes over OutTV, Jack's (Sean Hayes) talk show "JackTalk" is completely revamped. An immediate change comes when the new conservative owners hire Amber-Louise (guest star Britney Spears) as "JackTalk's" new co-host. While Jack is deciding whether or not he'll stand up to his new bosses, Karen (Megan Mullally) goes baby shopping. After seeing Grace (Debra Messing) so happy about her pregnancy, Karen decides she wants a baby of her own and offers to pay a make-up lady, Cricket (guest star Wanda Sykes), to carry one for her. Eric McCormack also stars.

[GalvestonDuck]

That was, without a doubt, one of the stupidest episodes of W&G to date. (Of course, if you were never a watcher, you'd say they're all stupid.)

The whole idea of the episode supposedly was to illustrate to Jack that he shouldn't compromise his principles. Will pointed out that "JackTalk" guest George Takei's show "Star Trek" was all about tolerance and that Amber-Louise (Britney's character) was trying to undermine that with her changes to his show and pushing her Republican "agenda."

Of course, I'm all about actors portraying characters that are unlike themselves. But in this case, wasn't it a bit hypocritical of the producers of W&G to have Britney Spears play such a blatantly negative, stereotypical Conservative character and compromise her own principles? Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Britney a troop-supporting, Right-winger? Couldn't they have had a liberal actor play the part instead and make fun of Right-wingers like they wanted to? It's not like they haven't done it before. But there were some outright ignorant anti-Republican statements made in tonight's show.

I don't at all want to get into a political discussion. I'm just confused about what message they were trying to send by having one character being taught not to compromise, while an actor was being made to do just that.

[CajunMama]

Oh darn...I missed it!

[Brent]

I forgot all about it(not like I was going to watch it anyway), but I'm glad I missed it.