The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 58

16M I SUNDAY JANUARY 3 2010 MiamiHerald comTropical Life THE MIAMI HERALD TELEVISION 1 jTpemupmrsi gets a second chance GOODE FAMILY FROM 1M CHOICE AWARDS NOMINFE BEST COMEDY 1 IT! YOU 1 WANT TO MISS THIS ONE 4 wryatrysatisfig: AOS 'TT A7TW6 MOVIES LAUGH-OUT-LOUD FUNNY hat a joy to just sit back and be thd THE MEW YORK OBSERVER GOODE FAMILY 'MOVIES DONT GET ANY U-'7TT FUNNIER THAN THIS! If A smart sophisticated A A and hilarious 1 A i I AMMON0 BOXOFFICfc MAGAZINE ifJL A started with a strike against it" says Joe Hipps vice president of TV production at Media Rights Capital which produced the show lead-in was Wipeout a game show with big red balls throwing people into the water And then going into a talky animated show? It never had a John Altschuler one of The Goode executive producers says even some ABC executives warned him that their summer schedule was a poor fit were told that the summer was going to be really really he says were told Wipeout would be a really bad lead-in because the audiences would be so different It was even mentioned that we might want to wait for the fall But we would have had to shut down everything and then restart which we thought would be difficult so we went Altschuler also thinks the take-no-prisoners political humor of The Goode Family may work better on Comedy Central MEMORABLY HILARIOUS pf Tbw fkAVfcHb ROLLING STONE MFKYL STEW ALEC SLHEEP MARTIN IWLDWIN Vnt ton and Directed bj NcUlOy McyCTS cover for drug-smuggling: was our very first censorship Altschuler (who incidentally is Jewish) says had used the German phrase sturm und drang literally storm and stress which just means being upset But the censor thought it was some Nazi thing And the rule was you can reference Nazis but you use any of their symbols we told him we understand Are we afraid going to offend Nazis Goode Family I think would have been a much better show if we have to pussyfoot around neo-Nazi where viewers are accustomed to the scorched-earth sensibilities of shows like South Park and Futurama (Typical Goode Family scene: When a college administrator tells his boss his department needs more funding to improve the percentage of minority employees the boss replies: we could just fire three white guys Everybody Certainly he says it will be easier to write for cable if Comedy Central orders new episodes though they were very professional about it the censorship standards on ABC are very Altschuler says can do an awful lot about sex but not about political thought You deal with race at all had one of our crotchety old characters say go to that Asian restaurant for barbecue Those guys really know their way around a It got censored trying to imply Asian people like they told us Well they do You really think somebody is going to be offended because we say Asians know how to cook a Even more ludicrous he thought were the rules ABC laid down for an episode in which a neo-Nazi group joins an adopt-a-highway program as a Complicated REZTWJCTTO 1 -B- 31 WWWlt5CMTip4lCHledmOViecom SUHFD QuUHi dt WaiMUTY 'Y LilLLk L0( ALLU IIMSt OR! IltATRLS AM) SHOVUIMFA EE P-T I 4 I I I 1 i 1 I i 1 1 i TjjCjJI iiMiiTnilEjiAL' i rrf? 1 It tl ATID a AINEWJA SICHTiTO BEHOLD vwwjwmwiei Tt 1 UCCTRES EVERYWHERE ggnw SfjciN'cUt llork Stines MANOHLA DARGIS 99 nOOER EBERT a TIME RICHARD CORLISS it FOR YEARS IT Will DEH IE WHAT MOVIES CAI1 achieve: 99 I-T Ljl JAMES CAMERON'S AVATAR 1 ppseum Jl 1 fMqjQpwu iiSidkHwcktll jteka Iriin itftditiriliiiifil'ii EVERYWHERE a EVERYWAY UNDER THE WHITE BIG TOP BICENTENNIAL PARK OPENS IN MIAMI ON JANUARY 19 wwwcavalianet 1 866999-8111 Eht Miami Hftrtli) Co-presented by AirienneIrsht Center WWWHerikJ WTh 1 nc arnruUMma ahi o- am dim cchjhtv CHICK LOCAL LllTINOS FOR THEATRRR RHOWTIMBR rn rrwn wn mmm yes i'lif- tjj upv mezr'iA ja.