Eagleheart returns to Adult Swim on April 12 at midnight, and with it comes the return of suspenseful music, Michael Gladis' deep Orson Welles voice, spurting blood, spurting blood, spurting blood, spurting vomit, and spurting blood. Based solely on this promo, that is. (Also more spurting blood.)
With the outrageously funny Eagleheart, Adult Swim continues its recent live action hot streak, delivering a series that lives up to the quality of Children's Hospital and Delocated. The first episode, “Get Worse Soon,” aired late last night and it exceeded the high expectations I had for the series. It’s great to see Chris Elliott back in a leading role (his first since 1994’s Cabin Boy), but he’s not the only one doing exceptional work here. Eagleheart is a production brimming with talent on both sides of the camera.
Going in, I had some reservations about whether or not the 15-minute format is right for this series. Without commercials, [...]
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It's 1987 and Chris Elliott is desecrating the memory of a beloved national treasure.
Performing in Irvington, New York's Town Hall in front of a packed house — if you count the numerous cardboard stand-ins — Elliott blithely stumbles through the life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt while paying no credence to facts, character, or taste. In the midst of a grossly inaccurate tale, a stagehand slinks up to the performer and whispers in his ear.
"The audience hates you."
"Aw, shut up," Elliott replies.
And it's with that two-sentence [...]
According to the internet, television network executives are a bunch of deplorable scumbags. They are wretched slime, only existing to please the philistines that situate themselves in the middle of America that find Tim Allen and Jon Cryer funny. They purchase Monets and use them as target practice. They are only experts at bringing joy to the deserving loud minority that appreciate high brow things such as irony, only to take it away and watch as Tumblrs drown in their tears. Executives get their assistants to make screengrabs of the most depressing tweets about a show's cancellation to show their children on Christmas. After tousling their kids' hair they [...]
Just a friendly reminder that Eagleheart, Chris Elliott's awesome new show on Adult Swim, premieres tonight at 11:59pm. Check it out! I've seen the first couple episodes, and they're absolutely hilarious.
Vulture has a long, excellent interview with the wonderful Chris Elliott today, in which he talks about everything from Eagleheart to his time on Letterman to Cabin Boy to SNL (both his time on the show and his daughter Abby's) and how he totally blew it with James Cameron. Here's that story: He was really nice to me on The Abyss. But I look back on some of the things I did when I was a kid and cringe at them — you know, what I did professionally, behind the scenes. He was so nice to me on the set, which was interesting because he was not the [...]
Next week, Adult Swim is debuting Eagleheart, a new live action series starring Chris Elliott and produced by Conan O’Brien through his company, Conaco Productions. The show has been picked up for a 12 episode run, with each installment lasting 15 minutes. Eagleheart is an over-the-top action-comedy series in which Chris Elliott plays US marshal Chris Monsanto. The series was inspired by the corny dialogue and action of Chuck Norris’s Walker, Texas Ranger. In fact, Eagleheart co-creator Michael Koman mentioned in a recent interview that he had a hand in creating the popular “Walker, Texas Ranger lever” segments when he was a writer for Late Night, so it’s [...]
