MacGyver News

Stargate Universe 9/8c Syfy The Stargate franchise was been very good to the man best known as MacGyver.

I KNOW , RIGHT? My booty-tapping stats are diminishing by the second! Even worse, I know absolutely NOTHING about the Stargate shows - primarily because I have other interests, which include getting laid and NOT getting beat up.

The beast seen here, best known for once sinking a rival Viking's ship with a single whip of his fiery mullet, has changed his name .

There's nothing better to liven up a boring, rainy afternoon than a marathon of an exciting, action-packed adventure series.

Where to begin so may great choices. We will start with action drama: Macgyver- Who can forget Richard Dean Anderson, never using a gun and always getting out of sticky situations, even if the lines were cheesy most people were encumbered by the fact that he could take a paper clip, pencil and a zipper and make it explode.

The 80's were a great time in the entertainment department. The 80's gave us music videos, the first computers, and some great television shows.

Few who saw one of Bruce McGill's earliest film performances - " as the wild-eyed, law-breaking D-Day in "Animal House" - " assumed that the Texas-born character actor would later come to embody the face of law.... Few who saw one of Bruce McGill's earliest film performances - " as the wild-eyed, law-breaking D-Day in "Animal House" - " assumed ...

The character is a spoof of the 1980s TV show, MacGyver . Each sketch usually features MacGruber trapped in a room trying to diffuse a bomb and eventually failing.

Unless I was reading my morning edition of Production Weekly incorrectly - something I never do - it seems as though the nearly-unable-to-speak, man/ape/creature Chaka from Land of the Lost is going to be directing the MacGruber film based off the SNL advertisements for Pepsi.

Anyone keeping an eye on studio development over the past few weeks could be forgiven for thinking Hollywood is either so tireless it's finally coming up with some fresh ideas or so tired it's coming up with some really lame ones.

"MacGruber," the recurring "Saturday Night Live" skit that parodies the action series "MacGyver," is one step closer to going before cameras as a big-screen movie.

Everyone's been all a-twitter about the possibility that there will be a feature film version of MacGyver.

Everyone's been all a-twitter about the possibility that there will be a feature film version of MacGyver , the TV series starring Richard Dean Anderson as a master of mechanical improv.

It's a slow week, not that you can tell from the number of spotlight reviews. Over the past week, I received close to a dozen DVDs that were late.