The Point Radio: CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL Crosses The Line

This week, CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL winds up it’s 5th season on Adult Swim (Thursday at 12midnight ET), closing a year that saw an Emmy win, bunches of cool guest stars and even more over-the-edge episodes. Co-Creator and star, Rob Corddry talks about how it all came together and just what changes that Emmy brought to the show. Plus Oni Press has another indy sell-out and the most important name in Hollywood now is The DVR. THE POINT covers it 24/7! Take us ANYWHERE! The Point Radio App is now in the iTunes App store – and it’s FREE! Just search under “pop culture The Point”. The Point Radio  – 24 hours a day of pop culture fun for FREE. GO HERE and LISTEN FREE on any computer or on any other  mobile device with the Tune In Radio app – and follow us on Twitter @ThePointRadio.

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The Point Radio Hi, I'm Mike Raub. So Children's Hospital winds up a fifth season this week, and series star and creator Rob Cordridge are long to talk about what life has been like on the set

after that Emmy win. Plus, Avatar, the sequel back on track, and the most important person in Hollywood right now just might be the DVR. Let's get to The Point.

This is The Point. The Point Radio. Get The Point Radio. The Adult Swim Comedy Children's Hospital is winding up season five,

and creator and star Rob Cordridge told me that as this season ended, there seemed to be a little bit more of a time crunch than usual. We got cocky after last season.

We wanted Emmy. So we're like, oh, we got this. We can throw these three episodes away and just write some more as we go. And so we were just writing a lot,

and I was literally writing a scene for two days in the future. I was looking over notes that David was rewriting for a scene that was gonna be done next while I was writing a scene

that was actually shooting downstairs with Aaron Hayes. It was a complete circus. The question everybody wants to know, how much improv is on the show and how much is scripted?

Yeah, I mean, we have some of the best improvisers working in comedy today, so it'd be silly to say, you have to say every word. And also, it's not really the trend these days is that this is the idea.

If I want something said, particularly want something stressed, then say it that way. But no, for the most part, it's just an idea. And usually the common way to do it

for all movies and TV shows is to like, you do it on the script, and then you have your fun with it. But we're just lucky that we have some of the best working right now who are making up.

And I mean, Hubel is like the big poppy of Children's Hospital, always taking grand plans. Like past seasons, there were no small amount of big name guest stars on this year. So why is it so easy for Children's Hospital

to attract these people? Mostly just because I think we have a good reputation for being a fun show to work on, which is the only reason we'd be able to keep this all star cast and also have the same crew

for five years. Because nobody gets paid a lot, and it doesn't take a lot of time proportionately. And it is a fun place to work. And also, my philosophy of life is basically

just do cool stuff with people who aren't dicks. And so, you know, and then you end up just kind of conducting your whole life that way and not being a dick yourself. And then attracting, I find myself surrounded by wonderful people, you know, most of the time.

And it just seems to like happen that way. Everybody's a pretty supportive community these days. And talking the reputation that comedy has for all being broken jerks. Originally, Children's Hospital was a parody

of medical shows like Grey's Anatomy. But Rob told me that's changed over the years. But exactly how much? For example, is there anything they wouldn't do like a musical episode?

Oh, God, every year somebody's like, you, we have to do a musical episode. And over my dead body, that will happen. It's just too on the nose, you know what I mean? I think after the probably the first or second season,

we stopped drawing from that specific genre and just started basically using TV as our, you know, parroting TV in general, TV shows and TV show conventions. And most of the jokes are about like kind of messing

with television conventions that the casual viewer will also understand or understand by watching it. Also just being a 15 minute show helps that. But I agree, like, I can't watch any of that crap. So did the Emmy win really change anything?

Changed, it changed nothing really in terms of money. There is that like sort of rumor and maybe this happens in network TV or something where you get an Emmy and immediately your price tag goes up. That does not happen on a show like this.

But you know, purely because also they're like, well, go do something else, man. You would have it as much fun as you are, you know, like I said before. If you're in this for the money,

you're doing the wrong show. The show started out as a web series and paved the way for short form comedy, both on television and on the internet and being recognized in award shows as well.

And Rob tells me that's something he's pretty proud of. If the industry is now at least recognizing this kind of not just short form comedy as a category, but also just like that whole idea of what my sort of family,

our family of comedians are doing right now. You know what I mean? Like, it's weird because you see us all over the place on TV, but no one can say, oh, that's Adam Sandler's group or that's Will Ferrell's group or that's, you know,

that sort of comedy family, because there's no real centerpiece of it. And so I think because now I think Emmys and articles start acting as a centerpiece for a group that people can go, oh, that is also an empathy,

even though it's more of a like community than it is a spearheaded by someone. And so like, I think it's done that. I think it's drawn more attention to our, and it's our comedy, but it went on time

because, you know, I look like it by early 40s. It's almost over. Catch some episodes from season five right now running on encores on the Adult Swim Network. And if you want to see the first four seasons,

they're available on DVD with season five headed out to the shelves sometime in spring of 2014. The flight radio. Here we go with the latest in pop culture. We already knew it, but it looks like everybody's about

to realize the most important appliance we have in our house is the DVR. The Blacklist, the NBC series, it had a pretty strong start, got a massive boost when ratings were added together with those who recorded the show on DVR.

It's figured by taking the original live broadcast rating and adding two of those who record the show and watch it the same day in three days or in seven days. And when you do that, the Blacklist added another five

plus million viewers, making it the first television series to ever do that and giving it a massive rating of 17.9 million people watching the show overall. While that shows at the top of the DVR loving list, there are others as well on there,

including the Big Bang Theory that added about six million viewers to its season premiere when you added in DVR viewing. And of course Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which while has had some tepid ratings

the past couple of episodes, has added lots more viewers when you brought in those who recorded the show to watch at a later time. The Avatar sequel will finally get before the cameras in just about a year.

That's according to star Sam Worthington who talked to an Australian radio station and have also reported to Variety as well. The sequels have been delayed for a long time. They were supposed to begin production last year,

but now it's on track. By the way, they'll be shooting three films at once for a total of four films in the Avatar franchise. The latest hot independent to follow might be Letter 44 from Ani Press.

First issue sold out of the complete print run of about 20,000 plus copies. A second printing will be on the way. And if you're lucky enough to get a copy of the first printing, grab it.

It was only a dollar in stores originally, by the way. After what some consider to be a disappointing first week, Arrow had a bounce back in the ratings with the second episode picking up a huge score, the coveted 18 to 49 year old demographic.

In fact, those numbers were the best since last February. Not surprising considering the fact that fans are pretty excited about upcoming episodes that allegedly will include a new version of Black Kerry and the introduction of the flesh into this DC TV universe.

Chalk up two more cancellations on the new TV season, this time both on NBC, the new family comedy, Welcome to the Family and the revival of Ironsides, both pulled from the schedule, at least for the foreseeable future.

However, that did open up room for community, which will now return with back to back episodes on the 2nd of January to the network. And the spinoff from Chicago Fire, Chicago PD will also premiere on the network on Wednesday, January.

The points, radio, guess what's cool. We can almost get out of the comic store for spending a lot of money this week and come away with some good stuff too. The things we think you should check out

when you hit the store this week. Starting with a new Conan series from Dark Horse called People of the Black Circle. Some interesting buzz about this one online already. The big purchase just might be

the absolute Joker Luther hardcover from DC, but keep in mind, it pretty much is just the two graphic novels and miniseries on those characters done by Brian Ezarello. And it's pretty pricey too, just under a hundred bucks.

The Batman cartoon, some people like it, some people don't, but beware, the Batman gets a comic series starting with number one this week. There's a couple of forever evil tie-ins at DC as well, including Justice League 24, Justice League Dark 24,

and Teen Titans 24 as well. And for a buck, you can read the Vertigo Essentials Sandman number one, which puts you right in the pace for the new Sandman series that'll begin in a few weeks. Finally, from IDW, Rocketeer Spirit Pulp Friction

number two comes out, been waiting for that. And some more printings for the X-Files series, X-Files season 10 number one gets a fourth printing as does number two, and number three gets a second printing. My best bet this week, a book from Image

called Pretty Deadly done by Kelly Sue DeConnick. Marvel tries to get funny again with a Marvel Now What number one this week. There's a second printing of all new X-Men number 16 and one of X-Men number five.

And from tomorrow's, Allerigo number 21, also in stores this week as well. Check out those stores with the comic book locator service, dial it up, old school, 1-888-COMIC-BOOK. Check out comicbooklocatorservice.com

or check our website, comicvix.com, for an easy way to find a store in your area. Or you can also go to a website called findmycomicshop.com. The Point.

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