Mr. Pop Culture Report – July 25… … At Least One TV Show Will Have Theme Music! …
Saturday, July 24th, 2010 | Hot Pop Culture
MTV screened the first act of its upcoming series adaptation of Teen Wolf Friday at Comic-Con. Unlike the 1985 movie - a campy teen comedy starring Michael J. Fox as a high school basketball player who becomes a werewolf while going through puberty – this one is dark.
The New Hawaii Five-O theme to be – close to the same! After originally bringing in a famous rock star to freshen the tune, the producers instead opted to bring back all the original musicians who recorded the song in 1968. “It only affirmed for us that you cannot change it,” executive producer Alex Kurtzman said at a Comic-Con panel. “Not everything should be remake or rebooted. Sometimes you have to know what to change and what to leave the same.” Interesting because – how many TV shows these days even have themes? At least there’s one! FYI – here’s the old
Passing – Veteran journalist Daniel Schorr, whose career ranged from reporting on the building of the Berlin Wall to the Watergate scandal, died on Friday at the age of 93, National Public Radio said. Schorr, who spent the past 25 years as a senior news analyst at NPR, died peacefully on Friday morning at a Washington hospital, surrounded by his family, after what NPR described in a statement as a short illness. Mr. Pop will never forget his TV cameo in the Michael Douglas/Sean Penn movie, “The Game.”
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