what kind of decade wasn’t well sitcoms
and dramas were replaced with reality
programming while a desperate Hollywood
turned to any and all sources of
inspiration it could find yeah that’s
the kind of decade it was in
entertainment in 2000 the millennium
began with a sweeping change of the TV
landscape with the launch of Survivor
this quickly began an industry-wide
reality craze that prioritized cheap
unscripted programming above plot or
production values that same year
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon flew into
theaters to become the highest-grossing
foreign language film in American
history at the same point Marvel Studios
released x-men a success that would
cause other superheroes like Spider Man
to quickly swing into cinemas in 2001
movie studios realized that fantasy
novels garnered a huge following as a
result the film versions of JRR
Tolkien’s the Lord of the Rings went
head-to-head with JK Rowling’s Harry
Potter
while Shrek spoofed fairy tales and
collected animations first Oscar for
Best Animated Feature 2002 saw Hollywood
finally break the mold by awarding
African American actors in the Best
Actor and Best Actress categories thank
you thank you thank meanwhile American
Idol premiered to the delight of the
country’s worst singers who got to
screech in Simon’s face as well as
provide a launching pad for the truly
talented such as Kelly Clarkson and
Carrie Underwood in 2003 we saw a Disney
flip a five minute ride into a three
movie franchise while Martha Stewart
decorated a prison cell it was also the
year we lost a neighbor 2004 gave us
Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 a failed
attempt to block President Bush from
being reelected this coincided with the
popularization of an
film category called torture porn as
seen in saw and Mel Gibson’s The Passion
of the Christ the world lost a hero this
year when the man known as Superman
passed away as did the man who portrayed
his father Marlon Brando passed away in
July in 2005 a new dawn for
entertainment began with the YouTube
explosion which made celebrities out of
ordinary people well sort of ordinary
people that same year the nation mourned
the passing of comedians Richard Pryor
and Johnny Carson
while Steve Carell redefined outrageous
adult comedy with the 40 year old virgin
meanwhile The Colbert Report invaded
late-night television and moviegoers
were spared as those dreadful Star Wars
prequels finally came to an end with
Revenge of the Sith 2006 was the year
that gay cowboys rode into the sunset in
Brokeback Mountain and Borat showed us
how gullible and racist we all really
are perhaps most shocking of all was not
the fact that Crocodile Hunter Steve
Irwin was killed it’s that he was killed
by a stingray and not a crocodile the
inconvenient truth former vice pres and
Democratic nominee Al Gore lost the
election but won an Oscar bond went
blonde and Balboa came back for round
six in 2007 paramount and Hasbro
transformed a toy line into big money
with transformers it was a dark year for
television as the Writers Guild of
America went on strike which meant no
new TV and the seasons of existing shows
were cut short this was also the year
Anna Nicole Smith ended her reign as the
tabloid Queen when she passed away from
an accidental overdose in February in
2008 darker superhero movies finally
became popular with The Dark Knight
a movie that benefited from the stellar
performance of the late Heath Ledger
it’s simple kill the Batman
the realm of TV sex in the city got a
movie adaptation that lured tons of
women and their poor boyfriends to movie
theaters meanwhile reality programming
became legit when three Emmy Award
categories were created to honor the
genre and the blu-ray high-definition
disc finally won its two-year struggle
with HD DVD to become the next gen video
format of choice 2009 was the year of
celebrity deaths Ed McMahon Walter
Cronkite David Carradine even Charlie’s
angel Farrah Fawcett died though no one
noticed as Michael Jackson passed away
the same day in the movie world however
sci-fi took center stage as Star Trek
was given a new lease on life with the
help of a younger cast the decade
finally came to a close with James
Cameron’s Avatar the most expensive and
visually impressive film ever to combine
live action CGI and 3d experience
and dramas were replaced with reality
programming while a desperate Hollywood
turned to any and all sources of
inspiration it could find yeah that’s
the kind of decade it was in
entertainment in 2000 the millennium
began with a sweeping change of the TV
landscape with the launch of Survivor
this quickly began an industry-wide
reality craze that prioritized cheap
unscripted programming above plot or
production values that same year
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon flew into
theaters to become the highest-grossing
foreign language film in American
history at the same point Marvel Studios
released x-men a success that would
cause other superheroes like Spider Man
to quickly swing into cinemas in 2001
movie studios realized that fantasy
novels garnered a huge following as a
result the film versions of JRR
Tolkien’s the Lord of the Rings went
head-to-head with JK Rowling’s Harry
Potter
while Shrek spoofed fairy tales and
collected animations first Oscar for
Best Animated Feature 2002 saw Hollywood
finally break the mold by awarding
African American actors in the Best
Actor and Best Actress categories thank
you thank you thank meanwhile American
Idol premiered to the delight of the
country’s worst singers who got to
screech in Simon’s face as well as
provide a launching pad for the truly
talented such as Kelly Clarkson and
Carrie Underwood in 2003 we saw a Disney
flip a five minute ride into a three
movie franchise while Martha Stewart
decorated a prison cell it was also the
year we lost a neighbor 2004 gave us
Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 a failed
attempt to block President Bush from
being reelected this coincided with the
popularization of an
film category called torture porn as
seen in saw and Mel Gibson’s The Passion
of the Christ the world lost a hero this
year when the man known as Superman
passed away as did the man who portrayed
his father Marlon Brando passed away in
July in 2005 a new dawn for
entertainment began with the YouTube
explosion which made celebrities out of
ordinary people well sort of ordinary
people that same year the nation mourned
the passing of comedians Richard Pryor
and Johnny Carson
while Steve Carell redefined outrageous
adult comedy with the 40 year old virgin
meanwhile The Colbert Report invaded
late-night television and moviegoers
were spared as those dreadful Star Wars
prequels finally came to an end with
Revenge of the Sith 2006 was the year
that gay cowboys rode into the sunset in
Brokeback Mountain and Borat showed us
how gullible and racist we all really
are perhaps most shocking of all was not
the fact that Crocodile Hunter Steve
Irwin was killed it’s that he was killed
by a stingray and not a crocodile the
inconvenient truth former vice pres and
Democratic nominee Al Gore lost the
election but won an Oscar bond went
blonde and Balboa came back for round
six in 2007 paramount and Hasbro
transformed a toy line into big money
with transformers it was a dark year for
television as the Writers Guild of
America went on strike which meant no
new TV and the seasons of existing shows
were cut short this was also the year
Anna Nicole Smith ended her reign as the
tabloid Queen when she passed away from
an accidental overdose in February in
2008 darker superhero movies finally
became popular with The Dark Knight
a movie that benefited from the stellar
performance of the late Heath Ledger
it’s simple kill the Batman
the realm of TV sex in the city got a
movie adaptation that lured tons of
women and their poor boyfriends to movie
theaters meanwhile reality programming
became legit when three Emmy Award
categories were created to honor the
genre and the blu-ray high-definition
disc finally won its two-year struggle
with HD DVD to become the next gen video
format of choice 2009 was the year of
celebrity deaths Ed McMahon Walter
Cronkite David Carradine even Charlie’s
angel Farrah Fawcett died though no one
noticed as Michael Jackson passed away
the same day in the movie world however
sci-fi took center stage as Star Trek
was given a new lease on life with the
help of a younger cast the decade
finally came to a close with James
Cameron’s Avatar the most expensive and
visually impressive film ever to combine
live action CGI and 3d experience
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