[lbo-talk] Wonder Showzen, Season 2 began last night

[B.]

LA Times on Wonder Showzen, below. Season 2 began last
night, March 31. I posted a clip fromt he show here a
week or so ago; that clip is here: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mHeeyHEycE

LA TIMES: 

You quite possibly do not know that it's time for a
second season of "Wonder Showzen," beginning tonight
at 9:30 on MTV2. Even if you are aware of the show —
or perhaps especially if you're aware of it — you may
be surprised that it's back, for it is obscene,
blasphemous, scatological, scabrous, gross, gruesome,
unpleasant, unpatriotic, distasteful, exploitative,
violent, bloody, juvenile, puerile, perverse,
pustulant and undoubtedly bad-smelling. I do not mean
that necessarily as a criticism.

It's indicative of how wide and deep the television
world has become that such a thing can air at all; one
almost feels proud of the medium, in a half-ashamed
kind of way. The show became a cult and, here and
there, a critical hit last year, with replays on
Comedy Central — a corporate cousin under the vast
Viacom sun — and downloads available through iTunes.
This week, the first eight-episode season became
available on DVD.


http://www.calendarlive.com/tv/cl-et-wondershowzen31mar31,0,7991985.story?coll=la-home-headlines