We'll definitely been seeing Seasons 3 and 4.

Rejoice MacGyverites! (yeah, I know MacGyverites is a cheesy pseudo-religious appellation, but too bad cuz it's my blog and I like to type "MacGyverites"). Anyway, DVD sales of Macgyver Season 1 have been described as "huge" and way beyond our estimates", so it's a no-brainer that they going to continue their release schedule. Hell, they'll probably even speed it up.

And maybe the Family Guy factor will come in to play. Family Guy sold so many DVDs that they brought the series back from the dead. Do I think this will happen to MacGyver? No. but I do predict a cheesy MacGyver reunion movie on ABC for May sweeps of 2007. And this may revive the interest in the Young Macgyver show, but I kinda hope not.

RDA at E3 Expo

Yep, Richard Dean Anderson, the one who moistens panties, is appearing at the E3 Expo in LA to promote the new Stargate game. Personally, I'd dig a MacGyver game, where the goal was to escape from weird traps using ingenuity with a entire stage dedicated to blasting bad guys with a fire hose, but my dreams will never come true. People just don't think MacGyver is cool anymore.

Here's the press release. Make your way to LA, MacGyverites.

The t-shirt says it all.

Some guy tried to escape from prison in Colorado using a rope and grappling hooks made out of bedsheets and metal pieces of the table. Here's the picture of the criminal MacGyver. PICTURE

Here's the article if you want more details.

By the way, I saw a couple of MacGyver t-shirts at 80tees.com. The duct tape one was pretty cool, although I thought it was a crappy rendition of Mac.

The End of the MacGyver Knife?

I don't have a Swiss Army knife anymore. Nope. It's in a giant pile of its brethen somewhere in the depths of O'hare Airport. I never got a new one. Evidently, this is a huge phenomenon because the companies behind the knives have cut back production to focus on non-knife tools.

The article.

Just a thought, but don't you think if MacGyver was on today, he'd be a hacker instead of a superspy?

MacGyver Website Highlights

I wanted to thanks you guys for all the supportive emails that you've sent me. I really appreciate it and it return I'm going to start highlighting a favorite feature of various Mac sites. Today's feature is the MacGyver top ten lists at Live and Learn.

As a part-time comedy writer, I suppose I should write my own top ten list, but I believe in outsourcing. Feel free to submit any top ten lists to me. Best entry gets...a response email. Gentlmen, start your engines!

Penny Parker/ Desperate Housewife

Okay, so normally I try and start posting on Monday and then as no new MacGyver news comes in I benignly neglect the blog until the next week starts. This week, however, I 've been recovering from a weekend without sleep courtesy of the 48 hour film fest. It's this contest where basically you compete against other teams of filmmakers to make the best film in 48 hours or less. A random genre is given and then you go and make the film. Believe me, my fingers were crossed for spy movie. Instead, we got romance, so my spy trapped in a bathroom with a dead body and has to escape using his wits a la MacGyver will never see the light of day. Weep.

Anyway, I just wanted to point out that before Terri Hatcher became a star via Desperate Housewives, well actually she first became a star in Lois and Clark (the first season was great), that she was Penny Parker in that show of shows, MacGyver. But I'm sure you all knew that.