Posted Oct 14th 2008 11:03AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Industry, OpEd, The Daily Show, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Time for a bit of news about our favorite real couple in fake news!
Daily Show correspondents Jason Jones and Samantha Bee have signed on to co-write and co-star
in a CBS comedy. Jones will star as a celebrity chef and Bee will play one of the two ladies that run his most likely Rachael Ray-esque empire. Some semblance of hilarity will ensue, hopefully.
Doing a sitcom be a departure from what
TDS fans are used to seeing from these two. I can only vaguely remember Bee's one or two, super-brief sitcom guest spots and and the only non-
TDS thing I remember Jones doing was that weird crafting battle show on Style. No, I did not dream that; there was definitely a show called
Craft Corner Deathmatch. It was extreme as it sounds, with a lot of intense hot glue and bric-a-brac.
Continue reading Daily Show's Jones and Bee to star in CBS sitcom - VIDEO
Posted Oct 14th 2008 10:23AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Industry, Ratings, Reality-Free
Two new shows on The CW have experienced such a drop in ratings that two of the series,
Easy Money and
Valentine, have been shut down on a 4 to 6 week hiatus while the creators work on scripts. Fortunately for The CW these shows are on their "rented out" space on Sundays. This is unfortunate for MRC, the company that actually runs those shows.
Continue reading CW's Sunday shows to go on hiatus
Posted Oct 14th 2008 9:05AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S01E01) Watching
My Own Worst Enemy is like deja vu. You feel like you've seen something like this before. Was it
The Bourne Identity, Casino Royale, Minority Report, Mr. and Mrs. Smith? Or maybe it was something on TV, like that failed Ray Liotta series
Smith or Jennifer Garner's
Alias or
The Bionic Woman or
The Six Million Dollar Man or something else...
See, that's the problem with
My Own Worst Enemy. It's familiar but not in a cool way. Rather it's derivative and not very compelling. NBC is already doing a double life, super secret spy thing much better in the ratings-challenged
Chuck.
The obvious appeal of
My Own Worst Enemy is two-fold: lots of action including cool gadgets, cars (thank you, GM), guns, blood and the mystery, combined with the charm and complexity of Christian Slater. Slater's a fun actor, a sort of Jack Nicholson only younger. I remember when he first started on
Ryan's Hope! He's got something.
Continue reading My Own Worst Enemy: Breakdown (series premiere)
Posted Oct 14th 2008 8:32AM by Paul Goebel
Filed under: Episode Reviews, Chuck, Reality-Free
(S02E03) "I'm living in a Lamborghini. You can't imagine how little leg room there is." - Von Hayes
I have to be honest, at this point, I am really over Chuck's crush on Sarah. Even if he had a realistic shot at landing a hottie like her, he has already acknowledged that while he is the Intersect, he can't be in a serious relationship. Isn't that why he stopped dating Lou? it just seems that he and Sarah have a lot on their plate right now and unless he wants to be the under qualified half of a Mr. & Mrs. Smith scenario, he needs to accept that their relationship is a cover and nothing else.
Continue reading Chuck: Chuck vs. the Breakup
Posted Oct 14th 2008 8:02AM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Heroes, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S03E05) "Suresh. Yeah, he's harmless." Nathan telling Tracy that maybe Mohinder can help them.
Ah, the irony. Those who were harmless are suddenly finding themselves much more dangerous. In fact, the three sweetest characters from past seasons, Peter, Mohinder and Claire, are suddenly three of the darkest characters as tonight's episode began. Especially if you factor in their future incarnations. A lot of critics are decrying the meandering plotlines and again overcrowded cast of this show, but I have to say that by the end of this episode, even those naysayers should be on board this train.
The reveal at the end brought together so many elements from the past and really paved an exciting future for us. I was always intrigued by the promise of more attention spent on the first generation of heroes, including Ma Petrelli and Pa Parkman, Linderman and the rest of the "old folks." It looks like we're going to finally see some of that promise come to light and I think it's going to really add something to the mythology being established here.
Continue reading Heroes: Angels and Monsters
Posted Oct 14th 2008 12:30AM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Gossip Girl
(S02E06) "It isn't a game." - Blair to SerenaGame or not, the war between Blair and Serena intensified to a point that both ladies got in a huge hair-pulling fight (see picture on the right). We have seen Blair and Serena say and do really nasty things over the past year but this week, they tapped into their evilest and nastiest of lines and actions (especially Blair when bringing up the "Serena killed someone" bit) in order to end up on top. If both ladies were somewhat at the top of their game, then why was I so bored when watching "New Haven Can Wait"?
Continue reading Gossip Girl: New Haven Can Wait
Posted Oct 14th 2008 12:01AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Celebrities, Dancing With The Stars, Episode Reviews, Episode Recaps
(S07E08) It was an unusual week in the ballroom. Misty's exit last week meant that the week 3 and week 4 scores would be added together for Tuesday's results show. That put some extra pressure on Rocco, who found himself at the back of the pack after that first round. For those week 4 scores, the couples would be dancing either the samba or the tango. It set the stage for some good performances. In addition, along the way, we just might have seen the worst scoring by a judge, ever. A full run down of all the performances is after the jump.
Continue reading Dancing With The Stars: Week 4
Posted Oct 13th 2008 10:09PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: How I Met Your Mother, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S04E04) The first three episodes of
HIMYM season four have been uneven, as you might expect at the beginning of a new season. The last two episodes have been funny, but it was mostly missing what made the show so special and attracted such a rabid set of fans.
This episode, however, had everything every
Mother fan could hope for: Huge laughs, time shifts back and forth, clues big and small about where the story is going to go, and Barney unrepentantly trying to hook up.
Oh, let's just get the
Best Barneyism out of the way right now: it's his Future Barney / old man hookup Daily Double. Sure, his not-so-subtle references to his shrink's assessments were funny, as was his continued dalliance with fire-based magic. But Barn (and Neil Patrick Harris) really
sold the old man bit, from his voice, to his shaky hands. We knew Barney had a bit of the thespian in him, but he used that skill to its maximum this week.
Continue reading How I Met Your Mother: Intervention
Posted Oct 13th 2008 7:08PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Sports, Reality-Free
Two-and-a-half years ago, I asked the (admittedly) dumb question,
"Could Frank Caliendo take John Madden's place?" At the time, my contention was that Caliendo's loopy Madden impression was no longer that far off reality, and that Madden had become such a caricature of himself that Frank could have stepped in and no one would have known the difference.
If NBC Sports president Dick Ebersol had a sense of daring, he could have tried that experiment this Sunday night, as
Madden is going to sit out NBC's broadcast of the Buccaneers-Seahawks game in Tampa. The week off was Ebersol's idea; last night's game was in San Diego, making a cross-country trek for Madden and his famous Cruiser (he doesn't fly) right before a week off, as NBC defers to the World Series.
Continue reading John Madden parks the Cruiser for a week
Posted Oct 13th 2008 6:02PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV on DVD, Reality-Free
Here are the new TV DVDs, in stores tomorrow.Lots of complete series sets this week, including two you probably thought you'd never see,
Quark and
Ultraman. I have no nostalgic memories of
Ultraman, but
Quark was a show I enjoyed. It's also neat to see shows like
The Shari Lewis Show or DVD.
I wonder why the
Back To You set isn't a complete series set instead of just Season 1? Maybe it was already in production before the show was canceled.
- Back To You - Season 1
- CSI - Season 8
- Charlie and Lola - Vol. 1-8
- The Deputy - Best Of
- Life with Derek - Season 1
- Lil' Bush - Season 2
- Lovejoy - Christmas Specials
- Nash Bridges - Season 1
- The Partridge Family - Season 3
- Quark - Complete Series
- Rules of Engagement - Season 2
- The Sarah Silverman Program - Season 2, Vol. 1
- Scott Baio is 45... - Seasons 1 and 2
- The Shari Lewis Show - A Shari Lewis Christmas
- SpongeBob SquarePants - Who Bob What Pants
- Survivorman - Season 2
- That 70s Show - Complete Series
- Ultraman - Complete Series
- The Unit - Season 3
- The Universe - Complete Series
Posted Oct 13th 2008 4:35PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Video, 30 Rock, Reality-Free
Interesting piece in
The New York Times that asks the question:
where the hell is 30 Rock?
The third season of the show won't bow until October 30, but you would think that the show would want to launch a week or two earlier because of all of the attention that Tina Fey is getting for her Sarah Palin impersonation on
Saturday Night Live, her
Emmy win, and her new mega-million dollar
book deal. So how come the show hasn't premiered yet? They must have an episode or two done for the new season.
Continue reading Hey, how come 30 Rock hasn't premiered yet? - VIDEO
Posted Oct 13th 2008 4:00PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free
- At 8, ABC has a new Dancing with the Stars, followed by new episodes of Samantha Who? and Boston Legal.
- CBS has a new Big Bang Theory at 8, then new episodes of How I Met Your Mother, Two and a Half Men, Worst Week, and CSI: Miami.
- NBC has new episodes of Chuck and Heroes, followed by the series premiere of My Own Worst Enemy.
- FOX has more Baseball Playoffs at 8, the Dodgers vs. the Phillies.
- The CW has a new Gossip Girl at 8, then a new One Tree Hill.
- History Channel has a new Modern Marvels at 8.
- At 8:30, ESPN has Monday Night Football, the Giants vs. the Browns.
- At 9, USA has a new Monday Night RAW.
- IFC has I, The Jury at 9.
- Food Network has a new Unwrapped at 9.
- At 10, TNT has a new Raising The Bar.
- Food Network has a new Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives at 10.
Check your
local TV listings for more.
After the jump, the late night talk show listings.
Continue reading What's On Tonight: Big Bang Theory, Gossip Girl, My Own Worst Enemy
Posted Oct 13th 2008 3:09PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Late Night, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Now that Senator John McCain is doing the most important thing in his campaign to become the 44th president of the United States,
agreeing to appear The Late Show with David Letterman, I think we can say that the Straight Talk Express is on the way to being back on track.
It was inevitable, and really, really necessary, for McCain to fix this problem with Dave. McCain was the butt of the joke for nearly three weeks and it hasn't helped his campaign. Appearing Thursday should do a lot to ameliorate his image and in every way it can only be a win-win for McCain and Letterman.
Continue reading McCain gets his priorities straight: Letterman first, then the economy
Posted Oct 13th 2008 2:30PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, Reality-Free
That's his salary as a police forensics guy, not as a killer.
That's just one of the many revelations in
this article about TV character salaries. CareerBuilder.com figured out what each person would make in real-life. For example, Samantha from
Samantha Who? makes around $145,000 a year as the VP of a real estate company.
Not sure about the numbers for
Mad Men's Don Draper though. It says he would make $41,000, but I'm guessing that means if he was doing it today, not in the early 1960s (because that would be a massive amount of money then). But he's the Creative Director at an ad agency and got a raise, so I'm pretty sure he'd make more than that. Olive on
Pushing Daisies would make around $15,000 or so as a waitress (though she'd probably make more if she worked at an upscale restaurant). Other people on the list include Christine from
The New Adventures of Old Christine and Olivia Benson from
Law and Order: SVU.
Characters not on the list that I'm curious about: Liz Lemon, Michael Scott, and anyone from
Heroes, because they never seem to be actually working.
Posted Oct 13th 2008 2:03PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, TV on DVD, Contests and Giveaways, Reality-Free
More giveaways today! We've got a copy of
That '70s Show - The Complete Series Stash on DVD for one lucky, random commenter. The DVD set is available in stores starting tomorrow.
To enter, leave a comment below before 5:00PM Eastern, Friday, October 17 simply telling us why you'd like to own this DVD set
. As always, we'll randomly choose one winner amongst the eligible entries. Some other details:
- To enter, leave a confirmed comment below stating why you'd like to own the That '70s Show complete series DVD set.
- The comment must be left before October 17, 2008 at 5:00PM Eastern Time.
- You may enter only once.
- One winner will be selected in a random drawing.
- One winner will receive a That '70s Show - The Complete Series Stash DVD set (valued at $199.98).
- Open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are 18 and older.
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