pregnant-related stories
Posted Oct 22nd 2009 1:40AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Glee
(S01E08) In what might be one of the best episodes of
Glee since the premiere, Matthew Morrison was given a true showcase. There was also no Will family drama. Hmm ... is that a coincidence? I don't think so. I clearly have more interest in what Will's doing at McKinley High with the singing and dancing then his marriage.
Mash-ups were on the top of the to-do list. Emma and Ken asked Will for a wedding song mash-up, which was easier said than done when the two songs they wanted were "I Could Have Danced All Night" from
My Fair Lady and Sisqo's "The Thong Song." Fortunately, Will didn't sing the former, just the latter.
Continue reading Review: Glee - Mash-Up
Posted Oct 20th 2009 4:29PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, Celebrities
Bethenny Frankel has been busy making news. First, she was feuding with the other women on
The Real Housewives of New York City. Then,
she was replaced on Real Housewives by Sonja Morgan because
Bethenny is getting her own Bravo show. Last week, she announced her engagement to Jason Hoppy. Today,
Bethenny's confirmed that she's pregnant... and yes, Jason is the father.
Bethenny is two months along and claims she would have preferred keeping the baby news quiet until she'd gotten through her first trimester. It's understandable because it's her first baby and some people are superstitious about saying anything too soon.
Continue reading Real Housewives' Bethenny Frankel is real pregnant
Posted Sep 23rd 2009 10:02PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: OpEd, Reality-Free, Glee
(S01E04) Lies, lies and damn lies. There are plenty of them on
Glee in between the musical numbers, but in a truly fine episode like this one, at least one major truth emerges and that's what you take away from the show. Still, it's that darn song I'm humming and one more reason
Glee keeps me coming back.
By the way, before we go on, how great is it that
Glee has been renewed for a full season? Way to go, Fox! Yes, maybe it was a given that this show would be given a chance, but there are no sure things, and I think the network deserves a thumbs up when they take a chance. Anyway, more on tonight's show and all the plot developments after the jump.
Continue reading Glee: Preggers
Posted Sep 21st 2009 9:02PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S01E01) Watching
Accidentally on Purpose, thoughts of Seth Rogen danced in my mind. Not Seth, actually, but the film
Knocked Up. This is the second year in a row that CBS seems obsessed with that film. Last season, it was
Worst Week, with a schlubby Kyle Bornheimer channeling Rogen's goofy lack of grace. It didn't work and
Worst Week bit the dust. Now we have
Jenna Elfman in the Katherine Heigl role, knocked up by accident after a one-night stand, albeit with a twist. Instead of a schlub, Jenna's fling is a boy-toy named Zach.
And there you have the premise of
Accidentally on Purpose. Are you ROFL? Will you LOL? Read on after the jump.
Continue reading Accidentally on Purpose: Pilot (series premiere)
Posted Sep 17th 2009 9:00AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Celebrities, Reality-Free
On her
new CBS sitcom, Accidentally on Purpose,
Jenna Elfman plays a woman who picks up a guy, has a one-night stand and winds up pregnant. It may be a case of being overly practical, but
in real life Jenna Elfman has gotten pregnant because, as she put it, "My character's pregnant the whole first season, so I said, 'It's a good time to have another baby, because we won't have to hide it."
Isn't that a good reason to have a baby? Elfman, who's married to actor Bodhi Elfman, is already a mommy. She and Bodhi have a two-year old son named Story. Hmm, you think they're ever tempted to sing, "Here's the story of a kid named Story..."?
Continue reading Jenna Elfman is pregnant on TV and off
Posted Aug 20th 2009 11:18AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Industry, Scrubs, Interviews, TCA Press Tour, Reality-Free
On the last day of the TCA press tour, as the stars of ABC were yukking it up at a crowded party at the Langham Huntington in Pasadena, Bill Lawrence and I were out in the courtyard talking about what the new season of
Scrubs -- or as I'm calling it,
Scrubs 2.0 -- is going to look like.
Essentially, it's going to be like a medical version of
The Paper Chase, with Turk and Cox being the professors. We'll be following the lives of young medical students who will shuttle back and forth between classes and their rotations at the "new" Sacred Heart, which is being rebuilt on the med school's campus. While in the hospital, they'll run into a lot of the characters from
Scrubs 1.0, including J.D., as Zach Braff is scheduled to be in the first six episodes.
It all sounds a bit confusing, so I'll let Bill lay it out for you folks. An edited transcript is after the jump.
The full transcript can be found here. And I'll be getting on the phone with Bill to talk
Cougar Town sometime next week, so stay tuned. Oh, and at the end of the interview, we talk about the role Bill's wife, Christa Miller, had on
Scrubs that didn't involve any acting.
Continue reading Bill Lawrence: The TV Squad Interview (Scrubs 2.0 edition)
Posted Jul 30th 2009 6:01PM by Michael Pascua
Filed under: OpEd, Grey's Anatomy, Reality-Free
Season six of
Grey's Anatomy is going to be odd. Getting past the fact that T.R. Knight isn't coming back, Ellen Pompeo is pregnant.
Shonda Rhimes has mentioned that Meredith will not get pregnant to coincide with Ellen so we'll either get
How I Met Your Mother-esque bump hiding, or Meredith will disappear for a while.
The only Grey left is Lexie Grey, Meredith's half-sister. Although her relationship with Mark is interesting to watch, could she carry the show's title albeit temporarily?
Continue reading Would you watch Lexie Grey's Anatomy?
Posted Apr 21st 2009 10:02AM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Grey's Anatomy, Spoilers Anonymous, TV Squad Polls, Watercooler Talk, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Is it just me or there seems to be a baby boom in Hollywood this TV season? This is probably the 73rd post we've written here at TV Squad this year about a TV actress being pregnant, wondering how it will affect the show she stars in.
When the two lead actresses of
How I Met Your Mother announced they were pregnant, the writers decided not to write the pregnancies in and go for the "hiding the belly under big clothes or things" option instead. They even shot the season finale months before they would have usually done so they could have the two actresses in reasonable shape.
People announced that
Grey's Anatomy lead actress Ellen Pompeo is pregnant with her first child, while reminding us that Chyler Leigh, who plays Pompeo's half-sister, is due in May. We know that Shonda Rhimes decided not to have Lexie be pregnant but what about Meredith?
Warning! The rest of this post contains spoilers about upcoming episodes.Continue reading Grey's gossip: Will Mer and Der have a baby?
Posted Mar 10th 2009 1:23AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: OpEd, How I Met Your Mother, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S04E16) One of the biggest issues that has eaten at fans of
HIMYM since the show's inception is the fact that the character the show is supposed to revolve around, Ted, is probably the most boring out of the entire Scooby gang. Because of this, stories about his quest for his soulmate -- the elusive "mother," of course -- have as equal a chance of working as they have of falling flat. It just seems like there have been very few Ted-centric romances that fans have gotten behind and rooted for. There was Robin, naturally, and Victoria the cupcake lady. The rest? All of them have had about as much chemistry and excitement as toe fungus (and, yes, Stella is in the toe fungus group).
Ted's new romance, with his super-douchey college girlfriend Karen, seems like it's another one that's destined to fail. And not because she brings out all the stupid college-kid pretentiousness that Ted barely has the strength to squash as he enters his thirties. It may be that we've kind of stopped caring about Ted's quest, haven't we?
Continue reading How I Met Your Mother: Sorry Bro
Posted Feb 2nd 2009 11:48PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: OpEd, Web, How I Met Your Mother, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S04E14) This week we got a bit of a stealthy episode. There were two overt storylines -- Robin's efforts to get a job and stay in the country and why three of the gang still have "weak-ass crap" on their resumes -- but the
real storyline was simmering just underneath.
It all had to do with Barney and his feelings for Robin. And the fun of Barney's video resume is only a small part of what you
really saw, if you looked hard enough.
Oh, and we got two new websites out of Bays and Thomas this week. But you know that with those two guys at the helm of a show, anything is possimpible ...
Continue reading How I Met Your Mother: The Possimpible
Posted Jan 9th 2009 12:06PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: How I Met Your Mother, Reality-Free
You think the recession hasn't hit the TV industry yet? Here's some proof it has:
the stars of How I Met Your Mother received pay raises...but not the kind of big money you've heard about in years gone by. The ensemble of five, Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders, Neil Patrick Harris and Alyson Hannigan renegotiated with the producers (20th Century Fox TV) to boost their salaries to $90,000-$120,000 per episode. That's still a lot of money in today's economic strife, but compared to
Two and a Half Men's Charlie Sheen's $825,000 per ep, it's downright modest.
Continue reading How I Met Your Mother's pay raise
Posted Nov 26th 2008 5:02PM by Debra McDuffee
Filed under: Watercooler Talk, How I Met Your Mother, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Man, I've finally sorted through all of my confusion (how embarrassing ... ) about how Lily and Marshall on
How I Met Your Mother actually aren't pregnant at all; rather,
actress Alyson Hannigan is expecting in real life with her husband, Alexis Denisof of
Buffy and
Angel fame.
And now, this news comes across my screen? How am I to believe that the writers of
How I Met Your Mother actually thought it was a good idea for Lily and Robin to be pregnant at the same time? Nevertheless, it's true, because
People Magazine is reporting that Robin is pregnant.
So what's the deal? Is it Barney's baby? Now there's a real twist, and it was all foreshadowed in "
Not a Father's Day" with Robin and Barney being so sweet on the sock.... What's that, you say? Robin isn't pregnant? You say
Cobie Smulders, the actress who plays Robin, is expecting? I'm sure I can figure this out ...
Continue reading Robin from How I Met Your Mother is pregnant???
Posted Oct 27th 2008 10:04AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Mad Men
(S02E13) In 1962, President Kennedy threatened to fire the missiles of October, facing down with Russia over the nuclear launch sites in Cuba. On last night's season finale of
Mad Men, creator Matthew Weiner actually pulled the trigger and set off a few carefully aimed rockets guaranteed to alter the future of the series. It was a stunning climax to the second season and if you were hoping for some big twists, you got them.
With little fanfare, Don came back from California. He appeared at the riding club where Betty's breath was seemingly taken away by the sight of him. No explanation. No excuses. And with a new sense of power, Betty wasn't ready to welcome him home.
Continue reading Mad Men: Meditations in an Emergency (season finale)
Posted Oct 27th 2008 12:00AM by Debra McDuffee
Filed under: Dexter, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S03E05) The predictability of
Dexter really comes into play in tonight's episode. All season, they've been setting us up for things that took place tonight. I've always said that although
Dexter can be predictable, for some reason, it never ruins the suspense of the show.
And that stands true tonight. We knew nearly everything that was going to happen, yet still I sat breathless, watching with my mouth hanging open, as the episode unfolded. Predictable? Yep. Boring? Never.
Continue reading Dexter: Turning Biminese
Posted Oct 23rd 2008 8:47AM by Debra McDuffee
Filed under: Celebrities, Reality-Free
Did you hear the news? Lily from
How I Met Your Mother is pregnant! What? Oh, you mean ... never mind. I misspoke, lost in my fictional friends' lives for a moment.
Let me try this again: Alyson Hannigan, the actress who plays Lily on
HIMYM, is pregnant in real life. And do you know who the father is? I think we won't find out until the series finale; they've really been stringing us along with all of the potential love interests. What's that? Oh, man....
Sorry to confuse you: we
do know who the father is. Wesley Wyndham Price from
Buffy and
Angel. I know, I know, I was confused, too. I thought he was in love with Lilah. When she died he was so sad, and he ended up sleeping with that heiress, what's-her-name? Huh? Nah, that can't be. Really?
OK, I think I've got it straight:
Alyson Hannigan and Alexis Denisof are expecting their first child this spring. The child will be in real life, and Lily may or may not be pregnant on
HIMYM. Apparently, the two are unrelated. How can that be...?
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