• Pilot Watch: Eliza Dushku to star in TNT’s BIRD DOG.
• Soaptastic News: THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL gets the go-ahead for two more years, while THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS gets three.
• Making us feel better about our addition to THE WEST WING… comes the die-hard fans keeping the show going by assuming character identities on twitter.
• THE WALKING DEAD, continues to kill in the ratings.• Move over Neil Patrick Harris, James Franco is giving you a run for your hardest working man in Hollywood title by agreeing to host the 83rd Annual Academy Awards with Anne Hathaway.
• Holy Frak! Amazon is selling BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: The Complete Series for an extraordinary 60% off!
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Must Read TV: BUFFY, GREY’S ANATOMY, THE BIG BANG THEORY & More!
• David Boreanaz reacts to the Whedon-Free BUFFY reboot, shockingly acknowledges his BUFFY past! (Above twitpic above courtesy of @harthanson)
• Joss Whedon reacts to BUFFY reboot, “I Have Strong, Mixed Emotions.”
• Shonda Speaks! On the much-buzzed about GREY’S ANATOMY musical episode.
• BIG Salary Bump, for BIG BANG star Simon Helberg.
• The New Adventures of Julia Louis-Dreyfus… will have her starring in HBO’s Comedy Pilot VEEP.
• The death of a meme: Donald Glover calls a truce with the new Peter Parker.
• Fans of SMALLVILLE and THE SIMPSONS will not want to miss getting a jump on your Holiday shopping, courtesy of some amazing Black Friday Deals from Amazon.
Must Read TV: Jorge Garcia, Mia Michaels, Black Friday DVD Deals & More!
• David Boreanaz reacts to the Whedon-Free BUFFY reboot, shockingly acknowledges his BUFFY past! (Above twitpic above courtesy of @harthanson)
• Joss Whedon reacts to BUFFY reboot, “I Have Strong, Mixed Emotions.”
• Shonda Speaks! On the much-buzzed about GREY’S ANATOMY musical episode.
• BIG Salary Bump, for BIG BANG star Simon Helberg.
• The New Adventures of Julia Louis-Dreyfus… will have her starring in HBO’s Comedy Pilot VEEP.
• The death of a meme: Donald Glover calls a truce with the new Peter Parker.
• SMALLVILLE and THE SIMPSONS fans will not want to miss getting a jump on your Holiday shopping, courtesy of some amazing Black Friday Deals from Amazon.
Today’s TV Addict Top 5: Shows That Actually Live Up to the “Must See TV” Moniker This Week*
THE GOOD WIFE
Despite what some of our television viewing habits might suggest, we are in fact not a 13 year old girl. And as a result of having almost no familiarity with the Nickelodeon smash hit iCARLY, we honestly didn’t know what to expect from Tuesday’s episode featuring special guest star Miranda Cosgrove. So you can imagine our surprise when Cosgrove, stepping into the shoes of Sloane — a teenage starlet accused of injuring a woman with her car while under the influence — amounted to one of the most entertaining episodes of an already stellar sophomore season. Adding to our enjoyment of the ripped-from-the-headlines story was the not-so-subtle shot from the CBS/Viacom owned GOOD WIFE at rival Disney that had Sloane blaming her bad behaviour on trying to “climb out of the Disney Ghetto thing,” her gratuitous use of twitter that had the actress channel her inner “Lohan” by tweeting from the trial, as well the show’s now trademark penchant for incorporating such real-life technology du jour as the infamous Taiwanese news animations into the show. That, and we seriously cannot get enough of Alan Cumming’s slithering Eli Gold who has quietly usurped Kalinda as our favorite non-Florrick character on the show.
Review: COMMUNITY Season 2
By: Aleks Chan
COMMUNITY may be the trickiest comedy on TV right now. For pop culture connoisseurs, it’s like a delicious, greasy, but still organic feast: any given episode (like the great Halloween one) is a tightly constructed, au courant homage to worn-out stories, plot cliché, and character archetypes — it’s an inspired take on a lack of inspiration; a celebration of what makes pop culture bad that makes it uproariously good.
And really, the show is one giant cliché turned inside-out: a multiethnic, (mostly) gender-balanced group of community college students form a Spanish study group where each relative stock character type (the jock, the nerd, the good girl) learn about themselves from each other. Cunningly, it fleshes out these stereotypes into fuller, real characters: Jeff (Joel McHale, who’s really just doing his schtick from THE SOUP, which isn’t a complaint) is a smooth-talking, wiseass lawyer, but he’s also a sweet surrogate father to the group. In a recent episode, Jeff picks up Pierce (Chevy Chase, still bringing it after all these years) from the police station with a fit of fatherly frustration, fear, and disappointment that was like a nice, subvocalized awwwwww.
Must Read TV: GLEE, GAME OF THRONES, AMERICAN IDOL & More!
• First Look: HBO’s GAME OF THRONES
• Ab-tastic News! GLEE promotes Mike Chang to series regular.
• Kathy Griffin tells Bravo to suck it!, Claiming MY LIFE ON THE D LIST is over.
• Fox Plans to put a Super Bowl ring on it, as news leaks that the cast of GLEE will perform Michael Jackson’s thriller post big-game.
• Jesse Tyler Ferguson comes out… as a candidate to host next year’s Tony Awards.
• License to Pilot, as Pierce Brosnan teams up with Sony for a TV project.
• Shuffling the deck chairs of the Titanic? Nigel Lythgoe Reveals New Challenges
A Candid Conversation with HUMAN TARGET Star Chi McBride
Hollywood has a history of churning out larger-than-life characters who in real life are anything but. HUMAN TARGET star Chi McBride is not one of those characters. He’s big, boisterous and not afraid to speak his mind. As you’ll quickly discover in this very candid conversation where the opinionated actor pontificates on the business of show (“Nobody knows anything!”), HUMAN TARGET’s newest additions (“Nothing like taking orders from a woman with a Billion dollars!”) and how he predicted the ending to LOST three episodes in! (Spoiler Alert: “They were all f*cking dead!”)
Your imdb resume is a mile long, what do you find you get noticed for most?
Chi McBride: Hmmm… I don’t know man. Probably BOSTON PUBLIC, although it varies. Sometimes it’s Gone in 60 Seconds.
Not PUSHING DAISIES?
Yeah I get that too. When you’ve been fortunate enough to have a fairly long career — and I’ve been in show business for 20 years — it’s nice when people recognize your work but I don’t really keep track of who recognizes what.
Must Read TV: THE CAPE, THE GOOD WIFE, TANGLED & More!
• First Look: THE CAPE (Above)
• Dark Blue, gets their lights shut off by TNT.
• Get Tangled, with Zachary Levi!
• Casting Couch: NIP/TUCK’s Dylan Walsh nabs CBS FBI Drama, Showtime woes Claire Danes, while Rachael Leigh Cook to star opposite Eric McCormack in TNT pilot PERCEPTION.
• A Great Interview, with THE GOOD WIFE creators Robert and Michelle King.
Today’s TV Addict Top 5: Questions with GLORY DAZE Star Tim Meadows
In a continued attempt to live up to their network slogan of “very funny,” TBS premieres a new hour long series tonight called GLORY DAZE. Set in the 1980’s, GLORY DAZE chronicles the fun – and awkward – misadventures of four freshmen as they navigate college life, trying to figure out who they are and who they want to be. And here to talk about the show, his post-SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE career, and his new network compatriot Conan O’Brien is none other than star Tim Meadows.
The last time fans saw you stepping into the shoes of an educator was in a small but memorable role in Mean Girls. How does Professor Haines differ?
Tim Meadows: Professor Haines [Meadows GLORY DAZE character] is going through a divorce, much more liberal, and much angrier. He’s quite different from the principal character from Mean Girls in the sense that, I remember that character as being sort of done with the whole job, not really feeling it anymore and just wanting the year to end. Professor Haines actually needs to get advice from the kids at the school, as you’ll see in the second episode, when we find out that he’s no longer living at home.
Review: GREY’S ANATOMY Season 7
By: Aleks Chan
Allow me to preface this review of GREY’S ANATOMY with a giant, italicized asterisk: It’s true — in many ways, the seventh season of ABC’s genre-defining medical soap is good. Is it “great again”? This would imply that it was great before, a memory I wish I could fondly look back on, but can’t. I’ll admit to have been taken with the doctors of Seattle Grace in their initial seasons: they had chemistry, gave some nice performances, and creator Shonda Rhimes knew how to thread melodrama and bizarre medical cases together in way that made for a hospital show with a unique spring in its step. It was a sexy, quirky trifle.