Star: John Barrowman.
Shows: Doctor Who/Torchwood.
Local News Crew: The fine journos at Goodnight Burbank.
Shocking, indeed.
Wanna see the Torchwood: Miracle Day trailer again? Sure you do, just click this and it's appear as if out of thin air.
Star: John Barrowman.
Shows: Doctor Who/Torchwood.
Local News Crew: The fine journos at Goodnight Burbank.
Shocking, indeed.
Wanna see the Torchwood: Miracle Day trailer again? Sure you do, just click this and it's appear as if out of thin air.
Blah blah blah I'm not feeling like it so I'm taking a break. Back Monday.
Y'all take care.
Screw the Schwarzeneggers, this is the real big breakup news. Law & Order: SVU has decided not to bring Chris Meloni back, and no, I have no idea why they've decided to do something so incredibly stupid, esp. considering Wolf Films has already lost two hours to the ax. The original L&O ended last May, LOLA failed, pretty miserably and even Criminal Intent is in its last year with a returning D'Onofrio and Erbe.
One would think Wolf Films would want one of their revenue streams to remain unhampered by the various outside forces. I thought that. I thought wrong.
So, I've been making a list of shows that could be helped by casting Chris. Wanna see it? It's after the jump.
Remember when local TV stations used to do short editorials and weeks later there would be someone from the public at large that responded? That's what this reminds me of, except the person responding is Eric of Area 5, and he's a vampire.
Just a little more than a month before the True Blood premiere on June 26. Check out their HBO homepage for more video and ... stuff.
Finally! Eat it up, kids!
I caught this 20-minute behind the scenes feature on the upcoming HBO film of Andrew Ross Sorkin's book Too Big To Fail on air and thought I'd post it for those of you getting excited about this film's debut Monday night at 9.
Some amazing people attached including William Hurt as Hank Paulson (top of post) and Ed Asner doing a quite convincing Warren Buffet (image right).
What one of my favorite TV writers, Tim Goodman from THR, said:
Credit HBO for even tackling the subject, based on the best-selling book by New York Times reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin. No film studio would want to produce a complicated and ultimately depressing story about how greed nearly took down Wall Street and the entire economic infrastructure of first-world countries. Gordon Gekko is one thing, a cadre of people — real people — far worse than he is probably not going to be a popcorn movie.
But damned if "Fail" doesn't whittle down the whole sorry story into a mostly understandable and efficient movie that everybody should watch. And in a cast full of beautifully minimalist performances from superb actors, William Hurt gets to remind viewers who might have otherwise forgot just how great he can be.
Enjoy this feature, and make sure to watch the damn movie on Monday. It's after the jump.
I love when Craig makes himself laugh. This is the first time I'm seen the robot make him cry.
A truly inspired tweetmail segment from Craig and Geoff.
That's what I've been doing instead of blogging, which of course is also a somewhat pointless exercise when you consider we're 2 days from the beginning of the end.
Of course you realize that the end of the world happens in stages and I imagine even post-Rapture my readers will still be here. We're not going anywhere.
However, I don't know how much blogging any of us will get done in the days preceeding the, what is it, 100 year long war (wars?!?) that will break out over who gets ultimate control of existence. I'm trying to stockpile as much Nutella as I can, for trade.
Everybody loves Nutella. Hazelnuts, cocoa and pure unadulterated pleasure in a jar.
What I'm most disappointed about? We won't ever see the new season of True Blood on HBO as it starts on June 26. I hear great things, and the season four trailer is amazing. Just for kicks I've posted it after the jump.
It's a shame we'll never see it. If I had to be with one True Blood character at the end of the world it would be Pam. She'd be all snarky and dismissive and then she'd just off a bitch for kicks.
Oh, btw, you might wanna click over to After the Rapture Pet Care to take care of your little furry kids. Only $10 smackeroos and they take Paypal.
Such. A. Deal.
Oh, I just thought about how much I'm gonna miss Nutella, too. I hear in hell they use Nutella to lead you onto one of the Stairmasters lining the ninth circle of hell, but they never let you have any.
Never.
Continue reading "Are You Clearing Your DVR Before The End of the World?" »
I'm sure it would have been louder, but it was the upfronts and people do try to act in a somewhat civil nature.
BTW, these mentions in the press of Trump being offered up to $60 million to do another year of the show? That is the biggest load of shit I've ever heard.
I'm not commenting on every little bit of news from the network upfront presentations, but I'm reading it all, thanks to a few great locations for such.
Here's where I go ...
Stelter in NY Times, unless you've already exhausted your Times story limit (I'm close).
Deadline. Yeah, I know. Still they have the best most detailed stuff thanks to Nellie Andreeva. And if you miss something because you didn't click over there I promise not to say, "Toldja!"
TV Line, because Mitovich and Ausiello have their own sources.
New York Magazine. They are all over it. I also need to renew my subscription, it's excellent lunch reading.
Tim Goodman at THR, who, and I know I'll regret saying this, is the most entertaining of the crew. I could read him all day.
Those of you who saw Hugh on The Graham Norton Show this past week in the US and two weeks ago in the UK also know that he just released a blues record that he recorded in New Orleans.
It's not available in the US. At least that's what Amazon says. If I'm wrong get back to me. You can pick it up from Amazon UK, however, and with no worries b/c CDs don't have region codes like visual media.
Watch Hugh perform from Paris at a gig that happened right after the Norton appearance in this clip (LINK) courtesy YouTube user frenchbluesygirl.
Watch Hugh talk to Graham Norton at this link.
Watch Hugh talk about making this album in a promo clip that includes recording studio footage at this link.
Oh, and on House's penultimate episode of the season the crazy SOB is gonna try to perform surgery on himself. I don't think that's gonna go over very well. See three preview clips of tonight's episode which are posted after the jump.
Once again, for the record, I prefer the funny British Hugh Laurie. This musical British Hugh Laurie comes in a solid second.
Continue reading "Video -- Hugh Laurie Covers Leadbelly's You Don't Know My Mind in Paris" »
Now I understand why he's smiling so much in this picture with Tim McGraw!
Okay, let's get serious ... it's a big deal when a public person comes out and Don could have just stayed in the closet like another notable African-American man I know who's based in Atlanta and plies his trade in the TV business.
(I know, a blind item from me, shocking!)
Don's written a new book called Transparency which includes his account of being abused as a child, a fact that came up during his reporting of the Eddie Long story late last year and his admission that he is gay.
Click that icon and buy the book. With the pittance that I glean from the sale from this link I'll, you know, buy 1/16th of a pack of gum. Amazon calls us partners, but it's certainly not 50/50. the book drops on June 16.
More from Don and about the book at this NY Times link, which will more than likely count toward your 20 free articles a month unless you're a subscriber. Just a warning.
I hope Don is enjoying the weight being lifted from his back and the sweet smell of freedom that comes with having no fear of being compromised against your will. And now he and we can get on with it.
Here's how I figure it. They couldn't do much worse for the country's reputation than Berlusconi. I wouldn't be surprised if that no-longer-17-year-old bellydancer that Silvio is accused of schtupping shows up one night in a club on the arm of Ronnie who, lets face it, will smush anything.
Still, I'd rather this go on than see Glenn Beck show up in Israel to wreak havoc.
The Today Show clip after the jump, and, BONUS!!! -- the computer animation from Taiwanese television suggesting what might happen when the Jersey Shore cast shows up to take in the sights of Florence, their adopted hometown for the next few weeks.
Continue reading "Today Show Video -- Jersey Shore Cast Lands in Italy" »
(Photo illustration above by me.)
On his radio show Monday, Glenn Beck announced that he'll be holding a "Restoring Courage" rally this August in Jerusalem, which he said would be a "life altering event" that the "very gates of hell" would try to prevent.
A post on his official site explains: "Taking a stand is not always easy, but now more than ever it is imperative that we live with conviction and do the right thing. It is time for us to courageously stand with Israel."
"I invite you to join me in Israel this summer to stand together and show the world what living a life of faith and honor really means," Beck said. "I invite you to join me in my quest to Restore Courage."
There is so many ways this could go wrong, but I'll tell you which way I think it could go. You know how there's something of an alliance between Israeli Jews and American fundamentalists forged by the fundies' belief that the Jews need to be in Israel for the rapture to come? And you know how those same fundamentalists believe that the rapture will leave behind those who don't believe that Jesus is our savior?
I believe that someone like Beck, with support from the fundamentalist Christians that watch and listen to him, could push this trope so hard that the supportive Israeli Jews might finally see the mean-spiritedness in the whole thing and pull away from those Holy Land visiting, Not Of This World bumper sticker-having, Christian Zionists who seem to want the Jewish people to exist only to further their ascension into heaven.
As if any of this really existed or made any difference whatsoever. Oh, you know how I feel about such things, such a waste of passion and energy and in some cases good intention (though I really believe it's all a scam, the whole business).
I'm not saying it's a bad idea to send a dry-drunk LDS Church member with delusions of grandeur and a rapt audience of fearful, angry, ignorant and undereducated trolls to a foreign country ...
Oh, sorry. That's exactly what I'm saying.
Episode four of the most important newscast that comes from a garage in Burbank features the Torchwood star. I'll say nothing else, don't wanna spoil anything for you.
Watch it by clicking this link. And, watch the previous episode (that I forgot to post last Sunday) by clicking this link.
For those of you who aren't squeeling over Barrowman there's plenty here for you. Laura Silverman is channeling some serious fascist-leaning wingnut into her co-anchoring duties.
New episodes hit Hulu every Sunday. For those outside the US arrangements are being made for the show to be watchable online for you. Check the Goodnight Burbank website for news on that.
Okay, it's a little early for Snake Juice, I guess. Isn't it after 5 pm somewhere?
Anyway, Carrie loves a guy who knows what to do with his wood, and Nick's that guy. When he's not making you laugh on Parks and Recreation he's building stuff. When Megan (Mullally, his wife) was appearing on Broadway last year he made some canoes that are being sold viewable along with the building process at this link and he has plenty of projects on display at his own woodworking site at this link.
And the interview with Carrie from this morning is posted after the jump. Enjoy it.
And no, I won't be posting clips from Big Morning Buzz Live every day just because a friend of my hosts the show.
Every other day? Maybe.
Continue reading "Video -- Nick Offerman Has Wood on VH1's Big Morning Buzz Live " »
A) He knows his way around a multi-camera sitcom.
B) Physically he is everything "Alan Harper" wishes he was, that could be funny.
C) Huge name recognition.
D) Demi as a guest star.
E) Bruce Willis as a guest star (a new Malibu neighbor now that Steven Tyler has another show to be on).
This is how I feel about it: This guy is doing a huge solid to a cast and crew that needs to get back to work. That's enormous and very much like Kutcher. And, it just might be better than anything before it.
Read the Hollywood Reporter story that broke the news at this link. I'm sure they are very happy to have beaten Nikki to the scoop.
The Larmy is of course the Twitter account for Laurie Keller who is a character on Cougar Town, and although I don't watch and tweet at the same time I thought it might be fun to "follow Laurie."
So last night I'm sitting right here while the show is playing on the east coast and not really paying attention to Twitter until The Larmy tweeted a follow suggestion for Michael McDonald, supervising producer of Cougar Town and sometime director and of course a former member of the Mad TV cast that I'm guessing is doing some sort of stand up tour this Summer.
Would Laurie Keller ask me to follow Michael McDonald on Twitter? Would Laurie be a fan of McDonald's standup? Does Michael McDonald even exist in the alternate reality that is Cougar Town?
And what about the whole butterfly effect thing? If there is no Courteney Cox (because there IS a Jules Cobb) how does that effect eventual casting of, say, Family Ties?
(It's gonna get weird in the next couple paragraphs, hang in there though.)
More after the jump.
Continue reading "So I Got Into It a Bit With "The Larmy" Last Night" »
UPDATE: My update is actually just a simple question: Did CBS and Warner Bros. release the info about Grant to see how it would fly with pop culture addicts and fans of the show? Is that why we're hearing about this? Because I have a funny feeling we're being somewhat manipulated. More on this as it progresses. Stranger things have happened in this world. There was that one time when that hot British actor with the smokin' hot girlfriend got arrested for picking up a hooker on Santa Monica Blvd. in Hollywood, for example.
I get that TV critics and discriminating viewers and in some cases just people you meet on the street are not fans of Two and a Half Men.
Hey, I don't particularly like the show, either. This is what I find fascinating, though. Here's a show that we can pretty much agree isn't something fans of TV comedy have ever held dear. But the producers are actively working to change the show and no one seems to be interested in what can be made of the show's remains now that Charlie Sheen isn't coming back.
I think it's a fascinating exercise in making television. Or more accurately, remaking television.
This of course is all prompted today by the story at TV Line (link) about negotiations between CBS/Warners and Hugh Grant that would have the British movie star with a bad boy problem of his own (the "Divine" Ms. Brown, who's actual name was Estella Thompson, from back in the day).
Interesting idea. Seems from what I've gathered those talks have broken down over an issue of "artistic differences" (I know, I laughed too) but there's still a chance it might happen.
More of this after the jumperoo.
UPDATE: I just got an email that asked, "Sure, but did you LIKE the show?" Well of course I liked the show, it's right in my wheelhouse and it's hosted by someone I like a lot. It did however prompt me to look over what I wrote last night. I was maybe having too much fun proving to you I'm clever and not enough time explaining myself. Sorry.
Here's a funny story ... I'm watching VH1's Big Morning Buzz Live yesterday as my friend Carrie Keagan is hosting and as you do you watch your friends on TV, right? Right.
So, she's interviewing Ellie Kemper and Wendy McClendon-Covey from Bridesmaids (watch their Red Band Trailer at this link) and I'm thinking during the intro "Wow it would be great if they cut to that clip of Carrie on Reno 911 where Wendy was charged with handcuffing her. Oh, they probably don't even know Carrie was on ..."
And then they cut to the clip of Carrie on Reno 911 where Wendy was charged with handcuffing her.
Okay, one point for the producers and staff of BMBL. May you continue to surprise me. Watch that clip right here.
Then this morning Carrie had a couple of music guys on to talk about what will be the hit of the Summer. Just the other day I posted what I think will be that song (Nicki Minaj's Super Bass, watch it at this link), which, surprisingly, was Carrie's choice, too.
It's like I'm sitting in my house playing a video game called EA Pop Culture Talk Show 2011.
So why should you watch this show? Besides the fact that they employ someone I like?
Watch today's episode in it's entirety, I've posted it after the jump. Raphael Saadiq and Paul Bettany, who looks better than ever, btw. The show airs weekdays for an hour starting at 9:30 eastern on VH1.
And as soon as I can get my act together I'll have a five questions feature with Carrie. She's been very patient. Thanks, C.
Continue reading "UPDATED: Video -- Your Mornings, Only Hotter, Blonder and Buzzier on VH1" »
Jason Momoa from Game of Thrones is the titular character in the Conan The Barbarian 3D reboot from Lionsgate and director Marcus Nispel (click here for trailer).
Red band (restricted) trailer for Bridesmaids which opens Friday and is from Judd Apatow starring Kristin Wiig as the titular position to bride-to-be Maya Rudolph and features lotsa funny people (click here).
Two more, after the jumperoo!
Continue reading "Movie Trailers on Hulu: Conan, Bridesmaids, 30 Minutes or Less, Submarine" »
More from the makers of this mock cover, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, at this link. Schock's a pretty gay-unfriendly guy to have on the cover of American Media's most mass-market fitness pub for men, isn't he?
The original below.
I stole this very simple Trump/Obama montage from Politico. I just didn't feel like doing one myself. Sue me.
Oh the irony!!! Week two of Obama v. Trump in the ratings wasn't a head to head affair, but it was still telling. According to THR (link), the Obama 60 Minutes interview shellacked Trump's Celeb Apprentice penultimate episode by a heaping margin:
NBC’s three-hour telecast — which saw Star Jones and LaToya Jackson fired and NeNe Leakes quitting -- didn’t fare so well: Celebrity Apprentice (7 million total viewers, 2.4 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic) was the lowest-rated spring telecast for the franchise, dipping 23 percent. Dateline (3.9 million, 0.8) served as a weak lead-in, down 33 percent. The Peacock placed fourth for the night in the key demo.
CBS won the night with 60 Minutes (13.8 million, 2.3) surging 43 percent, thanks to President Obama’s only televised interview about Osama bin Laden’s death. The two-hour finale of The Amazing Race (8.6 million, 2.5) was the lowest-rated in franchise history. CSI: Miami (9.7 million, 2.0), however, ended its season with a double-digit uptick, but still was one of the series’ lowest-rated episodes.
Yeah, the Donald, you're a genius. You're blowing your series, dude. But please keep fake running for President. I figure in two more election cycles you'll be left with a counter job at Burger King at this rate.
Just in case you missed it. Compelling TV, it was.
UPDATE: Apparently there is trouble with the video embed. Click here to see this clip in its entirety. Sorry, gang.
The joy of "The Twitter" is that you can kind of ask people you don't know to do stuff and even if they didn't see it if it happens you can delude yourself into thinking it was your doing.
So thanks, SNL head writer Seth Meyers for doing what I asked and calling Darrell to be Donald Trump in this sketch. Add Tina Fey as Sarah Palin and the sketch (undeclared candidates' debate) moves right to the front of the show.
Ed Helms hosts next Saturday with musical guest Paul Simon.
Returns? I meant returns to the cheers and screams of the SNL audience. Stefon is currently the most anticipated Weekend Update guest, and no doubt it has to do with these Mother's Day ideas.
Yeah, sure, we'll go with that.
Hader, you kill me!
And ... battles Cybermen too, if you click over the jump you can see that web-only extra.
If you wanna consider that and other things you might see in these two clips spoilers, well you're just gonna have to tell River Song so she can get all up in my grill about it.
Haven't even seen this yet (I live in the pacific time zone) but I'm posting for you because I'm a mensch.
Continue reading "Video -- Today Show's Meredith Vieira Shoots Her Doctor Who Cameo" »
I know. That's exactly what you think Margaret Thatcher would look like in a movie.
Sure, her skin and hair are better, but it's the movies after all.
I will be forever amazed by how Meryl Streep becomes these people she plays. She certainly looks like her and you know that Meryl will have the performance down.
This is a TV blog. I know. I love Meryl Streep.
Follow the movie's progress at the official blog at this link.
This is the song you'll be hearing all Summer. Nicki's doing what Li'l Kim and Foxy Brown could never do, she's crossing over hard.
Remember how often you heard California Gurls last year at this time? This will be that big.
GLAAD's response machine is apparently of the hair trigger variety. I get what happened here, I just think GLAAD and Jarrett Barrios are too close to their mission to see that they've erred.
Here's what's happened. Blake, judge on The Voice, tweeted this yesterday ...
GLAAD, who I would bet have just started following him on Twitter due to his high profile TV gig, got all bent outta shape about this, suggested that Blake was advocating that straight guys who get hit on by gay men should beat their pursuers bloody.
He's not. He was rewriting the lyrics for a female singer, not suggesting that's how HE would sing it. GLAAD didn't get it.
So this campaign to get Shelton to apologize is unnecessary, as he didn't say or tweet anything hateful. GLAAD might have been watching Shelton ever since he was given the awkward duty at a recent awards show of saying a Brokeback Mountain-themed joke (the clip also being posted at GLAAD's blog) but he didn't write that joke, the writers of the show did.
I hope both parties come to an understanding on this and it goes away. It's a pointless distraction.
The Daily Express, a UK paper that isn't exactly known for its annual grab of Pulitzer Prizes, has this today from what they say is an upcoming Vanity Fair piece that claims to detail what happened on 9/11 to three people of note who found themselves in New York City with no way out:
The trio are said to have embarked on their journey to flee New York in a hire car the day after the 9/11 terror attack.
Fearing a follow-up attack, the trio first sought refuge in New Jersey, according to one of Jackson’s former personal assistants.
From there they undertook a 500-mile odyssey across America – with Brando and Jackson behind the wheel and stopping only to fuel up on Burger King and KFC takeaways – until they finally reached a mystery destination in the state of Ohio.
The remarkable tale, told to this month’s Vanity Fair magazine, is set to become the stuff of Hollywood legend – or possibly even part of a film script.
Of course all three are dead so you can't exactly verify the story, but I think it's still something I'd love to see reenacted on screen. But who do you cast in these very iconic roles?
More on this when the Vanity Fair piece makes it to your newsstand. In the meantime, note that I used iconic images of the three in my photo illustration above. I thought it would be fun to see them all together in their primes.
That would make a great movie, too. So would Brando standing on line at Burger King, complaining about the service or the Angus-ness of his beef.
Who said smoking a lot of weed and eating magic mushrooms and slacking off wasn't a career track?
The single-camera comedy, which stars Blake Anderson, Adam Devine and Anders Holm as a trio of labor-averse, substance-friendly telemarketers who also live together, has averaged 1.2 million total viewers since it premiered, with its most recent episode on April 27 representing a series high, with 1.5 million total viewers.
See a clip from tonight by clicking over the jump. It's on after South Park tonight at 10:30 on Comedy Central.
You know, I'm still not sure what they sell as telemarketers. Doesn't matter, but it's telling that I'm in the dark after watching all episodes to date, isn't it?
Continue reading "Workaholics Renewed for Season Two, Watch a Clip from Tonight's Show" »
And not just that, there's cannibals and paint huffing and Louisville and lotsa Silence of the Lambs references in a particularly funny tweet/email segment. I know at the beginning of the clip Craig himself says it's not but he's wrong.
Watch it by clicking THIS.
Tonight Craig has John Waters and Pauley Perrette from NCIS and the rest of the week offers guests as diverse as ... okay, not so diverse. Still good, though. On Thursday the guests are Exporting Raymond filmmaker Phil Rosenthal and Juliette Lewis. Friday brings Will Ferrell (yeah, Will Ferrell!) and Olivia Munn.
(Oh course you would know that if you following RSA News on Twitter or Facebook or just bookmarked their site, they keep me and the rest of the Robot Skeleton Army up to date.)
Beauty lighting. It's all about the beauty lighting.
To the right here is my old friend Gigi Levangie Grazer, author, screenwriter, bon vivant, bicep queen and lover of pro hoops trying to outfierce the host of RuPaul's Drag Race during her 2010 appearence on the show.
(Hey, she's trying. It takes balls to share a stage with Ru. I-rony!!!)
I was followed on Twitter yesterday by the RuPaul Casting twitter account yesterday which led me to this page (LINK) which outlines how to apply for the next season's auditions.
What I found there was advice we can all use in our online and offline lives, so I share with you today some words of wisdom from http://rupaul.worldofwonder.net/:
"Make sure you are not backlit or standing in front of windows. The best Beauty lighting is always in front of you. Avoid shooting your self in front of white walls."
"Take us on a tour of your fabulous side! Show us 3 of your different drag looks, ie Celebrity impersonations, an original character and an avant-garde look! Tell us about getting ready for each of these looks! As much diversity as possible!"
"Please make sure the video is well lit so we can see you in all your glory. Please include At LEAST 2 more performance pieces to any song you like (can be previously shot footage)."
"Please properly frame yourself in the shots. Start with a closer shot of you and your pearly whites and introduce yourself. Then a full body."
And, finally ...
"SUPERMODEL RUNWAY….walk girl. Now Prance I said! Do a runway walk for us, as this is your moment on the Paris runway!"
Okay, maybe it's not a runway. Maybe it's a board room you're walking into, maybe it's the beer bust at the Faultline in Los Angeles, maybe it's the family reunion where you plan to come out to your family. The important thing is to own the room.
One more suggestion, this one from me. Be funny. Have an act. Learn something about comedic timing. Think about the contestants that work after doing the show. They are the ones who have an act, who can do more than just walk and pose.
For example our blog fave Pandora Boxx (image right) from season two, working it so hard since the show with nationwide personal appearances and more TV time ... and because of that now having the opportunity to move to Los Angeles full time to pursue TV and film opportunities.
There's no indication when the casting deadline is so you'd better get on it if you're interest. Or, if you're just looking to take a new profile pic for your Facebook page, just remember that your best beauty lighting is always in front of you.
Always.
Good morning. You're welcome. Now let me drink my coffee, it's only 7:35 am.
(Said as Mugatu from Zoolander: "That Will Ferrell, so hot right now.")
This latest Hitler reacts video may actually stick around for a while. I only say that b/c the YouTube acct. it comes from is called FairUseHitler.
I just don't think the crew at Goodnight Burbank can handle two car chases at once. Should something else happen I think chaos would ensue.
And, there is goes. Chaos.
Episode two of the new series. Follow @GoodniteBurbank on Twitter. Watch the first one by clicking here.
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