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WE tv on Cable Has Bea Arthur Golden Girls Tribute Tonight From 9:30pm - 1 am

That's almost right now for those of you on the East Coast.

And a dedicated forum for everyone to share their favorite Bea Arthur memories, at this link.

And thanks to them, after the jump, a best of Dorothy Zbornak video montage.

Thank you Katrina for the info and your pal Izzy for the handoff.

And, I suggest a cheesecake if you're inviting friends over.

Video -- Guest Voice Chace Crawford Tommorrow on Family Guy

Which also means a new episode which always makes Sunday night a better night.

You can say that Chace's character is responsible for the condition Stewie has gotten in, pictured above.

Sharing a birthday (as many of my Facebook friends know)? Me and Seth MacFarlane.

And Hillary Clinton. And Billie Piper's little boy.

And "Julie, your cruise director" Lauren Tewes.

Clip after the jump. 9 pm, Fox.

UPDATED: Video -- Cast of Fox's Glee Treks to Long Beach CA's Cabrillo High for Photoshoot

UPDATE: I finally got embed codes from Fox, so the clip is here, after the jump for you homepagers.

From Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch blog (Tim Stack):

I have seen the pilot of Fox's new series Glee, which premieres May 19 after American Idol, and I am officially obsessed. I've watched it all the way through twice and have re-screened the performance numbers more times than I can count. It's becoming a little ridiculous. I may have to join some kind of support group. The series, which centers around a outcast-filled high school glee club, completely won me over. But it's the performance scenes that truly keep me coming back.

Check out a bunch of performance clips from the show at this link and this one and this one, all YouTube.

I'm trying to get a screener of this from Fox so that I can bring you some non-spoilery goodness from the pilot.

Jane Lynch goes network prime time? That's just the best news all year.

LOVE Jane.

Jane was one of the driving forces behind that The Gaythering Storm parody ad on Funny or Die that I posted a couple days ago.

Clips are all going after the jump today, as the page is loading slowly right now and I don't wanna disappoint anyone.

(Lots of traction on that US Fidelis clip from the Today show might be slowing down server response? I'm not entirely sure -- and I'm not entirely a tech geek, though I fake it really well.)

Glee is from Ryan Murphy (Nip/Tuck) and as I was a chorus geek in high school I'm chomping to get my hands on this before the Tuesday May 19th premiere. It's being given a plumb after Idol timeslot.

Also stars friend of the blog David Lawrence's friend Jessalyn Gilsig, Matthew Morrison, who was the guy with the outstanding vocal AND bicep development in the recent Broadway production of South Pacific with Kelly O'Hara, and Canadian actor Cory Monteith (recurring on Kyle XY and the not-picked up US pilot of Mistresses).

I'm still waiting for embed codes from Fox Publicity, but I promise that I'll post the clip here when I get them. In the meantime, you can click over to it at this link but come back.

Always come back. I miss you when you're gone.

Weeds Begins Their Season Five Promos -- The Hemptress Wishes You Happy 4/20

June 8th, only on Showtime.

Mary-Louise Parker, you are lookin' hot in your black widow getup. Yowza!

And, this season it's the lead-in for the new Edie Falco series, Nurse Jackie.

I have the Nurse Jackie pilot in my hot (not so) li'l hand but I have to wait, guys and gals, till I get the okay from the big brass at Showtime to tell you what I think, so stay tuned.

Join the Weeds Facebook page at this link (of course, join Facebook first if you don't have a presence there) and watch The Stoners, a new web series.

Nurse Jackie trailer after the jump.

2 Clips -- NGTV's Carrie Does the Cast of 17 Again, Plus a Zac Efron-Related Separated at Birth and Matthew Perry on Letterman

(I know the headlines are getting longer, but I have no discipline whatsoever, and shortening them takes brain power, and thinking's hard. Wah!)

On Facebook, our friend Lindsay Carroll from MaddowFans.com has noted something interesting ... Efron has a doppelganger, and it's a young woman that L Word viewers know from seasons four through 6 as Max, Daniela Sea.

Look at both of them below.

Right? Spooky, huh.

You can learn more about Daniela at this link. For Efron it's a big weekend, he's trying to join the ranks of those who can open a film, and a comedy no less, on the strength of his popularity. And you gotta hand it to the kid (yes, he's a kid to an almost-50-year-old, a cute kid but still a kid) as he's been everywhere promoting this thing.

Of course, I'm sure his favorite moments of the press junket are in the No Good Television clip after the jump. I haven't even watched it yet, let me click over there and give it a whirl before I say more.

So, Thomas Lennon, who costars in the movie, he has a lot of experience in front of Carrie Keegan on NGTV. In fact, as you'll remember he invited Carrie to be on Reno 911 a couple seasons back.

As a whore, but still, an invite is an invite.

I thnk the classic line that you will remember from the Efron-Lennon-Keegan banter is when Zac tells about getting hit in the face with Lennon's light saber.

And Tom Lennon? Kind of a little protective of Zac, in a daddy kind of way. You take that however you wanna take that.

Sometimes a light saber is just a light saber.

Also here is Matthew Perry and Leslie Mann (Ms. Apatow).  It opens today nationwide.

Also after the jump, because it's on YT watch Dave last night with Perry, talking about that special place in the road by Lisa Kudrow's house where you can see right into her bedroom.

Hey, put down those car keys yo!

Clips after the jump.

They could do another movie with Efron and Daniela Sea, instead of aging Zac could just, uh, feminize? If you wanna work the sequel angle you could call it With Ladyparts Again.

Right Here, Right Now, Win The Tudors Seasons 1 and 2 on DVD!

It's a contest Easter Sunday! My thanks to Dan McCallum from Ducky Does TV, I stole his graphic from his giveaway last month.

Thanks Dan, it's a holiday and I'm being a bit lazy.

Here's the deal, to win, just click over, right now, to the Pop Tudors blog from Showtime and tell me the character name of the "rougeish playboy" discussed somewhere on the blog.

First commenter wins the prize. It's so frickin' easy all it takes is a click.

I even provide the link, right here. And above.

My thanks to fellow Oswego alum the lovely and illusive RW at Showtime for providing the prize.

Preview clip for tonight's new episode after the jump.

If you don't win, you can always pick them up from Amazon, icons provided below. If you click through those icons, in about three hundred years I'll have enough credit with them to buy, I dunno, season 307 of Family Guy on "brain chip."

Video -- It's Me and One of the Most Beautiful Women on TV, Plus Ray Wise from Reaper

Yeah, I know, I can't keep my eyes open sometimes when I smile. All the cheek fat forces them closed.

That's me and NGTV's Carrie Keegan, she knows how to pose for pics.

No actual reason for this post, the picture just makes me happy.

Lemme click over to NGTV.com and see if I find a fun clip to post from them after the jump. How about that? There's an interview with Ray Wise from Reaper, which is in the news these days as it sits atop the list of CWTV shows on the bubble.

About that, Entertainment Weekly talks today to Bret Harrison, and here's a taste:

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Do you have any indication whether or not the CW will pick up the show?

Bret Harrison: I have no idea. I think they're going to let us know Tuesday morning or something. [Tuesday, May 13, is the day the CW announces its fall slate at its upfront presentation to advertisers.] We just finished shooting the last scene on Monday. It's really hard to say goodbye to the whole cast and crew when it's "Bye... maybe?" It's a weird emotion.

Great interview with Wise, it includes stories about David Lynch and Twin Peaks and he advocates for the legalization of marijuana.

Carrie is her usual cheeky self, which as you know, I adore.

Ray Wise hits on our girl big time. He gets Up Close and takes advantage of his location.

Enjoy!

House, M.D. Video -- More Robert Kutner Memorials, Music by Hugh Laurie

More at this link as well.

LINK

Video -- Hard to Get Moving This AM? Have Some Glee on Me

Glee: open delight or pleasure; exultant joy; exultation.

Okay, before I say anything else about this show, Glee, created by Ryan Murphy for Fox that has a pilot premiere after the first night of the Idol finale on May 19, I have to tell you something.

I was a member of the 1977 All New York State High School Choir. I am the winner of the 1978 National School Choral Award at my High School.

(Sorry Hanna Lundgren, should have come in early to set up chairs like I did.)

So, the phrase "right in my wheelhouse" fits here. Glee club, crazy kids, singing ... I'm so there. Well, at least at first. If it sucks? Well, there's always something on the DVR.

Plus, it has Jane Lynch, who I adore, and I can finally watch a Ryan Murphy show. Nip/Tuck had too many scalpels and too much blood.

(Funny, I can stand some gunshot-related blood, but when it's a scalpel being drawn across human flesh I'm just disgusted.)

So, I've been holding this clip forever, because it wasn't even March when I got it and the show airs in May. So, more as we get closer but I feel like I can throw up the first preview trailer finally.

After the jump.

Oh, btw, two weeks until I start following Idol. I just can't deal with it until they hit the top six. It's much too time consuming.

NGTV Video -- Carrie Keegan With the Cast of Adventureland, In Theatres Today

Great reviews for this one. Of course, the reviews would have to include the lines, "Seeing this movie in theatres will make you thinner and richer" to actually get my ass to the movies, but I'm old.

You're not.

Mick LaSalle at the SF Chronicle:

(A) movie like Greg Mottola's "Adventureland" comes along to make us think, why aren't there more young love movies? Why not one every week? Few stories have more impact, and nothing could be more universal.

If making movies were only a matter of having feelings, everyone could do it. Mottola, who wrote and directed, has big emotions invested in this story, which is based on his own experiences working at an amusement park the summer after college. But he also has the crucial ability to translate that emotion into words and images, so that an audience can feel it as well.

Go see it. Jesse Eisenberg is not your usual star of a teen romantic comedy with gross out and drug humor on the side, he'll make it a more artful experience for you. And Kristen Stewart? I am disposed to not like anyone from that virgin vampire movie (vampires with no sex, give me a fuckin' break), but then I saw those pics of her sitting on her front stoop getting high and I like her again.

Plus, you got Bill Hader from SNL and Ryan Reynolds.

Carrie's Up Close interviews with the cast are, as usual, not appropriate for work or the kids. And that's just how we like it.

After the jump.

Oh, and someone please tell Jesse Eisenberg that Gene Siskel is no longer with us.

Thank you.

Osbournes Reloaded Clip -- More Bad News for Lauren Conrad

Hey, at least she doesn't get played by Ozzy, like Audrina does. Yes, that's metal god John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne. That sound you hear is a bunch of people throwing their early Black Sabbath albums off the tops of high buildings.

First Lauren quits The Hills, which makes her irrelevant, right? And then she stops her fashion line because of the recession ... and now she's forced to do comedy with Sharon Osbourne.

Don't get me wrong, I would enjoy a nice lunch with Sharon or maybe a couple of cocktails and some dishing about the plastic surgery victims in the room, but shouldn't one of the people in a comedy sketch be an actor?

Because these people are, respectively, a rock-n-roll manager/impressario and a giggly girl with boy problems.

Would you watch Peter Asher and Audrina Patridge do comedy? Paul McGuinness and Heidi Montag?Malcolm McLaren and Spencer Pratt?

See what I did there? Do you think Spencer Pratt noticed that I called him a giggly girl with boy problems? In his world his boy problems are all self-inflicted. That's right, Dunk's Dad, I said it!

I got a million of these.

Clip after the jump.

This second screengrab of Lauren? It's the exact moment when she realizes that just being where she is guarantees she'll never get another acting job. Poor Lauren. It's been a bad week.

Video -- BSG Finale Countdown: NGTV's Carrie and Tricia Helfer Part II

And NGTV's wildman Shark Firestone joins in for discussion of Saul Tigh's ejaculatory specifications.

Yes, there is a moment of discussion about Cylon "loads."

Because it's No Good Television and they are just no fucking good.

I was right there (I am pointing to a location that actually exists in the space/time continuum as this image was being take right behind the camera).

This is just the beginning of a day filled with Battlestar Galactica posts as we race toward 9 pm eastern (that's 6 pm for those of us in the west who have SciFi in HD) and the final battle of human v. Cylon.

Sad. Excited. Nervous. I'm all that. Looking forward to it and at the same time wish it would never end.

All good things end. Even this clip, which I post after the jump. However, I betcha we get a part three of this interview right around the time Tricia shows up on Chuck as Agent Alex Forrest, who is sent to evaluate the relationship between Sarah and Chuck, but she also has a history with Casey and you can bet she'll be messing with Casey's libido.

That airs on March 30.

Breaking Bad Clips to Refresh Your Mind Before Tonight's AMC Season Premiere

Because I love you guys I'm posting the recap to last season's final episode and a preview of tonight's premiere.

Of course, last September Bryan Cranston won the best dramatic actor Emmy for this series, despite it's WGA strike-shortened season.

I would pay particular attention to the scene in the episode seven recap (the first clip) where Walt and his DEA agent brother-in-law Hank talk about the Cuban cigars that he pulls out.

If Mr. DEA can compromise his principles as much as that, is looking the other way or even helping Walt out with covert meth ops in the cards?

Tonight's episode is called Seven-Thirty-Seven. The second clip is the preview. After the jump.

Condensed Soup -- Joel With Real Men Who Cry, Al "Live Mic" Roker and ... Dice

And, there are still some tix left for Joel at the Terrace Theatre in Long Beach for March 13. But you'd better work it, starting right now. I'll be there, seek me out and buy me something noisy I can eat during the show.

Watch this clip below all the way through, the Andrew "Dick" Clay clip from Celebrity Apprentice is worth seeing, if only to give you the experience of looking at many people in one glance that you really don't care for.

Though I don't include Joan Rivers, she gave me my first paid writing job.

Soup's on, tonight at 10 on E!. And, while you're in front of your TV, make sure to set your DVR or set an alarm or set something (your hair?) to watch The Dish, Saturday on the Style Network.

My recent post on that show at this link.

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Best Watchmen Coverage on the Web -- NGTV's Carrie With ... Everyone

Sorry I have to put it after the jump. The clip is being viewed so much already that it's taking a little time to load.

There is nothing I can say that will prepare you for what you're about to see, but don't watch it at work and if you're a kid whose parent isn't sitting right next to them while he or she surfs the web, turn to your mom or dad or person in charge and tell them they're not doing their job. And then give yourself a cookie instead of watching the clip.

Having said that I can now say that this eight-plus minutes of Up Close with Carrie Keegan is the, ahem, "dickswingingest" eight minutes that you have ever seen, or possibly will ever see.

What does that mean? Watch the clip.

I'm actually going to see this movie in a theatre. Maybe this weekend. 

2 Clips -- Secret Diary Season Finale & Win a Season One DVD!!!

So we come to the end of this season and Hannah turns out to be so much less competent than alter ego, call girl Belle at, well ... everything.

Girl just can't be a regular girl. Doesn't know how. She can't even dress well unless she's seeing a client -- have you looked at some of the clothes she's worn on dates with Alex the anesthesiologist? The Flashdance-inspired get up at the movies was particularly bad.

On another note, it does bother me a bit that we don't get any reason why this young woman has such a problem with intimacy.

I remember how she told us in the premiere that she wasn't abused and she wasn't an addict, but when you take a hard look at the character she's not really that sympathetic. Ben's right in his rant in the last ep, she takes and takes.

I hope in upcoming episodes (and I believe season three is in the can) we find just a little bit more out about this family of hers that she can't stand to be with. Gotta be something there.

If I could cut one scene from that last episode it would be the copying machine sequence. She can't make copies? Really? Stealing a scene from the movie 9 to 5? How very retro.

(I want to note that this last episode is the only one written by a man and one of only two scripts so far in the series not written by creator Lucy Prebble.)

And Alex is quite the sanctimonious prig, but he's Catholic (I'm pretty sure), he's never gonna be able to handle the dichotomy. In my experience Catholics have a problem with the Madonna/whore thing. And this is with an actual whore, so what are his chances, really?

But Belle will be Belle, and even after she's back with Alex for one more chance in this Sunday's season ender, Hannah is gonna be tempted to let Belle out one more time.

Big payday, plum assignment ... what's a girl to do?

I have a clip after the jump. But first ...

FREE STUFF ALERT!!!

The lovely people at Showtime Networks want to thank all of you for watching this seasonof Secret Diary of a Call Girl, but they can't give you all a DVD of season one so they're letting me pick one person who will get it.

The only restriction on this one is you can't be related to me and you have to be a US resident.

Simple question -- On what network does Secret Diary of a Call Girl air in Britain? 

First commenter with the correct answer wins a season one DVD box set of the show.

Thanks, Showtime.

Breaking Bad Creator Vince Gilligan: "You Can Laugh At It Or Be Disgusted"

 

Or, I find, a little of both.

Though Vince Gilligan was referring to a particular scene in the first season of Breaking Bad, the same can be said for the whole shebang, though I find myself somewhere in the middle.

Your favorite chemistry teacher turned meth cooker dramedy, with 2008 Emmy winning Bryan Cranston leading, comes back a week from tonight on AMC at 10, and their site is at this link.

Of course, that scene is the one where Aaron Paul, playing Walter White's criminal colleague Jesse Pinkman, is liquifying the body of the guy that Walt killed in the basement by choking him with the bicycle U-lock that attached the guy to a pole by his neck and the solution he uses liquifies the floor as well and it all comes careening into the first floor.

Gross, yes, but a critical plot point in the first season.

For those who don't know, this exchange from the Times interview explains the title:

Q. What exactly does the title of your show mean, anyway?

A. Honestly, when I named our show “Breaking Bad” I thought everyone was aware of this bit of slang, and it turns out nobody is except for the people in my hometown. But to break bad, when I was growing up, was to raise hell. “Jim was down at the bar the other weekend, and he got really drunk and he really broke bad. He totaled his car.” The show might as well have been named “Raising Hell,” but it would have sounded like a Clive Barker thing. A detective who sends people to hell or something.

Click over to the AMC site linked above for webisodes in advance of the season two debut and sometime this week (after I rewatch the season one DVD lovingly supplied by Michelle and Shawn at Wiredset -- THANKS!!!) I'll be giving it away to some lucky SOB.

Free, just viewed once. Kinda like being driven on a Sunday only to church by your great auntie.

Season two behind the scenes feature after the jump.

NGTV's Carrie and Shark & The Cast of Street Fighter, in Theatres NOW!!!

Hey, and I even found a decent review of it online at the Detroit Free Press:

Kristin Kreuk, from TV's "Smallville," plays Chun Li, concert pianist-martial artist. When she was a child, her dad, a fellow mixed up with mobsters, disappeared. Now the adult Chun Li must go to Bangkok and face her destiny and the baddie who took Daddy.

That would be Neal McDonough, blue-eyed, white-haired heavy for our times. This outing, he tries a wee Irish accent in playing this ruthless mob boss. The accent, alas, comes and goes.

Michael Clarke Duncan is the chief henchman, and Chris Klein, taking a shot at showing us some edge, is an Interpol agent on the bad guys' trail.

The violence is neck-snapping, take-a-man's-gun-and-shoot-him-in-the-ear graphic, and did I mention the lesbian bar pickup scene? Nice.

Kristin Kreuk, Chris Klein and Taboo from the Black-Eyed Peas join Carrie and Shark in the red velvet pit of raunch. Part I after the jump, and links to parts II and III after that.

While you're doing that, I'll be writing the second act of Ms. Pac-Man's Guide to Dating and Ghosts, in theatres next Valentine's Day.

Showtime's Tara Renewed, "Marshall" Interviewed at AfterElton.com

Of course, Marshall is Keir Gilchrist, the youngest Gregson and maybe the most self-aware gay teen every seen on television. He's pictured above with Toni Collette as Alice, the Douglas Sirk-inspired alter of Tara's.

I'm pretty sure this character is the most uncomplicatedly gay teen you've ever seen; his family is cool with him (even his dad the landscaper), he doesn't seem to have issue pursuing this very cute young man he has a crush on, the "born again" Jason (Andrew Lawrence, image right), brother of Joe and Matthew) and even though the Doctor Who poster on his wall disappeared between the pilot and the second episode (for shame!) he's a sci fi geek so what's not to like?

Gilchrist talked to Michael Jensen at AfterElton.com and shared the story about how co-star John Corbett found out that Marshall (his character's son) was gay:

As for Max his dad and Kate his sister, Gilchrist says, “Other characters like, I think Max – it was funny, John in real life didn’t realize my character was gay until we had already shot the pilot and we got it and he went, ‘Marshall’s gay?’ I was like, ‘Yeah, it says so!’ He’s like, ‘Oh, really, I didn’t even know.’ So that was kind of funny. So I guess his character sort of just kind of shrugs the shoulders and I think there is actually a really nice moment in one of the episodes in which he does sit down with Marshall and it’s kind of – not come out, but it’s like, lay it on the table, ‘I’m gay.’"

If you recognize Gilchrist, it's maybe because you saw him in the sadly short-lived Fox comedy The Winner with Rob Corddry.

The second season will start shooting this Summer for early 2010, but we have a long way to go before that. Coming up, Tara's parents, played by Fred Ward and Pamela Reed, come to visit but will set in motion something that I'm pretty sure (just speculation) will bring out some more of Tara's alters. At least the one that ruined her mural should show up.

And I think we'll get some answers about what happened to Tara that led to this. In fact, I think we already see why Tara's Dissociative Disorder reared its head when we watch this clip after the jump. Listen to what her dad has to say to Max.

Sunday, 10, Showtime.

(And, you know, it says at the Showtime site that you can watch the upcoming episode at Sho on Demand, but not on my cable system. How about yours?)

American Idol Truth Tour Video -- WGA Prez Verrone, Former Hell's Kitchen Producer Calhoun

The Guild was out in force yesterday outside TV City in Hollywood protesting Fremantle USA, who produce the number one show in all of teevee (by a pretty wide margin) but can't find their way to paying actual union salaries to their writers that they don't even call writers because then they'd have to pay them better and not work them 20 hours a day, reportedly.

And it's just not the writers. This event combined the Writers Guild and the Teamsters.

First up is Patric Verrone, WGA President (and former Futurama writer, pictured above) and after that a former co-producer on that damned Gordon Ramsay expletive-fest called Hell's Kitchen, current Life story editor and NYU grad Wendy Calhoun.

And it's after the jump.

Pic above courtesy The Truth About Fremantle website by David Bacon. Video courtesy The Hollywood Reporter.

United States of Tara Preview Video -- Tara Likes NPR, T Not So Much

Right at the end of the clip, you can see it happen. Very subtle, which I certainly prefer over what could have been a very effects-intensive transformation that would have completely undermined the style and sensibility of the show.

You can't go all Quantum Leap on the changes Tara goes through, it wouldn't fit.

(Though it was very effective, for the time, on Quantum Leap. Ah, Bakula in his prime, huh?)

At the end of the last episode I was just about convinced that it was Charmaine who effed up Tara's mural. In the first clip, however, husband Max doesn't seem to buy that and the altercation that follows brings on T, the slutty teen alter, who now has the car keys, the car but doesn't seem interested in listening to public radio.

I would betcha she's a metal chick. Her hair references my friend Janet's from the mid-eighties.

I was reading a piece somewhere online about the show and it was said that before the end of this season we'll find out what it was that lead to Tara's multiple personality disorder. I think history will tell us a lot about Tara, Max and Charmaine and we'll look back on this episode differently after.

Not that I've see it yet -- this one I watch with you guys -- the DVD from Showtime only provided the first four.

There's this from TV Guide, which is spoiler free, btw:

At least one of the show's writers had her fingers crossed for a Season 2 — and not just because she likes her job. "We really had a hard time putting everything we wanted to do [with the series] in 12 episodes — and that's not always the case!" Alexa Junge told TVGuide.com at the series' outset. "[Tara's] got a good story to tell, and we're just getting rolling here."

In the second clip, Max and Charmaine are out looking for T. Listen to them, they have history. History that is yet to be revealed.

Tonight at 10 on Showtime, and stay tuned for Billie and Secret Diary afterwards.

Video -- Scorching Hotness!!! NGTV's Carrie Keegan With BSG's Tricia Helfer

Go, watch, now!

NOW!!!

If you know me, you can hear me in the handpicked audience for this event.

Thanks, Big K! You're the best! We had a great time.

And upcoming from NGTV more of the women of BSG. I will keep you informed.

Oh, btw, this is only part one. There's more, kids, LOTS more.

The other parts have a lot more Shark Firestone, for you Shark fans out there.

LINK

Video -- Outtakes From Tonight's Dushku/Glau Wraparounds on Fox

I love it when the hot chicks start goofin' on each other.

You people in the east have already seen Dollhouse. So, what did you think?

Comment below!

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Video -- The Tudors Season Three Trailer, Brand New

Have at it, gang, this one's all for you.

LINK

Carrie Keegan, Jennifer Aniston and Drew Barrymore (and others) Talk Shit (over 42 times) on NGTV

There's also some Scarlett Johansson and Bradley Cooper.

And some Justin Long, Ginnifer Goodwin and Kevin Connelly.

Not all at the same time, that would be a little much. Or, would it be the best orgy ever?

Of course, that would be a little uncomfortable for exes Long and Barrymore. And in a group that big you might misplace Connelly under a pillow or something.

And Drew, I'm loving the big boufy hair on the red carpet, but with a blouse and jeans? Dontcha think that's a little much? Or are you worried about getting misplaced under a pillow, too?

It's the number one film in the country, despite the lukewarm reception. Star power works.

And you can tell it's been in the can for a while because of the Myspace joke. Couldn't loop the word Facebook over that? It would have taken moments, Drew.

Carrie and the cast after the jump.

And one more thing, He's Just Not Inside of You would have been a very different movie, but probably would have been about a guy who gets a penis enlargement.

BTW, for you Carrie Keegan fans and man I know you're out there (I can tell by my web stats) she's on Chelsea Lately tonight at 11:30 on E!

2 Clips -- "On a Serious Note" Seacrest on the Grammy Red Carpet With T.I.

What was up with TV's Ryan Seacrest? Watch him talk to T.I. after the jump about his weapons conviction? What, is he now the sheriff of the red carpet? Will he wear formal chaps with fringe if he's gonna be the sheriff of the red carpet?

And in the second clip, the Jennifer Hudson interview, he doesn't know the name of her fiance, which isn't like him. And is it me or is he not as crisp in these interviews? At one point in the Hudson interview it kind of seems like he's ... slowing down.

All those jobs and all that salon time takes it out of a guy.

I'm very happy Adele won, curse be damned. Great MTV profile at this link.

Watch her clips at Yahoo! Music, where I find all my music video embeds.

Gee, after seeing what T.I. went through with Seacrest, good thing Chris Brown didn't try to walk the red carpet after ... (MTV):

The awards show featured a slew of amazing performances, as well as the noticeable absence of two nominated artists and expected performers, Rihanna and Chris Brown, who were scratched at the last minute following an alleged domestic incident, for which Brown turned himself in during the broadcast.

Damn! What's up with that? Domestic battery? Absolutely unforgiveable.

Nineteen years old and hitting his girlfriend? After everything him and his mother went through with an abusive stepfather?

Giant Magazine from September 2007:

"(I told my mother) 'I just want you to know that I love you, but I'm gonna take a baseball bat one day while you are at work, and I'm gonna kill him.' He used to hit my mom...He made me terrified all the time, terrified like I had to pee on myself. I remember one night he made her nose bleed. I was crying and thinking, 'I'm just gonna go crazy on him one day...' I hate him to this day."

That's why this is either very surprising or not at all so, I guess. I don't really understand how one becomes "that guy."

2 Clips -- Re: United States of Tara, I Take Issue With New York Magazine's Approval Matrix for February 2

And it has to do with this, above, from the lower left quadrant.

I am of the opinion that the Matrix writers have a bit of an issue with Ms. Cody. But let me remind them that there's a difference between style and bad scripting.

The show is stylistically sparse. Minimalist, even.

Maybe the New York Magazine contingent here thinks that the show's feel comes from the still-neophyte screenwriter Diablo Cody. Or maybe it's just some Cody backlash, which there's plenty of going on out there.

They overlook a great TV writer on the project, Exec Prod Alexa Junge (above left), who I think works very effectively with the material and shapes it with a style that does nothing but enhance the story.

And that's how I feel, Approval Matrix (which I love and read weekly) be damned.

After the jump, a preview of this week's episode and a clip with Ms. Cody discussing the wardrobe choices for Tara's alters. Both after the jump.

The show airs tonight at 10, right after The L Word and right before Secret Diary of a Call Girl, on Showtime.

2 Clips -- BAFTA Film Awards Tonight at 8 Eastern, BBC America, Print Your Ballot Here

Because you know you can't watch an award show without a scorecard, click here and a new window will pop up with a .pdf file of the nominees and little bubbles that you can fill in with your #2 pencil.

And more than that, I have some video of nominee and Doctor Who alum Noel Clarke, who is nominated for his sequel to Kidulthood called Adulthood. The former got him a win at Dinard British Film Fest for best screenplay. This current film has gotten him nominated for the Rising Star award.

About the nominees, from Telegraph UK:

Slumdog Millionaire, directed by Danny Boyle, is now the runaway favourite to land the Best Film prize at tonight's ceremony. So many punters are convinced that the Bombay-based rags-to-riches tale will take the top prize that bookies have slashed the odds to a derisory 1-6.

The only other nominee considered by Ladbrokes, the bookmakers, to be more of a certainty is the late Heath Ledger, whose performance as the Joker in Batman sequel The Dark Knight is 1-25 to win Best Supporting Actor.

The Baftas are now seen by many in the industry as the most reliable guide to what will happen on Oscar night later this month.

Don't click around willy nilly on the web because with the time difference you might run into ...

... SPOILERS!!!

And award show spoilers are just the worst, aren't they?

Two clips after the jump, one with the aforementioned Clarke and a moment with one of my favorite women, Meryl Streep, talking about her role in Doubt to ITN. There's some Amy Adams, too.

All of my Meryl posts at this link. I still want to marry her and live in a very fulfilling sexless marriage filled with conversation and travel and singing along to pop hits in my car with her in the passenger seat.

So Ms. Streep, if you're out there and tired of your fabulous life ...

2 Clips -- The Soup Goes All "Christian Bale" on You and Inside Victoria Beckham

The Christian Bale clip after the jump, but first, re the woman who tells the world that she has a gay man inside of her ... (The Soup Uberblog):

Using innovative ultrasound technology, Soup Blog sources spoke with the gay man, one Randall Brebs, who has lived inside the ex-Spice Girl for the last three years.

“She really needs to redecorate, for God’s sake,” stated the incredibly small Brebs, who uses Beckham’s stomach as a combined living room and bed room, while utilizing her lower intestine as a workout facility.

After the jump, Condensed Soup for this week and the Christian Bale tirade clip you can't miss.

Video -- Fox's Hot Hot Chicks With Bikes and Guns -- So, They're Soulless

Each and every Friday night starting February 13th. No date for Valentine's, geeky guy? These robots will take care of that (if you DVR the show and watch it the next night, no hot robot chicks will come to your home, your mileage may vary).

Quentin Tarantino would be proud.

Or he'll sue.

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Before Tomorrow's Secret Diary, Let's Check in With Ben & Bambi

They apparently hire out the same exact personal videographer to show up where they are, Bambi sitting in garish opulence in a room that you expect Donald Trump to walk through, and Ben laying around on his couch while that pain in the ass Vanessa (have we even see her yet?) is off getting limber.

And then the guy edits the stuff, escapes the fiction London that is on TV and uploads the thing to YouTube for you and me.

(Yes I get stuck in the abyss between TV world and real world, too. I blame Andy Richter. When I watched Andy Richter Controls the Universe, I really thought he did.)

I'd lay around on Ben's couch. I know, he's not asking. So?

And, I use the same lube as Bambi and Belle. And I mention that because I missed National TMI Week.

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After the jump, Hannah gets the knock on the door Belle fears most, especially when it's the wife of a Member of Parliament.

And she's pissed.

Sunday, 10:30, Showtime.

More Dollhouse Video -- "Enter the Jossverse" Again and Learn to Scream!

"You like-a the Joss, huh? I'll give you more Joss." Evidently, Tahmoh and Eliza like-a the Joss!

If you don't know to what I am referring above, click here. Just read the first couple graphs, the rest of it is about Roger Clemens doing growth hormone.

And, btw, IO9.com has a calendar of all the big February scifi events, and it's at this link. It does not include mention of the Gallifrey One (Doctor Who) convention starting the 13th, but I'll be there geeking out and if you see me come say hello.

Dollhouse premieres on that same day, at 9 after Terminator: TSCC. Fox.

Clip's after the jump, because it's loading slowly.

Whedon Video -- Tahmoh Penikett Enters the Jossverse

I'm not even watching it first, just getting it to you ASAP.

Dollhouse debuts on Fox in Friday Feb. 13 at 9 pm right after Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

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Video -- Tonight on United States of Tara, Marshall Talks Literary Boners

Guest star Tony Hale plays Marshall's English teacher and discusses the symbolism of the walking stick in the novel their studying.

Of course, Marshall's young and all walking sticks look like boners to him. Did to me at that age, too.

Is it any surprise to you that Marshall's favorite alter is Alice, the exacting homemaker and strident parent?

I'm waiting for the episode where Marshall and Alice fold dinner napkins into swans and discuss the relative merits of creme fraiche.

Keir Gilchrist, btw, is the kid who played opposite Rob Corddry in the very good short-lived The Winner on Fox. Yes, I enjoyed it a lot. I wrote about the show at this link.

He's very good here.

Clip after the jump. Tara tonight at 10 after The L Word and before Secret Diary of a Call Girl on Showtime.

Condensed Soup, And Where's Joel This Weekend?

Joel is at the South Beach Comedy Festival this weekend with a panoply of A-list standups. He performs on the 24th. That's tomorrow.

Click here and a little window with a media player will open up with some interview audio clips from them.

If you wanna know what Joel is doing in front of this short bus, you'll listen to the interview.

And in Condensed Soup, Rock of Love Bus has a broken down booby, Bromance hits a crying jag and there are no tissues in The Principal's Office.

Soup's on tonight at 10 on E! And now that I have SciFi in HD and they are on an eastern time zone schedule, I can get my BSG in before Joel.

After the jump.

The L Word Spinoff Sends NPR Alice to Prison: Old News or New Spin?

Just a moment of silence for Jenny Schecter, okay?

No? Because you hated her? That's fine too.

(Not you Mia, just the character.)

So, what do you think about the proposed Leisha Hailey spinoff coming after this final season of The L Word on Showtime?

Let me particularly ask the lesbians out there, does the fact that the spinoff is taking Alice to prison a bit of old news? After all, some of the first films and TV episodes that showed lesbians in any light in the media were set in prison.

The network's Robert Greenblatt talked to Entertainment Tonight about the spinoff:

"We have been mysterious about the concept," continues Greenblatt. "One of the characters from 'The L Word' actually goes to prison. The show then goes to prison with a largely new cast. I would say it is not only lesbian characters; it is a big group of characters."

Although the "women in prison" genre in film and on television has been known for its campy value, the new show promises "a grittier look; it is not as dark as 'Oz.'"

Greenblatt adds that the spinoff is anchored by Leisha Hailey, who plays bisexual NPR journalist Alice Pieszecki on "The L Word," and there are three guest stars in the pilot: Melissa Leo, Famke Janssen and Laurie Metcalf.

Great list of guest stars, huh? Melissa Leo just wowed the crowds in the film Frozen River, Laurie Metcalf makes everything better and if I'm a lesbian checking into the big house I wanna see Famke Janssen when I walk in.

The show is tentatively being called The Farm. And btw, just because it stars the woman who plays Alice doesn't mean that Alice is the murderer. There are a lot of people in jail for murders they didn't commit.

Still, it feels at first glance like an old story retold. Will it be told in a different way this time? Greenblatt promises so, and I guess he hasn't let the fans down yet, so we'll watch and see.

Alice the NPR journo going to jail for a murder she may or may not have committed reminds me of Jodie Foster in the Neil Jordan film The Brave One.

After the jump a preview of this week's show, Alice and Tasha go to couples' therapy.

Video -- The L Word Countdown to Premiere and Shane Has Some 'Splainin' To Do

'Cause she was bad. Watch. The final season of this groundbreaking Showtime series starts tonight at 9 with special guest Lucy Lawless, truly the most inspired casting that many of her fans will just love.

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E!'s Kristin Reporting Possible Jack Bauer Theatrical 24 Death Post Season Eight

Ms. Dos Santos says:

Not only did 24 executive producer Howard Gordon tell reporters he might very well "blow up the whole world" and Jack Bauer with it, but he's also talking about doing a big-screen 24 movie that will happen when the Fox series ends—and that end might come sooner than you think.

"My hope is to go after the eighth season," Gordon tells us, "and Kiefer and I have talked about it, and I think that’s sort of what we’re aiming for."

Now, I don't watch the show, but this seems like a good idea from a bunch of different angles. I can't really figure out how long Sutherland has left on his contract, renewed in 2006 because I don't know what they do about last year (no show). But if you don't count 2008 I think his deal ends this year, which means another renegotiation or an additional agreement to cover the final stanza and the film.

I had thought a couple years ago that they might try to go on with another lead, at the time Rick Schroeder was spending a year on the show. I guess I was horribly wrong again.

I have E!'s red carpet coverage from the Fox premiere of this season after the jump. Two clips, Sutherland and Carlos Bernard.

Idol Bikini Girl Video -- Idol Overnights Huge But Still Off a Drop from 2008

At his THR blog, Hibberd is reporting a preliminary number of 30.1 million homes and an 11.6 rating and a 29 share in the demo.

He says that's a 10% loss of audience and 16% in the demo. Maybe they shouldn't have told the world that they were cutting back on crazy bad auditions, because evidently schadenfreude is alive and well in American homes.

Myself? I don't watch bad auditions. Furthermore, when I'm at a comedy club and the comic is dying out there I have to walk out to the bar area 'cause it kills me.

I haven't done my fast forward DVR viewing of the show yet, the DVR its on is upstairs and I have both the cleaning lady and the window cleaners here at the same time.

(Trying to coordinate all that and keep Homer from sticking his nose up the window washer's butt is a chore indeed.)

I was fortunate enough during a commercial break 0f another show (can't even remember what) I got the chance to introduce myself to Bikini Girl (I didn't write down her name either, Entertainment Weekly's Michael Slezak).

Bikini Girl, after some research, is Katrina Darrell from Chino, CA. And this is a link to her site.

You can email her here.

Clip after the jump.

Video -- Billie Piper is IN! Says Daily Mail, Soccer Wife Beckham OUT!!! Secret Diary Returns Sunday

Well, I'm with that!

This is what Clare Coleman says in her piece today in the UK paper, which starts:

It's no coincidence that M&S is closing some of its swanky food stores at the same time that Greggs and Domino's Pizza are announcing a leap in sales.

Whether or not you're being crunched by the crisis, there's something a bit tacky about ostentatious consumption.

And of course, Billie is working, and working it in the new series of Secret Diary of a Call Girl which starts back up this Sunday at 10:30.  Coleman continues:

IN: Billie Piper

Our new heroine; she dresses down and seems more interested in work and family than fashion.

OUT: Posh

Oh VB, you were the ultimate aspirational icon, but now we're just starting to resent your Birkins bags.

But Billie's not interested in working the press in the US, apparently, as the series picks up this weekend on Showtime. I was kind of hopeful when I saw images in the British press of Billie and Laurence and baby Winston in Miami that she might do a US press tour.

I just don't get why the networks, cable or otherwise, that are carrying British fare don't bring their folks over for a press tour, at least for the premiere week if not more. How are people gonna know if Ellen or Bonnie of even Matt Lauer don't tell them?

They just might have to ... gasp! ... read this blog. But I know how many of you are reading and it's really really not enough.

(I was just thinking about how much Lauer would enjoy meeting Billie, she's just his type. He would be stammering and falling all over himself.)

Anyhow, there's a new preview clip after the jump. This is from the premiere, as Belle has a "date" with a guy named Alex. The problem is that it's a common name. Oops.

Both Alexes will be an issue for Hannah/Belle as the series progresses.

Sunday night, 10:30, after Tara, on Showtime.

Even More Globes Video -- Seacrest Pulls Miley Aside Re Inappropriate BF

So he didn't get Brangelina, he did manipulate a teenager on live TV. And that's something.

And, not for nothing, but Mrs. Billy Ray could eat something from time to time, know what I mean?

Hope she's not "competing."

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The L Word's Pam Grier on "Quite Hostile" Emails From Black Community

I know that the politically correct thing to do at this juncture, at this moment in our history,  is to downplay the Black community's resistance to support marriage rights for gay people. I know that a lot of people have been shouted down for even broaching the issue.

But this anecdote from Pam Grier smacked me right in the face when I read it this morning. I'm putting it out there and you can do with it what you want.

Pam has played Kit on The L Word since 2004 and apparently has paid the price with her African-American fanbase for playing a lesbian.

Marilyn Beck today:

"In the black community — I can't really say 'black community' anymore because it's so fragmented — there's some taboo on homosexuality. It might come from the church; I don't know. I would like to see more acceptance, of course. If people watch 'The L Word' because of me, if I'm the impetus of that, then I'm glad. You never know what influence you have."

Grier admits she's received "quite hostile" emails since she started playing Kit Porter on the show in 2004 — but has also amassed a collection of emotional thank-you notes. "Those little golden moments mean everything to me — a validation. I can't begin to tell you," she says.

And she continues ...

"My biological predisposition is heterosexuality, but you never know. Maybe I haven't met the right woman yet. I'm enough woman for me every day."

That you are, Pam.

The L Word returns for its final stanza on the 18th, leading off a great night of programming on Showtime that includes the premiere season of United States of Tara and the second series premiere of Secret Diary of a Call Girl.

And you must, really.

Behind the scenes on the final season clip after the jump. There's a murder.

That's right ... muhr-der!

NGTV's Carrie on the Critic's Choice Awards Red Carpet Right Now on VH1 and Right Here With Mickey Rourke

I was waiting for a possible Facebook message from Carrie with some info on what she was wearing, but I guess it's a full day for her.

Whatev, she'll look hot no matter what she wears.

She joins Sam Rubin tonight on VH1. Betcha they run the Red Carpet a couple of times, and then maybe on the Classic channel, so if you miss it there are other opportunities and of course always the web (previous link).

So, go run to your TVs, kids.

And then click over to NGTV for an interview with Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood. Or, I'll just post it here instead, how 'bout that.

You really have to see it, if only for Mickey going from asking Carrie to do a quick 360 for his pleasure to him realizing she's not just a giggly girl and a discussion of gigging or blading, which is kayfabe for cutting yourself and drawing blood during a match.

See, my Pro Wrestling Illustrated experience comes in handy.

It's after the jump.

Critic's Choice website at this link.

NGTV Video -- IFC Movies On Demand on Cable Has Michael Rapaport and It's Special

I don't write a lot of specific movie posts because, well, it's a blog about TV. But I'm taking the opportunity to write a post about a bunch of different things here.

First, it's a Carrie Keegan post because I'm posting her NGTV interview with Rapaport, the star of  this indie called Special that I think is more than likely ... special. I saw the trailer, I've read the press materials, and it looks like something I'd enjoy.

Second, this is what it's about (IMBD):

Les Franken (Michael Rapaport) leads a painfully unremarkable life as a metermaid until he enrolls in a drug study for an experimental anti-depressant. An unexpected side effect of the drug convinces Les he is developing special powers and must quit his job to answer his new calling in life... Superhero. A very select group of people in life are truly gifted. Special is a movie about everyone else.

Third, it's a post about IFC Films on Demand, which I have on Time Warner Cable and is also available on Comcast. This is the link to their webpage but right now there's an error message there. IFC Films on Demand has first-run art house films, films in the theatres right now, that you can watch on cable (for a fee, which seems to be around the cost of a ticket).

So, you get Carrie (always smart and funny, always something for the straight guys to look at as well), you get Rapaport (who I love in anything he does) and you get info on a small film you might not have otherwise.

It's all good, right?

Clip after the jump.

Watch Toni Collette in United States of Tara Online Right Now!!!

Go to this link and then type in the word "Tara."

And then I think Showtime asks you to register, but it's totally worth it. I've seen the first four and this is an outstandingly well performed and written (Diablo Cody) show. I predict Emmy noms for Toni Collette and possibly Brie Larson who plays her daughter and Cody, possibly for this pilot episode that I implore you to watch.

I've been trying to figure out how to write about the show all weekend. This is what I have figured out to say without spilling the goods ... You can't imagine how much Tara's dissociative personality disorder opens up the usual narrative of a half-hour family dramedy.

Tara's "alters" include a 15-year-old friend for her daughter, a good ol' boy biker pal for her husband and an overbearing Martha Stewart type for her gay son. Genius, right?

(And, no having to pay additional actors to fill those roles. Ca-ching!)

Well, not when those four women (Tara included) can't work together. And they can't work together because they're never in the room at the same time.

Because they are all Tara.

Okay, I've said enough for now. Go watch it. So worth it. I don't wanna give anything else away.

I have a clip to introduce you to the alters after the jump.

The show premieres on Jan. 18 at 10 on Showtime.

Also, in selected cities, you can see the first two episodes in a theatre with other people, which is unique for a TV show. And, it's free. Totally. Free, my favorite price.

Click here for info on that.

My Christmas Side Job -- Standing Next to Beautiful Women to Make Them Look Even Better

That wasn't my intent, however. Also, doesn't she look tiny next to me? She's a normal sized woman, strangely enough.

So, this is me, shitfaced, at the No Good Television Christmas party with Carrie Keegan, who you know from, well ... everywhere these days. The web, VH1 Classic (NGTV's One Hit Wonders series replays in a marathon on December 28) and there are plans, my friends, plans afoot that will result on Carrie being your go-to gal for TV ribaldry.

Ribaldry?

Ribaldry is humorous entertainment that ranges from bordering on indelicacy to vulgar. It is a third, and somewhat neglected, genre of sexual entertainment. It is often confused with pornography and erotica. It is also referred to as "bawdiness", "gaminess" or "bawdry".

Of course I would love to fill you in on details, but I am sworn to secrecy (I toasted on it with Everclear and I'm not talking about the band, thus the shitfaced aspect of the photos).

So thanks to Carrie and Shark Firestone and Kourosh Ali at NGTV and I look forward to your 2009. In the meantime, after the jump, I have Carrie and Mickey Rourke, star of Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler, which is in selected cities and opens wide on January 16.

Video -- Onch from Paris' BFF With Joel McHale

Watch Joel and Onch perform a critical scene from act two of M. Butterfly, the 1989 Pulitzer Prize winning drama about the relationship between a French diplomat and a male Peking Opera singer.

Nah, they're just busting on each other in the clip.

Could you imagine?

Because the very special special from the gang at The Soup is called "Dudes, Bro: Whacked Out Men of Reality TV" and ...

... wait a minute, it's called "Dudes, Bro: Whacked Out Men of Reality TV!"

Onch? Really? Did someone check?

It airs this Monday at 10 on E!, but before that, catch fresh Soup tonight at 10. Onch clips below, Condensed Soup after the jump.

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Joel McHale in My Morning Paper (and Condensed Soup For You!)

This is my morning. I stumble outside to the driveway to pick up my paper, I come back in (hopefully not locking myself out -- it's not pretty looking at me in the morning) pour a cup of coffee, milk, Sweet-N-Low, then shuffle to the table.

I open the paper and go right for the LA Times' Calendar section and my quick look at the front page sent me right to page 2 for this:

When he's being serious, which is not often, McHale, 37, doesn't really mind if people refer to his show as "Talk Soup." The comedic clips show jump-started Kinnear's acting career, which is what prompted McHale to audition for the gig in 2004. The strategy seems smart now. McHale is on a national stand-up tour and will voice Elliot the mule-deer in "Open Season 2" (Ashton Kutcher did it the first time around) in January, and he plays a key role as an FBI agent in "The Informant" with Matt Damon next year.

But the way McHale sees it, even if the original show had been a dead end for Kinnear, having people call his show "Talk Soup" is better than "What the ? Awards," which is what the reprise was called for its first five episodes.

"People were like, 'What?' How bad of a show is it when people have to go 'What?' when you say the title," McHale said while getting his hair styled and makeup applied before a taping. "It was a terrible travesty. Thank God, when Ted Harbert became the new president of E!, he changed it to 'The Soup' to give it the name recognition and legacy."

And there's more, click over for it.

After the jump, Condensed Soup, grabbed from the EOnline.com page for the show at this link.

It's No Good, It's Just Great! Carrie Keegan Talks to Watchmen Cast, And Get Ready for Carrie's VH1 Classic Series

As usual, I'm holding you slightly hostage and unloading important, critical info before I give you the goods, and by goods I mean Carrie talking to Billy Crudup, Malin Akerman and Carla Gugino.

First ... No Good Television's first series for television, VH1 Classic One Hit Wonders,  starts December 1 with two one-hour segments each night till the 4th.

From the press release:

Shot on location at Rich Mansion in Hollywood, California, the series includes over 130 visual effects and is packed with new and little known facts about some of our favorite songs. “VH1 Classic One Hit Wonders” also features digitally re-mastered versions of classic music videos, made by NO GOOD Productions, exclusively, for this series, from artists like Ratt, Twisted Sister, Devo, Gary Numan, Spandau Ballet, Thomas Dolby, C&C Music Factory, Sugar Hill Gang, Biz Markie, Deee-Lite, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Right Said Fred, Ace of Base and 4 Non Blondes, among many others.

And I demand you watch.

Now, after the jump, I have Carrie from Comic-Con with three members of the Watchmen cast, though I'm missing Patrick Wilson (and I'm sure Carrie was missing him, too, what a hottie).

Preview Video -- The Soup Takes on Fox & Friends in Monday Special Cold Turkey: Shows We Can't Quit

But first, I have tour dates for Joel from his personal web space, which is not Myspace (though he does have a Myspace), but this space.

And just so you don't have to click over, here's some upcoming dates:

• Nov. 21, Spokane, WA, INB Performing Arts Center
• Nov. 28 and 29, Seattle WA, Moore Theatre
• December 5, Flint Center, Cupertino, CA

And, make plans for New Year's Eve in Boston at the Wilbur Theater with two shows.

I would probably opt for the early and then get home before crazy people drive drunk, but you do whatev.

Now, to the clip ... they're doing sweeps month specials at The Soup again, and on Monday at 10 they have Cold Turkey: Shows We Can't Quit, which includes this on the gang at Fox & Friends Gretchen, Doocy, and the brown-haired guy.

And, a remarkable moment of TV on that show brought to you on that show by Oscar winner Ernest Borgnine. It's after the jump.