This Week on TV (4/5-4/11)
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Drama, Music, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, ABC, Bravo, Cable, CBS, FOX, NBC, The CW, American Idol, Video,
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MONDAY (4/5)
- Life Unexpected (CW, 8pm): “Cate, Lux and Baze go on a road trip to track down Cate’s long-absent father (Peter Horton).” When they realized he was the guy with the mullet, they kept on driving.
- Rules of Engagement (CBS, 8:30pm): “Audrey tries to give her unattractive friend confidence by lying to her and telling her she’s on Jeff’s list of women he would sleep with if Audrey wasn’t around.” By lying about it, she ironically gave Jeff permission to possibly one day do it.
- Runaway Squad (A&E, 10pm): Series premiere. “In the opener of a series following a team that searches for runaways and reunites them with their families, a Long Island teen is sought.” He was eventually tracked down after becoming a mayor on Foursquare.
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Laura Linney Has The Big C
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Drama, Prime Time, Cable, Showtime, Video,
She’s a Golden Globe winner, an Emmy winner and a three-time Oscar nominee. Now, Laura Linney is facing her biggest title yet: cancer patient.
In the new Showtime series The Big C, Linney is joined by Oscar nominee Gabourey Sidibe and Golden Globe nominee Oliver Platt in this story about a woman who is diagnosed with the disease. Laura also served as executive producer on the dark comedy which will air back-to-back with Season 6 of Weeds.
The Big C will debut Monday, August 16 @ 10:30.
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American Idol 9: Didi Benami’s Post-Elimination Comments
Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Music, Prime Time, Reality, FOX, American Idol, Gossip, Video,
“It’s not anything I haven’t dealt with before,” Didi Benami, the tenth contestant eliminated from American Idol 9, remained positive as she spoke with the press following the Wednesday results show. After all, rejection is all part of being in the industry. “You get kicked down and you gotta get back up and start over,” she philosophically explained.
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Modern Family Creator Denies iPad Product Placement
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Prime Time, ABC, Gossip, Internet, News, Video,
If you flipped the channel to Modern Family last night, you might have momentarily thought you were watching an infomercial for the iPad. But despite what most of us have guessed, Apple did not ask to be on the program—nor did they pay to be included.
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VIDEO: Stephen Colbert on the V Countdown Clock
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Drama, Late Night, Prime Time, Sci-Fi/Horror, ABC, Cable, Lost, Video,
On last night’s broadcast of The Colbert Report, host Stephen Colbert publicly complained about something many were bothered by on Tuesday night: ABC’s V countdown clock shown during Lost.
Colbert, like producer Damon Lindelof, wanted to cry himself to sleep after seeing the logo planted on the popular TV show. Surprisingly, though, Stephen was upset for an entirely different reason.
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American Idol 9: Top 10 Results
Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Music, Prime Time, Reality, FOX, American Idol, Gossip, Video,
American Idol’s Top 10 results show opened with a Clash of the Titans movie tie-in. Simon Cowell, of course, was the villain, with the contestants portrayed as Titans in the opening video package. It was pretty cute, but it’s still blatant cross-promotional advertising.
Viewers were not graced with a group performance this week. To see the entire Top 10 singing together on one stage, it seems you’ll have to go to one of the summer tour shows. Though the Idols did not sing together, this particular results show was still jam-packed with stage shows, starting with one favorite AI alum.
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Precious’ Gabourey Sidibe to Host Saturday Night Live
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UPDATE: Gabourey will host the show on April 24.
If you’ve ever watched anything Gabourey Sidibe‘s ever been on (outside of her movie Precious), you know that she is one freakin’ hilarious actress. Thankfully, it didn’t take a Facebook campaign for the producers of Saturday Night Live to recognize this.
It’s just been announced that the Oscar nominee will be hosting the program later this season. Although a date has not yet been announced, it’s believed she will appear sometime in May (after Betty White’s stint on May 8).
You can catch some more of Sidibe’s funniest clips after the jump.
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Jay Leno: “I Got Screwed”
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Late Night, Talk Shows, NBC, Video,
Although Joy Behar was the guest on yesterday’s Tonight Show, it was Jay Leno who opened up for the cameras backstage. In a chat for Behar’s HLN show, the late-night host claimed Conan O’Brien wasn’t the only one who was treated badly by NBC.
“Conan got screwed. I got screwed,” Leno said about the network’s programming decision. “I mean, this is TV. The reason show business pays a lot of money is so when you get screwed you’ve got something left over.”
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Sneak Peek: Julianne Moore’s Return to As the World Turns
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Daytime, Drama, CBS, Video,
This Monday, April 5th, Oscar nominee Julianne Moore will return to the place where she won her first Emmy: As the World Turns.
The actress, who played half-sisters Frannie and Sabrina Hughes between 1985-88, will make a quick appearance to say farewell to her parents.
After 50+ years on air, CBS will dim the lights on ATWT this September.
Read More | CBS via Entertainment Weekly
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American Idol 9: Top 10 Perform
Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Music, Prime Time, Reality, FOX, American Idol, Gossip, Video,
Ryan Seacrest started the Tuesday performance show in the backstage area, something of an unusual start for American Idol. After Simon Cowell and Ellen DeGeneres exchanged a kiss, the host walked to the big stage to soak up applause from the waiting crowd. Ellen’s outfit, by the way, was pretty weird-looking.
The Top 10 performers of this performance round will for ever be part of the Idol pantheon. This summer, they will tour the country and continue to peddle music. After that, only a few of them - if even that many - will go on to lasting recording industry success. Will your favorite season 9 contestant soon be a Grammy-winning artist? Maybe…but first, they’ve got to get through this week’s elimination.
Usher was the mentor for the week, the theme of which is R&B/Soul in honor of the star. “To be a great performer, you really have to understand what it takes,” he told the contestants upon their group meeting. “I want you to be great.”
“This is their time to shine, and this is the stage to do it on,” Usher seemed to accept his responsibility with sincerity and seriousness.
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