At the Oscars: The 83rd Annual Academy Awards

Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Award Shows, Prime Time, Specials, ABC, Gossip,

The 83rd Academy Awards opened with a montage of the handful of movies they’ve decided to honor this year. As usual, all nominations came from a select, certain group of movies in the long list that came out during 2010. If you didn’t see The Social Network, The King’s Speech, The Fighter, Black Swan or True Grit, the Oscars wanted you to feel like they’re absolutely can’t-miss films.

But, the award show did offer more than the usual back-patting the actors give themselves once a year.

“Oh my gosh, you’re all real…this is all happening,” Anne Hathaway grinned from the stage as the smoke cleared. Her diamond-covered white gown was a perfect choice for the opening monologue, which was peppered with jokes about James Franco’s nomination and Hathaway’s lack of one (“it used to be, you get naked, you get nominated…not any more”).

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Friday Ratings: NBC’s New Night for Must-See TV

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Drama, Games, Music, Prime Time, Sci-Fi/Horror, Specials, Sports, ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, The CW, Desperate Housewives, Grey’s Anatomy, House, Ratings,

Thanks to Bob Saget and the Las Vegas finale, NBC stacked up another weekend win.

8pm

• 1 vs. 100 (8.03 million, 2.0/7 in 18-49) gave NBC a nice start.
• House* (2.6/8) averaged 7.1 million over two hours.
• Ghost Whisperer* (1.8/6) was visited by 6.5 million spirits.
• About 4.5 million sat ringside for Friday Night Smackdown (1.3/4).
• Grey’s Anatomy* (0.9/3) triaged 3.5 million.

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Celine Dion: That’s Just The Woman In Me

Posted by Jacci Lewis Categories: Music, Prime Time, Specials, CBS, Editorial,

When it comes to singer Celine Dion, most people fall into one of two categories: the ‘It’s the soundtrack of my life’ group or the ‘Please God, make it stop…MAKE IT STOP’ group. There is a third, smaller category of people though who don’t care one way or another about her music but just enjoy how delightfully, over-the-top cheesy she is. (There is a reason certain celebrities are satirized on Saturday Night Live.)

Friday night CBS aired Dion’s one-hour primetime special, Celine Dion: That’s Just The Woman In Me.  The show was taped in front of a live audience at Los Angeles’ Wiltern Theatre back on January 12. It was the 5-time Grammy winner’s first concert since wrapping up her 5-year run in Las Vegas.

The title of Celine Dion’s new album, Taking Chances, describes the show fairly well. It was a one hour mix of glitzy dance numbers, power ballads, celebrity duets and cameos, a somewhat staged Q&A session and heck, even an appearance by one of the stars of High School Musical!

The opening act featured Dion in a sparkly, gold mini-dress in a very Vegas-esque song and dance routine. Her dancing features a lot of little kicks and chest pounding motions. One might describe it as spastic. One might even question why such an accomplished singer needs to be part of such an over-choreographed dance routine. But something about Celine Dion’s sincerity makes the whole scary scene a bit more forgivable.

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This Week on TV (2/11-2/17)

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Award Shows, Daytime, Drama, Kids, Music, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, Specials, ABC, Cable, CBS, FX, FOX, NBC, American Idol, Apprentice, The - Donald, Nip/Tuck, Survivor,

(You can view the whole Revamped TV Programming Schedule here.)

• Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (FOX, 8pm):  “Sarah meets a stranger (Brian Austin Green) who shares a similar past.”  They were once both white rappers?
• Dance War (ABC, 8pm):  “The touring company of ‘High School Musical’ performs.”  The contestants, now left with inferiority complexes, are unable to go on.
• Flavor of Love (VH1, 9pm):  Third season premiere.  Is it a coincidence that a Flav-ex has since show up on Celebrity Rehab?
• Prison Break (FOX, 8pm):  “The escape attempt is successful for some, if not all, of the escapees.”  Apparently you can miss weeks of this show and not miss a thing.

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This Week on TV (11/26-12/2)

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Animation, Award Shows, Comedy, Drama, Kids, Music, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, Specials, ABC, Bravo, CBS, NBC, The CW, America’s Next Top Model, Dancing With The Stars, Desperate Housewives, My Name Is Earl, Survivor,

• Dancing With the Stars (ABC, 8pm):  The final three competitors dance tonight.  ABC’s domination of Monday nights officially ends today.
• How I Met Your Mother (CBS, 8pm):  ‘Barney loses his mojo just as he gets an invite to a Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show party.’  I’m willing to overlook another Heidi Klum sighting just to see Neil Patrick Harris squirm.
• Samantha Who? (ABC, 9pm): NOTE NEW START TIME.
• Notes from the Underbelly (ABC, 9:30):  Season premiere.  So how exactly does this show work?  Does someone always have to be pregnant?
• October Road (ABC, 10pm):  After it’s Thanksgiving debut, the show now slides into its regular time slot (where I predict it will soon slide right out of).

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The American Music Award Nominations

Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Award Shows, Music, Prime Time, Reality, ABC, FOX, American Idol, News,

The American Music Awards heaped honors this week awarding Beyonce, Justin Timberlake, Linkin Park and Daughtry (led by American Idol contestant Chris Daughtry) with three nominations each. Idol winner Carrie Underwood nabbed two nominations, showing that FOX can, at least, find talent. Daughtry will also be a performer, along with Celine Dion, Fergie and Rihanna.  Jimmy Kimmel is set to host the event, which will air on ABC November 18.

Nominees for the AMAs are initially chosen based upon record sales, but this year marks a first for the award show: members of the public will be able to vote for nominees online.

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