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December 2009 Archives
Not a lot coming out on DVD today, and the TV offerings are particularly light. But there is one pretty big release hitting stores, as well as a few classic shows. Plus: Julia Child!
Monk kicked everybody's asses this weekend, and Puck from Glee wants a makeover. Slow, but kind of fun, news day.
Saturday Night Live was very funny this weekend, and everyone seems rightly surprised about that, but they also seem very surprised that Blake Lively did a decent job, which seems unfair to me. Being a good SNL host is probably more about having a great, I'll-tackle-anything attitude than it is about having actual talent, and Blake Lively always seems like an energetic, relentlessly fun and likable girl when she doesn't have her Serena van der Woodsen Thanksgiving catsuit on, so I figured she'd do a good job. And she did, in what little screen time they (wisely) relegated her to. She may be a pretty blonde lady, but let's not January Jones her for it, OK? That is some kind of profiling and it is probably offensive! But I digress -- on to the best sketches of the night!
Werewolves and rednecks and misfits, oh my! Also: space thieves, performance art, Big Bads, Mark Wahlberg and other scary things.
For a welcome change this fall, the villains of weren't the main focus of our reality TV attention. Instead, there's been a pleasantly surprising number of genuinely nice people on unscripted series that we've really adored - or at the very least that have kept us amused without resorting to scheming or screaming. While we don't usually watch reality shows for sweet folks that we'd actually like to be friends with (or in some cases, adopt and give a loving home to -- we're looking at you, Shambo), these personalities recently wormed their way into our jaded little hearts:
It's an unusual group of guys, to be sure. Scott Bakula is known for his science-fiction roles on Quantum Leap, Star Trek: Enterprise and Chuck. Andre Braugher is best known as a cop on Homicide and Hack and a doctor on Gideon's Crossing. And, of course, everybody loves comedian Ray Romano. Together in Men of a Certain Age, they're three odd musketeers, but they provide a little something for everyone when they sit down at their table in the diner to talk about life, work, families and women. We sat in on a roundtable with Bakula to talk about his one-foot-out-of-the-game actor character, and later with Braugher to find out about his car-salesman family man. (We gave Romano a pass.) Plus: Bakula's Chuck situation and Braugher's Star Trek dream!
More Adam Lambert news! New shows! Season renewals of existing shows! My head hurts from shouting!
Susan Boyle is richer than Scrooge McDuck right now!
I groaned along with the rest of the world at the thought of Scrubs returning for a superfluous, and, honestly, very desperate Season 9, and watching the premiere I wavered a little bit, but that feeling was mostly reinforced. The first episode wasn't horrible by any means, but I just don't understand why we're still doing this. There weren't many laughs, I missed Carla, there wasn't enough Elliot, and Dr. Cox's schtick has long worn very, very thin. But then I hung in there for episode two, and surprisingly, I laughed a lot.
Well, I don't know about you, but I've certainly learned a lesson from last night's Sons of Anarchy finale: organized crime is the absolute worst. Good people died (Half-Sack, Eddie), children were kidnapped (Abel), children were orphaned (Weston's sons), people were driven insane (Cameron), Gemma was framed for an additional murder by Stahl, supervillain Zobelle got away and everything just went to absolute shit.