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August 2010 Archives
Big doings in TV land! Not the network, but the greater world in which TV is an all-encompassing concern. Show-castings, guest-starrings, show-namings, show-leavings and plot-spoilings! (Easily avoidable ones.)
Do you know where you were when you first caught VD? I was in my living room, watching the CW.
Some people watched the Emmys, some people didn't, and Jon Hamm is coming back to 30 Rock, hooks in hands.
It's that time of year again, when a comedian we like gambles their reputation on hosting a big, lavish gala in front of millions of viewers. Will Jimmy Fallon fall flat with his Tweet-based comedy? You be the judge, as we also be the judge in this, our Emmys liveblog! Zach Oat is starting things off, with Mindy Monez taking over at the halfway point, and it all starts at 8 pm, after the jump!
Every September we're baffled at the amount of new shows that are just downright terrible. We're talking about programs that have no business being on TV in the first place (think Cavemen or Viva Laughlin) but yet get a big push from their respective networks, luring in unsuspecting souls with a catchy one-liner and a flashy star who reminds viewers of a more pleasant series. As a public service, we've identified the new fall 2010 series that really should've come with warning signs. Avoid these at all costs.
After eight seasons, one failed movie and about 800 million fake MacGruber explosions, Will Forte is leaving SNL. It's reportedly his choice and the split is amicable, but still -- pretty sad. MacGruber's not my favorite thing in the world, but Forte is brilliant, and was always the best at coming up with truly great, bizarre end-of-show sketches. The show is going to be weird without him next season. To give him a little send-off, I've rounded up a few of his finest and most popular works currently available on Hulu as a sort of half-assed yet fun eulogy. Watch these at work and laugh so hard you annoy your officemate! Angel loved it when I did it!
We don't want to break today's newsmakers into "employed," and "unemployed," but let's just say that not all of them know where their next meal is coming from.
Well, let's be clear here: I'm not sure that any version of The View is necessary, and I'm not looking forward to CBS' clone (with Julie Chen) coming this fall, either. But what I definitely know is that there isn't a void in the TV landscape that needs to be filled by a panel of men discussing the issues of the day. However, Barbara Walters apparently disagrees.
Billy Joel haters, please leave now. This is now officially a Billy Joel lovefest, one in which the news that his entire catalog is now open for Glee to use in an upcoming episode is greeted with excitement, and not dismay. Let's face it, the man has some amazing songs -- including "Piano Man," which Neil Patrick Harris memorably sang last season -- and as long as they don't use anything from his last album, 1993's River of Dreams, we'll be gleefully tuning in to the episode when it airs. We've even come up with a bunch of scenarios that might result in the New Directions kids belting out some Joel.