Yes, someone was eliminated during last night's So You Think You Can Dance, but that hardly seemed relevant considering robots ate our feelings. Just before the three lowest vote-getters danced for their lives, viewers were treated to a performance by Remote Control, a whimsical droid trio spray-painted in macaroni-sculpture gold. During SYTYCD's audition rounds, the smallest member of Remote Control (Bryan Gaynor) tried out, made the judges cry, but was ultimately rejected because he's too small and has such severe scoliosis that partner dancing would be impossible. Like most robots, he earned his revenge. Watch his insane (and moving) performance, and read on to lament the contestant who didn't make the Top 9.
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The admirable selflessness of Lizzy Caplan aside, the second season finale of Party Down -- airing tonight on Starz, but already available via Netflix Instant Watch -- could very well be its last episode. Even if Starz's were to pick up Party Down for a third season, how would the show work when Adam Scott -- the ostensible lead -- can only appear in three of the likely 10 episodes because of his new job on Parks and Recreation? That's like having Dexter appear on his eponymous show 30 percent of the time. So, yes: This could be the last episode ever. And guess what? That's probably a good thing. To get you revved up for the season finale, here are five reasons why this should be the end of Party Down.
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Just asking! Also lost on this date: Jacques Cousteau (1997) and Michel Foucault (1984). RIP, all. (You too, Michael Jackson.)
If box office success is positively correlated to the number of late night appearances each film's stars make, Grown Ups will crush Knight and Day this weekend. Just last night, four Grown Ups star logged three appearances on the afterhours circuit (which were probably more amusing than the film they were promoting, honestly) while Knight and Day star Tom Cruise just logged one. Click through for those colorful segments as well as the other highlights you missed last night while squashing that rumor that you threatened to punch your female reality show co-star.
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· Why not? George Hamilton is teaming up with the Bunim Murray production company to shoot a TV Land docusoap that will follow the lives of Hamilton and his older son Ashley as they are forced to grow up from their perpetual bachelor ways after Hamilton's 10-year-old son George Thomas moves in with them. [THR]
Dexter recruits another actor, Ryan Seacrest cashes in on your disgusting tics, and more TV Bites after the jump.
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A fight between disbanded Bachelor couple Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi took a turn for the worse during the filming of an ABC breakup special when Jake allegedly clenched his fists and threatened to punch Vienna. Quotes from the horrifying scene paint Jake as an out-of-control egotist, which is unfortunately not a surprise -- his recent claims about Vienna's "insane jealousy" and "serious lack of respect" seemed a little over-angry. Ready for the first-hand accounts?
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Five months after Conan O'Brien was pushed out of network television and Jay Leno reclaimed the Tonight Show, Hollywood insiders are still sharing their opinions on the scandal that rocked NBC's late night airwaves. Last Friday, Late Shift author and talk show expert Bill Carter shed new light on last January's events, and today, Joan Rivers summarized her thoughts on Conan's hypocrisy. Now, thanks to the prodding of Howard Stern, you can listen to Chris Rock and David Spade's recent, R-rated take on the the Tonight Show scandal. Beware: card-carrying members of Team Coco and profanity-phobes may not want to click through.
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Eminem's rapping talent is inarguable. I've seen him do it! You have to trust me here. He's deft, aggressive, even poetic sometimes, but what is it about rapping that makes the 37-year-old artist feel qualified to attempt sketch comedy on television? Eminem usually does such a good job of convincing me that he doesn't give a f*ck, but his frequent detours into TV comedy send the wrong message: that he's actually kind of desperate to entertain, even if he feels awkward doing it. Now he's scheduled to read off one of David Letterman's Top 10 lists, and its preview proves to be another in a comedy career that has yet to take off. Come with me on a narrated tour of Em's laughless TV past.
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On demand this week: just another full-frontal ground-division attack of international cinema, coming from all directions and in all degrees of pulpitude, just in case you've thought lately the southern and eastern hemispheres were made of nothing but bad news...
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Still upset about Cody Gifford enjoying nepotism-related rewards as the Today Show's new film critic? How would you feel to find out that in between producing the Les Grossman film and auctioning off wine glasses that once touched Conan O'Brien's lips, Ben Stiller is working on another unconventional project that could make his parents the next Jon Stewart and... Mrs. Jon Stewart?
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Tonight, we revisit some of The Real Housewives of New York City's lost footage. After a three-part reunion that reduced everyone to tears and turned all the housewives into each others' therapists (including Andy Cohen's), will this episode feel like overkill?
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Ten dancers, ten routines, ten chances to make Adam Shankman call you "buddy" and weep into his vest. Did the remaining 10 contestants of So You Think You Can Dance conquer the challenge of this week's strange genres? Were Bollywood, krump, and Broadway styles adequately represented, or did they ruin those forever? Honestly, it was close. Join us for appraisals of last night's ten performances.
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Some of television's best and longest-running series in recent years have featured families full of crooks, mobsters, drug dealers and con artists. And just this week, a new wave of projects featuring clans of outlaws crested with ABC's Scoundrels, which features Virginia Madsen as a matriarch trying desperately to straighten out her crooked family. Meanwhile, in Scoundrels' wake, Starz CEO Chris Albrecht (who headed HBO during the rise of The Sopranos) acquired the rights to the Australian crime drama Underbelly, which currently features blood-related gang members, and Jamie Foxx shot a trailer for a mob family drama called Tommy's Little Girl. In honor of this perennial programming trend, Movieline has compiled some of television's best crime families over the years and ranked them -- from funny to fearless.
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Why did Fox executives pass on their chance to scoop up Conan O'Brien? According to Fox head Kevin Relly, O'Brien's TBS debut will probably earn ratings with a "decimal on the left side of the number," and on Fox, "there would have been an enormous amount of pressure to see the decimal on the right side." Around the time that NBC started O'Brien's booting process, he was drawing less than a 2.0 rating in the key demo, but as THR notes, even a cable hit like The Daily Show can only manage a .8. Can Conan do better? [THR]
For most of its existence, the Brad Garrett-Joely Fisher sitcom 'Til Death was more capable of serving as a punchline to someone else's joke than providing its own. Perpetually low-rated and critically lambasted, yet renewed for four seasons simply so Fox would be able to pair it with other half-hour comedies (or maybe it was out of sheer malice?), most of America stopped watching 'Til Death before its series finale on Sunday -- that is, if they even started watching. Apparently, though, we all missed something kind of insane.
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