Last night's installment of United States of Tara posed the age-old question: Would your rather be without shelter when a powerful tornado touches down in Kansas or locked in the basement of your neighbor's suicide house as your mother/sister/wife/crazy neighbor plays dissociative identity roulette? Click through to see which of Tara's alters took a folding a chair to the face during this week's natural disaster and which member of the Gregson clan made it out of the basement with the least emotional damage.
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It turns out that Lindsay Lohan did see last week's Madonna-themed episode of Glee, in which McKinley High's guidance counselor (Jayma Mays) lamented that today's teenage girls only have role models like Lindsay Lohan, who "looks like something out of Lord of the Rings," to emulate. Lohan responded on Sunday night via Twitter: "#gleecast i hope that the show was referring to me looking like a fairy! with the- and the 'guidance couselor' [sic] she's not a natural redhead." Your move, Ryan Murphy. [@lindsaylohan]
ConanGate may be long over, but it is still fresh in the mind of David Letterman, who just last night reminisced about the good ol' days, when he could spend an entire segment ripping on his 11:35 foe, Jay Leno. That clip, as well as the other highlights you missed while celebrating your first dance single, after the jump.
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Last night's Dancing with the Stars brought us the samba, some Argentine tango, and a madcap marathon of swing that was one Fonzarelli short of a TV classic. With so much action, the question arises: Did Bruno Tonioli have a staggering heart attack? Join us as we rate his reactions, comments, and vital signs.
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If you're one of those people who has been disappointed with where the third season of Gossip Girl has gone, consider the laboriously titled "Dr. Estrangeloved" a course correction. Free from the domestic bliss embodied by Blair and Chuck, this was an episode that got back to basics: back-stabbing, overly contrived plotting and cancer. Yes, that's right: Lily van der Woodsen, who was previously thought to be having an affair with her ex-husband, just needed him to help with her cancer treatments. And who plays the ex-husband? None other than William Baldwin, now one step closer to his future career as an Alec Baldwin impersonator. As always, there were puns, too. To the list!
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· The minds behind Amazing Race, Jerry Bruckheimer and Bert van Munster, are working on a new competition reality series for ABC. And it sounds a lot like their CBS hit: The new series, tentatively called Catch Me, will feature teams of two racing in a "heart-stopping" reality competition that demands its contestants have "an adventurous streak and a poker face." [The Wrap]
Royal Pains recruits an Oscar winner, Jimmy Kimmel plans a few NBA finals parties, and more TV Bites after the jump.
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If you thought "Tardy for the Party" was too catchy, Countess LuAnn de Lesseps has just the club jam for you. The Real Housewives of New York star (and classy author) has officially followed in Atlanta housewife Kim Zolciak's stilettos with her new single "Money Can't Buy You Class." Whether you're Team Bethenny or Team Jill, everyone can run to the dance floor when "Money Can't Buy You Class" comes on and stand there in confusion.
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To give you an idea how potentially nuclear the information on the leaked call sheet for the season finale of Lost is, upon seeing the following link, Movieline senior editor Kyle Buchanan commented: "I've avoided that all weekend. I don't want to knowwwwwwwww." So, yeah, this is pretty serious stuff. Certainly the type of thing that Damon Lindelof, Carlton Cuse and the rest of ABC didn't want to have hit the web. Or, maybe they did want this to see the light of day, since it's all just some red herring produced by the Dharma Initiative in conjunction with Charles Widmore, The Man in Black, Nikki and Paolo. Who's to say? Click ahead ... if you dare.
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Some reality competition shows are over the hill -- and it shows -- but the comparatively young RuPaul's Drag Race is so fun and fresh-faced that it doesn't even need to make use of its own gauzy lenses. Tonight, we'll find out whether Jujubee, Raven, or Tyra Sanchez will take home the top prize, and frankly, I'm more invested in this outcome than I ever was in the shows that Drag Race parodies (like America's Next Top Model and Project Runway). Here's what the three remaining queens have going for and against them:
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Congratulations to Southland for being picked up for a third season by TNT. Just six months ago, NBC executives axed Ann Biderman's cop drama in favor of Jay Leno's short-lived primetime show; the unaired episodes eventually were picked up by TNT to OK ratings. Southland's new ten-episode season will premiere in January. [Deadline]
According to a Showtime press release dropped in Movieline's inbox earlier today, Rob Lowe will visit Californication next season for at least one episode. The square-jawed star, whom NBC is hoping will increase Parks & Recreation's female viewership, will play "self-possessed, award-winning movie star 'Eddie Nero,' a possible contender to play Hank in the film version of his hit novel." Apparently, David Duchovny's hormone-addled cable series is the place where middle-aged actors go to raise uneasy parallels to their own sex scandals.
Most middle-aged actors would be flattered to find out that one of the hippest series on television had customized a part for them, but for Billy Baldwin, it was a hard pill to swallow. Baldwin begins his Gossip Girl arc tonight as William van der Woodsen, the long-lost father of Blake Lively's affluent Upper East Sider, but at 46, the second-youngest of the Baldwin brothers had a hard time accepting that he was old enough to play the father of a high-school graduate. In anticipation of his debut, Baldwin talked to Lindsey DiMattina (of our sister site Hollywood Life) about finally embracing his role, his "Jewish geography" conversations with Blake Lively, and his own run-in with privileged Upper East Siders.
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God bless our friends at Vulture, who've turned in a very thorough, illustrated treatise on the return of chest hair on actors, vis-à-vis Gossip Girl. (They do not link it to the semi-resurgent U.S. economy, but why not do that on your own?) Matthew Fox and his makeup artist now have a lot of tough choices to make about their decision to buck the zeitgeist. [Vulture]
Chances are that you were not among the lucky thousands who attended Conan O'Brien's "Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television" show at the Gibson Amphitheater in LA this past Saturday. Too bad, because that was probably the starriest stop on his tour map, and definitely the only one within 400 yards of his former Tonight Show stage. Fortunately for you, Movieline has compiled a multimedia round-up of everything you missed, including videos, jokes, and the A-list guest list.
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She may not be a former Canadian pop star in real life, but Cobie Smulders plays one on TV. As Robin Scherbatsky on CBS's Emmy-winning How I Met Your Mother, the Vancouver-born actress plays a morning-news anchor who dabbled in bubblegum pop music in the early '80s under the stage name Robin Sparkles. And while Robin's clique of thirtysomething friends -- played by Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Neil Patrick Harris and Alyson Hannigan -- have only uncovered two recordings to date, the music videos have been so popular that they have inspired dozens of fan parodies on YouTube. Aside from being a former pop star though, Smulders' character is also the show's consummate bachelorette who just this season won the heart of Neil Patrick Harris' comically machismo bachelor.
As How I Met Your Mother's fifth season winds down, Cobie Smulders caught Movieline up on her character's lost variety show with Alan Thicke, the scenes she hated filming this season and her favorite guest star to date.
[Spoilerphobes beware: Smulders revealed a few mild plot twists ahead in the series' fifth season.]
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