First, Jack Black and Jason Segel starred in an animated "Little Drummer Boy" duet. Then Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly cranked out their own Funny or Die version. Unwilling to be topped, Jack Black performed a new rendition of the holiday classic with Jimmy Fallon while wearing swim goggles and covering himself in paint on last night's Late Night. Elsewhere, Emma Stone recalled her Easy A sex mishap, Reese Witherspoon remembered the drunken flight she took with Chelsea Handler and Kristen Schaal talked about the joys of jumbo checks.
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CBS on Tuesday announced its midseason game plan, and given the network's embarrassment of riches, none of the changes merits any cause for alarm. Kicking things off -- as a sort of placeholder/possible test drive -- Tom Selleck's Blue Bloods, which has been handily winning Friday nights, will move to Wednesdays at 10/9c for four weeks starting Jan. 19.
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As if it wasn't bad enough that George Lopez presides over the 11 p.m. time slot on TBS, the Chola makeover guru is now planning on infiltrating the Los Angeles municipal government. The comedian made the announcement this morning on Good Day LA: "I intend to run for Mayor of Los Angeles...in 8 years," Lopez said. "If Arnold Schwarzenegger can be governor, why can't George Lopez be the mayor of Los Angeles?" By then, G-Lo joked, "the population of Latinos in California will be 96.4 percent." [Deadline]
Jersey Shore's second go-around proved why The Real World never brought back casts for multiple seasons: People become aware of how they're perceived, they play to those perceptions, and their madcap innocence becomes a controlled calculation. But just wait: The addition of new cast member Deena, who at first seemed like a redundant hellcat, might add a fresh soupcon of stank that the show could use. Preview after the jump.
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Newly retired CNN newscaster Larry King took his suspenders to The Tonight Show last night to premiere his stand-up act and reveal that he is completely erectile functional. Elsewhere, Chelsea Handler scolded P. Diddy for being late (and drunk), Conan O'Brien premiered his Christmas decorations and Tom Arnold told a story about being stabbed by Roseanne over a box of cookies.
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You can scratch "a kidney for Tracy Morgan" off of your holiday gift list because the 30 Rock star already underwent the organ transplant two weeks ago. To recover, Morgan will take a two or three episode hiatus from 30 Rock. EW reports that Liz Lemon will explain Tracy Jordan's March absence "by saying he has some sort of a meltdown because of a good thing that's happened to him." Sounds like someone might get a little Oscar love for Hard to Watch: Based on the Book Stone Cold Bummer by Manipulate. Get well soon, Tracy! [EW]
Survivor: Nicaragua concluded last night with an anticlimax: A competent, immunity-prone contestant won the competition and beat out two more scheming players. I'd praise the winner's athleticism, but the mere fact that his cunning competitors lost is a bit depressing. Why do we watch this show when it just becomes a squatting contest among "less threatening" contenders? (Spoilers ahead.)
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So... is it safe to talk about SNL again? While I was trying to get as much sleep as possible in the foxhole that I embedded myself in last night, I got the feeling that a few of you were not quite as happy with Saturday night's show as I seemed to be. But here's the thing: In the scorecard I did mention that (the now polarizing) Jeff Bridges was far from the best host of the season and that Saturday was also not the laugh-out-loud funniest show of the season. I'll admit, perhaps this is a flaw with the scoring system used, but what the Bridges installment had was a plethora of sketches that received a score between six and seven. Bridges had eight "good" sketches and only four "bad." Put it this way: if every sketch had been given a score of 6.5, it would be the top rated show of the season. Having said all of that, I still very much liked Saturday's installment. OK, let's get to the poll.
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Last night on 60 Minutes, Leslie Stahl interviewed the only six people known to have hyperthymesia, or "superior autobiographical memory." These folks can recall nearly every day of their lives and remember tons of minutia from any calendar date (like the weather, expressions on people's faces, and their own feelings), all with impossible speed. Mysteriously, one of these half-dozen savants is former Taxi/Evening Shade actress Marilu Henner. The 58-year-old has an unbelievable historical memory, and she can name the exact dates on which she bought every pair of shoes in her giant closet. On that note, what a perfect occasion to ask the affable-seeming Henner some super-specific movie-and-TV-related questions (especially since she has a book coming out about the subject in spring). Contribute your own!
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Seven weeks in, it appears Sarah Palin is serious about this TV show thing. Girl, enough. Last night, the Beartrap Contessa forded a mighty river, introduced us to an emaciated man named Bones, and mocked Michelle Obama. Can we take a moment to chortle hard at the name "The Learning Channel"? OK, great. Onto the horror show.
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People love lists. Never mind that most of them are subjective to current moods and agendas -- it's fun reading what one person considered their ten favorites of the year, and then seeing if they match up with your own. With that in mind: Who's ready for another top ten?
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Perhaps I'm in the holiday spirit (maybe), perhaps it's the amount of wine consumed from back-to-back holiday parties (more likely), but last night's Jeff Bridges-hosted installment of Saturday Night Live was, well, quite great. Not the laugh-out-loud funniest show of the season, but, from top to bottom, there wasn't a whole lot of "bad." I mean, it was so good that the best sketch of the night was the third to last of the show. Bridges, who last co-hosted in 1983 with his brother Beau, did an admirable job as host but, more importantly, did an admirable job of not getting in the way of a cast that was obviously on a mission before they took a break for the holidays.
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It is the holiday season and what better way to celebrate than to review this week's best and broadest stereotypes strewn through television like tinsel. This week, the shiniest two-dimensional ornaments come in the form of grinches, mimbos and the elderly. Let's review.
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Which cousin or coworker did you call during the traumatizing Larry King Live finale? You called someone. You didn't make it alone. That I know. Personally, I jumped on IM with Movieline's Julie Miller. Together, we decided Larry King's swan song was the tri-gamete lovechild of CNN Newsroom, Night of a Thousand Stars, and A Clockwork Orange. Scary. Join us and suspender your disbelief.
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Joel David Moore, who has played science nerds on screens both big (Avatar) and small (Bones), next will get his geek on for CBS' Hawaii Five-0, Movieline has learned exclusively.
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