It's a shame that the highly rated American Music Awards chose to cut Jennifer Lopez's fall during her performance of "Louboutins" for the west coast feed, because -- uh, P.S., she meant to do that. P.P.S. DUH. Jenny from the Awkward Blocking appeared on Ryan Seacrest's morning radio show to discuss the event in question, and her explanation will reassure you that she's Martha Graham wrapped in Mikhail Baryshnikov hidden in Fatima Robinson.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt donned a sporty tie and sneakers on Saturday night, meaning he was exhilarated to host either Saturday Night Live or Double Dare. Luckily it turned out to be the former, though the audience was slimed with showman skills so hyperkinetic and gooey that Marc Summers might've Febrezed his screen. Best of all, Jo-GLev (there just isn't a more clever moniker, I tried) took SNL's opening monologue as an opportunity to offset his now-legendary mime abilities. Clips of both skill sets after the jump.
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If the thought of sharing your thanks over dry turkey and soggy pie this Thursday fills you with nausea, tune in to the History Channel's Surviving the Holidays with Lewis Black for a dose of seasonal pessimism. The curmudgeonly comedian will rant about the "month-long festival of consumption", angrily deliver a history of the holidays and then spend the rest of the two hours interviewing turkeys on a turkey farm, posing as a department store Santa and reporting on dreidel play-offs. Even though this show sounds like it will avoid History Channel topics like the rise of Hitler and World War II, something tells me they'll manage to sneak in some archived footage of the Battle of the Ardennes into the program.
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The American Music Awards have always been the blandest of big-big award shows, but they manage to hash out a few embeddable memories. I mean, look, Rick James is chicken-dancing in place. At last night's 37th annual AMAs, the ceremony -- bizarrely -- did not disappoint, from Michael Jackson and Taylor Swift's award sweeps to Jennifer Lopez's L.A.-unaired choreography mishap. Movieline investigates the show's top five vaudevillian spectacles after the jump.
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· Following her eye-opening Jenna Jameson interview, Oprah will expand her horizons with a sexually charged hourlong series on HBO. The Harpo Films production will follow a woman who "leaves her seemingly perfect marriage and children in Santa Monica for the underbelly of L.A., where she indulges her secret fantasies and desires." Lest anyone think these "secret fantasies" are just barrels of liquid chocolate flown first-class from Switzerland and the cuddliest cashmere sweater capes, the pilot is being written by Secretary scribe Erin Cressida Wilson. [Variety]
Courteney Cox shuts down Cougartown, Avatar rattles Fox's Bones, and more TV Bites after the jump.
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Well, this is upsetting. Actor Rex Lee -- who plays Lloyd, Ari Gold's long-suffering assistant on the sufferingly long-running HBO series Entourage -- has revealed to TMZ that he has been the target of workplace harassment from certain members of the crew, who regularly crack jokes about his race and sexual orientation. To the rescue, then, comes series creator and showrunner Doug Ellin, who enforces a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to jokes about gays and minorities on his set. Told of the cracks, Ellin said he was "shocked and horrified," and "will be speaking to everybody before we start filming again in March. It's not something condoned or acceptable."
So to be clear, if any crew member should say anything along these lines on the set on Entourage, they will be immediately fired:
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You weren't going to buy your copy of Sarah Palin's Going Rogue without heeding the lessons of Barbara Walters' interrogation first, right? You should also refrain from buying a snowmobile, a red padded blazer, a bridge going somewhere, a flute, sports commentator skills, and a real Wasillan fingertrap until 20/20 is over too. We have a lot to learn about all of those. Who knows, maybe she'll amp up the maverickiness and give us a heads-up on hockey gear sales at Sports Authority. I'm kind of in.
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Hurricane Franco touched down in Port Charles this afternoon, kicking off the Pineapple Express actor's surprising arc on General Hospital. As an elusive performance artist whose "canvas is murder," Franco spent most of the episode lurking in the shadows, snacking behind dumpsters and waving into security cameras with fingerless gloves. But when Franco did escape those shadows and stare meaningfully into the distance as Adam Lambert's "It's A Mad World" played in the background, he was soap good.
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Project Runway ended last night -- and I don't just mean its sixth season concluded. The show's once-deafening buzz seems to be a thing of the past, and the ratings...well, there's no easy way to say this. Despite the fact that the sixth season's Lifetime debut in August was up 45% from the previous year's Bravo premiere, the reality competition atrophied viewers as it continued to run, actually descending beneath its Bravo average even though Lifetime has far greater market penetration than our favorite gay-vague cable channel. How bad did things get last night?
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There comes a time in life when we have to face our personal truths and after another dark night of the soul watching late night television, I'm ready to admit that I love Lopez Tonight. The new TBS talk show had me during Wednesday night's Chola Makeover, but last night's show clinched my affection when the host advised an inter-racial couple in the audience on their money disagreements, threw to "Creepy Little White Girl," a new correspondent who delivers stale monologue jokes in zombie attire, got Ted Danson to admit that he cried while watching the Cheers pilot and then welcomed This Is It guitar goddess, Orianthi, to the stage for a solo performance. A few highlights from Lopez, and all of the other notable late night moments you missed, after the jump.
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By now, you've most likely heard that Lost is coming back for its final season on Tuesday, February 2, and will be holding down the Tuesday 9pm time slot for the foreseeable future. This is a great thing for America, since Tuesday is so boring and mostly filled with stuff your grandma watches. Get ready for a lot of posts that consist solely of exclamation points! [THR]
Three weeks of excitement and 11 weeks of Chekhovian bleakness have led us to this moment. Project Runway's dubious sixth season concluded last night, and because you should see Heidi squeal the big winner's name like a festive cockapoo for yourself, I won't reveal the champion until after the jump. In the meantime, I reveal another secret: Guest-judge Suzy Menkes of the International Herald Tribune has a jacked-up haircut, and she stole it like candy from a baby. No, seriously, I mean Rugrats.
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RuPaul's Drag Race was a surprise breakout hit when its first, ultra-low-rent season debuted on Logo. It was a competition reality show that worked uncommonly well, mainly because it was tailored to the only breed -- besides maybe pageant queens -- who were quite literally born for the medium. They sew, they strut, they tuck, they bring the drrrraaaama: one glimpse of those crazy tranny bitches hoofing down the runway after a series of hilarious challenges (the Oprah Challenge and the Butch Lesbian Makeover Challenge were two of my favorites), where they'd get feedback like, "You look like you're dressed to give Dr. Phil a $20 hand job," and I was hooked. Season 2 debuts in February, and the first preview footage and contestant profiles have debuted online. It's after the jump.
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Oprah Winfrey, the biggest personality on network television, made her anticipated announcement just minutes ago that she will forfeit her daytime programming choke hold on September 9, 2011. In front of a live audience, Winfrey delivered the news and explained her departure, curiously leaving out any mention of her new Oprah Winfrey Network venture.
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· Break out your all-black wardrobe, red spray paint and performance art motives. James Franco's General Hospital arc begins today and in a new interview, the Pineapple Express actor admitted that he had never watched the show before he took the job, saying "I thought it was all about hospitals but actually there's this whole mob thing." Click through for a steamy scene the actor shares with Lost's Marsha Thomason. [Zap2It]
Steven Spielberg and Stephen King join forces, Larry King ships his son off to Fox Sports, and more TV Bites after the jump.
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