If you like the premise of a quirky community college study group made up of a suspended lawyer (Joel McHale), an old man that wears vests (Chevy Chase), and get this, an Asian guy that teaches Spanish (Ken Jeong as Señor Chang), then sidle up for NBC's premiere of Community tonight. Even if post-SNL Chevy Chase doesn't get your remote's pulse running, there is something for every television taste tonight, with premieres of The Office, Bones, Survivor: Samoa, Paula Abdul-hosted VH1: Divas and more!
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We know Ali Larter best in the following forms: blown to bits, brought back from the dead, and fixated on man-stealing. The Heroes actress's role on the NBC show, Tracy Strauss, endured being reduced to literal smithereens before seeing exhumation in time for the show's fourth-season premiere next Monday. Meanwhile, in Obsessed, Larter ignored a key voicemail from Beyonce and opted to persevere in her quest to, shall we say, win over Idris Elba. Larter spoke with Movieline about these cult phenomena, how Heroes plans to change, and the response one gets after being named one of cinema's nine elite crazy white bitches.
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Last night on The Jay Leno Show, Leno did a bit where he reinterpreted classic novels on Twitter. Yes, I know, sigh...but it gets worse! Here's his Twitter-ized Hamlet: "Dude hooks up with the ultimate MILF -- and it turns out to be his own mom!" Yeah, that incest and surprise reveal is a little more Oedipus than Hamlet, I would say. Those months of prep time are paying off! [Media Yenta]
Pour yourself an afternoon highball and dust off that accordion! On Monday, Oprah time travels to the Sterling Cooper era with The Oprah Winfrey Show: Oprah Goes Back in Time - The '60s, in which the talk show host invites Jon Hamm and January Jones to her couch, dresses the studio audience in period costumes, welcomes a performance from the "Jersey Boys" musical and dons a custom-made design by Mad Men's own costume designer. The episode will also feature a "Favorite Things" segment in which Oprah announces her favorite items from the swinging decade. [New York Times]
With only two more episodes of The Jay Leno Show before Neil Patrick Harris hosts the controversially-shortened 61st Annual Emmy Awards, Kyle and I set to work casting our own predictions for this year's supporting actor and actress winners. To see our picks and more importantly, to cast your own favorites in Movieline's First Annual Emmy Poll, join us after the jump!
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Mischa Barton gets a another shot at pop culture relevance with tonight's The Beautiful Life pilot. The CW program attempts a meta-storyline, casting the monotone O.C. starlet as a has-been model, fighting capped tooth and manicured nail to stay at the top of her runway game. Reviews are forecasting a short and grisly run, but we hope that Mischa's fate is not as grim.
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Arianna Huffington has already appeared on television in several incarnations: panelist, game show guest (Hollywood Squares), parodied political figure (Saturday Night Live), and voice actor (The Cleveland Show), and now her life will be used as the inspiration for a new Friends-like sitcom that the pundit will executive produce. I see the character as a spotlight hungry cross between Monica and Phoebe, who finds brief but bisexuality-interrupted love with a millionaire, played by Tom Selleck.
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Though we at Movieline valiantly tried to cast her in the new Soul Train movie as Vanity, 47-year-old Jasmine Guy has been stolen away by the CW to play a grandmother on Vampire Diaries. Debuting in the fourth episode, Guy, who is best known for playing saucy southerner Whitley on the Cosby Show spinoff A Different World, will play "Grams" to Katerina Graham's character Bonnie. VD executive producer Kevin Williamson's casting choices are usually right on, so what gives with aging our favorite Hillman alum?
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Back in June, the internet exploded after TV watchers discovered that the design of Conan O'Brien's Tonight Show set could easily double for a particularly exciting level of Super Mario World. Now that we've seen the expensive, desk-less set of The Jay Leno Show, does it instantly bring to mind anything?
Our illustrated answer after the jump:
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We previously surmised that Kanye West's only crime at Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards was choosing the wrong award recipient's acceptance speech to crash. But once President Obama involved himself in the saga yesterday, we took a closer look at the VMA events (with the helpful eye of Mario Lopez) and developed a conspiracy theory. For the complete anatomy on how this little MTV stunt wound up in the White House, follow us after the jump.
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Oprah Winfrey is filming an episode of her show at New York's Central Park, where she will interview Mariah Carey, Regis Philbin, and Kelly Ripa, and hopefully sing her old hit "Bridge Over Troubled Water." She's also slated to announce the 63rd selection in her book club, and according to her, she's "never made a selection like 'this'." Is "this" a clue? Tell me it's This Is It, with Oprah announcing, "Sure, it's not a book -- but God is the author of Michael's legengary talent" or something excellent like that. [AP]
President Obama will visit the Late Show with David Letterman on Monday to promote his healthcare reform. His segment will mark the first appearance of a sitting U.S. president on the show, although Obama did appear on Letterman five times before elected. The president visited the Tonight Show With Jay Leno in March. [Los Angeles Times]
It's a time-honored tradition for high school dramas to be populated with actors well out of their teens. Here, then, is a tribute of sorts, assembled by examining each big teen show on the air, then isolating its oldest cast member. Their characters may flirt at parties to the sounds of Lady Gaga and dance at the high school prom to Taylor Swift, but in real life, some of these actors haven't been in school since Kurt Cobain was alive. Who are they?
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Even President Obama has an opinion on Kanye West interrupting Taylor Swift's acceptance speech at the VMAs. During a CNBC interview Monday, the president called Kanye a "jack*ss" during some off-the-record remarks. The comment was promptly tweeted by ABC News reporter Terry Moran, then taken down from the Twitter site. ABC has since apologized for Moran's journalistic indiscretion. [Washington Post]
Episode 12 - Beyond Here Lies Nothin'
[Apologies for this True Blood finale recap coming a day late, as TIFF scheduling got in the way.]
We pick things up right where we left off two weeks ago, with Sookie in her bedroom as Tara, Eggs and Lafayette -- pupils dilated to the size of your average Phishhead -- rejoice over the arrival of a large egg signifying that "he is here." By "he" I assume Tara means Dionysus, but she could just as easily be referring to the Easter Bunny, or maybe Eggs himself? They never really did explain why they call Eggs Eggs.
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