Now that The Bachelorette is over, a new show featuring contrived romance needs to fill the void. Like clockwork, Fox drops in with More to Love, a plus-sized take on The Bachelor. Now that racial prejudice has been largely eradicated, American society is moving on to size discrimination, and More to Love is an unsteady stumble in that direction. Size 20 women everywhere UNITE!
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There's a disturbing -- well, some might find encouraging -- trend hitting the always befuddling, herd-mentality-driven Internet. Since launching in April, site GuysWithiPhones.com [very NSFW] has featured a rogues' gallery of self-submitted snap-bandits, captured with their iPhones in a bathroom mirror either nude or semi-nude and in various states of arousal. OK, fine, whatever floats your app. But now, recognizable faces have begun to pop up on there.
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If you can't afford the disaster porn at the multiplex, look no look no further than NBC's Survival Sundays. The action-packed miniseries events are a mixed bag of underworked actors and hackneyed natural disaster plots, but they do serve a purpose. Not only are they $14 cheaper than certain Katherine Heigl vehicles, but they make us wistful for a simpler time: the mid-to-late nineties. Even if you missed the first installment of The Storm last night, have no fear. There will be another installment next week and we have a few ideas for future events featuring your favorite Clinton-era television stars.
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While the Movieline office adds another Sarah McLachlan song to our Goodbye, Ben Silverman mix CD, we look back at Silverman's all-too-short career at NBC. Behold, Movieline's 3rd Party Employee Evaluation.
Season 2 Episode 6: "Hard-Hearted Hannah"
We're at the Hotel Carmella (part of the Starwood Telepathic Resorts chain) in Dallas, where people are looting a counter of its True Blood swag -- giving me a serious Comic-Con flashback. (More on that later.) Eric is sucking on a bimbo's neck, when vampire Kara DioGuardi (aka Lorena) from the end of last episode saunters up and you find out Eric was the one who summoned her to Dallas.
In the aftermath of this morning's news that now-former NBC co-chairman Ben Silverman is departing NBC , the world of television -- nay, the entire world -- is a far less fun, absurd place. (Actual farewell e-mail blast to his contact list, according to Nikki Finke: "Its go time brother!!!!!!! Let's rock it out!!!!!" That's a twelve--count 'em, twelve exclamation point self-salute.)
After months of steadily decreasing rose disbursements and exponentially increasing filler in Bachelorette episodes, Jillian's long journey down the path of love ends tonight. Choosing one's potential mate is a huge decision for most mammal species, but even chimps can do it with fewer faux-suspenseful act breaks.
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Studio 10 on CBS's Studio City lot last night was transformed into a Theater of War, with scantily clad MGD girls keeping the pitchers of lo-carb beer flowing as the stage erupted into a four-hundred-foot mushroom cloud of insult comedy, each pre-emptive nuclear zinger more devastating than the next. Yes, last night was the Comedy Central Roast of Joan Rivers -- and Movieline was there.
Hey there, folks! Somehow, I braved the crowds to make it into Hall H for one of the biggest events at Comic-Con: the Lost panel. We've already talked to Elizabeth Mitchell, but now let's see what revelations we got from Damon Lindelof, Carlton Cuse, and a whole host of surprise guests:
Now that Jeremy Piven is out of the running for a fourth consecutive Emmy, the playing field is open for 2009's Outstanding Supporting Actor in Comedy Series hopefuls. The crown could be passed to four-time nominated Jon Cryer, one of the thrice-nominated contendors: Kevin Dillon, Neil Patrick Harris and Rainn Wilson, or 30 Rock dark horse Jack McBrayer. But the most vocal of the nominees is Tracy Morgan, whose upcoming film, G-Force, has provided him ample opportunity to speak to the press. Innocent publicity for a talking guinea pig movie or carefully orchestrated Emmy campaign? You decide.
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This year is the 35th anniversary of Patty Hearst's kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army (as if you didn't already have an SLA-themed party this spring), and no one has embraced it more than the news media. In a year full of national and international strife, there's nothing like a great celebrity kidnapping story to take our minds off the real problems in the world. And remember: 2012 is the 80th anniversary of the Lindbergh kidnapping -- better send out the save-the-date cards now.
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On So You Think You Can Dance's 100th episode tonight, Katie Holmes gets another chance to endear herself to America with a special dance routine. In the last 10 years, she has gone from the girl next door to the girl next to the world's (allegedly) weirdest celebrity, but she never stops trying. Let's hope the SYTYCD judges go easy on her, because even if Holmes was the second coming of Anna Pavlova, the Internet would still bring the hate.
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There are actual news stories going on outside Comic-Con, and here is one! EW's Michael Ausiello spoke to Grey's Anatomy castaway T.R. Knight to get the candid inside story on why he wanted to leave the show. Turns out, that decision to not give him hardly any screen time this past season? That was kinda it!
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"Ask an E.P." is a new Movieline feature where we talk to executive producers, showrunners and decision makers about their work. They may be above the line, but they're not above sharing insights with Movieline.
For the first "Ask an E.P.," Movieline spoke with Kevin Burns, the Emmy-award winning executive producer of E!'s The Girls Next Door and Kendra (recently renewed for its second season). Kevin has produced over 500 hours of documentary and nonfiction programming, including two Lucasfilm documentaries as well as hundreds of A&E's Biography episodes. Kevin talked to us about bringing "real-life Barbies" to cable, creating conflict for reality television and staying out of Hugh Hefner's bedroom.
Sadly, Guadalupe Zambrano and his Houston-area real-estate-sales endeavors have been forced out of their rightful domain by NBC's legal goons, with http://thejaylenoshow.com/ now the realm of their 10 p.m. disaster in the making hacky-comedy cavalcade, The Jay Leno Show. Which basically means the only hilarious thing you'd have ever found on that website -- ie. a stubborn realtor's refusal to budge in the face of increasingly desperate corporate pressure -- is now history, replaced by content reminiscent of a health insurance website.
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