Project Runway's long, litigious journey from Bravo birthplace to its new home at Lifetime Television for Decidedly Un-Ferosh Women ends on August 20th, when the fashion design contest debuts its sixth season. In order to ease their audience into the proceedings, the cable network created a promotional campaign that tweaks, ever-so-unsubtly, the image of Runway as a show made by and for Bluefly-wall-accessorizing BravoGays™.
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Depending on whether you think the housing market has hit bottom, TLC's new series about foreclosure flipping might seem like it showed up late to the party. Heck, even a ponzi scheme series would feel old after the Madoff sentencing. 2009's been a big news year, so we understand if there's a programming lag, but hopefully there isn't a series about Twitter-jacking in development.
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Note: The following scene played out across countless living rooms today during The Today Show's third hour. We're assuming.
Party 1: The Today Show is running a story about the Jackson family entitled "Joe and Kate Plus 9." Too soon?
Party 2. Oh. Because of the Jon & Kate.
Party 1: Yeah.
[Long pause]
Party 2: Wait, who are the 9?
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If ABC Family was merely a venue for Gilmore Girls and Full House reruns, we would have no problem with its existence. But their original programming isn't bad, either. Admittedly, some of it tosses softballs in the direction of real issues (Lincoln Heights), but The Secret Life of the American Teenager doesn't pull any punches, probably because it gets to play with the wider boundaries of the TV-14 rating. Also, Molly Ringwald is in the mix, so you've got that going for you, which is nice.
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The summer schedule and its many openings encourage the insertion of backdoor pilots, the hopeful yet often unsuccessful one-off movies that could lead to a full series or mini-series but usually end up as a topic in a "Remember that TV movie with Louis Gossett, Jr...." conversation. The critical reception has not been warm for Virtuality, Fox's backdoor pilot premiering tonight, so enjoy it while it lasts.
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ABC has this annoying habit of suddenly dropping an underperforming series mid-season (e.g. Pushing Daisies) and then bringing it back in the summer to fill slots not occupied by celebrity competition or water-based embarrassment shows. Tonight, beloved lame duck comedies Samantha Who? and In the Motherhood return as the mouse's network cleans the new episodes out of the closet to make way for the fall line-up.
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· He brought tears to my eyes, and will do the same for you.
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It's only late June, but the summer has already had its first annoying, depraved hit series. As I'm A Celebrity... Let's Hope This Gets Me More Reality Work Because I Need The Money finishes tonight, we gawk back with fondness at all the joy host Damien Fahey and the crew brought us, and hope to wait a good, solid year for the next installment.
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As always, you can count on Bolivian network news to say what everyone's been thinking: The Air France Flight 447 disaster is kind of like Lost, isn't it? Though none among us would most likely be ballsy enough to run Evangeline Lilly-starring still frames from the show as purported footage from the Air France disaster, as the Bolivians did. Still, this isn't the first time that terrible disasters have been unwittingly predicted (and eerily paralleled) by science fiction teevee programs.
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Whenever a television show bills itself as containing celebrities (I'm a Celebrity, Get Me out of Here!, Skating with Celebrities) or stars (Dancing with the Stars), chances are that you or your roommate are an internet video away from being as famous as those luminaries. The competitors on ABC's new sports-celeb mash-up The Superstars have famous names, but more importantly, they had openings in their spring schedule to shoot for a week or two in the Bahamas.
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Welcome back to Movieline True Blood recaps, where you can relive your favorite moments from the only vampire show on TV where humans and the undead are allowed to say "f**k." (And to actually f**k.)
We pick up right where we left off last week, with Eric chowing down on a feisty prisoner as Lafayette the Cowardly Drag Queen cowers in the corner of their slave quarters and espresso grindery. Eric makes sure Lafayette has no silver on him, then demands to know if he got any blood in his hair, which happens to be covered in tinting foil. For anyone keeping metallurgical score at home, that's silver: bad, aluminum: good (for hair-lightening).
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Many families purchase a video camera to record happy memories for posterity. Years down the line, they can pop in a DVD and recall the trip to White Sands or Coney Island or the family ranch. Luckily, the Gosselin children have a crew of videographers documenting their every move and emotion, so one day they can take a trip down memory lane and rediscover the moment when their parents announced (possibly) that they were splitting up. What will Jon & Kate decide? We might find out tonight.
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The word "trashy" gets thrown around a lot, but in the context of Kendra Wilkinson's trashy new reality show on E!, the word denotes a lack of useful insights into the human condition. So what, right? If we wanted insight, we'd pick up a copy of the New Yorker or buy a bunch of crystals and arrange them to line up with our chakras. Before you do something trashy on your own tonight, watch something trashy for motivation.
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When Shonda Rhimes tried to convince the departing T.R. Knight to do a three-episode arc on the next season of Grey's Anatomy, some tingly, Lifetime-watching, ice cream-eating part of my brain felt that somehow augured the news that Katherine Heigl would be staying on the show. Well, guess what?
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Put down the remote, everyone: It is now time for a very special episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air where Janet Hubert, the original "Aunt Viv," goes off on Will Smith. Hubert, who was eventually replaced in the role by Daphne Maxwell Reid, has just penned a book entitled Perfection Is Not A Sitcom Mom, and as is customary for the "I was on a TV show, listen to me" genre of literature, it contains salacious revelations about onscreen family members the author has either fought or slept with. In this case, the former!
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