Tonight, on Tonight, Jay Leno officially passes the torch to Conan O'Brien, and Letterman and Colbert were even nice enough to stay dark this week to allow Leno to take his final bow uncontested. Leno promised something special for Friday, and even though Billy Crystal's musical montage stopped last night's show (not always a good thing), there's more than enough reason for even the biggest Leno-haters to at least fall asleep to his last broadcast at 11:35.
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If you find yourself lacking water cooler chitchat fodder, then tonight's Spelling Bee is a good place to start. From "Did you see that Indian kid faint?" to "I couldn't even spell that word if my name was Merriam-Webster," you'll have all kinds of pithy openings and closings while nuking your Any'tizers.
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As we all know, reality stars are bastions of integrity who we can trust at all times. However, two recent interviews with Adam Lambert and Paris Hilton are still noteworthy for their whiplash-inducing statements of personal authenticity, followed by sheer, ballsy fraudulence.
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Wait, this is supposed to be a picture from the new, Lifetime-owned season of Project Runway? I refuse to believe it! Where's the gloomy weather of New York, or the bodacious belly of a pregnant, Kate Gosselin-competitive Heidi Klum? Yes, I know that the new season is set in Los Angeles, but I didn't realize how much that would affect the Runway tone until I saw sunlight streaming in from behind Tim Gunn in the Parsons design room (below).
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Honesty is almost always refreshing, but truth in programming is difficult to come by these days. Not so with summer favorite Wipeout, an obstacle course game show lacking even the basic pretension that its challenges require a semblance of athletic ability.
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You may not be aware of it, but you have big decisions to make in the coming weeks. The summer is all about television time management and with Big Brother and Wipeout returning, I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! promising pain to Sanjaya, and newcomers More to Love and Merlin furrowing our brows, your DVR will be working OT. But it's Tori Spelling and the crew over at Oxygen who receive our first season pass.
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By the end of last night's somber season premiere of Jon & Kate Plus 8, tweens across America were tweeting divorce predictions, estranged family members were crying boycott, and the single females of eastern PA had selected their halter tops for this weekend's Jon Gosselin-sponsored bar crawl. With all signs and fans pointing to divorce, the only question remaining is: How will J&K+8 producers fill the remaining 45 (!) episodes slated for Season 5?
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A little over a month ago, unkempt, unkissed Susan Boyle captivated the entire world (sans Movieline) with her technically proficient rendition of a song no one ever wants to hear again on the reality competition Britain's Got Talent. Since then, Boyle has committed the flagrant sin of continuing to exist, thereby encroaching on everyone's impeccably edited, seven-minute YouTube vision of the singer. You can't have come from out of nowhere if we already know you, Susie!
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The easy headline here is Jon & Kate Plus Hate, because that rhymes and stuff, so look for that to pop up everywhere in the coming months as this situation spirals out of control. The new season of Jon & Kate Plus 8 premieres on Monday, but TLC primes the pump tonight with a few episodes from the happy days, the salad days, as they say.
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David Lynch's films don't appear on television very often, possibly due to length issues but more likely because advertisers probably don't want their product messages following Kyle MacLachlan having rough sex with Isabella Rossellini (unless you're Pabst Blue Ribbon). Well, if we can't catch Inland Empire on TBS, at least Sundance Channel will show us how it was made.
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Adam Lambert lost to Kris Allen on American Idol last night, but the more important issue is, what does that say about the world we live in now? (Besides the fact that I totally called it?) To debate this heavy question, S.T. VanAirsdale and I argued in a provocative, intermittently capitalized IM exchange. Here, then, are our thoughts on the South, homophobia, and elaborately realized shoulder latticework:
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Yesterday, we got the first cast photo for the CW's new Melrose Place reboot, and today we've got the Melrose trailer (plus some clips from the upcoming CW fang soap Vampire Diaries). How so-bad-they're-good are they? Let's find out!
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Sometimes, the most exciting news at the networks' fall upfronts is what they don't tout: namely, what shows were canceled, doomed, or scrapped at the pilot stage. Here's our look (with some help from the Futon Critic) at the shows that got screwed.
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I'd like to start this post by first sending out my condolences to the hard-working announcer who was forced to say the words, "You're just minutes away from the most magically delicious show any network has produced in years!" in a pre-Idol Glee promo. Whoever you are, you aren't paid enough to read cereal box copy, no matter how many orange marshmallow stars Fox could stuff into this bloated hour-long spectacle. (Answer: One. Paula Abdul.) Now, let's proceed.
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