Spoiler TV reports that actor Kirk Acevedo has alerted the Facebook community that his services will no longer be required on Fringe. Viewers know Acevedo as Agent Charlie Francis, an FBI agent whose role seemed primarily limited to offering Olivia freaked-out updates about airplane-passenger liquifications, and to provide some armed muscle should the team need to apprehend a syphilitic, spinal-fluid drinking club-hopper.
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The season finales of The New Adventures of Elaine Benes and Jay Mohr Does Stuff air on CBS tonight, but you and America will be watching Idol. After eight years of playing the same AI final drinking game (take a sip every time someone says american, idol, dawg or a wildcard word like rhubarb or Leachman), we might enjoy this one sober. Wait. That's a lie. Pop culture should never be ingested on an empty liver.
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Jesus Christ, networks! There are other days in the week than Thursday, though you wouldn't know it by the upfront presentations of fall schedules: first, Fox moved Fringe into the insane gauntlet of Thursdays at 9pm, and now CBS is following suit, moving freshman hit The Mentalist into Thursdays at 10pm. Is it a good move?
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With Part One of the American Idol final face-off just hours away, the very fate of the karaokiverse lies in your calloused and exhausted dialing fingers. Will it be the vision-impaired one with the pouffy hair, or the gay Puerto Rican? Only God truly knows. And Danny Gokey. (Because he's friends with God.) In the meantime, I thought I'd answer a few burning questions.
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There were a slew of new pickups announced today by ABC and FOX, and thanks to the magic of the interwebs, we've scavenged various sites to bring you a comprehensive look at almost every single one of them (get on that Eastwick trailer, ABC!). Want to check out an extended trailer of the Courteney Cox comedy Cougar Town, the alien invasion drama V, the Family Guy spinoff The Cleveland Show, or any of either network's presumably short-lived sitcoms? We've got 'em! (BTW, here you'll find our look at NBC's fall promos).
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For the last week or so, the American media elite has been bitterly divided: Should President Obama release classified photos of torture victims? Which young man will reign supreme and take his place alongside Clarkson, Barrino, Studdard and Dunkleman, great talents who had their seasons in the sun and moved on to bigger and better (or smaller and worse) things. We're down to the bottom two Idol contestants. Time to find out which one is the top. (Tomorrow night.)
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Let's say that like a certain senior editor of, oh, I don't know, Movieline, your two favorite shows on network television are Lost and 30 Rock. Certainly, now that Lost has had two years to acquaint us with an eight-month hiatus in between seasons, we've grown to expect a certain patience with its scheduling. But what the hell has NBC decided to do with 30 Rock next year?
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The process of figuring out what to watch every night is largely speculative, but for once, we have seen a show in advance. That would be the two-hour season finale of 24 which answers many of the running questions from Season 7 but also makes us question what we missed by not watching from 2 PM - 3 AM. Probably some hot, wet waterboarding action.
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If you thought the World Trade Center in Fringe's season finale really upped the ante on "I can't believe they'd go there," Fox has responded with a scheduling move that's just as ballsy.
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To mark the new Age of Obama, MTV announced late last year that it would overhaul its slate to be "aspirational, enterprising and empowering." This, then, must explain why it has commissioned a reality series called Fashion Strip which forces teen girls to take their clothes off in front of an audience and then literally drops them down a chute (spraining the ankle of one contestant) when they dress poorly. A Movieline tipster attended the taping of Fashion Strip's pilot and detailed the beyond-parody shenanigans:
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There's something about the Jimmy Kimmel Live vibe that makes it perfect for Friday nights. It could be the easygoing humor or possibly because it's the only show that schedules strong guests for the end of the week ratings dead zone. Eminem brings himself and an entourage of hundreds to Kimmel's Hollywood digs and "Iron Mike" Tyson is on the undercard.
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Are you Facebook friends with many women? Did you sign on last night and wonder what, what was going on with all these "OMG Grey's! Don't leave me hanging all summer!" status updates? Well, we will tell you -- but it involves spoilers, death, angry actors, and a lot of strained diplomacy.
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For the one-in-ten Americans who are unemployed, summer has already begun, but for the rest of the population, season finales help to signal that it's time to use that extra daylight to lose the spare tire acquired while catching up on your stories.
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After a complicated, time-jumping fifth season, Lost producers have said that next year's final batch of episodes will return to a character-focused simplicity that's reminiscent of the show's early (and more highly-rated) days. Certainly, last night's final episode had a lot in common with that first season's finale -- it, too, boasted one great ending alongside one frustrating cliffhanger. Guess which one was which?
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Breathe deep. That's the smell of hope. On last night's Idol nail-biter, Kris Allen -- quiet, cute, dignified, instrument-playing, never-annoying Kris Allen -- was advanced to the finals; Lenscrafter-shilling foregone conclusion Danny Gokey, meanwhile, was shown the curb, where he's currently using his heart-shaped thumbs to hitch a ride back to Milwaukee.
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