The "planted spin-off" episode of Bones has has been delayed -- I can feel it in my, um, bones. Sources confirm to me exclusively that production on the special episode that would introduce the offshoot's central figure has been bumped from to December to February/March. A Fox rep declined to comment, but a source close to the show says the decision was made for creative reasons. The episode is now expected to air in the spring.
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This week's finest TV is filled with guest-stars (Michael J. Fox, Cybill Shepherd, John Slattery) and chilling new developments (Improv on Dancing with the Stars! Gender wars on Survivor!). Don't worry, if worst comes to worst, you can comfort yourself with Community's "puppy parade."
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If you liked watching Zach Galifianakis smoke a fake joint on Real Time with Bill Maher, you would have loved watching the portly comedian light up a fake doobie -- while topless and wearing a blue bathing cap for ironic spa purposes -- during last night's penultimate season two episode of Bored to Death. Proceed ahead to see how that visual affected the hipster quotient in last night's "Escape From the Castle!"
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It looks like Andy Richter was a bit misinformed when he spoke to Movieline on Friday. According to TMZ, Arlene Wagner, the curator of the Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum, will probably be the fan-voted first guest on Conan later tonight. Because rabid Coco fans obviously wanted to see her instead of Jack Nicholson. Wagner will be joined by actual celebrities Seth Rogen, Lea Michele and musical guest Jack White on the inaugural show. [TMZ]
And with nine little words, Nucky Thompson gave me a new personal quote for Facebook. Though for the second week in a row, Boardwalk Empire itself has left me with very little to actually complain about. Coming on the heels of last week's outstanding episode, the series has officially hit what we here in the biz call a stride.
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In last week's stereotype feature, Movieline spotlighted the Desperate Housewives, who in their exhausted seventh season on ABC, are pretty much the television equivalent of the walking dead. And this week, Movieline takes a look at actual small screen zombies (as well as sluts and drunk daytime talk hosts) haunting the airwaves.
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I didn't want to bring this up two weeks ago, when Mrs. Blankenship guest starred on a very special episode of Grey's Anatomy after passing away on Mad Men, but there appears to be a portal* from Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce that drops its casualties into present day Seattle Grace Mercy West. After this theory was proved true in last night's episode, "That's Me Trying" -- when Anna Draper was reincarnated as a gum-chewing, bone-sawing pathologist -- I feel that it is finally time to discuss it openly. So pop a few extra pain relievers and dive in with us to review this week's pain readings.
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Now that a gloriously torrid season of Project Runway is over, I'm suffering from a fashion TV void the size of Lincoln Center. But it appears that Bravo, Project Runway's original stomping grounds, is prepared to fill the niche with a revamped version of its The Fashion Show. With Kelly Rowland relieved from hosting duties and supermodel Iman taking over, I can assure you (with magnificent video evidence) that we might be in for the best fashion TV in existence.
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The consensus around the Internet today is that last night's wholly unfunny edition of The Office was its worst entry of the season. There's only so much you can say about an episode that so aggressively left the bounds of earthly reality (Michael and Andy on a bus to Mexico to build schools; really?), but one thing did stick out like a badly infected thumb: Why don't Jim and Pam have any friends?
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Bitches! Bitches! Bitches! Sorry, I'm just letting my Abed flag fly following "Aerodynamics of Gender," the most "season one" episode of Community since...well, season one. Much like "Contemporary American Poultry" (the Goodfellas episode), "Gender" took a movie reference -- Mean Girls -- and used it to create an episode that was more than just strict homage. More of this, please.
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After a few weeks of Fringe-less Fox, we finally got back to the alt-world last night in "Amber 31422," where we learned how to use amber as a spackling paste, and why, at least from Walternate's damaged yet god-like perspective, good and evil are secondary to balance and imbalance. And, as we've come to expect when red titles flash over the J.J. Abrams theme, it was another great marriage of episode with season arc. Read on for the mad science capsules!
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After awkwardly rolling out the red carpet for Conan O'Brien on his show, George Lopez welcomed Andy Richter to the TBS fray last night to make a few last jabs at Jay Leno and to discuss the time he accidentally took his daughter to Disneyland's Gay Day. Meanwhile, Chilean miner Edison Pena (who will run in the New York City Marathon on Sunday) regaled David Letterman with an impromptu Elvis performance, Dick Van Dyke owned up to his horrible Mary Poppins accent and Ellen Pompeo showed Katherine Heigl just how to promote Grey's Anatomy on national television.
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About every four episodes of 30 Rock, Jack Donaghy's "featured" girlfriend Avery (Elizabeth Banks) returns to Rockefeller Plaza, and we're spared the humiliation of hearing her discussed in the third-person for 22 minutes. In fact, she's a welcome comic presence: Elizabeth Banks nails her dialogue, conveys that Holly-Hunter-in-Broadcast News deadline fixation, and teems with old-fashioned alpha rage. Splendid. So why did I balk when she graced our screens again in last night's episode, "Gentleman's Intermission"?
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When you hear someone described as being "cuddly as a cactus and as charming as an eel," chances are, you think of the Grinch. And then you may well think, "OMG, that sounds just like Glee-clubber Sue Sylvester, too."
At least the series' creator, Ryan Murphy, seems to have thought so.
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Now that we're headlong into 30 Rock's generally excellent fifth season, it's time for some reconnaissance: Is our beloved Thursday night jam -- which weaves in and out of being the best TV show evarrrr -- ever going to reclaim its rightful place at the Emmy dais? Before it's too late, let's figure out where the fifth season still has room to appeal to voters who might feel obligated to throw more hardware at Modern Family and/or Glee.
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