Steve Carell is a national treasure. OK, sure, perhaps I'm exaggerating a bit when I write that. The point is, no one is attempting to say that Carell isn't talented or that Michael Scott won't be missed when he leaves The Office after this season. I'm just trying to make the point, amid all the doom and gloom being spread online about the future of The Office, that Carell's departure doesn't matter as far as the success of the show is concerned.
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We've unfortunately hit a nadir in our Survivor puns (see title), but Survivor: Nicaragua just enjoyed its best episode yet. As the La Flor and Espada tribes merged into an agreeable cesspool, we received absolute confirmation about who's in charge of the game's fate. And sweet, perhaps-even-a-human-being Alina was the most recent castaway to suffer at their hands. Let's see where it all went wrong for her.
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Annie Dixon, meet your cousin from hell. 90210 has tapped up-and-coming Disney Channel starlet Abbie Cobb (Jonas, Starstruck) to play the recurring role of Annie and Dixon's spotlight-hungry cousin Emily, sources confirm to me exclusively.
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Only one of the storylines on last night's Modern Family amounted to hilarity, and thus our rankings this week skew toward a particular third of the episode. Did we love Phil's smoke-detector detective work? Lily's commercial debut? Manny and Jay's sensitive badinage? Let's bank 'em and rank 'em after the jump.
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While Zach Galifianakis debuted a buzzed head on NBC last night (and a final explanation of that whole Bill Maher joint incident), Conan O'Brien "crashed" the Lopez Tonight monologue on TBS to make his basic cable debut. It was meant to be a warm exchange between George Lopez and the comedian who will be assuming his time slot on Monday, but it was fraught with awkwardness -- from the audience's applause timing (maybe fault the translator?) to Lopez's pained expressions. Find your inner body language expert and join Movieline ahead to inspect the tensest freeze frames.
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It took no less than two BP oil spills and one moon-drilling-released Cthulhu, but South Park viewers finally know the true identity of Mysterion, the pint-size superhero who led his friends to near-justice and an alleyway stabbing in last night's episode "Mysterion Rises." Ahead, Movieline rips off Mysterion's mask (again), and as always, assesses the carnage of the latest South Park installment. Spoilerphobes beware.
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Culture gave us a great gift Monday with the Giants' World Series win and... I'm sure something else recently. But this new Bridalplasty teaser is the stuff of night sweats and debilitating desk anxiety -- 35 seconds of skin-crawling, soul-sucking, lady-cutting body horror in a white dress and veil. God don't make no junk, but Satan has an assembly line. Here's his latest. I'll be cowering in bed if you need me.
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It has been a big week for Zach Galifianakis. First, he smoked what appeared to be a joint on live television, and then his Due Date promotional duties led him to Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, where he was forced to explain the incident. Elsewhere, Tina Fey dusted off her Sarah Palin impersonation with David Letterman and talked midterm elections, James Franco remembered his bizarre General Hospital days, Danny McBride talked about his shark-infested honeymoon and Craig Ferguson threw dollar bills at Glee's Jayma Mays.
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Onetime Law & Order: SVU ADA Michaela McManus has booked a recurring role on The Vampire Diaries, sources confirm to me exclusively.
The actress will play Jules, a friend of Mason Lockwood's who comes to Mystic Falls looking for the MIA werebeast (little does she know he got his heart ripped out by Damon two weeks ago).
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Apparently ABC didn't learn from Fox's misbegotten Skating with Celebrities, because it's turning out its own ice-dance competition series, Skating with the Stars. The roster of skaters includes Bethenny Frankel, skier Jonny Moseley, Disney actor Brandon Mychal Smith, Motley Crue rocker Vince Neil, a couple of soap actresses, and the incredible-and-inspiring Sean Young. Sound lame? It shouldn't. There are at least three ways this could be great.
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You've already watched the bite-size version of Conan O'Brien's new TBS talk show premiering Monday. You've memorized the guest roster for the first week. You've waded through the anticipatory interviews with the host and his loyal sidekick, Andy Richter. So what else could you possibly learn about O'Brien's late night venture at this point?
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Movieline's Dancing with the Stars commentator Erin Andrews is back with a slew of thoughts about this week's 200th episode. If you were observant, you saw that she sat in the audience with her old pal Evan Lysacek. Andrews also met up with beleaguered Bachelor Jake Pavelka, cheered for Kyle Massey, and got to meet Mel B. (who remains our finest Spice Girl). Join us for a discussion about Bristol Palin's chances to win, Jennifer Grey's status as the front-runner, and a frank discussion about how Dancing with the Stars helped Andrews to trust men again.
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Molly Shannon is known for playing awkward and misinformed characters who compensate for their shortcomings with spurts of confidence. She's fantastic at playing them: In 2000, she became only the third female Saturday Night Live cast member to earn an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program. But now that she's slated to star in a new HBO comedy about an ex-nun trying to adjust to the uncloistered world, her-post SNL career begs the question: Does her brand of comedy make sense in series format?
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In a Today Show segment on Tuesday featuring Amy Sedaris (who was in the studio to promote her new book Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People), Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb managed to out-crazy any Saturday Night Live parody of themselves. Seriously. Ahead, watch this latest NBC disaster, and take a moment to review some of the many questions raised by this boozy morning segment.
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Most of the country may have been concentrating on midterm election coverage but not Chelsea Handler, who devoted her opening monologue to female sex robots and the danger they face with a pervert like Charlie Sheen on the loose. Meanwhile, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert taped live election day shows and a 30 Rock star talked about his days watching Seinfeld with the homeless.
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