If your first thought waking up every morning is, "I wish there was a way Carrie Underwood could win more awards," then your dreams are twanging into reality: The first ever American Country Awards released a list of nominations today for Fox's scheduled Dec. 6 ceremony -- and wouldn't you know it, their contenders are almost no different than ABC's Country Music Association Awards (scheduled for Nov. 7). Those are not to be confused with the ACMs (Academy of Country Music Awards) or the CMTs (Country Music Television Awards). Let's call out our favorite duplicate categories and mourn some more necessary award shows that have been cruelly canceled.
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And so another Mad Men season finale came and went, a blur of impulse judgments and thinly veiled sadism slopped between slabs of Walking Dead commercials like so much gooey, processed cheese. Indeed, congratulations are in order to Don Draper, who once again proved his flagging constitutional mettle at the expense of everybody and everything he touched. This is progress! Cue the Sonny and Cher!
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After the completely unimpressive, creative dry fart that was the Britney Spears episode, Glee's got some goodwill to win back as far as their "tribute" episodes go. But fortunately, listening to four leaked tracks from their upcoming Rocky Horror show, it seems like the gang from McKinley High has got their mojo back. So if you want to hear what it sounds like when Glee's own "mentally ill ginger pigmy with eyes like a bush baby" gets smutty, click on!
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April Johnston was Project Runway's baby this season, a 21-year-old college grad from Savannah, GA, who preferred black garments, light fabrics, and a droll one-liner every so often. We spoke with her about the show's pressing issues going into Fashion Week: the fairness of her elimination, the lionization of Michael C., and the mystery of Gretchen. She does not disappoint.
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If you thought that all of television's best stereotypes would dry up after the cancellation of My Generation, you were wrong. This week's programming was chock full of oversimplified characters for America's easy viewing digestion. But which were actually funny? Let's take a look -- first stop, the trailer park!
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Alcohol is so embedded into the fabric of Mad Men that it's hard to imagine watching an episode dry. It's with that in mind that Movieline offers you an easy drinking game enhance the fun of watching the season finale on Sunday. As always with these things, drinking responsibly applies (you don't want to end up like Freddie Rumsen, do you?), but get your best tumbler, a handful of ice and click ahead to learn the rules of Movieline's Mad Men Season Finale Drinking Game.
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Five designers remain -- and a couple of them you actually like! That Mondo kid for example. He dresses like a toddler who's auditioning for the Happy Hands Preschool performance of Cabaret. And then April! She's a saucy, monotone chica we'd want to have mimosas with. Faboo! Then there are the others. Ahem! Let's break down this week's NY-loving episode and try to cope with its climactic idiocy.
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Another day, another round of grunts and grumbling from The Situation. Last night's Jersey Shore showed us just how fallible he and Pauly D can be with DTF protocol. But who came out with top grades at Movieline's Jersey Shore Academy of Higher Smushing? Let's grade everyone -- from Snooki to Vinny -- with the Fresh-to-Death Report Card.
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If you got through last night's episode of Grey's Anatomy without self-harming, congratulations. Seven seasons in, it was straight-up agonizing to hear Meredith complain about her "hostile uterus," Miranda Bailey dish out more tough love to the chief, McSteamy leer at a coworker and Cristina oddly sympathize with the patient who has been blocking his intestines with worms for science. Where's Katherine Heigl when you need her, right guys? Anyway! Grab that leftover codeine cough syrup in your medicine cabinet and join Movieline in assessing the staggering trauma that Shonda Rhimes delivered in last night's episode, "Can't Fight Biology."
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And you thought theme episodes were just for Glee. If and when Community goes off the air, episodes like "Basic Rocket Science" are the ones I'm going to miss the most. Despite having nothing to do with the overarching narrative, the pitch-perfect homage to Apollo 13, The Right Stuff, Armageddon and space movies in general was the type of episode it seems only Community can pull off; in the hands of lesser talents, "Basic Rocket Science" would have been nothing more than Scary Movie Goes to Space. Instead, it was a worthy stepsister to "Modern Warfare."
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If you don't know Michael Cristofer from Rubicon, you may be familiar with him as a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and occasional screenwriter (The Witches of Eastwick, The Bonfire of the Vanities). But if you do know Michael Cristofer from Rubicon, then he'll forever be Truxton Spangler -- the aloof, Corn Flakes-eating head of the American Policy Institute intelligence agency. Oh -- and also the guy who, in last week's episode, helped destroy the oil supply of the United States.
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Last night's Fringe cemented three important facts: One, John Noble (still) deserves some Emmy love. Two, Bolivia might not be sympathetic, but Anna Torv is definitely flexing her scary-as-hell muscles (and they are fierce). And three, the "over there" isn't always more compelling than the "over here" -- especially when you're talking about a Walter-heavy myth-arc episode. Read on for the mad-science breakdown of Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep!
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In case you've been out of the tabloid loop this week, Life As We Know It got an unexpected marketing boost when star Katherine Heigl was caught on camera talking to cops while wearing a bikini after one of her neighbors filed a noise complaint. As anyone would do, Heigl visited Jimmy Kimmel Live! to watch the paparazzi video with the host and provide her own commentary. Meanwhile, P. Diddy advised David Letterman on sexting, Emma Stone explained how Paul McCartney gave her a tattoo and Oprah surprised The Daily Show audience with a gift for everyone -- except Stephen Colbert fans.
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From Julia Louis-Dreyfus as cutaway Liz Lemon to Rachel Dratch as a helpless Russian cleaning lady, the much ballyhooed live edition of 30 Rock featured its fair share of former Saturday Night Live stars. (Hey, there's Bill Hader!) But were those veterans of live comedy any match for the rest of 30 Rock's sparkling cast? Ahead, Movieline ranks the ten best performances from the East Coast edition of "Live Show." Do your TGS with Tracy Jordan "power rankings" match up to ours? Join us for the definitive countdown.
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As a doctor of vibeology, I'm unable to cut Paula Abdul from my life. I'd follow her into a burning patch of Simon Cowell chest frizz, and I'm guessing about 23% of Americans would too. I'm specifically writing for that faction now. First things first: DANGER. Paula Abdul's CBS upcoming dance competition series Live to Dance, the one we first heard about some five months ago, is coming to CBS soon -- but it doesn't seem like a rollicking So You Think You Can Dance ripoff. It mostly seems a little glum. Here are three big reasons why.
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