How distressing is Meredith's voice over this week, on a scale of 1 to 10? Does it give you a mild headache or chills? How about Cristina Yang's latest speech about sexism in America? Mild discomfort? What about last season when Meredith suffered a miscarriage in the operating room at gunpoint while watching someone perform emergency surgery on her husband? Excruciating pain? Now with Movieline's weekly Grey's Anatomy pain scale, you can measure the discomfort you suffered at the hands of Shonda Rhimes each week.
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Last night's episode of Jersey Shore was called "Dirty Pad." I wouldn't make up that gruesome a title. Really. So before we crawl under a smush-couch cushion and curse the evil archangel who made Angelina the person she is, it's time for our weekly exercise in guido evaluation, the Fresh-to-Death report card. Marks are posted after the jump, undergrads!
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You can't say anyone saw this coming. Buoyed by the tremendous lead-in provided by The Big Bang Theory, 12.5 million people watched $#*! My Dad Says last night, making it one of the biggest hits of the fall season. The William Shatner-led comedy held onto 81 percent of The Big Bang Theory's audience, meaning only 19 percent of The Big Bang Theory fans have taste. [Deadline]
Saturday Night Live has been parodying Larry King poorly for years and now the 76-year-old television personality wants to get in on the action by hijacking Studio 8H for a night. In fact, King so believes that he can be the next Betty White that he skipped over the grassroots Facebook campaign and marched down to Rockefeller Center to audition in person.
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Jon Hamm has been hitting the promotional circuit hard this week, whether it be to play a little Poker Football with Jimmy Fallon or to talk to your mother's favorite magazine about the crippling depression that affected his young adulthood. Yes, The Town's publicity obligations have put our Mad Men hero front and center, and in his latest appearance, he may have inadvertently let audience members in on one of Don Draper's hairier developments this season.
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Uh-oh. Having been a major cheerleader for the first season of Community -- and having done a Derek Jeter-like fist pump when NBC wisely renewed the under-watched comedy for a second season -- my hopes were high for the season premiere. Maybe that was a mistake.
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Welcome back to the multiverse, fellow Fringe fans! Has the summer been long? Many times, have you found your thoughts drifting to poor Olivia, trapped in some alt-world prison under the menacing gaze of Walternate!? Yeah, me neither, really -- been watching a lot of Mad Men. But, you know, from time to time. Regardless, last night's Olivia, written by showrunners J.H. Wyman & Jeff Pinkner, was an excellent return. Did it make sense though? Read on for a breakdown of your mad science capsules!
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No Tom Jones, no! We were subjected to three strange physical transformations on last night's satisfactory 30 Rock premiere, "The Fabian Strategy" -- and one metamorphosis trumped the others in sheer hirsute horror. Season five, here we go.
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Did you watch Undercovers last night? Big secret: It was like if Chuck didn't know its main demo is 11-year-olds. Because on Undercovers, these married, balcony-hopping spies are real adults who are quite serious about playing grab-ass on the job, says producer J.J. Abrams. Well, despite the hotness of stars Boris Kodjoe and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, the pilot was pulpy and full of cliche spy stuff -- including the following screenshot, the most hilarious candidate in a pool of thousands.
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"Things That Will Never Happen" Day continues here at Movieline with a threat from Kristen Bell, who is ready to make this Veronica Mars feature film a reality for herself and the approximately 7,772 people in America who still care about Veronica Mars. In fact, she is so determined to reprise the sweet-faced teenage sleuth before she turns 40 that she may even charge the big screen adaptation to her MasterCard. There's just one problem.
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30 Rock returns tonight with enough Tina Fey/pilot Matt Damon romance to ignite a Mile High Club fad across this great nation -- but will Jane Krakowski (as the divine and screwy Jenna Maroney) steal the show as TGS with Tracy Jordan's new executive producer? Also on tonight: My Generation premieres and Project Runway gets heavy.
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Desperate times call for desperate measures. With Lone Star perched on the precipice of cancellation, creator Kyle Killen has done what every person here in 2010 does when something unfortunate befalls them: Taken to the Internet to write about it! This morning, he posted a plea to television watchers nationwide in an attempt to get them to watch Lone Star on Monday night. Will this last-minute Hail Mary pass work?
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The day that you have not been looking forward to for months now has arrived. $#*! My Dad Says, the sitcom that CBS foolishly adapted from a string of grumpy 140-character Tweets premieres tonight after one recasting, one executive admission of a disappointing pilot and one last-minute DVR scare. Is $#*! My Dad Says as bad as these events would lead you to believe? That answer and more ahead in the latest edition of Movieline's Premiere Week FAQ.
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Nice try with your ensemble format, Modern Family, but your cast is still subject to cutthroat ranking systems. Sawwy. Movieline is initiating a weekly competition for Modern Family's rascal-y relatives: the "Family Member of the Week" tally. We'll select a grand champion from every show and rank the runners-up afterward. Because declaring losers is fun, see. So who's the top Pritchett/Delgado/Tucker in this week's roundup? Buckle up in your Pinto and click through to find out.
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Jennifer Aniston's much-ballyhooed guest appearance on Cougar Town was similar to her recent string of theatrical releases: Disappointing. The season premiere of the Courteney Cox sitcom -- which featured Aniston as a psychiatrist -- drew in a little over 8 million viewers. That's down from the 11 million people who tuned in to the series premiere last September, and also represents a significant drop from lead-in Modern Family, which was watched by 12.6 million viewers. Don't worry, Jen: There's always radio. [Us]
