Ken Jennings can sleep well again. The Jeopardy! record holder for earnings and consecutive wins will retain his title for a while longer after contender Roger Craig lost on the game show last night. You'll remember Craig as the spooky, affect-free graduate student who set a record last week for single-day earnings. He ends his Jeopardy! run with the third highest winning total ever and plans to celebrate: "I eat a lot of Ramen and pasta so I'm hoping to treat myself to sushi more often." It's the little things. [E!]
Last season, Movieline established that Glee is like crack. The first time you do it, you get a phenomenal high but as you continue using, you feel less euphoric and more chemically dependent. You become paranoid ("Schue is trying to Benedict Arnold his own club!"), delusional ("Cory Monteith actually has incredible range!") and pretty soon, you're shivering in the bathtub with Glee: The Music, Volume 3 Showstoppers skipping in the living room and no more clean spoons in the house.
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Warehouse 13 toes a very fine line between taking itself too seriously and being delightfully ironic. Sometimes, like when Pete and Myka switch bodies or Sean Maher inadvertently jeopardizes the entire world by putting on a pair of gym shorts, it strikes just the right balance. And sometimes, like when Myka talks H.G. out of destroying the world by insisting H.G. shoot her right in the head -- when Myka resigns from the Warehouse because she can't bear her guilt, it leans a little too seriously. But maybe that's just me adjusting to some lingering bitterness about H.G. being evil after all (and having a frankly uninteresting end game while we're on the subject).
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Fall premiere week is exciting for everyone, especially late night audiences who get to see their favorite primetime stars pass through the P.M. talk shows. Last night alone, Tina Fey told Jimmy Fallon about how she blacked out with Jon Hamm at this year's Emmy parties, Modern Family's cast discussed getting into bed with George Clooney, Snooki taught David Letterman how to fist pump, Ed Helms premiered a new Office dance sequence... and completely unrelated to television, Jay Leno got to the bottom of the I'm Still Here controversy.
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· Claire and Phil Dunphy are up to their meekly slapstick shenanigans in tomorow's second season premiere. Dig the salty badinage between Emmy nominees Julie Bowen and Ty Burrell after the jump. [TV Over Mind]
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Last week, Conan O'Brien took questions from Facebook users in an effort to further publicize his new, eponymous late night yuk-fest, Conan. Because, yeah, what channel is this show on again? (Let's hope that Conan and team are putting as much effort into the content of his show as he is promotion.)
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For a droll 20-year-old with an old-fashioned sense of poise and wit, Chris Colfer is a surprisingly great fit on TV's most up-to-date phenomenon, Glee. The Emmy nominee stopped and chatted with us about shooting the series' second season, his picks for the Super Bowl "mystery artist" episode, and his favorite film scene ever.
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We're in for a freakishly resplendent season of Glee, complete with insane cameos (Gwyneth Paltrow, anyone? Barry Bostwick, anyone?) and more romance, melodrama, and harmony than a Fleetwood Mac coke bender. Elsewhere on TV, Detroit 1-8-7 proceeds with procedural flair, The Biggest Loser gets educational, and Dancing with the Stars loses a star.
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Big news on the Conan O'Brien front: Tickets are finally available for the first week of Coco's new show Conan (yes, we're all still disappointed by the title). To celebrate this momentous occasion, TBS has released a new promo featuring an old man, a young stripper and a John Waite classic. Oh, plus Conan's patented string-cutting dance. Check out the not-so-scandalous clip below.
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Get ready for more brain matter! HBO has renewed Boardwalk Empire for a second season, following its breakout debut. The Martin Scorsese-produced mob movie greatest hits package was watched by 4.8 million viewers on Sunday night, the largest debut for an HBO series in six years. Combined with the additional airings HBO ran on Sunday night, over 7 million viewers tuned in. Here's hoping the second episode is slightly better than the first.
Despite near unanimous praise -- and Movieline's approval -- a paltry 4 million viewers tuned in to watch the series premiere of Lone Star last night, which is a shame for anyone who likes good network television and not fat jokes. Speaking of which, Mike & Molly was viewed by over 12 million people making it the biggest premiere of the night and moving us one step closer to the end of days. Good choices, everyone! [HitFix]
There is only one reason why you, esteemed readers, would watch Chuck Lorre's formulaic new sitcom about a pair of overweight Chicago lovebirds: the fat jokes. And boy, are there fat jokes. (Well, if you define a fat joke as "any line about beefy gals and White Castle drive-thru deaths followed immediately by a cringeworthy laugh track.") And now, thanks to Movieline's new weekly feature The Mike & Molly Fat Joke Tracker, you don't even have to sit through the CBS show to catch the most offensive jabs. Herewith, last night's tasteless disses from the Mike & Molly pilot.
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As Dancing with the Stars waltzes into its 11th cycle of glamor, style, and actually neither of those things, Movieline is commemorating the season with a new feature: Dancing with the Stars door prizes. Each week we'll award three prizes to three dancers who deserved more (or less) than points. As for this week's honors, we're handing out the Carrie Ann Inaba "Diplomacy in Judging" Prize, the Len Goodman "Victorian Disgrace" Trophy, and -- of course -- the Bruno Tonioli Sexy Heart-Attack Award.
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Jay Leno squandered a prime opportunity for Glee scoop by not asking Justin Timberlake about the rumors that he will play Mr. Schuester's brother, all while Glee co-star Jane Lynch was sitting right beside him. Dope! Elsewhere, Glee star Cory Monteith talked about the technical difficulties of his upcoming solo, Stephen Colbert flirted with a 106-year-old virgin and The Office's Mindy Kaling talked sex in Scranton.
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Before diving into the very-good-pretty-great second episode of Gossip Girl, a bit of housekeeping. Because of a severe lack of product, The Gossip Girl Pun Index is going on indefinite hiatus. In its stead, however, find the new and improved Gossip Girl Wit & Wisdom Index, because no one doles out weekly wit and wisdom like Gossip Girl herself. Everyone wins! Click ahead for some thoughts on "Double Identity" and you just might learn something too.
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