While promoting The Town last night, Jon Hamm predicted how Don Draper would spend the '80s. Meanwhile, Ben Affleck told Jay Leno about his prison scare, Julie Bowen stood up for actresses over thirty, Ellie Kemper and Craig Ferguson talked scents and Stephen Colbert opened up his Atone Phone line.
Also in this morning's TV Bites: J.J. Abrams' Alcatraz gets locked down... CBS hopes people will believe Newark, N.J. has a crime problem... Candice Bergen heads to House... and more ahead.
You heard a few bars of Glee's "Empire State of Mind" remix in the show's season two preview and now, at long last, the full track is available. Let's listen together below and parse through the conflicting emotions we feel, while we're at it. (Warning: If you choose to proceed, you may never be able to forget the sound of Cory Monteith white-rapping about "Dominicanos.")
It's a big night of debuts and finales on TV tonight -- Survivor returns, Top Chef: Just Desserts rocks your palette, America's Got Talent and Big Brother conclude, and a stirring new drama called Outlaw offers Jimmy Smits (and Jesse Bradford!) a meaty role to dig into. We preview it all after the jump.
Do you remember reading Movieline's scathing review of Drew Barrymore's recent box office disappointment, Going the Distance? Well, Barrymore's costar Justin Long sure does, and he recited a particularly brutal excerpt from memory during yesterday's episode of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon after tipping his hat to Movieline critic Michelle Orange.
If your name is Johnny Galecki, Kaley Cuoco, or Jim Parsons... congratulations! Today, Warner Bros. TV awarded you exceptionally large bonuses for your work on the Big Bang Theory that will ensure you are each millionaires ten times over by the time the seventh season ends. And if your name is not Johnny Galecki, Kaley Cuoco, or Jim Parsons, these salary details will probably depress you. Consider yourself warned!
I'm still reeling from Jeopardy! champ Roger Craig's nonchalant domination and record-setting victory last night, even if I'm a little disappointed in his ho-hum demeanor. The best game show moments happen thanks to competitors with zany personality quirks, or at least some darting pupils. In tribute to the freaky fun of this wonderful genre, let us revisit the five weirdest contestants in game show history.
The Bravermans -- everyone's favorite upper-middle class TV family who thinks that their problems are the end of the suburban world as they know it -- returned for a second season of Parenthood last night, and the show proved that it is not screwing around in its sophomore year by immediately tackling completely original family issues, like talking to your children about sex. Yes, NBC is going there. Below, Movieline sifts through the luxury sedans and incidents of white angst to identify the four edgiest family situations dealt with in last night's second season premiere, "I Hear You, I See You."
As confirmed yesterday, Jennifer Lopez will fill the Kara DioGuardi-shaped void on the American Idol judges panel next season for a fee of $12 million. Because she's a onetime superstar who has produced flop records for over five years now, Lopez needs to work hard to prove she's not praying her career will convalesce. Here are three tips we recommend for J-Lo to heed if she wants to make Idol's tenth season (and herself) watchable.
Project Runway guru (and friend to Movieline) Tim Gunn is putting the "gossip" back in Gossip Girl. After filming a guest spot for the CW series recently, Gunn complained about 17-year-old Taylor Momsen, whom he shared a scene with. "What a diva!" he told E! News. "She was pathetic, she couldn't remember her lines, and she didn't even have that many. I thought to myself 'why are we all being held hostage by this brat?" It gets better. As Momsen wasted precious crew time on her cell phone, Gunn rehearsed a hypothetical scolding. "I'd say, 'You know young lady, there are hundreds of thousands of girls who are just as attractive and even smarter than you. Why are you acting like this show is a huge burden on you?'" [E!]
The first part of Warehouse 13's season two finale was pretty artifact-light. That is, unless you count the heavy-handed references to everyone's favorite big-name super archaeologists ... of which there are two. Truly, it was the "Indiana Jones" episode that Allison Scagliotti promised, complete with puzzles, pyramids and Elsa Schneider-is-a-Nazi-after-all-type reveals. Click through for the roundup!
Craig Ferguson may be a successful talk show host but the Scotsman received other kinds of on-screen offers when he first arrived in Los Angeles -- at least that's what the Late Late Show personality told Kristen Bell last night. Meanwhile, The Situation got fresh with Jamie Lee Curtis on The Tonight Show, Chelsea Handler recalled the Jersey Shore baby she lost on Sunday and Justin Long remembered his most unlikely fan.
Also in this morning's TV Bites: ABC readies a new political drama... MTV adds two new series... My Boys gets the boot... and more ahead.
Parenthood's second season kicks off with a guest appearance from your favorite Backdraft cast member while standout performances from Vivien Leigh, Anna Wintour, and Prince Poppycock highlight the rest of tonight's schedule. Worried? You should be.
The November 8 premiere date of Conan O'Brien's new TBS chuckle-fest Conan is approaching, and in preparation, Coco decided to take some questions today from fans who posted to his Facebook page. About 90 percent of the questions consisted of something along the lines of "Who will be your first guest?" but the other 10 percent contained some of the most ridiculous questions that only the internet could provide. After scouring through over 2000 questions, we found 20 favorites -- and yes, let's hope that Conan decides to answer every single one of these.
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