At the TCA panels in Beverly Hills a few weeks ago, Movieline talked with Dana Delany (the erstwhile Desperate Housewives star who toplines the new ABC medical examiner drama Body of Proof) about three of our favorite things: dealing with dead bodies, losing on Celebrity Jeopardy!, and her choicest film scene of all time.
How's your TV gaydar? If you had Trevor Donovan's Teddy fingered for the mystery gay coming out on 90210 this season, the actor just confirmed it over Twitter: "Acceptance, by family, friends, society and self is just one of the concerns the character will be going through. It is a part of life, and it should be portrayed. I was told, and am confident the storyline will be written very well and the change in the character will be organic, NOT overnight. It's going to be a great season 3." I kind of preferred his tweet from the day before: "choose ur outfit with great care every day, because if today is the day you become a zombie, those r the clothes you'll be wearing forever." [Twitter]
Danielle Staub may or may not be invited back for the third season of the Real Housewives of New Jersey, but Bravo's Garden State cast still has a few more Staub-heavy episodes left in its sophomore year. Like last night's installment, which featured three Jersey Girls traipsing around their hilly homeland of Italy in stilettos, whining about their husbands and then getting drunk off of homemade wine in a pig slaughter house. Really. Meanwhile, possible evictee Danielle Staub enlisted a sleazy private eye with a basement office to track down her birth mother.
While most of the network late night players were on vacation last night, Nanny McPhee star and scribe Emma Thompson charmed Jon Stewart at the Daily Show while badmouthing her country's most beloved fictional nanny. Meanwhile, Stephen Colbert voiced his (character's) anti-gay views, Stewart got to the bottom of the nation's mosque-mania and Aubrey Plaza recalled her days getting drunk on the job.
Also in this morning's TV Bites: Are We There Yet? will be around for a long time... an Entourage star heads to 90210... ABC won't yank the football away from Charlie Brown... and more ahead.
Showtime's most fatale femme Nancy Botwin returns tonight for the sixth season of Weeds, though it's an iteration that even most fans will gently admit is past its prime. Maybe this once-sharp series should have ended somewhere around the time when Nancy ratted out her lover -- who also happened to be the drug and gun-smuggling Mayor of Tijuana -- to the DEA. Or maybe it should have ended when Silas started sleeping with a 30-year-old cheese shop owner in Ren-Mar. Or maybe it could have concluded at any point between the time when Shane started masturbating to photos of his mother and the time when he lost his virginity in a goth threesome?
If you've seen The Expendables or Eat Pray Love, then you no longer wonder why you pay that exorbitant cable bill -- new doesn't mean adequate or bearable. Movies are 120 years of rampaging stuff, not just this moment's passing bulldozer. This week: Surrealism, Romanians, Ann Sheridan, Hitler-assassination films devised while WWII raged on, and more. TiVos at the ready...
There's a moment at the end of the pilot episode of The Big C when Cathy Jamison (Laura Linney), finally reveals her previously pent up mixed emotions in the face of a stage 4 melanoma diagnosis. It's a wonderful little monologue from a wonderful actress... and that it's recited to a dog should tell you all you need to know about the major structural flaws of The Big C.
Remember back in April when Conan O'Brien announced that he would be heading to TBS to host an untitled show at 11 PM? Well, it's four months later and the pompadoured one still hasn't christened his cable program with an actual name. Rather than wait around for the network suits to come up with a potential moniker -- we saw how that turned out for The Cul de Sac Neighborhood, er, Cougar Town -- we are enlisting you, dear readers, to submit ideas.
Laura Linney debuts tonight in the Showtime series The Big C, which was formerly called The C Word. You'll note that the new title carries fewer dubious associations.
The second season of Jersey Shore is addictive, yes, but with its staged party and work environments, the MTV series is proving to be a set-up that can't last forever. It's time to plan for the future: Which of these eight gyrating guidos and guidettes could handle a spinoff?
Just two months after Dina Manzo left The Real Housewives of New Jersey, rumor has it that Bravo programming executive Andy Cohen might be reorganizing his Garden State collection one more time. Have your grain of salt, ripped weaves, and broken heels at the ready as we tell you who might be leaving next.
John Stamos will join the cast of Glee as Emma Pillsbury's new love interest this fall, but years ago, creator Ryan Murphy had different plans for the Full House alum. "Ryan wanted me to play a male hooker," Stamos said this morning during an On Air With Ryan Seacrest interview. "I'll never forget, I was sitting in The Ivy, [and Ryan said], 'I've got a show for you! Male hooker, and you have sex with the guys and the girls and you fix their marriages!'" If only Stamos had taken that project instead of Jake in Progress. Collective sigh. [E!]
At last night's Breakthrough of the Year Awards presented by Crest 3D White and sponsored by Sensa and RealD at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, Sofia Vergara and Rose Byrne chatted with us about their Emmy nominations and played Movieline's favorite parlor game, My Favorite Scene.
Last night's episode of True Blood served mainly to move some chess pieces (and vampire viscera) around before the final run of episodes, but it was not without its pleasures, as well as the return of a fan favorite. Still, can this slow-burn of an hour rate highly on the sex and violence meters? Let's take a look:
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