This week on cable, a rare appearance by the great American indie you've never heard of -- because it was due to open theatrically the week after 9/11. And didn't. Better late than never...
Friday Night Lights's fourth season comes to a close tonight, just a few weeks ahead of the Emmys when its stars Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton may win some much-deserved adulation. In the meantime, prepare for a snack for some gut-wrenching drama tonight. If you're a little lamer, Wife Swap is on too.
This morning, Investigation Discovery, a crime-based Discovery Network, told the Television Critics Association that it is developing a singing competition show set in prisons called Talent Behind Bars and a dancing competition show set in prisons called -- you guessed it -- Dancing Behind Bars with reality mega-producer Rob Burnett... and they were not kidding. Click through for more details about this crazy project.
Look at this guy. He thinks he can teach us about "infinity" and how it looks good when you turn it into a dress, or something. I'm serious. And that's the just the appetizer crack pipe in this strange, infuriating episode of Project Runway.
Well, would you look at that. The much-anticipated Lost epilogue, "The New Man In Charge," isn't due out for another two weeks -- the season six DVD doesn't hit stores until Aug. 24 -- but thanks to the magic of the Internet, it's already available to watch. The good ladies at Jezebel have unearthed the (sadly unembeddable) 11-minute clip, and it's... well, click ahead to find out. Spoilers, naturally.
Just this year, Eric Stonestreet has gone from a Kansas-born actor best known for a minor role on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation to an Emmy nominee on this year's most well-accepted -- and arguably, best -- comedy on television. As Cameron Tucker, the most flamboyant member of Modern Family, Stonestreet is often responsible for delivering the show's biggest laugh lines, a fact not lost on the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. When Movieline bumped into the actor earlier this week at the Beverly Hilton, he was quick to cite his plan for the night which includes meeting his favorite actress and delivering an award-worthy losing performance.
After a tortuous few weeks of eliminations, So You Think You Can Dance chose its Final Three last night. Who's going on to the finals? Who's going on to audition for Jason Derulo videos with the line "Fourth-place burnout" on his resume? Come with us to mourn the loser.
Whoever declared the "finger wag" -- that wave of the index finger that usually accompanies an "oh no you didn't" sentiment -- dead has never met Big Brother houseguest Rachel. She uses it each episode to scold other houseguests, uncooperative mirrors and anything that disobeys her tyrannical rule this season on CBS. Today, Movieline will borrow Rachel's annoying social cue and wave its own finger at three of last night's most repulsive players. Homewrecking aplenty after the jump.
After last week's inaugural Fresh-to-Death Report Card, I realized something about Jersey Shore: It is unfair to rank the Guidos. You can't place Snooki's talking-Chicken-McNugget antics ahead of Pauly D's ones-and-twos-mixing-thereupon. It's not right. This week we're assigning marks based on the Guido Credos of GTL, BPB, IFF (new this episode), and dramatic excellence. Who gets an A? An F? Grades are posted after the break.
With less than two months until the premiere of Blue Bloods, the new CBS drama is minus a showrunner thanks to Tom Selleck's creative differences with executive producer Ken Sanzel. A longtime showrunner on Numb3rs, Sanzel butted heads with Selleck over the character/procedural balance on the show, which is also being executive produced by CBS Corporation board member Leonard Goldberg. Selleck is reportedly hoping to bring in one of "his guys" to take over. [Deadline]
While promoting his film The Expendables on the Tonight Show, Mickey Rourke may have proved that his own life story -- full of humpbacked dwarfs, misfired weapons and attempted arson -- may be more exciting than any of his films. Meanwhile, Craig Ferguson tried to get Paris Hilton to read a book, Mark Wahlberg's revealed how his son was nearly killed by an octopus and Stephen Colbert ruined one man's same-sex marriage.
Also in this morning's TV Bites: David Geffen was almost an American Idol judge... Andie McDowell heads to television... How I Met Your Mother probably didn't just cast the mother... and more ahead.
It is the kind of story that Stephen Colbert would likely lampoon on his Comedy Central talk show: Online literary magazine reaches out for an interview with a political figure, does not hear back from said political figure, and creates a nine-page interview transcript of an interview with the political figure, hoping that he never finds out. Only this time, the story pits Stephen Colbert as the victim and Wag's Revue as the accused literary party. Click through for Revue's defense.
Star Trek cast member Nichelle Nichols revealed this week that she would have fled the Starship Enterprise after her first season had Martin Luther King Jr. not persuaded her otherwise. At a NAACP fundraiser, the Civil Rights hero told Nichols that "Gene Roddenbery had establish[ed] who [African Americans] were in the 23rd century." Furthermore, King told her that Star Trek was the only show he permitted his whole family to watch before adding, "You are part of history, and it's your responsibility, even though it wasn't your career choice." [LAT]
It's episode two, and already Jersey Shore is up to its Ed Hardy tees in confrontations. Which two Guidos/Guidettes will match wits? And will it compromise Pauly D.'s fresh-to-death mantra? The answer will ruin your life.
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