We had a feeling Alex Wong's prognosis was grim after that ACL injury he suffered in rehearsals, and when he didn't dance with the rest of the contestants at the top of the results show, our suspicions were confirmed: He's far too injured to continue competing on So You Think You Can Dance. Jesus, God, why? He was going to win this damn thing following a final match-up with Billy Bell, who would've pulled out all the stops and danced as 14 different cats (from tabby to tiger) in 60 seconds. Since that final duel is now impossible, let's revisit Alex Wong's best routine of the season and weep to our loved ones about his exquisite lines, touching commitment, and that time the wardrobe department made him wear a FUBU costume.
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In a way, Jay Leno not getting an Emmy nomination for his Tonight Show was probably best for his efforts to win back viewers affected by Conangate. Click through to watch phase one of Jay Leno's "I'm an Underdog Too!" campaign, as well as the other highlights you missed last night while bitterly reacting to your lack of Emmy nominations.
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· Good news, Pushing Daisies fans: Lee Pace has scored an HBO drama project that you could be watching within the next year. The pilot, which will be directed by Oscar-winner Kathryn Bigelow, centers on a "New York family as seen through the eyes of a charismatic, self-destructive Broadway composer (played by Tony winner Eddie Redmayne)." Pace and Redmayne will star opposite Hope Davis, Frank Langella, Patti LuPone and as of yesterday, Law & Order alum Linus Roache. [EW]
Starz hits Party Down while it's, um, canceled, NBC gives the gays some Today love, and more TV Bites after the jump.
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Big Brother returns to CBS tonight with a brand new conceit and 13 housemates who will soon have to talk to each other. Julie Chen will narrate the adventures as our trusty host, and hopefully the show waits until at least episode three or so before they bring back Chima. Here's hoping!
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Turns out that waiting for Jersey Shore's second season is going to be easy: MTV is tiding us over with the best season of The Real World in years. True, most of the fun comes complete with a few dollops of irony and contempt, but that's fine. Last night our non-hero Ryan continued to infuriate home viewing audiences with his eye-poppingly moronic yet exceptionally watchable shenanigans. Did you come up with 25 more of his most hateable traits like I did?
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You can bet that NBC publicists thought long and hard this morning how to handle Conan O'Brien's Emmy nomination for The Tonight Show. Instead of ignoring their former employee's success, they waited until media outlets asked them for a response, then offered the following half-hearted pat on the back: "We congratulate Conan and all our nominees on their creative accomplishments and their deserved nominations." [THR]
One thing left unexplored on this Emmy Nomination Day is the EGOT, the extremely rare phenomenon that occurs when an entertainer wins an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. (Ironically, though the EGOT got its biggest spotlight ever thanks to Tracy Morgan's recent obsession with it on 30 Rock, he wasn't nominated for his role this season.) Here are the 2010 Emmy nominees who could get one step closer to attaining the Showbiz Award Grand Slam that has only been claimed by a dozen performers ever.
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I'm hard to please, I know, but reality shows just won't interest me until they actually involve outright homicide, like they do in movies. You know, Death Race 2000 (just out on Blu-ray!), Rollerball, Battle Royale, ad infinitum. I guess until that happens we'll just have to be satisfied with the simulacra, including Daniel Minahan's forgotten mock-doc Series 7: The Contenders, on demand...
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Clasp your hands over your mouth and mutter something incoherent about Jesus, because tragedy hit So You Think You Can Dance this week. Alex Wong, the heavily favored contestant and candidate for Dance Emperor, busted his Achilles tendon while rehearsing a high-flying Bollywood routine. It gets worse: Because he couldn't perform last night, he's relegated to tonight's bottom three dancers. If he's not well enough to dance this evening, the judges have no choice but to throw his injured body into the street. You heard it right, Alex Wong stands a very good chance of elimination tonight, and he didn't even drop his dance partner like Robert did. We're in hell! Before our emotions get the best of us, let's analyze the remaining dancers' work from last night and trade secrets about who has the nicest bone structure.
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ABC has broken up Emmy Nomination Day by announcing its premiere schedule for this autumn. Nearly all of the season's shows debut during the week of September 20, with the new Michael Imperioli cop drama Detroit 1-8-7 premiering September 21, r Emmy nominee Modern Family returning September 22, and Grey's Anatomy beginning its seventh season on September 23. For the full schedule, click here. [Deadline]
Considering that Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter called one-time NYC Hells Angels president Chuck Zito a "delusional bitch," it goes to reason that he wouldn't have the kindest words for the Emmy voters after they completely snubbed his series this morning. And sure enough, he didn't: "They are lazy sheep," Sutter wrote in a scathing blog post. Predictably, he didn't stop there -- but Mariska Hargitay, you may want to cover your ears.
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Welcome to what has become an annual jamboree at Movieline: a review of actors who pretended to sleep in, turn off their phone, or duck into the greenhouse during the Emmy nominations. We base this exercise on two important tenets: 1) Actors love receiving adulation, and 2) Actors love receiving adulation in front of everyone. There's no excuse to miss Sofia Vergara's giggly announcement, Jim Parsons, you vainglorious man! Let's sniff out the biggest liars from THR's roll of nominee reactions.
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ESPN executives have assured viewers that tonight's LeBron James prime-time free-agency special, The Decision, does not violate the network's policy of not paying for interviews. This, despite James's marketing company selling the ads (for charity, it announced). Be advised: James is expected to deliver his big announcement within the first 10-15 minutes of the hour-long show, which begins at 9 ET. That's great news for Cavaliers fans; the earlier they can get to drinking in the post-LeBron era, the better. [THR]
Last night on the Colbert Report, the host's former fellow Daily Show correspondent Steve Carell dropped by to promote two movies (Dinner With Schmucks and Despicable Me), insult Stephen Colbert and debut his (hopefully) new Comedy Central program, The Carell Corral. Click through those segments as well as the other highlights you missed last night while praying for an Emmy nomination.
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No matter how much goodwill the Emmy Awards engendered by nominating Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton for Friday Night Lights, when Tony Shalhoub is still hearing his name called for Monk, you know there must have been some snubs. Here now are the Movieline-approved five most egregious. Set your outrage level to apoplectic and click ahead to witness the carnage.
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