Archive: June 2009 (61-70 of 438)

Jun 26 2009 12:00 PM ET

Today is 'Take Your Dog to Work Day'!

Categories: Animals, Happy Holidays

Today is Take Your Dog to Work Day, and while I don't think anyone here at PWHQ will be bringing a poochie to the office (much to my dismay), I do think this is a good reason to talk about the thousands of dogs who are no strangers to the nine-to-five: service animals!

So how come guide dogs and therapy animals are so underrepresented in film and TV? I was really into the book Follow My Leader as a kid (this is totally YA week at PopWatch apparently), but the only movie featuring service dogs other than Garden State I could find was Quill, a Japanese film about the cutest freaking puppy in the history of everything.

Anyway, that supernaturally adorable pup becomes a guide dog. (Warning: that clip will make you cry.)

What did I miss, PopWatchers? Can you think of other instances of service dogs in pop culture? Begin the list in the comments section below!

Jun 26 2009 11:00 AM ET

Hardee's disgusting Biscuit Holes ad: Beat this, Burger King!

Yesterday, Burger King stunned us all with its overtly phallic advertisement for its new Super Seven Incher sandwich. And just when you thought the bar was set too high (or low?) for any other fast food chain to hurl itself over the top, Hardee's strikes back with this:

Yes, you heard/saw right: The trash food chain is now shilling Biscuit Holes. Or, as the people in the spot renamed the new product at the behest of an annoying host: "creamy sweet holes," "hole munchers," and "dingle balls," among many other names. Because, as the ad says, "They sound wrong. But taste so right." That's seriously doubtful. Am I really supposed to be enticed to buy Biscuit Holes simply because they have a disgusting name? Honestly, I found yesterday's Burger King ad revolting in, as I said yesterday, an "I-love-trash kind of way." Maybe it's just that I've now hit my boiling point with such rubbish, but I'm over finding delight in garbage like this.

What do you think? Are Hardee's Biscuit Holes disgusting — or hilarious? Has advertising hit a new low?

Related on EW.com:
Burger King's Super Seven Incher ad: Subtlety is dead
Padma Lakshmi pitches burgers: Do you buy it?
Piers Morgan's Burger King ad: Shove it down your gob!

Jun 25 2009 09:44 PM ET

Jason Aldean & Bryan Adams on 'CMT Crossroads' = 'Heaven'

I know I'm a fan of Bryan Adams, Jason Aldean, and CMT Crossroads, but how do you watch the sneak peek below of CMT Crossroads: Bryan Adams and Jason Aldean, and not program your DVR to record it Friday night at 9 p.m. ET?

Jun 25 2009 08:38 PM ET

'Obama's Press Conferences': New fave catty reality show

I doubt any of you are too hard-up for another ultra-catty summer reality TV series, but I'd like to announce that I have a new favorite. It's called Obama's Press Conferences. It's airing all the time, y'all. Sometimes there are even repeats! Jump to 2:11 in the video below for the good stuff. This is way better than Teresa flipping over a table. Hey, press, ask him about his smoking some more. Do it. Do it!

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
Hard Corps
www.thedailyshow.com

Thanks to The Daily Show for selecting choice clips from this hot new summer series — and to Jon Stewart for amending the Z Snap to include an impressive four prongs.

Jun 25 2009 08:23 PM ET

Ashton Kutcher as a sexual grifter in 'Spread': Wouldn't you prefer Gale Harold?

Maybe it's because I think Brian Kinney would've loved the jacket-scarf combo Ashton Kutcher sports at the start of the new trailer for Spread — the film in which Kutcher stars as a "sexual grifter" who sleeps his way to the finer things in Los Angeles — but all I kept thinking watching it was, Why aren't you Gale Harold?* I fear that the movie won't be as dark and delicious as I want it to be. Instead, it'll be something Oxygen could play on a Saturday night after A Lot Like Love. Different, but still safe. What do you think? More Anne Heche, right?

* When I wasn't thinking Has Ashton's voice always been that low?, Nikki is sort of a stupid name, and Wow, that looks like the same house he shot that Nikon commercial in.

Jun 25 2009 07:47 PM ET

Clip du jour: Breckin Meyer parodies Perez Hilton

If you haven't seen Breckin Meyer's take on Perez Hilton's video detailing his altercation with will.i.am and Black Eyed Peas manager Liborio Molina, watch it below. With the help of Seth Green, Robot Chicken co-creator Matthew Senreich, and Robot Chicken co-head writer Tom Root, Meyer details an alleged altercation with Zac Efron, who makes a cameo. The guys also get in another cryptic plug for the Robot Chicken Skate Party Bus Tour, which we're told we'll get real details on next week…

"When all is said and done, the Robot Chicken Skate Party Bus Tour brings people together," Green tells PopWatch in an exclusive statement. "I saw Breckin and Zac skating together in the parking lot shortly after this video was taken. Not sure how thepaparazzi missed it."

Jun 25 2009 04:41 PM ET

Eddie Cibrian joins 'CSI: Miami', but let's talk about his Hallmark movie (and James Van Der Beek's)!

Categories: Television, Waiting

James-Van-Der-Beek-Eddie-Cibrian_l I'm still processing Eddie Cibrian being added to the cast of CBS' CSI: Miami next season as "an officer from the Hollywood division" who joins Horatio's team. And by "processing," I mean deciding whether I will now be forced to watch this show. I tend to enjoy him as a cop (The Starter Wife, Lifetime's Northern Lights), and I'm pretty sure it would make my DVR happy to record him and Nathan Fillion in Castle simultaneously….Crap. I'm watching CSI: Miami. Quick, someone talk me out of it.

Not up for debate: Whether or not I'm watching Cibrian's November Hallmark Channel movie Healing Hands. Behold the synopsis:

Buddy Hoyt (Eddie Cibrian) wants to be "somebody," but he’s just a janitor with an ordinary life and a fiancé, Alice (Lisa Sheridan), who likes him just the way he is. Buddy gets his wish after an accident when he is gifted with an ability to heal others. But life gets complicated when Buddy learns that fame isn’t everything it’s cracked up to be, and that he is draining his own energy every time he heals someone else – so much so, it may even kill him.

Yes, yes, and yes. I haven't been this eager to see a Hallmark original since I read about James Van Der Beek's.

DEBBIE MACOMBER’S 'MRS. MIRACLE’Premiering December 2009

Feeling in over his head when it comes to being a single dad to twin six-year-olds, Seth Webster (James Van Der Beek) is in desperate need of a nanny. And it may not be just coincidence when, just as the perfect housekeeper (Doris Roberts) shows up, other important things begin to fall into place as well. Mrs. Merkle — or ‘Mrs. Miracle,’ as the twins dub her — not only cooks and cleans, but wields a mighty snowball-throwing arm and always seems to know the right thing to do, which is just what this family needs.

Which are you most excited for: the new season of CSI: Miami, Healing Hands, or Mrs. Miracle? It's a tough call, I know.

Jun 25 2009 04:40 PM ET

Elsewhere on EW.com...

Ken Tucker remembers Farrah Fawcett as someone who "combined girl-next-door sexiness with an implied, can-do feminism."

Happy 25th anniversary, Purple Rain. That's the silver anniversary, FYI.

The Star Wars panel at Comic-Con will be televised. Because everyone is so pumped for Clone Wars stuff?

Ugly Betty! House! Scrubs! All that and more in this week's Ask Ausiello.

Johnny Depp says that he and Tim Burton will collaborate on an upcoming feature adaptation of the 1960s series Dark Shadows.

How was last night's So You Think You Can Dance?

Is the top down on your convertible? Because we've finally hit the top 25 greatest summer songs.

Zooey Deschanel introduces an exclusive clip from (500) Days of Summer.

Jun 25 2009 04:39 PM ET

Cameron Diaz's 'The Box' trailer: Are you button hooked?

The trailer for the upcoming Cameron Diaz/James Marsden movie The Box is out, and there are so many "outside the box" or "steps into the batter's box" puns to make that I simply cannot choose. BYO box pun.

The movie, based on the Richard Matheson short story, is about a mysterious stranger (rather than those totally explainable ones, you know how it goes) who offers Norma and her husband Arthur $1 million to push a weird button — which, he says, will kill someone they don't know. Push it? Don't? The human condition/greed/WWJD/where do buttons like that come from/etc then for about two hours.

Well, those are certainly some bodacious '70s costumes, and some equally bodacious Southern accents. I love a good Twilight Zone-style exploration of wickedness (the story was also adapted into an '80s ep of TZ), but I worry that there's not quite enough natural tension to sustain an entire feature. Also, when did Cameron Diaz start playing moms all the time? I feel so old.

What do you think, PopWatchers? Are you going to celebrate Boxing day?

Jun 25 2009 03:26 PM ET

Brandon McMillan visits 'Conan,' makes animals seem even more adorable

I'm not too interested in animals, but I am interested in attractive men who look super cozy in a simple heather grey tee while handling animals on TV. On last night's Tonight Show, Brandon McMillan, host of Animal Planet's Night, guided Conan O'Brien through the not-touching of a series of creatures until Conan finally found one who truly loved him. More specifically, it was a python and it truly loved massaging his crotch. Part 1 of McMillian's interview is below; Part 2 (during which Conan and Brandon perform the Flexed Arm Hang on an elephant's tusks) is available here.

It's oddly comforting to see that the design on the bottom of a bear's paw really occurs in nature and not just on adorable teddy bears.

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