Archive: February 2010 (311-320 of 489)

Feb 9 2010 04:01 PM ET

Kevin Alejandro talks about going from 'Southland' cop to 'True Blood' vamp

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Categories: Television, True Blood, Ugly Betty, Vampires

Where you know Kevin Alejandro from is a kind of Rorschach Test for your TV viewing habits: To you, he may be Hilda’s late husband Santos on Ugly Betty, or Celia’s passive-aggressive Mexican kidnapper on Weeds, or gangland police detective Nate Moretta on Southland. And now he’s juggling two cable favorites with TNT rebooting the formerly-on-NBC Southland and HBO’s True Blood hiring him as a new love interest for blood dealer/short-order cook/male prostitute Lafayette. He called us from the set of the steamy vampire drama — which returns for season 3 this summer — to chat about fighting gang warfare (which comes to a head on tonight’s Southland, at 10 p.m. on TNT) and wooing Bon Temps’ vampiest multitasker.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How has Southland‘s switch from NBC to TNT been?
KEVIN ALEJANDRO: We’re finally at a place where everyone understands the show we’re trying to make and we can make it our way. They seem to understand it a little better. They’re a little edgier.

Does that mean more swearing and nudity?
I’m not sure about that. But there will be a lot more rawness. READ FULL STORY »

Feb 9 2010 03:06 PM ET

Dolph Lundgren must have really wanted to be part of PopWatch On Ice

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Categories: Horrifying But Hypnotic, Middle-Aged Butt-Kicking, Ouch! That Was My Ear!, PopWatch Dance Party, PopWatch on Ice, Ridiculata, The Bad Man Scares Me!

Here is an odd song/dance/feats of strength obstacle course, performed by Dolph Lundgren on the Swedish show Melodifestivalen. Wait, no. It would be much better if I let Lost producer (and EW confidant) Damon Lindelof introduce the following crazy in 140 characters or less: This morning, I awoke wondering what Dolph Lundgren is up to these days. Your answer, friends:

Well, Dolph, after witnessing the wonder that occurred at 3:00, we have no choice but to grant your wish. Dolph, you are now a platinum member of EW.com’s exclusive PopWatch On Ice…society clique…thing. Mandi, an overly excited Scott Hamilton, Johnny Weir, commenter Jenn, and I are happy to have you! Here is your stamp of approval. You fought to win for you, for you, and it has once again paid off!

Annie on Twitter: @EWAnnieBarrett

Feb 9 2010 02:50 PM ET

'CSI: Miami' in space: Don't worry, the commercial was better than the episode

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Categories: About Last Night, Television

If you caught the commercial for last night’s CSI: Miami during Sunday’s Super Bowl, thought about tuning in because the murder-in-space case looked potentially awesome but missed the show, relax. You didn’t miss much. Space tourism was an interesting set-up: A man falls from the sky and Horatio and Co. determined that he was a passenger on a private spaceflight along with a fictional B-grade action star and two pilots. But David Caruso and his sunglasses did not ride the fictional Vomit Comet. (It would have been amazing to watch him try to remain in control, right?) Instead, the harness work was left to Eddie Cibrian and Omar Miller, who needed to recreate zero gravity conditions to match the blood spatter. (Two questions: Why wouldn’t CSI have looked for blood splatter the first time they visited the spacecraft, and why couldn’t Cibrian wear a shirt that oops! kept coming off in zero-g?) READ FULL STORY »

Feb 9 2010 02:17 PM ET

'24' movie: Could it work?

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Categories: 24, This Could Be Interesting...

Jack Bauer has the same initials as James Bond and Jason Bourne. Soon, he might be joining them on the big screen: The long-rumored 24 movie is moving closer to being a reality, reports EW’s Lynette Rice, with State of Play screenwriter Billy Ray in talks to write the script. Kiefer Sutherland has indicated that the film would keep the show’s all-in-one-day conceit but would ditch the real-time, allowing Jack to, say, fly from Serbia to London without the viewer suffering six episodes of bad airplane food.

Personally, I’ve got mixed feelings about the potential movie. Few TV shows feel so laser-welded to the television medium as 24. It’s right there in the title: 24 hours, the length of a complete TV season, with commercial breaks. Then again, the 24 franchise could use a little jolt: ratings are down this season, and the move to New York hasn’t stopped the show from feeling a few seasons past its prime. (Although, counter-opinion, my mother still loves it.) READ FULL STORY »

Feb 9 2010 01:59 PM ET

Clip du jour: Beaker's Ballad

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Categories: Clip du Jour, Muppets, Music + Comedy = Good Thing?

Yay, a Muppet video! Come for the sad Beaker noises, stay for the joke about Digg:

It’s no “Bohemian Rhapsody,” but it’s still pretty cute, right, PopWatchers?

Feb 9 2010 01:32 PM ET

Colin Farrell, I belatedly salute you! (and I want to see 'Ondine')

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Categories: Movie Trailers, Movies

I was never much of a Colin Farrell fan when he was a generic action-film star, with all those icky tabloid stories to boot. And his Alexander wasn’t going to set him up for any lifetime achievement awards. But I’ve really been impressed by him in several recent roles – starting with the overlooked brilliance of In Bruges. He was a great charmer as one of the Heath Ledger fill-ins in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, and as I’ve already written, he was perfect as the pretty boy new-country crooner in Crazy Heart. I’m feeling guilty that I ever doubted him.

Up next is Ondine, which has signs of greatness: It’s a modern-day fairytale/romance/drama directed by the great Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, Michael Collins), and Farrell gets to use his own Irish accent. I’m equally excited for him to play another Irishman, with Cillian Murphy, in the forthcoming At Swim, Two Birds.

Who else wants to see Ondine? Anyone else had a change of heart about Mr. Farrell over the years?

Feb 9 2010 01:21 PM ET

Tame Colbert/Fallon elevator scuffle makes us long for Colbert/Conan/Stewart face-off of yore

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Categories: Late Night, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Ridiculata, Shenanigans!, Television, The Colbert Report

Before shooting his own show yesterday, Stephen Colbert dropped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to talk about the Colbert Nation-sponsored U.S. speedskating team and how well he had assimilated into Grammy culture. He also raised beef with Jimmy because Glamour magazine readers had voted they’d like to “Do” Jimmy Fallon, “Dump” Conan O’Brien, and “Marry” Stephen Colbert. “I don’t care if Jimmy Fallon is ‘totes hot,’” Colbert whined on the Report, “Marriage is a sacred trust!” Colbert also seems to have an easier rapport with his own director Jimmy than his totes hot rival Jimmy. So it only made sense that the awkward tension between the two late-night hosts would come to a slow simmer in a 30 Rock elevator. They casually work out their aggression on hidden cam with about 1:30 left in the clip below. (Part 1 of their interview is here.)

Way too tame! We loved that the elevator scuffle reminded us of the Colbert/Conan/Stewart Brawl and Dance-Off combo platter of 2008, but upon linking back to our coverage of it, realized the NBC video no longer exists. You can find it on YouTube but in bizarre user-generated “music video” formats. Here’s one, set to “Your Guts (I Hate ‘Em) by Reel Big Fish. Better than nothing, P-dubs?

Annie on Twitter: @EWAnnieBarrett

Feb 9 2010 01:19 PM ET

'Be Good Johnny Weir': 'I was a taller girl too, once'

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Categories: Awwwwww So Cuuuuuute, Fa-fa-fa-fa-fashion, PopWatch on Ice, Reality TV, Ridiculata

I’ve finally hopped on the Be Good Johnny Weir bandwagon/Zamboni machine, just in time for the Olympics. The Sundance Channel reality show followed Weir, a member of Vancouver’s Team U.S.A. along with Jeremy Abbott and Evan Lysacek, as he prepared for the 2009 training season. Anyone familiar with Johnny Weir knows that he is possibly the most ridiculous diva ever to be served on ice. I realized during last night’s new episode that I love him.

He truly sealed the deal as he was filmed teaching a seminar to kids in Long Island. Memories of Weir’s catty initial response to his agent, Tara: “I love children, but Long Island?” melted away as he was clearly devoted to sharing not only his skating prowess but a general love of the sport and (awwwww) confidence! This tall girl (the one who is typing and the one in the picture) almost choked up when Johnny empathized after she fell during a double axel attempt: “You’re a taller girl. Like, I was a taller girl too, once.” Ahhhh! His inspirational bent continued as he addressed a group of young girls: “Don’t be scared ever to fall down…. It’s like, you have to fall to be able to land, so just go for it.” He better take that dose of his own medicine in Vancouver!

See my other favorite (and more salacious) sound bites from last night’s BGJW — and watch a clip of Johnny on HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel talking about the misconception of figure skating as a “gay sport” — after the jump. READ FULL STORY »

Feb 9 2010 12:46 PM ET

'Heroes' recap: The best season never

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Categories: Heroes, Television, TV Recap

The fourth season of Heroes ended not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a collective synchronized shrug. You could see everyone involved with the show – the actors, the writers, the cameraman who’s developed a nasty shoulder tilt after a season of those nauseating carnival camera angles – join all together, raise their shoulders, and mumble “Meh” under their breath. Until the very last scene, I thought this might be the first episode of Heroes with truly no redeeming value whatsoever. Even the worst show about superpowers is bound to be interesting, even if it just accidentally trips over “interesting” on the long road to “awful.” READ FULL STORY »

Feb 9 2010 12:30 PM ET

'Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains': Who's overrated? The players give their picks on who doesn't deserve to be there.

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Categories: EW Exclusive Video, EW.com Video, Reality TV, Survivor

We all enjoy playing armchair quarterback, right? Like me, I’m sure there are certain people you think don’t deserve to have been chosen to appear again on Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains. But whom do the players themselves think is overrated and hadn’t rightfully earned their place? Well, we asked them! Some were too nice and diplomatic to answer the question. Others (like Cirie, J.T., Sandra and Tyson) let it fly. And then there is Courtney, who gave an answer that only Courtney could give. Click on the video below to see for yourself. Check back every day this week for exclusive behind-the-scenes video of Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains. (You can also find interviews with all of the players at our super snazzy Survivor video hub.)  And to have all the latest Survivor scoop sent directly to you, follow me on Twitter @EWDaltonRoss. Now, check the video to see who the Survivors say doesn’t deserve to be on Heroes vs. Villains.

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