I have long held that George Costanza is the most tragic character in contemporary American art. Perhaps now, thanks to this recut of Seinfeld into a tragic/heartwarming movie, more people will agree with me: READ FULL STORY »
Archive: April 2010 (21-30 of 677)
Apr 30
2010
12:27 PM ET
'Chuck' fans plan SOS flash mobs. Have you ever tried to save a favorite show?
Image Credit: Mitchell HaasethApparently last year’s Subway sandwich campaign wasn’t enough. Because, as you might have guessed, NBC’s geek action adventure series Chuck is on the bubble yet again. This time, though, fans aren’t using silly cold cuts and squeezy-bottle mayonnaise to save their show—nope, instead they’re planning flash mobs! Chuck fans are set to gather, all dressed in the Buy More-style clothing of the show (see Zac Levi’s apparel, at left), and stage themed rallies in Chicago, Seattle, San Diego, and Philadelphia on Monday. The idea was hatched by Chuck fansite, ChuckTV.net, which also launched the Subway-based “Finale and a Footlong” campaign last season.
Talk about extreme measures, Chuck fans. Part of me wonders if every show—remember the save Jericho effort, which found fans sending zillions of pounds of nuts to CBS—should only get one such save-our-show campaign? Because it seems like this plan, even if it does succeed to save the show for another season, is only staving off the inevitable, which is cancellation.
But based on this news, I wanna hear from you: What have you done to save your favorite shows? Anything? Network deliveries? Demonstrations? Some sort of ritual sacrifice? Or maybe just a strongly-worded email? Lemme know below… I bet you all have good stories.
Tanner on Twitter: @EWTanStransky
Apr 30
2010
11:51 AM ET
'The Real Housewives of New York' recap: Special Delivery!
Image Credit: BravoI love the way Bethenny pretended not to know how to log on to Perez Hilton. If I believed her ignorance for half a second, I would applaud it — the fewer people who know or care, the better off humanity will be. But this woman is a shrewd public figure, who has parlayed a choice turn in a reality TV show into a best-selling brand. Girl knows her way around a gossip site. All that said, how could one not feel terribly sorry at the way her happy news was announced so prematurely to the world? Her disbelief seemed genuine, and Jason’s anger and dismay may have been the most authentic emoting ever to go down on the franchise. He looked like he was going to pop with rage, pissed that there would no longer be a joyous and intimate dinner with his parents. Bethenny, somewhat confusingly, decided she had to come out with the news. (Why?) Perhaps Jason could get his parents to New York that evening? “I’m not inconveniencing my parents because of some asshole blogger,” he said. I’m liking this good guy more and more every week! READ FULL STORY »
Apr 30
2010
11:48 AM ET
'Anchorman 2' dead? Take our poll, tell us how you feel.
On his Twitter feed GhostPanther, Adam McKay, director and cowriter of Will Ferrell’s Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, has announced that Paramount and the producers could not agree on a budget for a sequel, and since the studio owns the rights to Anchorman, the film is dead unless someone has a change of heart. READ FULL STORY »
Apr 30
2010
11:12 AM ET
'Good Day New York': Would you like some soy j–––– to wash down that effing chicken?
How’s your Friday going so far? Assuming you didn’t refer to “soy [male secretion that starts with a 'j']“ on live TV, it’s probably going to go fine. After the jump, watch the fusilli news anchors at Fox’s Good Day New York take their best shot at trumping September’s “keep [making love to] that chicken” gaffe, which took place in the same studio. READ FULL STORY »
Apr 30
2010
11:02 AM ET
'Glee': Which cast member is gonna be the big-screen breakout?
Image Credit: Carin Baer/FoxNo doubt that all of you Gleeks out there saw the news announced today that Quinn Fabray—errr, rather, the actress who plays Quinn, Dianna Agron—just signed on as the star of I Am Number Four, an adaptation of young-adult sci-fi novels by James Frey (yes, that James Frey!) and Jobie Hughes. The story revolves around a bunch of aliens who, after being threatened by a rival species, have abandoned their home planet for earth. Agron plays a high school girl dating one of the aliens. The role in the decidedly up-market project, which finds Transformers‘ Michael Bay producing with Steven Spielberg, was apparently highly sought-after.
It’s no secret that the cast members of Glee—TV’s highest-rated freshman show and just about all anyone seems to talk about these days—are in demand. With Agron’s casting in Four, she’s the second Glee actor to land a high-profile movie gig. Finn (aka Cory Monteith) will be working on adventure comedy Monte Carlo with Leighton Meester, Katie Cassidy, and Selena Gomez in the coming months.
All of which brings me to my burning question based on this wind-up: Who’s gonna be the big-screen breakout from Glee? If you’d asked me a few months ago, I’d have said Lea Michele without question—she seems to have that “it” factor and the drive to make something big out of herself—but she hasn’t booked anything grand yet. Or, anything grand that she’s ready to announce yet. Could Monteith or Agron be the future big-screen breakout? Maybe Chris Colfer or Amber Riley? My personal vote is for Santana, aka Naya Rivera, who I think would be great in a Mean Girls- or Heathers-esque teen comedy. Right? Agree, disagree, or try on your own casting-director hat in the comments below!
Tanner on Twitter: @EWTanStransky
Apr 30
2010
10:39 AM ET
'Bones' recap: Rockin' and rollin' and whatnot
Image Credit: Greg Gayne/Fox I debated titling this recap “Testicle Festival,” but since we never found out what caused the victim — a rich poser at a rock & roll fantasy camp, murdered by a fellow camper — to have a prosthetic gonad, it didn’t feel right.
For me, the fantasy camp fell a little flat — I didn’t know the guy playing famous guest guitarist Erik Dalton was Josh Todd from Buckcherry. I just sorta thought he looked like Carey Hart. Nor did I understand how cool it was that Michael Des Barres played the camp’s frontman, Simon Graham, until I looked him up online. So basically, I’m about as uncool as Bones here, and I get that. All that was left for me to appreciate was the comedy of Booth wearing the dolphin tie the marine biologist gave him around his head and Brennan strapping on a guitar (it’s not dissimilar to some tribal lute she learned how to play once) to sing “Hot Blooded,” which we all remember as their song from the season 1 episode “Two Bodies in the Lab.” That’s the one in which someone was trying to kill Brennan, so Booth went to her apartment to watch over her and discovered that she has no TV (of course I would remember that), but that she did own a music collection that includes Foreigner. After their air session on “Hot Blooded,” Booth went to the fridge to get a drink and it blew up, putting him in the hospital. After hitching a ride in Hodgins’ tiny car, Booth ended up rescuing Brennan from a dirty FBI agent (Adam Baldwin), and they shared that embrace. Then Brennan went to visit a shirtless Booth (of course I would also remember that) back at the hospital, and instead of going on her date with the guy she’d been chatting with online and on the phone, she stayed with him. READ FULL STORY »
Apr 30
2010
09:26 AM ET
'The Office' recap: Our funny friends, the Caucasians
Image Credit: Chris Haston/NBCWell, this was an exciting week in the Officeverse, eh? I’m not talking about last night’s episode, which was a straightforward and funny outing; I mean the news that Steve Carell is maybe kind of sort of thinking about leaving the Scranton branch after next season. The knowledge of that notionally earth-shaking departure (which, admittedly, would be over a year away) added a hidden layer of depth to an otherwise easygoing episode. Did anyone else get a bit of a brain-tingle when Darryl said, “Maybe one day I’ll be sitting in Michael’s chair?” READ FULL STORY »
Apr 30
2010
09:17 AM ET
Jeff Probst blogs 'Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains' episode 11
Image Credit: Monty Brinton/CBSTHE FALLOUT FROM LAST WEEK
Last week, Parvati played not one but two idols. Russell had no idea she had the second idol or he never would have given her his idol in the first place! You knew the fallout was going to come and the anticipation of it reminded me of my youth, growing up in the wheat fields of Kansas. READ FULL STORY »
Apr 30
2010
08:35 AM ET
'Vampire Diaries' recap: All is revealed
Image Credit: Bob Mahoney/The CWI have a new favorite episode of The Vampire Diaries. This was the most fulfilling hour of what has been a consistently satisfying first season. And it shows no sign of stopping with the arrival of Isobel. I’m seriously sitting here wondering if my arms could fit around my TV, because I’d like to hug it.
Let’s begin with the story of how the Salvatore Brothers were turned. As Stefan detoxed/starved himself, he flashed back to the night that Katherine and the other vampires were captured and supposedly burned in the church. He and Damon found the vampire paddy wagon, created a distraction, and tried to free Katherine. Damon was shot, then Stefan. Both died. How did they become undead then? Well, Katherine had Emily make the brothers rings to protect them, and she’d been using compulsion to make Stefan drink from her for weeks. He died with her blood in his system, as did Damon, who we already knew drank from her willingly. Ever since we saw Vicki have to make the choice of whether to feed on human blood to complete the transformation or starve to death, I wondered how each brother made that decision. The guilt of choosing immortality is what made Stefan want to go hungry now. “No more. After what I’ve done, it has to end,” he told Elena. “I just want it over.” READ FULL STORY »
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