Each day, from now until next Sunday’s Primetime Emmy Awards telecast, we’ll be posting polls about the major races. Pretend you’re an Emmy voter (or, if the choices strike you as too terrible, go vote in EW.com’s third annual EWwy Awards — our totally edgy alternative Emmys based on readers’ suggestions for who really deserves to win the trophies). Up today: REALITY. Deal with it! READ FULL STORY »
Archive: August 2010 (171-180 of 533)
Aug 20
2010
08:12 PM ET
'Get your trousers on, you're nicked!': Why I can't wait to see Ray Winstone in 'The Sweeney'
Image Credit: Everett CollectionMy British heart filled with joy today, when I read in the Hollywood Reporter that the big screen revamp of ’70s U.K. cop show The Sweeney is back on track with Ray Winstone attached to star.
For those of you unfamiliar with The Sweeney—which I’m going to assume is pretty much everyone—it starred the late, great John Thaw as Jack Regan, a member of London’s Flying Squad, or “Sweeney,” which specializes in armed robbery and violent crime. Unlike so many of his U.S. TV cop peers, Regan didn’t have a gimmick, unless drinking a lot and throwing around uncooperative perps counts. And while American TV producers liked their buddy cops mismatched—anyone remember Holmes & Yo-Yo? The guy’s partner was an android!—Regan’s sidekick, played by Dennis Waterman, shared most of the character traits of his boss. Best of all, Jack Regan was given to uttering the kind of ripe dialog ideal for repetition in the school playground, such as “Get your trousers on, you’re nicked!” and, most famously, “We’re the Sweeney son, and we haven’t had any dinner!”
Aug 20
2010
07:13 PM ET
'Big Brother': Evicted Kathy dishes about the Diamond Power of Veto, Saboteur, Zingbot 3000 and more delicious absurdity (i.e. Rachel)
Image Credit: Sonja Flemming/CBS
“Floaters, grab a life vest!” Turns out the only thing 40-year-old sheriff Kathy Hillis was grabbing was the doorknob on her way out of the Big Brother house. (ZING!) Undone by the Diamond Power of Veto, Kathy didn’t even have time to pack a bag before being unceremoniously booted out of the house. What are her thoughts on her sudden eviction? Who was her main ally? And what the hell is a Zingbot? She answers all in our video interview below. Also discussed: Whom she thinks the Saboteur is, her overall suckiness in challenges, and sharing a Jury House with everyone’s (least) favorite cocktail waitress/chemist, Rachel. So without further ado, open your own personal Pandora’s Box by clicking on the video below to see freshly-evicted Kathy in all her voted-out glory! And for more Big Brother news and views, follow me on Twitter @EWDaltonRoss.
Aug 20
2010
05:51 PM ET
'Modern Family' exec producer knocks Hulu on Twitter
Image Credit: Kevin Parry/Getty ImagesLate Wednesday night, Steve Levitan, the co-creator and exec producer of Modern Family, set off a Twitter dialogue (tweet-alogue?) that’s still burning today. The topic? Reports of a future IPO for Hulu, which seem to have Levitan none-too-pleased. Levitan wrote “Some estimate Hulu IPO could bring in $2Bil. What will the content providers get? Zero. What is Hulu without content? An empty jukebox.” This isn’t the first time Levitan has spoken out against online television: At TCA earlier this month, he told reporters that he’d lobbied unsuccessfully for Modern Family episodes to be removed from Hulu and ABC.com so the Nielsen ratings for the show would better reflect total viewership. Yesterday, Levitan followed up his original tweet to clarify that he wasn’t dissing Hulu viewers: “To be clear, I value every single one of our viewers, no matter how you watch, I just want you to be counted…. We need a ratings system that counts all viewers on every format: TV, DVR, Hulu, iTunes, iPad Player, network websites, etc.” Bones creator Hart Hanson chimed in, “If I see @stevelevitan today I’m going to find a step-ladder and kiss him on the lips,” while TV By the Numbers’ Robert Seidman wrote that Levitan was “ignorant” about how ratings really work. It’s easy to get lost in the technical thicket of ratings and viewership, but I, for one, find the intra-party arguing kind of fascinating, if only because we really are waiting to see the future of television play out. I’ve always watched Modern Family online, and it would be a drag if it was suddenly unavailable, but I also understand Levitan’s view that the series doesn’t get all the credit it has coming. Do you sympathize with him at all? Or do you think you deserve your online experience and that the television industry just needs to catch up?
Aug 20
2010
05:27 PM ET
Introducing the PopWatch Rewind! Week 1: 'Jaws 3-D'
Image Credit: Everett CollectionWelcome to the first installment of PopWatch Rewind, where we take a leisurely stroll through the great big Hollywood Video of the past. Each week, we’ll pick a different movie from years ago pegged to something recent. It won’t always be a classic film, or even a decent one, but it’ll always be interesting. We hope.
It’s just like a book club, except instead of Anne Rice and The Help, it’ll be Steven Seagal and Short Circuit. We’ll let you know what movie we’re planning on discussing a week ahead of time, to give you ample opportunity to watch it yourselves, then we’ll meet back here every Friday to talk about it. Of course, we’d prefer it if you saw it on VHS, but LaserDisc or Betamax is also fine.
Okay, let’s hit play, shall we?
In honor of the release of Piranha 3D, this week’s pick is that grand-daddy of screen-popping, big fish tales: Jaws 3-D. Starring Dennis Quaid before he knew better and Lou Gossett Jr. when he didn’t really care, this big bucket of chum isn’t the worst Jaws sequel, or the last, but it’s close. And if you fondly or not-so-fondly remember this movie, please by all means jump on into the comments section, the water’s fine.
Keith Staskiewicz: First off, I have a huge phobia of sharks. As a kid I didn’t live near the ocean, but I would still have these nightmares about people transporting a shark to an aquarium via helicopter. As they flew over my house, the buckle would break on the harness, and the shark would come flying through the air, living just long enough so that its mouth could continue moving as it shot through my bedroom ceiling. I had issues. But for some reason, the Jaws movies never really scared me that much. I think it’s because the sharks always looked so fake. READ FULL STORY »
Aug 20
2010
04:01 PM ET
The search is on for a Google movie
Image Credit: John Macdougall/AFP/Getty ImagesStep aside, Facebook movie! Make room for the Google movie! According to Deadline.com’s Mike Fleming, Ken Auletta’s book Googled: The End of the World as We Know It will become a film. The now-familiar story of Sergey and Larry starting out as Sanford Ph.D students is a classic, I guess — basic premise: nerds make good; get really, really rich — but what is the end of the movie? Google’s story is far from complete; every few weeks there’s a new product or position that shifts the company’s place in the public consciousness. Is Google a good guy or a bad guy? Does anyone even know? Can this movie be nuanced enough to let it be neither?
Broad thematic questions aside, I’m always wary of how Hollywood thinks computers work. I’m assuming scenes about data storage will look like the neon cityscape in Hackers, that at some point someone will “enhance” something, and we’ll see an über-programmer staring at a screen full of binary code (preferable in green-on-black). Those are the rules.
So, PopWatchers, are you feeling lucky? Ready for a Google biopic?
Aug 20
2010
03:39 PM ET
Gordon Ramsay on 'The Tonight Show': Did he bug you, too?
To say Gordon Ramsay, the chef/host on Fox’s Hell’s Kitchen and Masterchef, is a sweet gentleman is like saying Sofia Vergara is a homely woman with a dumpy wardrobe. Clearly both are false: Ramsay’s MO is a mixture of screaming, profanities, and screaming profanities, while Vergara is Modern Family‘s hot-to-trot sexy mama. So when the two came together as guests on last night’s Tonight Show (a rerun of an episode I missed a few weeks back), it was a bit jarring to see classic Ramsay behavior. Instead of being mildly amused by his attitude, I was full-out annoyed. Between making sexual references toward Vergara, making fun of her son’s name, and at one point “playfully” slapping Vergara (1:42 in the second clip), I was really turned off. And yes, I’m glad Jay Leno stepped in to defend the actress, but he didn’t help the situation all that much. Was making fun of Vergara’s accent (“coooookies”) the best he could think of? Take a gander at the interview in the clip below.
Aug 20
2010
03:25 PM ET
Glamour UK's 50 Sexiest Men of 2010: Why do women of England hate Alexander Skarsgard?
Image Credit: Tina Gill/PR Photos; Charles Norfleet/PR PhotosGod bless the slow summer months. It gives everyone, not just EW.com, home of the Sexy Beasts Bracket Game, time to focus on the important things: Like hot men. Results are in for Glamour.com UK’s 50 Sexiest Men of 2010. Robert Pattinson topped the list, edging out fellow Twilight star Taylor Lautner and The Vampire Diaries‘ Ian Somerhalder. This seems to suggest Damon Salvatore making it to our Sexy Beasts final was not a fluke; find out next Thursday if he or Pattinson took the title. In the meantime, let’s take a closer look at Glamour’s list. READ FULL STORY »
Aug 20
2010
02:30 PM ET
Lunchtime Poll: Get lost in a Reese's...quandary
I watch a lot of reality TV, so I often depend on Reese’s commercials to prompt some of my deeper thoughts. The latest, set to Loverboy’s “Working for the Weekend,” is a real stunner.
I take no issue with the notion that chocolate and peanut butter is the best combination since Saturday and Sunday. They were smart to use “best since” instead of something preposterous like “better than,” you know? I mean, I like chocolate peanut butter ice cream, but I love that it’s almost the weekend. (And it should go without saying that “I love my Prada backpack.”)
Suddenly a doomsday scenario struck my low-activity brain. What if I could only enjoy ONE of these four elements — each of which I consider to be just as important as earth, air, water, or fire — for the rest of time? It was too much to process and I don’t want to bum you out, so instead vote below for which element you could potentially live ***without.***
If you think you have a beter combination than either chocolate/peanut butter or Saturday/Sunday, suggest it in the comments so everyone else can call you an idiot!
Read more: All Lunchtime Polls on PopWatch
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Aug 20
2010
01:20 PM ET
Fishy Business: The behind-the-scenes story of the 'Piranha' movies (Part III)
The story so far: Following the release of Jaws, legendary exploitation-movie producer Roger Corman hired fledgling director Joe Dante to direct a rip-off movie about small, killer fish. The result was 1978′s gore-drenched, but tongue-in-cheek Piranha, which cost less than $1 million to make and grossed around $14 million in the U.S. alone. The sequel, 1981′s Piranha II: The Spawning, was directed by first-time film-maker James Cameron. The future Avatar and Titanic auteur was fired midway through the film’s shoot in Jamaica, and the movie was not a commercial success. But this disappointing experience did inspire Cameron to write his breakthrough movie, Terminator. READ FULL STORY »
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