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Jul 31 2011 07:45 PM ET

'Big Brother': Who will be nominated for eviction tonight?

by Lanford Beard

Categories: Big Brother, Reality TV

Image Credit: Sonja Fleming/CBS

Hey there, Big Brother watchers. It’s Sunday, and you know what that means: Two more new players will be put up for nomination tonight. Thursday was a wacky night indeed. Dom’s ouster solidified the rookies’ waning power (if they ever had any in the first place), though the end of the pairs competition offered some hope for shifting alliances… or did it? So is there hope that anyone besides Brenchel or Jorff can win this thing, or is the only way forward simply to forestall the inevitable? What are you most excited to see tonight? What are you fed up with? Come here to discuss tonight’s show, and be sure to return later tonight to EW.com for the full recap. UPDATE: The nominations have been announced! The teammates put up for eviction this week are… READ FULL STORY »

Jul 31 2011 01:00 PM ET

'Spy Kids: All the Time in the World': Watch the premiere live!

by Kate Ward

Categories: Movies, On the Scene

Image Credit: Rico Torres

You likely do not have all the time in the world. But should you find yourself free this afternoon, we have a treat for you: Log onto NowLive’s Facebook page to watch a live stream of Spy Kids: All the Time in the World‘s premiere. The streaming begins now! But, sorry: Though Robert Rodriguez’s film boasts Smell-O-Vision, do not expect to be able to sniff stars Jeremy Piven and Jessica Alba from your computer. You’ll have to just see the movie for that.

Click here to begin the live stream!

Jul 30 2011 11:24 PM ET

Animal Planet's 'Help! I'm Becoming a Cat Lady!' special: 10 pitch-purrrfect sound bites

by Tanner Stransky

Categories: 100% Pure Cheese, About Last Night, Animals, Apropos of Nothing, Guilty Pleasure, Have You Seen This?, Reality TV, Television, Things That Are Awesome!

Saturday evening television programming is rather dismal, for the most part, but one gem stood out this past evening: Animal Planet’s superbly titled one-hour special Help! I’m Becoming a Cat Lady! How could you not tune in to something like that? While veiwing this special (which I’m told, if successful, will be spun into a series), I found myself cackling away as two experts — psychologist, life coach, and dating expert Alyson and beauty and fashion guru Anthony — helped the tragic and still relatively young Gina, who, without intervention, was headed toward total Cat Lady-dom. (Gina has two cats: Blue and Trinket. She’s pictured here with one of them.) It’s like What Not to Wear for Future Cat Ladies. In a word: Genius.

The best way for you to get the full, delicious flavor of the show is by a round-up of the best lines uttered by Gina and her makeover posse, Alyson and Anthony. With that edict, I could have just transcribed the entire hour, sure, but I restrained myself to these 10 purrrfect bites. Enjoy:

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Jul 29 2011 06:45 PM ET

Oprah Winfrey repackaging old talk show for OWN. Which 'Oprah Winfrey Show' episodes would you like to see again?

by Kate Ward

Categories: Oprah Winfrey, Television

The Oprah Winfrey Show might have ended this past May, but you didn’t really think you would escape one of your favorite things forever, did you? Of course not. So it only comes as somewhat of a surprise that the former talk show host and OWN CEO announced at TCA that she will repackage old shows on her new network in order to help viewers improve their lives. (The episodes will begin airing Oct. 10, she said.)

With that message, I’m guessing she fully intends on airing some of her more service-oriented, inspirational episodes — the series featuring the re-aired eps will be titled Own Your Life, after all — but this O fan is hoping we’ll episodes that only inspired us to say OMG. I’m talking the awkward Elizabeth Taylor interview. The seizure-inducing Pontiac G4 Favorite Things episode. The Tearing-James-Frey-Into-A-Million-Little-Pieces interview. The fat wagon. Really, any episode that doesn’t include the words “The“ and “Secret.” (If inspiration boards really worked, Rhonda Byrne, I’d be holding a kitten-unicorn hybrid while eating a whole wheel of brie and admiring how much I look like Olivia Wilde.)

But I want to turn this over to you, PopWatchers: What Oprah Winfrey Show episodes do you hope to see re-aired on OWN?

Jul 29 2011 06:10 PM ET

Neil Patrick Harris and Jayma Mays talk about shooting 'The Smurfs'

by Grady Smith

Categories: Awwwwww So Cuuuuuute, Movies, Neil Patrick Harris

The Smurfs may not be getting the most Smurfing reviews, but we’re finding that that the blue comedy is difficult to ignore completely — we just like Neil Patrick Harris and Jayma Mays too darn much!

So we sat down with the upbeat actors earlier this week to chat about The Smurfs, in which they play a married couple whose lives are thrown out of wack when an assortment of singing blue munchkins arrive in their apartment. Harris and Mays explained the complex process of shooting with the CGI creatures that weren’t really there, and they took a little time giving each other smurf names as well. Check out the video below:

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Jul 29 2011 05:40 PM ET

Twitter fail: When celebrities think you care too much

by Jeff Labrecque

Categories: Bitchery, Geekery, Nudity, That Was Way Harsh, Tai, Twitter

Image Credit: Todd Oren/WireImage.com

As a journalist on the periphery of the outskirts of the periphery of the celebrity kingdom, I can tell you that famous people are better and smarter than us common folk. Their stories are better, their teeth are brighter, and their smell… delightful. So when I make the commitment to follow a bold-faced name on Twitter, I expect to be enlightened, entertained, or at least belittled in some way. For the most part, they don’t let me down. But occasionally, I’m left feeling empty.

Take, for example, Hugh Hefner. READ FULL STORY »

Jul 29 2011 05:13 PM ET

An ode to 'Clarissa Explains It All'

by Breia Brissey

Categories: 100% Pure Cheese, Geekery, Guilty Pleasure, I Remember When It Used To Cost A Nickel, I'm Just a Geek, Nickelodeon, Nostalgia, Ridiculata, Television, Things That Are Awesome!, Things That Are Classy, Things That Make Us Feel Old, Those Crazy Kids!, Who Else Remembers This?, You Know You're Getting Old When...

Image Credit: Nickelodeon

The ’90s truly were all that. And so was the decade’s queen of cool, Clarissa Darling. Clarissa, played by Melissa Joan Hart, explained it all on her Nickelodeon series from 1991-94. And thanks to TeenNick’s new ’90s block, I get to relive all of my favorite moments all over again.

The revival of Clarissa Explains It All got me thinking about why I loved the show so much in the first place. READ FULL STORY »

Jul 29 2011 03:30 PM ET

It's K-Day. Did Kim Kardashian invite you to her wedding?

by Jeff Labrecque

Categories: Celebrity Weddings

Image Credit: Todd Williamson/WireImage.com

Check your mailboxes, PopWatchers. The invitations for Kim Kardashian’s wedding to basketball player Kris Humphries are out and viewable on People‘s website. The nuptials promise to be one of the most exciting/bizarre events of the season — not counting the ESPYs — what with the collision of the groom’s supersized alpha-male pals and the bride’s demure reality-TV friends and co-stars. It should be just like Kate and Will’s bash, but with more cleavage.

The couple, who got engaged in May, will tie the knot Aug. 20 in Montecito, Calif. Did your invite arrive yet? What did you make of the jet black hematite crystals? Mine tasted oddly like black licorice.

Jul 29 2011 02:40 PM ET

Olivia Wilde will have fake CGI nipples in 'The Change-Up.' Oh, for the days before digital nudity...

by Darren Franich

Categories: I Want to Please You Secularly, Made Us Think, Nudity, Sexytimes, This Would Never Fly In Sweden

Image Credit: Richard Cartwright

You can blame digital effects for many strange and terrible things. Thanks to CGI, great Hollywood trades like production design, makeup, and old-school practical visual effects have begun to slowly fade away, with smiling teams of faceless engineers doing the same work for cheaper, Gooback-style. Thanks to CGI, 2-D feature animation has entered a period of eternal decline. Thanks to CGI, every freaking movie and a lot of freaking TV shows are shot in front of greenscreens. Thanks to CGI, Jar Jar Binks exists, and Green Lantern exists, and in the fourth Die Hard movie John McClane fought a freaking fighter jet, because why not?

But if you ask me, the single greatest crime of the Digital Effects Era is more subtle, and yet also more profound. I’m talking about fake movie nudity, which first made headlines last year with Jessica Alba’s shower scene in Machete. READ FULL STORY »

Jul 29 2011 02:10 PM ET

'Octomom' claims she was drugged

by Lanford Beard

Categories: Television

The latest in a string of troubling proclamations, Nadya Sulema told HLN’s Dr. Drew Pinsky Thursday night that she was drugged when she signed the consent form to have 12 embryos implanted into her uterus. She blames her cloudy state of mind on the decision that resulted in her now world-famous reputation as the “Octomom” after eight of those embryos proved viable. READ FULL STORY »