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Mar 14 2013 12:20 PM ET

Happy Pi Day! Who's your favorite TV math nerd? -- VOTE

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Greetings, fellow nerds. Today is our most important holiday: Pi Day. (Also, who’s getting ready for two years from now when stuff is about to get really crazy?)

Here at EW we pay a lot of attention to the geeks, but on this oh-so-nerdy-day, we thought we should honor those with advanced degrees in mathematics. (Really get the party started, you know.)  To some, nerd may be a derogatory term, but think again. Nerds are the characters who get stuff done and solve problems. While everyone is flailing about, nerds are hacking computers, reasoning logically, and inventing awesome gadgets. So take pride in being called a nerd, you will one day rule the world.

To celebrate the nerdiest of holidays, let’s honor our favorite TV nerds. Since it’s a math holiday, we tried to stick to the nerds who would have won Math Olympiads, but if anyone wants to make a case for Abed in the comments (I mean, he did have a pretty logical and reasoned argument in his Who’s The Boss? debate), have at it. We included Sherlock, Bones, and Topher because we’re pretty sure they know their way around a geometry proof. Chuck and Huck can hack a computer with the best of them. Super agent Sydney Bristow had to bring Marshall along with her on a mission because she couldn’t do calculus in her head, so he definitely made our list.

Quit trying to convince your high school calculus teacher (or current boss) to buy you pie, and vote! READ FULL STORY »

Mar 13 2013 02:30 PM ET

Thank you, Veronica Mars! What other TV show would you donate to for a movie version? -- VOTE

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Well, that was quick. Just three hours after EW exclusively broke the news that a Veronica Mars movie is happening if fans can raise $2 million by April 12, the Kickstarter campaign has already raised over $700,000.

If this gamble is successful, fans are going to begin (well, continue) clamoring for big-screen versions of their favorite cult shows — which got us thinking about what we would be most willing to fund with our own hard-earned money. On the comedy front, Arrested Development knows there is always money in the banana stand when you heed to eager fans incessant demands. Netflix’s upcoming fourth season of the show means it’s already being revived, but rumors of a big-screen adaptation still remain in the “hopeful” stage with no deal officially announced. With a cast that obviously has no problem going back to those characters, could funding it ourselves help make it a sure thing?

Veronica and Arrested are far from the only shows obsessed fans would love to resurrect. I would certainly donate cash if it meant a return engagement to Stars Hollow (give fans the Luke/Lorelai wedding we deserve!) or McKinley High School — although the now-movie-star status of so many Freaks and Geeks cast members might present problems that even Kickstarter can’t yet solve.

But let’s ignore all possible “real world” scheduling issues. If the cast was assembled and you knew the script was great, which no-longer-on-the-air cult show would you kick in actual money to see on the big screen? READ FULL STORY »

Oct 24 2012 01:34 PM ET

Brought to you by our sponsors: TV's most egregious product placements

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What do you know about the 2013 Ford Fusion? If you watched last night’s New Girl, the answer is “all too much” — thanks to a two-minute sequence in which clumsy Jess struggled to model at a car show. As she stumbled about in her giant heels, a brand ambassador droned on and on about the new model’s many features. If the physical comedy hadn’t been so labored, the bit might have worked. But it didn’t.

In an age of ad-skipping DVRs and pirated online streaming, viewers have learned to accept a certain degree of commercialization on their favorite shows — especially the ones that are ratings-challenged. At the end of the day, an episode of Fringe sprinkled with plugs for Sprint’s Google Wallet is better than no Fringe at all. And a few fourth wall-busting series have managed to win us over by turning product integration into a joke — think Arrested Development‘s “It’s a wonderful restaurant!” or 30 Rock‘s “Can we have our money now?”

But even if it did make sense for Jess to step in for her sick model friend Cece at a car show, it didn’t make sense to insert her into a two-minute car commercial. Of course, New Girl‘s attempted Ford/comedy fusion isn’t the first egregious example of commercial-addled TV — remember these five product placement pioneers?

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Jan 27 2012 10:01 PM ET

'Chuck' series finale react: Were you satisfied with the ending?

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So much can be — and has been — said about the resilience of NBC’s Chuck. In fact, television circles will, I humbly predict, refer to it exactly how EP Josh Schwartz described it to EW: “Saved by sandwiches.”

The show always found itself facing cancellation (Chuck Vs. The Bubble, if you will), and yet, somehow, be it fans or footlongs, found a way to come back. And when it came time to close out the series, it seems only fitting that Chuck, the character, displayed the same resilience as the universe he existed in.

We always knew that tonight’s finale would pose challenges to the title hero. (They’d never let him off easy.) But even I never expected what they threw at him. [If you didn't catch the series finale of Chuck, don't read on until you do!] READ FULL STORY »

Jan 6 2012 06:48 PM ET

Who's to blame when a rabid Internet fanbase doesn't help a show?

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There’s been good news and bad news coming out of NBC’s day at the TV critics’ semi-annual press tour. NBC entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt assured reporters that Community will return this season — he’s just not sure when. Asked about its odds of renewal for a fourth season, however, he became cagey: “I don’t know. Those are hard questions to answer at this point … we’ll make that decision closer to the upfront.” His views on Chuck, which airs its series finale Jan. 27, were more clear. “Did you see the ratings?,” he asked when questioned about the decision to burn episodes over the holidays. “That rabid fanbase going crazy on the net didn’t come to the show. Chuck’s time had come. Chuck is over, let’s alert the masses.”

If you’re a fan of Chuck, those words are tough to take. You will have invested roughly 91 hours in the show, and while you can understand why the network bean-counters looking at the big picture would see it as “over,” that doesn’t diminish your disappointment and loss. Why’s it so hard to accept? READ FULL STORY »

Dec 18 2011 03:00 PM ET

Fall TV post-mort: What are you still watching? DVR'ing?

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Let’s think back for a moment to the start of the fall TV season when we were giddy with hope and optimism about all the new (Hart of DixieNew Girl! The X Factor!) and old (Modern Family! Glee! Fringe!) shows we’d watch in the months ahead. Back then I posted a series of blog posts outlining what I planned to view live versus DVR every night of the week. At the time, I really did have every intention of sticking to my schedule, but naturally as the weeks wore on and plotlines developed my interests began to waver, for better and for worse. I’m sure you know what I mean, unless you’re one of those people who actually follows through with your goals, in which case we can’t be friends. Nevertheless, now that we’re in the midst of the dreaded hiatus period, I figured it would be a good time to reflect on where we started off this season and where we ended up. Check out my day-by-day post-mort below, beginning with all the shows I so naively intended to watch: READ FULL STORY »

May 31 2011 06:11 PM ET
May 3 2011 01:33 PM ET

Did you catch the eerie Osama bin Laden appearance on 'Chuck' last night?

If you, like me, were blinded by the sight of Ellie rubbing suntan lotion on a shirtless Awesome last night on Chuck, then you probably missed the next scene, which featured an aptly timed, second-long Osama bin Laden appearance.

The moment was as Casey was showing his best shooting targets to the rest of the guys going to Chuck’s bachelor party in “Las Vegas.” (It turned out to be “Las Vecas,” a camping ground.) Ironically, reports say bin Laden was shot in the head and chest, as shown on the target.

Was I the only unobservant one who missed this on first watch, PopWatchers? Or did you see it the first time around? Does it give you the heebie-jeebies, too? Also, anyone else totally curious about whose face is on the rest of the targets in that book of his?

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‘Chuck’ fans start the renewal campaign once again

Apr 20 2011 06:55 PM ET

'Chuck' fans start the renewal campaign once again -- this time on Twitter

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Do you give a chuck about Chuck‘s renewal chances? Well, at least one — very vocal — group of people does.

This week marked the beginning of a Twitter campaign spearheaded by fan site We Give a Chuck that aimed to let the show’s advertisers know, well, that they exist. Using the hashtag #NotaNielsenFamily, the fandom banded together in hopes of letting Chuck‘s many advertisers that the oft-criticized Nielsen ratings system doesn’t speak to what they claim the true numbers the show is really pulling in.  READ FULL STORY »

Apr 12 2011 07:45 PM ET

'Chuck' star Yvonne Strahovski parodies Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and Ke$ha: Watch the video here!

If you needed further proof that Chuck‘s Yvonne Strahovski is TV’s coolest Aussie/Polish actress, look no further than this CollegeHumor clip called “Three Pop Stars, One Video” that finds Sarah Walker skewering today’s top pop divas.

Recasting herself as Katy Perry, Ke$ha and Lady Gaga, Strahovski sings about wooing a guy “no matter what manufactured image [he's] into.” Ouch! At least those three divas have millions of dollars to ease the sting of her satire.

The best line has to be Strahovski as Perry prancing around in a cupcake bra on a beach singing, “I love you with my heart everlasting/I love you with boobies whipped-cream-blasting.” Watch the slightly NSFW video here: READ FULL STORY »

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