One of my new favorite pastimes is watching celebs jump on the Modern Family bandwagon via Twitter. (All aboard, Jon Favreau, who “powered thru” the season to date on iTunes New Year’s Day.) The show returns tonight with a new episode and guest star Benjamin Bratt (as Gloria’s ex). Here’s hoping he’s more of a Shelley Long than an Ed Norton…
Cougar Town also returns, with guest star Lisa Kudrow as a much-feared dermatologist who treats Jules and dates her ex. Watch a preview clip after the jump, along with what’s probably still my favorite scene from this series (and the one that hooked me on the show): “the full Shawshank experience.” READ FULL STORY »
From her consistently refreshed stock of trendy dresses to her enviable accessories (not just Josh!), Cougar Town‘s Jules Cobb (Courteney Cox) is one hot mama. We already gave you the scoop on her 
Okay, I’ve been riding the Cougar Town train for weeks now, laughing out loud at Jules and her wacky circle of pals. A fair amount of suspension of disbelief is required to buy into this show but the lines are so funny that you just jump right in. Yet last night I had a hard time at first understanding why the super-nice Jules would dump the (dumb-as-a-post) hunka-hunka burnin’ love that is Josh based on the advice her mean best friend and dopy employee. I mean the man barely snores and is good at stomping on cockroaches. And he’s young enough to still be able to carry her around in her dotage. Sure, he needed kissing training last week and his declaration of love was a bit (okay way) more intense than anything she was feeling but did she have to be so harsh (“Don’t love you, never will. Tough cookies!”). Of course, the previous night’s make-up sex after the first attempted break up might help him get over it, but it still might take about a week, like Bobby said. Speaking of Jules’ slacker ex… 
Last night’s Cougar Town episode may not have been the strongest in the sitcom’s brief history, but it did succeed in giving us a sense of Courteney Cox’s Jules as a professional woman whose life isn’t devoted only to drinking, partying, and pursuing younger dudes. Okay, so in actuality we saw Jules pushing some of her crazy workload onto irresponsible Laurie, but still, the little details felt just right — from the explanation that you can’t have too many bowls of wooden fruit when staging an open house to Jules’ insistence that Laurie show up on time to pick her up for their morning appointment. “Calling me at eight from 20 minutes away to say ‘Come out, I’m here’ doesn’t count.” Laurie, with her “fightin’ nails” and her questionable taste in men, is an endless source of trashy good fun, whether she’s accidentally losing her skirt in some roadside bushes or serving as a punch line for Ellie, who commented on Laurie’s lateness by speculating that she was “passed out under some loser who’s naked except for his hat on backwards.”
