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May 6 2012 03:00 PM ET

PopWatch Planner: Finding 'The Voice,' life advice from Stephen Colbert, and celebrating mom

Tags: Carrie Underwood, Dark Shadows, Ellen DeGeneres, Johnny Depp, PopWatch Planner, Sherlock, SNL, The Big Bang Theory, The Voice, Will Ferrell, Books, Movies, TV

Image Credit: Justin Lubin/NBC

There are a few mysteries to solve this week, starting with a new one from Sherlock Holmes on the second season of Sherlock on PBS, then moving through the start of season finales to discover the winner of The Voice. Later in the week, find some great pop culture graduation gifts (’tis the season…) like the new Stephen Colbert book, and then don’t forget to do something nice for your mom next Sunday. Have a great week!

SUNDAY
Sherlock returns to Masterpiece Mystery, PBS, 9 p.m.

Making plans for Sunday nights the next few weeks is elementary, my dear PopWatchers. Benedict Cumberbatch is back as everyone’s favorite detective and Martin Freeman joins him as Watson for the second season of the beloved Steven-Moffat-and-Mark-Gatiss series. This week: Could Sherlock be in love? Check out Ken Tucker’s preview below. READ FULL STORY »

May 4 2012 02:40 PM ET

Style Hunter: Sheldon's Green Lantern T-shirt on 'The Big Bang Theory' -- EXCLUSIVE

by Nuzhat Naoreen

Tags: Style Hunter, The Big Bang Theory, TV

Image Credit: Sonja Flemming/CBS

Well, talk about progress.

On last night’s episode of The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon acknowledged he might have romantic feelings for Amy (about time!). While I was endlessly amused watching him struggle with that realization during his 3-D chess game with Leonard, I was simultaneously distracted by his geektastic Green Lantern T-shirt.

Now, I know what you’re thinking. Sheldon and style don’t go hand-in-hand — this is the same guy who wore long underwear at the tux shop to ward off germs. But when it comes to T-shirts, he’s always been a trendsetter.

The superhero-inspired tee, designed by DC Entertainment for the show, is available for purchase online. The best part? You can get it exclusively at Stuart’s not-so-fictional shop, The Comic Center. Yes, that’s right. Not only can you dress like Sheldon (and for only $24.95!), but you can help Stuart’s business while you’re at it. Win-win, right?

Dying to find something you spotted on TV or in a movie? Email nuzhat_naoreen@ew.com and visit the Pop Style area of EW.com to see what we’ve found.

Apr 22 2012 10:07 AM ET

Before tonight's 'Real Housewives of New Jersey' premiere, we pick 5 favorite Garden State characters

by Lanford Beard

Tags: Boardwalk Empire, Indiana Jones, Real Housewives, The Big Bang Theory, The Celebrity Apprentice, The Real Housewives of New Jersey, The Sopranos, TV

Image Credit: Will Hart

Tonight marks the fourth season premiere of The Real Housewives of New Jersey. The reality show has introduced us to some of the mid-Atlantic’s most colorful characters, from fiercely protective big sister and mother Caroline Manzo to Fabulicious! table flipper Teresa Giudice (still a contender on this season of The Celebrity Apprentice) and even Cop Without a Badge heroine Danielle Staub. But these ladies aren’t all that Jersey has to offer. The Garden State has been fertile ground for great fictional characters in pop culture. Below, we run down five of our favorite Jersey-born-and-bred characters. (Sorry, Shore fans! Snooki doesn’t technically count as a fictional character.)

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Apr 6 2012 10:35 AM ET

Rejoice! Stephen Hawking's 'Big Bang Theory' cameo has landed -- VIDEO

by Lanford Beard

Tags: Comedy, Geekery, I'm Just a Geek, Idolatry, The Big Bang Theory, TV

Anticipation has been building in all of geekdom since The Big Bang Theory producers announced in March that nerd icon Stephen Hawking would make a cameo. Well, geeks and FOGs (friends of geeks), after last week’s heart-fluttering Leonard Nimoy voice cameo, Sheldon (Jim Parsons) stepped it up last night, actually meeting his hero Hawking. It was all going really well, until… Watch below. READ FULL STORY »

Mar 30 2012 09:00 AM ET

'The Big Bang Theory': How do you solve a problem like Raj Koothrappali?

by Adam B. Vary

Tags: About Last Night, Geekery, Star Trek, The Big Bang Theory, TV

Image Credit: Monty Brinton/CBS

I would love to be spending this time celebrating Leonard Nimoy’s fabulous guest spot on last night’s The Big Bang Theory. With Nimoy retired from on-camera acting, it was an inspired decision to have him play the voice of Sheldon’s Spock action figure, helping his owner through the thorny moral dilemma of whether to play with a vintage Star Trek toy, and what to do after Sheldon (Jim Parsons) does play with it — and it breaks. Placing Spock in various pensive and expressive poses as he guided and scolded Sheldon had me giggling throughout the episode. Better yet, there’s no reason why Spock-as-Sheldon’s-conscience can’t show up again at some point down the road.

Alas, what could have been one of the best Big Bangs of the season was marred by the episode’s other plotline: The increasingly woebegone romantic tribulations of Raj Koothrappali (Kunal Nayyar). READ FULL STORY »

Mar 25 2012 06:43 PM ET

PopWatch Planner: 'Mad Men,' 'Game of Thrones,' and 'The Killing' return, and Spock beams down to 'The Big Bang Theory'

by Adam B. Vary

Tags: Dancing With the Stars, Game of Thrones, Julia Roberts, Mad Men, Madonna, PopWatch Planner, South Park, The Big Bang Theory, The Killing, Movies, Music, TV

Image Credit: Frank Ockenfels/AMC

Judging by its record-setting opening weekend, the odds are ever more in your favor that you’ve seen The Hunger Games by now. Which means your schedule is that much more free to have it be overwhelmed by the DVR death-match looming next Sunday, when the second seasons of The Killing and Game of Thrones premiere, against the second episode of Mad Men‘s fifth season (and, oh right, there’s The Good Wife and The Amazing Race and The Simpsons and the final season of Desperate Housewives, too). It’ll be up to you to decide how the heck to navigate this scheduling minefield, but click here to see how EW TV critic Ken Tucker’s wading through it.

In between, Madonna’s newest studio album hits stores, Spock(‘s voice) comes to The Big Bang Theory, and Julia Roberts and Sam Worthington valiantly vie for second place against the Hunger Games juggernaut. But first things first, tonight marks the long-awaited, two-hour return of Mad Men. Enjoy your week!

SUNDAY, March 25
Mad Men season premiere — 9 p.m., AMC

We’ve waited 17 months, so the least Don, Peggy, Joan, Roger, and Pete can do is welcome us back with a two hour feast of gorgeous 1960s nostalgia and doleful glances into bottomless chasms of existential ennui, right? READ FULL STORY »

Mar 21 2012 05:11 PM ET

First Look: Jim Parsons all dolled up for Broadway's 'Harvey' -- EXCLUSIVE PHOTO

by Aubry D'Arminio

Tags: Broadway, Stage, Stage/Theater - DO NOT USE, The Big Bang Theory

Starring in a Broadway play is already daunting — so headlining said play in a role made famous by Jimmy Stewart must be absolutely terrifying. But The Big Bang Theory’s two-time Emmy winner Jim Parsons appears calm, cool, and collected as Elwood P. Dowd in the ad campaign for Roundabout Theatre Company’s upcoming Harvey (one of EW’s most anticipated shows of the year). Check out EW’s exclusive first look at the poster for the production below.

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Feb 27 2012 12:40 PM ET

Oscars: 'The Big Bang Theory' star Melissa Rauch wins EW.com's first annual Celebrity Pool

by Mandi Bierly

Tags: Movies, Oscars, Television, The Big Bang Theory, Things, Movies, TV

The Big Bang Theory‘s Melissa Rauch won EW.com’s first annual Celebrity Oscar Pool by picking 20 out of the 24 winners. “I credit my success in this pool to mathematical techniques I learned from the Best Picture-nominated film Moneyball,” Rauch says. “It was an honor just to participate, and I share this big win with my fellow Oscar Poolers… and Brad Pitt.” READ FULL STORY »

Jan 20 2012 06:55 PM ET

'The Big Bang Theory' 100th episode: Does it rank among your Penny/Leonard favorites?

by Sandra Gonzalez

Tags: Awwwwww So Cuuuuuute, Television, The Big Bang Theory, Television, TV

Image Credit: Cliff Lipson/CBS

From their first meeting, Leonard and Penny’s beauty and the geek story was a special one. Though he lacked the self-confidence to actually ask the bold, blonde beauty from across the hall out on a date, you knew that deep down, his heart knew it was possible.

Last night, as some of you commenters pointed out, we saw a totally different side of Leonard. Confident. Unashamed of his feelings. And… in a way… sort of better-looking than we’ve ever seen him. (Now, let’s not get Leonard confused with Johnny Galecki, who, in person, is a pretty slick guy.) It seemed like the producers wanted to show us just how far Leonard had come in 100 episodes, without one of his friends (or Leonard himself) telling us so. If that was the goal, mission accomplished.

And in watching Leonard at his best, I felt as though I was also watching Leonard and Penny (as a couple) at their best, too — not including what we saw in their daydream states. READ FULL STORY »

Jan 19 2012 09:23 PM ET