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Mad Men Recap: "Mad Money"
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Talk Talk: Kevin Costner, Carl Reiner, Nelly Furtado
Charlie Rose: artist Richard Serra (part 2) - The Daily Show: Michael Barone
- The Colbert Report: Carl Bernstein
- The Late Show With David Letterman: Nicole Richie, Artie Lange, and Chrisette Michele
- Jay Leno: Bernie Mac, Chris Cornell, Cat Deely
- Jimmy Kimmel Live: Kevin Costner, Leslie Mann, and Patrick Wolf
- Tavis Smiley: Dennis Hopper
- Late Night With Conan O'Brien: Debra Messing and Nelly Furtado
- The Late, Late Show With Craig Ferguson: Carl Reiner, Jonah Hill, and Bright Eyes
- Last Call With Carson Daly: Olivia Wilde and Peter Bjorn & John
What's On Tonight: Pirate Master, Spelling Bee, Starter Wife, Studio 60
At 8, ABC has the Scripps National Spelling Bee. - CBS has the premiere of Pirate Master at 8.
- FOX has a new Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader? and a new So You Think You Can Dance.
- Four more great Friends episodes at 8 on TBS.
- TCM has two hostage dramas starting at 8: The Desperate Hours, with Humphery Bogart, and The Night Holds Terror, with Jack Kelly.
- At 9, USA has the premiere of the mini-series The Starter Wife.
- TLC has a new American Chopper at 9.
- HBO Zone has the high school noir drama Brick at 9.
- At 10, NBC has a new Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.
- Food Network has a new Throwdown with Bobby Flay at 10.
- Also at 10: Spike has a new Ultimate Fighter.
- At 10:30, Comedy Central has a new Showbiz Show with David Spade.
Check your local TV listings for more.
And now, a post about Debra Messing's breasts
Everyone knows that Debra Messing has small breasts, including Messing herself. But NBC execs wanted her to have bigger ones.
At a panel discussion during the Tribeca Film Festival, the Will & Grace star disclosed that she wore "chicken cutlets," a form of silicone breast enhancer, when she shot the pilot of the show. But when the show was picked up by NBC, she didn't want to wear them anymore. After seeing the next couple of episodes, the president of NBC called the producers, wanting to know where her breasts went. They wanted her breasts back, but she refused to wear them.
Who are the hottest guys in television?
The Hollywood Reporter has an interesting story about the five "hottest" television actors who are looking for plum roles. And by "hottest", the publication means they're most in demand (plus, they're good-looking).The five actors that all the networks are trying to scoop up are: Jeremy Sisto, Paul Rudd, Peter Krause, Simon Baker and Gabriel Macht. Honorable mentions include Christian Slater, Steve Zahn, and Michael Vartan, who just took a role in an untitled ABC drama. A look at their profiles on IMDB show that most of these guys (except Slater & Zahn) currently have a break in their schedules.
Starter Wife gets going on USA - TCA Report
The USA six hour miniseries The Starter Wife presented a half and half panel as the closing event at Friday's TCA ... half of the panel was here in Pasadena, the other half in sunny and gorgeous Australia. Based on the novel by Gigi Levangie Grazer, the series is being shot down under, which doubles as Malibu, and follows the trials and tribulations of Gracie Pollock (Debra Messing) as a freshly dumped (via cell phone just beofre her 10th anniversary) "starter wife".The miniseries is airing a bit oddly, if you ask me. Not that you did, but since I'm telling the story here, let's pretend like it happened. They're airing the first episode as a two hour show, and then four one-hour episodes after that. All on the USA Network this May. While that may be a bit odd, the show looks like it'll pull in fans of Sex and the City, and is directed by veteran Jon Avnet.
It also stars Joe Mantegna who had the two zinger quotes of the evening:
- Joe Mantegna, on starter wives: "I've been on the same starter wife for 32 years."
- Joe Mantegna: on hearing writer and executive producer Josann McGibbon say that she'd been bitten by a leech in Australia, but that it wouldn't have happened in Los Angeles: "Did you just say there's no leeches in L.A.?!"
Debra Messing stars in USA mini-series
Debra Messing will star in The Starter Wife mini-series on USA Network this spring and summer. She'll play the "newly single and utterly fabulous" Molly Kagan. The series is based on the novel by the same name, about how the 40-something Kagan redefines herself after getting a divorce.The whole thing is part of Ponds' anti-aging campaign, as Ponds is co-producing the flick. The organization is hosting a contest in advance of The Starter Wife to find the five 40-something women "who best embody the Pond's brand of grown-up beauty."
The six-hour event premieres May 31 and runs through June 28.
Family Guy: Whistle While Your Wife Works
(S05E05) I'm beginning to think of this as the Brian & Stewie show. Again this week, their story was much better than the Peter story. With Peter's injured hand, the setup was good, but it kind of headed downhill from there. The opening with Quagmire smuggling the fireworks into the country ("Yeah, that's just as fun."), Chris playing David Koresh and the heavy handed FBI agent, and Stewie ignoring Peter's missing fingers while asking for more juice was great. Finally something for Meg to do too.Check out the new shows you might see next fall
It's not even January yet, but that doesn't mean we can't take a sneak peek at some of the shows in development right now. The Futon Critic has a list that they've been updating every week, and while some of the show seem rather bland and the same old same same old, there are a few shows that could be interesting.
Will & Grace: The Finale (series finale)
(S08E23) There are those who are die-hard fans of Will & Grace, which premiered on the NBC schedule back in 1998. Then there are those who despise the show, which is about the relationship between Grace Adler (Debra Messing) and her gay friend Will Truman (Eric McCormack). The fans love the back-and-forth between the two characters and the dynamic of their relationship. Those who hate the show may be uncomfortable with the subject matter (homosexuality) or the cartoon-ish characterizations of Will and Grace's friends Jack McFarland (Sean Hayes) and Karen Walker (Megan Mullally ), or the fact that it's just not funny.
I fall under neither category. I liked Will & Grace, but was not a huge fan. I'd watch it if I happened to see something interesting going on, and I'd laugh at a few of the lines (not as heartily as I would laugh during an episode of Scrubs, though). Yet, Jack annoyed me sometimes and the influx of guest stars on the show was somewhat distracting. In fact, over the last few years I didn't really follow it at all.
However, as this would be the last episode of the series, I decided to give it a review. My opinion on the last show of the series? Meh.
NBC knows that Will Truman is gay, right?
NBC has a solid history of confusing and/or misleading
previews (check out tonight's West Wing, for example -- and that's all I'll say for now), and the tradition
continues in previews for the final episodes of Will and Grace.The previews all show Will and Grace doing things as a "couple": kissing passionately, Will throwing Grace down on the bed to make love to her, Grace asking Will to be there for her and her baby, and one scene of them walking down the aisle together.
But it's all out of context! The kiss was a kiss of two best friends, the scene with Will and Grace in bed was a flashback to when they dated and he hadn't come out yet, the scene about the baby is Will and Grace discussing her future as a single mom, and the scene of them walking down the aisle? That was the ep where Will gave away Grace at her wedding to Leo!
Of course, maybe it's all misdirection. Maybe the show is going to surprise us all by having Will turn out to be straight (he never can keep a man, can he?), and she and Will get married and live happily ever after! Talk about twist endings.
Things I Hate About TV: Sitcoms that kill off characters
Did you see Will and Grace the other night? If you recorded it or you're waiting for the rerun,
then stop reading right here. Well, actually, you don't have to stop reading right here, because I won't reveal the
spoiler until after the jump. So I should rephrase the above and say that if you haven't seen it yet, don't click
below. OK? OK.Christian group targets Will and Grace
These people are starting to
make Christians look like they don't have a sense of humor. The same group that yelled and
screamed about The Book of Daniel's pill-popping priest who conversed with Jesus is now hollering about
Will and Grace. It's not the homosexual characters on the show that they're taking issue with, or the constant
feeling-up of characters, or the references to alcoholism and pill-popping. They're all upset over the plans for a Britney Spears cameo in which she
plays a Christian chef. They don't like that her character has a cooking segment called Cruci-fixins. The
group, called The American Family Association, accuses NBC of mocking Christ's crucifixion and says the network will
"further denegrate Christianity" by airing the episode the night before Good Friday. On its website, this group is urging NBC affiliates to boycott the episode,
just like it got some affiliates
to do for Daniel. NBC has already started back-peddling, saying that the episode isn't even written yet so the
name of the cooking segment isn't exactly set in stone.God, I'd love to see NBC stick to its guns and stay with Cruci-fixins. That's funny, y'all. Plus, it'll probably help the floundering show's ratings as it ends its run on NBC this spring.
Will & Grace reaches all new low
In the long line of celebrity guest stars on Will & Grace, I think we've reached rock bottom. No,
wait. Rock bottom would be a guest appearance by Kevin Federline.Federline's better half, Britney Spears, will guest star on the sitcom as it sputters into oblivion this Spring. She will play a conservative Christian chef who has a cooking segment on Jack's talk show. The name of the cooking segment? Cruci-Fixins. Brit Brit gets forced onto Jack's show when a Christian company buys the fictional Out TV network. The guest appearance airs on April 13
Will and Grace live again tonight for some reason
Actually, that headline might be a little bit too snarky. I actually don't see anything wrong
with Will and Grace doing a second live show (tonight at 8) in the same season. A lot of people think
that they're just doing it as a ratings ploy, but are they? I mean, how much of a ratings ploy can it be when the show
is in its last season anyway and only have a handful of episodes left? Personally, I'd love to see the networks take a
page out of TV in the 50s and do more live episodes, of both comedies and dramas.
NBC has a live blog up for the episode here.
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