Image Credit: Mitchell Haaseth/NBCCommunity wraps its stellar freshman season tonight with an episode Gillian Jacobs says boasts at least one memorable Jeff/Britta moment. There’s also a big twist involving a sash. I think.
The entire video interview (shot at Monday’s NBC upfront) is below… READ FULL STORY »
Image Credit: Mitchell Haaseth/NBCIs this the year Emmy finally shows Friday Night Lights some freakin’ love? It better be. Season 4 — paced by the gut-wrenching, and flawlessly acted, episode “The Son” — was a creative triumph. The show’s producing partners, Universal Media Studios and DirecTV, are attempting to drive home this message to a seemingly immovable voting body with an Emmy campaign that is ambitious, creative, and, dare I say, moving. But don’t take my word for it. One piece of the multipronged effort — a fan-inspired video — is embedded below for your viewing pleasure. Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose! READ FULL STORY »
Image Credit: Mario Perez/ABCThe Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Board of Governors on Wednesday made a rule exception that will have a direct impact on the May 23 finale of Lost. Past rules have indicated that extended length episodes can only run for two hours but Lost’s finale is scheduled for two and a half hours. The board will now grant eligibility to the drama’s series finale episode.
Similar exceptions have been made in the past for the series finales of The Wire and The Sopranos. “We have a soft spot in our hearts for the final episodes of long-running series,” says John Leverence, the TV Academy’s senior vice president of awards.
The Lost finale can be submitted for consideration under any number of scenarios. A Lost star may use it to compete in one of the acting categories, while ABC Studios may use it to go after the best drama prize.
Image Credit: Bill Matlock/FoxIt was an inauspicious start for Fox’s new summer drama The Good Guys starring Bradley Whitford (The West Wing) and Colin Hanks (The House Bunny). According to preliminary results from Wednesday, the action dramedy about two very different detectives finished its 8 p.m. time slot in fourth place among viewers (5 million), behind I Get That A Lot on CBS (7.1 million) and back-to-back episodes of the ABC comedy The Middle (6.4 million). NBC aired a rerun of Minute to Win It that led into the first half-hour of a Law & Order special (5.4 million).
In the adults 18-49 demographic, Guys tied for third place with Minute with a mere 1.5 rating/3 share — only a tenth of a point improvement over Fox’s week-ago performance with a Lie to Me repeat. Guys also was flat half-hour to half-hour — not a great sign when folks typically begin to tune in for the results show of American Idol.
Fox still won the night in viewers (11.7 million) and adults 18-49.
Buried in the CW’s official fall schedule press release were some massive spoilers about the new seasons of Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill, The Vampire Diaries, Smallville, and Supernatural. Excerpts below! Read at your own freakin’ risk!
GOSSIP GIRL: “Season four will open with a radiant Serena and Blair enjoying their grand and romantic summer in Paris…until Chuck mysteriously arrives in town with a new girlfriend and a new identity. Blair swore off Chuck forever but will this changed man woo Blair into having a change of heart, or will Queen B set her sights on ruling Columbia University? And as for that baby…?” READ FULL STORY »
Image Credit: Patrick Ecclesine/The CW; Brian Bowen Smith/The CW; Frank Ockenfels/The CWThe CW just unveiled its brand new 2010-11 schedule, and here’s what you need to know now: 90210 is shifting to Monday (paired with Gossip Girl), One Tree Hill is moving to Tuesday (paired with Life Unexpected), Supernatural is relocating to Friday (reunited with former time-slot companion Smallville), and new action-drama-reboot Nikita has nabbed the plum post-Vampire Diaries slot on Thursday. The complete M-F schedule is below. READ FULL STORY »
Image Credit: Jack Rowland/The CWI’ve got good news and bad news for fans of Smallville heroine Allison Mack. The actress has opted not to return as a series regular for the show’s 10th and final season. That’s the bad news. Here’s the good: You have not seen the last of Chloe — not by a long shot. READ FULL STORY »
Image Credit: Danny Feld/ABC; Mario Perez/ABC; Chris Haston/Fox; David M. Russell/CBSGot a scoop request? An anonymous tip you’re dying to share? Just want to say hi? You can send any/all of the above to ausielloscoop@ew.com
Question: I just watched the first seven minutes of the Grey’s Anatomy finale on Hulu. I hope you alert everyone because, as I’m sure you’ve seen, it is very disturbing/shocking! —Elizabeth
Ausiello: News flash: If you thought the first seven minutes were disturbing/shocking, I strongly suggest you skip the remaining 78-odd minutes. Some seriously dark and depressing s**t goes down in that hospital, and it’s not for the faint of heart. Fun fact: Something big happens in the second hour that doesn’t fit into any of the categories in my May Sweeps Scorecard.
Question: Is the Grey’s Anatomy finale truly going to be epic, or is the hype a bit exaggerated? —Dana
Ausiello: Based on what I’ve seen (the first hour) and heard (much of the second), it’s no exaggeration.
Question: Got any Smallville season 10 scoop? —Matt
Ausiello: Only the biggest one ever. READ FULL STORY »
Image Credit: Danny Moloshok/LandovNightline scored the first interview with Jesse James since the break-up of his marriage to actress Sandra Bullock. In the installment airing Tuesday May 25, James talks to Vicki Mabrey about the split and why he went to rehab. He’s also expected to address the role he’ll play in the raising of Louis, the baby boy Bullock recently adopted. James issued a public apology after Bullock spoke to People.
Image Credit: Michael Courtney/The CWDiscretion and restraint are clearly not among Tom Welling’s superpowers.
The CW was hoping to announce at its upfront presentation Thursday that next season of Smallville — the show’s 10th — would be its last. But Welling — who was expected to deliver said announcement in person — jumped the gun and blabbed it to the press last night. READ FULL STORY »
Image Credit: Justin Lubin/NBCIt was one of those grave injustices that threaten to destroy a person’s will to live: An annoying technical glitch at the end of Monday’s Chuck prevented East Coast viewers from catching the mind-blowing trailer for next week’s two-hour season finale.
So. Not. Cool.
Know what is cool, though? The following embedded video player containing the mind-blowing trailer in question. Justice has been served — and it’s all thanks to me! READ FULL STORY »
Image Credit: Danny Feld/ABCWisteria Lane is about to lose another longtime resident: Kyle MacLachlan is leaving Desperate Housewives after four years of playing Orson Hodge, sources confirm to me exclusively. READ FULL STORY »
Image Credit: Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage.comConan O’Brien opened the much-anticipated TBS-TNT upfront presentation in New York today with yuks about NBC (“The plot to Lost is more plausible than my last year at NBC”) and his new talk show that will debut on TBS on Nov. 8. “I really believe in cable television,” O’Brien told the crowd at the Hammerstein Ballroom. “ I do not want to live in a country with less than five ESPN networks.”
He didn’t reveal anything about his new show, which will serve as a lead-in to the second season of George Lopez, but he did joke about what he’d like to accomplish. “My vision is to pick up where Hee Haw left off,” O’Brien quipped before breaking into his version of “On the Road Again” by singing, “I just want to be on my own show again.”
The digs at NBC weren’t limited to just O’Brien. When Turner Entertainment Networks president Steve Koonin took the stage, he thanked Jay Leno for making it possible for him to snag both Conan and the cop drama Southland (which aired at 10 p.m. on NBC before the late-night comedian took over the time slot). A new season of Southland will begin on TNT in 2011.
This summer, TNT will air seven new or returning originals on four different nights (The Closer, Saving Grace, Dark Blue, Leverage, Memphis Beat, Rizzoli & Isles, and HawthoRNe), and it will bring back Men of a Certain Age later this season. In 2011, the network will debut a new series from Steven Spielberg and starring Noah Wyle called Fallen Skies. It also greenlit the buddy lawyer series Franklin & Bash starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar (NYPD Blue).
TBS’s lineup includes the original series My Boys, Are We There Yet? and the new animated series Neighbors From Hell. TBS also acquired the exclusive cable rights to The Big Bang Theory, beginning in fall 2011, and greenlit the original series Glory Daze, a 1980s-set comedy that centers on four buddies who navigate college life and pledge a fraternity.
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