More Emmy Shortlists!

Here are more of the shortlists for the Emmys. Get Excited!! No one from the Tudors….shame shame…

Thanks Gold Derby

Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy
Jon Cryer, “Two and a Half Men”
Kevin Dillon, “Entourage” (PUHLEASEEEEE let Drama be nominated again!!)
Justin Kirk, “Weeds”
Neil Patrick Harris, “How I Met Your Mother”
John Krasinski, “The Office” (sigh…love him)
Jack McBrayer, “30 Rock”
Tracy Morgan, “30 Rock”
Jeremy Piven, “Entourage” (Clearly)
Fred Willard, “Back to You”
Rainn Wilson, “The Office” (YEAH)

Best Lead Actress in a Drama
Patricia Arquette, “Medium”
Glenn Close, “Damages”
Minnie Driver, “The Riches”
Sally Field, “Brothers and Sisters” (YEAH)
Mariska Hargitay, “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit” (YEAH!)
Holly Hunter, “Saving Grace”
Elisabeth Moss, “Mad Men”
Mary McDonnell, “Battlestar Galactica”
Kyra Sedgwick, “The Closer”
Jeanne Tripplehorn, “Big Love” (TRIPLE YEAH! haha)

Best Leading Actor in a Drama
Gabriel Byrne, “In Treatment”
Kyle Chandler, “Friday Night Lights” (IN IT TO WIN!!!)
Bryan Cranston, “Breaking Bad”
Patrick Dempsey, “Grey’s Anatomy”
Michael C. Hall, “Dexter”
Jon Hamm, “Mad Men”
Eddie Izzard, “The Riches”
Hugh Laurie, “House”
Denis Leary, “Rescue Me”
James Spader, “Boston Legal”

More Emmy Shortlists!

All from Tom O’Neil’s Gold Derby page at the LA Times
All I have to say is boo to everyone who didn’t vote for Connie Britton. BOOOO.

Best Supporting Actress in a Drama:
Jane Alexander, “Tell Me You Love Me”
Candice Bergen, “Boston Legal”
Rose Byrne, “Damages”
Jill Clayburgh, “Dirty Sexy Money” (HOORAH)
Sharon Gless, “Burn Notice”
Rachel Griffiths, “Brothers and Sisters” (LOVE HER)
Christina Hendricks, “Mad Men”
S. Epatha Merkerson, “Law and Order”
Sandra Oh, “Grey’s Anatomy”
Dianne Wiest, “In Treatment”
Chandra Wilson, “Grey’s Anatomy”

Best Supporting Actor in a Drama (everyone is all like what about Terry O’Quinn. Guess What? I hate Locke, and I’m glad he wasn’t nominated…hes so creepy!!)
Naveen Andrews, “Lost” (YEAHHH)
Bruce Dern, “Big Love”
Christian Clemenson, “Boston Legal”
Ted Danson, “Damages”
Michael Emerson, “Lost” (WILL, SHOULD, and BETTER WIN!)
Zeljko Ivanek, “Damages”
T.R. Knight, “Grey’s Anatomy”
William Shatner, “Boston Legal”
John Slattery, “Mad Men”
Blair Underwood, “In Treatment”
Jake Weber, “Medium”

Best Actress in a Comedy:
Christina Applegate, “Samantha Who?”
Marcia Cross, “Desperate Housewives”
America Ferrera, “Ugly Betty” (YEAH!)
Tina Fey, “30 Rock”
Anna Friel, “Pushing Daisies” (YEAH!)
Felicity Huffman, “Desperate Housewives”
Eva Longoria Parker, “Desperate Housewives”
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, “New Adventures of Old Christine”
Mary-Louise Parker, “Weeds”
Sarah Silverman, “The Sarah Silverman Program”

What do you guys think??

Update from the Upfronts

Well this week is the TV Upfronts in NYC. Very exciting. Not all of the networks have presented their final schedules, but we def. know what the lineup will be for a few of them. Here is alll the scoop (compiled from Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Watch with Kristin, Ausiello at TV Guide, and The Futon Critic — you can find the links to all of them over there to the right)

(please be patient as it will take me awhile to compile all this information!!)

CBS:

Picked up SIX new series which include:

• Project Gary - A guy in his 30’s gets divorced, re-enters the dating pool and is forced to stay in touch with his ex-wife whom he hates because they have kids.
• Worst Week - A single camera comedy series based on the British limited run
  series about a couple’s nightmarish week before their wedding dealing with family and in-law politics.
• Eleventh Hour – A U.S. version of a British Miniseries. The series follows the adventures of a professor who is an adviser to a government scientific agency that troubleshoots threats stemming from or targeting scientific endeavor. He is joined by a female government operative who acts primarily as his bodyguard, as he has made powerful enemies through his work.
• The Mentalist - A dramatic series about a guy with psychic abilities who works as an independent contractor for the police.
• The Ex-List- A dramatic series based on an Israeli series about a woman who tracks down all of her exes after a psychic tells her that she has already met the man she is going to marry.
• Harper’s Island – Horror story that unfolds during the course of a season as a group of friends meet on an island off the Seattle coast for a destination wedding.

CANCELLED on CBS:

• Moonlight
• Shark
• Cane
• Jerico
• Kid Nation

RENEWED on CBS:

• The Unit
• The New Adventures of Old Christine
• Rules of Engagement
• How I met your Mother
• Cold Case
• Criminal Minds
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
• CSI: Miami
• CSI: New York
• Ghost Whisperer
• NCIS
• Numb3rs
• Without a Trace
• Survivor

NBC

PICKED UP (*W is for Winter):

• MY OWN WORST ENEMY -“The Bourne Identity” meets “Jekyll & Hyde” and centers on a mild-mannered suburban dad (Slater) who learns that his alter ego is a spy.
• KATH & KIM – A comedy series based on the hit Australian sitcom about a divorced woman, KATH, with a married daughter out of the house who dating a great guy and looking terrific. Just as things are about to get really serious with her boyfriend, KATH’s daughter KIM leaves her perfectly nice husband and moves in with her mother, upending her life.
  
• KNIGHT RIDER
• SNL Thursday Night Live – During the Elections
  
• CRUSOE -Adaptation of the classic novel follows a shipwrecked man and his loyal manservant as they struggle to survive on an island fraught with natural and man-made perils.
  
• W* THE PHILANTHROPIST – A dramatic series about an iconoclastic billionaire who looks
  for ways to distribute his wealth and help people by using all of his
  resources, regardless of the risk.
  
• W* THE OFFICE SPIN-OFF- TBD
  
• W* MERLIN – Merlin & his friend Prince Arthur grow up in Camelot where magic has been banned
  
• W* KINGS – A modern-day re-imagining of the historical story of King David, featuring a strong leader who unites two previously divisive factions.

CANCELLED on NBC:

• Las Vegas
• Bionic Women
• Journeyman

RENEWED on NBC:

• Chuck
• Heroes
• The Biggest Loser
• Law & Order:SVU
• Lipstick Jungle
• Deal or No Deal
• MY Name is Earl
• 30 Rock
• The Office
• ER
• LIFE
• W*Celebrity Apprentice
• W*Friday Night Lights (will be on DIRECT TV first)

ABC

PICKED UP:

• Life on Mars – A U.S. adaptation of the BBC series about a 21st century detective who is mysteriously transported back to the 1970′s.

CANCELLED:

• Big Shots
• Cashmere Mafia
• Men in Trees
• October Road
• Women’s Murder Club

RENEWED:

• Boston Legal
• Brothers & Sisters
• Desperate Housewives
• Dirty Sexy Money
• Eli Stone
• Grey’s Anatomy
• Lost
• Private Practice
• Pushing Daisies
• Ugly Betty

FOX:

PICKED UP:

• Dollhouse - A group of agents working for a shadowy organization are programmed with certain talents and personality traits for specific missions. Between assignments, they reside in a compound called the Dollhouse where their memories are wiped clean. When one member of the group becomes self-aware, she starts trying to find answers to who she really is and the company’s mysterious purpose.
• The Fringe - A dramatic series centering on a young female FBI agent who unites with a brilliant, and perhaps crazy institutionalized research scientist. Together, they confront powerful and unexplained phenomena.

CANCELLED:

• K-Ville
• New Amsterdam

RENEWED:

• Prison Break
• Terminator

THE CW:

PICKED UP:

• 90210 - A contemporary version of the 1990′s FOX teen-driven soap opera. The main family consists of a grandmother who was a huge star in the 1970′s, her do-gooder son and his athletic wife who are in the their late 30′s and their two teenagers. Their sixteen year old daughter is an aspiring and talented actress and their adopted son is also sixteen, highly intelligent, but with lingering behavioral issues.
• Surviving the Filthy Rich – The story follows a young smart woman who is fired from her job at a tabloid newspaper, only to be hired by a very wealthy man to be the live-in tutor and life coach for his teenage granddaughters.

CANCELLED:

• Life is Wild
• Alien’s in America

RENEWED:

• America’s Next Top Model
• One Tree Hill
• Reaper
• Gossip Girl
• Supernatural
• Smallville

Heroes Season 3

Entertainment Weekly is reporting that when Season 3 of Heroe’s premieres on Sept 15th, it’ll premiere with a THREE hour event. Beginning at 8 with a recap of the first two seasons, and then at 9pm a 2 hour premiere!! Pretty exciting. Read all about it at Entertainment Weekly

NBC’s 2008-2009 Schedule

NBC’s 2008-2009 schedule includes FNL!!! Hoorah. Apparently in the fall DirectTV will air new episodes of FNL and then they will be followed in the winter on NBC. I guess I need to find a friend with DirectTV. There is this whole business of a Office spinoff. Should be interesting — I hope they don’t take anyone out of the original to put in the new one. Lipstick Jungle is also coming back! For all your updates I would look to Watch with Kristin and Ausiello — you can get the links from the blog roll on the right. Click more for the NBC Schedule

The shows are back!!! (soon!)

According to Ausiello, we have return dates for some of our favorite shows!

Feb 27th
Men in Trees (11 new episodes left)

March 24th
The Hills

April 10th
The Office – 6 new episodes

April 14th
One Tree Hill (4 new episodes remain) – 6 additional episodes

APRIL 13th
Desperate Housewives – 7 new episodes

APRIL 20th
Brothers & Sisters – 4 new episodes

APRIL 21
Gossip Girl – 5 new episodes

APRIL 24th 
Grey’s Anatomy – 5 new episodes
Ugly Betty – 5 new episodes

APRIL/MAY
Lost (5 New episodes Left) – 5 additional episodes

No New Episodes until the Fall:
Dirty Sexy Money (3 new episodes remain)
Heroes
Private Practive
Pushing Daises

TBD:
Friday Night Lights
Prison Break

PS – I have been incrediably remiss in blogging Brothers&Sisters, I will get back on that ASAP!!

Cute Article

So the New York Post has done this great little piece with some of our favorite TV writers rewriting the season finales of our favorite shows. Def. read the ones about The Office and FNL, they are hilarious.

http://nymag.com/news/features/43592/

The best of Spoiler Ask

Soo every Monday I read the Spoiler Chat over at Watch with Kristin and every Wednesday I read Ask Ausiello over at TV Guide. I thought it would be fun to just recap some of my favorite questions for you all to read. But I would totally recommend going and reading the whole posts themselves because there’s bound to be some questions on there that you have too! Also, cleary these are SPOILERS so read with caution

New role for Heroes Hayden?

So I read this on People this morning and I just had to repost. People is reporting that director Christopher Columbus (Mrs. Doubtfire, Harry Potter 1 & 2) is in talks with Hayden Pantierre to be in the new movie adaptation of I Love you Beth Cooper. Now oddly enough, I got this book for Christmas and I read the whole thing on my flight from Philly to LAX. They want Hayden to play the Beth Cooper character — and even tho she’s a high school cheerleader, she’s a totally different character from her Heroes counter part. I’m not sure how they would adapt it for film, and I don’t want to ruin it for anyone — but it’s def. a risque part.

Read the People Article Here

Buy — I Love you Beth Cooper — here.

In other news — I’m off to get my CA License Plates!!! I’m a true Californian now haha

Or just go home…?

Welcome back Lindsay!
Lots and Lots to catch up on. First the recaps:

Heroes:
Tonight is the season finale — as of now anyways. As we heard awhile back they changed the ending because of the strike. In this episode we see creepy Sylar basically holding Mohinder, Molly, and eventually Mya hostage — he wants his powers back dammit! Claire is still deciding to go public with the fact that shes a hero. Momma Petrelli tells Matt that he should kill Peter if he gets in the way of trying to release the virus. What What!? Hiro almost dies at the hand of Peter AHH. I feel more and more bad for Elle, her dad tortured her in testing her as a child!! Favorite Moment: Matt & Nathan flying together well really just landing. Hilarious. Woah Sylar totally shot Mya — they decided to get rid of those twins quickly *ala Nikki & Palo* Oh timeout — shes alive. But they killed Nikki in a totally lame none super hero way… sad—whatever she always had the lamest hero power story anyways. Although, she was redeeming herself a bit. LOVED that Hiro totally buried Adam alive hahah but can he survive? The end is kinda stupid with the montage of all the heroes doing their super thing — clearly this is the new ending. Then — DAMN Peter Petrelli is totally shot before he says he can fly! Who shot him? His mom? And is he really dead? Apparently in 2008 we will know — they fail to tell us it might not be until the Fall of 2008 but whatever. We see into chapter three that Slyar gets his powers back.

The Hills:
Yeaaahh! Did anyone else notice how little color is on Heidi’s face — whats with all the neutrals it looks weird. Audrina & LC have a Halloween party at their place — which looks kinda lame — they have beer pong? I thought only us weirdos who wished they were still in college did that — apparently rich reality tv stars do too! Why is Jen Bunney there? When did she get back on the good side? We see Audrina has a new boytoy, Corey the Australian with the ugly lip ring!! Whatever he is a vast improvement from JB. She-Pratt decides to tell Spencer that Heidi is unsure of their wedding plans *after she said she wouldn’t* We should call her She-Biatch. Audrina goes on a date with the Aussie and in the OMG Rewind that DVR moment of the night he asks Audrina where they are going next — “Out..or just go home? WINK WINK” AHHHHHHH Their looks are priceless — I hope to see the spoof within 48 hours. My roommate and I totally scream LO at the same time when our favorite Lo graces the scene again at dinner with LC. LC talks to Audrina back in the APT and we get this from LC *courtesy of LB who Imed it to me and said I must include in the blog lol* “he returns your calls, which justin didn’t. he likes to kiss, which justin didn’t. he bathes, which justin didn’t…UPgrade!!!” In other news — LC totally is crushing on Brody and at their dinner at the Off Vine Restaurant (which looks totally cute has anyone been there?) Brody kinda looks sincere that he likes her too! Next week is the season finale.

The thing that sucks about this is we know Heidi & Spencer don’t break up bc they were totally Christmas Tree shopping this weekend according to TMZ, and LC & Brody are totally not dating courtesy of People.com Sigh…

In other news:
Big Brother & Survivor are officially back!! RealityTV Mag
Listen to Blake Lewis’s new album for free on AOL:Blake Lewis Audio Day Dream

Page Six finally joined the bandwagon and has their own webpage — with a skyline and palm trees? Is that supposed to be NYC and LA?? Page Six

Tomorrow I will hopefully do my youtubes of the week because I have some great ones lined up!

Goodbye Justin Bobby

Heroes:
Great Episode yeaah! Claire thinks her dad is dead and spreads his ashes over the sea — and in total awesome blonde vs blonde she lets Elle know how powerful she is and that she will be watching her. In other news whats with the tears in saying goodbye to West — did we forget he can fly and visit her whenever they want? Slyer is totally creepy and OMG he totally made out with Mya while her brother laid dead behind his door. Totally did not see the whole Molly thing coming and both me and my roommate gasped. Why the hell didn’t Suresh tell the cabby to stop and turn around — then again what could the guy with no powers do? Peter & Adam go in search of the virus that will kill everyone and so does Hiro — who will win in that battle? And in total freak out scariness the chick from The Nine who has those weird I can copycat anything powers gets kidnapped by a bunch of hoodlums. Totally freaked me out. Next week is the last episode and two people die. dum dum dum.

The Hills:
SQUEAL. Good episode — this one focuses on Spencer’s sister aka she=pratt who is totally gross skanky and way to shinny for TV. Also we focus on Audrina and Jesus,Mary&Joseph Justin Bobby (come on did you see what he wore to Opera — ps does anyone know a promoter for Opera bc I totally have been saying I want to go for weeks now and now it was on the Hills so its gonna be impossible to get in grr). JB was def macking on some ugly girl with black lipstick and Audrina called him out on it! Then he tries to apologize and gets all dressed up and slicks his hair back, and we see what he would look like if he was normal, and he gets DENIED. Good for you Audrina! Also we see that She-Pratt is just as obnoxious and immature as her brother and that Heidi is beginning to see their immaturity. Where did Lo go!?! Next week looks awesome!

Thanksgiving Holidays!

Helllo all you creative somethings. Tomorrow starts the Thanksgiving holiday for me, which means I will be flying home to Jersey to spend time with my family, and I can not wait!! So blogging will def. get the back-burner this week, but I will try and do small updates when the time permits.

(I don’t blog on Chuck — -but OMG Sarah totally kissed him when they thought they were gonna die! squeal!)
Great Episodes of Heroes and The Hills tonight!!

Heroes:
Basically we learn that Hiro is back, he finds out who killed his father, and he learns *from his father no less* that he can’t play God and he should let things play out as they seem — so Hiros dad stays dead and Hiro finds out it’s totally Kensei who killed his father. Who didn’t see that coming? On the other story front, Elle is still a total bad girl and I totally loved seeing her all captured and helpless it was totally different from every other scene we’ve seen her in and it def. showed her acting abilities fooo shooo. *did I just say that?* Anyways, Claire tells her dad she hates him (after he says they are moving again), which clearly send a red flag to everyone — but in the end Daddy saves the day by capturing the above mentioned Elle to exchange for Claire *who was taken hostage via Bald guy with glasses who is Elle’s father and I don’t know his name*. Loved every scene with West — the annoying flying boy is starting to grow on me, he really was there to help Claire and to comfort her after her dad was shot by MOHINDER whhhaaat? Yeah but the big shocker clearly comes when we find out that the blood they took from Claire — was injected into HRG, who is TOTALLY ALIVE. WHAAAT — kinda crazy and I kinda love it.

The Hills:
Basically Heidi & Spencer fight and Whitney goes out with a Guido. good times. PS has anyone else noticed how shiny Spencer is and how caked on Heidi’s makeup is. This is what my roommate and I have taken note of and yeah EWW. Nothing else much really happened, but the big excitingness comes next week with a possible Justin Bobby break up and Spencer has a sister!?!?! Whaaaat. Good Times. What happened to Lo?
LB: Eh not that big a fan of Lo, she started drama with Audrina in Vegas with Justin Bobby. Kinda highschool. PS, anyone notice that Audrina has weird eyes? Like one might be a little lazy? So I watched the Hills as I was trying to go to sleep last night and my rage at Spencer literally kept me up. His BS excuse that the wedding plans were stressing him out? Seriously? since when does watching your fiance look through a bridal magazine count as planning. I mean come on Spencer, Heidi literally said that all you have to do is show up. I would never have taken him back after that many attempts to sabatoge the wedding (but I think we all know that Spencer would be missing a few key manly parts if I had ever attempted to date him). I sincerely am starting to hope that the show is scripted, cause as much as i dislike Heidi, my hate for Spencer goes so far and above that i dont want to see her with him! And three cheers for the upcoming end of Justin Bobby!! This weeks edition of People Magazine has a little blurb about Audrina dating a model, and he doesnt seem like the type to burb. Yay!

Monday Night TV

OK so this weeks Prison Break was a long two hours. But it did not disappoint. Although I can admit I HATE that this show is in Panama, its all dirty and grimy and honestly it makes the show hard to watch its just so much more gory — and its on at 8pm what what? Although its hard to watch, its hard not to watch — i found myself freaking out and not wanting to watch but peeking thru my eyes *which clearly my hands were covering lol* Totally suprised about the chick with the short hair coming back to save Alex — is it all for real? We will find out. He does play a great drug addict tho. Totally shocked at the whole twist in the end with Whistler knowing “Gretchen” what what? And the previews for next week look INTENSE.

The Hills - It’s the Young Hollywood party and Whitney is in charge! Oh looks it’s Heidi’s 21st bday — who knew she wasn’t 21 yet. Audrina and Justin Bobby go to see the Ruse at the viper room (oddly enough when I went to go see Onerepublic at The Roxy some guy handed all of us a copy of their demo and i didn’t listen to it. woops) I’m sure the people love how audrina the secretary at epic is saying she can give their cd out. The only person i recognized at this young Hollywood party was Emmy Rossum. Oh and now Hilary Duff. AHhh Love that they played that song “alll around the world” which was totally the song for the premier of the OC when they had the fashion show. Is it sad that I know that? Ahahahah one of the Ruse members “likes her” I bet the producers totally set that shit up too. I miss Lo they need to make her a series regular.
Next Week: Heidi & Lauren have a confrontation! woaaah Lauren says “I want to forgive you and I want to forget you” LOVE IT.

Heroes: Ok let me just preferance that this has been the first episode of Heroes that I really truley enjoyed. Angela Petrelli is alive? The company could be the good guys? And how about the Dream team of Matt, Nikki, Nathan and Surish (kinda weird?) Flying Boy Boyfriend finding out about Claires HRG secret…Hiro’s story finally having some meaning — because FRIGGIN KENSEI IS THIS ADAM GUY THEY’VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT FOR WEEKS. SHUT UP. hahah great episode, let’s hope it continues.