Emmy Nominations…

Well I was so excited for this day….but alas I am now sad.  We got a whole big SNUB for my favorite Friday Night Lights.  The one show who really needed the Emmy Nods.  Sigh — this will most likely be the end of FNL so enjoy it this season while it last.  Otherwise YEAH for Kristin Chenoweth, Matt Dillion, and everyone in John Adams.  BIG YEAH for American Idol & Ryan Seacrest (although secretly I think Jeff Probst should TOTALLY win for Survivior — he is the BEST host in the biz…)   I am also totally surprised Pushing Daises did not make the cut, I thought it would WIN jeeeze….

EDIT: Just watched Neil Patrick Harris and Kristin Chenoweth read the nominations, they are so cute they should do a show together!!  Also I totally almost cried when they were both told they were nominated ahahah

Here are the nominations:

Outstanding Drama Series

• Boston Legal
• Damages
• Dexter
• House
• Lost (YEAHH — this is the ONLY show I watch on this list, that is sad!)
  
• Mad Men

Outstanding Comedy Series

• Curb Your Enthusiasm
• Entourage (woo)
  
• The Office (double woo!)
  
• 30 Rock
• Two And A Half Men (again..really?)
  

Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series

• James Spader, Boston Legal
• Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
• Michael C. Hall, Dexter
• Hugh Laurie, House
• Gabriel Byrne, In Treatment
• Jon Hamm, Mad Men

Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series

• Sally Field, Brothers & Sisters (yeah!)
  
• Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer
• Glenn Close, Damages
• Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (yeah!)
  
• Holly Hunter, Saving Grace

Outstanding Lead Actor In A Comedy Series

• Tony Shalhoub, Monk
• Steve Carell, The Office  (woooo)
  
• Lee Pace, Pushing Daisies
• Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
• Charlie Sheen, Two And A Half Men

Outstanding Lead Actress In A Comedy Series

• Julia Louis-Dreyfus, The New Adventures Of Old Christine
• Christina Applegate, Samantha Who?
• Tina Fey, 30 Rock
• America Ferrera, Ugly Betty
• Mary-Louise Parker, Weeds

Outstanding Lead Actor In A Miniseries Or A Movie

• Ralph Fiennes, Bernard And Doris
• Ricky Gervais, Extras: The Extra Special Series Finale
• Paul Giamatti, John Adams
• Kevin Spacey, Recount
• Tom Wilkinson, Recount

Outstanding Lead Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie

• Catherine Keener, An American Crime
• Susan Sarandon, Bernard And Doris
• Judi Dench, Cranford (Masterpiece Theatre)
• Laura Linney, John Adams (HAS to win)
  
• Phylicia Rashad, A Raisin In The Sun

Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Drama Series

• William Shatner, Boston Legal
• Ted Danson, Damages
• Zeljko Ivanek, Damages
• Michael Emerson, Lost (WIN WIN WIN)
  
• John Slattery, Mad Men

Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series

• Candice Bergen, Boston Legal
• Rachel Griffiths, Brothers & Sisters  (yeah!)
  
• Chandra Wilson, Grey’s Anatomy
• Sandra Oh, Grey’s Anatomy
• Dianne Wiest, In Treatment

Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series

• Jeremy Piven, Entourage (yeah!)
  
• Kevin Dillon, Entourage (DOUBLE yeah!)
  
• Neil Patrick Harris, How I Met Your Mother
• Rainn Wilson, The Office (yeaahh)
  
• Jon Cryer, Two And A Half Men

Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series

• Kristin Chenoweth, Pushing Daisies  (SING LADY SING!)
  
• Jean Smart, Samantha Who?
• Amy Poehler, Saturday Night Live
• Holland Taylor, Two And A Half Men
• Vanessa Williams, Ugly Betty

Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Miniseries Or A Movie

• David Morse, John Adams
• Stephen Dillane, John Adams
• Tom Wilkinson, John Adams
• Denis Leary, Recount
• Bob Balaban, Recount

Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie

• Eileen Atkins, Cranford (Masterpiece Theatre)
• Ashley Jensen, Extras: The Extra Special Series Finale
• Alfre Woodard, Pictures Of Hollis Woods (Hallmark Hall Of Fame Presentation)
• Audra McDonald, A Raisin In The Sun  (love her! lets have Kristin & Audra win!)
  
• Laura Dern, Recount

Outstanding Guest Actor In A Drama Series

• Stanely Tucci, ER
• Glynn Turman, In Treatment
• Robin Williams, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• Robert Morse, Mad Men
• Oliver Platt, Nip/Tuck
• Charles Durning, Rescue Me

Outstanding Guest Actor In A Comedy Series

• Shelley Berman, Curb Your Enthusiasm
• Rip Torn, 30 Rock
• Will Arnett, 30 Rock
• Steve Buscemi, 30 Rock
• Tim Conway, 30 Rock

Outstanding Guest Actress In A Comedy Series

• Polly Bergen, Desperate Housewives
• Kathryn Joosten, Desperate Housewives
• Sarah Silverman, Monk
• Carrie Fisher, 30 Rock
• Edie Falco, 30 Rock
• Elaine Stritch, 30 Rock (haha AND Elaine, we can have a musical theatre takeover of TV!)
  

Outstanding Guest Actress In A Drama Series

• Ellen Burstyn, Big Love
• Dihann Carroll, Grey’s Anatomy
• Cynthia Nixon, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• Anjelica Huston, Medium
• Sharon Gless, Nip/Tuck

Outstanding Individual Performance In A Variety Or Music Program

• Jon Stewart, host; 80th Annual Academy Awards
• Stephen Colbert, host; The Colbert Report
• David Letterman, host; Late Show With David Letterman
• Don Rickles, performer; Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
• Tina Fey, host; Saturday Night Live

Outstanding Reality Program

• Antiques Roadshow
• Dirty Jobs
• Extreme Makeover Home Edition
• Intervention
• Kathy Griffin: My Life On The D-List

Outstanding Reality-Competition Program

• The Amazing Race (yeah!)
  
• American Idol (YEAH!!!)
  
• Dancing With The Stars
• Project Runway (yeah!)
  
• Top Chef

Outstanding Host For A Reality Or Reality-Competition Program

• Ryan Seacrest, American Idol  (WOO)
  
• Tom Bergeron, Dancing With The Stars
• Howie Mandel, Deal Or No Deal
• Heidi Klum, Project Runway (yeah!)
  
• Jeff Probst, Survivor (WIN IT!!!)
  

Outstanding Miniseries

• The Andromeda Strain
• Cranford (Masterpiece Theatre)
• John Adams
• Tin Man

Outstanding Made For Television Movie

• Bernard And Doris
• Extras: The Extra Special Series Finale
• The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
• A Raisin In The Sun
• Recount

Outstanding Variety, Music Or Comedy Series

• The Colbert Report
• The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
• Late Show With David Letterman
• Real Time With Bill Maher
• Saturday Night Live

Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour)

• Creature Comforts America
• King Of The Hill
• Robot Chicken
• The Simpsons
• SpongeBob SquarePants

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

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/

Guess who I saw?

Project Runway:
So in this weeks episode the designers are asked to pick a fashion trend that is out of style and make it work in today’s fashion. But they are put into groups of three and are asked to incorporate all of the ideas into a cohesive pattern. I can’t decide what I think. I am glad that they are pushing these people into tough situations to see their creativity and stuff but these things just seem unrealistic. In the end the group that won incorporated Overalls, Poodle skirts, and 70’s flare into three really cute outfits. I was kinda surprised that Christian’s group didn’t win but meh. Christopher (the costume designer) is OUT. Next week looks kinda crazy

Dirty Sexy Money:
What an episode. The Brief synopsis goes like this. Simon Elder and Karen are still sleeping together but it turns out she is totally using him after her dad told her too —huh? But she is starting to fall for him ut oh. Juliet has a boyfriend who she wants to loose her virginity too and he has some sort of weird accent and I’m sure will hurt her in the long end. Carmalita thinks she is being followed and then ends up getting kidnapped hmm. Patrick pretty much looses his job and he decides to leave the church and work for his dad. Jeremy gets high with Nick’s wife, he kisses her, he confesses he was lying to his girl, she leaves him, and Nick’s wife gets fired from her job bc a giant sponge smells like pot HAHA. Then they watch the nutcracker.

Friday Night Lights
We open with Landry confessing that he killed the rapist guy, but not saying it was out of self defense – he is basically being a stubborn idiot saying he wanted him dead and not helping himself out at all. I do not get this. OMG Carlotta in bed with Matt and they are joking about it — this is kinda weird. Does anyone else thing baby Gracie is kinda weird looking? Asshole Julie is the Godmother, that’s nice –maybe she will stop being a little bitch now. Jason is back in this episode and he is going to try online dating. This Isabella girl looks just like Lyla — and when he gets a phone call for a date it’s right in front of Lyla, surprise surprise. Wow Rigggins roommate is a psycho stalker and eventually Riggins leaves and ends up camping outside of the Taylors home. Isabella and Jason have there date – she is totally fug – and “peeing” turns her on – some redheaded waitress helps Jason out and you know they are totally gonna hook up. In the meantime Santiago finally gets some sense knocked into him by Buddy Garrison and he kicks ass and practically wins the football game for the Panthers! Jason doesn’t come home from his wild hookup with the redheaded waitress and he tells his parents he is moving out. They have Gracie’s christening and Landry confesses that it was self defense *after Tyra tell him she was scarred for her life*, the police are not pressing charges. The End.

 

In other news cutie David Blue (aka Micheal’s boyfriend on Ugly Betty) was totally mugged this week! It was on Just Jared yesterday but TMZ picked it up today! Here is the link to his blog :

David Blue Myspace

Also in other news on the way to Mood last night me and a few friends def. saw Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, and Penelope Cruz (ok so I didnt really see her but he paparazzo said that she was with them) coming out of a private party at Parc in Hollywood — I tried to take a photo but it’s just of their car. Still reallly cool. I don’t usually get that starstruck around people or do I really see that many stars out there but to see Tom Cruise & David Beckham earlier in the week and now these guys — I guess I really do live in LA.

IM BAACCKK

Well I am back in LA and I am almost caught up on all of the TV I missed last week. Lets just do a short recap:

Kid Nation:
Holy crap why would they elect Greg into the council he is an asshole! But totally glad that Laurel won the gold star. Does anyone have a little crush on green guy Michael — if he were ten years older he would be great haha does he have an older brother?

Dirty Sexy Money:
meh ok episode — found myself not paying attention towards most of it, mainly because I was packing — maybe I’ll watch again. Sources say that we will find out this week who the odd-Darling out is. PS did I mention I love Jeremy Darling? Did we see how Juliet is still missing — they must have taped these episodes during her “rehab stint”.

Project Runway:
Sarah Jessica Parker yeaah! So glad Christian is still safe and I totally want to buy a vest now.

America’s Next Top Model:
The stripper is gone yaahoo. Chantal and Selicia totally sold that cover girl ad they are in it for the long run — and although I still like Heather I mean really how could she be a cover girl? I also didn’t really like her photo-shoot and I really didn’t like Biancas either what a bitch!

Ugly Betty:
Much better episode — although I hated the whole Bradford dream sequence — when did this show become so trippy? I really liked the idea of everyone pulling together to get this magazine up and running and I loved Daniels idea of the blank front page. I feel bad for Amanda…she’ll find her dad eventually.

Survivor was a recap, Gossip Girl was a repeat, Friday Night Lights wasn’t on, and no more The Office until la strike is over
Speaking of the Strike watch this video:

Ugly Betty & Friday Night Lights

Soo Lindsay might have to help me on the Ugly Betty front, because I found myself reading the new Entertainment Weekly occasionally instead of watching the show.

Ugly Betty:
This week was about Caleb Nichol Bradford Meade having a heart attack and being stuck in the hospital unconscious. Betty goes to her office and we meet Monique L’Amanda who is the desk night weekend guard chick. Really? Betty has a weird trippy dream thing where she seems herself on the first day at mode and she realizes how screwed up shes become. She comes home and finds Claire Meade and her prison chick (seriously what do we call her?) and they decide Betty needs to sneak back into Mode to find out what the Will says. Betty reluctantly agrees — but only for Daniels sake, even tho he just fired her! Back at the hospital the tranny and Daniel are fighting over whether they want their father to live or die — its compelling television people, and alas Caleb/Bradford awakes to tell them to not fight yadda yadda. Betty tries to break into Mode but L’amanda won’t let her, so shes uses Henry to distract her yadda yadda they get caught when we see Marc & Whilimena also trying to read the will. It’s not in the vault, so they go to the secret sex chamber…and the next thing we know Bradford’s dead. Yeah I guess somewhere in between there is when I stopped watching sooo Lindsay help me out here. meh on the Ugly Betty front.
LB notes: It was an ok episode, I like any time they feature Clare Meade, shes nuts! So Monique/L’Amanda, not funny, seriously, what a waste of TV. And the Betty from the past was a poor way to make a good point – that Betty has changed somewhat. But honestly, would it have made Betty a better person to tell Daniel that Willie is cheating on his dad and leave HER dad to rot in Me-hi-co? Or to doublecross Willihiemena? i dont think so, so get over it old betty!
Clare Meade hiding in the closet was funny at first, but the prison accomplice has gone from kinda somewhat funny to stupid, i hope shes gone for good. Amanda had a nice little speech to Daniel about telling his dad he loves him, when did she grow some emotional deapth?!?
Kristin has the basic plot right – Willie cant inherit unless shes married to Bradford/Caleb (Cabford? hehe) – Marc has one of the funniest lines in the episode, “I’m gonna have to go back to dancing in a cage in my underwear!” hahaha. Willie decides to shanghai Bradford into a wedding (with Marc officiating, haha) but he realizes shes lying about the affair and kicks her out of the ICU. Betty goes to talk to him and he says he misses Clare, who Betty gets on the phone, and whoops Clare blows her cover and goes to speak to Bradford. Their scene was kinda touching, but eh. she gets manhandled out of the ICU by the police, Daniel and Alexis follow (anyone else miss the old scheming Alexis? the one who, though not literally, had some balls?) and Betty goes to sit with Bradford, who promptly dies, just after telling her to take care of Daniel. Boo Hoo, Alan Dale has 2 heart attacks on the books now (PS – he was on 2 episodes of Lost?!?). The show ends with Willie trying to bribe a young doc just out of med school, who obviously has loans (haha shout-out to the boyfriend!) to do something nefarious with Brad’s body. Like let her marry a corpse?!?! We shall see!
Next Week: Willie tries to take over Mode, obvi.

Friday Night Lights,
Yeaaaahhhheeeee hahah I love this show so much and I hope all 53 of you who read this blog yesterday are watching it to. This episode is all about Pantharama, a huge tradition that they apparently left out last year. woops. We open this episode with the brooding Tim Riggins leaving his house after seeing his good for nothing brother coming home with his next door neighbor who Tim used to sleep with. (Now doesn’t that sentence alone make you want to watch the show?) So Tim clearly has to go to his exgfs house to go stay with her and her stripper sister. Love it. Back at Dillion High School we find out that it is the first week of recruitment for the seniors which means a lot of schools are going to be looking out for Smash! We also see Landry telling Tyra that his father blew up his car, and there is a new teacher who looks just like Shane West and low and behold his name is Mr. Noah Barnett which alas Shanes name on ER was Dr. Ray Barnett. Come on people. Back to new English teacher — he is super young and is also the head of the Newspaper, which Julie works on, her assignment this week is to write an article about where all the money goes that is collected at Pantharama (I love when Coach reads it and he says something like “Coach Taylor did not comment –’She asked me when I was in the Bathroom!’) Clearly Julie is gonna develop something with this teacher dum dum dum. Speaking of relationships Matt and the new cheerleader are all sorts of PDA in the hallway which makes Julie all sad…Julie & Matt better get back together soon! In the meantime Santiago *you know the juvie that Lyla rescues that is now working at her fathers car dealership and is playing for the Panthers* turns out he is an orphan and so guess who he gets to move in with. You guesssed it Buddy Garrity, oh the joy this brings to my life. We get to Pantharama where the football players take off all their clothes (thanks to the entertainment department of Tyra & Lyla — I didn’t know Lyla was still in school hmm). Then the clincher — Nurse lady kisses Matt woaaaah. What’s with the older people inappropriateness in this town? Doesn’t matter I still love it. Next episode in two weeks!
Panther Pride!!

Thursday Night TV

Wellll here we go again.

Survivor:
Did anyone else notice how they trimmed down the opening credits? I’ve never seen them do that before in 15 seasons. They only featured the people that are still in the show. WEIRD. Beginning of the episode is quite drab, until JeanRobert finds out about the hidden immunity idol and hilarity ensues. I also enjoyed the lovely comment by I can not even remember “This place has been here about a 1000 years I’m sure they can make a won-ton.” I applaud Todd with his whole lets make this game fun, lets switch it up attitude but even his BFF Amanda is doubting him. He needs to pick a path and stick to it bc I heart Todd and I DO NOT want everyone turning on him. But I thought the idea of sideswiping James was amazing too bad it didn’t happen. Loved Frosti singing at the immunity challenge *ps both of the challenges were pretty weak this week*, LOVED Erik talking to JR about the immunity necklaces he’s so cute!! And I loved Todds reaction to JR getting voted out even more. Ahhh goodbye asshole poker player. Good episode. Next week could be a double elimination? ?? What What??

The Office:
Only one more episode left after this one — due to the strike…sad.
Have I mentioned I love Toby and I thought his monologue about the retreat was great *I wish we would have seen some of that!* and Micheal butting in with a “HEY NOBODY CARES” was beyond perfect. The whole idea for the episode was a little weak — it clearly has to do with the big wigs at NBC telling them to tie in something to do with their “get green” shit they’ve been doing all week. But they made a boring idea for an episode quite hilarious. Dwight with all of his hidden weapons — clearly the best one was the one in the file drawer labeled “Mr. A Knife” ahahahhah. Dwight hitting Michael with the shoe “It would be better if you were unconscious”. Poor Jim trying to combine the birthdays — come on everyone wants their own special day. Loved the montage of everyones bday with Michael “Blacks do Crack — not the drug”. Creed with his “Tell her it’s for Creed, she’ll know what that means”. Michael coming back wearing a Battlestar Gallactica sweatshirt and clearly the best moment of the night — Jim saying “that’s what she said”. LOVE IT.

Ugly Betty:
AWFUL AWFUL. I only say this because of the end. I hated last week and this one almost topped the cake. When did this show become serious and unfunny. Let’s do a Marc and Amanda spinoff bc they are the only reason I am still watching this. Posh was great “She’s practically like my second mum”. Loved Vera Wang. Still love Marc and his gay guy (but he is sooo not gay in real life no way) . Great to find out a bit more about Christina’s husband — do we think he is playing her? New Gay BF Soooo cute showing up all dapper to the wedding. I’m glad Betty showed up to her fathers hearing — that speech they make them do — is that for real? It is INTENSE. Can not believe Daniel fired Betty YIKES. AND WORST MOMENT OF THEM ALL — Did Ugly Betty turn into The OC??? Not only do we have Caleb Nichol collapsing ala season two finale of OC at his wedding THEY PLAYED HALLELUJAH ARE YOU KIDDING ME. GAG times two.

Hilarious Clip from BestWeekEver about the future of TV
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Back in LaLa Land

Well I made it safely back to LA — horrah.

And I finally got to catch up on my shows I missed this week.

Ugly Betty
Is this show loosing something? OK I will admit I adore the new plot with Marc and his new boyfriend, it’s so cute to see Mark so vulnerable and I loved his whole schpeal to Amanda about why he likes Cliff. But, on the other hand I am sooo sick of Betty & Henry. Will they won’t they blah blah blah just get over it. At the end of the episode when they did the slow fade on Betty & Henry’s faces with Defying Gravity in the background — made me want to throw up. YUCK. Also, everyone knows that they went and did all that taping from Wicked at the Pantages here in LA — come on it looks nothing like the Gershwin!! I am glad that Justin is back in his Broadway loving mood so yeah to that. We’ll see how next week goes.

Friday Night Lights:
I saved this one for last because sigh…really it’s the best show on Television right now. It’s the first show since the first season of the OC to make me laugh out loud and cry my eyes out in one episode. (And all you OC haters can shove it bc the writing on that first season was great).
This weeks episode did heavy focus on our favorite parents ever Mr & Mrs Coach, who were just outstanding. How did Connie Britton & Kyle Chandler not get nominated for these roles? At the end when Mrs Coach says lets fool around and Mr Coach just went and picked her up I just about cracked up.
Loved the interaction with Julie & Matt. I of course love the two of them together, and I sure to hope that they get back together, BUT I love that Matt stood up for himself this week! Julies been such a brat lately and she deserved that stub by Matt (total plus for mentioning a The Decemberist concert — I want to go!).
Jason finally came to his senses and decided to not get the shark surgery (did I really just say that?). I nearly had a heart-attack when he jumped off the boat. Does anyone else think it’s totally weird that Lyla & Jason’s parents aren’t freaking out that their kids are in fing Mexico!? I mean we expect that from Riggins but….
Finally Landry & Tyra. I am so glad Landry had his little football moment. I bawled my eyes out when he made that tackle, and then when that yellow flag came down and the Panthers went on to win the game with everyone cheering LANDRY LANDRY. I think I will cry when Coach finally stops calling Landry Lance too.. haha

Next week looks like the big confession — we will see.

PS — if you still aren’t watching Friday Night Lights, you’re crazy. Watch it now.

EAGLES vs. COWBOYS tonight!!! GO BIRDS!!
Also, Amazing Race season 12 premieres tonight!

More later :)