Archive for August, 2007

Well it’s the last weekend of the summer and I’m off to the Great White North for a mini-getaway. Nothing says celebrate a United States holiday like spending said holiday in Canada. I’ll be in Montreal for the weekend, visiting those waydowntown and those speaking french. I so don’t speak french.

While I’m away, don’t forget to watch every episode of AMC’s seriously amazing MAD MEN on Sunday. Monday is an all day marathon of KYLE XY Season 2 over on ABC Family. I promise, on Monday – the Season Finale (of Part 1, Season 2) – I’ll get the rest of our interview with Kyle XY’s cutie Matt Dallas up. Read Part 1 now!

And if you’re not interested in watching television (what are you crazy), head on over to some of these blogs for some end of summer reading.

HEROES World Tour hit Toronto and TheTVAddict was there and covering the event with full force.

Interested in winning some of last seasons’ best DVD’s? Hit up GiveMeMyRemote and enter to win a few.

Want some behind the scenes videos of Chuck, Journeyman, and some other hot new fall shows? Daemons TV has them all!

Can’t get enough of the KID NATION drama? Head on over to TVSquad as they dish about some new problems facing those little munchkins.

Ever wonder what some of your favorite HEROES would look like as part of the Von Trapp family? Seriously OMG? has the kinky pictures! Think Claire, Peter, and Nathan in skirts… hot!

Tate Donovan is an actor that has been around for over 20 years. That’s long enough for me to have had a little boy crush on Tate back in the day… the SPACE CAMP day! Loved him more than words and it’s been fun to follow his career since. A few years back he nailed the role of Jimmy Cooper on The OC and currently he’s doing some of his best work on FX’s dramatic thriller DAMAGES.

Here is the interview from earlier in the week with Tate, and it saddens me that I didn’t get to ask about SPACE CAMP, working with super hot Kelly Preston, young Joaquin Phoenix, and Mrs. Steven Spielberg. Alas, he was fun and I hope you enjoy the interview.

Tate Donovan Interview Damages

Question: How has starring in a high-profile series with super popular Glenn Close rubbed off on you? Has it affected your life and/or career in unexpected ways?

T. Donovan: Working with Glenn Close is a fantastic experience. You have to bring your A game when you work with Ms. Close. She’s really well prepared. It’s actually really a joy, because she asks the director and the producers the best questions. Every time, she’s sort of like, “Well, hold on a second. Why is this?” She was asking about the plot, because it’s very confusing to everybody, exactly what’s going on in the case, since we’re not really lawyers. She’s very inspiring in terms of just the questions she asks, and you’re always going, “Geez, I wish I had asked that question,” like “Why does Frobisher do da, da, da, da, da?” Yes, she’s wonderful, a total inspiration.

Question: The writing, the characters are so nuanced in Damages. There is no clear-cut bad or good, just all sorts of shades of gray and in between. Your character, Tom, is for the most part, an on-the-level guy, but are you hopeful that the character will veer into the dark side more or stay more above the fray and above all the machinations that Patty has up her sleeve?

T. Donovan: What’s kind of exciting about Tom is that he, like all of us, we’re just trying to do the best we can and we’re trying to succeed and trying to do well. I think he lacks that killer instinct. Patty has it in state. She’s a genius. She knows exactly how to go in for the kill. Tom, I think he wants people to like him more. Patty doesn’t care; she just wants to win.

Somebody who wants everyone to like him generally gets into trouble, so I imagine Tom, like everyone else, like every other character, he has his moments of selfishness and his moments of greed. It’s funny; a lot of people are like, “I can’t believe, you’re the worst kind of evil. Your character is the worst, because he’s a nice guy and he’s evil.” I don’t particularly see him as evil. I see him as just a guy who is trying to survive in a pretty cut-throat environment.
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According to E! and ThePieMaker.com, JAYMA MAYS will guest star in the 4th episode of ABC’s spectacular PUSHING DAISIES.

Jayma Mays Cast on Pushing Daisies

You’ll probably remember Jayma best as Charlie, the girl Hiro couldn’t save on last seasons’ HEROES. You may also recognize her as Henry’s girlfriend Charlie on Ugly Betty.

Let’s call this when Charlie met Chuck. Jayma Mays will play “Elsita, a woman who leads a life of windmillery (she lives and works in a windmill)” – sounds perfectly odd, and perfectly Pushing Daisies.

KIM KELLY gets work again! Oh wait, she’s on ER but noone watches that so… Kim Kelley is my friend again!

Busy Philipps as Kim Kelly

Scooper Guru Ausiello is reporting:

Busy Philipps has been cast on How I Met Your Mother as the hottie who may or may not end up in the sack with Ted… and his hit-and-run fling, Trudy (Danica McKellar, the Wonder Years cutie, thankfully all grown up).

As you may recall me telling you in a recent Ask Ausiello, in the Oct. 15 episode, Trudy is ready to go another round with Ted, but a new rival has already staked her claim on him — Trudy’s old college frienemy, to be played by Philipps. So things could get heated in one of two ways: There could be name-calling and hair-pulling or clothes-ripping and sheets-tangling. (Either way, Ted’s one lucky mother.)

Though Philipps is likely to fit right in with the How crowd, don’t expect her to stick around beyond this pre-sweeps installment. Ted’s pal Lily gives the sexpot the big thumbs-down after realizing that she’s the shopper who ruined her shopping trip by walking off with a pair of coveted boots.

I really love me some Busy. She reminds me of my old friend Kelley C. from back in the ‘cuse. Ever since Freaks and Geeks I’ve had a weakness for Busy Philipps. She’s bitchy and unconventionally hot and seems to like the gays. We’d be freinds, I’m sure of it.

I think putting her on a episode of HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER will be hysterical and this October episode cannot come soon enough.

Big Brother 8

Well, it had to eventually happen America – AMBER the crying all the sudden Jesus freak has been evicted from the BIG BROTHER 8 house. I’m happy and sad, kind of like knowing that unicorns poop marshmallows - but that they poop at all is sad, ya know?

Amber or Whamber as Rae calls her has really been a great treat all summer. I’ll never forget the time she didn’t know what cynical meant or what cheese meant or when she outed her family as racists or when she said she was a lying drug addict. Good times! Sadly I think that she will have a really hard time going back home and facing her family and boyfriend after all the marbles she’s spilled.

In other news, after a week of actually thinking Eric might be a contestant I can root for, yeah… he went and ruined that. The way he took over Jessica’s HOH and bossed everyone around from not-his throne was really obnoxious and could be detrimental in the game. He went back to being a slime ball, and that’s not suiting.

Jessica has really stepped up her game and honestly I never once thought I would like her but in the last couple weeks she’s really grown on me.

I can’t even imagine how this week will play out. Its such a critical week in that house and it’s going to get ugly. I love it!

Only two more weeks of Big Brother 8, sad…

So, as much as I don’t want to see Isaiah Washington ever again, I have to admit I find some joy in seeing Michelle Ryan kick his ass in this promo shot for BIONIC WOMAN.

Bionic Woman Kicks Isaiah Washington’s Ass

For an even better version of this same picture, please head on over to TheTVAddict.com. Daniel has the most genius picture!

I’m off on an OFFICE Summer Outing and I want to kill myself. This promo for THE OFFICE was released yesterday and GMMR had it first but I had to post it in honor of my hellish Office outing.

SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE Video Death Match Logo
SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE Video Death Match
Week 1 Results

Wow, we had over 3500 votes and here’s who you’ve chosen to eliminate America.

SYTYCD Video Death Match Week 1 Results

So, Danny & Anya’s Fox Trot as well as Sara & Jesus’ Hobo routine have been eliminated. I’m a little surprised by Sara & Jesus being in the bottom 2 because that’s a really good routine. Oh well, moving on!

Tomorrow, Week 2’s voting will begin when our Top 8 go head to head in another So You Think You Can Dance Video Death Match!

GREY’S ANATOMY lost its way last season. It was uneven in plot development, character development and to be honest at times the show was borderline soap opera – like Passions, not General Hospital.

I personally went from out of my mind excited and enthused about the show to wanting to never watch another frame of film to being optimistic in the matter of one season. That’s a lot of emotional highs and lows.

The High:
It was mid July 2006 when a certain video hit youtube and rocked my world, shooting my anticipation for the upcoming season of Grey’s to an all time high and leaving me mesmerized and a little teary eyed. That video, The Fray’s “How To Save a Life” was the promotional mashup of Season 3 premiere footage and Fray’s music video footage and it was pure emotional genius. It was a manipulative masterpiece, and the second I finished it, I played it again, then another time before forwarding it to every person I know and posting on my blog.

Let’s watch shall we:

God remember how you just watched that and hypothesized whether or not the woods scenes were part of the show, was there a car crash – is someone dead? The questions were almost too much! Callie was dancing in her underwear and I felt closer to her and girl power than I ever had before (being a male and all). Then there’s the moment. The moment that sealed the deal for me and Season 3. The shots of Izzie on the bathroom floor after Denny’s death. Then the moment of moments, Meredith reaches out and grabs her hand and there’s that bone crushing but it doesn’t matter because the emotional pain is worse than the physical pain squeeze. I almost wept watching a music video!
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HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER Season 3 begins Monday, September 24th.

“Wait For It” – When Robin shows up with an Argentinean Adonis by her side, Ted decides he is ready to hit the town with Barney and his performance is legen…wait for it…dary! Enrique Iglesias guest stars as Gael, Robin’s new, sexy Argentinean lover.

Robin’s beaded hair is killing me! Go Robin Sparkles!!!

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Crazy Sexy Cancer Banner (TLC)
Am I the only one planning on watching the documentary CRAZY SEXY CANCER on TLC tonight? The film follows Kris Carr (actress and filmmaker) through her troubles with cancer as well as four other women battling forms of the disease.

Crazy Sexy Cancer airs on TLC at 9pm

The HEROES World Tour is well underway and I’m so jealous of anyone living in the cities they’re visiting. Here are some photos of cast members: Masi Oka, Greg Grunberg, Ali Larter, and Sendhil Ramamurthy in Tokyo.

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Heroes World Tour Photos, Masi Oka in Tokyo

Learn more about the Heroes World Tour and visit Seat42f for NYC Tour Photos

Well, looks like we won’t have to worry about what Kevin Smith would do to the cast and crew of Battlestar Galactica because Ron Moore is stating that Silent Bob is out!

According to slashfilm, Ron Moore posted on the Sci-Fi pages that because of scheduling conflicts, Smith will not be directing a episode of BSG.

Fine by me.

Dirty Sexy Money, ABC Cast Photo

DIRTY SEXY MONEY
Premieres: Wednesday, September 26th at 10pm
Network: ABC

Cast: Peter Krause as Nick George, Donald Sutherland as Tripp Darling, William Baldwin as Patrick Darling, Natalie Zea as Karen Darling, Glenn Fitzgerald as Rev. Brian Darling, Samaire Armstrong as Juliet Darling, Seth Gabel as Jeremy Darling, Zoe McLellan as Lisa George, with Jill Clayburgh as Letitia Darling and Blair Underwood as Simon Elder.

Photos:
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Preview:

Premise: Power, privilege and family money are a volatile cocktail.

Living proof of this are the Darlings of New York City, so absurdly wealthy, they put the “upper” in Upper East Side. This preeminent family are always getting mixed up with the wrong people and finding themselves in the middle of bad situations. It’ll take a miracle to take care of the legal and sometimes illegal needs of the Darling family.
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He goes from Spanking Monkey’s to Spanking Losties! JEREMY DAVIES has been cast on Season 4 of LOST.

Jeremy Davies Cast on LOST

Hollywood Reporter is saying that the scrawny actor will play on of the people out on that mysterious freighter Naomi mentioned before dying last season.

If you don’t know who Jeremy Davies is, please go watch SPANKING THE MONKEY and then go to the theatre and watch him waste away to a skeleton in RESCUE DAWN.

If Lost continues adding cast members, there’s no hope of Rose and Bernard getting screen time this year. Say it ain’t so…

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