We are almost 24 hours away from the LOST Season 4 Premiere and ABC is not joking around about promoting the return of Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Locke, Ben, Juliet and Co. Here is a new video promo released this morning by ABC. Enjoy!

If you just can’t wait for Season 4 premiere spoilers head on over to my girl GMMR because she’s already seen it.

It’s New Year’s Eve which means I’ll be in bed by 12:01 a.m. — whoo-hoo! Yeah, I’m increasingly more smug and old manish on New Year’s Eve. When I was a kid my parents would always have a huge party so it was great fun. When I was old enough to celebrate it with friends, it was a bunch of hardcore kids, a cactus accident, and no booze as all of us were straight-edge. Well, a decade or so later and I’m still not going to toast the new year with a drink so it’s kind of lost it’s luster.

I’ll probably head downtown for the parade and the “family” fireworks (over by 7:10 p.m.) and then head back home where I pray noone in my building is having a party so I can settle in to watch Cat Deeley, Strokey Clark, and some others until it’s time for me to say goodnight to 2007.

Remember back in the day when MTV had the best New Year’s Eve show ever? It was a huge countdown of the best videos of the year, then a huge party with a bunch of amazing artists performing. The best always being the alternative bands performing covers of 80s tunes just after the stroke of midnight. MTV’s gotten increasingly shitty so at most in recent years I’ve popped over for a second or two, enough to know I hate every one of their on air “talents” and enough to know that I hate almost every “artist” out there today.

This year we have even less to look forward to on MTV as that whore Tila Tequila basically has the night to her skanky self. Then add Perez, Kid Rock and Good Charlotte… hold on while I jump up and down looking for rope to hang myself with. How Mary J. got hooked into this telecast is beyond me. Girl, get out while you can. Tila Tequila’s New Year’s Eve Masquerade 2008 (11 pm/MTV)

Ex-MTV goldenboy Carson Daly is back on NBC with Alicia Keys and Lenny Kravitz. Project Runway’s recent dress form Tiki Barber is a correspondent. I don’t care for the newish waifish Carson Daly nor Alicia Keys… and is it New Years 1995 because I know Lenny Kravitz hasn’t had a hit in at least 10 years. New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly (11:35 pm/NBC)
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I know I’m a day or so behind on this one but cut me some slack… sicky over here. While I wish ABC would hold LOST Season 4 until all 16 episodes could air together, I’m pretty psyched to be getting 8 episodes this February.

Watch The Official LOST Season 4 Trailer

E!’s Kristin Dos Santos (click here to watch) had some possible spoilers about where PUSHING DAISIES could be going in the future. If you recall, in the last Pushing Daisies episode, my our beloved Ned The Pie Maker confessed to his beloved Chuck that he may possibly sorta kinda killed her Father.

Does that even matter if Papa Charles could possibly be not dead? What about Chuck’s Mother? Can our untouchable duo survive this fallout?

ThePieMaker.com has more information.

*Reminder: The last Pushing Daisies episode (”Corpsicle“) finished before the WGA Strike airs tomorrow night on ABC.

It’s official, KYLE XY will return for the second half of Season 2 (10 episodes remain) on January 14th. ABC Family has already renewed Kyle for a third season which should begin summer 2008 so don’t worry this is not the last we’ll see of Kyle, Matt Dallas’ naked body, Jessi, or the Tragers.

Yeah!

The delovely, delish, de-scoopable Michael Ausiello has put together a list of our favorite TV Shows and where they stand in terms of production, shows left to air, etc. in the wake of the WGA Strike. I will update this post as he does. Everyone give a huge shout-out to Mike for this incredibly comprehensive list.

24: Postponed indefinitely.

30 Rock: Ten episodes will be produced. Five episodes have aired, so there are five left.

Back to You: Nine episodes will be produced. Six episodes have aired, so there are three left.

Bionic Woman: Roughly nine episodes will be produced. Six episodes have aired, so there are three left.

Bones: Twelve episodes will be produced. Six episodes have aired, so there are six left.

Boston Legal: Fifteen episodes will be produced. Six episodes have aired, so there are nine left.

Brothers & Sisters: Twelve episodes will be produced. Six episodes have aired, so there are six left.

Chuck: Thirteen episodes will be produced. Seven episodes have aired, so there are six left.

CSI: NY: Fourteen episodes will be produced. Seven episodes have aired, so there are seven left.

Desperate Housewives: Ten episodes will be produced. Six episodes have aired, so there are four left.

Dirty Sexy Money: Eleven episodes will be produced. Six episodes have aired, so there are five left.

Friday Night Lights: Fifteen episodes will be produced. The sixth episode airs tonight, Nov. 9, so there are nine left.

Gossip Girl: Thirteen episodes will be produced. Seven episodes have aired, so there are six left.

Grey’s Anatomy: Eleven episodes will be produced. Seven episodes have aired, so there are four left.

The list continues after the jump…
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Say it ain’t so… The WGA Strike takes another life.

It looks as if my boy Bryan Fuller and his brilliant writing staff have retooled episode 9 of PUSHING DAISIES to be the season finale. Will Ned touch Chuck one last time? Will Olive runaway with Digby and start a flea circus? Will Emerson become the host of a knitting show on DIY? Are the Darling Mermaid Darlings destined to remain shut-in’s forever?

Head on over to ThePieMaker.com to read all about it and to discuss with other Daisies fans. No spoilers.

I’m proud to announce that I’m almost 100% caught up with shows! I believe that our DVR is down to 12% and the remaining shows are shows I’ve already watched and saved.

I had some time to kill last night while waiting for UPS to call and tell me that the frakkin’ package my brother sent me was back at their Customer Center so I could go pick it up. Guitar Hero III for the Wii in case you were wondering (I have a very cool older brother)…

So in the downtime I watched this week’s episode of DIRTY SEXY MONEY. Before I quickly go into my thoughts on it, can someone please send Samaire Armstrong to rehab AND overacting school please? She’s the weakest link on the show and that’s sad because honestly, who didn’t love her on THE O.C.? The airport scene? Forget about it!

It was the quintessential homage to teen movies of my youth, it’s funny, it’s sad, it’s self referential and it’s honestly the perfect O.C. moment. Nada Surf’s rendition of “If You Leave” doesn’t suck either. I need a moment…

Okay, so yeah she’s sucking the acting life out of DSM and I need someone to take care of that. I think she can stay because I like the twin dynamic and I still like her, but she just needs to go the path of Seth Gabel who’s taken Jeremy to a whole new level of greatness and substance.

I heart Dirty Sexy Money and I don’t care who knows it. I find it to be my new Brothers & Sisters fix. I still adore B&S but DSM gives me that same boost mid-week. I’m a junkie for the Berlanti, what can I say?

I’m still 100% intrigued by Nick trying to find out who killed his Father and cannot wait to finally meet the man that was Dutch in the upcoming flashbacks. Who thinks Peter Krause is rocking his character? I love how he handles the Darlings, the humor, the naivity, the sadness and everything that goes into being the man to clean up their lives. He’s a great blend of a new character and the original Nate from Six Feet Under, the do-gooder.

Donald Sutherland and Jill Clayburgh bring so much baggage and saddness to their roles and are 100% likable, they’re my favorites on the show.

Billy Baldwin is the new IT Baldwin if only for having the balls to make a comeback that requires him to go at it with a Tranny everyweek. Does his wife sit home wanting to tell the Tranny that “Someday somebody’s gonna make you wanna turn around and say good-bye-ye, until then baby are they gonna hold you down and make you cry?” Cause really, “Don’t ya know, things can change? Things can go your way if you hoooooold on for one more day, baby hooooooold on for one more day… things are gonna change…”
Sorry, I had to do the Wilson Phillips reference, I had to!

What the hell is Simon Elder holding over everyone and is he really as evil as I think he probably is? I hate how he’s got everyone wrapped around his little hot finger. Sure Nick and Tripp think they’re one step ahead but I highly doubt they really are.

Um, Brian and The Non-Orphan Orphan are so great. I love having him back in the Darling house as it’s finally given some humanity and humility to Brian’s other-wise wicked ways.

Then there’s Karen. She’s a crack-pot huh? Just moments away from Husband #4 and she’s already cheated on her fiancee with his Caddy and her wicked sexy ex-Sebastian (guest star Eddie Cibrian) while still swooning over Nick. Trainwreck much?

I so want to see a Lisa/Karen smackdown but sadly Lisa’s way above that and she’ll just walk away until Nick can find a way to get Karen out of their lives. Doesn’t mean I don’t want to see that catfight though. Someone needs to knock the shit out of Karen…

DIRTY SEXY MONEY returns on November 14th.

It’s not even Wednesday and I’m doing a PUSHING DAISIES happy dance!

Read all about it: PUSHING DAISIES GETS BACK 9

One of the creative minds behind PUSHING DAISIES, Director Barry Sonnenfeld has inked another directing gig with ABC Television.  Instead of fantastical fields of daisies, swirling pies, and folks that are alive… again, he’s tackling the world of Buddy Cops in the 80’s.

Per The Hollywood Report,

Director Barry Sonnenfeld is adding another project to his busy TV schedule.  Sonnenfeld has signed on to direct and executive produce a comedy in the works at ABC, which hails from Sony Pictures TV and Tantamount, the production company of Mitch Hurwitz, Eric Tannenbaum and Kim Tannenbaum.

The project, tentatively titled “Buddies,” is a single-camera buddy comedy set in the world of ’80s cops.

Josh Lobis and Darin Moiselle, the duo behind the 2006 Fox comedy pilot “That Guy,” penned the script. They are co-executive producing the project, which has received a script commitment from the network. Hurwitz, the Tannenbaums and Sonnenfeld are exec producing. Lobis and Moiselle are co-exec producing.

Sonnenfeld directed the pilot and the second episode of ABC’s “Pushing Daisies” as well as executive produces the freshman series. He recently wrapped Fox’s comedy pilot “Hackett” and is segueing to helming NBC’s untitled Luke Reiter drama pilot. Sonnenfeld also is attached to direct CBS’ medieval drama “The Kingdom.”

I’m so excited to hear that CBS’s laugher BIG BANG THEORY was just given a full season order.  That means more Sheldon, more Sheldon, and more Sheldon!

Over on ABC, Addison Montgomery has reason to dance naked again… PRIVATE PRACTICE has also been given a full ride.  Sadly that means there’s no chance of Addison returning to Grey’s this season.  Oh well, I stopped watching 2 weeks ago so I guess I don’t care anymore. 

I guess that gives the hotness that is David Sutcliffe time to practice his moves on Addison. 

It’s a Wednesday and I hate to say it, my days of feeling down in the dumps and dog tired are continuing. I’m fighting a cold at the least and hit the bed around 9pm last night. Here’s some intersting news bits to get you guys through the day.

Okay, so he’s happily married and not a cheater in that sense but WADE ROBSON is going to be on Dancing With The Stars tonight and that bothers me to no end. He is stepping out on his first love, SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE and I’m not having it!

I hate Dancing With The Stars with a burning passion. I hate it as much as I hate Oprah or Mariah or Tom Cruise. I hate it more than the guy who’s car window I smashed in with a cinder block when I was 12.

It’s lame, the music is hideous, the contestants weak as water, and the hosting gig almost unbearable. The talent is no where near what the kids on SYTYCD can pull off yet it’s America’s darling dance show. A bunch of has been’s stepping out in sequins with two left feet doesn’t a dance show make. Sure there are real dancers, but they’re dragged down by the oafish duds they’re partnered with.

Once a woman at work actually had to ask me if the talent on SYTYCD was as good as that on DwtS. After slapping her with a file folder my answer was… “NO! It’s actually about a million times better.” Middle America doesn’t get it and that’s why I’m pissed that Wade is going onto that shit show.

*Thanks to Susan for the tip and for getting me all crazed.

While I don’t know that I find the quality or the level of engagement as strong this season, I have to say that there is no denying that the cast of Brothers & Sisters is one of the best on television.

I don’t know when the show decided that the Justin back from war storyline and his previous drug addiction would become the central focus this season but I have to say that I hope it disappears quickly. It’s cliche and it really only can be played so many ways with so many family members before they’re rehashing the same scenario week after week. We get it, war is hard, drug addiction is bad. So is the insufferable browbeating of the issues. I really thought Berlanti and his team were better than this, I can only hope that the bigger picture makes itself more clear in the near future.

On a positive note, David Annable has surprisingly stepped up his acting game. He was the weakest link in the cast last season but I feel that with the scenes he’s been given so far this year, he’s dead on. Getting in a tub naked was a plus, I won’t lie…

Tonight we finally met McAllister’s ex-wife Courtney who’s being played by the always wonderful Marin Hinkle and by the end of her first scene with Rob Lowe, I wanted more of them together. The animosity and the hurt was so well played and so genuine that I’d love to see how work toward a peaceful resolution.

Lastly, Balthazar Getty is working his ass off this season. The acting is so much less cardboard and the delivery so much less stoic…

Oh and is it me or is Calista getting uglier in each episode? Is Emily Van Camp’s face fuller than usual? Matthew Rhys getting sexier. Love that man. And TEAM SCOTTY in the house!

PUSHING DAISIES let me count the ways in which I love you. The writing, the acting, the narration, the set design, the cinematography, the camp, the relationship, and more. Last week America fell in love with Ned The Pie Maker and a Girl Named Chuck, much like I had months earlier. This week, my love affair deepened and I found myself aching for more drama, more Ned and Chuck, more Olive, more Emerson, more angst, and just more Pushing Daisies.

The show opened with young Ned arriving at boarding school, Longburrow School for Boys in the town of North Rush. He said goodbye to his Father for the last time and embarked on a painful existence as a different boy unable to fit in. His gift of being able to touch dead things and bring them back to life proved difficult for young Ned in science class. Vivisection was not the easiest task when you’ve touch each dead frog, reanimating them and allowing them to run free. In the frog’s wake, a whole trees worth of birds died… dems the rules!

One of my favorite artistic aspects to Pushing Daisies is the fantastical storybook like world they’ve created for Ned’s backstory. The castle like school in which young Ned attends looked more like a pop-up book creation than a real school and in this case, it so works.

I also hearted how young Ned morphed into a smiling adult sized Ned who’s now happily sleeping in the same room with his childhood sweetheart Charlotte Charles. Lee Pace, I just want to kiss that damn face of yours… too cute. Again, the chemistry between Ned and Chuck/Lee and Anna is sickening. It’s so dead on, hopeful and romantic that it makes me want to vomit… in a good way! Did you notice how Lee’s eyes were all wet while he stared at her in the bed next to him? Simply breathtaking performances.

I laughed out loud with their directional warnings while in the same room. Calling out their next move to ensure no touching occurs was a nice touch, and so perfect for their quirky characters. Making dinner turns into a real chore when you can’t touch or even bump into the other person. There was so much dialogue in that kitchen scene that I think I might need to watch it a good 3 more times to really grasp all that was said. I remember Chuck calling Ned out for his eye twitching which as we all know means he was lying. In this case he was lying about not having a secret or not wanting to get to know more about her. I was dying that Chuck only knew of a fridge as a “Cheesebox” because of the Aunts obsession with fine cheeses.

Kristin Chenoweth hanging out her window with some makeshift mirror, spying on the two reunited lovebirds next door had me rolling. Slamming into the side of the building was expected but exactly what I wanted out of that moment. She’s a wonderful comedic actress and her timing is impeccable.

Emerson Cod’s little tidbit of backstory was to die for. I couldn’t believe that he knits in his spare time and that he made a sweater vest and two handgun cozies… such a fun character detail and a development that would prove helpful later in the episode.

The Coroner was back with his “um-hum”s and blank stare again. I hope they bother him each week and with different identities because I find it not only hilarious but down right essential. This week the case involved a dead auto worker named Bernard Sleighbeck who was supposedly run over. Yeah, his 60 second confession said otherwise, well when he had the chance to speak with Chuck all up in his last comments business. With only a second to spare, Bernard mentioned that a crash test dummy killed him. Funny yet surprisingly creepy.

After the coroners office, it was back to The Pie Hole where once again Olive got to get all extistential on Emerson’s ass and he once again was not having it! I love that she has a philosophy on pie, that they’re not just any multi-national pie corporation like Pies R Us, Pies City, or 1000 Pies in 1 Place. She prides herself on their product and her enjoyment of them. It’s a wonderful character trait for our lonely and sad Olive Snook. Could Emerson be more of a douche? He’s so mad about Chuck.
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