It’s been 7 weeks since our last podcast and 7 weeks since we last saw each other. You totally thought GMMR and Ducky had called it quits didn’t you? How dare you…
An extended gig in the Hamptons originally sidelined the podcast, then a horrible back injury kept this terrible TV twosome apart until now!
For our first big podcast of the Fall, we thought we’d make up for lost time with a huge 2 hour 10 minute carcast full of laughs, tears, a near death experience and even some New England leaf peeping!
Shows covered in this podcast:
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, BIG BANG THEORY, GOSSIP GIRL, HOUSE, SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE, THE BIGGEST LOSER, THE GOOD WIFE, V, GLEE, MODERN FAMILY, COUGAR TOWN, TOP CHEF, FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, FLASH FORWARD, THE VAMPIRE DIARIES, BONES, SUPERNATURAL, FRINGE, THE OFFICE, PARKS & RECREATION, 30 ROCK, COMMUNITY, GREY’S ANATOMY, PRIVATE PRACTICE, UGLY BETTY, DOLLHOUSE, SOUTHLAND, WHITE COLLAR, THE AMAZING RACE, SURVIVOR, DEXTER, MAD MEN and GREEK.
We hope you enjoy our ode to Fall TV so far this season and hope you’ll join in the conversation. Leave your thoughts on what we covered in the comments section of this post! We’d love to hear what you’ve got to say about the new Fall lineup.
Last night’s episode of SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE has already been marred by injuries, a dated new logo outline, a shitty new stage and contestant shake-ups galore (Billy’s out, Brandon’s in, someone’s dancing with a choreographer because Noelle’s injured) so there’s a lot to overcome on their first night out the gate for Season 6.
I really can’t tell you how sad I am to see Billy Bell leave the show but on the other hand, I could care less about possibly losing Noelle. She’s out this week due to a knee injury and if she doesn’t recoup in time she’ll be replaced by one of the girls cut during Vegas. I don’t really care yet, so swap her if need be.
Before talking about the performances, I really have to throw my two cents in about this new stage. It’s too big for the intimacy needed to be showcased by the performances and the limited views and camera angles it offers if a logistical clusterfuck. Who built a stage without first mapping out how they would shoot the actual show? And what’s with that random posse of 40 kids that get to stand by the right side of the stage? It made sense before where the kids stood in front of the physical seating but this is just ridiculous. Did they let Tyce design the new stage and layout? I mean come on… there are people who do that for a living, hire them!
Anywhoozle…
First up are Channing and Phillip who worked with returning choreographer Jason Gilkison on a Jive. The show set me up to hate Phillip before he even danced a single Jive step. I don’t do spoken word poetry… to be more blunt, I fucking HATE it. Dance-wise, I thought Phillips outfit and light feet made this one of the fruitiest male performances the show has ever had. Who knew? Channing was a surprise. Like Shankman said, she was the highlight of the piece.
My possible SYTYCD Season 6 Boyfriend Jakob is sadly teamed up with my least favorite female, Ashleigh. They were given a sultry Broadway number choreographed by Tyce Diorio. Tyce gave Jakob everything to do and left Ashleigh as a mannequin. He stole the flippin’ show and I could watch this kid all day long. She was a little slow, a little sloppy and out of place if I’m being honest. Who the frak put Jakob in that sweater? He’s melting on that stage and a wool sweater doesn’t help. Note to the wardrobe department, less is more on that boy!
More SYTYCD Season 6 Top 20 after the jump… (more…)
I’ve been wanting to talk about the premiere of USA’s new crime dramedy WHITE COLLAR for a while now but I was living in the 1890’s for a few weeks (no TV, no internet), this is the first chance I’ve had to urge you all to tune in tonight!
WHITE COLLAR stars the smokin’ hotness that is Matthew Bomer (CHUCK, TRAVELER) as a sly con man assisting Tim DeKay’s semi-straight laced FBI agent in catching white collar criminals.
I’ve watched tonight’s premiere twice already and have to say that the show is charming as hell. I’d go as far to say that it may be USA’s best and most adult show to date. There’s nothing ground breaking or super original about WHITE COLLAR but damn if this show isn’t addictive.
What’s to Love:
Bomer has blue eyes you could stare at for days and it doesn’t hurt that he’s shirtless in the pilot (I’m just sayin’)
Dekay has long been a favorite of mine (CARNIVALE & EVERWOOD anyone?) and he’s the perfect match for Bomer’s almost too slick criminal.
The show fits perfectly into USA’s proven successful formula of comedy, crime and drama.
There’s Gallant from ER and Stanford Blatch from SEX & THE CITY.
The show has the best chemistry on USA since PSYCH’s Shawn and Gus
Tiffany Thiessen shines in a shockingly non-showy role. She plays DeKay’s oft-shunned wife and I heart her for taking the role!
There’s a lesbian! (LOST’s Naomi)
New York City is front and center as the back drop of the show which gives the show some authenticity and energy that most studio shows can’t reenact.
There’s actually intriguing and interesting character development that doesn’t detract from the central theme of the show and I can’t wait for those subplots to play out. Kate? Bring it!
If you’re a fan of USA’s character driven powerhouse, WHITE COLLAR will fit nicely into your schedule. It’s a pinch of PSYCH with a little BURN NOTICE thrown in for good measure. Tune in for Bomer’s eyes and stay for the surprisingly great performances of the entire cast.
Check out an interview with Matthew Bomer from the Bloggers Press Day I missed out on because of the Hamptons gig… *curses*
Preview WHITE COLLAR:
Check out a clip from the premiere of WHITE COLLAR:
Check out the WHITE COLLAR Photo Gallery and swoon while staring into Bomer’s crystal blue peepers.
MAD MEN SEASON 3 Click on the photo to see the huge full high-resolution poster
for MAD MEN Season 3!
ZOMG I almost pissed myself when I saw this poster for MAD MEN Season 3!
Wait, did I piss myself and that’s what Don’s sitting in? Or did Betty’s water break? Did that little bitch Sally leave the tub running or did little Bobby bring the hose into the house again? What’s with the look on Don’s face? Is that constipation? Did he just find out he and everyone in the office has lung cancer? Did Salvatore finally come out to the Sterling Cooper gang?
The possibilities are endless and each one I can think of is killing me! August 15th cannot come soon enough.
I just wanted to quickly remind everyone that tonight is the GREEK season finale (“At World’s End”) over on ABC Family!
It’s been a wonderful season for GREEK and I can’t say I love this show any more than I do right now. I’ve enjoyed watching Casey and Max’s relationship blossom and fade, I’ve enjoyed watching Rusty finally get some, I’ve enjoyed Cal getting some storyline, Beck’s going gay, Evan and Cap rekindling their friendship and Ash getting some hot man action… oh and don’t forget Dale getting (or at least fighting off) some action.
I’ve watched the finale twice already (yes, I adored it that much) and I’m sad that the season is over. There are so many possibilities for next season that my mind grapes might explode if I think about them too much.
Here’s what I can tell you this about what goes down tonight at Cypress Rhodes… Someone goes gay, someone throws their purity pledge ring away, someone gets some hot cougar action, someone’s in a coffin, someone’s missing the biggest party of the world, someone’s busted for pot, someone’s spending seven minutes in heaven (or 2 minutes in a cramped closet), someone’s coming back to CRU, someone’s leaving CRU and someone loves them a muffin top! Curious? I know you are…
Check out a preview of tonight’s GREEK season finale:
And finally, check a clip from tonight’s finale:
GREEK’s season finale airs tonight at 8pm on ABC Family!
From time to time Kath and I like to shake things up. We’ll disappear for 4 months without podcasting, we’ll move, we’ll record entire Comic-Con panels, we’ll be Two Idiots Talking LOST and during the summer we really like to talk about SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE!
Welcome to a special SYTYCD Edition of the TV Talk Podcast where Kath and I give our thoughts on everything Season 5!
This week we start with covering the Top 20 performance episode, list our faves, talk about potential SYTYCD TV Boyfriends and finally discuss whether or not the first two dancers eliminated deserved to go home or not!
If you’re a fan of So You Think You Can Dance, sit back and listen to the pouring rain outside the car as we talk enjoy! Yes we did a podcast in a car and yes, it was a monsoon outside!
TV Talk Podcast with GMMR and Ducky is back… well sorta! We know we’ve been gone for a couple months and we’re sorry to have abandoned you all so here’s a little something to tide you over until we can do a real podcast in the upcoming weeks. Thank you all for being patient with our ridonkulously busy schedules and for always being such kick ass listeners.
Thursday night, BURN NOTICE returns at a new time (9pm EST) for its 3rd season and having just watched the first 3 episodes, I can tell you all that Michael, Fiona, Sam and Maddy are back in rare form. When we last left the Michael, he was swimming his fine ass back to Miami after having pulled a Sawyer from the helicopter and with Carla and Co. off his back its time for a change!
In honor of the return of USA’s cramazing spy dramedy, we’re happy to bring you an opportunity to win a killer BURN NOTICE PRIZE PACK!
Wanna catch up with your favorite toothy, smarmy, super hot, super spy, his absogorge sidekick Fiona and his wisecracking confidant Sam while relaxing on the beach? Here’s your chance to win Seasons 1 & 2 on DVD, the novel and much more summer fun fantastic!
ENTER TO WIN A BURN NOTICE TOTE FILLED WITH:
Burn Notice Season 1 DVD
Burn Notice Season 2 DVD
Burn Notice Frisbee
Burn Notice Suntan Lotion Pack
Burn Notice t-shirt
Burn Notice Novel
HOW TO ENTER:
In the comments section, tell me your favorite BURN NOTICE character (main, recurring or guest) and why! It’s that simple. *As an extra bonus (and a better chance at winning in my eyes), tell me the two films that Gabrielle Anwar starred in that forever left my gay ass in love with girl.
DEADLINE:
The BURN NOTICE PRIZE PACK contest ends at midnight on June 30th! The winner will be notified and can spend the rest of the summer watching, reading and sunning yourselves with all things BURN NOTICE!
Burn Notice is back at an all new time, 9pm/8c! Season 3 picks up right where season 2 left off with Michael swimming in the Atlantic. Michael emerges from the water free from interference by the organization that burned him. He’s not under their protection, either, and is under investigation by the police. He gets out of prison with help from his old friend, who has a job for him: extraditing a thug who’s displacing landowners in a Latin American country. Join fans on the official Burn Notice site and on Facebook.
BURN NOTICE Season 3 Premieres Thursday June 4th at 9pm!
Teens today don’t get how ground breaking and revolutionary THE REAL WORLD was back when it hit the airwaves in 1992. It rocked my world. It captivated everyone my age. It spoke to teens in a way that television never had before. It represented American youth, good bad and the ugly in a way that seemed respectful and almost educational.
I sat there in awe of the social experiment before me and I fell in love with seven strangers because they were REAL!
For the last decade, the show has become a heinous train wreck full of despicable human beings and STDs. If The Real World of my youth taught me tolerance and diversity, The Real World of today is teaching people how to be whores, rageaholics and walking breast implants.
Before you jump down my throat, I have watched the Brooklyn cast and for the first time in a long time, the show seems like the show I fell in love with 17 years ago. Sure I wanna punch some of them in the face and tell them to grow the fuck up but overall, this season has been about tolerance and diversity. I like that. Plus, it doesn’t hurt that they featured the AIDS Ride (and The Center) I participate in heavily.
So… out of nowhere this MTV flick pops up called PEDRO: THE MOVIE and I’m sitting here shaking my head. WTF?!
Why make a fictionalized account of something we all witnessed on television and in the closest thing to reality we could? MTV surely has thousands of hours of footage from the San Francisco season so I don’t understand what the purpose of this film is.
Why hire 3rd rate actors (sorry kids) to sleep and/or ham their way through scenes we all know, love and can probably recite word for word when you have THE ACTUAL FUCKING FOOTAGE?
The target demo for MTV today is not people that remember Pedro or what he did for the face of AIDS in America. I don’t want to rehash it all but he really did give a face to a disease people thought always happened to “them.” It hit home for a lot of parents and he made an impact on America. He was a gay man living with AIDS who was well spoken, incredibly smart, handsome and genuinely beautiful as a person. It was good for people to see this and for President Clinton to embrace him. It helped lessen the stigma.
So what I don’t understand is why they’re making this movie and not just airing a documentary to honor him with real footage of the real man that is Pedro Zamora?
It’s really working my nerve. This bugs the shit out of me. It seems like exploitation at its finest but for what reason? I don’t get it.
I had just come out to my family right before the San Francisco season aired and it was huge for me to see an openly gay and normal guy representing my life in some way, shape or form. I grew to admire what he was doing, his mission and his importance. I watched as he and Sean committed themselves to each other. I watched as he got sick and was hospitalized. I watched his funeral for heavens sake and cried my eyes out. It was real and it was important to me. That’s why I’m pissed.
Whatever…
Have I seen the film? No. I’m passing judgment because well, the previews and the clips I’ve seen are horrifyingly bad. I know that Dustin Lance Black wrote the screenplay but that means nothing. There shouldn’t be a screenplay. He lived his life in front of the camera for a reason, to teach people about AIDS and tolerance. This only cheapens his mission in my eyes. That’s my right and my opinion.
Here’s the only thing I’ll promote that’s accompanying this film. Here’s a clip of President Clinton talking about Pedro and the impact his life had on all of us. It’s tasteful which is more than I can say for what MTV’s concocted… allegedly!
If you want to see what the real Pedro was all about, check this video out. Someone has placed the 1994 tribute MTV did about Pedro on youtube. It’s a duped VHS recording and that makes it all the more kick ass.
Part 1:
The rest of the Pedro tribute videos after the jump… (more…)
We hope everyone got some great TV goodies over the holidays because we sure did. Kath and I talk about what TV Boyfriends were under their trees, what TV presents they got and even fill you in on some of the things keeping them apart for the last 6 weeks.
There’s news to be had, Christmas CHUCK to rehash, the demise of PUSHING DAISIES to cry about, PRIVILEGED to complain about, GOSSIP GIRL to gossip about and did I mention that we’ve both seen the first two hours of LOST Season 5! Sorry, had to throw that in just be to bitchy…
You asked what we thought of all the new and returning shows that will fill our winter and spring with good cheer and discontent and we’ve answered.
We’ve got screeners galore to chit-chat about… DAMAGES, THE CLOSER, UNITED STATES OF TARA, TRUST ME, 24 and more. We even touch on some shows that don’t have air dates like CUPID and BETTER OFF TED.
TV Talk Podcast with GMMR and Ducky is back and sadly, the listener question podcast will have to wait another week because we decided to have a TV Bloggers Party instead!
Instead of doing our normal podcast we decided to have a late night girl talk about the shows that got us interested in television as kids, our first TV crushes and anything that popped into our sick little minds.
Hopefully you find us entertaining instead of annoying. Play along at home and share your favorite childhood TV moments in the comments section below!
TV Talk with GMMR and Ducky is finally back! We discuss the new fall schedule day by day and break down our returning faves and possible new must-sees.
From Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, Gossip Girl, Chuck to Heroes and My Own Worst Enemy on Monday. Tuesday’s are Biggest Loser, House, 90210, Privileged to Fringe and The Mentalist. Wednesday’s are all about Pushing Daisies, Bones, Private Practice, Dirty Sexy Money and Lipstick Jungle. Over on Thursday’s we’ve got Ugly Betty, Survivor, Kath & Kim, Grey’s Anatomy, The Office, 30 Rock, Supernatural, Life on Mars and Eleventh Hour. Friday night is all about The Ghost Whisperer (I kid) and The Ex-List and Life. Sunday’s we’re freaking out that The Amazing Race is back, Desperate Housewives, Cold Case, Dexter and Brothers & Sisters.
It’s a busy season folks, sit back and relax because we talk forever.
Hey gang, I’m sorry that most of this season’s recaps have been in either podcast format or on AfterElton but I appreciate your continued interest in my coverage of the show! You guys rock!
Last night’s actual finale was incredible! The energy was high, the dancers were on point and overall the majority of the dances they showcased were my faves. I have to take Mia to task for her saying that his season had the best choreography of any other… oh honey that’s so not the case. Aside from the initial season, this was the worst sampling of choreography I’ve seen in a long time. Sure the addition of Sonya and the Aussie were great but when NappyTabs are your staples week after week, I have to question the overall quality. Even Mia failed miserably this season with her heinous finale routine so again, it wasn’t the best the show’s ever seen.
My favorite part of the night was hands down, the return of my faves… The Best of SYTYCD! I loved catching up with the kids from Seasons 1-3 and the group dance was banoodles to say the least. Travis and Neil in the same routine almost made both of my heads burst from the crazy greatness. Hok, Dom and Ryan were working it as usual. Jailbait Ivan killed out there, the kid is supa-fresh. Allison’s leg extensions are out of this world and I wondered if that high kick he does was her favored method of birth. Can you believe that bitch has a kid? What?!! How sexy ass were Anya and Dmitry all spinning around the stage? Hotness! Hell even Benji was fantastic! The question still remains…
WHERE THE HELL IS SABRA JOHNSON? I know she’s alive because GMMR has pictures of her from the Fox Upfronts but where the hell is that little pixie of a girl? The radio silence on Sabra has me wondering if she’s the biggest disappointment of all the winners so far. I mean come on girl, what are you up to?
Mary and Dmitry were awesome and it was great to see Nigel final gets ta steppin’ but didn’t he creep you out a little? He was like some pedophile leading the children to the underbelly of hell.
I guess I’m happy with Joshua Allen winning but I really was pulling for Katee. Yes you read that right, I was hoping Katee Shean would win. She was my least favorite heading into the competition but in the end, the girl could kick everyone’s ass. She was flawless but her lack of personality is what done did her wrong in the end. I loved that she scored a fat $50k though! That’s pretty sweet.
Ah, it’s over… I pray that next season will be spectacular and everything I want my SYTYCD to be because this season left me a little “meh”
*Don’t forget to download all of your favorite songs from SYTYCD Season 4 over at my Episode Music Guide!
Ahhh, this is why I loved the previous seasons of So You Think You Can Dance more than the current one. These kids make me swoon… Having both of my Season 2 and 3 boyfriends on stage at the same time was a little awkward but totes hot! Travis Wall and Neil Haskell, for you I will… do anything you want! Good times.
I’m almost afraid to mention this because last year when I picked a pre-season TV Boyfriend possibility he was given the boot the minute he walked onto the Vegas stage (Myles I still heart you) – but I might have to make my first proclaimation of a possibly new TV Boyfriend…
Watch COOPER ZAMORANO’s So You Think You Can Dance Audition Video
Within seconds I thought the exact same thing that Nigel did… he’s got bits of Travis Wall all over him (wait, that sounds dirty) – and I like that! The cute thing is that as he was dancing my real life partner Jon looked at me and said “He’s this years Benji… I mean Travis… I tried to do my research.” It was adorable because Jon almost hates SYTYCD so for him to know anything about it is quite an accomplishment.
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