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Rachel Bilson Joins Chuck

16 September 2007

Speaking of Rachel Bilson (wait, or was that speaking of Chuck the TV show? Oh well, same difference), the latest addition to the cast is Rachel Bilson. The former OC star will play a love interest for the main character Chuck, and will form a love triangle between Chuck and his CIA protector played by the Aussie babe Yvonne Strzechowski. Basically, a nerdy IT guy now has two hot chicks after him. Now you KNOW it just has to be fiction! Now if I had Rachel and Yvonne to choose from, who would I choose? Let’s see. Rachel is cute and bubbly, but Yvonne is just drop dead sexy. Who to choose? Hmm, why choose at all? I can pull a “sitcom-esque” situation and date both at the same time! Yeah, that’s the ticket…

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Moon Bloodgood Journeyman Promos

13 September 2007

After ABC put the kibosh on the pretty cool show “Day Break” and ended Moon Bloodgood’s TV career, she’s found a second chance on NBC’s “Journeyman”. The show’s got a pretty cool premise, but I don’t know if it’ll work — still, I’m going to give it a shot, if only because Moon Bloodgood is one of the show’s stars, and the woman just does it for me something awful. The show stars Kevin McKidd as a journalist who somehow travels back in time to help out people. Or as the official plot goes: “A family man regularly travels back through time to correct past wrongs. In the present, he attempts to maintain his relationships and his sanity.” I don’t know who Moon plays in the show, but her character’s name is Livia Beale, and she is looking goooooooood in these promo pictures.

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Charisma Carpenter in Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice

13 September 2007

Word from TV Guide is that Charisma Carpenter will be taking part in Donald Trump’s celebrity version of his Reality TV show “The Apprentice”. Now I don’t know how it’s going to work with celebrities (What, they’re competing to win a job with him? Why would they want to work for him? They’re ACTORS!), but I might just tune in if it turns out to be true. I mean, damn, TV just hasn’t been the same without Charisma Carpenter gracing it every other day. TV Guide usually gets this stuff right (they are, after all, TV friggin’ Guide, so it goes without saying, right?), so I’m waiting patiently to see a Donald Trump show. Wow, I never thought I’d say THAT!

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Stargate: Atlantis Season 4 Promos

13 September 2007

There is good news and bad news about the upcoming fourth season of “Stargate: Atlantis”. The good news first: Amanda Tapping joins the cast, reprising her role of Samantha Carter from the long-running “Stargate: SG1″ series, which has ended after its recent tenth season. Now the bad news: Torri Higginson has been been killed off “Atlantis”. Or at least, it seems like she’s been killed off. The last time we saw her, she was blasted halfway across the Atlantis station by a giant laser beam, so you know, she looked dead (or will be) to me. In any case, season four of “Stargate: Atlantis” is coming, and here are some promos. Featuring Amanda Tapping and Rachel Luttrell and “the guys”.

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Olivia Wilde on House Season 4 Promos

13 September 2007

What? There’s another reason to tune in when “House” returns for its fourth season on FOX later this month? Why yes! And her name is Olivia Wilde. Fresh from the recently cancelled “The Black Donnellys”, Olivia Wilde will finally land on a hit TV show and (fingers crossed) she’ll stay on it for a while. I don’t know if the previous castmembers from the last three seasons — Jennifer Morrison, Epps, the other guy — are coming back, but with Olivia Wilde to take up the slack, you know what? I don’t really mind. Here are some promos of Olivia Wilde in the premiere episode of “House” season four.

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New TV Show Preview: Life

12 September 2007

I don’t think NBC is promoting their new cop show, “Life” nearly enough. It’s got two of my favorite things in a TV show — Damian Lewis, star of the magnificent HBO mini-series “Band of Brothers”, and the premise is killer: a cop, wrongly imprisoned, is finally released, sues the LAPD, and gets his job back plus a ton of cash. The cash allows him to do basically anything he wants, like harass his ex-wife’s new boyfriend, and try to solve the mystery behind his own framing. And did I mention it stars Damian Lewis, who is a fantastic actor and one of those guys I’d watch read the grocery list. He’s fantastic. So watch “Life” when it comes on and keep this show on the air! Some promos below.

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Heroes Season 2 Promos

11 September 2007

Get ready, kids, the latest season (Season number 2, to be precise) is coming your way courtesy of NBC, who have released these promo images of the “Heroes” cast (including, of course, Ali Larter and Hayden Panettiere and all those other, er, people on the show whose names I don’t know and I don’t want to know). Obviously my eyes were drawn to Hayden’s character’s new spiffy cheerleader outfit. I would think that after helping to save the world she would have gotten tired of that whole cheerleader stuff, but hey, when you get to see Hayden in a cheerleader outfit, why would you go away from that? Thanks, Tim Kring and company! (Of course, I’m also expecting to see more of Ali Larter stripping guys…) “Heroes” premieres later this month. Tune in — or die!

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Whoopi Goldberg Says Don’t Blame Mick Vick for Being a Douche Bag

6 September 2007

Wow, Whoopi Goldberg didn’t waste anytime making her mark on The View, did she? And of course by “her mark” I mean make people think Rosie O’Donnell wasn’t really as crazy as we all thought. Goldberg’s ingenious take on the Michael Vick situation? “He’s from the South, from the Deep South … This is part of his cultural upbringing. Instead of just saying he is a beast and he’s a monster, this is a kid who comes from a culture where this is not questioned.” Oooookay. You know, I don’t live in the Deep South or anything, but I’m pretty sure other bad shit happened down there that Whoopi, being a woman of African descent, might want to rethink about. *cough*KKK*cough* So maybe it’s not such a good idea to depend the “traditions” of the Deep South, Whoopi. Witness Whoopi’s stupidity for yourself below via video.

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24’s Newest Babe Annie Wersching

5 September 2007

Jack Bauer’s life has just gotten a little hotter with the addition of soap opera actress Annie Wersching, who is reported to have landed the leading lady role opposite Bauer’s Keifer Sutherland in the upcoming seventh season of the action-adventure show. According to EW, Annie’s character is “an FBI agent who is in an adversarial relationship with Sutherland’s character, Jack Bauer.” Basically, they fight a lot until she realizes Jack is the most badass man that ever walked the planet, after which they fall in love and kill terrorist and whatnot. Or maybe not. But I’m willing to bet she’ll hate Jack until she realizes he’s DA MAN, after which she’ll not hate him so much. That’s how it always happens on “24″, anyways.

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Creepy First Ever McDonalds TV Commercial

4 September 2007

Jesus H. Christ, how creepy is this McDonalds TV commercial from waaaaaaay back? How way back? I don’t know, not too sure, but I’m guessing it’s somewhere from the ’60s or maybe ’70s, or perhaps even earlier. However far back it goes, it’s one frakkin’ creepy TV commercial. Basically it’s Ronald McDonald wearing some crazy looking outfit and telling kids how he wants them to come eat with him, and then at the end of the commercial, Ronald dances a jig like a total fool. You simply have to see this thing to believe it. If I didn’t know better, I would think this thing was a promotion for Stephen King’s horror novel-turned-movie called “It”, about a killer clown that tricked kids into the sewer.

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New TV Show Preview: Reaper

27 August 2007

In the new The CW show “Reaper” (God, how much do I hate having to type “The CW”? Tons!), a 20-something slacker learns that long ago his parents sold his soul to the devil, and now the devil has come to collect. Oops! As a result, the slacker now has to go around the city hunting down renegade souls for the devil, played by the delightful Ray Wise. The pilot episode gets some star power (the show itself is pretty much devoid of stars or any big names whatsoever, Ray Wise not withstanding) in director Kevin Smith, king of the slackers. It actually looks like a very promising show, and you can check out a trailer for it below, plus one other reason to watch the show. Pssst. Her name is Missy, and she’s the slacker’s love interest on the show.

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New TV Show Preview: Women’s Murder Club

21 August 2007

In the new ABC show “The Women’s Murder Club”, a homicide detective, a medical examiner, a newspaper reporter and a young assistant district attorney work together to solve homicide investigations in San Francisco. The whole thing is based on a series of books by James Patterson, and here are some promos for the show. The lead is obviously Angie Harmon as the cop (she’s tough and hot, so I’ll buy it), but I have no idea who the other girls (Laura Harris, Paula Newsome, and Aubrey Dollar) plays. I’m guessing Harris is the reporter and Dollar is the D.A., with Newsome as the M.E. It sounds like an interesting show, but basically I’ll watch anything for my daily dose of Angie Harmon. I hope it’s good, though.

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Kristen Bell Says Yes to Heroes, No to Lost

20 August 2007

Apparently both the producers of ABC’s “Lost” and NBC’s “Heroes” were after Kristen Bell to join their show after her own show, “Veronica Mars” got canned by the CW or the WB or whatever the hell it’s called. According to published reports, Kristen has decided on a multi-episode stint on the second season of “Heroes” instead of flying to Hawaii and getting “lost” on an island filled with crazy bitches and monsters and whatnot. Hey, who can blame her. Although I don’t know about turning down Hawaii for L.A., but maybe that’s just me. Bell’s character on “Heroes” will be a girl name “Elle”, and chances are she’ll have powers, too. Can I recommend the producers give Kristen Bell the power to morph whatever clothes she’s wearing into a two-piece bikini? Because, you know, she looks good in that. See below for evidence.

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TV Preview: House Season 4 Promos

20 August 2007

Are you ready for the “House” Season 4 premiere? No? What are you, a fraggin’ idiot? “House” is, bar none, one of the best show on TV, and I don’t even like medical shows. But “House” isn’t a medical show, it’s a character show in the guise of a medical show. Get all that? Good. Questions need to be ask with Season 4, such as: is Foreman really leaving the staff because he doesn’t want to be like House, or is there something more? And is Cameron and Chase really gone for good? And who are the new lifebloods that will be added to the show, and how long will they last? And perhaps more importantly, they better not get rid of Jennifer Morrison as Cameron! I love Hugh Laurie and all, but damn, if this show loses Jennifer, I’m gone. Well, okay, maybe not, but I’ll THINK about it…

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New TV Show Preview: K-Ville

16 August 2007

FOX’s new show “K-Ville” is definitely of the hit or miss variety. It’s either going to be a moderate hit or a complete failure. I don’t have very much faith for the show’s future, although I do hope it does well, if only because it stars a couple of my favorite actors, Anthony Anderson, who is funny as hell, and Cole Hauser, who is cool as hell. The show’s token babe is Tawny Cypress, formerly of “Heroes” before she got killed off (shot to death!). The show is based in Louisiana, and “K-Ville” stands for “Katrina Ville”, as the show will be post-Katrina. I don’t know if it’ll work, but let’s hope it does. The cast is just too killer for it not to make it. Some promos from the show.

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New TV Show Preview: Flash Gordon

13 August 2007

The Sci Fi Channel has a new show, an “update” of the sci-fi camp classic “Flash Gordon”. The show, called the same thing, stars Eric Johnson as Flash, and Gina Holden as his ex-girlfriend turned TV reporter Dale Arden. The premiere was last night, and it’s actually not bad. Mind you, it’s not entirely great, either. I’m not sure about the Mongol setting, it looks so…lame. And Ming, which they made a Caucasian guy with blond hair, probably so they won’t be accused of being racists if they kept the Asian guy from the original movie, is really not that scary. The entire show is kind of plain, and the 90-minute pilot doesn’t really do anything all that awesome. Still, it’s got Gina Holden, and she’s quite the babe.

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USA Renews Burn Notice for Second Season

10 August 2007

Fans of good TV rejoice! News from TVLand is that the USA network, doing the very smart thing, has already renewed its original show “Burn Notice” for a second season, while the show is still on episode 7 (a great episode, by the way). I don’t know how many episodes USA gives their shows per season, but this is a major coup for the producers of the show, and a real treat to fans of Michael Weston (Jeffrey Donovan) and his pursuit of finding out who “burned” him. Plus, fans of Gabrielle Anwar can also rejoice. I’ve never seen Gabrielle look hotter or tougher (the combination of that is just irresistible) on any movie or show. My favorite actors in a show that’s become my favorite show plus a guaranteed second season? Damn, my day is looking up!

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Bionic Woman’s New Sister Lucy Hale

31 July 2007

Not content to piss of gays when they “ungay” a character on their hit show “Heroes”, the fine folks over at NBC has “un-deaf” a character on their new, upcoming sci-fi show “The Bionic Woman” with Michelle Ryan. Now, instead of the lead character’s bratty little sister being a deaf Goth, she’ll instead be a NOT deaf computer hacker played by Lucy Hale. Hey, I don’t mind the change at all. I’ve seen previews of the pilot and clips with the deaf sister, and talk about annoying. I know it’s all about the “teen angst” but come on, there’s only so much we the audience can take!

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Katie Cassidy and Lauren Cohan Join Supernatural

24 July 2007

It would appear that the CW’s Winchester brothers are getting a little help in their demon hunting ways, and maybe a little nooky or two, if all goes well for the boys. SciFiWire reports that the horror/fantasy series, entering its third season, will be introducing some fresh blood in the form of Katie Cassidy and Lauren Cohan to the show. Lauren Cohan will play Bela, a bounty hunter (of demons, one supposes), while Cassidy will play Ruby, a fellow demon hunter who gets in the boys’ way. “Supernatural” follows the adventures of two demon hunting brothers played by Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles, and is basically one of the only cool shows on the CW for the boys.

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Patricia Heaton in Back to You Promos

24 July 2007

The general consensus among TV folks (i.e. those overpaid guys paid to watch TV and write about it; nice job if you can get it) is that Patricia Heaton’s return to TV in the FOX sitcom “Back to You” (co-starring some guy name Kelsey Grammar) is a hit in the making. Or at the very least, it’s got potential, or as much potential as any sitcom has in these day and age of serialized dramas ala “Lost”, “Heroes”, and just about every other TV series that lasts more than 30 minutes on TV nowadays. Here are some promotional images from the show. And yes, if you were wondering, Patricia Heaton still looks bloody good post-Raymond. So what’s the show about? Anchors at a TV station. And Patricia Heaton. Did I mention Patricia Heaton?

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