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Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, TV Royalty, Celebrities, TCA Press Tour, Reality-Free

If the meta-ness of my headline confuses you, I apologize. It’s the best way I could phrase it, because it’s kind of mind-blowing in concept.

At today’s HBO session at the TCAs, Larry David came on stage to talk about the upcoming season of Curb Your Enthusiasm. In it, as we all know, he’ll be reuniting the Seinfeld cast on the show. And what will they be doing? They’ll be working on… a Seinfeld reunion episode.

“The context is that for years I’ve been asked about a Seinfeld reunion,” said David, “and i’d say no it’s a lame idea. And then i thought it might be very funny to do that on Curb, and I kept thinking about it and different scenarios of how to pull it off.”

When he talked to Jerry Seinfeld and the cast about it, they were all game. “So doiung a Seinfeld reunion show on Curb we’ll see writing read through rehersals show being filmed. You won’t see the entire show, you’ll see parts of the show get an idea of what happened eleven years later.”

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Filed under: OpEd, America’s Got Talent, TV Squad Ten

This past week, we were treated to two rather cruel and evil “Vegas Verdicts” episodes of America’s Got Talent. During those two episodes, judges reviewed the auditions and chose who would be part of the Top 40. Many fans, me included, are angry at some of the choices the judges made. They let people with no talent be part of the Top 40 while some with amazing acts were sent packing.

It was impossible, after watching the two episodes, to come up with the exact list of the Top 40. TV Squad reader Aml commented on my review of last night’s episode that the numbers didn’t add up and it looked like the judges picked a Top 37 rather than 40, meaning that the Simon Cowell curve ball we are waiting for next week may be that more acts need to be added.

Well, NBC just released the Top 40 list.

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Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Video, Reality-Free

Gleek isn’t an alien language or the newest cast member of The Real World. (Though it was the monkey sidekick on Super Friends). It’s a geeky fan of Glee, FOX’s musical dramedy series. Glee + geek = Gleek.

This works with other shows, too. If you’re a geek about Lost, you’re a Glost. If you’re a geek about Chuck, then you’re a Ghuck. If you’re a geek about Greek, then you’re a…Grreek? OK, so it doesn’t always work.

[via TV Tattle]

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Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Reality-Free

I love how blunt executive producer Steven DeKnight is about the usage of a male prosthetic on his new Starz series Spartacus: Blood and Sand, as Joel mentioned in his report last night . “Some guys aren’t as well-endowed as other guys,” he says. I wonder if they were inspired by Watchmen, or made to feel comparatively inadequate to Dr. Mammoth.

What’s odd to me is that while Spartacus has put thought into the fact that male nudity is a part of their world and addressed it in this manner, no one has come up with a prosthetic for Thomas Jane in Hung over at HBO. Isn’t his dong the centerpiece of the whole show? Or maybe he doesn’t need one *nudge* *nudge* *wink* *wink*.

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Filed under: Late Night, Video, Talk Show, Reality-Free

I thought we already had a Lard Channel, only it’s called Food Network.

This clip is from Jimmy Kimmel Live. It’s the Lard Channel, where all of the programming is based around fat people, who seem to be all the rage these days. Before he is crucified for dumping on people who are overweight, please note that ending of the clip.

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Filed under: Celebrities, Children, Reality-Free

Yesterday we had a video that “explained” why Tiffani Thiessen was too busy to reunite with her Saved By The Bell costars on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. But the new People has the cast on the cover. Everyone except for Screech, who is busy with his tell-all book.

So what is Fallon going to think about this? He’s been trying to get them together for months! It will be anti-climatic now.

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Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Industry, Entourage, Pickups and Renewals, TCA Press Tour, Reality-Free

Michael Lombardo and Richard Plepler of HBO held an executive session at the beginning of HBO’s star-studded presentation. Among the news:

• The entire Sunday summer lineup: Entourage, True Blood, and Hung will be coming back next summer.
• They’ve ordered an animated series from Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant based on their podcasts with the ever-entertaining Karl Pilkington.
• On a third season of Flight of the Conchords: “We’re ready when they’re ready.”
• The pilot of Boardwalk Empire, directed by Martin Scorsese, has been delivered to HBO. It will be picked up based on what they see. They like what they see so far.
• No more Little Britain USA, but they are working with the producers to create specials with all-new characters.

More coming. Stay tuned to our Twitter feed for the latest updates.

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Look, Zac Efron, let’s talk for a second. OK, listen, just because I happened to watch the movie 17 Again 3 times in a row on my way back from the Middle East a couple of weeks ago, and just because I couldn’t help but Harajuku-laugh my way through each showing thanks to your adorable self-awareness and timing, doesn’t mean I just wallpapered my ceiling with this photo of you, because I’m pretty sure that’s illegal!! Hahaha. Stop looking at me like that.

But how dare — how dare – you put your life and the lives of millions of young boys and girl in danger with the following stunt: You bungee jumped your ass off the top of a giant cliff while filming The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud. And you did so with the littlest of cares! Without reservation!! You just threw your tiny little ass almost directly into Heaven’s waiting room!

Can you imagine what would have happened if that delicate bungee snapped in two, sending your lean, tanned body careening into the luckiest damn river in all the world? I’ll tell you what would have happened… (Warning: Explicitly violent GIF ahead.) THIS WOULD HAVE HAPPENED.

We’re glad you’re still with us. Here’s to hoping you and Matthew Perry team up again in the near to very near future.

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Ed. Note: Former BWE.tv staffer Jenna Ennis is passionate about many things. And by many things, we mean one thing: The band 311. She was so excited to attend their recent concert, that she asked, nay pleaded, to report live from the scene. And we are nothing if not dream granters. So here, please, kick back your feet, fire up a J, fire up a bong, and fire up a bowl, and please enjoy Jenna’s thorough and scintillating review from the 311 concert. — Michelle

With Faith No More and No Doubt playing comeback shows, it seems only natural to announce that it is time to bring the 90s back. Why? Because in the 90s, our President was a sax-playing, intern-loving dude, Beavis and Butthead were on the air, and our young minds knew nothing of the recession that would plague our adult lives.  Ah, youth!

I decided to bring the music back to MTV Networks by starting small and interviewing my favorite 90s-era band, 311. How ever will this be funny, you ask? I interviewed 311 in 2009. Isn’t that the punchline? Oh, not good enough? How about the fact that half of No Doubt was at their concert in Central Park’s SummserStage? Or that we learn about a Gene Simmons incident, and the definition of “concert weed?” Have I tickled your fancy yet? Check out the interview and some concert photos, after the jump!

In case you aren’t in the “cool people” group, 311 tours just about every year. They even have a bi-annual event called, wait for it, 311 Day (can you guess the date of the event?). I’ve never been, but I hear the mosh pit is ridiculous. To prep for this joyous occasion that is the interview, I call the ladies at Summerstage to secure a photo pass and the reps at Jive/Zomba Records to confirm some time with the band during their whirlwind NY press tour.  I wrote out a slew of music 2.0 related questions and asked a couple of fan-friends (Kira & Bill) to conduct the interview (with PNut & Chad) and put my buddy Jordan in charge of the camera.

We enter the radio room and go into the basics…you have a new album coming out? Yeah, it’s good…touring all the time, why Summerstage this year? You can drink and party there…

As most entertainers do these days, we break into a discussion about social networking and Twitter:

Kira: How do you think social networking has changed the interaction between your fans as far as Twitter, and MySpace and…

Chad: Well. It keeps everyone informed instantly. I don’t do any of it, personally.

PNut: In fact, I’m totally against it. (I try my best to suppress an audible gasp!)

Chad: I just heard that they have these databases and at these festivals, and they were having like 40,000 people Tweet from that festival. So these, artists…and the reports are saying that the crowds are quieter than ever because of this Twitter stuff and people are like, “Hey, I’m at the Sting show” And they stop watching the show. So it gets real quiet. And everyone is like, “He just played!”

PNut: “It was killer, but I’m not clapping”

Chad: So the shows are getting quieter and quieter as far as what those type of performers are saying. Our shows are pretty loud, so we’re happy. And you can’t have your phone out in the pit, you’d lose your phone.

I make sure to make a mental note not to Tweet in the pit, and then we get to this golden gem:

Pnut: What about the towel incident?

Chad: The towel? Oh yea. People think that’s a lie when I say that.

Pnut: It’s not a lie. I’ll back you up.

Chad: I caught Gene Simmons towel.

Pnut: After he spit on it.

Bill: Still have it?

Chad: No. I don’t, actually.

Pnut: His mom washed it.

Chad: That’s why it sounds even more like a lie, “Oh here’s the towel, it sort of looks like everybody else’s towel.” No, it was cool; a great experience. That’s what started it off, man. I was like. “oh, is that real?” My kid brain couldn’t even [handle it]. I thought, “Yeah, I might want to do that.”

Pnut: It also created a phrase among 311, and Chad, I think this is where you experienced it for the first time. Chad said “It smells like concert weed.” Like bad, bad weed, not high quality weed.

Chad: Every now and then we’ll be at our show and you can smell someone smoking…

Pnut: Smoking some brown.

Chad: That’s like 70s concert weed. Like, where did they get that? Like, it’s from the 70s. Have you been time traveling? Time traveling!

Finishing off – we do two pop quiz scenarios:

Bill: There is a bomb on a bus, if the speed drops below 50 MPH it’s going to explode. The driver is blasting your new release, Uplifter on the stereo. Do you: A) Ask him to lower the volume, so he can announce the dilemma. B) Let “Never Ending Summer” blast as the bus explodes. Or C) expect Keanu to show up and save the day.

Chad: Depends on what type of bomb

PNut: But we’ll go down in infamy.

Chad: It depends on what year it is.

PNut: If we’re back in the 90s, Keanu saves the day.

Chad: But if it’s 2050, I think we roll this one out and turn “Never Ending Summer” all the way up and are like “kaboom.” We’ll all blow up; we’ll all go down together.

Kira: You’ve been taken hostage in a warehouse by a group of people and each one is named after a 311 release. Which one do you take out first while trying to make your escape?

PNut: Like, which is our least favorite album?

Chad: That’s what it sounds like.

Pnut: Take it how you want to take it.

Me: (in my attempts to moderate) It doesn’t have to be that symbolic!

Chad: If there is a guy named “Uplifter,” you might want to keep that guy around. “Grassroots?” Self explanatory. “Music?” You need music. But my suggestion is. Don’t even get kidnapped. Don’t be a hostage.

Heading out to the concert, we all feel accomplished over an interview well done. And then I realize, we barely spoke about music. So much for bringing the music back!

Who else would you like to hear from? Leave your 90s dream band interviews in the comments.

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And by “terrorists” I mean, me, should I ever get a hold of a bomb vest:

Other pics from the upcoming “You jinxed it by saying these two couldn’t get more insufferable” season of The Hills, after the jump:

(via Socialite Life)

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