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Archive for January, 2010

Here’s the TV lineup for tonight (all times Eastern).

• Bravo has a House marathon all night.
• At 8, FOX has a new Cops.
• TLC has The Miss America Pageant at 8.
• HGTV has a new Divine Design at 8.
• TCM has Wuthering Heights at 8.
• At 9, FOX has a new America’s Most Wanted.
• CNBC has a new Suze Orman Show at 9.
• Nickelodeon has a new episode of The Troop at 9.
• Cartoon Network has a new episode of The Secret Saturdays at 9.
• Lifetime has Lying To Be Perfect at 9.
• Syfy has Meteor Storm at 9.
• Also at 9: BBC America has a new Demons.
• At 10, CBS has a new 48 Hours Mystery.
• At 11, FOX has a new Wanda Sykes Show.
• At 11:30, NBC has a new Saturday Night Live, with Jon Hamm and Michael Buble´.
• At 3:30AM, ESPN2 has the men’s final of The Australian Open.

Check your local TV listings for more.

Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free

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(S0910) This was a halfway decent midseason premiere. I certainly wasn’t expecting that.

For Smallville, things usually start to drag around the midseason point. Then it’s like driving with the parking brake on until the season’s final three episodes arrive. But not this year.

This week’s solid entry and next week’s “Absolute Justice” event are signs that Smallville will sustain the momentum by giving fans exactly what they want – fun episodes that feed into ongoing story arcs, and plenty of geeky superhero action.

“Disciple” smartly nudged a few major plot threads forward, offered some sweet Lois & Clark moments, and delivered an entertaining self-contained story. Spoilers below.

Continue reading Review: Smallville – Disciple

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The folks at our sister site Cinematical are working hard to give you news and reviews of the best — and worst — the silver screen has to offer. Here are some of their musings on the latest blockbusters, indies, and everything in between:

• You may think that basing a movie on a parenting handbook called, Eat, Sleep, Poop is a bad idea, but Mean Girls was based on Queen Bees and Wannabees, which was basically a parenting handbook for older kids. And Mean Girls is awesome.
• We’re in the middle of awards season now, and some critics think that Paul Rudd was overlooked for his contribution to the film, I Love You Man. Who do you think should have been on stage accepting an award?
• There is a large contingent of the moviegoing population who watched the new Sherlock Holmes and wished that Holmes and Watson took their relationship to the next level. They kind of get their wish in Billy Wilder’s The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.
• As a huge Veronica Mars and Kristen Bell fan, I want to believe that When In Rome is a good movie. However, the evidence suggests otherwise. You can read Cinematical’s review of When In Rome, here.
• Is Edge of Darkness going to be Mel Gibson’s comeback film? Read what Cinematical thinks about it here.

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How’s this for a romantic and funny way to celebrate Valentine’s Day: make it a week-long marathon of The Nanny episodes on Nick at Nite. What? That’s not red roses, Dove chocolates and champagne to you?

The idea of reliving the sitcom fun of the nanny named Fran blowing into the life of theatrical producer Maxwell Sheffield and falling in love with him while taking care of his three children was the stuff of television romance when it aired on CBS from 1993 to 1999.

Part The Sound of Music, part schmaltzy broad Jewish shtick, The Nanny was fun stuff. For this marathon, Fran herself, actress Fran Drescher will host the week which Nick has dubbed Valentine Schmalentine.

Continue reading Nick at Nite gets Fran for Nanny Valentine’s celebration

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(S010O2) In one scene in the second episode of Caprica, Amanda Graystone holds a book that belonged to her daughter, called The Physics of Religion and Spirituality. The fact that she’s holding it at a memorial for the victims of a terrorist attack, while mourning her daughter, Zoe, is more than a little ironic.

We’ll start with the fact that the book was given to Amanda by the mother of Zoe’s boyfriend Ben, who strapped explosives to his chest and blew up the train in the name of one true god, killing Zoe and many others. When Amanda finds a religious symbol amongst the book and some photos, she is convinced that Zoe was part of the plot to bomb the train (she wasn’t, although she shared some of the religious views that led to it).

Continue reading Review: Caprica – Rebirth

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Meet Amusing Duck, the toys series with a strong sense for playing:

Now listen to Amusing Duck LAY EGG IS TRUE!!! And enjoy having this in your head all weekend:

Actually, stuck in my head right now I’ve got a weird hybrid of this duck quacking and the phrase “LAY EGG IS TRUE” set to Elvis Costello’s “Alison”.

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Really, isn’t it possible cats and dogs and all of God’s creatures have bad vision? Highly possible, we say.

In an unrelated story, here is a video of a Japanese business cat using a Japanese hotel booking website. The last shot of it will one day by my NY Times vows photo. BEST 13 SECONDS YOU WILL SPEND ALL WEEK. (via Buzzfeed)

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This may be the greatest and most urgent email we’ve ever received to our tips line:

I left the last part in just because “LLC” makes me laugh. The Penis.net people are making sure to maximize their tax-exemptions.

Also, the difference between 1 million Google searches for “penis” and 2.2 million Google searches for “penis” is astronomical — I had no idea there was such a wild month-to-month swing of amount of times people type “penis” into Google. I guess it depends on the weather — in the summer, it stays light out late, so I’m outside a lot, but in the winter, there’s literally nothing else to do besides going home and typing penis into Google.

Also also, our company would be interested in penis.net “for obvious reasons”? Which obvious reasons would those be? My overwhelming gayness or just my general enthusiasm for penises? If we’re gonna do business together, some clarity would be appreciated.

So yeah, long story short, anyone know a good place to get “CEO, Penis.net” business cards printed up?

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Matthew McConaughey is famous for one thing… make that 12… his ABS. When not playing a bongo drum with his mind, one can often find McConaughey doing a number of crunches on the sand sans top. It’s his trademark.

But check out who has just graduated from Charleston School of Protocol and Etiquette…

That’s right! Matthew hasn’t just put on a shirt, he’s gone the whole nine yards in a pretty spiffy looking get up… But you know it’s a Fuxedo, right?

For sure. Check out the hot gallery pics ahead. [Photos via Splash News Online]

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I don’t know about the movie, but the trailer shows Jennifer Anniston getting shoved into a trunk so it can’t be all bad.

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