In the Glee season finale, Emma revealed to Will that she was over him and dating her dentist now. Spoiler alert, but rumors all around the internet are that former “Uncle Jesse” actor John Stamos has been pegged to join Glee next fall as said dentist.
Stamos should prove a worthy rival to Schuster; even if he plays the role with a hint of villainy and is closer in age to Sue Sylvester than Emma, he still comes off with the charm of a guy who’s spent hours in the gym after downing some particularly effective vitamin supplements.
Could a sing-off between the two suitors be far behind? This is Glee… what do you think?
The Patricia Arquette drama Medium is currently looking good, according to online reports, to be renewed for a seventh season overall, which would be its second season on CBS after NBC dismissed the show a year ago. The supernatural crime drama has improved the performance of CBS’ Friday time slot considerably this season, and is a consistent if not stellar performer.
While there is no need for wedding accessories for any of the kids on the show yet, a seventh season comes as welcome news to those who appreciate the show’s fine mixture of supernatural chills and real-world criminal menaces.
Although not as sparkling and witty as Fox’s BONES, MEDIUM is nevertheless a solid favorite for my wife and I, so we’re certainly glad to hear the show will be back for another season.
Comedy Central often considers itself “brave” when it comes to offending Christians and Jews, even Scientologists and Algore’s zittoheads are vulnerable. But don’t ask them to stand up to Muslims… unless it’s a minor challenge involving foosball tables, maybe.
But some harmless comedy depicting the prophet Muhammad in a bear costume? Apparently that’s too risque for the Comedy Central “liberals when its convenient.” While Trey Parker and Matt Stone were unafraid when they created last week’s episode in question, it was the network that wimped out, bleeping out all references to the Islamic prophet, and even a “teachable moment,” end-of-show speech by Kyle about standing up to bullies.
Gutless, really… and doubly-ironic since failing to stand up to Islamic extremist bullies is exactly what Comedy Central is guilty of. I guess the moral of this story is, maybe Christians and Jews wouldn’t be quite so picked-on if they engaged in even a fraction of the terrorism they get accused of by Comedy Central…
…but at least Comedy Central’s actions speak louder than words when it comes to which “terrorists” they really fear.
The History Channel has a big-time hit on its hands with the six-part special, America: The Story of Us. The debut drew 5.7 million viewers to the cable net, which makes it History’s highest-rated and most-watched special. Ever.
That’s pretty impressive; even more impressive than Acnepril, and it shows that there is still some appetite in the country for heady, historical programming rather than a lot of tawdriness of the Desperate Houswives variety.
Legendary comic book writer, novelist and silver screen scribe Neil Gaiman has been snagged to pen one episode of the new season of British sci-fi show, Doctor Who. While many folks have worried about the direction of the show following the exit of scribe Russel T. Davies, who proved to be the Joss Whedon of Great Britain during his four-series-plus run at the helm of the legendary BBC TV franchise.
However, new showrunner Steven Moffat, who penned a well-received parody of Doctor Who about 10 to 15 years ago, when the show was on hiatus, has proven to be adept at drawing some of the top talent available to work on the re-configured show.
As everyone who follows Doctor Who knows by now, tenth doctor David Tennant is out, as are all of the companions that befriended the Doctor during Tennant’s run. In are new, eleventh doctor Matt Smith and an all-new companion, portrayed by Irish actress Karen Gillen, who will be known by the name Amy Pond on the show.
Smith’s Doctor is a dapper dresser more in the mode of Tennant, rather than an eccentric dresser in the mode of fourth Doctor Tom Baker or many of those who followed him. At least he won’t ruin the nice dramatic tone of the new show by carting around used golf balls or something wacky like that!
Anyway, in addition to Gaiman, some other talent Moffat has snagged for the new series of Doctor Who includes director Richard (Love Actually) Curtis, as well as Torchwood writers Chris Chibnall and Toby Whithouse. Still, in most people’s books, Gaiman is the biggest “get” of the new season.
Season Three of the HBO vampire blood could result in the series’ vamps sucking more than just blood; word has it there will be a male-on-male pairing that doesn’t involve the show’s resident male gay, Lafayette.
In a swerve well away from the novels of Charlaine Harris, it appears show creator Alan Ball is set on having Vampire Bill Compton hooking up with were-dog Sam Merlott in a horizontal way. Of course, true to the show’s vampiric origins, the coupling will come as a result of a blood exchange between the pair that was necessary at the end of season two for Bill to save Sam’s life.
In the Harris novels, the sharing of blood between vampire and human has been established to create a psychic and sexual bond. So it’s not that the two will be suddenly talking about the best face cream with each other; it will be the result of a plot device long-established in the Harris novels, but never exploited in exactly this pairing.
Who could father cool doc Hank Lawson and hip brother Evan on the USA dramedy Royal Pains? Turns out the mystery figure in the doorway from last season’s cliffhanger is none other than the former Arthur Fonzarelli himself, Henry Winkler.
Now it all makes sense, right down to the two brothers’ CliniSlim looks.
The Fonz won’t get a warm welcome, however, as Eddie Lawson was revealed to be the responsible party in last season’s finale for taking the majority of money out of HankMed and fleeing. What kind of comeuppance will he receive? Well, that’s why they expect you to tune in, silly.
HollywoodIdiocy has been a fan of MONK from the beginning… definitely one show lacking in idiocy! Here’s a scene from this Friday’s series finale, courtesy of USA.
Amanda Peet, one star who certainly doesn’t need any immediate services of a Plano dentist at the moment, and who is one of the stars of 2012, last week’s box-office-topping disaster film that sank to a distant third place behind New Moon this weekend, has been confirmed as a guest star on How I Met Your Mother this season; her episode is scheduled for January.
Those blessed with long-term memory will recall that Peet got her start on the small screen, initially on The CW’s Jack and Jill series, and more prominently (and disastrously) three years ago on NBC’s ill-fated Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip.
While the guest appearance is a one-shot, Peet’s career has always had TV ties, even though she has fared better in her big-screen efforts overall.
The new, recast version of Scrubs will arrive on ABC starting December 1, so someone tell Donald Faison to hold off on that bulk order of hair vitamins; he’ll continue playing the hairless Doctor Turk for at least another season.
Beyond Doctor Turk, John C. McGinley’s Docter Cox will also appear on the series, but the rest of the original cast will, at best, be only occasional guest stars. The new Scrubs will feature the work of Eliza Coupe, Michael Mosley, Kerry Bishe and Dave Franco as the new emotional centers of the show.
BBC One has announced that the second of four Doctor Who specials slated to air this year, featuring the swan song of series re-creator Russell T. Davies as well as David Tennant’s Doctor, will are on BBC One in under two weeks, on November 15. A subsequent airing on BBC America is sure to follow, though the air date in the US has yet to be announced.
Titles Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars, the episode will feature Lindsay Duncan as Adelaide, the Doctor’s companion for the episode. Two more specials remain featuring Davies and Tennant at the helm of the TARDIS; both are expected to air as part of BBC One’s tradition “Christmas special” of Doctor Who; at the end of the fourth special, Tennant’s Doctor is expected to regenerate and reveal Matt Smith’s Doctor for the first time on screen.
After Tennant and Davies depart, Smith’s Doctor will see his fate rest in the hands of Steven Moffatt, who has worked under Davies for several years. Smith’s Doctor is set to be the youngest yet cast in the role of the Doctor, as he is still in his 20s. While there has been much talk of bringing back Tennant-era companions like Freema Agyeman’s Martha Jones, Catherine’s Tate’s Donna Noble or even – however unlikely – Billie Piper’s Rose Tyler, instead, it has been announced that Moffatt and Smith will reset the table for the Doctor, granting him an all-new companion for the fifth series in the form of young Scottish actress Karen Gillan, who’s so young she may still require the best acne treatment, and will portray new companion Amy Pond.
Although Davies has made it clear he will make a clean break with Doctor Who after Moffatt takes control, what is less clear are the futures of the successful Doctor Who spin-offs, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. Torchwood has survived largely without Davies’ input, but has credited him as creator and executive producer; The Sarah Jane Adventures has seen little direct involvement from Davies under similar circumstances. Time will tell.
