Lindsay Lohan Headed to Lifetime
Today: Lindsay Lohan gets a big Lifetime role, Gina Carano keeps on acting, and the BBC cancels a show.
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Today in entertainment news: Reese Witherspoon's first sci-fi movie seems to be a go, Leo DiCaprio reteams with an old friend, and Steven Spielberg is adapting a video game.
Today: Lindsay Lohan gets a big Lifetime role, Gina Carano keeps on acting, and the BBC cancels a show.
The show is still far from perfect, but the second season has actually been significantly better.
Amidst all this talk about Girls, what with its New Yorkness and its girlness and its youthness, it was easy to forget about the other young New York woman who was recently dominating/trolling the pop culture conversation. Meaning: guys, we forgot all about Lana del Rey! Lucky for everyone, then, that she has just released a new video for us to scream at/about.
One way that Game of Thrones fans have wooed skeptics to their cause has been to insist that, though the show is fantasy, it's not, like, all wizards and spells and crazy creatures and all that.
Today: Taylor Swift considers sacrilege, Catching Fire has its director, and Matthew Perry is going back to work.
Here's some good, surprising news for you: Something genuinely great is happening in Washington.
Today we review two movies about romance, The Lucky One and Goodbye First Love.
Last night was, truly, the most shocking rose ceremony in Idol history.
Today: Jake Gyllenhaal takes to the stage, Bravo gives us the goods, as does Magic Mike.
What exactly was happening on American Idol last night? Didn't things seem off and strange?
Today: Netflix goes all in, Bravo renews your favorite show, and Showtime has a new project.
Time magazine released their annual 100 Most Influential list today and while it's mostly your typical mishmash of heads of state, captains of industry, and stars of stage and screen, there are a few things about this year's list that strike us as particularly wrong.
Yesterday, two football players from Tennessee, Nathaniel Claybrooks and Christopher Johnson, announced that they plan to sue ABC and the producers of The Bachelor for racial discrimination.
It's the middle of April now and graduation season is fast approaching. For Glee that means potentially saying goodbye to many of its main characters.
Today: Rupert Murdoch gets the movie treatment, Disney resurrects an amphibian, and Charlie Sheen is, well, winning.
There are some important things you can do right now to start getting ready for America's best season. Here is our list of ten ways to get an early jump on making Summahtime 2012 the best one ever.
Yesterday we learned that HBO's new series Girls, perhaps more written about than any new show this year, premiered to only so-so numbers. And by "so-so" we mean for premium cable.
It was just last week that we were complaining about how depressing Smash has gotten, with everyone fighting and breaking up and becoming pillheads. But luckily last night a tall blonde Veela arrived and started to get things back on track.
Today: a wildly talked-out about show wasn't watched that much, James Cameron is huge in China, and the Tribeca Film Festival picks some strange judges.
Amidst all the big prestige cable shows currently clogging up Sunday (plus Once Upon a Time), it can be all too easy to forget another gem on the end-of-weekend lineup, CBS' sharp and surprising The Good Wife.
Today: Royals are acting criminally, Tiki Barber hits a marital snag, and Nicki storms off the internet.
Disney gives a blog to a dog, Nancy Meyers and Tina Fey are looking for an old man, and Pauly D is very very rich.
Today we review two new sci-fi-ish thrillers, The Cabin in the Woods and Lockout.
OK, that was some hot chicanery on American Idol last night, was it not? That was some straight up flimflammery, a scam and a cheat and an ol' run-around. That was a scheme faker than a Jennifer Lopez song. We've been had, America. Hoodwinked and bamboozled.
Today: Britney Spears is close to a big deal, Christian Slater stumbles again, and some Batman snaps.
I must first admit to some bias. I approached Girls, HBO's new series about the aimless youngs of Brooklyn, with more than a little snide skepticism.
There was nothing terribly adventurous about any of the singtestants' endeavors last night, but, you know, this really isn't a bad group. There are no true clunkers, which is a rare thing on American Idol these days. So thank god at least for that.
Today: The two cool guys are putting something together, AMC gets back in the comic business, and LMFAO is trying to make it official.
Now that The Hunger Games director Gary Ross is officially not directing the second movie in the series, Catching Fire, it's time to start speculating about who Lionsgate might hire. Or rather, who they should hire.
After a strange and somewhat scattered run of episodes, FX's grainy and appealing crime show Justified wrapped up its third season last night, giving us some satisfying moments amidst all the chaos.
Today: Jen considers a risque role, a legendary rap album comes to life, and Tom Hanks might go seriously Disney.
The happy news comes today that HBO has officially renewed their successful fantasy series Game of Thrones for a third season. Gods be good! Seems like lots of shows are getting renewed right now. Let's take a look at what we'll be watching next TV season.
If there's one thing we never expected a show about musical theater to be, it's depressing.
Today: HBO has a real hit on its hands, Zooey Deschanel will be back in the fall, and the Eastwood reality show drops.
Over the Easter weekend, a busy one for New York theater, Disney's smash-hit musical The Lion King became Broadway's smashest hit ever, surpassing ancient veteran The Phantom of the Opera.
Last night Lifetime: Television For Room-Temperature Wine Drinkers debuted its newest series, The Client List, a supposedly sexy and scandalous show about a gal (Jennifer Love Hewitt) who joins the oldest profession (sort of) to make ends meet in these tough economic times.
Today: Katniss has no leader, Nicole Kidman is to become a princess, and an injured actor gets litigious.
Today we review two new movies based on faded youth, the American Pie gang getting back together for American Reunion and Whit Stillman's revisiting college life with Damsels in Distress.
Another day, another Idol kid sent to the dustbin of pop culture history.
We were so much older then. We're younger than that now.
Today: Betty White to the rescue, the return of Captain America, and JGL bows out.
In a new interview with The New York Times, David Simon, creator of HBO's Greatest Television Show Ever Made (according to some, anyway) The Wire, does something that has become frustratingly commonplace: alienate the people who have, in essence, determined his show's artistry.
Foolish April has arrived, meaning it's the last big month for shows to open on Broadway before all-important Tony eligibility closes for the season. Here are the shows that are worth dropping a hundred dollars to sit in the dark.
Last night was the 1980s music-themed episode of American Tune Farm, a vaguely depressing night always.
Today: Jimmy Cameron's done it again, Bravo unveils even more new shows, and Ryan Seacrest's announcement is kinda boring.
If Us Weekly's sources are correct (and, really, when are they ever wrong?), three of Saturday Night Live's biggest stars might be leaving the show at the end of this season.
It went on for weeks. We told no one our quiet weird secret. But now it's been months, whole seasons have changed, so it just needs to be said: We've seen every episode of ABC's Once Upon a Time and we are hungry for more.
Today: A Quality TV victor has been decided, a gang of British teens snubs the White House, and some exciting theater news.
Whiling away the hours before another grim episode of Smash last night, we went against our better judgment and watched a two-hour episode of The Voice.
Today: Levi has done it for the second time, billionaire Ron Perelman has for the eighth, and Steve Urkel is overcome with emotion
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