June 2007
Ever since watching the third episode of Rescue Me on a DVD screener a couple weeks back, I've been in denial about the show's final scene. After watching it again, though, that denial is a lot harder to sustain.
Before entering into discussion of Wednesday (June 27) night's Top Chef, I have a quick question: In 2007, are there still families out there eating Chicken a la King on a regular basis?
I think I finally figured out how Hidden Palms ended up on The CW's schedule. I think Kevin Williamson was walking around the halls of the Programming division, looking to pitch I Know Why You Screamed In Dawson's Creek Last Summer, when he walked past a meeting between CW executives and Rob Thomas, creator of Veronica Mars.
Attired in a slightly blousey white dress with lace sleeves, Paris Hilton looked like the prettiest angel in the Christmas pageant during her Larry King interview on Wednesday (June 27) night.
The party girl usually known for never doing anything when she can overdo stayed on message that she's going to mend her ways.
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For the final week of auditions, America's Got Talent came to New York City, the city where America's dreams of the stage begin, and, in many cases, die. But who cares about the ones who fail, unless they're so appallingly bad as to make good TV?
It's time for another exciting glimpse into the life of D-list super star Kathy Griffin! Tonight we begin with what will apparently be a weekly feature on the show -- another "company meeting." It is here that we find out Kathy is traveling to St. Petersburg, Florida to audition at The Home Shopping Network to be a spokesmodel for Jennifer Flavin-Stallone's new skin care line called "Serious." Is it really wise to hire a comedienne as the voice of a product called "Serious"? Oh, to be a fly on the wall of that marketing meeting.
After her horror film last week failed to take root, it took only three minutes into Tuesday (June 26) night's On the Lot to deservedly eliminate Jessica Brillhart. That left a lot of time to showcase six hastily produced comedies and to showcase host Adrianna Costa's limited grasp on the genre.
Imagine Ryan Seacrest opening the envelope on American Idol and saying "America has voted and Stephanie is going home tonight. But that's ridiculous. Sanjaya? Hit the road." Imagine Phil Keoghan greeting the second to last Amazing Race team to the mat with, "I'm pleased to say you're team number eight, but... Yoink!" and pulling the mat out from under them and letting another team finish first. Well, on Monday (June 25) night's Hell's Kitchen, Chef Gordon Ramsay called an audible of his own.
NBC sure is into the dating experiments these days. In the one-hour special Science of Love: A Modern Dating Experiment, NBC "pose[s] the question: Is finding your soul mate instinct, or can science make you fall in love?" God, science is so pushy sometimes! Repping science are "top experts in the field of love," there to find one poor fellow's "perfect match." (I can already tell this is going to be amazing!)
When you were a kid and you'd done something wrong, did your parents ever play the "We're so disappointed in you" card? That phrase would reduce me to a pile of weeping, penitent goo. The thought of disappointing my folks, or anyone else, still makes my stomach hurt. Apparently, that's a trait I share with Brenda Leigh Johnson on TNT's The Closer. Her stomach was in knots this week, because she was dealing with the fear -- and the reality -- of disappointing the people she loved in every facet of her life. Ouch.
