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Dinner: Impossible chef welcomed back
Filed under: Food/Home/DIY, Celebrities  Thanks Chef Michael Symon, but your services are no longer needed on Dinner: Impossible. Yes, he's been given the pink slip because it seems the folks at Food Network realize that they may have acted a bit rashly when they changed chefs last April. The Food Network has rehired Robert Irvine and will reinstate him as the host of Dinner: Impossible.
Apparently, fudging his resume wasn't quite the high crime and misdemeanor it was made out to be. In fact, the network's dramatic reversal is proof positive that Dinner: Impossible has not been the same show with Chef Robert.
It's easier to forgive Irvine for padding his credits -- including facts like cooking for the Queen and preparing meals at the White House -- than it was to find as charismatic a star to anchor the weekly show.Continue reading Dinner: Impossible chef welcomed back Permalink | Email this | | Comments
90210: Make your predictions on who Sean really is! - VIDEO
Filed under: Video, TV Squad Polls, Watercooler Talk, Reality-Free, 90210  If you are like me, you started watching The CW's 90210 out of curiosity and nostalgia but ended up not being able to miss an episode because you wanted to know how evil Naomi could be. You wanted to know what happened to the old Beverly Hills, 90210 gang, thanks to Jennie Garth and Shannen Doherty guesting on the spin off. And, let's admit it, you also wanted your weekly Rob Estes fix!
Now a regular 90210 viewer, I got interested in the Sean storyline. Sean is the son Harry didn't know he had and who was given up for adoption nearly 22 years ago by Tracy. Was "Sean" someone that was already on the show but under another name? (Early this season, people speculated that Ryan would turn out to be Harry's son.) If not, would the PI hired by Tracy find Sean? Who raised Sean all these years? Who had he become? All questions that were answered in this week's episode.
However, the ending of last Tuesday's episode raised a lot of new questions, the main one being: Is Sean, played by Josh Henderson, really Sean?Continue reading 90210: Make your predictions on who Sean really is! - VIDEO Permalink | Email this | | Comments
Worst. Peanuts special. Ever. - VIDEO
Filed under: Video, Animation, Reality-Free  Here we are in the time of year of the holiday specials. And many of them are Peanuts specials. We've already seen It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, and coming soon are A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (next Tuesday on ABC) and A Charlie Brown Christmas. Those are the good ones. What you're about to see if a bad one.
Whenever there is some hot, hip pop culture trend, you see everyone adopting it. That's why James Bond went into freakin' space in Moonraker. The damn success of Star Wars and other space films. It happened to Snoopy too, in It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown. Yup, Snoopy and Franklin and others donned sweats and break danced in this special from the 80s, as you can see in the video after the jump.Continue reading Worst. Peanuts special. Ever. - VIDEO Permalink | Email this | | Comments
The CW ends its Sunday night experiment
Filed under: Industry, Ratings, Reality-Free  It looks like the great experiment has been deemed a failure. The CW is ending its relationship with Media Rights Capital, who produced its extremely low-rated Sunday night line-up.
The idea looked great on paper: rent out Sunday night to an independent content provider and let them reap the advertising rewards. World Wrestling Entertainment uses a similar model when it broadcasts its wrestling product on any given network. Sadly, the concept could not keep up with the sagging ratings of the CW.
The contract was terminated when MRC couldn't keep up with payments to the parent network. I doubt they were making that much in terms of advertising dollars either, given that their ratings were among the lowest ever for the network. That's saying a lot.
In any case, it's another example of The CW being one step closer to that "going out of business" sale. Perhaps they should simply go back to being the WB. Permalink | Email this | | Comments
Spoilers Anonymous
Filed under: Spoilers Anonymous, Reality-Free 
This is Spoilers Anonymous, a weekly column here at TV Squad where we'll supply you with the dirt on some of the more popular shows on the air. We'll never put spoilers up here on the main page in order to help the reformed stay unspoiled. If you have anything to add to the group, feel free to step up and let yourself be heard, either with our tips form or by emailing us at tvsquad at gmail dot com or call and leave a message at (775) 640-8479 - your anonymity is guaranteed, if you wish to remain as such.
This week we have: Brothers & Sisters, Desperate Housewives, Gossip Girl, Grey's Anatomy, Heroes, How I Met Your Mother, Lost and NCIS. (SPOILERS FOLLOW!)Continue reading Spoilers Anonymous Permalink | Email this | | Comments
Are there any clues in that new Lost poster?
Filed under: Lost, Watercooler Talk, Reality-Free  When the Lost season 4 poster was released last season, I took a few minutes to analyze it with you and try to extract clues and spoilers from it. The biggest clues we found in that poster was the skyline of a city reflecting on the water and the number 6, also in the water. Both foreshadowed the Oceanic 6 getting off the island.
It's time to resume our investigation, this time, with the season 5 official poster (see right, bigger version after the jump) which I've found at DocArzt's Lost Blog.Continue reading Are there any clues in that new Lost poster? Permalink | Email this | | Comments
What's On Tonight: Kath and Kim, Eleventh Hour, It's Always Sunny
Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free
 At 8, ABC has a new Ugly Betty, then new episodes of Grey's Anatomy and Life on Mars.- CBS has a new Survivor, followed by new episodes of CSI and Eleventh Hour.
- NBC has new episodes of My Name Is Earl, Kath & Kim, The Office, 30 Rock, and ER.
- FOX has a new Kitchen Nightmares at 8.
- The CW has a new Smallville at 8, then a new Supernatural.
- TBS has four great episodes of Friends starting at 8.
- TCM has 1925's Phantom of the Opera at 8, followed by 1923's Hunchback of Notre Dame.
- Also at 8: Cartoon Network has a new Chowder.
- At 9, PBS has a new Live From Lincoln Center.
- Food Network has another Dear Food Network: Thanksgiving special at 9.
- HGTV has a new Rate My Space at 9.
- At 10, FX has the season finale of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia at 10, followed by a new Testees.
- There's a new Tim Gunn's Guide To Style on Bravo at 10.
- At 10:30, Comedy Central has a new Sarah Silverman Program.
Check your local TV listings for more.
After the jump, the late night talk show listings.Continue reading What's On Tonight: Kath and Kim, Eleventh Hour, It's Always Sunny Permalink | Email this | | Comments
What if Heroes wasn't a serialized show?
Filed under: Programming, Heroes, Reality-Free  Everyone seems to have an idea on how Heroes can be improved. I think it's still good, but ratings are down, fans are fleeing, and it's probably not a show new fans can get into. Now creator Tim Kring has an idea.
For next season, he'd like to see more self-contained episodes instead of a long continuing storyline over the entire season. He talked about what he intended to do with the show and what the future might hold at the Creative Screenwriting Expo last weekend. He wanted to give NBC a show like Lost or 24, one with a serialized storyline that would have fans coming back each week. Now he says he's not sure if that was the right decision, describing those shows as "an absolute bear to do." He thinks that the way that people watch TV nowadays is a lot different than just three years ago, because of DVRs and online viewing and all that, and that has changed how viewers watch serialized dramas since they don't watch them live every week.Continue reading What if Heroes wasn't a serialized show? Permalink | Email this | | Comments
True Blood growing faster than The Sopranos
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Industry, Ratings, Reality-Free  It's no big secret. People love their movies and TV shows based on vampire book series -- romantic vampire book series, to be exact. Proof of that will be crowding your local multiplex this weekend thanks to the release of Twilight, the teen vampire flick based on Stephenie Meyer's inescapable best-seller. (I'll guess I'll wait another week to catch Role Models. Navigating through a sea of rabid teenage "Twilighters" isn't worth it. Sorry, Paul Rudd.)
Want more proof of the popularity of blood suckers? HBO execs are saying their freshman vampire series True Blood, also based on a series of novels, is developing an audience faster than The Sopranos, aka one of the most financially successful cable series in the history of TV. Michael Lombardo, HBO's chief of West Coast operations, says that The Sopranos' viewership numbers grew slowly. The big ratings jump didn't come until season two. But True Blood has fared better, with a 66 percent jump in Sunday night viewership since its premiere in September.Continue reading
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