White Collar 2.5

Promo poster:

Can't. Wait.

TWoP 10: Biggest Golden Globe and SAG Award Snubs

Fuck yeah Community!

This week kicked off the start of awards season with nominations being announced by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for their Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild for their SAG Awards.And while there were some shockers in the television categories (Piper Perabo?! Hot in Cleveland?!!), there were also a lot of old standbys, meaning that many deserving shows and actors got left out in the cold. Here are the most egregious snubs from both awards bodies:

1. Community
It seems impossible that this consistently funny network comedy is invisible to the voters. It has one of the best ensemble casts in comedy and not one of them was nominated. We know it is way easier to just keep checking off 30 Rock and The Office on the ballots, but sometimes we wish voters actually made an effort to watch a season from start to finish. From the paintball to the tent city to the zombie Halloween to the awesome stop-motion Christmas special, Community has something for everyone... except, apparently, fans of Hot in Cleveland.

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Beautiful

This 8 month old baby was born deaf, watch the moment as his cochlear implant is activated and he hears sound for the first time, and his mother's voice.

Spoiler Chat stuff

From today's E!Online's Spoiler Chat:

[Photo credit: Will Hart/USA Network]

Duncan: White Collar?
Look for Tim DeKay to sport a fabulous mustache when White Collar returns in January. Why, you ask? Well, says DeKay himself, "That's a flashback episode where Peter wore a mustache for a few months...I did get to ride a horse, which is fun. You'll learn how Peter and Neal (Matthew Bomer) met, you'll learn more about what's behind the music box and who's pulling all the string—what the music box opens up and what you see and what comes about from that, it's pretty awesome. It's priceless.

Keenan: Psych?
Dulé Hill tells us, "We have Aggie the Polar Bear [coming up]. And then we have the season finale, which is the return of the Yin-Yang trilogy. We have Ally Sheedy, Mena Suvari and then we find out who Mr. Yin is. I can't tell you that." Forget Mr. Yin, we want to know more about this polar-bear business! For the record, Dulé's partner-in-crimesolving James Roday teases, "Shawn and Gus have to save a polar bear, which may or may not be framed for murder." Comedy. Gold.

Read more: clicky thingy

Oh, and Gwyneth Paltrow got her star on the Walk of Fame earlier today, AND SHE'S RETURNING TO GLEE!!! =] Love. Her!

Cosmopolitan: The Hottest Men of 2010

Slideshow can be seen here.

• Cory Monteith
• James Franco
• Ryan Reynolds
  
  
  We were so impressed by his intense solo performance in this year's Buried. 90 uninterrupted minutes of close-ups of Ryan's face? Yes, please!

BuddyTV: TV's 100 Sexiest Women of 2010

Here's the full list. Thought Olivia Wilde should be way higher up the list. And Jennifer Carpenter as Debra Morgan should be there somewhere!

#1 Yvonne Strahovski, Chuck – As Sarah Walker

#3 Christina Hendricks, Mad Men – As Joan Harris

#5 Kaley Cuoco, The Big Bang Theory – As Penny

Classic Man Utd vs Arsenal

Building up to tomorrow's game, Goal.com posted their list of 10 classic United - Arsenal rivalry. I sure do miss those days, those intense games, Roy Keane... I am hoping for a United win, a great United performance, and a great, equal, intense match. In that order.


There's no other Roy Keane but I love how the game was so intense even before it started:

I heart Community!

[Easter egg at the end of Community's "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas"]

Christmas episode, trying to find the meaning of Christmas, can be too cliche. That's totally not Community's style! So they made it stop motion animation. They changed the characters into Christmas characters: Jeff-in-the-Box, Britta Bot, Troy Soldier, BallerAnnie, Teddy Pierce and Baby Doll Shirley. The episode was all about Abed and his amazing view of the world.

I just LOVED the episode! Because it was stop motion animation. Because it was Willy Wonka themed. Because it was about Christmas. Because Community is just plain awesome. This is why people (award academies) need to realize that this show is one of the best this season! They're so unique.

Here's a nice piece about the episode:

Love, Laughs & Lotsa Singing! Community's "Unstoppable Christmas" Is Chock-Full of Awesome
Thu., Dec. 9, 2010 12:45 PM PST by Megan Masters

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Best. Episode. Ever.

If you're not completely smitten with Community by now, well, what is wrong with you? Laugh! (Cougar Town, anyone?) We pinkie promise that after tuning into tonight's stop-motion animated Christmas extravaganza, you'll be bursting at the seams with Greendale love and holiday spirit.

Love this!

Even though it's kinda fake. I checked Twitter and Olivia Wilde was saying that Jon Favreau was the best director she's ever worked with, or something like that. And her reply to the "a-hem" was "you know I love you boss!" Whatever, I love the pictures, and I love these guys!! Robert Sean Leonard's "Favreau-ish" is cute (he's cute too!) and "will write Iron Man 3 for food" with a big happy face is lol-worthy! <3

E!'s Top 10 TV Dramas of 2010

The full list is here.

Kinda surprised that Mad Men is only 10th and Grey's Anatomy is higher on the list (#7). Dexter should be higher though because I absolutely think that this season is just amazing!

This is just sad...

Robbed: Thieves take nearly every trophy Sampras won in career
By Chris Chase


During his legendary tennis career, Pete Sampras earned dozens of trophies, medals and plaques for his on-court achievements and acquired the treasure trove of memorabilia you'd expect from one of the most famous athletes in America.

Most of it is now gone, stolen from a storage unit in which Sampras had been keeping the objects. The 14-time Grand Slam champion told Bill Dwyre of the Los Angeles Times that he discovered the theft three weeks ago.

BuddyTV: TV's 100 Sexiest Men of 2010

Here are some from the shows that I watch or played by people I like:

#89 James Roday, Psych – As Shawn Spencer

E!'s Top 10 TV Comedies of 2010

List can be seen here.

Modern Family is at the top, which I guess can be justified; but I think Glee should definitely not be second! The show isn't even that funny. Or that good! Community and The Big Bang Theory are definitely funnier than Glee and should rank higher. But E! does love Glee for some reason...

Community = #1!!!

The Year in TV
By Emily Nussbaum Published Dec 5, 2010

A scene from Community's upcoming episode, "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas."   (Photo: Courtesy of NBC) A scene from Community's upcoming episode, "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas."   (Photo: Courtesy of NBC)

It’s conventional wisdom that the antenna of a TV top ten—the selection that gets the fat print and the pretty illustration—should be a drama. It must be cinematic; it must be dark. It should almost certainly be on cable, probably with someone named David in the show-runner slot. So when I choose the network sitcom Community as No. 1, I’m not saying it doesn’t have serious competition: I couldn’t even fit Sons of Anarchy or Men of a Certain Age onto this list, each of which, were I in a different mood today, might rise right to the top. Cable still hosts the most ambitious television experiments, providing a place where oddball art can find a niche audience (and one that buys DVDs).

And yet it’s worth pointing out that smack in the middle of network, there it is: this auteurist sitcom, slamming it out of the park each week of its second season. Half-hour comedies are as potent an art form as one-hour dramas, and at the moment, the schedule is studded with great ones (Parks and Recreation, Eastbound & Down, Modern Family, Raising Hope, Bored to Death, Childrens Hospital, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and The Middle). Community is theoretically set at a community college, but it uses that conceit the way The Simpsons uses Springfield, as a jumping-off point for just about anything. The show explodes TV conventions while working within them, like the boldest meta-TV from Monty Python’s Flying Circus through 30 Rock. And it’s consistently hilarious, in large part because creator Dan Harmon has such a strong, icy grip on his characters and his idiosyncratic ideas about what’s funny. This season, Community pulled off an action-packed (and sexy) Halloween zombie episode, a self-referential riff on Charlie Kaufman–style self-referentiality, and the single best spiritual trampoline sequence ever. In a competitive environment for comedy, Community is this moment’s top dog.

Justin got injured :( production shuts down

Maybe he should stick to the funny and pass on the stunts.

After Justin Timberlake suffered a leg injury shooting his new film, Now, the studio has temporarily shut down production to give Mr. Sexyback time to get back on his feet, E! News confirms.

Here's what the production company has to say:

Community - Cast talks "Modern Warfare" Episode (Paley Center Interview)

I just love how Dan is like "don't fight for our show if we're getting canceled because we suck!"

I love these guys, I love Community.

Ryan Giggs was trending!

Well it was rumored that it was because Giggsy was said to be considering retirement, but I chose not to believe it. I mean, Ryan Giggs doesn't retire. He's just gonna play for Manchester United forever, and play like a 25 year old no matter how old he is. Right?! =/

In other United news: Owen Hargreaves is going back home to overcome his hamstring problems.

Hargreaves goes 'home' for help

Owen Hargreaves is returning to Germany – the country where he became a professional footballer – as he bids to overcome a "kick in the teeth."

How cold is it, really?

So tomorrow's game of Blackpool vs Manchester United has been delayed due to weather conditions. Apparently it's so cold there in England that pitches are freezing. I'm kinda bummed that there's no United game this weekend but I guess that means more time for me to do other stuff. I mean, it's out of their hands, really. Look at Old Trafford:

Frozen Old Trafford and the heating system