Tomcat (the boyfriend) claims that I don't give him credit for all the links that he refers me to, but since he hasn't yet given in to posting on this blog, he will get no credit. So I found this all by myself. Although on second thought, given the tragedy of this link, I take that back. He watched this trailer the whole way through... Yikes.

Anyway, Reese Witherspoon is an anal doctor who never gets out, and then dies, and haunts her apartment, which is sublet by Mark Ruffalo, and he can see her as a ghost, and maybe they fall in love? Really. I'm not quite sure how this can end "well", unless there is a one sided suicide love pact, and that doesn't sound all that romantic or comedic. Watch the trailer.

Rachel : Wedding Crashers :: Alicia : Clueless

Since nyanko seems to be recently obsessed with Rachel McAdams, I thought I'd mention that I just watched Wedding Crashers, and I am fairly certain that this will go down as the movie that defines Rachel's cuteness.

This is in the same league as Alicia on Clueless, or Elisha on The Girl Next Door. And that's really saying something. After watching both Mean Girls and The Notebook (yes, I really did watch The Notebook, it's not my fault), my general grade on Rachel's cute factor was a "meh." That will have to be reevaluated with this new data.

Hopefully she doesn't just disappear like Alicia did... Red Eye anyone?

Bashing on John Cusack. Kind of funny.

TiVoToGo on your PSP - this is very intriguing. Though very outdated (from last March). I'm a bit slow on the trends...

E! Online has reopened message boards for the Watch with Kristin column/area/topics. Kristin dumps random nuggets of TV gossip into the forum announcements which is kind of fun if you have nothing to do and want to kill five minutes...

I've heard that frequently movie posters are just body doubles with the actors' heads Photoshopped on but it just me or does that seem particularly likely in this art? Jessica Alba's head seems not quite right in terms of lighting/angle, and also sizing, but Paul Walker looks particularly out of sorts... His head seems bigger than his torso. It's just....weird.

An early review/plot summary of Red Eye, which basically says the movie is crap, with three different stories/movies hooked together. The review completely spoils the movie, but you weren't going to go anyway, and the whole tragedy of it as described seems pretty funny. As long as you didn't pay hard-earned cash to see the movie...

Mandy Moore shows up in Entourage, and they reference A Walk to Remember. Awesome!

Totoro Edit: If you've ever seen Entourage before, you know how annoying everyone on that show is, but this is probably one of the funniest episode-long storylines thus far. Mandy's looking less cute as the years go on, she's turning kind of a permanent shade of bronze, but the plot involving Vince + Mandy is hilarious.

And here's the link to the Fox Podcasts.

Fox is going to be doing podcasts for their shows, as well as recaps of certain shows such as 24 and Arrested Development. Hmm, Arrested Development. That might get me on the podcast bandwagon...

ABC's premiere dates for the fall shows. Most of their shows will begin the week of Sept. 19th.

Damn you, trailer lackeys

So, I've started to really like Rachel McAdams. She's so cute, and really, the other twentysomething actresses are falling off the likability map with an alarming frequency (Katie Holmes, I'm talking to you!) Anyway, I saw Mr. and Mrs. Smith a few weeks back, and the trailer for Red Eye showed. I'll give you a little summary of my thoughts while watching the trailer.

"Mmmm, I love popcorn. Trailers! I love trailers too! Airports... Hey, Rachel McAdams! I like her! She was cute in the Notebook! Aw, romantic comedy - she'll be good in romantic comedy! Yay! Tex-mex! Airplanes! Love... wait, why did his eye turn red? Is he a borg? AGH! AGH! AGH! AGH! It's a scary movie! AGH! Agh! Waaaah! I'm not seeing this movie!"

And thus, I was completely scammed by those little evil trailer gnomes. Luckily I figured out the movie premise before I got to the movie theater, otherwise I would have been really sad.

Veronica Mars' creator had an alternate ending for who killed Lilly Kane, in case the planned ending got leaked. (Spoilers on the season finale of VM from last May)

Rumor has it that Dean Cain might be in talks to guest on Smallville.

Bizarre! A movie set around oyster farmers!

Totoro just got a PSP and sounds just as excited about the possibility of using it to watch TV shows while on the move, as about playing games. He'll blog about it if he gets it working. Maybe this means that Totoro will actually watch TV, and thus have more to blog about...

And the tomcat (the boyfriend) is going to be out of the country for two months, so I might be babysitting/tending his Tivo during that time. That would make my household a three tivo household. Scary!

The stated goal for this weekend was to watch TV until my eyes bled, as well as finishing the book that I've been reading for the past seven months. I was partially saved from myself by the fact that one of my Netflix DVDs was cracked when it arrived, and thus unplayable. This gave me the time to finish my other two DVDs, get to TiVo Zero, watch one episode from the Amazing Race Season 1, and finish my book.

Sadly, I didn't find the book all that compelling, which was disappointing, but at least it's done so I can donate it to the free book shelf at work. Of course, it should have been a sign that it has taken me this long to finish the book... So it's time to find a new book, and watch even more crap! Woo!

Heh. An article on Dean from Gilmore Girls and uh, Dean from Supernatural.

NBC's premiere dates for their fall schedule. And really, there aren't any shows that I particularly care about, at this time, since Scrubs isn't on the schedule.

Winnie Cooper does math! And publishes!

Premiere dates for the WB shows this fall. Gimore Girls starts on 9/13.

Veronica Mars premieres September 21st.

Four episodes of Veronica Mars will be aired on CBS on 7/29, 8/5, and 8/12. So this is a chance to get hooked on this great little show. Woo!

TV Review: Bones

Bones is a new show coming out on Fox this Fall, and Nyanko has previously posted the futon critic's review of the pilot.

Their review is probably a lot snarkier and funnier than what I'm about to say, but the bottom line is that it looks formulaic and mediocre. I'm the kind of person who will give any show at least a couple eps before writing it off, especially if there's a shortage of stuff to watch (Nyanko almost disowned me for watching The Closer past the first episode), but it's unclear that I'll even care when this show actually premieres.

The primary attraction to this show is, of course, David Boreanaz as one of the stars. The titular character is a female "forensic anthropologist" who can look at a decayed corpse and, with her team of geniuses, generate a 3-D image of the dead person, a holographic animation of how they were killed, and a profile of the deceased including height, weight, hobbies, favorite food, and favorite Backstreet Boy. My powers of suspension of disbelief are powerful indeed, but if this is how all of their cases are solved, I'll have to categorize this one under "superhero shows."

Apparently, the Incredibles DVD has an easter egg that is a four-minute version of the file done entirely with sock puppets. This I have to see.

I watched Hooking Up on ABC and it was pretty cute. The women seem likable, if somewhat quirky; the men seem less endearing. The bad dates are pretty funny, although one of the women was horrified that she had to pay for her half of the meal. Not sure what to think about that kind of mindset with respect to paying for meals.

Also, I have now obtained the first four seasons of the Amazing Race courtesy of the tomcat (the boyfriend). So it's going to be a fun week!

I taped the season finale of 24 for Roomie (my college roommate - no longer a roommate, but I'm sticking with the name), and as a bonus, she's also getting three seasons of the Wire. It's all part of my evil plan! Hmm, maybe I should give her Veronica Mars too!

Cordy will be on Veronica Mars! Maybe it will become a Buffy reunion universe with more stars joining Alyson Hannigan and Charisma Carpenter!

The Brothers Grimm trailer doesn't look too bad, and Matt Damon is wearing a funny wig...

There's a new show starting on Thursday at 9 pm on ABC called Hooking Up, about 12 Manhattan women who are doing Internet dating. TV Gal liked it, so I'm going to check it out. It's not like I have anything else to watch.

I'm scarred by the last two Queer Eye episodes - one involved a guy slowly cutting a live lobster in half. Apparently, it's supposed to be somewhat humane, but the guy did the move wrong, so it was horrifying to watch the lobster squirm around. And finally, the latest episode of Wildfire was as lame as the last one, so it's on the season pass deathwatch. Horses + juvenile delinquents + two hot boys should have been ratings gold! The WB would have made it work.

It looks like TAR 8 (Family Edition) is making a circuit of the United States. They've been spotted in Virginia, Delaware and Pennsylvania. (Note: this is a spoiler board, but lately the discussions have mainly been around the cities that the race is going to, rather than who they've seen/who wins/etc.)

Another rave review for 'My Name is Earl' on NBC, which will be on Tuesdays at 9 pm.

The next season of the Bachelor will be filmed in Paris. Perhaps the folks at ABC were inspired and swept away by the romance of Tom's proposal to Katie...

Chappelle's Show, Entourage & House

So, the summer lull in TV (especially since Dancing with the Stars is over!) has given me time to watch a bunch of TV shows on DVD or in reruns. Here's thoughts on a couple of shows:

Chappelle's Show: Tomcat (the boyfriend) loves this show, and I have to say that there were a few sketches that were hilarious (although you hate yourself for laughing because the stuff is really *so* offensive), but overall, I thought the show was pretty uneven. It's funny, but not consistently funny enough for me to bother watching/renting it.

Entourage: This show has had a lot of hype and a number of TV columnists really like it, but I thought it was really blah. The characters are stupid, the plot is pretty non-existent, and it's not witty in any way. Totoro warned me that he didn't it very good, so I guess I'll have to start trusting his reviews over the crazy TV columnists. Anyone out there have thoughts in favor of the show? Can you tell me what's actually good about it?

House: This is one of the few shows that Totoro actually watches and I've found it quite enjoyable, but I don't think I'll find it compelling enough to want to see every episode. I mean, I have to keep space on my TiVo for Wildfire (which really wasn't very good in its second episode, which was surprisingly disappointing for me - yeah, I'm obviously in denial).

p.s. Tomcat is doing a two month internship in a different city this fall, and he and his friends appear to be prepared to take their TiVos with them. Insanity or the only sane thing to do?

The summer press tour, where networks hype their fall shows, will be starting this week. That means we'll start seeing more information about premiere dates, as well as early reviews and thoughts from critics about the new shows premiering this fall.

Fox's fall premiere dates are announced. Prison Break (which is getting good buzz) starts Aug 29; the OC and Reunion start Sept 8; Arrested Development starts Sept 19.

The Amazing Race 1 DVD set has been officially announced!

Heh. Celebrities delivering Amazon orders. You can watch the videos!

the futon critic has some pretty funny reviews of Bones and the Unit, both premiering this fall.

Also, the tomcat (the boyfriend) and I watched the entire season three of the Wire over the weekend. It was pretty darn hilarious, as well as great TV. Watching drug dealers use Robert's Rules of Order to run their meetings is not to be missed!

Seriously, I think this is the scariest stamp I've ever seen. And he looks kind of like Dr. Evil. I'm not sure what to think of people who choose this over the puppies and wildlife stamps. Unfortunately, the tomcat (my boyfriend) has these. Maybe I'm still scarred from college organic chemistry classes...

MTV's soon-to-be-launched gay oriented channel, Logo, will be airing all episodes of Wonderfalls. One can only hope that this will allow a larger set of the population to be exposed to the genius that was Wonderfalls... (I think the launch date for the channel is still yet to be announced...)