Michael Weatherly interview

I didn't realize Michael Weatherly, formerly on Dark Angel, is now on NCIS. He was the tech dude in the wheelchair who was in love with Max (Jessica Alba), and was the main male lead. Too bad they didn't ask about his broken engagement to Jessica Alba in this interview. Although there's a hilarious section of this interview where Weatherly talks about how he's always trying to use hair as a way to communicate what the character is thinking...

R.I.P. Forth & Towne

Wow, Gap has already pulled the plug on their Forth & Towne brand and stores

The writer/producer guys from the Wire are now working on a project about soldiers in the Iraq war. Sounds interesting. I'll be looking forward to checking it out.

Watch Andy Richter's new show

You can watch the whole pilot of Andy Richter's new show. I have to say that Andy Richter Controls the Universe was a pretty funny show when it was on, although I never watched it regularly.

300

I've been pretty down on watching movies on the big screen for a while now, but one movie that has been on my radar for a long time is finally getting close to release (3/9), and initial reports are that it is going to be all it's cracked up to be. 300 is a movie based on Frank Miller's graphic novel of the same name, and is a dramatization of the Battle of Thermopylae. I assume both people who read this blog know about this movie already, but I've spoken to an alarming number of people recently who have never heard of it. So this is my rare entry to mark my excitement, and an image to boot.

Celeb sighting!

I was in LA for the weekend to visit my sister, and had the best celebrity sighting ever! Okay, maybe not best ever, but it was a sighting, and it involved multiple celebrities. It was less up close and personal than sitting next to Tom Welling and his wife at the sushi bar, but it was with better people! Anyway, we were having dinner and as we were getting dessert a huge party was coming into the same room we were in. Turns out it was a huge reservation with lots of stars! Including Marley Shelton (the lead in the movie about the four cheerleaders who rob a bank), the blond girl from Friday Night Lights (I don't want enough to recognize her), possibly Robin Tunney if she got a bob haircut, and the best, Lorelei herself (that's Lauren Graham). Woo! Sadly, my back was to their table so I couldn't ogle to my heart's content, so there's a chance there were even more people I would recognize, but sadly, my mother and sister do NOT watch enough TV to be very helpful in the celeb identification routine. The next question - should I submit my sighting to Defamer? Hmmm.

'24': A Day in the Life

A Day in the Life on the production of 24, but I should warn you that since production is ahead of what we've seen so far, this has spoilers of upcoming plot twists.

Fox summer shows

So You Think You Can Dance will be back on May 24th. I finally got sort of hooked on this show when I started fast-forwarding through dances that I thought were boring. Much like Dancing with the Stars, I think it takes me only a third of the actual show minutes to watch. And I guess The Loop is airing the summer? I really thought that show had been cancelled. Go figure.

The end of the OC

An indepth interview with Josh Schwartz about the OC

Amazing race

Uh oh, the Amazing Race got terrible ratings.

More Grey's?

Rumors of a Grey's Anatomy spin-off based on Addison. Seriously?

Update: More details in Yahoo

Dancing with the Stars

The new cast of Dancing with the Stars, including Joey Fatone from 'NSYNC, Heather Mills (Paul McCartney's ex) and Billy Ray Cyrus, among others...

Battlestar scoop

A Battlestar interview that says that we'll probably get a movie between season 3 and 4, and that David Eick is fairly confident that the Caprica pilot will move forward.

Now, I don't want to talk about the whole Britney meltdown thing because it just makes me sad and less hopeful about a) a teenybopper love reunion with Justin and b) an awesome new Britney album anytime in the near future, but something to consider - would Britney be a good partner on the Amazing Race? She's apparently now crazy, but lots of people seem to have crazy partners and they'd bring back the jetway for her.Certainly better recognizability than Rob and Amber, but perhaps more liability as well? Hmmm.

Also hilarious, is the part in this article where the pilot doesn't believe that Britney is actually trying to get on his flight.

The Amazing Race 11 Sequesterville video

The interview/clips of the first team elimated at the Sequesterville house has been posted. Obviously, a spoiler! But I'm excited to see the footage from the coming weeks so I won't feel as sad when a team gets eliminated. I might actually take some time to watch the extra clips posted online for this season.

Nick Lachey + Veronica Mars

I finally watched this week's episode of Veronica Mars, and I have to say that it was the best usage of Nick Lachey's song What's Left of Me. It made me laugh out loud.

Music and Lyrics

My faith in Music and Lyrics has been renewed with the thoroughly respectable (one might even say overwhelming) 65% it currently has on Rotten Tomatoes. In a remarkably long comment thread (for this blog at least), we've already been talking about this for a while, but I guess I'll be able to admit to wanting to watch this without overwhelming shame. Also, I'm very excited because I have Marie Antoinette from Netflix for this weekend and I loooooooooove Versailles!

Amazon Funds Fantasy Movies League

In a tip from Anonymous, Amazon funds a Fantasy Movies League. Totoro and I briefly tried the Hollywood Index movie stock market thing but quickly lost interest. However, the fantasy TV league has been pretty fun and engaging (I'm getting whupped this round), and the tomcat has gotten completely obsessed with it. So maybe this would be fun?

What Happens After the Amazing Race

There will be webisodes of Amazing Racers in sequesterville. I'm addicted to all things Amazing Race, but haven't found the time/motivation to watch all the stuff online for a while. But this might actually get me to watch since I'm sure some of my favorite teams may get booted early from this race.

Dundie

Apparently, John Mayer demanded a Dundie in return for allowing the Office to use his song Your Body is a Wonderland in the Christmas episode.

College basketball

The Sports Guy has finally started covering college basketball, which might be enough to get me interested to watch a few games before March Madness actually begins. Unfortunately, no commentary from the Sports Gal, but it sounds like NCAA basketball has been pretty entertaining. Sadly, I have so much backlog on my Tivo, that I'm not sure I have time to watch basketball... But I guess I'm probably not going to watch Friday Night Lights, or Knights of Prosperity or Heroes or My Name is Earl until this summer or later...

The Black Donnellys hits the schedule a week early, kicking Studio 60 to the curb.

As Lost as you want to be

Additional footage from some of the Lost backstories will start showing up on ABC.com

More Battlestar

Battlestar has been renewed for another season of at least 13 episodes. Yay.

A Wii-themed Valentine's Day card

The Wii and I have been getting along so well, I'm wondering if I should send it a Valentine's Day card

SNL guest

Dwight from the Office will be on SNL, which might be enough of an excuse to actually watch SNL.

Review of Music and Lyrics

Unfortunatley, it looks like this review of 'Music and Lyrics' isn't overwhelmingly positive. The first trailer I saw for this movie was pretty cute, but the second one was terrible. That's never a good sign. So, I guess I'll just wait for the DVD on this one. All the Februrary movies I was excited for have turned out to be a bust.

Inside The Office

A video diary for Angela from the Office

Unbox on TiVo

Of course, the big news for Tivo is the integration with Amazon's Unboxed service. So, when it gets rolled out, for instance, I could buy a missed episode of Studio 60 on Amazon and download it to my Tivo. I think I'd definitely spend the money rather than having to sit and watch it online on my computer...

Mandy Moore album

Mandy has an interview with People, where it mentions that her new album is coming out on May 8. Is it bad that I'm excited?

Nominated movies

If you have seen any of the nominees for Best Picture, apparently, you can see them all in one sitting on 2/24 at an AMC Theatre. I hope they plan in some bathroom breaks.

Weddings!

A book on the state of weddings in the US.

White Castle

You can have a Valentine's date at White Castle, including hostess seating, a server and candlelight, or you can sweep her off her feet with a take-out Cupid's Crave Pack, including burgers and a keepsake.

Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart launches movie, TV download service

World Series of Pop Culture, round II

VH1 is doing a second round of the World Series of Pop Culture. It was pretty fun to watch although you could watch three quarters of it on fast forward, to skip the dramatic music and lighting while people introduced themselves and the witty banter of the host.

Miis go to 'The Office'

Look at Miis (the Nintendo Wii avatars) of characters from 'The Office'

Fun with the Wii

The tomcat took pity on me and since I hadn't finished beating Elebits, he left the Wii with me. I'm keeping it busy, with some Elebitting and gecko has also been playing. I beat my level last night (only two left to go!) and gecko passed three levels as well. Roomie bonding over video games. Sigh. The DS Lite also got to stay with me, so I'm getting lots of game time in over the next couple weeks.

Catching up on 24

I had to watch 24 on myspace due to my TiVo hiccup, and it seemed to work pretty well. However, I have to admit that it was pretty embarassing to have to make a trip to myspace in order to see the episode. But it is pretty nice that although I had a Tivo mishap, I can catch up online.

Studio 60

Things are once again looking less good for Studio 60

New trailer

A trailer for the next Judd Apatow movie (he did Freaks & Geeks, Undeclared and the 40-Year Old Virgin

Brit!

Britney is working with some music guy who also worked with Kelly Clarkson. This is a good sign.