Live Blog: The Emmys 2009

5:50 Going for a quick cigarette outside before awards begin.
6:00 Opening spiel, then NPH singing in a white dinner jacket. Yummy.
6:04 ” I grew up on television.”
6:05 Shaiman and Whitman wrote the song. Knew it.
6:07 Tour of the Emmy set.
6:09 Funny Emmy clip reel.
6:11 Jon Hamm ( sigh) and Tina Fey ( sigh). Supporting Actress [...]

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My Emmy Winner picks

Best Drama
Big Love
Breaking Bad
Damages
Dexter
House
Lost
Mad Men
I know Mad Men  is the mega buzz show right now, I know Lost fans think that it is THE GREATEST SHOW EVER ( they’re wrong). House  and Dexter both buckled under their previous genius this past season, Big Love is pretty bland for something that’s supposed to be so controversial [...]

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Emmy Nominees Announced!

Below are the nominees for the major categories of the Emmys nominations released earlier today. I will post my thoughts and picks in the near future, but needless to say, the Emmy voters got more right than usual, but why do people who hate television so much get to select what is the best of [...]

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Best And Worst of the 2008-2009 TV Season

First, the good news.
Best Comedy Series
The Big Bang Theory (CBS)
Years of Devotion to How I Met Your Mother and Scrubs has been painful at times, as both of these hilarious but criminally under watched shows suffered from time slot shifts and near cancellation more than once. But HIMYM’s fifth season was all but assured this [...]

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Happy Birthday Wishes

Happy birthday to Jim Parsons, who is 36 today. He still is the best thing on the TeeVee machine at this moment.
You heard me.

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R&R- The Big Bang Theory 2-17 ” The Terminator Decoupling”

I normally look upon stunt casting with a wary eye. When done right ( Paul Rudd’s sweet Mike on the final two seasons of Friends, Leslie Jordan’s wickedly fey Beverley on Will and Grace), it’s magical. When done just because ( Britney on anything), it’s cloy and distracting. It’s best if the stunt casting makes [...]

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Good News Day

First off, look for Craig Ferguson (sexy Scot from The Late Late Show) battle Jimmy Fallon starting on March 2, 2009 in a unique way. Craig is taking to the Prime Time CBS lineup to promote his show on the 2 and 9. Paris Hilton will join him the first Monday, so we care less [...]

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R&R- The Big Bang Theory 2-15 ” The Maternal Capacitance”

Think about Friends and the two primary love stories that happened on that show. Both the Ross and Rachel dynamic and the Monica and Chandler dynamic had the underlying foundation of friendship. Ross and Rachel, though, not being enormously close at the beginning of the series, entered into a romantic relationship fueled by sexual desire, [...]

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SCHEDULING CHANGE ALERT

ATTENTION: ALL BIG BANG THEORY FANS
Please remember that the show tonight, a fresh, brand spanking new episode that has Leonard’s mom visiting is on tonight AFTER Two and A Half Men, due to the Presidential News Conference. On the West Coast, they will be airing a Christine repeat, followed by HIMYM, then the two Chuck [...]

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Jim Parsons for Funny Or Die

I laughed, but then again, I’m weird and I’d adore Jim if he stood there reading the telephone book.

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EMMY NEWS

After years of being crushed by no noms for The Gilmore Girls and Buffy, the Emmy decided to boost my spirits ( and Jim Parsons and The Big Bang Theory’ s chances) by expanding major categories like acting and best series to six nominee slots instead of five. This rule has been broken so many [...]

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R&R- Big Bang Theory 2-5 ” The Euclid Alternative”

You just knew Leonard wanted to have three seconds to himself every once in a while. We get a half hour of Sheldon a week. Imagine living with the guy…
Leonard, you see, needs to use a specific laser for an experiment, but it’s only available after hours, so he’s pulling the night shift at the [...]

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R&R- The Big Bang Theory 2-13 ” The Friendship Algorithm”

Sheldon, Sheldon, Sheldon. Oh, Sheldon. You wonderful, arrogant, narcissistic jackass. You cannot boil people and relationships down to algorithms. No matter how hard you try. You may be a genius, but you forget- with imperfect creatures like humans, there are simply too many variables.
Last week’s episode was a bit of a let down, but this [...]

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Question-

Is it wrong I just downloaded a bunch of Monty Python sketches from ITunes?

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Performances of 2008 Part 2

Michael Phelps, the 2008 Summer Olympics

Seriously, it’s an achievement that transcends nationality. Eight gold medals in the pool, and the guy becomes an instant celebrity.
Kristy Yamaguchi, Dancing With the Stars

The spring season was far superior to the recent fall one, despite the telegraphed ending. There was no way Kristy could lose outright, as she had [...]

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Quotes of 2008

”It’s very simple. Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock, and, as it always has, rock crushes scissors.”
—Sheldon (Jim Parsons), explaining his new game of Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock, on The Big Bang Theory
” [...]

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