Sometimes less is more and sometimes that rule applies to TV shows. In TV, when an episode takes the characters in a show and places them in a restricted setting that uses as few non-regular characters as possible, it’s called a “bottle episode”. Stripping characters down (metaphorically, of course) to a single location and having … Continue reading The Bottle Episode: If I could save a show in a bottle…
Like any highly-anticipated event, March Madness always seems as though it takes eons to get here; what’s worse is that it’s over before you can say NCAA. Worry not! There are a number of basketball-friendly movies and a game brought to you by TiVo that we think can help calm your nerves during the Big … Continue reading March Madness, Movies and Mayhem Game!
Monday - Dancing With The Stars - ABC - 8PM It's time to tango with the Season 16 cast! Dancing celebrities include comedian Andy Dick, gold medal winner Aly Raisman, Bravo reality star Lisa Vanderpump, Super Bowl winner Jacoby Jones, The Bachelor's Sean Lowe, figure skater Dorothy Hamill and more. Tune in to see which stars get down and which … Continue reading Dance with the stars, cook with Chef Ramsay and go to Paris Fashion Week with Rachel Zoe!
With Easter just around the corner, we thought it would be fun to highlight some of our favorite cinematic Easter Eggs! For those that don’t obsessively read forums or the “Trivia” section of IMDB, an Easter Egg is an intentional hidden message, inside joke or gag that the average viewer might not catch. They’re used … Continue reading Hidden Gems for the Super Nerds
You may recognize the faces of the stars in the controversial new film Spring Breakers from their TV roles! Selena Gomez stars as magical teen Alex Russo on the Emmy award-winning television series Wizards of Waverly Place while Ashley Benson plays the secret-keeping Hannah Marin on the hit mystery-thriller Pretty Little Liars. Both actresses are breaking out of their high school TV personas … Continue reading These TV Starlets Are All Grown Up in Spring Breakers!
Bates Motel (Series Premiere) - A&E - 10PM - March 18 Freddie Highmore (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) stars as a young Norman Bates in this prequel to Hitchcock’s Psycho. Produced by Lost's Carlton Cuse and Friday Night Lights' Kerry Ehrin, TV’s newest thriller also stars Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air) as Norman's mother Norma along … Continue reading Spring is almost here and new and returning shows are in bloom!
MONDAY – The Bachelor – ABC– 8PM Tune in tonight to see who Sean chooses to marry. The battle is on between the final two bachelorettes, Lindsay and Catherine! TUESDAY – The Taste – ABC – 9PM After weeks of cooking challenges and blind tastings, a champion will be crowned during the Season 1 finale. … Continue reading Is Elena turning into the new Ripper? Find out on this week’s Vampire Diaries!
What’s in Marsellus Wallace’s briefcase? What are the specific powers of the Necronomicon? What’s so special about Pee-Wee’s bike? At the end of the day, the answers to each of these questions doesn’t matter because all three of these objects are merely MacGuffins. What’s a MacGuffin? Well sometimes to drive a story forward, writers invent … Continue reading Celebrating “Movie MacGuffins”
If you’re anything like us, you’ve been waiting for Oz: The Great and Powerful to hit theaters since you saw the first trailer on YouTube. The fantasy flick opened today in theaters across the country, but seeing what really happened before Dorothy crashed her house on a witch and traveled to the Emerald City isn’t … Continue reading TV Stars Hit the Big Screen in Oz: The Great and Powerful
If you’ve taken a look at the primetime TV schedule lately you may have noticed that some of your favorite shows are now making you wait weeks for new episodes. We know it feels like they all just came back from holiday break and now are showing repeats…again. Welcome to the limbo period between February … Continue reading The Spring Show Slowdown
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