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  • #freshpresslive – feb 10/12

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  • #freshpresslive – Feb 8/12

    Natalia discusses what’s new with Pharrell Williams and her thoughts on Karl Lagerfeld’s mean comments towards Adele’s weight. She also shows a roster of animals behaving like humans and, wait until you see the new size of coffee available at Starbucks!

  • #freshpresslive – Feb 7/12

    Natalia dishes the latest news on the Juno Awards nominees, the upcoming Spiderman 3D film starring Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield and is Katy Perry hooking up with Tim Tebow? Watch today’s episode to find out.

  • Small Talk – The Kooks (2 of 2)

    When The Kooks are in the studio they’re focused and most importantly, sober. Watch Hugh and Luke explain their reasoning below.

  • Small Talk – The Kooks (1 of 2)

    The Kooks released a new album called “Junk of the Heart,” and you would think Hugh and Luke would be very excited about it. Well, they seemed rather indifferent to be honest. We spoke about that and why they don’t care about critics.

  • #freshpresslive – Feb 2/12

    Natalia dishes the latest in entertainment news on Joan Rivers, Lana Del Rey and a brand new trailer for the movie Hunger Games.

  • #freshpresslive – Feb 1/12

    Natalia talks about how Snooki might be pregnant, Nicolas Cage’s Cage Rage, Elisabetta Canalis is dating Steve-O and more for Feb 1, 2012.

  • #freshpresslive – Jan 31/12

    Natalia dishes the news on Miley Cyrus breaking her tailbone, a 100 year old woman who plays the Nintendo DS to stay young and Houston, Texas contemplating a statute of Beyonce.

  • #freshpresslive – Jan 30/12

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  • Small Talk – Graffiti6 (2 of 3)

    Next time you’re struggling to make conversation, try asking this question: “If you could invite anyone (living or dead) to the perfect house party, who would it be?”

  • Small Talk – Graffiti6 (1 of 3)

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  • Small Talk – Nick Carter (3 of 3)

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  • Small Talk – Nick Carter (2 of 3)

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  • Small Talk – Nick Carter (1 of 3)

    There were great questions about music, fitness, the backstreet boys but the most popular question, however, was about his underwear. In this clip Nick talks about his his ‘Haynes’ and covering his fans with glow in the dark paint.

  • Small Talk – Hedley (2 of 2)

    When releasing new music today, half the battle is online promotion. However, contests, signed merch and giveaways aren’t always the best solutions. When working on their latest album, Hedley came up with a brilliant idea, they decided to make trailers.

  • Small Talk – Hedley (1 of 2)

    It’s hard to prepare for an interview with Hedley. So in this interview, we threw caution to the wind, got a 24 of beer and broadcast the interview live on our USTREAM (andPOP.tv). Eventually Jacob, Dave and @jordans_life ended up talking about hairy legs, their newest music video and more.

  • Small Talk – Marina and The Diamonds (2 of 2)

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  • Small Talk – Neverest

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TV Column: Two ‘L’ Shows Come Back Strong

Posted by andPOP Staff on September 21st, 2005

Sit back and rejoice fellow TV junkies, our favourite time of the year is here: season and series premier time!

Oh the chills this gives me.

Just think about it: hours upon hours of must-see-tv, plot twists are resolved and new ones created, cliff hangers left over from last season are resurrected, and the laughter/drama/suspence continues for yet another blissful season.

Sigh.

Two of my absolute favourite shows debuted this week, “Las Vegas” on Monday night on NBC (9:00 p.m. ET) and “Lost”, Wednesday night on ABC (9:00 p.m. ET).

They are completely opposite programs: one is a flashy, soap opera-esque show about pretty people in pretty clothes hanging out in Sin City while the other is a gritty, spooky drama about plane crash survivors battling mysterious “others” on an island straight out of the Twilight Zone. And a newly-minted Emmy award-winning drama I might add.

Vegas-style extravagance versus basic survival and human instinct, I love them both.

But just as they differ in content, one show came out strong in its season opener, while the other was weaker, lacking the excitement I had hoped for.

Let’s begin with “Las Vegas”. I’ll be completely honest and say if it wasn’t for Josh Duhamel (Danny McCoy) I would not watch this show, this man is a piece of art.

And I know it seems like I pick a different actor to oggle evry week but really, he is the one and only original crush; above them all, even Anderson Cooper.

But even he couldn’t get me into the season opener. Last season ended with a bang (literally) with everyone losing their jobs and the Montecito being levelled making way for a new casino with a brand-new owner. Danny’s father had died suddenly, Nessa and Delinda went off to England in search of Nessa’s father and Mary was getting hot and heavy with her new beau Jake.

Season three opened with the original team scattered but many issues still unresolved. So the Montecito is rebuilt, it has a new owner, great but how come Danny is so easily convinced to come back to work despite repeat denials that he would? What the hell happened to Nessa? Is she off the show for good? This secrecy plot is seriously losing my interest and here’s why: if you’re gonna make me care about a character disappearing, give the character adequate screen time BEFORE HAND so I actually feel a loss of some sort!

And since everyone except for Sam, Danny and Mike refused to come back to the Montecito? Why did they all suddenly appear at the end of the episode as if nothing had happened? And the bad-guy robbing the casino plot? Been there done that.

But maybe I am getting ahead of myself, it was ONLY the first episode after all.

I introduce to you my loyal readers my completely scientific 10-point scale on which I will base all my future rankings of episode watcheability.

I give the premier of “Las Vegas” a six out of 10(10 being “OH MY GOD YOU HAVE TO WATCH” and 1 being “Wow,I’d actually rather be reading my Canadian History textbook”).

Lost on the other hand had me fidgeting in my seat wondering what the hell was in that hatch! Great pacing, just enough of a tease to make me die of impatience waiting for next week’s episode and enough clues to help me formulate my idea about what really is happening on the island.

Just the right amount of explanation and plot-futhering, J.J. Abrams really is a genius.

Lost gets a solid nine, but if I don’t completely understand what’s in the hatch by episode three, there will be some major retaliation!


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