In his latest movie, The Woman In Black, Dan traded his Hogwarts uniform for a totally new role as a Dad.
Natalia brings you the latest news on Adele’s interview with Anderson Cooper, Kristen Bell’s interview on Ellen is auto tuned, Ladyhawke’s latest music video and much more!
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!
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.
When The Kooks are in the studio they’re focused and most importantly, sober. Watch Hugh and Luke explain their reasoning below.
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.
Natalia dishes the latest in entertainment news on Joan Rivers, Lana Del Rey and a brand new trailer for the movie Hunger Games.
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.
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.
David Beckham debuts a new line of underwear, the worst dressed celebrity – Shy’m and Matthew Broderick is back as Ferris Bueller with a brand new commercial airing during the Super Bowl on Feb 5th 2012.
Daniel Radcliffe is back with his new movie The Woman In Black. It’s a bone chilling remake of a film from the ’80s. Ironically, Daniel actually scares very easily but he’s not afraid of ghosts. In this interview he tells us what really gives him the creeps.
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?”
Graffiti6 is starting to make their North American invasion, and they are hitting up the Tonight Show. Does this sound familiar? Well the Beatles made the exact same journey over 40 years ago. Naturally, @jordans_life had to make some comparisons.
Nick plays World of Warcraft. Not only that, he’s the head of his guild, demonstrating that it IS possible to juggle being a hardcore gamer with being a top-selling recording artist.
During a LIVE interview on andPOP.com Nick Carter gave out a number and took phone calls from his fans. These were real phone calls from real fans who we gave exclusive access to one of the biggest recording artists of our generation.
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.
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.
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.
Diamandis from Marina and The Diamonds talks to us about her very serious disease. It’s called synaesthetic. And we lied, it’s not a disease. More like a cool condition. Diamandis explains further.
Would you be embarrassed if someone scrolled through your iPod? We sit down with Spee and Brendan to talk about the diverse music on their playlist.
While eavesdropping through my cubicle wall at work yesterday, my interest was piqued when I overheard two colleagues discussing what they’d watched on television the night before. The first office-dweller announced he’d spent his evening watching Kathy Hilton mooch off her daughter’s popularity during the second-ever episode of I Want to Be a Hilton. This brutal choice in viewing had to be overlooked – after all, it was only a matter of time before another Hilton wanted to milk the family cash cow, and that family could drum up a decent sized audience just by taking their trash to the curb.
Upon hearing this embarrassing admission of poor taste in programming, the second colleague felt brave enough to admit he?d spent his evening watching Average Joe 4. At first I assumed I hadn?t heard him correctly. Average Joe FOUR? I thought I paid close attention to my TV Guide, but clearly the fact that this contrived piece of garbage survived four seasons completely escaped my attention. Beautiful women face a tough choice between ugly nerds and hard-bodied Adonises four seasons in a row and people are still tuning in to see how this carefully manufactured scenario will play out?
Not only did I find this news preposterous, it came as a big handful of salt rubbed into a wound I received in 1999 when a comedy known as Freaks and Geeks was laid to rest after just a single season. For those of you who didn?t get a chance to enjoy it, Freaks and Geeks was set in 1980 and documented the teenaged comings and goings of The Freaks (the chain-smoking, class-cutting ?bad asses?) and The Geeks (the bowtie-wearing, bully-fearing freshmen nerds). The sharp and poignant writing documented both the hilarious and devastating moments of high school life while giving a historically-accurate depiction of what it meant to grow up on the brink of the new decade. The show picked up an Emmy for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series, and was canned by NBC months later.
Unfortunately, Freaks and Geeks isn?t the only fantastic show to suffer an unfair cancellation after just one year. The show?s creator, Judd Apatow, also birthed Undeclared, a comedy documenting the first-year antics of a group of freshmen college students. The show starred some terrific actors including Ottawa-born Jay Baruchel (Million Dollar Baby, Rules of Attraction) and Monica Keena (Dawson?s Creek, The Devil?s Advocate), and showed a lot of promise for a fledgling program, but FOX cut it in 2002 after just 17 episodes.
Even the critically-acclaimed gems aren?t safe. Arrested Development sat ominously on the chopping block this year as FOX tried to decide whether the show was worthy of renewal.
This just blows my mind. Not only is it such a tease to provide audiences with phenomenal acting and refreshing scripts that are to be yanked away after a couple of episodes, but to do so and then turn around and resign the likes of Average Joe 4? Well that?s just plain offensive.
I highly encourage all of you to detach your cable during such craptastic programming and hightail it to Blockbuster to check out Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared on DVD. Sit back, have a laugh, and reminisce about the time in which these shows existed ? the glory days before the invasion of reality television.
As major television networks announced their fall lineups last month, two things became immediately and glaringly obvious. First (and least surprising) is the fact that production giants Brian Grazer (24) and Jerry Bruckheimer (CSI, The Amazing Race) face another season of success and acclaim as their respective projects continue to dominate the upcoming season.
Secondly, as a direct result of such successful programming, network rosters compensated for the increase in drama with a noticeable decline in brain candy. As more stock was placed in theatrics, the sitcom took a major back seat, and I for one couldn’t be happier.
What do I mean when I say “sitcom?” I’ll be honest, at first I wasn’t sure either. Originally I assumed a sitcom was any kind of comedy that was more predictable than funny and had a laugh track cued for all the male-bashing, crotch-kicking, stereotype-brandishing “hilarity.”
As it turns out, a situation comedy is officially defined as “a television comedy series involving a continuing cast of characters in a succession of episodes.” In other words, anything on TV that induces the slightest snicker between commercial breaks. What we’re really waving goodbye to here is all the crap we watch when life is a total toss up between remaining awake or going to sleep.
Well good riddance, sitcoms. Good riddance to the cookie cutter plot lines, one-dimensional characters, canned laughter and recycled jokes. Sure, networks are now relying heavily on some brutal reality shows, but hell, I’d gladly compromise an hour of American Idol if it meant never seeing the words “According to Jim” in my TV Guide again.
Though the brain-numbing likes of Still Standing, George Lopez and My Wife and Kids are diminishing, this is hardly the end for TV laughs. Instead, networks are opting for witty, well-written comedies such as Scrubs, Arrested Development and The Office. Get ready to roll in the aisles this fall, while watching characters develop beyond basic labels such as “lazy dad,” “nagging mom” and “neurotic neighbor.” Be prepared for jokes that require a couple of brain cells; and forget hooks, gimmicks or catch phrases. We’ve glimpsed the future here people, and it is funny.
I’d like to hope this new breed of scheduling ? a mix of witty comedy and exciting, script-driven drama ? is reflective of today’s viewers. Perhaps we’re maturing, demanding higher standards, and (dare I say it?) getting smarter.
Sure, there will always and unfortunately be a soft spot in the heart of the networks for slapstick and drivel, but if ratings, awards and critical acclaim are any indication, it is the meatier, substantive comedies ? the kind of programs once banished to HBO ? that are winning our favour.
With television sitcoms circling the drain, TV comedy may mature into programming I can finally enjoy, without the guilty conscience.
