• Get ready for LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL GUEST STAR UNIT, with Sharon Stone and Mischa Barton set to drop by SVU in 2010.
• The secret’s out, ABC Family’s SECRET LIFE OF THE AMERICAN TEENAGER has ratings the CW would kill for.
• Get LOST, in this fantastic interview that has LOSTerminds Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse discussing the emotional final season.
• Suit Up! With this preview of HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER’s soon-to-be legendary 100th episode.
• Kathy Griffin won’t to shut the f*ck up. Insists on milking her not-at-all-planned New Year’s Eve with Anderson Cooper F-bomb on last night’s LATE NIGHT WITH CRAIG FERGUSON.
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Christine Baranski Talks THE GOOD WIFE
Thanks to memorable turns on screens both big (Cruel Intentions, The Birdcage, Mamma Mia!) and small (CYBILL, THE BIG BANG THEORY, UGLY BETTY), actress Christine Baranski has made a career of making audiences laugh for the better part of two decades now. Which is why we couldn’t help but wonder why the talented comedian would let herself be tied down to THE GOOD WIFE, a dramatic CBS procedural that is an odds-on bet to last for the better part of the next decade?
“I’ll tell you why,” she explained during a recent chat with the TV Addict. “I had no trepidation because I’ve already had a career where I’ve done plenty of hopping across all three mediums. It’s not like I’m thinking, ‘God I still haven’t done a play,’ or ‘Gosh I’m going to be tied up for years!’ I should be so lucky to be on the show for seven years!”
We don’t know about the next seven years, but it looks as if WIFE will most definitely keep Baranski busy in the foreseeable future, what with CBS having picked up the series for a full season and many experts speculating that it is all-but-assured a renewal come fall.
Today’s TV Addict Top 5: Reasons You Need To Start Watching BETTER OFF TED
Friday’s episode (with a little help from its ROSE BOWL lead-in) unexpectedly doubled its typical audience numbers. Tonight at 8:30PM and 9:30PM, ABC gives viewers two more chances to catch one of the best shows you’re not watching… yet!
Hysterical dialogue
“We are not sleazy!” said Ted in defense of a sexual harassment suit. “Our department is more like a hard-working squirrel, stuffing its nuts in… wait. We’re more like a hard-working beaver… ah, I’m not going to land this metaphor.”
Veronica
Portia de Rossi’s emotionally-detached, conscious-free boss is perhaps the must cut-throat woman currently occupying the airwaves, a joyously un-self-actualized creature given to utterances such as “Children are so adorable… In a way, they’re like people” or “There are employees everywhere! It’s like I’m walking through spiderwebs!”
Watch, PVR, Pass: Monday January 4, 2010
THE SECRET LIFE OF THE AMERICAN TEENAGER (8PM ABC FAMILY)
Now that Amy’s had the baby, somebody, anybody, please explain to us what exactly is so secret about the life of the American teenager?
DEGRASSI’s Stacey Farber Grows Up
Stacey Farber and Michael Seater
As any fan of DEGRASSI will tell you, Ellie Nash didn’t have an easy time of it. During her time walking the hallowed halls of Canada’s most infamous high school, Ellie dealt with an alcoholic mother, her own proclivity for cutting and one failed relationship after another. Perhaps wisely, Ellie never actually walked down the aisle… although tonight, her portrayer, Stacey Farber, will take that gigantic step thanks to her new role in the CBC sitcom 18 TO LIFE.
This time around, Farber is playing Jessie Hill, who throws her tree-hugging folks into a tizzy by deciding that at 18, she’s more-than-ready to wed her longtime best bud/neighbor, Tom (played by LIFE WITH DERK’s Michael Seater). And despite her character’s age, Farber wants people to know this “is a comedy for adults, not a kid’s show!” And don’t expect to see endless “should-they-or-shouldn’t-they” discussions about the nuptials. “We get married in the first episode,” she previews.
Needless to say, hilarity ensues.
TV Ratings: Sunday January 3, 2010
Time | Network | Show | Rating | 18-49 |
---|---|---|---|---|
8PM | CBS | NCIS (R) | 13.69 | 2.3/6 |
NBC | Football Night in America | 12.18 | 4.5/11 | |
ABC | Extreme Makeover: Home Edition | 10.40 | 3.1/7 | |
FOX | The Simpsons | 8.65 | 4.0/10 | |
8:30PM | NBC | Sunday Night Football: Bengals vs. Jets | 16.54 | 6.0/14 |
FOX | The Cleveland Show | 6.96 | 3.3/8 | |
9PM | NBC | Sunday Night Football: Bengals vs. Jets | 16.39 | 5.8/13 |
ABC | Desperate Housewives | 14.83 | 5.0/12 | |
CBS | NCIS (R) | 10.06 | 2.0/5 | |
FOX | Family Guy | 8.10 | 3.9/9 | |
9:30PM | NBC | Sunday Night Football: Bengals vs. Jets | 15.73 | 5.8/13 |
FOX | American Dad | 5.91 | 2.8/6 | |
10PM | NBC | Sunday Night Football: Bengals vs. Jets | 11.28 | 4.4/12 |
ABC | Brothers & Sisters | 10.86 | 3.5/9 | |
CBS | Cold Case (R) | 6.44 | 1.5/4 |
Ring in the New Year with Our Printable January 2010 TV Calendar!
Dear Readers, Happy New Year! We sincerely hope that you found the time between holiday commitments with family and friends to clear off your DVR/PVR (Seriously folks, PUSHING DAISIES is kaput! It’s time to click the delete button and free up some much-needed space for Syfy’s upcoming CHUCK marathon on January 7th) Because starting January 3rd, networks are ringing in the New Year with a deluge of shows starting with the return of DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES and BROTHERS & SISTERS.
And here, as usual, to help you keep track of 78 different new and returning favorites (Yes, we counted. Yes, we have ‘issues’) is theTVaddict.com with your downloadable and printable guide to January TV 2010. Available at the following links as both a High Quality PDF or JPG.
Diary of a Soap Opera Virgin
Dear diary, today I decided to watch a soap opera for the very first time. Why? Well, it seemed almost wrong to call my elf a true TV addict without having sampled the most addictive of all television formats, the continuing daytime drama. (Plus, these reruns are driving me bonkers!).
I picked the BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL because, well, frankly, it’s a half hour. Plus, I’d been told that it’s fairly easy for a newbie such as myself to jump into thanks to its small cast and easy-to-digest mix of humor and melodrama.
5 Things that Transformed Television this Decade
The TV Addict (left) with J.J. Abrams at FRINGE’s launch party, August 2008
PVR/DVR
BEFORE: Friendships were destroyed, plans were broken and sporting events were left early as TV Addicts everywhere desperately attempt to get home in time for the say, the WHO’S THE BOSS/GROWING PAINS series finales. True Story.
AFTER: TV shows start when YOU want them to! Heck, 20 minutes late if possible so that one can easily (Note to advertisers, stop reading now) fast-forward through commercials.
The Top 10 TV Shows of 2009 (A Second Opinion)
By: Aleks Chan
10. DOLLHOUSE
At this point, I’ve given up on Joss Whedon ever getting free reign over his creative works. Yes, lead Eliza Dushku is the show’s weakest link (she has very limited range), but, ah, what a fantastically flawed work of art. DOLLHOUSE may not always work, but when it does, its pure Whedon: deep down, there’s a beautifully complex and dark story of identity.