Breakdowns: Google Has A Great Doodle For Doctor Who Fans

Beejoli Shah · 11/22/13 02:05PM

Doctor Who is turning into a Google Doodle game, so say goodbye to productivity this Friday; Hugh Jackman had a terrifying brush with cancer; Oprah and a former stripper have teamed up to write an HBO show; and the trailer for Nymphomaniac has blow jobs in it and yet manages to still not be sexy.

Fox Is Putting The Mindy Project And Dads On Hiatus

Beejoli Shah · 11/21/13 08:56PM

After weak starts, Deadline reports that half of Fox's Tuesday night comedy block have been put on hiatus. Due to low ratings, The Mindy Project and Dads will be bumped to make room for steady performer Glee. Tuesday night's will now be Glee in the first hour, followed by New Girl and freshman comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

How I Met Your Mother's 200th Episode Celebration Is Adorable

Beejoli Shah · 11/21/13 04:42PM

I'll reserve my judgments on the How I Met Your Dad spinoff for today, because this How I Met Your Mother coloring book to celebrate their 200th episode is excellent. The best part? The crayon colors, which come in punny shades that die-hard fans will adore, such as "Yellow Umbrella," "Slutty Pumpkin," and "Have Ya Met Red?"

Beejoli Shah · 11/21/13 03:24PM

Jimmy Fallon will be hosting the holiday episode of Saturday Night Live and his musical guest, and his musical guest is someone you might not have expected him to pair up with…yeah, no his musical guest is Justin Timberlake. Obviously.

How CBS' President And Variety's Editor In Chief Are In Bed Together

Beejoli Shah · 11/21/13 02:10PM

At a Girls, Inc. charity luncheon yesterday, CBS President Nina Tassler announced that she would be releasing a collection of essays on feminism. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the book is going to be co-authored by journalist Cynthia Littleton. One little problem: Littleton is the editor in chief of Variety, specifically tasked with covering television. Conflict of interest?

Breakdowns: Leslie Knope And Councilman Jamm Sing Summer Nights

Beejoli Shah · 11/21/13 12:48PM

Amy Poehler singing campy movie musical classics is one of the best things ever, tied for first place with everything else Poehler does; Sony will be cutting back its movies in favor of focusing on television; Monty Python wants you to like their new material as much as their classics; and Google Chromecast just added HBO Go to their list of offerings, giving some serious competition to Roku and AppleTV.

Beejoli Shah · 11/20/13 07:16PM

It's handled. Shonda Rhimes, creator of Grey's Anatomy and Scandal, just signed a book deal with Simon & Schuster to release a book that's "part memoir, part presciption, part inspiration" about navigating her family life and a career. I'm in.

Breakdowns: Kevin Spacey Bought Woody Allen A Netflix Subscription

Beejoli Shah · 11/20/13 01:16PM

Kevin Spacey is taking a page from the Francis Underwood Negotiations Playbook; Channing Tatum is exercising his groin…for you; the greatest wedding of our time is well on its way; and you can now buy movies and shows you don't really want for a very expensive price from Comcast.

FX 's New Series Is Just The Walking Dead, But With Vampires

Beejoli Shah · 11/19/13 05:58PM

AMC FX has just ordered six episodes 13 episodes of a new show about the undead. The Walking Dead The Strain is about a virus outbreak sweeping the globe that turns humans into zombies vampires. Who said Hollywood didn't know how to innovate?

Breakdowns: Sarah Silverman Thinks Vaginas Really Scare People

Beejoli Shah · 11/19/13 01:26PM

Sarah Silverman shared some amazing words about female genitalia; you can now rent your favorite Bravo reality stars; the musical Justins spark international incidents: Timberlake by adding two concerts in notoriously homosexual-hating Russia, and Bieber by lying about hanging with Mexico's president.

These Are the 'Bad' Movies Hollywood Should Make Before The Trend Dies

Beejoli Shah · 11/18/13 08:13PM

You know what they say about too much of a good thing. Except in Hollywood, where too much of a good thing is never enough, yet in this case, inexplicably also a bad thing. Literally. NBC announced today a pilot order for Bad Judge, a comedy starring Kate Walsh about a judge who is, well, bad. The pickup comes hot on the heels of other Bad projects in film and TV: Bad Teacher, Bad Grandpa, Bad Santa, even Bad Lieutenant.

Beejoli Shah · 11/18/13 07:09PM

Skyler White is getting a fresh start on Fox. The Breaking Bad actress was just cast in the American remake of BBC's event series Broadchurch, as a detective who was passed over for a promotion just as a grisly new case pops up.

Critics Need To Stop Being Shocked That Black Films Do Well

Beejoli Shah · 11/18/13 05:30PM

Universal's The Best Man Holiday made headlines this past weekend, opening this weekend to decent reviews, an extremely rare A+ rating on CinemaScore, and excellent box office numbers: $30.6 million, a close second to Marvel's Thor: Dark World, which earned $35.8 million in its second weekend. But films featuring predominantly black casts have been performing well for years, so why the hell are reporters still so shocked when a "black film" succeeds at the box office?

Were Brittany Murphy And Her Husband Murdered?

Beejoli Shah · 11/18/13 05:24PM

Almost four years after Brittany Murphy was found dead in her Hollywood home of natural causes, new details are pointing to the fact that the Clueless star may have been murdered instead. The Examiner reports that toxicology testing was finally done on Murphy's hair, blood and tissue samples, and presented 10 heavy metals that were all present in quantities well above the World Health Organization's high exposure level.

Breakdowns: Girls Star Adam Driver Will Not Be in Batman vs. Superman

Beejoli Shah · 11/18/13 01:32PM

Ben Affleck will not be helping Adam Driver save Hannah from her OCD, and really, herself; The Walking Dead's Frank Darabont teaches a master class in how to express your disgust at being fired; Anchorman 2 must really be a steaming pile of shit, since they just made yet another lame marketing tie-in; and let's be honest, Almost Human is just Small Wonder set in a station house, right?