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The One Where We Crown America’s Next Top Model

May 14, 2008 Ruth Boulet

Anya speaks first on this final episode of ANTM, which in seasons past has foretold who wins the whole thing. The girls go over their individual insecurities, and then the TyraMail they’ve been waiting for arrives. The girls also get their lines for the Cover Girl Ad. So they’ve had all night to work with the lines. Saleisha shows up at the Cover Girl commercial shoot, which psyches the girls up. While talking to Whitney, Saleisha notices that Anya is having a meltdown while getting her makeup done. It’s probably because of that sleep deprivation I heard about on NPR […]

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Three Is A Magic Number On American Idol

May 13, 2008 Ruth Boulet

American Idol producers have to fit 9 songs in a 1 hour-ish show. I’m totally appreciating the fact that this means there’s a minimal amount of filler in the show. Love that — keep things moving, Idol! Ryan tells us that one of our contestants is on the brink of superstardom and gives an especially enthusiastic ‘This is American Idol!’ Even Ryan’s excited about tonight. He’s shoving the stage doors open. I don’t know if he’s trying to be funny or if it’s really broken. Marilu Henner is in the audience. Not quite sure if she’s promoting anything or just […]

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It’s official: “Scrubs” is moving to ABC

May 13, 2008 StayTuned Staff

Posted by SH It was just about the worst-kept secret in Hollywood, but ABC made it official today, announcing it will scoop up the Sacred Heart crew for an eighth season, ending the red-headed stepchild treatment the show had gotten for so long at NBC. We gotta give the Peacock credit, though, for sticking with it through season after season of so-so ratings, and not cramming another hour of “Biggest Loser” down our throats. One of the biggest hurdles “Scrubs” has faced has been its carousel of time slots. None other than “The Simpsons” made reference to the problem on […]

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Drama

One Tree Hill: The Slippery Slope Continues 17

May 12, 2008 StayTuned Staff

Posted by: haro1d OTH’s penultimate episode this season was a lulu. Here’s what went down before it all came up: Dan Scott is second on the list for a new heart. Little Angie got hers fixed. Deb exposed herself online to a stranger … or maybe someone not so strange. Meanwhile, James found the card for Dan that his mommy threw in the trash and wandered off down the road before being happened upon by Haley. The breaks keep on coming for Mia: She’s doing a Starburst Something-or-Other Concert Tour. (And Rocking the Vote, man.) On a break from recording […]

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Getting Lost: “There’s No Place Like Home, Part 1” Preview

May 12, 2008 StayTuned Staff

This week’s episode of Lost, “There’s No Place Like Home, Part 1,” is the first installment of the season’s three-part finale, which — in one of the most complicated finale schedules we can remember — airs two weeks before the two-hour presentation of Parts 2 and 3 on May 29. That’s right. Lost is going on yet another mini-hiatus, thanks to a two-hour Grey’s Anatomy season finale on May 22. That aside, we wanted to discuss something from last week’s episode. During “Cabin Fever,” Ben suggested that he wasn’t always the “leader” of the island. So who was? How nice […]

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“E:60”: Ray Allen, Gina Carano, Football Behind Bars And High-Tech Ticket Scalping

May 12, 2008 Ryan Berenz

Features on the May 13 (7pm ET) edition of ESPN’s sports newsmagazine series E:60: Ray Allen — Even as the resurgent Boston Celtics ride their sensational season deep into the playoffs, guard Ray Allen and his family are dealing with far more significant issues involving the attempted murder of Allen’s stepfather. Allen’s mother and his stepfather, Derek Hopson, have spent more than two years in a witness protection program following the 2003 attempted murder of Hopson, a psychologist married to Allen’s mother, Flora Allen-Hopson. Ernest Garlington, a counselor for at-risk youth and husband to the former wife of Allen’s stepfather, […]

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Survivor: Fans vs. Favorites, Finale and Reunion: Shallow Beats Superficial

May 12, 2008 Jill Klitz

After getting rid of the last guy on their tribe, the Final 4 women return to camp after Tribal Council all giddy, shrieky, and doing the pot-stirring dance. If their consciences are bugging them over what they did to Erik last episode, they’re hiding it well. For the immunity challenge, the women, each standing on a perch on top of a 20-foot pole in the water, raise buckets of water, which they pour into a chute, thereby raising keys that they need to open a chest that contains 16 ladder rungs that they need to assemble to climb up to […]

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“Scrubs”: My Princess

May 9, 2008 StayTuned Staff

Posted by SH So, if this is the way NBC is going to continue to treat this show, then I say good riddance. After seven years, the finale we get is a middling Princess Bride homage that is stingy with laughs and generally low on energy. The laughs part is on the writers, of course, and maybe the direction of Zach Braff, who helmed this episode, but NBC aired this episode — which is Episode 709 — out of order. Last week’s show was Episode 711. This begs the question, did they purposefully pick a weak episode to leave a bad […]

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My Name Is Earl: Girl Earl

May 9, 2008 Ryan Berenz

Posted by Ryan Earl and Billie are honeymooning … at the motel where Earl and Randy live. Billie shows Earl the list she’s starting up on her own — and Earl thinks he’s found the perfect woman. But Earl still doesn’t know much about Billie, and he’s learning that marriage can sometimes be more give than take. He’s got to share his potato chips, his whereabouts must be known to her at all times, and he can forget about peeing in private. Also, the real Van Halen is Van Hagar. So clearly they have their differences, but there’s at least […]