TV on DVD: June 30, 2009

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Drama, Kids, Music, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, Cable, FOX, HBO, Showtime, Entourage, DVD

Here are some of the TV on DVD options available this Tuesday.

• Blue Murder (Set 4)
• Eastbound & Down (Season 1)
• Entourage (Season 5)
• Eureka (Season 3)
• Extreme Trains (Season 1)
• Hi-5 (Season 2)
• The IT Crowd (Season 2)
• Jockeys
• MonsterQuest (Season 3, Set 1)
• Parker Lewis Can’t Lose (Season 1)
• Princess Protection Program

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This Week on TV (6/29-7/5)

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Games, Kids, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, ABC, BBC, Cable, FOX, MTV, NBC

(You can view TV Envy’s Programming Schedule here.)

MONDAY (6/29)

• The Secret Life of the American Teenager (ABC Family, 8pm):  “Ben tries to figure out where he fits in Amy’s life.” Well, the role of babysitter is always open.
• Jon & Kate Plus Eight (TLC, 9pm):  “Previously unseen footage of the Gosselin’s early years is featured.” Misty water-colored memories of the way they were….
• Cake Boss (TLC, 10pm):  “Buddy creates an ornate wedding cake filled wtih live birds.” Watch out - that might not be fondant you’re eating.
• Dance Your Ass Off (Oxygen, 10pm):  “Twelve plus-size contestants infiltrate Los Angeles in a competition to shed pounds by means of dance and diet in this 10-part unscripted series hosted by Marissa Jaret Winokur.” In other words, a cutthroat version of Sweatin’ to the Oldies.

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Scrubs Moves From Hospital to Classroom

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, ABC, Scrubs, Renewals

Last year, Scrubs was facing change on a new network. This winter, the series will get new backdrop.

For the comedy’s ninth season, the program will freshen up with an entirely new focus. The day-to-day operations within Sacred Heart will be (mostly) replaced with the classrooms and teachers. That’s right, Scrubs is going back to medical school.

“It’ll be a lot like Paper Chase as a comedy,” creator Bill Lawrence told Entertainment Weekly. “It’s going to be a different show. It’ll still be life-and-death stakes, but if the show is just Scrubs again in the hospital with a different person’s voiceover, it would be a disaster and people would be mad.”

Although there were will be a list of new cast members, two vets will anchor the show. John C. McGinley and Donald Faison will both appear as med school professors. Meanwhile, other favorites - including Zach Braff, Sarah Chalke, Judy Reyes and Ken Jenkins - are slated to make guest appearances. The hospital will also be seen from time to time.

No premiere date has yet been announced for the midseason show.

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TV on DVD: June 23, 2009

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Animation, Comedy, Food & Home, Kids, Prime Time, Reality, Cable, NBC, The CW, DVD

Here are some of the TV on DVD options available today.

• Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern (Collection 3)
• The Girls Next Door (Season 5)
• Kyo Kara Maoh! (Season 1)
• The Monster Squad (Complete Collection)
• Mr. Troop Mom
• Reba (Season 6)
• Tom and Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection

Click here to see the DVD and Blu-ray film options for this week.

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This Week on TV (6/22-6/28)

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Food & Home, Kids, Music, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, Specials, ABC, BBC, Bravo, Cable, FOX, HBO, MTV, NBC, TNT-HD

(You can view TV Envy’s Programming Schedule here.)

MONDAY (6/22)

• Jon & Kate Plus Eight (TLC, 9pm):  Jon & Kate make some life-changing decisions. Well, Kate technically made the decision; Jon just didn’t want to argue.
• Charm School (VH1, 9pm):  Season premiere. “Former contestants from VH1 reality shows work for charity (and a chance to win $100,000).” No good deed comes without incentives.
• Make It or Break It (ABC Family, 9pm):  Series premiere. “In this drama focusing on the lives of teen gymnasts who strive to make it to the Olympics, new girl Emily Kmetko begins training alongside veterans who are both impressed with and threatened by her.” This could bring a whole new definition to the term “punch front.”
• Run’s House (MTV, 10pm):  “The family rallies around JoJo after he’s charged with marijuana possession.” This whole time they had a connection within the home.

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VIDEO: Triumph the Insult Comic Dog Hits Bonnaroo

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Late Night, Talk Shows, NBC, Video

What does it look like when you bring a puppet on a stick to a four-day music festival? A little something like this.

Last night on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog shared video from his journey to the 8th annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Tennessee.

Triumph mingling with hippies, Bruce Springsteen and the Beastie Boys? Could it get any better?

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Small Budget Won’t Get in Whedon’s Way

Posted by Kathleen Kane Categories: Action, Comedy, Drama, Prime Time, Sci-Fi/Horror, ABC, FOX, Announcements, Gossip, News, Renewals, Rumors

Folks over at Dollhouse are already two weeks into plotting its next season, and creator Joss Whedon could care less about the major budget cut this time around.

“I just wanted to die of tiredness. About two hours after starting to talk to the writers about story, I was back with such a vengeance, and so energized and so pumped because we really understand the show now. We understand what works, and what didn’t work so well or what we weren’t so thrilled about. We don’t have the onus of trying to be a big hit sitting on our shoulders. We can just be ourselves. And so the stories we’re breaking are pure, and exciting, and everybody’s on-board in the room, and it’s never flowed better.”

Yoohoo—do you hear that, Fox?

“Really, just every meeting is like, ‘What’s the most fun we can have with this actor?’ about the whole cast. All I can say—‘cause I’m gonna be Mr. Un-Spoiler—is that we’re having a crazy amount of fun, and usually, that tends to translate onto the screen,” he tells EW.

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TV on DVD: June 16, 2009

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Action, Animation, Comedy, Drama, Kids, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, Specials, ABC, Cable, CBS, FOX, HBO, TNT-HD, WB, Family Guy, Lost, DVD

Here are some of the TV on DVD options available this Tuesday.

• Burn Notice (Season 2)
• Everwood (Season 2)
• Family Guy (Volume 7)
• The FBI Files (Season 3)
• Generation Kill  **Blu-ray**
• Jesse Stone: Thin Ice
• John Adams  **Blu-ray**
• Lost (Season 1)  **Blu-ray**
• Murdoch Mysteries (Season 1)
• Saving Grace (Season 2)
• The Secret Life of the American Teenager (Season 2)

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VIDEO: Sarah Palin Reacts to the David Letterman Controversy

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Late Night, Talk Shows, CBS

Eight months ago, who knew David Letterman would see himself in this position? Back in October, John McCain did his best to make amends after famously snubbing the host for the economic crisis. Now it’s David who’s trying to keep the peace…with Sarah Palin.

On Tuesday’s broadcast, Letterman cracked more than a few jokes abut the Alaskan governor’s visit to New York. In addition to comparing Palin’s look to a “slutty fight attendant” (you can see his Top 10 after the jump), he also made references to one of Sarah’s children. Which daughter he was commenting about is part of the issue at hand.

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Futurama No Longer a Cartoon of the Past

Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Animation, Comedy, Prime Time, Cable, FOX, Gossip, Video

Following in Family Guy’s footsteps, Comedy Central will reprise a FOX cartoon that was canceled - six years ago!

Futurama, created by Matt Groening and dropped off the FOX prime time schedule in 2003 after four seasons, will have another day in the sun…er, space. The comedy, set in 2999, has sparked high DVD sales and plenty of syndication attention.

Enough, apparently, to warrant another run. The cable network has ordered twenty-six new episodes of the animated comedy, which are expected to air in 2010.

It’s not the first time FOX has made a mistake. Family Guy was can canceled by the network, but returned after three years of great success on the Cartoon Network.

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