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Q&A: Fox Reality Kingpin Mike Darnell on Why He's Leaving, and What's Next
24 May 2013 4:23 PM, PDT
There's a reason why they call Mike Darnell the "dark prince" of reality TV. Darnell, who on Friday announced his exit as the president of alternative entertainment at Fox, is still best known for his in-your-face fare like Joe Millionaire, Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction, The Swan, When Animals Attack and Man vs. Beast.
Some of those shows, like Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire and Temptation Island, led to juicy TV scandals. (It's why the New York Times once billed him as TV's "point man for perversity.") But Darnell also oversaw the biggest TV phenomenon of the past decade: American Idol, a show that was unbeatable in its prime...
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- Michael Schneider
Which TV Shows Are You Giving Up on Next Season?
24 May 2013 11:27 AM, PDT
The TV season just ended, but it's never too early to start thinking about the next one.
With a shiny new slate of highly anticipated shows on deck, the freshman class will undoubtedly compete for coveted DVR space with your old favorites — some of which, let's face it, have lost their way. So we want to know: Which shows are you giving up on next season?
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- TV Guide News
Video: Was American Idol's Angie Miller as Surprised as Viewers Were By Her Elimination?
24 May 2013 7:56 AM, PDT
Many American Idol viewers had Angie Miller penciled in for the finale, if not the win. But after competing against Candice Glover and Kree Harrison, Angie was shockingly eliminated in third place. And she was just as surprised as the audience.
"I felt confident in my songs Top 3 week. I thought I was going to make it," she tells TVGuide.com. "When they said that Kree was safe, it was just kind of like, 'Oh, wow, that really just happened. Oh, wow, that's what it feels like.'"
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- Liz Raftery
The Bachelorette's Desiree: This Is Definitely a Sexy Season
24 May 2013 6:57 AM, PDT
Sean Lowe was not afraid to take his shirt off during The Bachelor and new Bachelorette Desiree hopes her men have the same lack of modesty.
"It will definitely be a sexy season because the men are so sexy!" Desiree told TVGuide.com in the video below. "I wanted their shirts off all the time because they all looked so good. Hot tub, pool — any outdoor activity that requires shirts off. "
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- Robyn Ross
Disney Xd Assembles the Avengers for New Animated Series
24 May 2013 6:57 AM, PDT
The big screen isn't the only place to find your favorite superheroes this summer. Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, the Hulk, Hawkeye and Black Widow will kick some bad-guy butt as the stars of a new animated series, Disney Xd's Marvel's Avengers Assemble. "People will be blown away," promises Jeph Loeb, the head of Marvel Television, who stresses that these episodes have been made with passion and care. "Our job is to create stories that make your heart race, to re-create that feeling you get when you first open the comic book."
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- Megan Walsh-Boyle
Holiday Weekend Playlist: Garish Candelabra, Earnest Ring
24 May 2013 6:57 AM, PDT
No one saves face in director Steven Soderbergh's ghoulishly entertaining, opulently produced Behind the Candelabra (Sunday, 9/8c), HBO's grandest, gaudiest and most fascinating movie in quite a long while — probably since last year's Game Change, in which Julianne Moore's uncanny impersonation of Sarah Palin swept the awards the way Michael Douglas is likely to repeat with his equally astonishing transformation into the flamboyant but closeted "Mr. Showmanship" Liberace.
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- Matt Roush
Memorial Day Weekend Marathon Roundup
24 May 2013 6:57 AM, PDT
It's Memorial Day Weekend -- the official start of summer! What better way to celebrate than to watch endless hours of TV! Check out your options:
(All times are Et/Pt)
Saturday, May 25
Bridezillas (10 a.m.-5 a.m. Sunday, We tv)
Defiance (4 p.m.-6 a.m. Sunday, SyFy)
Hoarding: Buried Alive (7 a.m.-2 a.m. Sunday, Discovery Fit & Health)
Iyanla: Fix My Life (10 a.m.-8 p.m., Own)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (10 a.m.-2 a.m. Sunday, USA)
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- Robyn Ross
Amanda Bynes Arrested After Throwing Bong Out the Window
24 May 2013 6:55 AM, PDT
Amanda Bynes was arrested in her Manhattan apartment Thursday night after she threw a bong out of the window, police told The Associated Press.
Police were called to Bynes' apartment when a building official spotted the increasingly erratic star in the lobby with a joint and talking to herself. When law enforcement arrived at her apartment and spotted a bong, Bynes, 27, threw the water pipe out the window, police said.
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- Sadie Gennis
Michael Douglas and Matt Damon Go Behind the Candelabra
24 May 2013 3:03 AM, PDT
It all started, oddly enough, on the set of director Steven Soderbergh's gritty, Oscar-winning 2000 drama Traffic. "Steven said to me, 'You ever think of playing Liberace?'" remembers Michael Douglas of the first time he was approached to portray the ultra-effeminate yet closeted pianist who was the world's highest-paid entertainer for decades. "And I thought, 'This guy's f---ing with me. I'm playing the drug czar! Is this some kind of director's trick?'"
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- Bruce Fretts
Top Moments: Ellen Stages a Friends Reunion, Svu Goes Out with a Bang
23 May 2013 6:01 PM, PDT
Our top moments of the week:
12. Oh, Baby Award: Babies, babies, babies. That's pretty much the theme of the Chicago Fire season finale, in which Hermann becomes a dad after his wife and newborn baby endure life-threatening labor, and Shay finds out she's not pregnant, much to her dismay. Although Shay and Severide get to be godparents to Hermann's new bundle of...
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- Joyce Eng and Kate Stanhope
The 20 Most Absurd Moments in Hemlock Grove (And Why You Need to Watch)
23 May 2013 5:40 PM, PDT
Hemlock Grove isn't good by any means, but it is great (just not if you watch earnestly). The Netflix original series is unfocused, over-dramatic, convoluted and stagnant all at once — which is exactly why you need to watch. Because Hemlock Grove doesn't even attempt coherence, it's impossible to predict what's coming, making every episode an exhilarating surprise. The mad scientist has super-strength? Weird. What's this secret Catholic werewolf hunter society? Bizarre. Are we ever going to find out why Roman has mind-control powers? Who cares!
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- Sadie Gennis
A Message to Game of Thrones Haters
23 May 2013 5:40 PM, PDT
Are you baffled by the love for Game of Thrones?
The fantasy drama has been an unqualified success for HBO, but even as it's entering the home stretch of its third season, not everybody is on board the Westerosi train. Take, for example, this Thrillist writer who insists that women hate Game of Thrones. Crazy as Mad King Aerys, right? Her points are so ridiculous, we're tempted to think this is supposed to be satire, except it's neither clever nor funny. Of course, this far more eloquent and learned New York Times writer offers a similar argument in her review of Game of Thrones when it first debuted.
As bona fide women, TVGuide.com's Hanh Nguyen and Sadie Gennis (of the Game of Thrones By the Book chat series) would like to very respectfully discuss some of the biggest issues that the detractors have with the series.
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- Sadie Gennis and Hanh Nguyen
Eva Longoria Earns Her Master's Degree
23 May 2013 10:21 AM, PDT
Eva Longoria's not just a pretty face: The Desperate Housewives alum earned her master's degree from California State University, Northridge on Wednesday.
Check out photos of Eva Longoria
"Big day today!!! Very excited to graduate for my Master's degree in Chicano Studies!" Longoria, 38, tweeted Wednesday, along with a series of photos before and after the ceremony with her family and fellow graduates. "You're never ...
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- Joyce Eng
Grey's Anatomy's Shonda Rhimes: Cristina and Owen "Absolutely" Still Love Each Other
23 May 2013 10:01 AM, PDT
Calzona fans weren't the only ones hurting after the Grey's Anatomy season finale.
Once again, Cristina (Sandra Oh) and Owen (Kevin McKidd) seemingly broke up — but this time it was a somewhat amicable split. Realizing Owen would always regret not having children, Cristina decided to walk away from him in the closing moments of the episode, with Owen only calling after her instead of running after her.
Grey's Anatomy's Kevin McKidd: I don't think it's the end for Cristina and Owen
"She did...
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- Natalie Abrams
Exclusive Video: Hear a First Listen of the Sullivan & Son Song!
23 May 2013 8:35 AM, PDT
Who doesn't love some booze and tunes?
The new season of TBS' Sullivan & Son is just around the corner (June 13 at 10/9c, to be exact) and the cast is taking a page from the network's other beloved boozy comedy to spread the word.
Returning summer shows: Where we left off
In this exclusive video, the Sullivan & Son cast get...
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- Kate Stanhope
The Yoda Chronicles Takes Over Times Square With Giant Lego Star Wars Model
23 May 2013 8:00 AM, PDT
The Force will be strong in Times Square this week. To celebrate the premiere of the new Cartoon Network special Lego Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles, Lego and Lucasfilm have teamed up to bring a massive recreation of a X-wing Starfighter to New York City.
Made of 5,335,200 Lego bricks, the model — based on the iconic ship Luke Skywalker & Co. fly in the Star Wars movies — was transported to the United States from the Lego Model Shop in Kladno, Czech Republic, where it was constructed by a team of 32 builders. It is an exact replica — at 42 times the size — of the Lego Star Wars set No. 9493. It will be parked in Times Square Thursday through Saturday, May 23-25.
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- Rich Sands
Dancing's Derek Hough: This Season Was Very Special
23 May 2013 7:16 AM, PDT
Hey guys,
Can you believe it? I can't believe it! Thanks so much for your support and votes. I honestly am still in shock. It's pretty crazy.
I'm super-proud of Kellie. To me, what's more important than winning is just the relief knowing that we did good and that I gave her the right thing to help her shine. That's the thing that ...
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- Derek Hough
The Thursday Playlist: Dog Days of Pre-Summer: Save Me, Does Someone Have To Go?
23 May 2013 5:48 AM, PDT
It's going to be a long off-season, especially where network TV is concerned, if the offerings don't soon improve from the dregs on display on this inauspicious opening night. Think of it as an excuse to catch up on repeats — or to dive into your DVR and/or On Demand archive to see what's new to you.
The only advice I have after enduring the pilot episode of NBC's woeful comedy Save Me is: Save yourself. This shrill parable of redemption, being burned off in back-to-back episodes (Thursday, 8/7c), is like a spiritual Enlightened for the tone deaf. Anne Heche, at her most manic (and that's saying something), stars as Beth Harper, a heroine possessed with an unbearable lightness of being — or you could just stop at unbearable — when she is suddenly transformed from an "angry drunken bitch" (her words) into a cockeyed optimist seemingly filled with a holy spirit »
- Matt Roush
Sneak Peek: Office Politics Invade Fox in Does Someone Have To Go?
23 May 2013 5:48 AM, PDT
Have you ever wanted to take control of your office and expose fellow coworkers that may be too lazy, too overpaid or just plain annoying? Fox is granting that power to three companies in the new reality series Does Someone Have To Go? (premiering Thursday at 9/8c)
"It's basically Survivor meets The Office," says Fox president of alternative entertainment Mike Darnell. "There's always someone in a company who the employees feel should be gone and they feel the boss is too stupid to see it. If the employees decided somebody's fired, then they're gone, but they take it really seriously and there's a lot of emotion."
In the show's first episode, bosses from the Illinois-based company Velocity Merchant Services (Vms) put their employees to task by having them survey a number of factors — including gross productivity and yearly salary — to decide who should be demoted, have their income slashed, or fired on the spot. »
- Rob Moynihan
Fox's Does Someone Have to Go? Brings the Office Drama Home
22 May 2013 7:40 PM, PDT
Think you've got a dysfunctional workplace? You're not the only one.
Fox is bringing work home from the office with its new reality show Does Someone Have to Go?, which premieres Thursday at 9/8c. In the series, the latest creation from veteran reality show producers Mike Darnell (Joe Millionaire) and Cris Abrego (The Surreal Life), company power is turned over from management to the employees. The employees must then select three underperforming co-workers who run the risk of getting fired if they can't change their tune.
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- Nicholas White
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