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The Voice Season 4 Finale Recap: They're All Stars Tonight
3 hours ago
If I were back in Catholic grade school, I suspect Sister Mary Rita would’ve kept me after class and sentenced me to a half hour at the chalkboard this afternoon, writing: “It does not matter who wins Season 4 of The Voice. It does not matter who wins Season 4 of The Voice. It does not matter who wins Season 4 of The Voice.”
And Sister Rita, smart cookie that she was, would’ve had a point. After Monday night’s Live Finals, the Top 3 acts — Michelle Chamuel, Danielle Bradbery and The Swon Brothers — all managed to land two songs apiece in the iTunes Top 10 Singles chart. »
- Michael Slezak
The Voice: Season 4′s 25 Best Performances!
6 hours ago
Doesn’t it seem like just yesterday that The Voice kicked off Season 4 with the addition of Shakira and Usher, the absence of Xtina and Cee Lo and a new crop of contenders angling for Cassadee Pope’s place on the Iron Throne Swivel-Chair Throne?
And yet, here we are on finale night, waiting to hear whether the crown will rest on the head of Michelle Chamuel, Danielle Bradbery or The Swon Brothers.
Related | The Voice Season 4 ‘Live Finals’ Recap: Who Should (and Will) Win It All?
To make it this far in the competition, all three acts had to outlast a very, »
- Michael Slezak
Liv Tyler Cast in HBO Drama Pilot The Leftovers
7 hours ago
Liv Tyler has booked her first TV gig.
The Lord of the Rings actress has joined the cast of The Leftovers, an HBO drama pilot from Lost cocreator Damon Lindelof, our sister site Deadline reports.
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Based on Tom Perrotta’s book, the project is set after the Rapture and tells the story of those folks who didn’t quite make the cut.
Justin Theroux (Six Feet Under, Sex and the City) stars as police chief Kevin Garvey, a father of two who is trying to maintain some semblance of normalcy »
- Vlada Gelman
General Hospital Puts Tyler Christopher on Contract — A Bad Sign for The Lying Game?
9 hours ago
Tyler Christopher has been put on contract at ABC’s General Hospital, where earlier this year he returned to the role of soulful prince Nikolas Cassadine — and thus a darker cloud now looms over ABC Family’s on-the-bubble The Lying Game.
“It took us a few months to work out the details, but I signed last week,” Christopher told Soap Opera Digest of his new Gh status. “I love the show and I’m having a great time.”
Related | 2013 Cable TV Renewal Scorecard — Renewed or Cancelled TV Shows?
Alas, a steadier presence on the daytime drama would seem to allow »
- Megan Masters
TVLine Items: Doctor Who Star Books Death-ly Role, Ray Donovan Premiere Video and More
12 hours ago
Doctor Who dame Jenna-Louise Coleman has joined BBC One’s upcoming Pride and Prejudice-based project Death Comes To Pemberley.
Related | Doctor Who‘s 50th’s Anniversary Special: Why John Barrowman Won’t Appear
Based on the suspense novel by P.D. James, the serial — which is timed to P and P‘s 200th anniversary — centers on three of author Jane Austen’s iconic characters: Mr. Darcy (played by Matthew Rhys) Elizabeth Bennet (Anna Maxwell Martin) and George Wickham (Matthew Goode).
Coleman joins Pemberley as Elizabeth’s sister and George’s wife Lydia.
Ready for more of today’s TV dish? »
- Megan Masters
Ratings: Bachelorette and Mistresses Hit Lows
14 hours ago
ABC’s The Bachelorette this Monday drew 5.4 million total viewers and a 1.6 rating, slipping 6 percent and two tenths (to a season-low demo).
Mistresses led out of that with 3.8 mil/1.2, down 10 percent and two tenths, tying its lowest rating to date.
Related | Mistresses Recap: Yikes! Someone Actually Said, ‘The Worst Is Over’
Over on NBC, The Voice did 12.3 mil and a 3.5, ticking up week-to-week but down in the demo from its previous two final sing-offs (13.2 mil/4.2 last December, 10.7 mil/3.8 in May 2012). (Read Slezak’s recap.)
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Fox’s »
- Matt Webb Mitovich
Steve Carell Admits His Office Finale Sin: 'I Lied'
15 hours ago
Michael Scott’s involvement in The Office finale’s “best prank ever” was such a success because no one knew it was coming. And for that to happen, returning star Steve Carell says, he had to flat-out fib.
A lot.
“I lied,” Carell tells TVLine. “I lied for months to the press, to almost everyone, really. And I felt terribly for the cast and for [executive producer] Greg Daniels, because they all lied, too.”
The actor, who can next be heard in the animated film Despicable Me 2, »
- Kimberly Roots
Eye on Emmy: Southland's Michael Cudlitz on Cooper's Journey and That Killer (?) Ending
15 hours ago
For five seasons, Southland cop John Cooper served the streets of Los Angeles — and his portrayer, Michael Cudlitz, served viewers with a riveting performance.
After watching the officer in blue struggle with his sexuality, prescription drug abuse for his ailing back and troublesome rookies, it’s truly a crime that Cudlitz has not yet been recognized with an Emmy nomination for Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. But perhaps that will change this year, as the TNT series wrapped its run with John Cooper’s biggest season yet.
Related | Emmys 2013: The Supporting Drama Actor Race in Review, Including Our 6 Dream Nominees
Tvline | Every year, »
- Vlada Gelman
Anger Management: Could Charlie Sheen's Clash With a Co-star Derail Its 90-Episode Run?
15 hours ago
FX insisted at this past winter’s Television Critics Association press tour that nothing, save for major holidays and sporting events, would interrupt Anger Management‘s 90 episodes-over-two years sophomore run.
But then Charlie Sheen had a squabble with co-star Selma Blair.
Upon returning from a production hiatus and amid depressed ratings (cue Monday-night showcase on mothership Fox), Blair openly complained about Sheen’s work ethic (or lack thereof), TMZ reported. After Sheen got wind of the criticism, he allegedly fired the actress and refused to shoot if she showed up for work. »
- Rebecca Iannucci
Fall TV Poll | Tuesday: NCIS Vs. Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Other DVR Dilemmas
16 hours ago
The Fall TV season will be here before you know it, and with it comes tough, new viewing choices. In fact, the time to get thinking about them is now.
Related | Renewal Scorecard: What’s Coming Back? What’s Been Cancelled?
Each day this week, TVLine will present the grid for that night’s fall line-up, including Big 5 fare and select cable listings. You then vote for what you plan to watch ”live” during each time slot.
(If you fancy yourself a DVRnista and are horribly, irrevocably hung up on my use of the word “live,” I invite you to »
- Matt Webb Mitovich
What to Watch Tuesday: Voice Champ Is Crowned, Liars Bird Flips, Sex Education and More
19 hours ago
On TV this Tuesday: America picks which Voice it most wants to hear, a little birdie tells Pretty Little Liars something crucial, American Restoration bats a hundred and Awkward relives a bunch of uncomfortable moments. Here are 10 programs to keep on your radar.
8 pm So You Think You Can Dance (Fox) | The Top 20 dancers are revealed.
8 pm Sex: How It Works (NatGeo) | This special promises to teach “anything and everything you’ve ever wondered about sex” through “real-life stories and simulations.” How very bow-chicka-wow-wow of you, NatGeo.
8 pm Pretty Little Liars (ABC Family) | The latest move by “A” creates a ton of trouble for Emily, »
- Kimberly Roots
Mistresses Recap: Yikes! Someone Actually Said, 'The Worst Is Over'
17 June 2013 8:07 PM, PDT
Like the living-room toilet at the center of the house Joss was tasked with selling, Mistresses continues to be impractical, unneccessary, inappropriate and unrelentingly ridiculous — and I mean that in the most flattering way possible.
This week’s installment features sexually charged boss-employee banter, an unexpected (unwelcome?) pregnancy, and everything you ever needed to file a malpractice suit (but were afraid to confirm about your shrink).
So let’s boil down the action for our quartet of protagonists — while raising pertinent questions we’ll need to see answered in their futures:
Savi | We kick things off with Savi in a »
- Michael Slezak
Report: The Client List Renewal Held Up By Backstage Debate Over Baby-Daddy Drama
17 June 2013 7:36 PM, PDT
The Client List‘s renewal process seems to be at a pregnant pause.
Star Jennifer Love Hewitt, who is expecting a child with co-star and fiancé Brian Hallisay near the end of the year, reportedly wants her real-life baby daddy to play her fictional one on the Lifetime drama.
But here’s the rub of Sugarland: Both the network and the show’s higher-ups haven’t decided how to handle her character’s on-screen pregnancy in the upcoming third season.
Related | Scoop: Billy Campbell and Clea Duvall Join Lifetime’s Lizzy Borden Movie
Per Deadline, neither party is inclined to »
- Kimberly Roots
The Voice Season 4 'Live Finals' Recap: Who Should (and Will) Win It All? [Updated]
17 June 2013 7:26 PM, PDT
The battle lines have all been drawn and the fandoms have been essentially locked in for several weeks now on Season 4 of The Voice. So the question entering tonight’s Live Finals was this: Would (or could) any voters be swayed to switch allegiance?
The question exiting it, though, was quite different: Why did one of the three competing acts get a hefty advantage by scoring two out of the last three solo performance slots on the telecast? (Spoiler alert: It wasn’t The Swon Brothers or a member of Team Usher.)
Look, I know Danielle Bradbery is as easy »
- Michael Slezak
FX's The Strain Pilot Adds Merlin's John Hurt
17 June 2013 4:42 PM, PDT
John Hurt is planning to sink his teeth into The Strain, FX’s vampire-virus pilot.
Hurt will play Professor Abraham Setrakian, a Holocaust survivor who emigrated to America after World War II. His character runs a pawn shop in Spanish Harlem and may be the only one with answers once the bloodsucking virus breaks out.
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The project will serve as a reunion for director/co-writer Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth) and Hurt, who appeared in del Toro’s Hellboy films.
The Strain stars »
- Kimberly Roots
TVLine Items: Showtime's Sexy New Trailer, Another Lost Reunion Hits Hawaii and More!
17 June 2013 4:10 PM, PDT
What happens to the body during sex? We’ll leave the answering of that titillating quandary in the capable hands of Masters of Sex, Showtime’s new drama series starring Michael Sheen (30 Rock) and Lizzy Caplan (Party Down).
Bowing Sunday, Sept. 29 — following the Homeland premiere –Sex tells the story of William Masters (Sheen) and Virginia Johnson (Caplan), the duo who led the field of human sexuality research in the 1960s.
Press Play below for a peek at the all-new series, then hit the comments: Does this show look Sex-y enough for you?
Ready for more of today’s TV dish? »
- Megan Masters
Community Creator Dan Harmon Calls Season 4 an 'Unflattering' Impression of His Work
17 June 2013 12:45 PM, PDT
Never one to mince words, Community creator Dan Harmon has spoken out for the first time after screening the cult comedy’s polarizing Season 4 — which, for the uninitiated, moved ahead without his specific brand of “genius.”
The returning showrunner revealed during his latest Harmontown podcast that he’d finally gotten around to watching his creation’s latest run. And…? “I guess I already knew this, but apparently I’m a genius,” he shared. “I think I feel pretty comfortable in expressing that [Season 4] wasn’t my cup of tea.
“It’s not somebody doing what they do,” he explained, referring to »
- Megan Masters
Ratings: True Blood Premiere Dips Opposite NBA Finals, Miss USA Hits a Low
17 June 2013 12:33 PM, PDT
HBO’s True Blood drew 4.5 million total viewers with its Season 6 premiere on Sunday night, and grew that audience to 5.6 mil with an encore airing.
Year over year, that’s a decline of 13 percent — keeping in mind that the supernatural drama’s previous opener didn’t go 1-on-1 with the NBA Finals.
Related | True Blood Premiere Recap: Kill Bill
Speaking of which: ABC’s coverage of the NBA Finals Game 5 dominated the night, drawing north of 14 million viewers (per very preliminary numbers) and scoring at least a 5.6 demo rating — down 12 percent from a year ago’s fast nationals but on »
- Matt Webb Mitovich
Fall TV: CBS Reveals Launch Dates, Including How I Met Your Mother's Hour-Long Final Premiere
17 June 2013 11:00 AM, PDT
CBS is the first network out of the gate with premiere dates for the 2013-14 TV season, and it will kick things off with the Season 27 premiere of Survivor.
Premiere Week officially arrives, however, the day after the Eye hosts the Neil Patrick Harris-hosted Primetime Emmy Awards, beginning with its rejiggered Monday sitcom lineup — opening Sept. 23 with an hourlong How I Met Your Mother final season premiere — and which now is paired with the 13-episode thriller drama Hostages.
Related | Your Complete Fall TV Grid: What’s on When? And Versus What?
CBS’ premiere plan by and large wraps Sunday, »
- Matt Webb Mitovich
Food Network Star: Little 'Chopped' of Horrors
17 June 2013 10:15 AM, PDT
“I think I’m failing in the ‘food authority’ category.”
Let’s be honest, when you’re dropping that kind of self-assessment on Episode 3 of Food Network Star, the only dish on the menu is toast. And yes, you are that toast.
Thus, we bid an overdue goodbye to sour, monotone, Danushka, a former model hungry for fame, but not for any burger bigger than a slider. A woman whose proud ennui during a challenge that emulated Food Network’s dizzyingly difficult Chopped had guest judge Alex Guarnaschelli needing to take a moment to compose herself. A gal who repeatedly »
- Michael Slezak
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