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Thomas Attila Lewis
Stories by Thomas Attila Lewis
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President Obama had a great week on TV which was capped by last night's announcement of Osama Bin Laden's death. From Hawaii's release of the President's long form birth certificate to the White House Correspondents' Dinner to pre-empting "Celebrity Apprentice" for some incredibly good news, President Barack Obama came out on top.
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We know Steve Carell has been wanting to make the transition to full-time movie star for a while now and tonight the departure from TV becomes official as Michael Scott leaves "The Office" in an extended episode starting at 9pm. Thank you Steve for bringing Michael Scott to life.
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The USA network is valued at almost 10 times that of the NBC broadcast network. We always had an affinity for some of their shows, it's time to step it up a bit. --- The "Glee" extra who has been verbally crucified across the media and production houses for "leaking plot details on Twitter" has given her side of the story to The Hollywood Reporter. --- Check out the TV Junkie Must-Watch Plan for tonight.
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Tonight NBC celebrates the 100th episode of the multi-Emmy winning "30 Rock" with an hour long special show. We'll be there! --- KCET's "SoCal Connected" will be celebrating Earth Day with an episode focused on the environment. --- All this and the TV Junkie Must-Watch Plan.
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FX has announced summer premiere dates for "Wilfred," "Louie," and "Rescue Me." --- Outraged "Glee" producers will overhaul contracts to prevent future leakage of series details. --- Drunken "Jersey Shore" morons can not legally be filmed in Florence, Italy. --- We also have a Podcast Roundup and tonight's TV Junkie Must-Watch Plan.
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Tell us what you thought of HBO's "Game of Thrones." --- HBO has a new docudrama called "Cinema Verite" that both the New Yorker and the New York Times wrote about but they had no actual comments on the show. WTF? --- Check out our podcast round-up and the TV Junkie Must-Watch Plan for tonight.
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ABC has announced the cancellation of daytime soaps "All My Children" and "One Life To Live." This loss of scripted programming means a loss for the many actors, directors, writers, and crew who honed their skills on such shows. --- Animal Planet announces 14 new shows that might have some winners (we hope). --- All this and the TV Junkie Must-Watch Plan.
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We are very happy to see the return of Casey Wilson to television with tonight's premiere of "Happy Endings" on ABC. She's a great comedic actor and "SNL" made a huge mistake when they dropped her a couple years ago. --- Don't miss "Justified" on FX at 10pm which is building to a spectacular finish. --- All this and the TV Junkie Must-Watch Plan for tonight and the listings.
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HBO will be broadcasting the premiere episode of "Game of Thrones" 11 times across 6 channels within about a day and we think that's too much. --- "24" movie is a 'go' with 2012 release date. --- "Deadliest Catch" returns to Discovery tonight at 9pm. Check out the TV Junkie Must-Watch Plan.
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A pregnant Tina Fey will host "SNL" on May 7. --- Warren Leight, showrunner of the tragically discontinued "Lights Out" has been picked to run "Law & Order: SVU." --- Check out our recent interviews, our TV Junkie Must-Watch Plan and the listings for the night.
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Rolling Stone has finally weighed in on some of the podcasts we've been pushing at you for the last couple years, and they got some right for a change. --- "Bob's Burgers" renewed? --- Alec Baldwin can't seem to make up his mind about when "30 Rock" will end, perhaps he should SFTU? --- All this and the TV Junkie Must-Watch Plan.
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There's been musings about whether or not Stephen Colbert really offered James Franco (another) job on last night's "Colbert Report" - we don't think so. --- Amy Poehler has been invited to speak to Harvard's graduating class in May, congrats to the Boston College grad! --- All this and tonight's TV Junkie Must-Watch Plan & the listings.