Filed under: Programming, OpEd, Reality-Free, The Mentalist Here we are in the middle of the March sweeps period (March this year instead of February, because we were supposed to switch to digital TV on February 17 and Nielsen was worried that would screw up the numbers) and The Mentalist is a repea...

Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Industry, Programming, TCA Press Tour, Reality-Free, The Mentalist More TCA news: an actor from Lie to Me calls The Mentalist "a scam." Reporters asked the panel from the new FOX drama about the possible similarities between the two shows (which a lot of people have b...

For the 35th year, the People’s Choice Awards were handed out to honor various entertainment outlets and actors as chosen by the people themselves. Last night’s award show was held at the Shrine Auditorium here in LA and brought out a cavalcade of celebs to collect their awards. The big ...

Filed under: Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, The Mentalist Finally, an episode of The Mentalist with a significant amount of story arc. We really got to see Jane's lust for revenge in this one, and the lengths he would go just to get a bit closer to finding out who Red John is. The Mentalist jumped o...

In Star (December 29, 2008) I vaguely remember Simon Baker from his days as an Aussie teen heartthrob—I was collecting foreign Madonna magazines and probably came across him, so to speak. But seeing those images again is quite shocking—wow, the early '90s was not a time when men were men and...

newVideoPlayer("/barbara_simon_baker.flv", 506, 423,""); Though Barbara Walters has a long, enviable list of powerful men she's interviewed, she has an even longer, even enviable-r list of men she's conquered in the boudoir. Alan Greenspan! Roy Cohn! That one married senator guy! Why, it's a black b...

Filed under: OpEd, Reality-Free It's that time of year again -- time to shop 'til you drop, bake until you sweat, eat until you bloat, and take stock in what you are thankful for, in your life and of course, on television. You might think that in this season of less-than-stellar television, it would...

Dr. Erica Hahn was cast out of the horny halls of Seattle Grace Hospital on "Grey's Anatomy" last night, a mere two weeks after consummating her relationship with Callie, a.k.a. Sara Ramirez....

Presidential candidate John McCain gets his second on-air grilling this week when he has his makeup date with David Letterman tonight, a day after debating Democratic candidate Barack Obama....

Liev Schreiber and Simon Baker are taking the pressure off their beach-loving friend, Hugh Jackman, and dutifully providing us with some opportunities to show some of their well-toned skin and muscles and stuff on Bondi Beach in Sydney. Liev, who co-stars with Hugh in their upcoming film, Wolverine ...