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Exclusive: Boss Elects Sanaa Lathan For Major Season 2 Role
12 hours ago | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
Kelsey Grammer’s crooked mayor on Boss has a new obsession: Sanaa Lathan.
The Love & Basketball actress is joining the second season of Starz’ political drama in the recurring role of Mona, Alderman Ross’ formidable Chief of Staff with whom Grammer’s Tom Kane becomes fixated on.
Lathan’s TV credits include a regular gig on The Cleveland Show and an arc on Nip/Tuck as the much younger wife of Larry Hagman’s Texas businessman.
Boss‘ second season kicks off later this year. »
- Michael Ausiello
Ricky Gervais: Fame Used To Be Mixed With Respect
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On Sunday, 19 February, HBO will start airing my third sitcom. It's called Life's Too Short. It's a return to the fake documentary format like The Office. But if The Office reflected those quaint docu-soaps of the 90s that followed ordinary people having their 15 minutes, Life's Too Short reflects the more modern age -- desperate, fame-hungry monsters who will do anything just to be on the telly.
You know, so-called role models living their lives like open wounds to accumulate column inches, so they can then get some ghost-writer to spread those inches over several "autobiographies" to cash in on their infidelity, drug abuse, life of crime and personal tragedy. You can't help but think many should have called a doctor before they called a publicist.
I've always been fascinated by the subject of fame. Probably because I've never really understood it. Or rather, I've never really understood why people would put fame above all else. »
- Ricky Gervais
Worst of Super Bowl 2012 ads: Audi's vampires, GoDaddy, Bud Light and more
33 minutes ago | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
Giants? Patriots? Eli Manning and Tom Brady? Yeah, they're on our TVs Sunday, but for a sizable portion of the audience watching Super Bowl Xlvi, the commercials are just as big a draw as the game.
Advertisers ponied up as much as $3.5 million per 30-second spot on NBC's broadcast of the game, which will likely draw about 100 million viewers. Did they get their money's worth? Check back throughout the game for Zap2it's running commentary on the worst ads of Super Bowl Sunday.
Bud Light Platinum does not shimmer
For a company that prides itself on the cleverest of clever ads (too many to name), Bud Light Platinum had a perfect platform to launch its new product, just after the opening drive of the Super Bowl. But they laid an egg with a commercial that makes the beer with a higher alcohol content look like a science experiment.
Audi: Vampires? »
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Best of Super Bowl 2012 ads: Melanie Amaro for Pepsi, Best Buy and more
34 minutes ago | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
Giants? Patriots? Eli Manning and Tom Brady? Yeah, they're on our TVs Sunday, but for a sizable portion of the audience watching Super Bowl Xlvi, the commercials are just as big a draw as the game.
Advertisers ponied up as much as $3.5 million per 30-second spot on NBC's broadcast of the game, which will likely draw about 100 million viewers. Did they get their money's worth? Check back throughout the game for Zap2it's running commentary on the best ads of Super Bowl Sunday.
Hyundai: Gonna Fly Now!
This probably shouldn't be as cute as it was, a bunch of Hyundai employees singing "Gonna Fly Now" from the "Rocky" movies. But it was pretty adorable - the bald guy taking the super-high part particularly cracked us up.
-- Andrea Reiher
Audi: Die, vampires, die
When we heard Audi was doing a vampire-themed ad for the Super Bowl, we thought, oh jeez, »
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Rating the Super Bowl Commercials (2nd Half)
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It’s Super Bowl time (on NBC), and advertisers pay very, very steeply to wave their wares in front of 100 million viewers.
Who enlisted A-list talent? (And who shopped a bargain with B-listers and below?) Who went for laughs? Who tugged at heartstrings? And who whipped out the always-reliable S-e-x?
Here is our quick take on the commercials from the 2nd Half of Super Bowl Xlvi. (Refresh for updates.) Sound off on your favorites in Comments!
Super Bowl Commercials, 1st Quarter: Vampire Killers, Elton John
Goes to Court, the New M&M and an Apocalypse-Surviving Chevy
Super Bowl Commercials, 2nd Quarter: Darth Vader Strikes Back, »
- Matt Webb Mitovich
'It's halftime, America.' How to top Eminem? Get Clint Eastwood to do a Super Bowl commercial
45 minutes ago | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
2011′s best Super Bowl commercial was Eminem for Chrysler. It’s only halftime, of course, but the greatest of 2012 so far has been Clint Eastwood for Dodge, Jeep and Chrysler in another all-American “Imported from Detroit” spot. Eastwood spoke of finding a way through tough times — if there’s not one, we’ll make one.
“Detroit’s showing it can be done,” he insisted. Then the actor-director’s voice that sounds like what Mount Rushmore is carved out of delivered a State of the Union closer for the ages: “This country can’t be knocked out with one punch. We »
- Annie Barrett
Clint Eastwood's 'Halftime in America' spot -- Video
46 minutes ago | EW - Inside TV | See recent EW.com - Inside TV news »
Too bad Clint Eastwood isn’t running for president: He could have clinched the Republican nomination with this tribute to Motor City.
Though Honda made the brilliant decision to pay tribute to Ferris Bueller and Vw released even more love letters to the Star Wars franchise, Chrysler will most likely be remembered for this stirring spot about Detroit – nay, all of the U.S. – making a post-recession comeback.
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- Lynette Rice
'The Voice' snags Betty White for Super Bowl 2012 commercial
49 minutes ago | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
Betty White is pretty much the most popular girl in America at the moment, so between snagging her for their game day commercial and scoring the coveted post-game spot on NBC, "The Voice" is in good shape.
The ad featured Christina Aguilera, Blake Shelton, Adam Levine, and Cee-Lo Green battling each other in a hotel lobby when they heard a beautiful voice coming from one of the rooms upstairs. Kudos to their stunt doubles for pulling off some fun moves -- particularly Christina's, in those stilettos.
Once they got up to the room, Betty stepped out of the shower. "It's about time somebody wanted me for my voice, and not my body," she purred.
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'The Woman in Black': Did you have a hard time watching Daniel Radcliffe play a father?
59 minutes ago | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Like many, I was excited to see Daniel Radcliffe in The Woman in Black this weekend. 1) I like scary movies. 2) The reviews were promising. And, most importantly, 3) I was excited to see post-Potter Daniel Radcliffe on the big screen.
I was not among those lucky enough to check out Radcliffe on Broadway, but had heard enough good things to go into the film with confidence that I could believe him in another role — see him as something other than a wand-wielding boy of magic. And, to my pleasure, that’s exactly what happened — with one small issue: I didn’t »
- Sandra Gonzalez
'The Avengers' Super Bowl teaser: May 4 needs to get here fast
1 hour ago | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
The brief teaser for "The Avengers'" Super Bowl that Marvel and Disney released earlier this week was pretty cool. The full commercial, though, is way, way better.
We have to say that we were pretty much all in for the movie even before the Super Bowl ad aired. But seeing the team (minus Cobie Smulders, alas) assembled, and then watching the Hulk in action, doing his Hulk-Smash best? Yes, yes, and yes.
The TV spot (which is above) also directed viewers to the movie's Facebook site, where a longer version of the teaser was playing. That version, which includes Robert Downey Jr.'s "We have a Hulk" line and a few more action shots, is at the end of the post.
The Joss Whedon-directed "Avengers" opens May 4. What did you think of the teaser, and of the extended version?
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Howard Stern's 'America's Got Talent' Super Bowl promo
1 hour ago | EW - Inside TV | See recent EW.com - Inside TV news »
NBC introduced its newest America’s Got Talent judge to Super Bowl fans Sunday. Howard Stern gives a silent yet clear assessment of a couple mock auditions in the network’s teaser promo for the veteran summer reality hit. The radio host landed the gig in December (then NBC was quickly bashed, no surprise, by the Parents Television Council for the hire). Here’s the ad:
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- James Hibberd
Madonna's Super Bowl Xlvi Halftime Show: How Did She Do? Take Our Poll! [Updated]
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After 2011′s “Black-Eyed Peas in Christmas Lights” Extravaganza, this year’s Super Bowl halftime show had nowhere to go but up. Or did it?
For Super Bowl Xlvi, pop music’s longest-reigning provocateur, Madonna, took over as master of ceremonies, and if I’m being honest, the results were electrifying. I’m not sure how much of the singing was live, but the choreography and spectacle of it all were stellar, and yoga’s never had a better champion.
Her Madgesty entered via gladiator-drawn chariot to the opening snaps of “Vogue,” wearing a gold sequined robe that she quickly shed »
- Michael Slezak
Volkswagen Super Bowl 2012 commercial: A fat dog and the Vader kid returns
1 hour ago | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
Volkswagen almost always gets a touchdown with their Super Bowl commercials, but we had our doubts as to whether they'd be able to top last year's adorable commercial with the little Darth Vader kid who used "the force" to start his dad's car (okay, with a little help from the keys).
This year's ad featured a dog who was too fat to chase down the new Vw bug... so he decided to get to work, lifting weights, climbing stairs, and running on the treadmill until he could admire his new, svelte figure... and go car-chasing as much as he wants.
But that's not all. Perhaps the powers-that-be in the ad department understood that the Vader kid could not be forgotten, because it was then revealed that the dog commercial was an ad-within-an-ad. Vader rises again!
Watch the ad below. Feel like buying a Vw yet?
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'America's Got Talent': Howard Stern's Super Bowl Xlvi promo
1 hour ago | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
Howard Stern is taking over a judges seat on "America's Got Talent" from Piers Morgan, who has left "Agt" to concentrate on his CNN program. Stern debuted his first promo as a judge during Super Bowl Xlvi - what did you think?
The commercial features Stern blasting bad auditions off the stage with a fire hose. We wish that was actually a thing they did on "America's Got Talent." The promise of a fire hose would certainly make the bad auditions more tolerable to sit through.
"America's Got Talent" will return with Stern, Sharon Osbourne, Howie Mandell and Nick Cannon the third week of June 2012. Are you going to tune in to see how the shock jock does? »
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House on Trial: How Will Jeffrey Wright Rule?
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Monday's pivotal episode of House shines a light on perhaps the most crucial question of the series: Do Dr. House's life-preserving ends justify his usually outlandish means?
House First Look: Jeffrey Wright puts Dr. House on trial!
For nearly eight seasons, Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) has been able to pull almost any stunt he pleased at Princeton-Plainsboro, simply because he's a brilliant diagnostician who saves lives. But in Monday's episode (8/7c, Fox), House's methods end in a catastrophe that threatens one of his team member's future at the hospital. Enter Dr. Walter Cofield (guest star Jeffrey Wright), the head of neurology at a nearby hospital and a former mentor to Dr. Foreman (Omar Epps) — and the man who will determine whether House or his team is to blame for the accident.
"Jeffrey's character really decides the fate of the series — he puts House's process on trial," director and »
- Adam Bryant
Super Bowl Xlvi Commercials: X Factor Winner Demands Respect, Audi Puts a Stake in Vampires
2 hours ago | TVGuide - Breaking News | See recent TVGuide - Breaking News news »
Super Bowl Xlvi kicked off and the New York Giants took an early lead on the field. But what about the commercials? The first quarter saw the TV premiere of The X Factor Pepsi commercial, featuring Season 1 winner Melanie Amaro and Elton John. But did the spot live up to the months of hype that preceded it? Did Audi's vampire parody hit the right note? Did the Coca-Cola polar bears melt your heart? What other commercials were your favorites? Watch...
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- Kate Stanhope
Rating the Super Bowl Commercials (2nd Quarter)
2 hours ago | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
It’s time for the Super Bowl (playing on NBC), and advertisers pay very, very steeply to wave their wares in front of 100 million viewers.
Who enlisted A-list talent? (And who shopped a bargain with B-listers and below?) Who went for laughs? Who tugged at heartstrings? And who whipped out the always-reliable S-e-x?
Here is our quick take on the commercials from the 2nd Quarter of Super Bowl Xlvi. (Refresh for updates.) Sound off on your favorites in Comments!
Super Bowl Commercials, 1st Quarter: Vampire Killers, Elton John
Goes to Court, the New M&M and an Apocalypse-Surviving Chevy
Budweiser »
- Matt Webb Mitovich
What To Watch On TV This Week
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This week is full of big premieres, major milestones and some Valentine's Day love.
NBC's "Smash" and ABC's "The River" both premiere, and AMC's "The Walking Dead" returns, followed by their new series from Kevin Smith, "Comic Book Men." For Valentine's Day, there are plenty of big guest stars popping up on our favorite comedies. The handsome James Wolk is playing Max's (Adam Pally) ex on "Happy Endings," and Mary Steenburgen joins recurring guest star James Marsden on "30 Rock."
What should you be watching? Check out the slideshow for the full rundown of what to tune into this week.
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- The Huffington Post
Super Bowl 2012: Audi kills the vampire craze with their game day ad
2 hours ago | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
Sick of vampires in your life? Long lines at the movie theater for "Breaking Dawn," Nina Dobrev on the cover of every other magazine, HBO over-promoting "True Blood."
Personally, we're all for more vamps, but we understand that our bloodthirsty friends may grow tiresome for some.
Audi's new LCD "daylight headlights" may be your solution. Playing on vampire mania for fans of the genre, and on the general discontent from people who aren't fang-friendly, Audi's "Vampire Party" ad was certainly an attention-grabber during the Super Bowl.
In the ad, the vampires are throwing a very "Vampire Diaries" party under the moon, enjoying blood bags, tree climbing, and acoustic guitars, as vampires do. But when our protagonist arrives in his Audi, with its "Daylight, now in a headlight" lights, all of his pals are instantly incinerated.
We particularly like the addition of the #solongvampires hashtag. Ads are so "with it" these days. »
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