In The Navy...

Ahh, the Annapolis obelisk climb. Remember, prospective sailors, it takes teamwork, solidarity, and bare-chestedness in order to climb the rock-hard, grease-slicked stone wang.

More Pilot Sneak Peeks

Via THR.com, here's a first look at a couple of my more anticipated new TV shows:

First up is Fringe, the JJ Abrams sci-fi drama for FOX. I have no idea what's going on -- looks very X-Files, but merely getting an isolated scene doesn't help much -- yet I'm still compelled. Joshua Jackson is crazy annoying, though. That's going to be a problem. John Noble, however, could work.



Next is CBS's mid-season mystery Harper's Island, which I immediately want to see, even though I realize a premise like this is totally going to live or die on the execution, and a preview isn't really going to tell me about that one way or another. This seems like some combination of Stephen King. Agatha Christie, and that show Kidnapped that nobody watched but me. I hope it's good, but I've been suckered by this kind of thing before: John Doe, that CBS show about the wolves, the FOX show about Satan's daughter. All crap. Let's hope this is different.

Dollhouse Trailer

Thanks to this guy and these guys for alerting me to this.

What do you guys think? Beyond the glee at having Eliza Dushku back on TV, this is giving me a total Alias vibe. In a good way. And it looks like Olivia Williams is playing the Arvin Sloane, which is pretty fantastic.

January, you guys. January.

Last Night's Lost

-- Okay, first of all, I knew that was Michelle Forbes's voice in the previews last week. I have to think she's going to get more to do in upcoming episodes than simply being the Oceanic PR lady. Though, I suppose I said the same thing when Zoe Bell was throwing herself into the bottom of the ocean. But...Michelle Forbes! Helena Cain! She's gotta be part of the bigger picture.

-- I really love Ben and Locke and their Odd Couple antics. They really are like the island's squabbling parents. The only character Ben plays off better is Hurley, as this week's cracker remark proved.

-- The way Sun talked about two people being responsible for Jin's death made me think Michael was that other person. Or, sure, Sun could be talking about herself, but the mood surrounding Jin, Michael, and Desmond in the room with the C4 made me think a whole lot of people were about to die.

-- Seeing how Nadia became part of the "family" in the flash-forward scenes -- accompanying Sayid to Hurley's party, Jack's father's memorial -- goes a long way to explaining why Sayid would be so devastated that he'd join Ben. He really did have her back in his life. Knowing this and seeing this before we'd heard of Nadia's death might have made that moment hit harder.

-- There seemed to be a whole lot of tension this week surrounding the fates of Hurley and Kate and Sayid, which is of course ridiculous because we know they survive. The fates I'd really be worried about next week are people like Desmond and Sawyer. Yeah, it's equally silly to think such major characters would be killed off, but at least we don't know for certain they survive. And there has to be some reason they get left behind.

Anyway, an astoundingly fast-paced episode, but as the first part of what is essentially a three-hour finale, there wasn't any payoff and two weeks is going to be a long time to wait for the resolution.

Blogging the 2008 Upfronts: A Viewer's Guide

Well now that the schedules have all been announced, I suppose it's time for me to see where that leaves my poor DVR. It actually seems a little less crowded than last year -- blame the anemic crop of new shows this fall, not to mention the tendency of more quality shows to hold on until mid-season. And after last year's foray into Friday programming, nothing (besides the ever-awesome The Soup) will be worth watching until Battlestar and Friday Night Lights come back, both probably in January.

Anyway, here's everything I'm intending to watch, before the time slot showdowns and premature cancellations whittle this down considerably by the end of October.

MONDAYS
8 PM: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (FOX)
8 PM: Chuck (NBC)
8 PM: Gossip Girl (CW)
8:30 PM: How I Met Your Mother (CBS)
9 PM: Heroes (NBC)
9:30 PM: Samantha Who? (ABC)

So, yeah, 8 PM is a problem. Poor Josh Schwartz has both of his shows going head-to-head (if push comes to shove, I'm choosing Gossip Girl, sorry Chuck). I'd like to give Sarah Connorc another go (I lost the thread at some point last season and never picked it up again), but with three shows (and HIMYM jumping in at 8:30), it's going to be tough. Monday, as I mentioned to someone a few weeks ago, really has become the new Wednesday, particularly if cable keeps throwing The Hills and The Paper and Greek at me.


TUESDAYS
8 PM: 90210 (CW)
9 PM: Fringe (FOX)
9:30 PM: Kath & Kim (NBC)
10 PM: Eli Stone (ABC)

The 9 PM hour might empty out mighty quick if FOX is quick on the trigger with Fringe and Kath & Kim doesn't prove itself unexpectedly hilarious. FX usually offers something at 10 PM on Tuesdays, too, so whenever Damages or The Riches comes back, that'll go here.


WEDNESDAYS
8 PM: America's Next Top Model (CW)
8 PM: Pushing Daisies (ABC)
9 PM: Stylista (CW)
10 PM: Dirty Sexy Money (ABC)

Bravo's usually got some queer-themed show or other at 10 PM, so that'll probably go here also. Still, not too bad. Stylista gets all of one episode to prove itself, by the way.


THURSDAYS
8 PM: Ugly Betty (ABC)
8 PM: Survivor (CBS)
8:30 PM: 30 Rock (NBC)
9 PM: Grey's Anatomy (ABC)
9 PM: The Office / SNL Thursdays (NBC)
10 PM: Life On Mars (ABC)

The usual Thursday night slaughter seems more tame right now, for whatever reason. Still need to figure out a way around the Ugly Betty/Survivor/30 Rock tangle at 8, but that's nothing new.


SUNDAYS
9 PM: The Amazing Race (CBS)
10 PM: Brothers & Sisters (ABC)

The only problem here is navigating around the Sunday night post-football delays on CBS.


So what are y'all looking forward to next fall? What am I forgetting? Am I missing the boat with a full hour of Cops on Fridays?

Blogging the 2008 Upfronts, Day 4: FOX

Home stretch!

Hit it, FOX...

MONDAY
8 PM: Terminator: The Sarah Connor chronicles
9 PM: Prison Break

TUESDAY
8 PM: House
9 PM: Fringe

WEDNESDAY
8 PM: Bones
9 PM 'Til Death
9:30 PM: Do Not Disturb

THURSDAY
8 PM: The Moment of Truth
9 PM: Kitchen Nightmares

FRIDAY
8 PM: Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?
9 PM: Don't Forget The Lyrics!

SUNDAY
7 PM: The OT (NFL post-game)
8 PM: The Simpsons
8:30 PM: King of the Hill
9 PM: Family Guy
9:30 PM: American Dad

-- Fringe is a new JJ Abrams show (good) starring Joshua Jackson (bad) and John Noble (eh) about the mysterious fate of a commercial airplane (oh, really now?) and a long, overarching mystery (uh huh). Lance Reddick and Kirk Acevedo pop up in supporting roles (good), but I wonder if FOX is going to have the same patience for Abrams's stuff that ABC has. Remember, before Lost conquered the world, Alias and Felicity white-knuckled it through shaky ratings and multiple time slots.

-- Do Not Disturb is a sitcom starring Jerry O'Connell about...yeah, sorry, I lost interest right there.

-- The big news is that Joss Whedon's Dollhouse (Eliza Dushku, Amy Acker, Tahmoh Penikett, ELIZA DUSHKU) will premiere in January as the lead-in for the new season of 24 on Mondays. That doesn't guarantee that trigger-happy FOX won't cancel it early, but it at least guarantees it a better fate than Drive. Poor Tim Minear.

-- It's amazing to me how few FOX shows I have any interest in watching. In the fall, without Dollhouse or American Idol, I'm down to Sarah Connor and maybe Prison Break. And the everpresent possibility that I'll start watching House, but as anyone who ever bugged me about The Wire can attest, inertia's a hard thing to break with me.

Once Again, The Universe Has Let Me Down

You mean to tell me the news that The Real World is coming to Brooklyn has been out for over a day now and nobody's thought to tell me? For shame, Low Res readers. For shame!

I have to say, the assumption that Bunim-Murray will throw the kids into some swanked-out loft in Williamburg is probably right on target. Which should make for, like, the Alien vs. Predator of urban resentment. Who's going to say that the Real Worlders are a blight on the community when the community in question is already being blighted by gentrification and the dreaded hipsters?

And once again, the Gothamist comments come through for me in the hilarity department. Brooklyn is so over, you guys. At least the parts where you won't get mugged. The muggy places are authentic!

In other news, I know no one's gonna listen to me, but you need to be watching The Real World: Hollywood. Muscle-head Joey (above) is the train wreck to end all train wrecks. Like, it's debatable whether putting him on TV is a human rights violation. He is so clearly in need of deep psychiatric help, and all anyone cares about is keeping his dysfunctional ass in front of a camera. It's...fucked up. But in an intensely watchable way. Also, watch to see how many more people that busted-face hick Kimberly can offend before the season's over. So far, we're at black people, poor people, drug addicts, and strippers. Senator McCain, I think we've found that female running mate you've been looking for!

Blogging The 2008 Upfronts, Day 3: CBS

Jesus Christ, how many networks are there these days anyway?

CBS, ahoy!

MONDAY

8 PM: The Big Bang Theory

8:30 PM: How I Met Your Mother

9 PM: Two and a Half Men

9:30 PM: Worst Week

10 PM: CSI: Miami

TUESDAY

8 PM: NCIS

9 PM: The Mentalist

10 PM: Without a Trace

WEDNESDAY

8 PM: The New Adventures of Old Christine

8:30 PM: Project Gary

9 PM: Criminal Minds

10 PM: CSI: NY

THURSDAY

8 PM: Survivor

9 PM: CSI

10 PM: Eleventh Hour

FRIDAY

8 PM: Ghost Whisperer

9 PM: The Ex List

10 PM: Numb3rs

SATURDAY

8 PM: Crimetime Saturday

9 PM: Crimetime Saturday

10 PM: 48 Hours Mystery

SUNDAY

7 PM: 60 Minutes

8 PM: The Amazing Race

9 PM: Cold Case

10 PM: The Unit

-- CBS has easily the worst crop of new shows this season. If I'm the crazy Jericho fanbase, I'm planning another legume offensive just to protest the shitty programming. Eleventh Hour is another procedural, this one starring Rufus Sewell (uh...pass); The Mentalist is essentially Medium with Simon Baker (again: pass); the description for Worst Week says it's "about a good guy who is always trying to do the right thing, yet something always goes wrong - especially when he's around his girlfriend's parents," so... (pass); Project Gary allows Paula Marhsall to work her show-killing powers for good as she'll no doubt deep-six this Jay Mohr comedy (Jay Mohr = pass). The only semi-promising show, The Ex-List from Veronica Mars producer Diane Ruggiero, loses my vote based on lead actress Elizabeth Reaser (the overused and utterly unappealing Ava on Grey's Anatomy). That's 0-for-5, CBS. At least Viva Laughlin only sank one show.

-- The only new show that sounds halfway intriguing -- a murder mystery at a destination wedding (it's like the lost episode of Murder She Wrote!) called Harper's Island -- is slated for midseason.

-- Elsewhere, it appears Moonlight finally got the axe, which, if nothing else, frees Jason Dohring up to join one of Rob Thomas's seventeen other projects in development. I guess absence really does make the heart grow fonder, because I find myself missing the droopy-faced little fucker.

-- How I Met Your Mother lives to see another season, so at least whoring out to the Britney Spears audience was worth it.

-- I keep saying I want to check out The New Adventures of Old Christine, but that Wednesday at 8 PM time slot isn't going to make that any easier.

-- Without a Trace moves to Tuesdays so it can dominate the 10 PM time slot there for a while. My hope is it'll eat into the SVU audience rather than the Eli Stone audience.

Blogging the 2008 Upfronts, Day 2: The CW

Catching up...

The CW!

MONDAY

8PM: Gossip Girl

9PM: One Tree Hill

TUESDAY

8PM: 90210

9PM: Surviving The Filthy Rich

WEDNESDAY

8PM: America's Next Top Model

9PM: Stylista

THURSDAY

8PM: Smallville

9PM: Supernatural

FRIDAY

8PM: Everybody Hates Chris

8:30PM: The Game

9PM: America's Next Top Model (Encore)


-- Good job keeping Gossip Girl on Mondays and out of the Wednesday traffic jam. It'll stay paired up with the unsinkable One Tree Hill. No word yet on how many years in the future next season will be set in order to make things interesting.

-- Speaking of temporal displacement, this 90210 sequel/remake/reimagining is really driving me crazy. I figured once Rob Thomas bowed out as showrunner, I'd be safe to ignore it. But Jeff Judah and Gabe Sachs from Freaks & Geeks stepped in, and then Jessica Walter got cast (and as a high-profile drunk, to boot), and the oddity of Jennie Garth returning to play Kelly Taylor (as a guidance counselor!), with Tori Spelling and Ian Ziering threatening to do the same...I may have to give this one a look. The fact is, 90210 is caught in a catch-22. If it's bad, it'll be run out of town on a rail, but if it's some kind of stealth great TV show, won't it seem like a betrayal of the original 90210 aesthetic?

-- It doesn't look like Surviving The Filthy Rich will be getting my business, however. Michael Cassidy will always have my greatest appreciation for being the only watchable thing about Hidden Palms (well, also Sharon Lawrence's roving southern accent), but when the only other cast member I recognize played that awful (awful!) little sister in Bionic Woman, I'm going to have no problem finding something else to watch. Plus, I can only really watch so many shows based on a series of teen novels before I start feeling bad about myself.

-- Stylista sounds a lot like America's Next Top Editorial Assistant and would have me really interested if it aired on any other network. So far, The CW's reality output has peaked with Farmer Wants A Wife.

-- Smallville (with new executive producers) and Supernatural will return to inspire slashfic for another year, and Reaper comes back at mid-season and I continue to decide whether I like it or not.

-- WWE Smackdown! looks like it's been canceled after, what, nine years? End of an era, even if I hadn't watched it in a good four years. Not sure how well the comedies will fare on Fridays, but I'm glad I won't have to wait until Sunday for my in-case-of-emergency Top Model rerun.

-- My understanding is that the CW has contracted out its Sunday programming, which I think means we'll end up with glorified English-language telenovelas like you get on MyNetworkTV. Nothing worth watching, I'm certain.

Blogging The 2008 Upfronts, Day 2: ABC

Oh hell, I'm so far behind on these. ABC, here we come!

[New shows in bold. Thanks to the Futon Critic.]

MONDAY

8:00 PM: "Dancing with the Stars"

9:30 PM: "Samantha Who?"

10:00 PM: "Boston Legal"

TUESDAY

8:00 PM: "Opportunity Knocks"

9:00 PM: "Dancing with the Stars the Results Show"

10:00 PM: "Eli Stone"

WEDNESDAY

8:00 PM: "Pushing Daisies"

9:00 PM: "Private Practice"

10:00 PM: "Dirty Sexy Money"

THURSDAY

8:00 PM: "Ugly Betty"

9:00 PM: "Grey's Anatomy"

10:00 PM: "Life on Mars"

FRIDAY

8:00 PM: "Wife Swap"

9:00 PM: "Supernanny"

10:00 PM: "20/20"

SATURDAY

8:00 PM: "Saturday Night College Football"

SUNDAY

7:00 PM: "America's Funniest Home Videos"

8:00 PM: "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition"

9:00 PM: "Desperate Housewives"

10:00 PM: "Brothers & Sisters"

The big news for ABC yesterday was that they had "only" two news shows for the new season (plus the migrating "Scrubs"). That's not a bad thing, though. Not when deserving shows like "Dirty Sexy Money," "Eli Stone," "Pushing Daisies," and "Samantha Who?" get second seasons to prove themselves. Much of this is because of the writers strike, but however it happened, it means that shows that might have been axed to make room for something new are getting second chances.

Note that I said "second" chances and not "seventh." Don't mistake me for being happy to see "According to Jim" on the midseason docket. (Also series premiering at mid-season are "Lost" and an untitled Ashton Kutcher/Tyra Banks project, which just might mean the end of television as a medium.)

Taking a look at the fall schedule...

-- The best news of the day was seeing that Eli Stone got picked up for a second season. After starting off shaky, it had really caught its stride by season's end, and I'm glad we're going to be able to see it play things out a bit further. And getting that plum time slot after Dancing With The Stars can only help.

-- I really like that ABC hasn't shuffled its lineups too much. They've done it this way for a few years now, and it's smart. If shows like Pushing Daisies, Dirty Sexy Money, and Samantha Who? are going to build audiences, they have to know where to find them.

-- Kudos also for putting all the shows I don't watch like Wife Swap and Supernanny on Friday nights where they won't bother anybody. Thanks, ABC!

-- I'm kind of interested to see how Life On Mars turns out. David E. Kelley seems like such an odd fit for that show -- will Jason O'Mara start sleeping with an older woman with a strange disorder? Like, say, narcolepsy? The possibilities seem limitless.

-- I'm hoping that by the time Lost returns in January, they'll have found a better time slot for it than Thursdays after Grey's Anatomy. There isn't much on ABC that makes a good thematic fit with Lost (though if Life On Mars is a hit, that could work), but at least put it on at 9 PM somewhere. It deserves better than McDreamy's sloppy McSeconds.

Blogging The 2008 Upfronts: Day 1

Once again I let the upfronts sneak up on me. Unlike my coverage last year, I'm going to take the time to actually go back and cover the Day 1 NBC upfronts.

What I won't be doing is covering every facet of the vaunted NBC 52-week schedule. We're here for the fall schedule and the fall schedule is what I'm gon' give ya.

[New shows in CAPS; data via The Futon Critic]

MONDAY

8-9 PM: "Chuck"

9-10 PM: "Heroes"

10-11 PM: "MY OWN WORST ENEMY"

TUESDAY

8- 9:30 PM: "The Biggest Loser: Families"

9:30-10 PM: "KATH & KIM"

10-11 PM: "Law & Order: SVU"

WEDNESDAY

8-9 PM: "KNIGHT RIDER"

9-10 PM: "Deal or No Deal"

10-11 PM: "Lipstick Jungle"

THURSDAY

8- 8:30 PM: "My Name Is Earl"

8:30-9 PM: "30 Rock"

9- 9:30 PM: "The Office"

9:30-10 PM: "The Office"/ "SNL THURSDAY NIGHT LIVE"

10-11 PM: "ER"

FRIDAY

8-9 PM: "CRUSOE"

9-10 PM: "Deal or No Deal"

10-11 PM "Life"

SATURDAY

8-9 PM: "Dateline NBC"

9-10 PM: "KNIGHT RIDER" (Encores)

10-11 PM: "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (Encores)

SUNDAY

7- 8:20 PM: "Football Night in America"

8:20-11 PM: "NBC Sunday Night Football"

As for the new shows...

My Own Worst Enemy looks like they took Chuck to the next logical step and implanted an entire secret agent into the hapless so-and-so. That hapless so-and-so (and his lethal alternate personality) is being played by Chrstian Slater, who's well past being as adorable as Zachary Levi. Still, it solidifies something of an "adventure bloc" on Mondays, which holds together better, theme-wise, than other nights.

Kath & Kim is the Australian import with Molly Shannon playing that middle-aged tacky divorcee she pretty much perfected on SNL. Selma Blair plays her daughter, and people seem to like her okay. As a half-hour comedy sandwiched in between The Biggest Loser and SVU, I'm not sure how it'll stay afloat, and opposite Dancing With The Stars to boot. I don't think I'd get attached to it.

Knight Rider is a show you may have heard of before. Airing opposite Pushing Daisies and (likely) America's Next Top Model, I doubt I'll be seeking it out any more than that.

Crusoe promises all the timeliness of the Robinson Crusoe tale with the high-octane adventure typical of the Fridays at 8 PM TV audience. Can't lose!

As for the rest of the schedule:

Friday Night Lights (as part of the still-unspecified DirecTV deal), the Office spinoff, and a second season of Celebrity Apprentice are set for mid-season, along with what I think are the two most interesting new series on the NBC slate:

Kings, which is the IanMcShane David-and-Goliath-in-a-futuristic-metropolis drama that I have made the decision to just go with and see where it takes me. Ian McShane, cocksuckers!

Merlin which I believe is an era-appropriate (but stylistically modern) telling of Arthur and his wizard pal. Hell, Anthony Stewart Head nabbed a role, so I kind of have to.

So taking a look at the schedule, I'm thinking Mondays and Thursdays are the only nights that hold even a bit of appeal, and honestly, if I end up losing interest in Heroes, Chuck's gonna start looking awfully lonely at 8 PM.

While I'm on the subject, doesn't the re-launch of Heroes become one of the more intriguing stories of the fall season? After an almost universally-acknowledged underwhelming second season and a very long hiatus, it's almost as if the show is going to have to start from square one. I'm hoping for the best, but it's walking a thin line.

Anyway, Tuesdays and Wednesdays don't seem like they hold together in terms of the demographics they're courting at all, with the only unifying theme being the fact that they're shows I'm not interested in. A primetime SNL offering on Thursdays is...interesting, though if Amy Poehler's out on maternity leave that could end up hampering the show from the outset. A pretty middling effort overall.

Thoughts?

The Wheels ARE in Motion!

Big congratulations to my girlfriend, Kerry Butler, on her TONY NOMINATION for Xanadu this morning. Way to go, baby! That's the good news. The bad news is that she was the only member of her stellar cast to be nominated. No justice for Cheyenne Jackson, Mary Testa, or Jackie Hoffman. But Xanadu did get a Best Musical nod. The other bad news is that Kerry's in line to get steamrolled by Patti LuPone, but then again, so has everyone on Broadway this year.

But congratulations, my dear! Call me and let me know what color I should wear for the ceremony.

[Full list of Tony nominations here.]

Help Me Out Here

Okay, so that above was last weekend's SNL sketch, clearly a take-off on Match Game, obvious to anyone who's ever even heard of the show. But uncharacteristically for SNL, they opetd for thinly-veiled (very thinly-veiled) aliases instead of just using the panelists' real names. My question is why? Are there rights issues that were unexpectedly complicated? Were they afraid of dishonoring the booze-soaked memory of Charles Nelson Reilly and Bret Sommers? Did the show get in trouble after Alec Baldwin so perfectly sent up Reilly in that Inside The Actors Studio sketch? Baldwin's impersonation, by the way, ran circles around Fred Armisen's (I have to tell you, I'm getting reeeeeeeal tired of Fred Armisen in general). The entire sketch seemed like it missed the mark, didn't it? Maybe if they used real names! It's totally baffling.

So in the interests of clarity: Amy Poehler's playing the Bret Sommers, Armisen is Charles Nelson Reilly, Keenan Thompson is Nipsey Russell, Wiig is either Fannie Flagg, Marcia Wallace, or Joanne Worley, Lord knows who Casey Wilson is supposed to be (any guesses?), and then Dear Shia looks like Gallagher but acts like David Copperfield.

Strangely unsatisfying sketch, leaving many, many questions. Like why is Shia wearing a Planet Unicorn shirt? And where the blue blazes was the Richard Dawson???? Help me out here, guys.

(Oh, on the bright side, they did a Suze Orman sketch and Hulu's actually got it up. Yay!)

Spruce Up Your Jackets

Just saw that very promo for this weekend's SNL, which has me psyched -- not because Dear Shia's hosting, though I'm sure this is just his next step towards world domination (which, now that I think about it: Reese Witherspoon is going to have to either conquer him sexually or else have him killed if she wants the universe for herself).

No, I'm more pumped to see Kristen Wiig in the Suze Orman getup. The people must know! The People must see! The people must...get a clip of it up on YouTube because I can't find it anywhere.

As always, this story will be filed under "W." Not for Wiig, but for "Whaaaaaa?"

500 Days of Joooey

"Joooey," if you're curious, is my name for the made-up coupling of Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel. The plan, see, is to take down this whole Celebrity Name Mash-Up thing from the inside.

See how cute? Now all they need to do is hook up on the set of their upcoming Fox Searchlight comedy 500 Days of Summer. And, sure, the plot description sounds kind of tired (he falls in love with her, but she doesn't! Believe! In love!), but if anything could get me to watch such a movie, it would be the combustible power of Joooey.

JOOOEY!

Mug Shot Friday

Okay, I can't imagine I'll find enough material to make this a regular feature, but after being inspired by this post and kind of allowing my mind to drift around Austin Nichols all day, I present to you one of my very favorite mug shots of all time.

Once again, not a promotional photo from John From Cincinnati. Actual mug shot. So fantastic.

Get Some, Hilda!

[Sorry for the scant blogging this week -- it's been somewhat frantic getting this freelance thing off the ground.]

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That's Eddie Cibrian up there, getting down with Hilda Suarez in the (I think?) season finale of Ugly Betty in a few weeks. Not bad, lady! It's certainly a much more enjoyable guest appearance than Christian Siriano last week (though Nina Garcia was delightful as always).

Anyway, Eddie's certainly been making the rounds on ABC lately.

First, he was supposed to be in that pilot for Footballers' Wives:

Then he showed up on Dirty Sexy Money:


And then Samantha Who?:



Man, I really need to get on Pamie's case about the state of his cameo on that last one. Shirt and coat? Weak, Pam.