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Who's excited for the return of Mad Men next month on AMC? The show just released portraits of the cast from the sixth season and I'm loving Sally Draper's (Kiernan Shipka) 'just take the picture already' look. You can tell she's totally over her dad Don Draper's antics (Jon Hamm), his new wife Megan Draper (Jessica Paré) as well as her mom Betty Francis (January Jones)! Most of the time I'm annoyed by kid roles on TV, yet I think Sally is MORE
FUN FACT: Ivy wasn’t in this scene in the actual episode, so you’re kind of seeing a deleted scene. Ooooooooh By NineDaves and Linda Buchwald If you can, SMASH fans, set your mind back to last season. We know - the memory can be painful, thinking about those bowling alley/karaoke bar/Times Square musical numbers that came out of nowhere. But don’t think about those. Don’t think about Ellis either. Or Dev. Ignore the pill-popping Ivy MORE
Usually, when the queens of RuPaul's Drag Race are whittled down to seven, Ru will throw the queens a marketing challenge. It's not enough for a queen to be talented; they need to be able to get those talents out there for the world to see. Whether it's season one's Oprah challenge, season two's autobiography, or season four's Dragazines, a queen has to know how to get the word out about herself. So when Ru made this season's batch of queens MORE
A&E's new original series Bates Motel premieres on March 18th but PopBytes was lucky enough to catch the first episode during a screening at SXSW. In the prequel to Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film classic Psycho, Norma Bates is played by the incredible Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air), while her son Norman Bates is played by Freddie Highmore (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory). The creator of the show, Anthony Cipriano (Twelve and Holding), MORE
By NineDaves and Linda Buchwald In the previews for next week’s episode of SMASH, we’re told to expect “the moment no one saw coming.” “The moment everyone saw coming” would probably be more accurate, as everything SMASH has done for two seasons now has been entirely predictable. Why, last week, we closed our column laying out the future of SMASH down to the finale. And wouldn’t you know it - in one episode, most of those things MORE
Hot on the heels of the massive success of their first original series House of Cards (which I loved and finished in like three days), home entertainment company Netflix is getting ready to drop another series. Hemlock Grove is from the mind of shock and gore director Eli Roth, and is set to premiere on April 19th when all thirteen episodes will be available for streaming! The show stars two of my favorite actresses, Famke Janssen and Lili Taylor MORE
Despite the fact that drag queens are meant to be funny and entertaining, their have been very few straight forward stand-up challenges on RuPaul's Drag Race, although there's a very big reason for this: Stand-up is hard. If you don't know how jokes work (as is the case for some queens) and you don't know how to get the timing right (as it was for even more of the queens) you're going to fall flat on your ass. So how'd the queens do? Well MORE
Oh man, time really does fly! Tonight the GLEE gang are celebrating their 500th performance which will be when the sing the classic hit, "Shout!" I can't believe they're already at that number after only four seasons, that surely is a heck of a lot of singing and dancing! Watch the video below as some of the cast members (including my main GLEE crush, super cutie Darren Criss) share their favorite performances and memories from the past! I know a MORE
By NineDaves and Linda Buchwald This week on SMASH, we come to yet another crossroads with Bombshell. Julia and Peter finally finish the book - which has been a total disaster up until this point - and the gang gets together to have a good old fashioned read-through. Spoiler alert - the book’s great. But Jerry doesn’t want to produce the new version because he fears it’s “too good” and would therefore, not recoup. Tom somewhat MORE
While this season doesn't seem to have any work room divisions (e.g. S3's Heathers vs. Boogers) there is a fair amount of co-dependency on this season of RuPaul's Drag Race: Namely, RoLaskaTox and the Coco-Alyssa feud. Everyone in that workroom seems to be focused on someone other than themselves, and unfortunately, if the girls can't get their eyes on the prize, they all risk going home crownless. This week saw the queens putting together a "We MORE
Break out the LSD Gummi Bears and put on Kenny Loggins' "Danger Zone" because FX's Archer is getting a fifth season, after bringing in some of the best ratings possible for cable television. It turns out, when you combine great voice acting, writing, and some of the tightest editing ever for a comedy, people will actually tune in. From The A.V. Club... As promised by both last year’s new FX production deal for producers Adam Reed and Matt MORE
By NineDaves and Linda Buchwald We’ve seen it happen time and time again. After years of struggling, an actor finally realizes his/her dream of making it to the Broadway stage in a breakout role. Fanboys and fangirls line up outside the theater for autographs, flooding the BroadwayWorld Message Boards and their Twitter feeds with endless praise and dreamcasting possibilities. Critics follow. The New York Times does a profile or two. Then MORE
After the impossible ballet challenge last week, RuPaul decided to lob the queens the most entertaining of softballs: The Snatch Game! Yes, RuPaul's Drag Race's most iconic mid-season challenge finally came last night, and while a few of the queens were chameleonic in their celebrity realness, others really weren't fooling anyone. Alaska - Top 3 We all knew that Alaska was going to excel in this challenge -- out of all the queens, she's MORE
By NineDaves and Linda Buchwald There’s this very famous episode of Law and Order: Criminal Intent that’s become a cult favorite of theater fans everywhere. The plot centers around the murder of a Broadway actor, and everyone’s a suspect. The director. The understudy. The composer. The producer. You get the picture. In the end, it turns out it’s the dramaturg who did it. The sneaky, meddling, researcher was apparently trying to get a MORE
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