With all the rain we’re getting this year, a lot of our summer so far has been spent indoors, glued to the boob-tube. And as we get deeper and deeper into the channels, the lines between bullsh*t and brilliance blur to a degree beyond recognition. So help us get our entertainment in check, tell us which show you think is the best on televison.

If we missed a show on the poll let me know in the comment section, so we can add it.

Like the Jefferson’s on All In The Family, Family Guy’s Cleveland Brown is moving on up, to his own show that is. During a live broadcast of Loveline, Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane stated that Peter’s buddy Cleveland is getting his own show entitled The Cleveland Show.

Not much is known about the spin off, but a promo image has been released. The image features Cleveland with a new wife, a baby, a fat kid, and a teenage daughter living next door to a family of gingers and two bears. Does this mean Cleveland is no longer Peter’s neighbor? Will we ever see the hyperactive Cleveland Jr. again? What about Loretta? We don’t really know, yet. But we’ll let you know as soon as more details are released.

Since Cleveland’s show is mostly speculation, let’s take a look at the other Family Guy characters deserving of a spin off. Read More »

Tonight, 20th Century Fox’s “How I Met Your Mother” debuted the “Everything Must Go” episode, in which characters Lilly and Marshall sell their stuff, for real. Online. Right now.According to TVSquad.com, it’s going to be “mostly her clothes, since Marshall’s never getting rid of his ‘Split Happens’ t-shirt.” And all the proceeds go to charity as a donation to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

If you want to get some stuff from a TV show, here’s the perfect place to get it. (I can hear your ebay accounts firing-up already.)

No Country for Old Men is my personal favorite movie of the year. If you haven’t seen it yet, do yourself a favor and watch it tonight. It’s the most quietly-intense movie I’ve seen in ages, thanks in part to the flawless editing, lack of soundtrack, and psycho killer Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem).

Other movies and shows got nominated too, but I’m here to sing the praises of No Country for Old Men. There Will Be Blood should be great, but I’ll have to wait until December 26 to find out for sure.

In any event, here are the SAG nominations for the best films and shows of 2007, picked by a panel of experts that enjoy quirky comedies and thick drama (and in some cases, great movies and shows).

Check out the nominees after the jump. Read More »

One of the most annoying things about college is moving every year. Not only do you finally get comfortable in your new pad only to have to pick up and move to another one, but you also realize how much crap you have. And if you are like me you get annoyed with all the packing and throw a lot of your stuff away.

Which makes for quite an expensive pile of trash. Add that to all your neighbors doing the same thing and you have yourself a nice little collection of goodies; a lot of it still in very good shape.

Good enough, some argue, to take for themselves.

Who are those people? Well, the Freegans, of course. I was first introduced to Freegan culture while reading an article in the New York Times the other day. “Freegans are scavengers of the developed world, living off consumer waste in an effort to minimize their support of corporations and their impact on the planet, and to distance themselves from what they see as out-of-control consumerism.”

In other words, Freegans are price savvy people who decide to make another man’s trash their treasure. Read More »

Carson Daly has committed the ultimate crime: resuming production on Last Call with Carson Daly.

Daly has also defied the ongoing writer’s strike - but that’s hardly his biggest offense.

Does anybody really watch Last Call with Carson Daly? It’s on at some ungodly hour next to weight-loss and fly-fishing gear infomercials…and since when did Daly become a source of comedy? The show has been on the air since 2002 and I still don’t know one soul who watches it.

Since his writing staff is M.I.A. Daly has solicited outside help from family and friends, asking them in an email to submit him jokes that will be used in an upcoming skit.

Call Carson Daly’s joke hotline (818-260-5107) and leave the stupidest knee-slapper you can muster - no matter how bad the joke is, it can’t be any worse of a joke than his career has become.

Jack is back, and season seven of 24 has the same plot as Live Free or Die Hard!

The writers say, “There will not be a ticking clock on a nuclear device [and] the villain is not a terrorist [but] someone with a supremely dark past who’s done something horrific and whose ambition is to regain his stature in the world.”

Although this plot sounds somewhat generic nothing gets me off quite like a technological driven apocalypse - consider me on board!

Check out the Season 7 trailer after the jump! Read More »

FOX’s 24, one of the best shows on television is undergoing a revamp. The show is an action/drama set in real-time, about government agent Jack Bauer, played by Kiefer Sutherland, and his trials to avert disaster in twenty-four hours. The series is critically acclaimed and extremely popular for pacing, ability to weave together subplots and its “take no prisoners” attitude towards action.

However, this past year during its sixth season 24’s quality began to decline. Therefore, the seventh season will shift its focus from the fight against global terrorism to a more a personal conflict for the main character. And with the new focus comes some new members to the cast, most notably in outspoken liberal Janeane Garofalo as an FBI agent.

As someone who has watched 24 since the beginning, the new direction intrigues me. Sometimes a change of direction is needed to keep a show fresh and it will be interesting to see Jack deal with a personal conflict especially if it’s a figure from his past that has come to kill him. However if the show turns into the final years of The Sopranos with Jack sitting on the lake rather than taking terrorists out, I might go “Jack Bauer” on the studio. Which brings me to the addition of Garofalo. Read More »

The train-wreck trio of Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan may be taken under the wing of entrepreneur Donald Trump.

With his new show Celebrity Apprentice revved-up and ready to go Trump is hoping to persuade the bad girls to join the cast of Carmen Electra, Tony Hawk, Joan Rivers, George Foreman, Dana Patrick and others.

If that wasn’t enough star power already former Apprentice star (and all-around bitch) Omorosa will be joining the ranks. Imagine Paris in a claws-out catfight with that nasty feline, or Joan Rivers dishing it out to LiLo. Or Britney having a heart-to-heart with George Forman. My mind is boggled - and intrigued. Read More »

Al Thompson gives us a lesson on how to create the ultimate bachelor pad so a lady or possibly many ladies will come through and not be turned off by the fact that you live in your on shit.

The most important things to keep in mind when designing your bachelor pad are:

I. YOU must be comfortable there.
II. A WOMAN should not be uncomfortable there.
III. It should reveal your PERSONALITY.
IV. It should be a FUNCTIONAL place to live.
V. It should look like a MAN lives there.

Whether your pad passes the lady’s “test” or not could be the difference between heart-pounding success and mind-numbing failure. Of course, certain things are obvious and go without saying Read More »