What Are YOUR Favorite SYTYCD Performances?

Tonight at 8pm on Fox, creepy Uncle Nigel is going to be hosting a special episode of SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE in preparation for the season 6 kickoff next Wednesday night.  Tonight we’ll look back at the 15 fan favorite dance routines from the previous five seasons.  Fifteen seems like a lot, but if you think about it, it’s really tough to narrow the list down.

I want to hear YOUR favorite 15 routines. I wonder how many will end up on tonight’s episode.

I’ll kick things off with a few of my personal favorites. This list is in no way comprehensive – there are just too many moments I loved over the past few seasons.  But here are a sampling, in no particular order, of some of my faves.

• The Bench Dance – Heidi & Travis danced this Emmy award winning routine by Mia Michaels. This dance was recently performed on SYTYCD’s 100th episode, but I don’t think it can be left off the list tonight. It might be the most popular piece of the series.

• Why – This contemporary routine choreographed by Tyce Diorio was the first even dance piece that moved me to tears. It was what this show is all about – it was the combination of the beauty of the piece, the performance elements that Ivan and Allison brought to the stage, and the fact that many of the viewers (especially me) were caught off guard by the amazing performance of  Ivan Koumaev – a hip hop dancer who no one expected to shine in this way.  I’ve seen this dance too many times to count, but I still get teary.

• The Boardroom – Choreographer Mandy Moore put together this amazing Jazz routine which had Neil and Sabra fighting it out in the boardroom. The use of the table helped really bring the routine to life. The two dancers were fabulous in this routine, one of the best of their season.

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WAREHOUSE 13: Regrets

Happy September, Warehouse 13 fans!

I hope you are doing well. Thanks to all who have been leaving comments these past weeks. Did you like this week’s episode, REGRETS? I have some mixed feelings about it, as I will discuss in detail in a bit, but I also want to know what you think.

Was it just me, or were the two plots of this episode almost completely out of sync? I liked them both, but together…it felt like a mash up. Pete and Myka go to Riverton Penitentiary in Florida, where four inmates have committed suicide within a month, after a two year period of no suicides there. Meanwhile, back at the warehouse, Claudia wants to change a light bulb. And then she gets stuck and it’s up to Artie to get her down.

So while Pete and Myka are dealing with multiple deaths, as well as innermost fears (more on that later), Claudia and Artie are dealing with hijinks. And while Artie’s line “Only put on in the case of stupid?” was funny, and I agree that Venus De Milo’s arms WERE rad, indeed, I always felt jolted around when the plots switched.

But that is all the time I am going to spend on Artie and Claudia, because what I LOVED about the episode was the character development for Pete and Myka, both individually and as partners.

I’m not sure even Pete believed himself when he said, “Maybe this is what Mrs. Frederic meant by endless freaking wonder”, and for sure, he and Myka got a lot more than they bargained for with this artifact (and…help me out here. Did anything from this episode get snagged, bagged, and tagged? The necklace right, but then the Reverend John Hill was wearing it again? Did I miss something?).

But what’s happening is that the quartz surrounding/built into the prison, combined with hurricane effects, are causing its victims to hallucinate, specifically about situations in which another person was killed, presumably at the fault of the victim. Pete hallucinates his dad, Myka, her former partner. The man who died at the beginning of the episode imagines the girl he killed as a drunk driver, and likewise his doctor kills himself over the guilt of his patient. But throughout the whole episode, the underlying theme was: the truth.

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CBS Fall Preview | 8:30pm on CBS

Get a sneak peeks of the five new additions to CBS’s primetime schedule this fall: the drama series NCIS: LOS ANGELES, THE GOOD WIFE, THREE RIVERS and MEDIUM and the comedy series ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE. The special is being hosted by the cast of HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER: Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Neil Patrick Harris, Alyson Hannigan and Cobie Smulders

Tonight’s TV Spotlight…Tuesday, September 2, 2009

Now this is what I call a fun night of TV!  Here’s to hoping the day flies by tonight so we can get this TV thing going. We’ve got SYTYCD, another look at the pilot of GLEE, the cast of HIMYM bantering their way through the CBS fall lineup and Jason Bateman on the late night couch.  That’s what I call a good night of TV! And that’s not even the half of it!

What will YOU be watching? Come on…don’t be shy. That’s what the comments are there for!

So You Think You Can Dance | 8pm on Fox
“The Fifteen Best Performances Ever”
Fan-favorite dance routines from previous seasons. [GMMR: Are you kidding me? This is going to be one amazing night of dance. I’m going to be posting something soon asking which dances YOU think should be performed tonight…stay tuned.]

Wipeout | 8pm on ABC
Contestants face the brush rush, the aqua launch and the buoy run as they compete in an extreme obstacle course to win the $50,000 grand prize. [GMMR: Very excited for a new episode on “Wipeout” tonight. Nothing like some big balls to turn your frown upside down.]

CBS Fall Preview | 8:30pm on CBS
Get a sneak peeks of the five new additions to CBS’s primetime schedule this fall: the drama series NCIS: LOS ANGELES, THE GOOD WIFE, THREE RIVERS and MEDIUM and the comedy series ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE. The special is being hosted by the cast of HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER: Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Neil Patrick Harris, Alyson Hannigan and Cobie Smulders

Glee | 9pm on Fox
“Pilot”
In this encore presentation of the pilot episode which aired last fall we’ll once again see Will Schuester, an optimistic teacher, try to reinvent the high school’s glee club. Tonight’s episode includes previously unseen footage including an additional musical number.

Ghost Hunters | 9pm on SyFy
“Civil War Spirits”
TAPS is called in to investigate a Revolutionary War battlefield in Pennsylvania; the team travels to Virginia to investigate the former home of Robert E. Lee.

Top Chef: Las Vegas | 10pm on Bravo
“Thunderbirds”
The elimination challenge calls for the contestants to create a meal for the Air Force’s elite demonstration team, the Thunderbirds.

Leverage | 9pm on TNT
“The Ice Man Job”
The crew tries to deliver comeuppance to a corrupt diamond merchant, but a misplay involving Hardison results in the team’s efforts to bust through Boston’s most impregnable vault. [GMMR: Congrats to LEVERAGE on its season 3 pickup.]

Dark Blue | 10pm on TNT
“Venice Kings”
The covert crew penetrates a turf war between two feuding gangs, one of which is a new and highly dangerous pack that’s trying to seize the heroin market. In other developments, Ty’s cash-strapped sister is in need of $7000, which Ty and Melissa can’t provide.

Also Playing…

• America’s Got Talent | 8 & 9pm on NBC: Highlights from the performances of 10 of the top 20 contestants. Four acts advance to the finals; David Hasselhoff performs.

• Crash Course | 9pm on ABC: Five teams, including a set of neighbors, brothers-in-law, a married couple, a mother-son pair, and a couple of best friends, compete on an extreme driving course to win money.

On the late night couch…

• The Late Show with David Letterman: Jason Bateman, Dr. John P. Holdren
• The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien: Sen. John McCain, Frank Caliendo, Third Eye Blind
• The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson: Mila Kunis, Alex Dryden
• Jimmy Kimmel Live: Emile Hirsch, Amber Valletta, St. Vincent
• Late Night with Jimmy Fallon: John Leguizamo, Jeff Musial, Smokey Robinson
• Chelsea Lately: Antonio Sabato Jr., Heather McDonald, Jason Kennedy, Jo Koy
• Last Call with Carson Daly: Andy Richter, Michele More, Wale (R 5/29/09)
• The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Pre-emtped
• The Colbert Report: Pre-emtped

This is where I turn it over to YOU! Share with us what YOU are watching tonight!

First Look: Wentworth Miller on LAW & ORDER: SVU

On the September 23rd season premiere of LAW & ORDER: SVU, PRISON BREAK star Wentworth Miller will finally play a guy on the right side of the law.  In his one episode guest stint, Miller will take on the role of Nate Kendal, an NYPD cop who crosses path with Benson and Stabler when he saves a rape victim.

Check out a first look at Wentworth in a scene from the season premiere.

Nice to see you back, Wenty!

Quick Review: THE OFFICE Season 5 on DVD

We are just over two weeks away from the season 6 premiere of THE OFFICE.  Bizarre.  To think back to 2005 and the six-episode first season, when no one thought the show would last. It was back before GMMR even launched and at the time I felt like a one-woman megaphone for the show. Fast forward just a few month later – I had my own little TV blog and one of the first posts I ever wrote was “Why Won’t You Watch THE OFFICE?” Everyone expected it to fail. It had no chance at season 2. And here we are with Season 6 right around the corner.  Forgive my sentimentality, but it’s my favorite show and I can’t help but feel proud.

Perhaps what’s driving my melodrama right now is that I just finished watching some of the bonus footage from THE OFFICE Season 5 on DVD.  One of the many featurettes is “One Hundred Episodes, One Hundred Moments”, which picks one small but oh so memorable moments from every episode of the season thus far.  It was a nice walk down memory lane. And I’m such a chick that I got a little teary.

For me the quality of the bonus footage is what the DVD sets are all about. I’ve seen all the episodes (many times over), but the behind-the-scenes footage and commentary you can get from the DVDs is the gravy. That’s why when I opened up the DVD today, I skipped right to Disc 5…where are the good stuff is.  I’ve already watched the tear-inducing gag reel, all the deleted scenes from the last few episodes of the season, and I’ve watched the season finale, “Company Picnic” while listening to the commentary of Executive Producers/Writers Paul Lieberstein & Jen Cellota and director Ken Kwapis.  Clearly I’m in heaven right now.

I’ll be treating myself the remainder of the DVD goodies over the course of the week.

For the die hard Dunder Mifflinites that haven’t already pre-ordered their copy, THE OFFICE Season 5 on DVD hit shelves on September 8th in both DVD and Blu-ray.

In addition to the 26 episodes, here are the other features you’ll find on the S5 collection.

Blue-ray owners are in for a little something extra. Blu-ray™ Hi-Def bonus features include:

• “One-Liner Soundboard” – Allows the user to string together one-liners and quotes from the show to create your own character audio mix that you can share with friends via BD -LIVEä

• BD-LIVE™ – Access the BD-Live™ Center through your Internet-connected player and watch the latest trailers, download exclusive content and more!

The Office: The Complete Season Five on Blu-ray™ Hi-Def and DVD comes with reams of bonus features, including:

• Episode Commentary with the Cast and Crew of The Office
• Over Three Hours of Deleted Scenes!
• Gag Reel
• The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Presents The Office
• Four Webisodes
• The Office Promos: Beijing Games and XLIII Football Championship

Just about everything any OFFICE fan could want.

[Update: Well, almost anything. I guess a true OFFICE fan might expect the last name of one of the stars actually be spelled correctly.  As Sorano916 pointed out to me, somebody goofed BIG time and spelled John Krasinski “John Krasinsky” on the back on the DVD cover.  Wow, that’s completely unacceptable.]

Oh and get this – two of the DVD copies of THE OFFICE: Season 5 hold hidden “Golden Dunder Mifflin Tickets”, if you’re one of the two lucky winners, then you’re heading to the set of THE OFFICE. Here’s to hoping the tickets go to a deserving and dedicated fan!

Make sure you head out on September 8th to get your new DVDs or Blu-ray. Meanwhile, I’ll be watching episode commentaries into the wee hours of the morning.

GREEK Season Premiere: “The Day After”

Hope you got all your back to school shopping done because class was back in session on last night’s GREEK.

As the song goes, “there’s got to be a morning after”, but this time around that morning left most of the frat friends wishing for a do over. So much gossip to dish on over at CRU. The right people aren’t smooching and the wrong people are. Dale is a forever changed man. Cappie wound up in handcuffs (I’ll give you ladies a minute with that visual) and so much more.

“It’s the end of the world, Cappie. What are you going to do?” Well if you are the creative team behind GREEK you are going to make the viewers wait 53 minutes into the episode before you let us know what happened in the moments after the fateful question was asked. By now we all know that Cappie’s instincts were to go after Casey and confirm that she wasn’t in this alone – he still has feelings for her too. He was on his way to ZBZ to find Casey when he was sidelined by none other than Evan Chambers. Evan reminded Cappie that nothing had really changed between he and Casey. He was still the same old, slacker Cappie and maybe he shouldn’t ruin Casey’s Senior year. And besides, did Cappie really want to go through all that pain and heartache again? Evan suggested that Cappie sleep on it. If he still felt the same way the next day then he should seek out Casey, if not…go find someone else to Fall in love with – maybe a brunette blogger who lives just south of Boston. (I think that was Evan’s suggestion, no?)

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SUPERNATURAL Sweepstakes from WB Insider Rewards

Now here’s a contest for some diehard SUPERNATURAL fans! Our friends over at Warner Bros gave us a heads up on this amazing sweepstakes which is taking place exclusively at the WB Insider Rewards community (www.wbinsiderrewards.com). Are you a member yet? If not, you might want to head over there and become a member in order to enter this kick ass giveaway.

Here are the details:

The Grand Prize winner will receive these terrific prizes:

• Authentic Hex Bag Prop from Supernatural
• Sony Playstation®3 with built-in Blu-ray™ Player
• Blu-ray Discs of Supernatural Seasons 3 & 4*
• 4 VIP Tickets for the Warner Bros. Studio Tour

The hex bag prop was designed by the Supernatural Prop Master and is one of the three created for the Season 5 premiere, Sympathy for the Devil, which airs on September 10th. Winchester brothers’ epic journey continues as Sam (Jared Padelecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) carry on their life’s mission to protect mankind from dark spirits and to guard their own immortal souls.

Last season, Sam and Dean used hex bags to hide from witches, demons, evil spirits and even angels. To learn more about the power of hex bags, get Supernatural: The Complete Fourth Season, available for purchase on Blu-ray™ and DVD on September 1st.

To enter the Supernatural Sweepstakes, participants must join the WB Insiders Rewards program.

Additional prizes for winners of the WB Insider Rewards Supernatural Prop Sweepstakes are:

• (1) First Prize Winner: $500 shopping spree at www.wbshop.com.
• (1) Second Prize Winner – Supernatural Seasons 3 & 4 on Blu-ray*
• (5) Third Prize Winners – Prize package that includes the Supernatural Pendant, Harvelle’s Roadhouse T-Shirt, Taillights Mug, Sam & Dean Travel Mug, MiniBusts of the Scarecrow, Dean Winchester Wendigo, and Devil’s Trap John Winchester
• (1) Fourth Prize Winner – 4 V.I.P Tickets for the WB Studio Tour
• (10) Fifth Prize Winners – $20.00 coupons for merchandise on www.wbshop.com.

*or DVD of Seasons 1 – 4

**Playstation®3 is a registered trademark of Sony Corporation, and Sony Corporation is not affiliated with this promotion

Tonight’s TV Spotlight…Tuesday, September 1, 2009

These TV spotlight posts are going to start becoming more fun over the next few days as the new shows start trickling in. I can’t wait!

Here’s a sampling of some of the shows on TV tonight? Anything catching your eye? Let us know either in the comments or send me an updates at Twitter.com/GMMR.

What will YOU be watching tonight?

10 Things I Hate About You | 8pm on ABC Family
“Fight For Your Right”
When their dad goes out of town, Bianca and Kat throw a party that includes karaoke, recycling bins and designated-driver wristbands. Among their guests: Chastity and Joey, who are at odds, and Patrick, who makes a surprise appearance.

Hell’s Kitchen | 8pm on Fox
The nine remaining chefs take a blind taste test. The winners score a dinner date with Chef Ramsay—in a darkened dining room where they can’t see what they’re eating. Later, meat and potatoes problems (raw meat and no potatoes) mar the dinner service.

Ruby & The Rockits | 8:30pm on ABC Family
“We Are Family?”
A magazine reporter follows David and Ruby on their father-daughter day; Jordan and Ben seek DNA samples to confirm David and Ruby’s genetic connection.

Shaq vs. | 9pm on ABC
“Shaq vs. Albert Puljos”
Shaquille challenges St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols to a home-run derby; Shaq throws out the first pitch at a game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Cincinnati Reds. [GMMR: I haven’t seen any buzz about this show. Is anyone watching?]

Warehouse 13 | 9pm on Syfy
“Regrets”
Pete and Myka are sent to investigate a rash of unexplained suicides at a Florida prison; Claudia decides to change a light bulb with the help of an artifact.

Big Brother 11 | 9pm on CBS
Tonight the six remaining houseguests: Jeff, Jordan, Kevin, Michelle & Natalie compete in the power of veto competition. Will the winner change Kevin’s nominations or keep Jeff & Michelle on the block? [GMMR: I’ve already posted the winner of tonight’s POV as well as the outcome of the veto ceremony. If you want to be spoiled click here: BIG BROTHER Spoilers from Inside the House]

Rescue Me | 10pm on FX
“Drink”
Uncle Teddy appears surprisingly stoic after a staggering personal loss but eventually bursts at the seams; Janet and Sheila’s plan goes awry, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake.

Flipping Out | 10pm on Bravo
“Never Trust a Contractor”
Jeff takes charge after he loses trust with the contractors at his Buena Park job; Jeff wins a remodeling job with a major Hollywood stylist.

Also Playing…

• America’s Got Talent | 9pm on NBC: The first 10 acts from the top 20 perform.

• More to Love | 9pm on Fox: Luke spends quality time with the four remaining women.

• The Cleaner | 10pm on A&E: William tries to help a champion boxer get clean in time for a big match; William and his team discover that the boxer’s wife has a bigger problem than he does.

• 18 Kids & Counting | 9pm on TLC: The Duggars visit landmarks, perform volunteer work and dine at an Ethiopian restaurant during a visit to Washington, D.C.

On the late night couch…

• The Late Show with David Letterman: Jeremy Piven, Chris Russo, Black Crowes
• The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien: Mila Kunis, Cheap Trick
• The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson: Quentin Tarantino, Jason Ritter
• Late Night with Jimmy Fallon: Joan Allen, Rob Zombie, Michael Franti
• Jimmy Kimmel Live:  Kyra Sedgwick, Patton Oswalt, DataRock
• Chelsea Lately: Rutina Wesley, Jen Kirkman, Ben Gleib, John Caparulo
• Last Call with Carson Daly: Nick DeAvila, Method Man & Redman (R 5/28/09)
• The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Pre-empted
• The Colbert Report: Pre-empted

What will YOU be watching? Leave a comment or send me an update on Twitter.

18 Kids and Counting: The Duggars are Adding Another One!

And baby makes 19…

The entire Duggar family gathered this morning to make the announcement that they are adding another baby into their already huge family. This will be baby number 19 for Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar.

WOW!

The eldest son, Josh and his wife Anna, are due with their first child – a little girl –  next month. So baby #19 will actually be older than his or her aunt. Not unheard of but still bizarre.

Congratulations?

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