The Office | 9pm on NBC

When Robert decides to sell his mansion, Kevin suggests he throw a pool party for the office; Erin flirts with Dwight to get Andy’s attention; Robert gives a tour of his home.

AMERICAN IDOL’s Nigel Lythgoe Previews Season 10 Changes

AMERICAN IDOL returns Wednesday and yes, there will be changes to the show.

Simon, Kara and Ellen are gone. Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler are taking their place. I’ve seen a few of the auditions from the premiere and there is no denying things are different in season ten.

One of the best shakeups? Executive producer Nigel Lythgoe — whom you may know better from SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE — is back after a two year break from the series.

I chatted with Lythgoe earlier today about some of the new things the show is doing this year and what he’s most excited about.

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NBC Keeps PARENTHOOD Put, Pushes Back LAW & ORDER: LOS ANGELES and THE MARRIAGE REF

Attention, TV fans!

NBC’s midseason schedule was already set to be one of the craziest, but now the network has made some additional changes.

PARENTHOOD — which was scheduled to move to Mondays at 10pm on March 7th — will be staying where it is (Tuesdays at 10pm). The return of LAW & ORDER: LOS ANGELES — which was scheduled to take PARENTHOOD’s timeslot beginning February 8th — is to be determined.

In addition to these changes, THE MARRIAGE REF will return at a date yet to be announced. It was scheduled to premiere on March 6th at 8pm, but the new competition series AMERICA’S NEXT GREAT RESTAURANT will be debuting in its place.

What do you think of these changes? Why do you think NBC’s shuffled its midseason scheduling around so much?

PARKS AND RECREATION, EASTBOUND & DOWN To Appear at PaleyFest 2011

According to Variety.com, NBC’s PARKS AND RECREATION and HBO’s EASTBOUND & DOWN have been added to the lineup for this year’s PaleyFest.

Panels for TRUE BLOOD, THE WALKING DEAD, SUPERNATURAL, AMERICAN IDOL and a look back at Judd Apatow’s FREAKS & GEEKS and UNDECLARED were previously announced.

Individual tickets will be available to Paley Center members January 21st and to the general public on January 23rd. However, fans can buy a premium pass that gets them into every panel right now.

You pumped about PARKS AND REC and E&D joining the Paley party?

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GLEE Season 2 Volume 1 Giveaway

A grilled cheese Jesus. Brittany S. Pearce. Darren Criss! Is the GLEE winter hiatus making you antsy? Already itching to relive the first half of the second season? Not to worry! We got hold of a copy of GLEE Season 2 Volume 1 and we’re looking to give it to one of you lovely people!

The DVD collection features the first ten episodes of the second season, as well as the following:

A bonus song from “The Rocky Horror Glee Show,” recorded exclusively for the DVD

GLEE music jukebox: This feature allows you to play all the episodic musical numbers on the disc in a jukebox format. You can watch just the musical numbers either straight up or on shuffle. No need to sit through the entire episode to see your favorite performance.

“Getting Waxed with Jane Lynch,” which follows Sue Sylvester as she is made into a Madame Tussaud’s wax figure, from modeling to ceremony

“The Wit of Brittany,” featuring Brittany’s most “profound” moments of the first season and first half of season two.

GLEE at Comic-Con 2010

ENTER TO WIN:

There is more than one way to enter…

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LIFE UNEXPECTED Series Finale: All The Secrets Revealed

So, the final episode of LIFE UNEXPECTED airs tonight and everyone’s coming clean.

Mr. Daniels (Shaun Sipos) will admit that he and Lux have been seeing each other.

Lux will tell Baze that Emma had an affair with his dad… though who really knows what the deal there actually is.

Good news: we’ll find out this evening.

I guess that’s the silver lining on the cloud that is the end of LUX. But at least the writers had the chance to write these final two hours, wrapping up storylines appropriately.

Peep a scene from tonight…

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Regis Philbin Announces Departure from LIVE WITH REGIS AND KELLY

Could it be? The longtime talk show host, American media personality and HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER guest star Regis Philbin has announced that he will be leaving LIVE WITH REGIS AND KELLY in the summer or fall of this year.

Philbin, who holds the world record for most time spent in front of a television camera, made the announcement towards the end of Tuesday’s broadcast of the show. “It’s been a long time,” Philbin began. “It’s been 28 years and it was the biggest thrill of my life to come back to New York, where I grew up as a kid watching TV in the early days, you know—never even dreaming that I would one day have the ability, or whatever it takes, to get in front of the camera and talk to it…There is a time that everything must come to an end for certain people on camera—especially certain old people!”

LIVE WITH REGIS AND KELLY, as many of you know, has cycled through three female hosts over its nearly thirty year run: Cindy Garvey, Kathy Lee Gifford have come and gone with Kelly Ripa coming up on her ten year anniversary with the show. But Regis has been there the whole time. Now, at 79, he’s decided to move on.

What do you guys think?

And can you picture anyone filling his shoes adequately?

My vote goes toward Anderson Cooper or Neil Patrick Harris — I always enjoy when they take over co-hosting duties for a day — though both those boys would probably be a long shot, especially considering Anderson’s already in talks for his very own show, and NPH is pretty busy out in L.A.

Other ideas?

THE BACHELOR: Crazy Overload

Too much crazy going on over at THE BACHELOR.

Can we talk about Michelle, please?

I do not get girls like her. Does she not understand the purpose of THE BACHELOR? Brad is supposed to date 25 women and narrow the field down to find his future wife (we’ll ignore the odds against this successfully working out for a minute, because that’s the intention of the show).

Why is it that every season there’s at least one chick who thinks he’s only going to date her and send all the other women away? Of course he’s going to kiss other women. Of course he’s going to go out on other dates.

Silly girl.

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Tonight’s TV Spotlight…Tuesday, January 18, 2011

If you’re not careful, Tuesday night television can really sneak up and bite you. There’s a ton of really great TV on this evening.  In terms of pure quality, Tuesday might be the strongest night of the week. Who knew?

Over on USA, it’s the return of the spectacular WHITE COLLAR. Peter and Neal are back to finding the bad guys and looking good while doing it. On The CW, LIFE UNEXPECTED will air its final episodes tonight. Bye, LUX. And if you missed the first season of the critically acclaimed, THE WALKING DEAD, then head over to AMC this evening for the season one, six episode marathon starting at 8 p.m.

Welcoming back, new shows. Parting a fond farewell to another. And one show returning from the dead. It’s the circle of TV life.

Check out the highlights from tonight’s lineup…

No Ordinary Family | 8pm on ABC
“No Ordinary Detention”
Jim’s secret is put at risk when the police station is taken hostage; Stephanie and Kelly become suspicious of a human resources vice president (Rebecca Mader).

The Biggest Loser | 8pm on NBC
“Meet the New Trainers”
The identities of the unknown trainers are revealed. Elsewhere, the players compete for a healthy meal prepared by Curtis Stone and a two-pound advantage at the weigh-in; Dr. Huizenga provides more health assessments; Bob and Jillian look for the roots of players’ weight struggles; the winner of a water-carrying challenge receives the sole vote during elimination; and a team’s weigh-in results surprise the trainers.

Life Unexpected | 8pm on The CW | Series Finale
“Teacher Schooled; Affair Remembered”
In the series finale, Baze prepares for a future with Emma, unaware of her secret past with his dad. Then Lux arranges a special meal for herself and Eric when she feels him pulling away, but her parents find out about it and crash her intimate dinner. [GMMR: Sad to see this show go. It started off with incredible promise, but went off the rails a bit when the network suits got involved and did everything in their power to make the show the most cliched version of itself. Still hoping for the announcement of a ‘My Two Dads’ remake starring Baze, Ryan and Lux. Sorry, Cate, but you are the one character I won’t miss.]

NCIS | 8pm on CBS
“Recruited”
When a Navy recruiter is killed at a college fair, the team gets a little help in the form of Dr. ‘Ducky’ Mallard’s  predecessor, Dr. Walter Magnus (Bob Newhart).

NCIS: Los Angeles | 9pm on CBS
“Archangel”
The team looks for a hacker who stole Pentagon documents that were uploaded to a blog before the person gets the decryption code to the wrong people.

V | 9pm on ABC
“Laid Bare”
Erica fights to keep Anna from finding out she’s Fifth Column; Anna orders Ryan to find Agent Malik after she goes missing; Lisa notices her body is changing.

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Life Unexpected | 8pm on The CW

Series Finale: Baze prepares for a future with Emma, unaware of her secret past with his dad. Lux arranges a special meal for herself and Eric, but her parents find out about it and crash her intimate dinner.

CHUCK: ‘Chuck vs. the Balcony’

“I happen to like two buck Chuck. Great bang for your buck.”

Unlike the fine bottle of red with a stable on the label and the stork on the cork, six weeks without a new episode of CHUCK isn’t something that gets better with time. In fact, it became increasingly more difficult to face a Monday without CHUCK as the weeks went on. To say I was thrilled to have Chuck, Sarah, Morgan and the rest of the Buy More gang back tonight is a bit of an understatement.  I’m glad that I stayed far away from spoilers because I didn’t realize that so much of tonight’s episode would center around the impending engagement of Sarah Walker and Chuck Bartowski. Bonus!

No doubt at all that Chuck “likes it,” but he just wasn’t able to “put a ring on it.”  You can’t really blame the guy though. He gave it his best. And it really wasn’t his fault. Between Casey’s bad timing, international terrorists, old wine, and Sarah being arrested for treason, Chuck was rock-blocked at every turn.

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HOUSE: Larger Than Life

In 1992, Vice President Dan Quayle took the unusual step of turning a prime time television character into a Presidential Campaign issue. Mr. Quayle attacked the producers of CBS’ MURPHY BROWN for allowing Murphy, played by actress Candice Bergen, to become a single mother, “mocking the importance of fathers, by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another ‘life-style choice.’ ” If you are not old enough to recall the media firestorm ignited by these remarks, consider this analogy. It was as if House Speaker John Boehner accused Snooki of being the mastermind behind 9/11.

In a fitting role reversal, Candice Bergen joined the cast of HOUSE this week as Cuddy’s outspoken mother Arlene, and immediately chided her onscreen daughter for not living a Quayle-ific existence. By episode’s end, however, Bergen gave Arlene more than one note to play, and propelled the Huddy storyline forward without injecting sap or melodrama.
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HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER: Marshall Says Goodbye To His Dad

I’ve always said that one of HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER’s greatest strengths is that someone in the gang is usually going through something that most people in their late 20s/early 30s can closely relate to.

Tonight’s episode, “Last Words,” in which Marshall must come to terms with his father’s passing and get through the funeral, is just another example of this.

Maybe you’ve lost a parent. Perhaps you have a friend who has lost a parent and you’ve struggled, trying to figure out how to comfort them.

In “Last Words,” Lily, Robin, Ted and Barney are the comic relief, coming up with strange a possibly inappropriate ways to support Marshall on a very difficult day.

Still, as expected, there is quite a bit of raw emotion too and you might find yourself crying during HIMYM this evening.

Check out CBS’ extended preview…
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CHUCK: Chris Fedak Teases Chuck and Sarah’s Relationship, Baby Awesome and a Potential Fifth Season

CHUCK fans, things are looking good.

Chuck and Sarah are happily in love. Ellie and Awesome are expecting a baby. Season 4 is supersized. What more could we want?

But according to CHUCK co-creator Chris Fedak, it’s all about to get even better. Fedak was kind enough to chat with Give Me My Remote at the recent NBC TCA party about Chuck-Sarah, Baby Awesome’s name, the Greta mythology, season five and much more…

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HOUSE Creator David Shore Talks Huddy, 13 and Cameron

After a painfully long winter break, HOUSE is finally back!

Tonight’s episode introduces fans to Cuddy’s mother (played by Candice Bergen) and you can just imagine how well House handles that. And yes, this is the episode that features the infamous dinner scene Lisa Edelstein (Cuddy) teased late last year.

I caught up with HOUSE creator David Shore and we chatted about the future of House-Cuddy, 13’s return and if we might see Jennifer Morrison’s Cameron reappear.

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