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Creature Comforts is an underrated CBS sitcom featuring animated clay animals who chat about anything from fears and phobias to the art of attraction. The voices and responses of the animals are sampled from real interviews with ordinary people, so the conversations are unscripted and unrehearsed— which is why this show is so fabulous. The following segment explores body image issues. Hear all Read more
Give Me My Remote has pictures from the first episode of the new season of "The Office." Pop Candy points me to a cool site with videos from MTV's "120 Minutes." Speaking of MTV, the MTV Movie Blog brings us this tidbit of information: High School Musical's Olesya Rulin will next star alongside Jessica Simpson in Major Movie Star Best Week Ever lists the top 10 karaoke songs to avoid at all Read more
TV Squad gives me a new reason to be excited about the Concert for Diana: the resurrection of "Free Love Freeway," David Brent's song from the BBC version of "The Office." I checked out the band Chester French because Popwatch said so, and I'm very glad I did. Idolator can't help but notice that Paul McCartney will talk to pretty much anyone. The recaps of all your favorite food reality TV Read more
Remember how when I was first writing about "Creature Comforts," I mentioned that I was already mourning its premature cancellation? Well, this is the kind of thing I hate to be right about, but CBS quietly announced today that "Creature Comforts" is gone, to be replaced by repeats of "The New Adventures of Old Christine." Sigh. I'm baffled on this one because CBS already spent the money to Read more
It's finally time! My new favorite thing, the CBS animated series "Creature Comforts," starts tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern and Pacific. Here's the deal: The Aardman Animations team (known for "Wallace and Gromit" and Chicken Run) went around the country, interviewing ordinary people on subjects ranging from art to love to health care. Then, they turned those people into adorable animals (caged Read more
Sometimes an idea comes along that's so brilliant, I can't even believe it exists. That's how I feel about "Creature Comforts," the animated series from Aardman Animation, best known as the folks behind Wallace and Gromit. The show — which aired for two seasons in England and will premiere June 4 on CBS — features interviews with ordinary folks about work, health and love. The words are then Read more
If you're a social creature who enjoys a glass of wine, it can be hard to hide a new pregnancy from your pals. Go out to dinner and skip ordering a glass of wine or stop by a party and stick to water, and you might as well be wearing a sign that says, "I'm knocked up!" I told people I was pregnant when I was only eight weeks along for this very reason. But if you're not comfortable telling your Read more
Charlize Theron wore a stunning silver gown for the cover of December 2011's Vogue, which will be available in the US on Nov. 22. The actress is out and about chatting up her upcoming movie Young Adult, which is the second collaboration from Juno writer and director Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman. Charlize spoke about working with Jason shortly after splitting from her boyfriend of 10 years Stuart Read more
We're thrilled to present this smart LearnVest story here on Savvy! First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes . . . a jet-setting lifestyle, a novel and posh townhouse in London. For Sonja Lewis, an expat in her 40s, there was never a carriage, stroller or burp cloth. Or childcare. Or school tuition. Instead, Sonja opted out of the idea that all women need children in order to be Read more
With a name like Adventure Girl, you know she's rockin' a dream job. She's a daring traveling expert, and has left footprints in places like safaris in Africa and ice hotels in Iceland. She's not just your average travel guru — Stefanie Michaels, has been dubbed by Vanity Fair as "America's Tweetheart," for her huge Twitter following on @adventuregirl . . . about 1.5 million followers and Read more
