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Emmy Breakdown: Lead Actor in a Comedy

BuzzSugar — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:00:00 PDT

This year, you're helping me break down the Emmy nominations and predicting who you want - and think - will win. Today I'm showing you what you guys think of the best actor in a comedy category. Take a look, and don't forget to also vote on who you think will win on my ballot - you could win an iPad!

Most Missed Celebrity Pet or Celebripup of 2009?

PetSugar — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:50:15 PST

As an animal lover, I understand that pets are important fixtures in people's lives and feel a connection with those furry faces I can recognize on sight. Some pups are known for their famous owners, while others are famous in their own right. From the pup that cheekily said "Yo Quiero Taco Bell" to past presidents and celebrities' furry friends like Socks and Loki, tell me which late pet do you miss most in 2009?

And don't stop voting there - check the rest of my best of 2009 polls!
Source: Getty, Source: Guinness World Records, Source: The Daily Wag, and Source: Karen Tracy of Pazazz Chows

Link Time! So You Think You Can Dance Likes Adam Lambert

BuzzSugar — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:30:03 PST

ABC may be miffed at Adam Lambert, but Fox has booked him to perform on the season finale of So You Think You Can Dance - E! Online
Weezer cancels their tour due to Rivers Cuomo's bus accident - HitFix
Elisha Cuthbert is joining ABC's The Forgotten - The Futon Critic
In business news, Apple takes on music service Lala.com - GeekSugar
The Associated Press lists its top 10 TV shows of the decade - New York Times
The series finale of Monk broke records for the most viewers ever for a cable drama - TV.com
New Smashing Pumpkins, "A Song For a Son" - Spinner
The classic tale of The Nutcracker is being turned into a live-action adventure film - Cinematical
The upcoming TV comedy Rex Is Not Your Lawyer gets Jerry O'Connell - Inside TV
The top 10 comedies of 2009 - Moviefone
Billboard names Daniel Powter's "Bad Day" the One Hit Wonder of the decade - Rock & Roll Daily

Link Time! 7/30

BuzzSugar — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:30:51 PDT

A roundup of the 15 creepiest kids in movies. - Moviefone
Are these the best (or worst) on-screen drunks? - TV.com
Many blogs are declaring Aug. 4 "A Day Without Megan Fox." Would you like a day without Megan Fox? - Popwatch
Seven gimmicky reality dating shows. - TrèsSugar
ABC is getting focus groups to comment on Ugly Betty's makeover. - The Ausiello Files
Watch other USA characters pay tribute to Monk. - TV Squad
Another new track from the Monsters of Folk. - Vulture
I love this interview with It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia star Kaitlin Olson. - MTV Movies Blog

Photo courtesy of Warner Bros.

Breaking News: RIP, Monk - Q-Tip's Boston Terrier!

PetSugar — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:15:23 PDT

It's a sad, sad day for smooshy lovers as rapper Q-Tip tweeted today the death of his Boston Terrier, Monk:

Monk my dog has passed on. . . . He was a warrior. He had a brain tumor and cushings disease. Miss u already buddy . . .

Named for the Jazz great, Thelonious Monk, I remember this pooch from his appearance on the Martha Stewart Show earlier this year. You know the one where she "crafted with both Q-tips." Check out the pup's scene below.

If you want to see the whole video, including their crafting project,

Buzz News Roundup, 11/17

BuzzSugar — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:30:27 PST

Monk has been renewed for an eighth - and final - season. - Variety
ABC's official midseason schedule adds Scrubs and The Unusuals to Wednesdays - and drops Life on Mars and Pushing Daisies. - The Futon Critic
Aaron Eckhart will star in the action film Battle: Los Angeles. - ComingSoon
CBS has ordered more episodes of Gary Unmarried and Worst Week. - The Hollywood Reporter
Maya Rudolph will guest-star on Kath and Kim. - TV Guide
50 Cent's album release has been pushed to January. - Billboard
Nigel Lythgoe and Michael Flatley are bringing a new dance competition show to NBC. - Zap2it
NBC is developing a comedy based on the life of Criss Angel. - Variety

Photo courtesy of USA

What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday

BuzzSugar — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:30:57 PDT

All of the new DVD releases hit stores (and Netflix) on Tuesdays. So each week in What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday, I sort through the best of the batch and tell you what to add to your queue. In addition to the titles below you can also rent The Ruins starring Jena Malone and the sixth season of Monk.

Stop-Loss
Stop-Loss joins an ever-growing list of Iraq war movies that bit the dust at the box office. This has little to do with the quality of the films and probably more to do with folks not looking for difficult subject matter when they head to the movie theater. But while director Kimberly Peirce's follow up to Boys Don't Cry isn't flawless, it is well worth your time.

Starring Ryan Philippe, Channing Tatum, Abbie Cornish and a scene-stealing Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the movie centers around a group of friends and family members in Texas struggling with their loved ones in the military who return from serving in Iraq only to be called back.

Special features include 11 deleted scenes, commentary by director Kimberly Peirce and co-writer Mark Richard, and a featurette titled, "A Day in Boot Camp."

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Psych: Season 2
The men of Psych are quirky and cute together, so it's no wonder that the USA show has built up a following over the years. Now, just in time for the third season premiere, you can find the second season on DVD.

If you're new to Psych, here's a summary of the show's premise: "Psych is a quick-witted comedy/drama starring James Roday as young police consultant Shawn Spencer who solves crimes with powers of observation so acute that Santa Barbara PD detectives think he’s psychic. Psych also stars Dulé Hill as Shawn's best friend and reluctant sidekick, Gus, and Corbin Bernsen as his disapproving father, Henry, who ironically was the one who honed his son's 'observation' skills as a child."

Season two included a ton of great guest stars including: Tim Curry, Gina Gershon (as a funny reality show judge), Lou Diamond Phillips, John Amos, Ernie Hudson, Phylicia Rashad, Thelma Hopkins, and Kevin Sorbo. Special features include deleted scenes, audio commentaries, Podcast commentary, and the all-important gag reel.

TV Tonight: Monk and Psych on NBC

BuzzSugar — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 07:30:20 PDT

In this season's second "Hey, we're out of shows, so let's repurpose something from our cable sister!" move, USA's Monk and Psych get a bigtime airing tonight on NBC. The shows are airing in repeats on Sundays for the next several weeks to fill the void left by the writers' strike, a la Dexter on CBS. But hey, as they used to say all the time, if you haven't seen it, it's new to you - right?

It's possible there are a lot of people who have never seen Monk despite its six years on the air and multiple Emmy and Golden Globe wins for its star, Tony Shalhoub. If you've always wondered who that curly-haired guy is accepting the Best Comedic Actor awards at practically every major ceremony, this is your chance to find out. For the uninitiated, Shalhoub plays Adrian Monk, an obsessive-compulsive detective who solves crimes even the most skilled San Francisco police detectives cannot. While I don't love every episode of Monk, I always get a kick out of the way Shalhoub embodies his character's many tics. I actually wish NBC were showing Monk from the beginning, so longtime fans could reminisce alongside new viewers seeing the show for the first time. Instead, they're just kind of jumping in with a random episode from the show's fifth season - but on the positive side, it guest-stars Andy Richter.

Psych, meanwhile, also jumps in with an episode from the middle of its run - the third installment of its second season, which finds the guys going head to head with the FBI and has its own very special guest star in Lou Diamond Phillips. Will you be checking out either show? To watch a clip of Shalhoub talking about his favorite Monk mysteries, just

Photos courtesy of NBC

Buzz News Roundup, 2/20

BuzzSugar — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:30:51 PST

Russian novelist Mikhail Bulgakov's book The Master and the Margarita will be adapted for the big screen, writes Hollywood Reporter.
ABC has announced return dates for its shows, including Grey's Anatomy; details are at The Futon Critic, or you can just check out my guide to post-strike TV.
Director David Yates will reportedly return to the director's chair for the seventh and last film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, writes ComingSoon.
Variety reports that Kelsey Grammer will once again play Ebenezer Scrooge in the indie satire An American Carol.
U2 is back in the studio in Ireland to record their next album, Billboard reports.

According to ComingSoon, Harry Potter, 300 and Sweeney Todd lead the nominations for this year's Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films' Saturn Awards.
Monk has been renewed for a seventh season on USA, writes the Hollywood Reporter.
Variety has news that Tyler Perry's signature character Madea will get her own animated TV series for kids.
How I Met Your Mother and The Big Bang Theory will swap time slots starting in March, writes Zap2it.

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Link Time! 12/18

BuzzSugar — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:30:33 PST

Popwatch wonders if it's about time an award were given out for best CGI character, and would give one out to Nicole Kidman's character's monkey daemon from The Golden Compass.
Cinematical claims you can be the best Santa ever if you pick up some crazy movie memorabilia on eBay, like the college outfit worn by Rachel McAdams in The Notebook.
TV Bloggin hops on the news that Monk and Psych will start airing on NBC in January.
The Amazon Screening Room investigates the supposed video evidence of what Bill Murray's character really said at the end of Lost in Translation.
TV with MeeVee has a great video of everything that exploded on CBS shows this year.
Stereogum has the new video for M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes."
Give Me My Remote wants to know your favorite holiday-themed TV episodes of all time.
Check out the MTV Movies Blog for a shot-by-shot analysis of the Dark Knight trailer.
Vulture presents a pie chart version of Pitchfork's top 100 tracks of 2007.

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