Schedule Update!: When Your Favorite Series Will Return

After the Emmys this weekend, I am on a little bit of a TV “high” (look for my analysis of its implications in the near future). As such, I thought I would provide the most recent version of fall TV’s schedule. This past week Entertainment Weekly‘s Mike Ausiello posted an updated version on his very entertaining and thorough blog . To ensure that all of you avid TV watchers have the newest information possible — this schedule includes cable stations’ premier dates as well — I have posted a modified version of his blog’s schedule below.

FALL 2010 TV SCHEDULE

Tuesday, Sept. 7
Sons of Anarchy, 10 p.m. (FX)

Wednesday, Sept. 8
America’s Next Top Model, 8 p.m. (The CW)
Hellcats, 9 p.m. (The CW) NEW
Terriers, 10 p.m. (FX) NEW

Thursday, Sept. 9
The Vampire Diaries, 8 p.m. (The CW)
Nikita, 9 p.m. (The CW) NEW

Winners from the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards

In case  you were busy and missed NBC’s early telecast of the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards’ ceremony, you can check out the list of winners below. As most people care only about the “big” awards (i.e. wins for actors and programs), only those appear below. If you want a complete listing of the winners, including the oft-ignored awards for writing and directing, check out the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards’ official site.

NOTE: Winners for each category appear in bold-face.

Outstanding Drama Series

• Breaking Bad (AMC)
• Dexter (Showtime)
• The Good Wife (CBS)
• Lost (ABC)
• Mad Men (AMC)
• True Blood (HBO)

Outstanding Comedy Series

• 30 Rock (NBC)
• Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO)
• Glee (Fox)
• Modern Family (ABC)
• Nurse Jackie (Showtime)
• The Office (NBC)

Outstanding Miniseries

• The Pacific (HBO)
• Return to Cranford (PBS)

Outstanding Made for Television Movie

• Endgame (PBS)
• Georgia O’Keeffe (Lifetime)
• Moon Shot (History)
• The Special Relationship (HBO)
• Temple Grandin (HBO)
• You Don’t Know Jack (HBO)

Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Series

• The Colbert Report (Comedy Central)
• The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Comedy Central)
• Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
• Saturday Night Live (NBC)
• The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien (NBC)

Have Reality TV Shows Made Audiences Stupid?

This question is brought up because lately many reality shows have been made that have absolutely no point to them and focus more on the people being idiots and doing outrageous actions that grant them their fifteen minutes of fame. These shows were not always like this and many were actually showcasing people that had talent and deserved to gain fame based on their activity.

One of the most popular shows was “American Idol”, which went all over the United States searching for people who can sing. The judges then would narrow the field down to twelve people and every week they would sing a song get judged and then America would vote for their favorite performance. Then the next night the person with the lowest votes would be kicked off and the show would continue.

Send Them a Pocket Constitution, Stat!

Dr. Laura Schlessinger used the n-word 11 times on her radio show when taking a call from a Black woman in an interracial marriage. (Full audio here. *trigger warning*)

Unsurprisingly, controversy explodes. Schlessinger bows to pressure and decides to discontinue her show at the end of the year. Of course, she couldn’t leave without one last display of her pathetic persecution complex: “I’m done trying to help people in a situation where my First Amendment rights don’t exist, where special interest groups and activists can make a decision to silence you. It’s not American, it’s not fair play.”

But worry not, Laura! Sarah stepped in to save the day (if you can understand her tweets):

RT @SarahPalinUSA: Dr.Laura:don’t retreat…reload! (Steps aside bc her 1st Amend.rights ceased 2exist thx 2activists trying 2silence”isn’t American,not fair”)

RT @SarahPalinUSA: Dr.Laura=even more powerful & effective w/out the shackles, so watch out Constitutional obstructionists. And b thankful 4 her voice,America!

Laura Schlessinger has the right to say the n-word as many times as she damn well pleases in whatever context with whatever intent she’d like, but she does not have the right to a radio show. She exercised her free speech, and in return those “special interest groups and activists” exercised their free speech by protesting against and organizing a response to her remarks. When the dust settled, it turned out that there there is no longer tolerance for Schlessinger’s brand of bigotry…except from Palin and her ilk.

Much as they don’t understand the Second Amendment and couldn’t explain the function of a prefatory clause to save their guns, straight/white/conservative Christians clearly also have a poor grasp of the First Amendment, railing that the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Act will infringe on their right to say, GOD HATES FAGS (oh, wait—they don’t generally phrase it like that, because they’re not like those Westboro loonies and truly want to share Christ’s love with the sodomizing faggots); the Employment Non-Discrimination Act will force schools to hire transvestite pedophiles; and gender-neutral marriage laws will force their churches to wed a bi man, a genderqueer dyke, and their pit bull in a most unholy union.

And now they confirm for us yet again that they believe that all their speech is free and all our speech is hate and how DARE we silence them?!

Backwards, much?

Welcome to Real America.

The VMAs Acknowledge, Gaga’s Still Got Her Creativity

Courtesy of: http://buzzworthy.mtv.com/2010/08/02/lady-gaga-vanity-fair/

OK, so it seems like all I’ve been doing for the past few weeks is notify you, the readers, of news pertaining to the summer’s awards shows. To be totally honest, I didn’t think summer was quite the “awards season” winter is, but I may have to reconsider after all this hoopla. If the recent awards craze is driving you crazy, I apologize, but it’s gonna continue. In a Vanity Fair interview this past week, today’s awards-show centerpiece and pop culture’s biggest source of hoopla nowadays, Lady Gaga, matter-of-factly admitted, ““I have this weird thing that if I sleep with someone they’re going to take my creativity from me through my vagina.” According to her record-breaking 13 MTV Video Music Award nominations (18, if you consider her addition to Beyoncé’s “Video Phone” video), her creativity’s still safe inside her. She has truly made history in multiple ways with the most ever nominations for a single VMA ceremony and the distinction of the first female artist to have 2 videos in the “Video of the Year” category. She won’t catch Madonna, the award winners’ pack leader with 21 trophies, come September 12th, but she could become the most celebrated artist for a single night with a win in all of her 11 nominated categories. Maybe even Kanye will let someone else take the fame for a night. Gaga’s probably a little more threatening than Ms. Swift, or should be with all these nominations.

VIDEO OF THE YEAR

• Lady Gaga, “Bad Romance”
• Florence + The Machine, “Dog Days Are Over”
• 30 Seconds to Mars, “Kings and Queens”
• Lady Gaga featuring Beyoncé, “Telephone”
• Eminem, “Not Afraid”

“Glee” has a big night at the TCA Awards

Over 200 journalists covering television in print and online comprise the Television Critics’ Association. For 26 years, the organization has awarded outstanding achievement in television. This year the journalists were more than happy to celebrate Fox’s freshman hit Glee, giving the musical comedy 3 of its 11 awards. The rest of the winners are listed below, with 2 actors, both female this year, winning the only 2 awards, going to either male or female, for individual acting achievement in comedy and drama.

Program of the Year: Glee (Fox)

Outstanding New Program: Glee (Fox)