Two Tivos To Paradise 12.16.11: The Golden Globes, Howard Stern, Leonardo DiCaprio, Game of Thrones, and more!

Posted by Al Norton on 12.16.2011

News and thoughts on Modern Family leading the SAG and Golden Globe nominations while Justified and Sons of Anarchy get snubbed, Howard Stern joining America's Got Talent, The League getting a new season and more!



Hello friends. Welcome to the last news column of 2011! Next week will be our picks for the best of television 2011 and the following Friday (12/30) will be our annual Two Tivos To Paradise TV Entertainers of the Year edition.

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We've got a video heavy open this week so let's get to it…

A full trailer for the upcoming season of Game of Thrones…





Staying on topic, here's the first scene from the upcoming season of Spartacus: Vengeance. It's pretty gory, so watch at work (or at all) at your own risk…





And now for something completely different…





Will Dailey, the official singer/songwriter of TTTP, has done a cover of Pearl Jam's Let Me Sleep (It's Christmastime)…





This a hickey or the news?

Such A Cold Finger Beckons You To Enter His Web Of Sin, But Don't Go In
Awards season began in earnest this week when the SAG and Golden Globe nominations came out along with the AFI top 10. Here's a rundown of the TV related nominations with some quick feedback…

The 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards (Sunday, January 15th, NBC)

Best Supporting Actor (Comedy, Drama, Mini-Series, or Movie)
Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones
Paul Giamatti, Too Big to Fail
Guy Pearce, Mildred Pierce
Tim Robbins,
Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family

It's tough to offer criticism of a category that mixes three different types and two different styles of programming together but I will say that Neil Patrick Harris, as usual, had a pretty fantastic year. Anyone from Parks and Recreation or Community would have been welcomed. Also, where the f@#% is Walton Goggins?!?! And Giancarlo Esposito?!?!

Best Supporting Actress (Comedy, Drama, Mini-Series, or Movie)
Jessica Lange , American Horror Story
Kelly McDonald, Boardwalk Empire
Maggie Smith, Downton Abby
Sofia Vergara, Modern Family
Evan Rachel Wood, Mildred Pierce

Same as above; everyone here was very good but they've taken what should be at least 15 different nominations and condensed them to 5. Julie Bowen is pretty damn awesome. Someone from Happy Endings in one of the above two categories might have been nice, too.

Best Actor, Comedy
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
David Duchovny, Californication
Johnny Galecki, The Big Bang Theory
Thomas Jane, Hung
Matt LeBlanc, Episodes

No Louis C.K. is a crime, and Joel McHale really should be up here, too. I am not a particularly big Big Bang Theory fan but even I know that Jim Parsons is much more critical to the show's success that Galecki. Also, Steve Carrel's final run on The Office was the best work he did on the show and his lack of a nom despite being eligible is pretty glaring.

Best Actress, Comedy
Laura Dern, Enlightened
Zooey Deschanel, New Girl
Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Laura Linney, The Big C
Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation

A pretty solid list, to be honest. There are folks who can make good cases for nominations but everyone up there has just as good a case. The most surprising omission is Melissa McCarthy.

Best Actor, Drama
Steve Buscemi, Boardwalk Empire
Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Kelsey Grammer, Boss
Jeremy Irons, The Borgias
Damian Lewis, Homeland

Where the f@#% is Timothy Olyphant?!?! Interesting in that usual suspects Huge Laurie and Michael C Hall are nowhere to be found. The HFP continues to act like Friday Night Lights never existed.

Best Actress, Drama
Mirelle Enos, The Killing
Claire Danes, Homeland
Julianna Marguiles, The Good Wife
Madeline Stowe, Revenge
Callie Thorne, Necessary Roughness

Perhaps the most ridiculous category in recent memory. Danes, Enos, and Marguiles all deserve these nominations, for sure, but Madeline Stowe?!?!? If you're going to nominate anyone from Revenge in this category, wouldn't it be the show's lead, Emily VanCamp? Stowe's not bad in any way but there is NO ONE who considers this an award worthy performance. Outside of the HFP voting body, I mean. And I love Callie Thorne – you'll see just how much in two weeks – but again, this is not an award worthy performance. Katey Sagal, who won last year and was just as good this past season on Sons of Anarchy, is nowhere to be found. Neither is Kyra Sedgwick or Anna Gunn. Things like this are way people treat the Golden Globes like a joke.

Best Series, Comedy
Enlightened
Episodes
Glee
Modern Family
New Girl

Parks and Recreation, Louie, Community, Happy Endings, Cougar Town, The Middle, Suburgatory, Bored to Death, Raising Hope, How I Met Your Mother…Sorry, I was listing shows that should be up there instead of most of this group.

Best Series, Drama
American Horror Story
Boardwalk Empire
Boss
Game of Thrones
Homeland

No Breaking Bad, Sons of Anarchy, or Friday Night Lights. All the nominations are from cable networks, btw, so no shot at Parenthood getting a nibble, either.

The 18th ANNUAL SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS (January 29th, 8pm, TNT/TBS)

Best Actor, Drama
Patrick J Adams , Suits
Steve Buscemi , Boardwalk Empire
Kyle Chandler , Friday Night Lights
Bryan Cranston , Breaking Bad
Michael C Hall, Dexter

While I am thrilled to see a USA series get some love, if someone from Suits truly deserves this, it's Gabriel Macht. Also, where the f@#% is Timothy Olyphant?!?!?

Best Actress, Drama
Kathy Bates, Harry's Law
Glenn Close, Damages
Jessica Lange, American Horror Story
Julianna Marguiles, The Good Wife
Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer

Swap Katey Sagal for Kathy Bates and Anna Gunn for Glenn Close and you've got a good start. As much as I love Jessica Lange and her excellent work on AHS, Claire Danes not being recognized for her work on Homeland is absurd.

Best Actor, Comedy
Alex Baldwin, 30 Rock
Ty Burrell, Modern Family
Steve Carell, The Office
Jon Cryer, Two and a Half Men
Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family

Jon Cryer is funny enough but simply not in the upper echelon of television's comedic performers. H Jon Benjamin, Jim Parsons (and this is coming from ME!!!), and Danny Pudi all should be on the list instead of him. Oh, right, and where the f@#% is Louis C.K.?!?!?

Best Actress, Comedy
Julie Bowen, Modern Family
Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie
Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Sofia Vergara, Modern Family
Betty White, Hot in Cleveland

Kind of surprising to not see Laura Linney or Jane Lynch's name up there. I love Betty White but I think she will get nominated for her funeral one day. Jane Levy for Suburgatory, Martha Plimpton for Raising Hope, and of the three women from Community – all deserve to be recognized.

Best Ensemble Cast, Drama
Boardwalk Empire
Breaking Bad
Dexter
Game of Thrones
The Good Wife

There is simply no way to have a list of the best casts on TV and not include Sons of Anarchy. Homeland, Justified, and Friday Night Lights deserve mention as well. I frequently say we are in a golden age of television drama and the fact that you could do another full set of nominations without blinking an eye is exhibit A.

Best Ensemble Cast, Comedy
30 Rock
The Big Bang Theory
Glee
Modern Family
The Office

Call me a broken record but based on 2011, there is no way The Office cast performed as well as the group from Community. No way. Parks and Recreation has a legit beef, as does Curb Your Enthusiasm.

If We're So Much The Same Like I Always Hear, Why Such Different Fortunes And Fates?
Bowl Season is here…Below find a guide to the next three weeks of college football viewing…

Saturday, 12/17 - Gildan New Mexico Bowl, 2pm, ESPN; Temple – Wyoming
Saturday, 12/17 - Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, 5:30pm, ESPN, Ohio – Utah State
Saturday, 12/17 - R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl, 9pm, ESPN, SDSU – La Lafayette
Tuesday, 12/20, Beef "O" Brady's Bowl St Petersburg, 8pm, ESPN, Fla Intl – Marshall
Wednesday, 12/21, San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl, 8pm, ESPN, TCU – La Tech
Thursday, 12/22, 8pm, ESPN, Maaco Bowl Las Vegas, Arizona St – Boise St
Saturday, 12/24, 8pm, ESPN, Sheraton Hawaii Bowl, Nevada – So Miss
Monday, 12/26, 5pm, ESPN2, AdvoCare V100 Independence Bowl, Missouri – UNC
Tuesday, 12/27, 4:30pm, ESPN, Little Cesars Bowl, W Michigan – Purdue
Tuesday, 12/27, 8pm, ESPN, Belk Bowl, Louisville – NC State
Wednesday, 12/28, 4:30pm, ESPN, Military Bowl – Presented by Northrup Grumman, Toledo – Air Force
Wednesday, 12/28, 8pm, ESPN, Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl, California – Texas
Thursday, 12/29, 5:30pm, ESPN, Champs Sports Bowl, Florida State – Notre Dame
Thursday, 12/29, 9pm, ESPN, Valero Alamo Bowl, Washington – Baylor
Friday, 12/30, Noon, ESPN, Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl, BYU – Tulsa
Friday, 12/30, 3:20pm, ESPN, New Era Pinstripe Bowl, Rutgers – Iowa State
Friday, 12/30, 6:40pm, ESPN, Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl, Miss St – Wake Forrest
Friday, 12/30, 10pm, ESPN, Insight Bowl, Iowa - Oklahoma
Saturday, 12/31, Noon, ESPN, Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas, Texas A&M – Northwestern
Saturday, 12/31, 2pm, CBS, Hyundai Sun Bowl, GA Tech – Utah
Saturday, 12/31, 3:30pm, ABC, AutoZone Liberty Bowl, Cincinnati – Vanderbilt
Saturday, 12/31, 3:30pm, ESPN, Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl, Illinois - UCLA
Saturday, 12/31, 7:30pm, ESPN, Chic-fil-a Bowl, Virginia – Auburn
Monday, 1/2, Noon, ESPNU, Ticketcity Bowl, Houston – Penn State
Monday, 1/2, 1pm, ABC, Outback Bowl, Michigan State – Georgia
Monday, 1/2, 1pm, ESPN, Capitol One Bowl, Nebraska – South Carolina
Monday, 1/2, 1pm, ESPN2, Taxslayer.com Bowl, Ohio State – Florida
Monday, 1/2, 5pm, ESPN, Rose Bowl Presented by Vizio, Wisconsin – Oregon
Monday, 1/2, 8pm, ESPN, Tostidos Fiesta Bowl, Stanford – Oklahoma State
Tuesday, 1/3, 8:30pm, ESPN, Allstate Sugar Bowl, Michigan – VA Tech
Wednesday, 1/4, 8:30pm, ESPN, Discover Orange Bowl, West Virginia – Clemson
Friday, 1/6, 8:00pm, Fox, AT&T Cotton Bowl, Kansas State – Arkansas
Saturday, 1/7, 1pm, ESPN, BBVA Compass Bowl, SMU – Pittsburgh
Sunday, 1/8, 9pm, ESPN, GoDaddy.com Bowl, Arkansas State – Northern Illinois
Monday, 1/9, 8:30pm, ESPN, Allstate BCS Championship Game, Alabama - LSU

Sunny Day, Sweepin' The Clouds Away, On My Way To Where The Air Is Sweet
The Sesame Street video of the week…





But You Were Up To Your Old Tricks In Chapters Four Five And Six
All you need to know about the Nielsen's for the past 7 days…

THURSDAY
Community was down 12% with its last outing for the near future, with lead-out Parks and Recreation down 6%...The Big Bang Theory was down 11% in the demos although it did win the night in both that group as well as total viewers…Person of Interest hit a season high in total viewers and had the best demos since its series premiere…The Mentalist hit a season high in totals and demos and crushed all comers at 10pm…Grimm was up 23% from the demos Prime Suspect put up last week and gave NBC their best 10pm numbers in almost three months…Ratings for the NFL Network's coverage of the Browns-Steelers game was up 22% from the game that week last year…

FRIDAY
Frosty the Snowman won the night (with ease) in totals and demos…Chuck hit a season high in total viewers and was up 11% in the demos…Grimm matched last Friday's numbers and was up in total viewers from the special Thursday night outing 24 hours earlier…

SATURDAY
The Republican Presidential Debate drew 7.6 million on ABC, making it the most watched of the campaign…Katy Perry helped Saturday Night Live hit a 5 week high…The ratings for ESPN's coverage of the Heisman Trophy Presentation were up 22%...The annual Army-Navy game was up 14% for CBS…

SUNDAY
The thrilling Giants-Cowboys game gave NBC it's second best Sunday Night Football numbers of the season and the 5th best ever for SNF…The Simpsons won the night in scripted demos; all of Fox was down from last week's football inflated numbers but up from the week before so Fox was quite happy with the night…The Amazing Race finale was down from last fall but had the best non-football demos of the night…Once Upon a Time hit a season/series low in the demos… The Boardwalk Empire season finale was watched by a season high 3 million people, 3.8 million when you factor in the re-airings later that night. Only 1.1 million stuck around for a sneak preview of the series premiere of Luck that followed…

MONDAY
Fear Factor had a strong premiere, up from The Sing Off's finale numbers by 43% in totals and 111% in demos…2 Broke Girls won 8pm in totals and demos despite hitting a season/series low in the latter…Two and a Half Men won the night in totals and demos…Hawaii 5-0 won 10pm in totals and demos, with Rock Center with Brian Williams squeaking out a second place finish over Castle…

TUESDAY
The Biggest Loser put up its lowest season finale numbers in series history…NCIS won the night in total viewers (just over 19 million viewers) and demos…NCIS: LA was up 16% in total viewers…Unforgettable won 10pm in totals and demos…Last Man Standing was down 15% in total viewers and dropped to a season/series low in demos…Glee and New Girl matched last week while Raising Hope was up a tad…

WEDNESDAY
Barbara Walters' Most Fascinating People special was down 30% from last year…Criminal Minds won the night in totals and demos…CSI was up in totals and demos for its best overall performance since week two of the season…I Hate My Teenage Daughter dropped another 10% from last week's poor demos…Survivor: South Pacific tied a season low…

All The Young Dudes, Carry The News
Industry News, Notes, and Hot Rumors…Howard Stern signed a contract to serve as a judge on the upcoming season of America's Got Talent on his Sirius radio show yesterday morning. The show will do the live episodes from New York and Stern's salary is rumored to be in the $15 million range…Leonard DiCaprio is executive producing Beat the Reaper, a new HBO drama series in development. The show, based on the novel of the same name by Josh Bazell, is about a 20 something ER Doctor whose life is turned upside down when a patient recognizes him from his old life working for a crime family…Russell Brand has signed a deal to host six episodes of a new weekly late night talk show for FX this spring. Obviously this deal would be extended if ratings are solid. Big week for Brand as Fox ordered a pilot for an animated series that is based on the rather crazy lifestyle he had in his 20's…FX has picked up a 13 episode fourth season of The League…Netflix is set to order a 13 episode first season of Hemlock Grove, a supernatural thriller that is an adaptation of a soon-to-be released graphic novel and is executive produced and directed by Eli Roth…Alicia Silverstone will guest on multiple episodes of Suburgatory as a love interest for Jeremy Sisto's George...Jane Fonda has booked a recurring role on Aaron Sorkin's upcoming cable news drama, which may or may not be called Newsroom…NBC confirmed what had been reported for months, that Lisa Rinna was returning to Days of Our Lives in the Billie Reed role she created starting next spring…CBS is expanding Face the Nation from 30 minutes to one hour, the same length of competitors Meet the Press and This Week…Lifetime cancelled Against the Wall…Syndicated talk show The Nate Berkus Show will stop production after the current season (its second) finishes in the spring…SVU's Diane Neal will guest on A Gifted Man…The CW is trying to set up their new reality show Remodeled (about the merger of multiple modeling agencies into one huge powerful company) in the best possible way, with multiple airings the first couple of weeks and rerunning the previous week's episode as a lead-in, which means the return of Ringer has been bumped from January 17th to the 31st. The good news is this means there will almost no Ringer reruns between then and the season finale…Alanis Morissette will guest on Up All Night…Jennifer Beals, whose last TV gig was on the sadly cancelled The Chicago Code, will do two episodes of Castle…CMT ordered 8 episode first seasons of two new reality shows; Melissa and Tye: A New Reality follows former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader and Dancing with the Stars contestant Melissa Rycroft as she, her husband, and their new baby move to LA as she pursues her acting dreams, and I Love Jennie documents Jennie Garth and her family's move from LA to a 7 acre farm in the quiet California countryside…We told you last week it was going to happen and this week it did; the NFL has signed 9 year extensions with NBC, Fox, and CBS that will run their TV coverage through 2022. Some changes include NBC's package upped to 19 games including the Thanksgiving night game and Fox and CBS having some limited access to each other's conference games…Weather Chanel has renewed Coast Guard Alaska for a second AND third season…Finola Hughes will reprise her role as "the beautiful" Anna Devane on General Hospital this February as part of the storyline that will see Kimberly McCullough's Robin leave the show…Longtime TV veteran William Devane has been cast as Grandpa Grayson on Revenge…TTTP fave Steven Weber will guest on Hot in Cleveland…The new season of Rupaul's Drag Race premieres on Logo on January 30th…Nat Geo Wild launches Philly Undercover, an 8 episode look at illegal dog fighting in Philadelphia, on January 7th…February 19th is the date E! launches new seasons of Khloe & Lamar and Ice Loves Coco…Mark Moses (Mad Men, Desperate Housewives) will have a big role on the upcoming season of The Killing…Style is not moving forward on a 5th season of Ruby…Eva Longoria is executive producing the legal drama Vega v Vega for The CW…Uma Thurman will make her series TV debut with a 5 episode run on NBC's Smash…USA is developing a drama about Kate Warne, the US' first female detective and a Union spy during the Civil War. Warne helped uncover a plot to kill President Lincoln and that story would be the focus of the pilot…Casey Anthony is working with a TV producer to shop an interview special with her that would cost the partnering network $750,000…

Turns Out Not Where But Who You're With That Really Matters
(The Best of What's Around aka The Best Thing I've Watched In The Last Seven Days)…
Huge props to Syfy as they know how to do a holiday episode as well as any network on TV right now, with the stand alone episodes of Eureka and Warehouse 13 offered up last week being fantastic hours of television that stayed in the reality each show has created while incorporating the spirit of the season in ways that rang true.

Eureka's hour was much more of a comedy one, with the danger involved in the end-of-the-world-of-the-week being purely a vehicle to showcase different styles of animation. The anime at the end was pretty amazing, actually. Jim Parsons as the voice of Sheriff Carter's jeep was a stroke of casting genius, and I'll be damned if SNL alum Chris Parnell doesn't make for one hell of a Santa Clause. I was wondering where Henry's wife was on Christmas morning (not to mention the absence of Jo and Fargo's respective significant others as well) but that was probably the only thing wanting about this episode.

Warehouse 13 added a little bit of It's a Wonderful Life to the mix to create what I thought was one of their best episodes of the season and a wonderful example of just how great Eddie McClintock is; it may have taken him a few years to find a role suited to his many talents but success couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. I actually thought this was an episode they could have expanded to two hours and really rewarded long time fans with appearances by various characters from earlier seasons. Don't get me wrong – having Roger Rees back as MacPhearson was more than enough, I just wanted to point out how rare it is to like something so much that you wish it would have been longer.

People Say I'm Crazy Doing What I'm Doing. Well, They Give Me All Kinds Of Warnings To Save Me From Ruin
What's flashed before my eyes the last seven days…Damn, I did not see the end of Boardwalk Empire coming, or rather I didn't think they'd have the balls to do it. Huge props to the writers and the network for sticking with storytelling over business (certainly execs at one of the broadcast network would never go for such a twist)…Had a marathon of The League, watching the last four episodes over the weekend and loving just about every single minute of it. The only downside to me was Sarah Silverman's rather obvious performance – if you had made me guess what kind of character she'd play and what the subject of her scenes would be I think I would have been 95% accurate – but that didn't take away from the genius of Jeff Goldblum as Ruxin's Dad or the overall incredibly high number of laughs this show generates. For some reason network TV can't do dark comedy like FX. Well, not no reason – network execs can't fathom having not nice people as the leads of their shows and always try to soften them up. As an example, Whitney would be a much better – and different – show if she was a true bitch instead of an opinionated woman with a good heart. Same goes for last season's Perfect Couples, also on NBC (I think I described it at the time as "an FX dark comedy put in the hands of people trying to write the next Friends"). Anyway, my point is that The League is fantastic…Fear Factor was almost exactly what I remembered it has, although Joe Rogan was a bit more obnoxious than I recalled…I can't exactly explain why five adults yelling "turn on the lights" and the actions that followed were so moving but New Girl's first holiday episode was a winner…Homeland has proven itself to be a truly phenomenal combination of intense personal drama and twisty thriller, and I am so very excited for the season finale this Sunday. The show has not once done what watching conventional television has led me to expect, and as someone who watched a LOT of TV, I appreciate the hell out of that…The final scene of Fritz hitting Clay Johnson over the head with a pillow on Monday's episode of The Closer may have been predictable but it was still rewarding. The cast knows their characters so well and inhabits their skin with such ease that it's easy to overlook just how talented a bunch they are…The two going head-to-head in the finale of Next Iron Chef: Super Chefs are NOT who I would have picked going in, either in terms of talent or appeal but I can't fault the judging so far so they do deserve to be there. Can't wait for the finale on Sunday…Echoes of Lost run through Once Upon a Time on a regular basis but this past Sunday, with the kiss-induced flashbacks of a prior life were very reminiscent of the Lost series finale. A good episode and the first revelation of just what some of the characters know about their other lives and how far they will go to keep things the way they are…

TV Pick Of The Week
If you only know Jerry Lewis from his work as host of the annual Labor Day weekend Muscular Dystrophy telethons than you are missing out on a huge part of comedy's history, which is why you will see so many famous, hall of fame level faces doing the talking head thing in the new documentary Jerry Lewis: Method to the Madness, which premieres Saturday at 8pm on Encore.

It may be hard to believe now but at one point Lewis was THE biggest comedian in the United States and very well might have been the funniest man alive as well, which is an amazing combination. Think about it; how often is the most popular comedian also the best? This fantastic movie gives you a real look at the man, his work, and his legacy, and shows you the reverence in which he is held amongst his peers.

Don't miss Jerry Lewis: Method to the Madness, Saturday at 8pm on Encore.

Two Tivos To Paradise
24 Hour Restaurant Battle, 30 Rock, After the Catch, American Idol, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, Antiques Roadshow, Archer, Auction Hunters, The Big C, Boardwalk Empire, Being Human, Bones, Bored To Death, Breaking Bad, Burn Notice, Celebrity Apprentice, Cake Boss, Chopped, Chuck, The Closer, Community, Cougar Town, Crave, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Deadliest Catch, Desperate Housewives, Destination Truth, Entourage, Eureka, Fact or Faked, Falling Skies, Fairly Legal, Family Guy, Flipping Out, Food Feuds, Food Network Challenge, Food Network Star, Ghost Hunters, Ghost Hunters Academy, Ghost Hunters International, Ghost Lab, Glee, Gossip Girl, Great Food Truck Race, Grey's Anatomy, Happy Endings, Haunted Treasure, Hawaii 5-0, Hell on Wheels, Hollywood Treasure, House, How I Met Your Mother, How To Make It In America, Hung, If You Really Knew Me, Iron Chef America, Justified, The Killing, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Law And Order: Special Victims Unit, Louie, Mad Men, Man v. Food Nation, The Middle, Mike and Molly, Modern Family, Necessary Roughness, New Girl, Next Iron Chef, The Office, One Tree Hill, Outside the Lines, Parks & Recreation, Private Practice, Project Accessory, Project Runway, Psych, Raising Hope, Real Time With Bill Maher, Restaurant Impossible, Revenge, Ringer, Rocco's Dinner Party, Royal Pains, Rules Of Engagement, Sanctuary, Saturday Night Live, The Secret Circle, Shear Genius, So You Think You Can Dance?, Sons of Anarchy, The Soup, Suits, Suburgatory, Supernatural, Table For 12, Terra Nova, Top Chef, Top Chef Just Desserts, Top Chef: Masters, Top Design, Torchwood, Tosh.0, True Blood, Up All Night, The Vampire Diaries, The Voice, The Walking Dead, Warehouse 13, Web Soup, Wilfred, Worst Cooks In America,

People Love You When They Know You're Leaving Soon
Here ends another Two Tivos To Paradise.






Next Friday we'll be back with our picks for the best television that 2011 had to offer!

Sources for this week's column include Daily Variety, Entertainment Weekly, TV Guide, and Hollywood Reporter (plus the web sites for those publications) as well as Aintit.cool.com, TVline.com & Deadline.com.