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Monday Madness: Favorite TV Dads

This Monday Madness, in honor of Father’s Day this coming Sunday here in the US, we’re looking at TV dads! These dads, whether grounded or goofy, often set the tone of their shows, and no matter how difficult or stubborn, always have a soft spot for their kids. This poll is focusing on actual (both biological and adoptive) dads, since including father-like figures would have made it too lengthy – though many of the dads on this poll do have a father-like role in other characters’ lives.

This poll will be open for one week, and you can choose up to 10 of your favorite TV dads. Be sure to spread the word so your favorites will make it into the top 10! Fans have used Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, forums, Reddit, blogs, and chatboxes to get the word out about past polls. Get creative!

Even though there are 50 70-some options on this list, I know there are dozens of TV dads I left out! You can nominate fathers I missed in the comments until Thursday night, and I may add them to the poll (dads from live-action scripted shows only, please, and the dad must be in at least 3 episodes of the show).

Want more of a say in who makes it onto the poll each week? Be sure to follow me on Twitter or like TV Breakroom on Facebook, since I usually ask for nominations for the next Monday Madness the weekend before the new poll. Please help out with nominations! There are only so many shows I can watch personally, so I’m counting on you to fill me in!

Without further ado, here’s the poll for this week’s Monday Madness! Voting ends around 1AM June 18th.

Who is your favorite TV dad? (Choose up to 10!)

Rick Castle (Nathan Fillion) - Castle (14%, 1,951 Votes)
John Winchester (Jeffery Dean Morgan & Matt Cohen) - Supernatural (10%, 1,362 Votes)
Jack Carter (Colin Ferguson) - Eureka (5%, 681 Votes)
Henry Spencer (Corbin Bernsen) - Psych (4%, 620 Votes)
Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz) - Bones (4%, 589 Votes)
Jack Hodgins (T.J. Thyne) - Bones (3%, 367 Votes)
Burt Hummel (Mike O'Malley) - Glee (3%, 366 Votes)
Rory Pond (Arthur Darvill) - Doctor Who (3%, 346 Votes)
Cliff Huxtable (Bill Cosby) - The Cosby Show (2%, 324 Votes)
Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) - NCIS (2%, 303 Votes)
Walter Bishop (John Noble) - Fringe (2%, 283 Votes)
Aaron Hotchner (Thomas Gibson) - Criminal Minds (2%, 266 Votes)
Marshall Eriksen (Jason Segel) - How I Met Your Mother (2%, 247 Votes)
Jonathan Kent (John Schneider) - Smallville (2%, 228 Votes)
Phil Dunphy (Ty Burrell) - Modern Family (2%, 220 Votes)
Charming (Josh Dallas) - Once Upon a Time (2%, 214 Votes)
Keith Mars (Enrico Colantoni) - Veronica Mars (2%, 209 Votes)
Future Ted Mosby (Bob Saget) - How I Met Your Mother (2%, 208 Votes)
Devon "Awesome" Woodcomb (Ryan McPartlin) - Chuck (1%, 206 Votes)
John Casey (Adam Baldwin) - Chuck (1%, 200 Votes)
Angel (David Boreanaz) - Angel (1%, 193 Votes)
Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon) - Little House on the Prairie (1%, 187 Votes)
Danny Tanner (Bob Saget) - Full House (1%, 169 Votes)
Max Keenan (Ryan O'Neal) - Bones (1%, 157 Votes)
Danny "Danno" Williams (Scott Caan) - Hawaii Five-O (1%, 157 Votes)
Jackson Gibbs (Ralph Waite) - NCIS (1%, 150 Votes)
William Adama (Edward James Olmos) - Battlestar Galactica (1%, 143 Votes)
Cameron Tucker (Eric Stonestreet) - Modern Family (1%, 139 Votes)
Reginald "Red" Forman (Kurtwood Smith) - That '70s Show (1%, 136 Votes)
Steve Bartowski (Scott Bakula) - Chuck (1%, 134 Votes)
Leo White (Brian Krause) - Charmed (1%, 129 Votes)
Jim Halpert (John Krasinski) - The Office (1%, 126 Votes)
Al Bundy (Ed O'Neill) - Married . . . with Children (1%, 123 Votes)
Rumpelstiltskin (Robert Carlyle) - Once Upon a Time (1%, 120 Votes)
Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith) - The Andy Griffith Show (1%, 118 Votes)
Mitchell Pritchett (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) - Modern Family (1%, 115 Votes)
Sandy Cohen (Peter Gallagher) The O.C. (1%, 114 Votes)
Patrick Jane (Simon Baker) - The Mentalist (1%, 108 Votes)
Howard Cunningham (Tom Bosley) - Happy Days (1%, 105 Votes)
Tim Taylor (Tim Allen) - Home Improvement (1%, 105 Votes)
Eric Camden (Stephen Collins) - 7th Heaven (1%, 104 Votes)
Uther Pendragon (Anthony Stewart Head) - Merlin (1%, 101 Votes)
Nathan Ford (Timothy Hutton) - Leverage (1%, 101 Votes)
Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman) - Arrested Development (1%, 91 Votes)
Anthony DiNozzo, Sr. (Robert Wagner) - NCIS (1%, 90 Votes)
Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1%, 88 Votes)
Marvin Eriksen (Bill Fagerbakke) - How I Met Your Mother (1%, 88 Votes)
Jack Bristow (Victor Garber) - Alias (1%, 88 Votes)
George Altman (Jeremy Sisto) - Suburgatory (1%, 84 Votes)
Frank Reagan (Tom Selleck) - Blue Bloods (1%, 75 Votes)
Eric Taylor (Kyle Chandler) - Friday Night Lights (1%, 70 Votes)
John Walton (Ralph Waite) - The Waltons (0%, 65 Votes)
Michael (Shane West) - Nikita (0%, 65 Votes)
Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) - True Blood (0%, 63 Votes)
Tom Mason (Noah Wyle) - Falling Skies (0%, 60 Votes)
Steven Keaton (Michael Gross) - Family Ties (0%, 59 Votes)
Martin Bohm (Kiefer Sutherland) - Touch (0%, 45 Votes)
Danny Reagan (Donnie Wahlberg) - Blue Bloods (0%, 45 Votes)
Michael Britten (Jason Isaacs) - Awake (0%, 45 Votes)
Mark Greene (Anthony Edwards) - ER (0%, 42 Votes)
Leon Vance (Rocky Carroll) - NCIS (0%, 40 Votes)
George Bluth, Sr. (Jeffrey Tambor) - Arrested Development (0%, 39 Votes)
Will Girardi (Joe Mantegna) - Joan of Arcadia (0%, 39 Votes)
Noah Werner (Alan Tudyk) - Suburgatory (0%, 36 Votes)
Frank Barone (Peter Boyle) - Everybody Loves Raymond (0%, 32 Votes)
George Lopez (George Lopez) - George Lopez (0%, 28 Votes)
Ray Barone (Ray Romano) - Everybody Loves Raymond (0%, 28 Votes)
Andrew Martin (Ioan Gruffudd) - Ringer (0%, 26 Votes)
Jim Walsh (James Eckhouse) - Beverly Hills, 90210 (0%, 26 Votes)
Lionel Luther (John Glover) - Smallville (0%, 24 Votes)
Don Draper (John Hamm) - Mad Men (0%, 22 Votes)
Jim (Jim Belushi) - According To Jim (0%, 22 Votes)
Darryl Philbin (Craig Robinson) - The Office (0%, 18 Votes)
Roland Burton (Sterling K. Brown) - Army Wives (0%, 17 Votes)
Trevor LeBlanc (Drew Fuller) - Army Wives (0%, 17 Votes)
Frank Sherwood (Terry Serpico) - Army Wives (0%, 16 Votes)
Michael Holden (Brian McNamara) - Army Wives (0%, 15 Votes)
Mitch McDeere (Josh Lucas) - The Firm (0%, 4 Votes)
Walt Riggins (Jeffrey Tambor) - Bent (0%, 3 Votes)

Total Voters: 4,136

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Monday Madness: Favorite Non-Original Cast Members

This Monday Madness, we’re looking at non-original cast members! Sometimes these characters replaced fan favorites who had left the show (for plot, personal, or business reasons), and often their presence upset the show’s dynamics. Many had a difficult time being accepted by long-time fans of the show, while with others it seemed like they had always been a part of the story. But, begrudgingly or with open arms, we learned to love most of these characters, and now you get to choose which ones are worthy of recognition!

This poll will be open for one week, and you can choose up to 10 of your favorite characters who joined their shows later on. Be sure to spread the word so your favorites will make it into the top 10!

Even though there are 50-some options on this list, I know there are dozens of characters I left out! You can nominate people I missed in the comments, and I may add them to the poll. I tried to limit this mostly to characters who joined after the complete first season, though with shorter-running shows I was more lenient. Want more of a say in who makes it onto the poll each week? Be sure to follow me on Twitter, since I usually ask for nominations for the next Monday Madness the weekend before the new poll. Please help out with nominations! There are only so many shows I can watch personally, so I’m counting on you to fill me in!

Without further ado, here’s the poll for this week’s Monday Madness! Voting ends around 1AM June 11th.

UPDATE: this poll has ended. Vote for this week’s poll here: Favorite TV Dads.

Who is your favorite character who joined their show later? (Choose up to 10!)

Spike (James Marsters) - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (9%, 3,410 Votes)
Castiel (Misha Collins) - Supernatural (8%, 3,064 Votes)
Winifred "Fred" Burkle (Amy Acker) - Angel (5%, 1,712 Votes)
Anya (Emma Caulfield) - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (4%, 1,606 Votes)
Oz (Seth Green) - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (4%, 1,602 Votes)
Ziva David (Cote de Pablo) - NCIS (4%, 1,557 Votes)
Lorne (Andy Hallett) - Angel (4%, 1,481 Votes)
Woody (Kurt Fuller) - Psych (4%, 1,437 Votes)
Tara Maclay (Amber Benson) - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (3%, 1,230 Votes)
Amy Farrah Fowler (Mayim Bialik) - The Big Bang Theory (3%, 1,096 Votes)
Dr. Lance Sweets (John Francis Daley) - Bones (3%, 1,059 Votes)
Gwaine (Eoin Macken) - Merlin (3%, 1,045 Votes)
Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) - Doctor Who (3%, 995 Votes)
Blaine Anderson (Darren Criss) - Glee (2%, 827 Votes)
Marty Deeks (Eric Christian Olsen) - NCIS: Los Angeles (2%, 727 Votes)
Bernadette Rostenkowski (Melissa Rauch) - The Big Bang Theory (2%, 585 Votes)
Jessica Hamby (Deborah Ann Woll) - True Blood (2%, 555 Votes)
Ben Linus (Michael Emerson) - Lost (1%, 549 Votes)
Dr. Remy "Thirteen" Hadley (Olivia Wilde) - House (1%, 522 Votes)
Emily Prentiss (Paget Brewster) - Criminal Minds (1%, 519 Votes)
Dr. Camille Saroyan (Tamara Taylor) - Bones (1%, 507 Votes)
Nell Jones (Renée Felice Smith) - NCIS: Los Angeles (1%, 503 Votes)
Alcide Herveaux (Joe Manganiello) - True Blood (1%, 491 Votes)
Sir Leon (Rupert Young) - Merlin (1%, 479 Votes)
Dawn Summers (Michelle Trachtenberg) - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1%, 476 Votes)
Sir Percival (Tom Hopper) - Merlin (1%, 456 Votes)
Col. Potter (Harry Morgan) - M*A*S*H (1%, 445 Votes)
David Rossi (Joe Mantegna) - Criminal Minds (1%, 431 Votes)
Lois Lane (Erica Durance) - Smallville (1%, 429 Votes)
Capt. B.J. Honeycut (Mike Farrell) - M*A*S*H (1%, 416 Votes)
Jess Mariano (Milo Ventimiglia) - Gilmore Girls (1%, 389 Votes)
August W. Booth (Eion Bailey) - Once Upon a Time (1%, 363 Votes)
Natalie Teeger (Traylor Howard) - Monk (1%, 347 Votes)
Andy Bernard (Ed Helms) - The Office (1%, 346 Votes)
Jenny Shepard (Lauren Holly) - NCIS (1%, 323 Votes)
Paige Matthews (Rose McGowan) - Charmed (1%, 319 Votes)
Woody Boyd (Woody Harrelson) - Cheers (1%, 305 Votes)
Jesse Porter (Coby Bell) - Burn Notice (1%, 287 Votes)
Leon Vance (Rocky Carroll) - NCIS (1%, 259 Votes)
Riley Finn (Marc Blucas) - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1%, 258 Votes)
Sara Ellis (Hilarie Burton) - White Collar (1%, 256 Votes)
Ben Wyatt (Adam Scott) - Parks and Recreation (1%, 252 Votes)
Dr. Jennifer Keller (Jewel Staite) - Stargate Atlantis (1%, 245 Votes)
Logan Huntzberger (Matt Czuchry) - Gilmore Girls (1%, 240 Votes)
Alex McHugh (Mekenna Melvin) - Chuck (1%, 236 Votes)
Maj. Charles Winchester (David Ogden Stiers) - M*A*S*H (1%, 230 Votes)
Dr. Jackson Avery (Jesse Williams) - Grey's Anatomy (1%, 227 Votes)
Erin Hannon (Ellie Kemper) - The Office (0%, 177 Votes)
Steve Jinks (Aaron Ashmore) - Warehouse 13 (0%, 163 Votes)
Rosalee Calvert (Bree Turner) - Grimm (0%, 159 Votes)
Dr. Chris Taub (Peter Jacobson) - House (0%, 127 Votes)
Dr. April Kepner (Sarah Drew) - Grey's Anatomy (0%, 126 Votes)
David Hodges (Wallace Langham) - CSI (0%, 124 Votes)
Hal (Damien Molony) - Being Human (UK) (0%, 115 Votes)
Ben Grogan (Ryan Johnson) - Fairly Legal (0%, 112 Votes)
Tom (Michael Socha) - Being Human (UK) (0%, 107 Votes)
Olivia Kendall (Raven-Symoné) - The Cosby Show (0%, 85 Votes)
Dr. Amelia Shepherd (Caterina Scorsone) - Private Practice (0%, 85 Votes)
Tom (Bob Cledenin) - Cougar Town (0%, 80 Votes)
Jo Danville (Sela Ward) - CSI: NY (0%, 78 Votes)
Rebecca Howe (Kirstie Alley) - Cheers (0%, 76 Votes)
Walden Schmidt (Ashton Kutcher) - Two and a Half Men (0%, 70 Votes)
Tuck (David Harewood) - Robin Hood (0%, 55 Votes)
Valerie Malone (Tiffani Thiessen) - Beverly Hills, 90210 (0%, 52 Votes)
Sgt. Baker (Kenneth Washington) - Hogan's Heroes (0%, 12 Votes)

Total Voters: 8,576

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Monday Madness: Favorite TV Couples – Realistic

This round of Monday Madness, it’s time to look at TV couples! Because there are so many, I’ve divided this poll into 2 categories – realistic/contemporary and speculative. We’ll cover vampires, time travel, and spaceships next week. This week, we’re looking at couples from dramas, comedies, crime shows, and action. (And yes, it was really hard to decide where to put the couples from Chuck, with the show’s speculative elements, but since the show focuses on the spy aspect, I felt it was best to put it with the other spy shows.)

This poll will be open for one week, and you can choose up to 10 of your favorite TV couples. Be sure to spread the word so your favorites will make it into the top 10!

Even though there are 40 50-some options on this list, I know there are dozens of couples I left out! You can nominate couples I missed in the comments, and I may add them to the poll. You can also start nominating couples from paranormal, futuristic, and other outside-the-box shows for next week. Want more of a say in who makes it onto the poll each week? Be sure to follow me on Twitter, since I usually ask for nominations for the next Monday Madness the weekend before the new poll.

Without further ado, here’s the poll for this week’s Monday Madness! Voting ends around 1AM May 28th.

UPDATE: This poll is now closed. Go vote for this week’s poll – favorite TV couples in speculative shows!

Which is your favorite TV couple? - Contemporary/Realistic Division (Choose up to 10)

Rick Castle and Kate Beckett - Castle (13%, 2,303 Votes)
Peter and Elizabeth Burke - White Collar (10%, 1,703 Votes)
Kensi Blye and Marty Deeks - NCIS: Los Angeles (6%, 1,087 Votes)
Anthony DiNozzo and Ziva David - NCIS (5%, 820 Votes)
Derek Shepherd and Meredith Grey - Grey's Anatomy (5%, 775 Votes)
Seeley Booth and Temperance Brennan - Bones (4%, 763 Votes)
Chuck Bartowski and Sarah Walker - Chuck (3%, 531 Votes)
Chandler Bing and Monica Gellar - Friends (3%, 505 Votes)
Marshall Eriksen and Lily Aldrin - How I Met Your Mother (3%, 498 Votes)
Angela Montenegro and Jack Hodgins - Bones (3%, 496 Votes)
Timothy McGee and Abby Sciuto - NCIS (3%, 486 Votes)
Barney Stinson and Robin Scherbatsky - How I Met Your Mother (3%, 452 Votes)
Rachel Green and Ross Geller - Friends (3%, 447 Votes)
Leonard Hofstadter and Penny - The Big Bang Theory (2%, 416 Votes)
Lorelai Gilmore and Luke Danes - Gilmore Girls (2%, 406 Votes)
Shawn Spencer and Juliet O'Hara - Psych (2%, 391 Votes)
Michael Westen and Fiona Glenanne - Burn Notice (2%, 361 Votes)
Nell Jones and Eric Beale - NCIS: Los Angeles (2%, 318 Votes)
Sheldon Cooper and Amy Farrah-Fowler - The Big Bang Theory (2%, 292 Votes)
Ellie Bartowski and Devon "Awesome" Woodcomb - Chuck (1%, 249 Votes)
Gregory House and Lisa Cuddy - House (1%, 242 Votes)
Veronica Mars and Logan Echolls - Veronica Mars (1%, 231 Votes)
Alec Hardison and Parker - Leverage (1%, 227 Votes)
Jim Halpert and Pam Beesley - The Office (1%, 213 Votes)
Chuck Bass and Blair Waldorf - Gossip Girl (1%, 209 Votes)
Cliff and Clair Huxtable - The Cosby Show (1%, 200 Votes)
Will Schuester and Emma Pillsbury - Glee (1%, 198 Votes)
Joey Potter and Pacey Witter - Dawson's Creek (1%, 197 Votes)
Sydney Bristow and Michael Vaughn - Alias (1%, 190 Votes)
Howard Wolowitz and Bernadette Rostenkowski - The Big Bang Theory (1%, 183 Votes)
Nikita and Michael - Nikita (1%, 181 Votes)
Lucy and Ricky Ricardo - I Love Lucy (1%, 179 Votes)
Dan Humphrey and Blair Waldorf - Gossip Girl (1%, 151 Votes)
Cal Lightman and Gillian Foster - Lie To Me (1%, 149 Votes)
Nathan Ford and Sophie Devereaux - Leverage (1%, 111 Votes)
Rob and Laura Petrie - The Dick Van Dyke Show (1%, 103 Votes)
Walter Sherman and Isabella Zambada - The Finder (1%, 100 Votes)
Derek Morgan and Penelope Garcia - Criminal Minds (1%, 93 Votes)
Angela Bower and Tony Micelli - Who's the Boss? (1%, 92 Votes)
Maddie Hayes and David Addison - Moonlighting (1%, 88 Votes)
Jonathan and Jennifer Hart - Hart to Hart (1%, 86 Votes)
Eric and Tami Taylor - Friday Night Lights (0%, 78 Votes)
Molly Flynn and Mike Biggs - Mike & Molly (0%, 75 Votes)
Michael Scott and Holly Flax - The Office (0%, 67 Votes)
Arthur and Joan Campbell - Covert Affairs (0%, 58 Votes)
Sam Malone and Diane Chambers - Cheers (0%, 54 Votes)
Michael and Nikita - La Femme Nikita (0%, 51 Votes)
Mike and Carol Brady - The Brady Bunch (0%, 38 Votes)
Dexter Morgan and Rita Bennett - Dexter (0%, 30 Votes)
Whitney and Alex - Whitney (0%, 22 Votes)
Charlie Harper and Rosie - Two and a Half Men (0%, 11 Votes)

Total Voters: 5,341

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Fox 2012-13 Primetime Schedule Announced: ‘Touch’ & ‘Fringe’ Friday, ‘Bones’ & ‘Mob Doctor’ Monday, ‘Glee’ To Thursday, 4 Comedy Tuesday – Ratings | TVbytheNumbers

I guess the Glee move to Thursdays is the big news about the new Fox schedule, but since I don’t watch the show and rarely watch Fox live (thanks to the local station not broadcasting in high def), I don’t really care (unless CBS keeps Person of Interest in that same slot and it suffers in the ratings, but since they’re such different shows I don’t think this is likely).

Fox is keeping Bones on Mondays and pairing it with a new doctor show instead of House. Touch is moving to Fridays (yay! I hope the ratings sink terribly and Fox realizes they should have renewed The Finder instead).

Full weekday schedule below (new shows in all caps):

MONDAY

8:00-9:00 PM Bones

9:00-10:00 PM THE MOB DOCTOR (new)

THE FOLLOWING (new) joins in midseason.

TUESDAY

8:00-8:30 PM Raising Hope

8:30-9:00 PM BEN AND KATE (new)

9:00-9:30 PM New Girl

9:30-10:00 PM THE MINDY PROJECT (new)

THE GOODWIN GAMES (new) joins in midseason.

WEDNESDAY

8:00-10:00 PM The X Factor (fall) / American Idol (midseason)

THURSDAY

8:00-9:00 PM The X Factor Results (fall) / American Idol Results (midseason)

9:00-10:00 PM Glee

FRIDAY

8:00-9:00 PM Touch

9:00-10:00 PM Fringe (fall)

At the link below, there’s lots more info including Facebook and Twitter links for the new shows and new series synopses.

Fox 2012-13 Primetime Schedule Announced: ‘Touch’ & ‘Fringe’ Friday, ‘Bones’ & ‘Mob Doctor’ Monday, ‘Glee’ To Thursday, 4 Comedy Tuesday – Ratings | TVbytheNumbers.

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Spoilers on Glee, House, Bones, Fringe and More — May Sweeps 2012 – TVLine

Here’s a look at what to expect when Fox shows wrap up for this year. Yes, there are spoilers. I know it’s redundant to say so, since there’s the word “spoilers” in the title, but someone spoiled last night’s House for me, so I want to be extra clear.

Spoilers on Glee, House, Bones, Fringe and More — May Sweeps 2012 – TVLine.

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New Girl Renewed, Glee Renewed, Raising Hope Renewed – Ratings | TVbytheNumbers

Fox has announced some early renewals, most of which should come across as no surprise. New Girl gets a sophomore pick-up, while Glee is renewed for season 4 and Raising Hope for season 3.

New Girl Renewed, Glee Renewed, Raising Hope Renewed – Ratings | TVbytheNumbers.

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Glee Video: Matt Bomer and Darren Criss Cover Gotye – TVLine

I enjoy Glee’s music (though not much else about the show – too much soap opera melodrama and agenda-pushing), but I’m a huge fan of White Collar’s Matt Bomer, so when I heard Bomer would be playing Blaine’s brother on the show, I knew I would have to check it out.

My own brother recently got me addicted to Gotye’s music, so I was excited to hear that Bomer and Criss would be covering “Somebody That I Used to Know.” Here’s a video preview of that cover:

Glee Video: Matt Bomer and Darren Criss Cover Gotye – TVLine.

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Glee Whitney Houston Tribute: Season 3, Episode 13

Yes, the headline of this post is about Glee. But the real reason I’m linking to this article is that it includes news about other shows, like an upcoming death on Community and several pilot updates.

Glee Whitney Houston Tribute: Season 3, Episode 13.

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Glee Casts Matt Bomer in Season 3

Okay, not much of a Glee fan, but Matt Bomer (White Collar’s Neal Caffrey and Chuck’s Brice Larkin) singing? Sign me up! As a bonus, this article has a brief video showcasing Bomer’s vocal abilities.

Glee Casts Matt Bomer in Season 3.

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Spoiler Alert Web Series Debut: Glee Jacko Clip! Once Upon a Time Scoop! Downton Preview! – TVLine

TV Line, probably my all time favorite TV news site (as you can probably tell by all the times I’ve linked to it!), has just started a new feature – a web series entitled Spoiler Alert! This debut episode is chock full of laughter, fun clips, and speculation about TV shows.

But beware: the title is true. This web series has plenty of spoilers! Since I don’t watch Revenge I have no clue how bad the spoilers are for that, but for other shows it seems to be pretty mild IF you’re caught up (especially for Once Upon a Time). Guest Yvette Nicole Brown dishes on Community and acts out a future scene from Downton Abbey (looks like the big spoiler in that was edited out, so no worries about watching) with Ugly Betty’s Michael Urie.

Spoiler Alert Web Series Debut: Glee Jacko Clip! Once Upon a Time Scoop! Downton Preview! – TVLine.

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Ask Ausiello: Spoilers on NCIS, Grey’s, Glee, House, HIMYM, Five-0, Gossip Girl and More! – TVLine

Wow, so many good tidbits of info about future episodes of NCIS: Los Angeles, Suburgatory, Private Practice, and much, much more! (See list of tags for all the shows that come up in this fun article!)

Ask Ausiello: Spoilers on NCIS, Grey’s, Glee, House, HIMYM, Five-0, Gossip Girl and More! – TVLine.

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People’s Choice Awards 2012 Nominees – PeoplesChoice.com

Well, I told you all who I voted for this year – now to look at the results! Full results list with all the winners and nominees is linked at the bottom of this post.

FAVORITE NETWORK TV DRAMA

I voted for House, Supernatural won.

FAVORITE TV DRAMA ACTOR

I voted for both David Boreanaz and Nathan Fillion, and Fillon won!

FAVORITE TV DRAMA ACTRESS

I voted for Bones’ Emily Deschanel, but The Vampire Diaries’ Nina Dobrev won.

FAVORITE CABLE TV DRAMA

Pretty Little Liars won. I really wish it had been White Collar – an excellent show that more people should be talking about.

FAVORITE NETWORK TV COMEDY

I voted for both The Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother, and HIMYM won.

FAVORITE TV COMEDY ACTOR

HIMYM continues conquer as Neil Patrick Harris won. I voted for both him and Jim Parsons.

FAVORITE TV COMEDY ACTRESS

Voted for Kaley Cuoco, but Glee’s Lea Michele won.

FAVORITE CABLE TV COMEDY

Don’t currently watch any, but Hot in Cleveland won.

FAVORITE TV CRIME DRAMA

Voted for my 3 favorite ones, all nominated this year: Bones, Castle, and NCIS. Castle won.

FAVORITE SCI-FI/FANTASY SHOW

I’d only seen Supernatural on this list, so I voted for it, and it won.

FAVORITE TV GUEST STAR

Katy Perry’s appearance on How I Met Your Mother won this, though I preferred Jim Carrey on The Office (wish he would have had more of a role).

FAVORITE NEW TV DRAMA

Surprised that Person of Interest won this! It’s a solid show that keeps improving, but hasn’t seem to create the buzz and fans that shows like Once Upon a Time (which I voted for) have.

FAVORITE NEW TV COMEDY

2 Broke Girls was my vote, and it won.

People’s Choice Awards 2012 Nominees – PeoplesChoice.com.

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Community – Regional Holiday Music

The fall season of Community has ended with a great musical bang, and I’m a little sad, but also a little disappointed. I was hoping this final episode of 2011 would be something amazing. There were moments of brilliance, but I felt the episode as a whole didn’t quite hit all the right notes.

More on the highlights and low points of the episode in a bit, but first, don’t forget to enter my Community giveaway. You don’t even have to visit that page to enter – just leave a comment on this post (since you’re here already!) before the end of December and you’ll be entered! But if you want more chances, check out the giveaway post. Continue reading Community – Regional Holiday Music

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People’s Choice Awards 2012

I like voting for things. Especially when they have to do with my favorite shows. So I thought I’d provide a quick rundown of this year’s People’s Choice Award Nominees. Just the TV section, mind you, and only the scripted shows. I usually haven’t seen most of the movies (I did vote for Thor over the very close choice of Captain America), and I’ve don’t listen to nearly all of the music artists.

FAVORITE NETWORK TV DRAMA

Pretty much a no-brainer that I was voting for House. Supernatural hasn’t captured my attention, and while The Good Wife looks like a solid show, I’ve never seen it (blame my lawyer aversion). And Grey’s Anatomy and The Vampire Diaries look FAR too soapy for me.

FAVORITE TV DRAMA ACTOR

How can I choose between David Boreanaz and Nathan Fillion? Fortunately, with this award, I can vote as often as I like, so I’ve been alternating between the two. Not so when the two face each other in Round 3 of TV Line’s “Ultimate Law-Enforcement Crushes Bracket Tournament.” I don’t know how I’ll pick. Nathan has Castle and Firefly and Dr. Horrible and now Much Ado About Nothing. David has Buffy the Vampire Slayer (I’m ignoring Nathan as Caleb since I hated him in that role) and Angel and Bones.

Hugh Laurie only gets a distant third in this category, and Ian Somerhalder and Patrick Dempsey are soundly ignored by me.

FAVORITE TV DRAMA ACTRESS

A very easy vote for Emily Deschanel. I haven’t even heard of some of the others on the list: Blake Lively, Ellen Pompeo, Eva Longoria, and Nina Dobrev.

FAVORITE CABLE TV DRAMA

Another super easy choice, as I only watch White Collar. Game of Thrones does sound good, though, and people have recommended Dexter to me. Don’t know about True Blood and Pretty Little Liars.

FAVORITE NETWORK TV COMEDY

The Big Bang Theory gets my vote most of the time for this one, but I’ll occasionally vote for How I Met Your Mother as well. Interesting that Dr. Horrible is competing against his sidekick, Moist. I only enjoy Glee for the music, Two and a Half Men is crude instead of funny, and I’ve never seen Modern Family.

FAVORITE TV COMEDY ACTOR

Hmm, Sheldon (Jim Parsons) or Barney (Neil Patrick Harris)? Same as above, I’ll usually tilt toward the Thursday night show but occasionally choose the Monday night one. Alec Baldwin, Chris Colfer, and Cory Monteith don’t make me laugh.

FAVORITE TV COMEDY ACTRESS

Kaley Cuoco wins hands down over Courteney Cox, Jane Lynch, Lea Michele, and Tina Fey.

FAVORITE CABLE TV COMEDY

I don’t currently watch any of these, though I used to watch Royal Pains (seriously, why is this a nominee instead of Psych?). I may come back to the show later, I’m just not a huge fan of medical shows (House is the only one I watch now) and not too fond of the main character (loved Evan and Divya, though). It does get my vote over the shows I haven’t seen: Hot in Cleveland, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Nurse Jackie, and Weeds.

FAVORITE TV CRIME DRAMA

When I first saw the nominees for this category, I thought, Are you kidding? I’ve mentioned several times on this blog that Bones, Castle, and NCIS are my top three crime dramas, and all three were nominated this year! I voted for each of them. I’ve only seen bits of CSI and Criminal Minds episodes.

FAVORITE SCI-FI/FANTASY SHOW

I’ve only seen Supernatural on this list, so I voted for it, but Fringe has been on my to-watch list for a long while. From what I’ve heard, I think I’d prefer True Blood to The Vampire Diaries (too bad my favorite currently-airing vampire show, Being Human, didn’t make the list), and since zombies bore me, The Walking Dead has only appeared on my radar since its ratings are good.

FAVORITE TV GUEST STAR

I loved Jim Carrey’s appearance on The Office, and would have much preferred his character to Robert California. Katy Perry’s appearance on How I Met Your Mother was funny, but I felt like most actresses could have played the role well. I didn’t see the appearances of Gwyneth Paltrow, Kristin Chenoweth, or Michael J. Fox.

FAVORITE NEW TV DRAMA

Twelve options is a lot to choose from, but Once Upon a Time has wowed me in all three episodes. Ringer is a close second and gets my vote every once in a while. Person of Interest has built slowly but is improving, and Grimm’s two episodes have been good enough for me to keep watching.

Out of the remaining shows, I’ve only seen Unforgettable, which I hated. Pilots sometimes don’t match the rest of a show, but I couldn’t even get halfway through episode two. I’ve heard good things about Pan Am, Terra Nova, and Revenge, but my “new shows to try out” list already had 11 shows on it (plus more than a dozen returning shows). Medically-minded Hart of Dixie and A Gifted Man didn’t sound like quite my thing, and neither did The Secret Circle or Prime Suspect.

FAVORITE NEW TV COMEDY

2 Broke Girls was super-easy choice for this category, though Suburgatory has been good and New Girl has been okay. Guessed to be not my cup of tea by the previews: Whitney, Up All Night, Last Man Standing, and Man Up. I don’t watch animated TV (the only way I think I ever would was if Joss Whedon created an animated show), so no Allen Gregory.

What did you vote for? Are there any shows mentioned that you think I should be watching?

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Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

I’ve wanted to post about this for a long time, but I wanted the story (and songs!) to be fresh in my mind before doing so. My friend Anna had never seen it, so showing her was the perfect opportunity to relive the wonderful musical that is Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.

Behind the scenes TV Breakroom stuff, ignore this paragraph if you wish: When I create posts for this blog, one of the first things I do after typing in the post title is select categories for the post (so I don’t forget to later). Cross-genre titles like Dr. Horrible always bring a bit of a quandary. Should I stick this under speculative, with the whole superheroes and villains and freeze rays aspect, or should it go under comedy, as it’s clearly hilarious? Or should I create a new category for musicals? I nearly did that, until I considered that the only other show that was likely to go in that category was Glee. Then I got the brilliant idea to create a new category for web series – shows like The Guild which start out online-only until they get popular enough to get on DVD, but don’t ever make to TV. With more and more people watching their shows online, web series are only going to grow and get better. I may not put all made-for-the-internet shows in this category, as I believe many of them will be able to hold their own in more descriptive genre categories, but it will be more for those shows with episodes that are shorter than than typical TV episodes (like The Guild) or shows that are standalone episodes (like Dr. Horrible).

Spoilers below the video for those who haven’t seen it! And if you haven’t seen it, why not? It’s free online in a number of places, and it’s your chance to experience a bit of Emmy-winning internet history. If you’d like a taste of what the show is like, without spoilers, watch the clip from the Emmys below:

The show starts out with a sympathetic villain (the titular Dr. Horrible, played by Neil Patrick Harris) practicing his evil laugh and connecting with his fans via a video blog. He has two goals in life – to be accepted into the Evil League of Evil, and to romance the girl of his dreams, fellow “laundry person” Penny (played by Felicia Day). But hindering him at every turn is his arch-nemesis, Captain Hammer (played by Nathan Fillion).

Dr. Horrible thinks that his two goals complement each other – if he can succeed at being evil, he’ll win her over. He sings about ruling the world with her, and later that, “She may cry, but her tears will dry, when I hand her the keys to a shiny new Australia.” (Bonus points for working the word “shiny” into the episode.) But the song “On the Rise” clearly shows how opposite their worldviews are.

Yet you still think of it as a comedy, where the underdog will, despite himself, win the day and get the girl in the end. But it isn’t. And that’s why the ending is so shocking, yet so right. Only one of Dr. Horrible’s goals can work out. He can choose to redeem himself, and win Penny, or he can be evil enough to join the League, and lose her. He fails to see that Captain Hammer really isn’t his nemesis, but it’s himself. Penny would have realized Hammer’s shortcomings soon enough.

But Dr. Horrible takes the direct path to what he wants – he has to kill someone to get into the League, and he can’t date Penny because she’s dating Captain Hammer. Killing Hammer solves all his problems. Yet in a cruel twist, the person who dies isn’t the man that he hates. It’s the woman that he loves.

And as he stands in shock next to Penny’s broken body, he sings, “Here lies everything, the world I wanted at my feet.” The next lines show that he’s talking about finally making it into the League, but the double meaning in the lyrics is clear. And in that moment, when choice is ripped away, he realizes that he would have chosen her.

Now villainy is all he has left. He changes his white lab coat for one that’s blood-red, and hides his eyes from the world. Yet in his final video blog, he’s dressed as Billy. And completely numb.

Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog cemented my Joss Whedon fandom. Before watching it, I was a Firefly fan, afterwards, I was willing to try out whatever his creative genius came up with. The show also led me to discover Felicia Day’s The Guild, and Neil Patrick Harris’ How I Met Your Mother. Also of note, Dr. Horrible’s sidekick, Moist, is played by Simon Helburg, Howard on The Big Bang Theory.

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