July 16, 2008 1:37

TV Tonight: Project Runway Retur—Hey, Look at This Shiny Object!

A dandified Austin Scarlett and Tim Gunn launch (shhh!) PR's fifth season. / Bravo Photo: Barbara Nitke

Tonight, Project Runway fans welcome back the fashion reality show despite the underwhelming publicity efforts of Bravo, which no one can prove had anything to do with the fact that next season, the series will belong to Lifetime. Production schedules, the network said, were the reason no advance screeners were sent to critics this time around, and that Bravo didn't even announce this season's contestants until two days before the show debuted.

Now today, just coincidentally, comes word that Bravo has managed to scrape together a list of participants in the next season of Top Design, which doesn't debut until September. Details after the jump. (Have you forgotten about Project Runway yet? No? What if I tell you I have pictures of Brangelina's babies? Would that do it?)

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July 16, 2008 10:45

Dr. Horrible: This Is So Going In My Blog!

I finally managed to pay my $3.99 on iTunes to subscribe to the three parts of Joss Whedon's Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, and I have just one question: $howmuch.99 would we have to pay to get Whedon and company to keep making this show forever?

I'm as big a Whedon fan as anyone (OK, probably not strictly true), but I went into part 1 of Dr. Horrible with modest expectations. Instead, I'm delighted and heartbroken: delighted because this is the funniest thing I expect to see on any video screen this year, heartbroken because, between Neil Patrick Harris' commitment to HIMYM and Whedon's to Dollhouse, it's unlikely this will be anything more than a one-off.

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July 16, 2008 9:45

JibJab: Meet the Real Enemy

With all the noise this week about offensive political satire, and the dearth thereof, we should not lose sight of the worst satire of all: pointless, middle-of-the-road, lowest-common-denominator, little-something-for-everybody skewering. Fortunately, we have JibJab to remind us of that, as Mark Russell's Internet little siblings have released another song parody that's not quite edgy enough for an NPR pledge drive:

JibJab - Time for Some Campaignin'

The daring message of the video: There's an election going on! Beyond that, well... McCain is old, Obama talks about "Change" a lot—and there's a 1998 surplus Clinton cigar joke thrown in for nostalgia's sake. (Although I will admit that the Obama rainbows-and-unicorns visual is pretty clever.)

These are the stakes in this election. Never forget it!

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July 16, 2008 8:57

TCA Roundup: Far-Reaching FX

* Fox turns over its remaining time on the TCA stage to sibling network FX, which announces that Nip/Tuck will end after an even 100 episodes, while It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia will be on long after Philadelphia is run by the cockroaches. And it introduces human-lab-rat comedy Testees. Pronounced just like you think.

* Fox chief Peter Liguori gets sci-fi with Maureen Ryan, talking Dollhouse, Ron Moore's Virtuality project and other matters geek.

* However, Fox News neglected to mention in its session the other day that Brit Hume is stepping down after the election, leaving a vacancy at the evening anchor desk. Shep-ard Smith! Shep-ard Smith!

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