Lost, The Vampire Diaries, Heroes
Every week, editors Mickey O'Connor and Adam Bryant answer your burning questions. Want some TV scoop? Please send all questions to mega_scoop@tvguide.com.
Any Lost scoop? — Ari
MICKEY: You can add Katey Sagal's name to the list of Lost alums who have jetted off to Hawaii to shoot scenes for the final season. Call me a romantic, but I never believed that Locke's beloved Helen was actually dead; that whole cemetery scene reeked of fakery. Plus, we've all heard the rumors about Season 6 employing an alternate timeline (or, more intriguing, a "do-over" of Oceanic Flight 815), which means that even if Matthew Abaddon was telling the truth, Helen is still just as likely to be alive as, say, Charlie, Boone, Shannon, Eko or Juliet.
Sylar crawled out of the ground on Monday's Heroes. Does that mean no more Nathan? — Justin
ADAM: That remains to be seen. But I will tell you this...
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Tyler Labine, Tony Hale
Tyler Labine has been tapped to star in Sons of Tucson, a Fox comedy pilot about a thirtysomething guy hired by three boys to pose as their pop while the real dad is in prison. Should Reaper get picked up for a third cycle, Labine would step down from this new gig.
In other Fox pilot castings, Tony Hale ...
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Tony Hale
Fox is going with a familiar face and a not-so-familiar one for its new comedy series, Boldly Going Nowhere.
Arrested Development vet Tony Hale and newbie ...
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Tony Hale by Jordan Strauss/WireImage.com
Arrested Development alum Tony Hale has scored a recurring role on NBC's Chuck, in which he'll be laying down the law, so to speak.Per the Reporter, Hale will arrive at Chuck's store, Buy More, as a corporate efficiency expert who steps in as the new assistant manager. Once he sees how poorly things are run at the store, he decides to stay on for a while — and will no doubt wreak a little havoc in the meantime.Plus, Hale's also joining ABC's Samantha Who? as the leading lady's new doctor — a tidbit that Ausiello explains in his Tuesday vodcast. — Anna DimondUse our Online Video Guide to recall the good times on Arrested Development.Related:• Guess Who? Christina Applegate and Jean Smart!
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Here we are, nine hours later, and Guy Halverson sprinting down the fairway, a hoagie bursting with "three kinds of ham" in his grasp, still haunts my noggin. What made the recurring image so damn funny, though, isn't its subject matter — large man plus flailing sandwich plus slow motion — but Andy Richter's expression of disbelief each time he went into and out of the flashback. "Ah, yes [his mistress was] jealous.... Ya think?" The theme song for Guy's last gallop didn't hurt either.And that, folks, brings us to a discussion of Week 2 (of 6) of NBC's Andy Barker, P.I.. As I said before, what makes this show sing is the casting. Clea Lewis is the supportive wife every guy wants (and, in this case, wants Guy). And Tony Hale opposite Nicole Randall Johnson shows seriously funny promise. I love how Nicole (as Nicole the self-hired assistant) "switches on" that perky, entirely false demeanor en route to making the person she's talking to feel like a fool.Perhaps my only recur...
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If you're a 30 Rock fan and know me from that show blog, it's good to see you joining me here. To everyone else, greetings, I will be your host for these six episodes of NBC's Andy Barker, P.I.Previously in the 30 Rock blog, I talked up Andy some, if only to assure fans of Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, et al, that their time slot would be in capable hands. Since then, it's been good to see the legit TV critics throw some praise Andy Richter's way, as this show certainly has sharp writing, but perhaps more importantly some very nice casting. I will admit, my exposure to Andy has been minimal (having never been a Conan fan). But I do like him in this role of a hapless "cheese and crackers"-cussing accountant resigned to a vanilla office in a vanilla strip mall, then seduced by the invitation — from the Wrigley's Orbit gum gal — to walk on the wild side as a private dick.Andy Barker ups the ante further by surrounding Richter with a winning ensemble. Clea Lewis (Ellen) is perfect a...
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Charlize Theron, Arrested Development
Arrested DevelopmentAnyone else get the sense that the writers were already getting nostalgic tonight? Not that I wasn't, too. If we're crying on the inside while watching the show's dying breath, we might as well get to laugh on the outside at some of its great recurring jokes. When Michael announced his wedding plans, George Sr. and Lucille reacted the same way they all did to George Michael's ex, Ann: "Who?" Then there was Lindsey imitating Lucille's scary wink. And my personal favorite was Gob's good-natured, "Look at Banner, Michael!" and the banner that said, "Michael Love Marry." As for new jokes, I loved the references to the actors'/characters' past: Lucille was apparently once a waitress at Stuckey's; Buster got his hook stuck when dancing to "Mr. Roboto" in the stair car,
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Arrested Development
Two episodes in one night? My hand hurts from trying to write down all the quotes. The first, "Octopussy," was actually an example of how, in the right hands and with enough gratuitous repetition, puns can actually be funny. Like Rita (Charlize Theron) calling Michael a "p---y," a word I'm bleeping, too, just in case sensitive readers don't realize we mean the British definition. (Hope you recognized Buster/Tony Hale as the soldier in the 1941 film "A Thoroughly Polite Dustup.") I won't bother censoring the other unfortunate double entendre, Ann's performance of "We Three Kings with a Camel Toe" for the Inner Beauty Pageant. Speaking of Ann and Buster, Hale told me in an interview recently that Michael's perpetual "Who's Ann?" passive-aggressive digs are some of his favorite of the show's subtle jokes. They are deliciously mean. Personally, I enjoyed Buster's "Hey, possible nephew!" to Steve Holt(!). And the Church and State Fair's two "Startled Straight" tents
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Tony Hale
When last we saw Arrested Development's one-handed mama's boy, Buster Bluth, he'd just discovered that the Army wants to send him to Iraq, despite his loose-seal injury. It is but one of several cliff-hangers fans would like to see resolved in tonight's first post-baseball episode (8 pm/ET on Fox) — along with Rita's (Charlize Theron) big secret and, of course, whether enough people will watch the show to grant it a full third season. TVGuide.com rang Tony Hale, Buster's portrayer and apparently AD's biggest fan, to see how he's handling the suspense.
TVGuide.com: What's the mood like on the set these days?Tony Hale: We're just kind of enjoying it, because we don't know — maybe it'll be our last week. We get our scripts pretty late, about two days before we shoot
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