TLC's new series Extreme Couponing (premiering tonight at 9/8c) has no business being as riveting as it is. Like the one-hour special that preceded it in December, the show follows deal-obsessed shoppers as they engage in mental gymnastics and loophole-jumping to maximize their savings at the grocery store...and their stashes at home. It's like Supermarket Sweep with all the hustling playing out in these people's heads...
A video of a young, pug-nosed woman with a layer of brown hair swept over her forehead, performing Eminem and Rihanna's "Love the Way You Lie" is making the Internet rounds — which has everything to do with the woman's resemblance to Justin Bieber...
Do Ashley Judd's allegations of incest and neglect in her new memoir, All That's Bitter & Sweet, shed light on recent public tension within her family? Early in this season of OWN's gently addictive Season 25: Oprah Behind the Scenes, Wynonna and Naomi Judd visit The Oprah Winfrey Show. Backstage, it was clear that the topic of Ashley and her absence from the show was taboo...
The biggest TV story of the day? The brief tumble Kirstie Alley and her partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy took on last night's Dancing with the Stars. Maks appeared on Good Morning America Tuesday, as a loop of the stumble played on screen, to explain himself (it boiled down to a charley horse and, "Oops!"). Everyone loves a good fall, but this one wasn't spectacular...
Jersey Shore's Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi made an appearance on Sunday night's WWE Wrestlemania XXVII pay-per-view special, where she dazzled an audibly skeptical crowd with her gymnastic ability...
VIDEO: Tsunami Dog Is the Internet Hero of the Day In the video below, a dog and her owner are reunited after being separated from each other by the Japanese tsunami for the past three weeks. The dog was found floating on a roof Friday and as a result of a TV news story about the rescue (included in the latter part of the video), her owner was able to track her pet down at an animal care center...
There is a begrudging tone to Britney Spears' public persona of late. When she shows up to sing or perform or sit for an interview with MTV, as she did in last night's I Am the Femme Fatale documentary, you get the feeling that she just got done sighing and murmuring, "Time to make the donuts"...
This season of The Celebrity Apprentice has no shortage of extreme celeb behavior... thank God! A big part the show's entertainment value comes from getting to watch fame's absurd effect on real-life situations. Celebrities flail with more vigor, fail with more melodrama and generally attack the portrait of life with the broadest strokes possible... or so reality TV tells us. It's a logical effect, given that we're watching natural entertainers — or aspiring ones, at least. A few examples of the way fame intensified situations on this week's art-fundraising episode are below...
It's both harder and easier than ever to be punk'd on April Fool's Day, thanks to the Internet. With all of our ways of being connected, alerts warning you not to be fooled are everywhere. But then, so are the pranks — it's now customary on this not-quite-special day for major companies, services and personalities to run outlandish claims of inventions, advances and changes. Taken collectively, what emerges is Internet-wide self-parody that ribs technology's unrelenting forward march and online culture's obsession with product development. If there's truth in every lie, the best April Fool's Day e-pranks are just slightly distorted mirrors aimed back at us in a moderately fun house. Seven examples of truly clever work follow...
At last, the moment we've been waiting for: the first, fully fledged, forehead vein-popping meltdown of this already tense season of The Celebrity Apprentice. In this sneak peek from Sunday's episode (9/8c, NBC), the usually easy-going Meat Loaf explodes at Gary Busey over... art supplies...
It's rare to see Bill O'Reilly play the even-keeled party in a debate about President Barack Obama, but he comes off downright fair and balanced in this clip from last night's episode of The O'Reilly Factor (that is, when he isn't commenting on "the Muslim problem"). In it (starting around 2:25 mark), "fairly" serious presidential hopeful Donald Trump continues banging his birther drum...
CBS' The Good Wife is not just good — it's excellent, according to the 16 Peabody board members who included the show among the recipients for this year's Peabody Awards...
Manic giggler La Toya Jackson visited The Ellen DeGeneres Show today to discuss her stint on The Celebrity Apprentice and her analysis of her "mean" competitor Star Jones. But like everyone else who's ever spoken to this woman, DeGeneres had to ask her about her brother Michael and how she's coping with his death...
Britney Spears was all over last night's Jimmy Kimmel Live!, popping up in no fewer than three separate segments. The most memorable occurred during Johnny Knoxville's couch time, when the professional masochist played a supposed deleted scene from Jackass 3-D...
This video of twin toddlers engaging in what sounds like a preverbal debate has set the Internet cooing and scrambling to decode exactly what these babies are saying to each other. In an ABC News story that ran last night, the conclusion was that they aren't saying anything, but they are still communicating. University of Memphis linguist D. Kimbrough Oller suggests that "they're communicating about perhaps the fun of having a conversation," which is a really meta concept for 17-month-olds to be exploring — or 17-year-olds, for that matter...
This clip of Britney Spears sitting in a Starbucks talking about nothing with her assistant, from an upcoming MTV documentary called I Am the Femme Fatale (Sunday at 9/8c), looks to be as exciting as watching nail polish dry. But thanks to Britney's inherent entertainment value, it is such a good 30 seconds...
Donald Trump's attempt to illustrate the ease with which a U.S. citizen can obtain his or her birth certificate was trumped up. A document released to Newsmax on Monday that Trump claimed was his birth certificate actually isn't. Instead, it appears to be a hospital form referred to as a "certificate of birth," according to the blog Politico. The difference:...
