Can someone please explain Sarah Silverman’s appeal? She’s never done anything that I found funny, granted I’ve only seen her in 30 second increments.  The 3rd Season Premiere of her Comedy Central Show, The Sarah Silverman Program debuts tonight at 10:30 pm (EST).

With Sweeps Weeks going on and every television network looking to gain even more viewing audiences for their shows, The CW Network and Warner Brothers gave select members of the online press a chance to have an advance viewing of this week’s new episode of the hit series, Supernatural to generate some Sweeps Week buzz about it. After taking advantage of that opportunity to see Supernatural S5.13 The Song Remains the Same, all this reviewer can say about it is WOW!!

Ok, there is more to say than just that. Check out this synopsis to see what I mean.

When angel ally Anna (guest star Julie McNiven) escapes her captors in Heaven she contacts  Castiel (Misha Collins) in an effort to find Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles), but Castiel is suspicious of her motives.  He soon learns that the former ally has gone back in time in a “Terminator”-like plan to stop the Apocalypse by killing John (Matt Cohen) & Mary (Amy Gumenick) Winchester before their son’s are ever born, thus ending the possibility of the brothers becoming vessels for Lucifer and Michael.  Steve Boyum directed the episode written by Sera Gamble and Nancy Weiner. 

Now read my review of Supernatural S5.13 The Song Remains the Same.

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American Idol Guest Judge: Victoria Beckham

It’s the Mile High City – Denver, CO.  It’s where Chris Daughtry got his start in 2005 and he didn’t do too bad.  Can someone from the Denver auditions follow in his footsteps? 

MINI-RECAP

*City:  Denver, CO

*Celebrity Judges: Victoria Beckham (Skeletor is back) 

*Number of Contestants: Unknown (they didn’t say)

*Name to Remember:  DANELLE HAYES  — She will be Top 20 and will be HUGE! 

*The One You Hope To Forget:  KENNY EVERETT — He thinks he should be Top 20 (he also thinks he’s the male Mary J. Blige).

*Most Heart Warming Story:    HAELEY VAUGHN — “The Miracle Child” who wants to be the first African-American pop country singer.

*Quote of the Night:   Simon:  “Victoria wants to know if you have eaten any helium today?”  before NICCI NIX’s very powerful audition. 

MARK LABRIOLA, 28, Aurora, CO –  A Jack Black look alike and he kinda sounds like him, but I think Jack Black can carry a tune pretty well.  Can Mark?  Well, if past auditions tell us anything, numero uno is usually el stinko.  Hmmm?  He does have an interesting story though.  His mother kidnapped him from his father when he was 4.  You don’t say!  Anyway, on to the audition.

FULL SHOW RECAP AFTER THE BREAK

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After ten-and-a-half months, Lost returned with its final season premiere, a two-hour premiere called LA X, last night. The final Lost recap, in a stroke of genius, was narrated by Michael [Ben Linus] Emerson and tracked the individual character arcs of the main cast members – an approach that was unique for these things – and set the tone for a most unusual beginning to Lost’s end. I have no idea how many theories were rendered invalid last night, or how many fans were thrilled or ticked off, but no can say the answers didn’t begin with a couple of big bangs!

Spoilers follow the jump.

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FROM VERA FARMIGA, Academy Award nominee for BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

“I am deeply honored and humbled by this recognition and truly grateful to the Academy for their support of Up In The Air. I feel my nomination is due, in large part, to the phenomenal work of George, Anna and Jason on this film and it is especially moving to receive my first nomination in their company.”

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The Oscar Statements are coming fast and furious, here are the first batch from Morgan Freeman, Jeff Bridges and Sandra Bullock.

Morgan Freeman Statement:

“I’d like to thank the Academy for this extraordinary honor. Congratulations to Matt Damon on his nomination. I’m especially grateful to Clint Eastwood, Invictus producer, Lori McCreary, and the entire cast and crew of ‘Invictus.’ Most importantly, thank you to Nelson Mandela for his encouragement, his blessing and his friendship – without which, this film would not have been possible.” Did I ever mention the time that my car got wrecked at The Four Seasons while I was interviewing Morgan?

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In case you missed it, here’s my segment from News Channel 8’s talk show News Talk Live.

No, I haven’t seen anything more than the almost new footage-free spots that ABC has been airing for the much anticipated final season premiere of Lost [ABC, 9/8C – Recap at 8/7C] – or the collections of soundbites from the cast members – all content-free but talking about such things as the show’s legacy and their places within it. And no, you’ll probably still be a bit confused afterwards, but we are promised that answers will be coming beginning with LA X, so we’ll see…

I do know that a few of the twelve thousand [12,000!] fan who traveled from around the world to attend the last Sunset on the Beach screening of the premiere have posted shaky, cell phone cam recordings of the premiere and those postings haven’t managed squat in viewings – and a wealth of comments to the effect of, “Why would I want to watch a shaky, cheapo version of this? I’ve waited for almost a year to see what happens next and I’m going to watch it in HD, not your pissy little video!”

Network suits everywhere are astounded!

Tomorrow, I’ll post my reaction to LA X, the two-hour premiere of the final season of Lost.

The Oscars Nominations have been announced and I really can’t complain – other than no Star Trek. It seems like a pretty balanced group this year. The Hurt Locker and Avatar had the most nominations with nine each – most of them in the technical categories. I’ll have a commentary later today or tomorrow for now here are the nominations:

Best Picture

“District 9″; the animated comedy “Up”; the World War II saga “Inglourious Basterds“; the football drama “The Blind Side”; the recession tale “Up in The Air,” the 1960s drama “A Serious Man,” and the teen tales “An Education” and “Precious: Based on the Novel `Push‘ By Sapphire.”

Best Actor

Jeff Bridges in “Crazy Heart,” George Clooney for “Up in the Air,” Colin Firth in “A Single Man,” Morgan Freeman for “Invictus” and Jeremy Renner in “The Hurt Locker.”

Best Actress

Sandra Bullock for “The Blind Side,” Helen Mirren in “The Last Station,” Carey Mulligan for “An Education,” Gabourey Sidibe in “Precious” and Meryl Streep for “Julie & Julia”

High school nerd Gary (guest star Colton James) conjures up a body-switching spell and changes bodies with Sam (Jared Padalecki). Thrilled by his new handsome and well-built body Gary (now Sam) investigates a case with Dean (Jensen Ackles) and takes advantage of Sam’s good looks and age by hitting on women and getting drunk. Meanwhile, the real Sam is stuck inside Gary’s teenage body, dealing with intrusive parents and high school.

Before we get into the commentary about Supernatural S5.12 Swap Meat and why I feel that this episode suffered from a lack of a certain necessary continuity, I want to talk about the big Supernatural news that happened this past weekend.

I’m talking about the big party they had up in Vancouver, B.C. on Saturday to celebrate the filming of Supernatural’s 100^th episode. Yes Supernatural is 100 episodes old and still going strong and that is quite an accomplishment for the offbeat genre show on a struggling netlet that everyone thought wouldn’t last more than two seasons. Of course we here at Eclipsemagazine.com have always known that Supernatural had what it takes to be a success; great writing, directing, producing and most of all two very talented lead actors in Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles who have made Sam and Dean Winchester two of the most compelling characters on television today. So a big CONGRATULATIONS to Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Eric Kripke, Sera Gamble and the rest of the Supernatural creative team (the late Kim Manners most definitely included) on this milestone success and here’s to more success to come. ‘Kick it in the Ass!’

Now, let’s move on to my commentary about Supernatural S5.12 Swap Meat.

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