Recap: 'So You Think You Can Dance' - Week Three Performances
Ade and Melissa stand out as the Top 16 perform on 'So You Think You Can Dance'
Ade Obayomi of 'So You Think You Can Dance'
I think we can all agree that tonight's episode was a Very Special One, not only because supercool Toni Basil and her crazy cat lady hat graced us with their presences, but because the show's first drinking game of the season emerged in the first five minutes. It's simple: chug whenever Cat Deeley says "I hate Thursdays." I guarantee you will be blotto by the half-hour break. It's not that I don't feel her pain, but seriously woman, you're making an assload of money every Thursday. Suck it up.
But enough of that. Let's get to the dancing, because this week, unlike last week, did not even remotely suck for the most part. Game on!
[Recap for Wednesday (June 24) night's "So You Think You Can Dance" after the break...]
Recap: 'True Blood' - 'Keep This Party Going'
Sookie tries to get to know Jessica, Lafayette tries to make a deal and Jason takes his shirt off
Eeek! Vampires Gone Wild on 'True Blood'
Great day in the mornin! It’s only five seconds into this here episode two of True Blood and I already want something chicken-fried. Or a burger. Burger would be good. Hey, Lafayette, can you maybe grill me up a ... oh. Right. You’re in an underground vampire slave dungeon chained to a giant wheel while the oontz-oontz Eurotrash vampire king gets his roots done upstairs. Will Lafayette escape this episode? I hope so. I’m so hungry.
[Recap of Sunday (June 21) night's "True Blood" after the break...]
Recap: 'So You Think You Can Dance' - Week Two Results
Some unexpected voting caused the judges to have to make some tough choices
Caitlin Kinney of 'So You Think You Can Dance'
So, were you sitting on the edge of your sofa, biting your nails as “SYTYCD” began tonight, wondering if the rumors were true – that Katie Holmes, the Kat half of TomKat, would be hoofing it Judy Garland-style on the show? Were you wondering what she would wear, how well she’d sing, and why the hell she didn’t line up a gig with “Dancing with the Stars” instead?
Recap: 'So You Think You Can Dance' - Top 18 Performances
Favorites Philip & Jeanine and Ashley & Kupono struggle, but Max & Kayla shine
Kayla Radomski of 'So You Think You Can Dance'
Okay, before we get started, I have some questions. Why was Cat Deeley wearing a dead hibiscus as a dress? And do her friends really think Mary’s “so fabulous” for yakking about her Botox treatments? Or really, anything? I just find it hard to believe people who hang with Cat, who are undoubtedly sleek and glamorous, coo over a squawking, middle-aged ballroom dancer with bad ’80s hair. Don’t get me wrong, Mary’s good fun, she definitely knows her stuff, but fabulous? Really? And what was up with Cat screaming for a “three-way” chest bump with Ade and Melissa? Girl, just take your dead hibiscus and calm the hell down.
Alright, I’m done. Let’s move on to the important stuff – the dancing.
[Click through for the full recap of Wednesday (June 17) night's "So You Think You Can Dance."]
Recap: 'True Blood' premiere - 'Nothing But the Blood'
Leslie Gornstein tackles the Southern-fried bloodsucking, shape-shifting adventures of Sookie, Bill and Sam
Deborah Ann Woll and Stephen Moyer of 'True Blood'
Come on Lafayette. Wake up, gurl. Get up out that car. Put on some lip gloss and a tank top and bust out some fangs and come back as the man-eater you’ve always wanted to be. Git up. GIT UP. GIT ...
[Did he git up? Full recap of Sunday (June 14) night's "True Blood" premiere after the break...]
Recap: 'So You Think You Can Dance' - Week One Results
Would early favorites like Asuka or Vitiolio go home, or would the judges be more predictable?
Asuka Kondoh of 'So You Think You Can Dance'
Elimination time! I would like to say I was sitting on the edge of my seat with my fingers crossed, but I was just too bored. Any mouth-breathing ninny could have picked out the bottom six last night, and really, I so didn’t need to know which dancers had “raunchy” burps, made chicken sounds and sweated like pigs. Could’ve missed that utterly dull performance by Sean Kingston, too. But hey, let’s just get to the good part, even if Fox has to milk this competition for every ounce of tepid drama it can.
[Full recap of Thursday (June 11) night's "So You Think You Can Dance"), with results, after the break.]
Recap: 'So You Think You Can Dance' - Top 20 Performances
Judges gush as the competitors knock it out of the park
Jeanine Mason (L) and Philip Chbeeb (R) perform a Hip Hop routine choreographed by Tabith and Napoleon Dumo on Wednesday night's "So You Think You can Dance."
Tonight was the two-hour debut of this season’s “SYTYCD” top 20, but amazingly it didn’t feel like a two-hour episode. The reason? With a few exceptions (and trust me, they know who they are), this season’s batch of dancers was shockingly, astonishingly, “did you see that, oh my God!” kick-ass gooooood. C’mon, when Mary Murphy screams herself raspy and Adam Shankman gets weepy and sees God, you know it’s a good show. Or a nervous breakdown at the judges’ table, but I digress.
Jeanine and Phillip
Verdict: Unfreaking real
Sure, when it comes to a hip hop routine, pop-and-locker Phillip had this one in the bag. What was shocking is how well Jeanine, who admittedly knew nothing about hip hop, delivered. Of course, seeing her get weepy about her passion for dance in the intro, it shouldn’t have come as a big surprise that she rose to the challenge like an old pro. After all, she doesn’t have the long legs=2 0or lean build we associate with natural dancers, and yet the girl can move like crazy. When Nigel gushes that their dance is a great way to start the show, he’s exactly right. Expect these two to be back next week.
Asuka and Vitolio
Verdict: Better than their material
Boy, talk about crappy luck. First off, Asuka and Vitolio are stuck following one of the better performances of the evening. But more significantly, they get stuck with one of the hokiest, lamest dance routines imaginable. Even the costumes suck. Given the unenviable mission of aping silent movie characters (white Mickey Mouse/Al Jolson gloves included) to a lousy song, they did their best only to be reprimanded by Nigel and Mary for bringing a lack of energy and personality to a dance that was the physical equivalent of having to wear a sweater your grandmother knitted you to a school dance. That they got through this mess without grimacing, well, that was really the accomplishment. I hope they don’t get the boot for this routine, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they did.
Recap: 'So You Think You Can Dance' presents its Season Five Top 20
Nigel, Mary and the rest of the judges end the Vegas round by choosing 10 men and 10 women
Ah, it’s time to announce the top twenty on the latest season of "So You Think You Can Dance" which also means giving the boot to a bunch of quivering-lipped kids whose big eyes well up like they're Disney characters facing a firing squad every time they step in front of the judges. Which, now that I think of it, isn’t so far off. I could totally see Mia Michaels leaping from her seat, screaming, “I LOVE TO CUT!” while brandishing an AK-47 and riddling the subpar dancers with hollow point bullets. I’m just saying. Woman’s rough.
Recap: 'American Idol' Finale - And the winner is...
We're live-blogging the two-hour countdown to the coronation of either Kris Allen or Adam Lambert
Adam Lambert, Kris Allen and Ryan Seacrest of 'American Idol'
This is it, kids. Five months of excitement, musicality and Simon distilled down to two hours of pageantry and excess and ridiculousness culminating in the DVR-thwarting coronation of the next "American Idol."
Will it be Kris? Will it be Adam? Or will it be a surprising out-of-left-field dark horse? My guess? Either Kris or Adam.
Since I tend to go minute-by-minute with my "American Idol" results recaps anyway, I'll live-blog this puppy. Follow through for 125 minutes of surprise guests, product plugs and merriment. Sound off. Comment. Or just hit reload and read along...
[Full recap, with results, after the break...]
Recap: 'Dancing with the Stars' Finale - And the winner is...
Did Gilles make America swoon? Did Shawn make America flip? Did Melissa get jilted again?
Gilles & Cheryl of 'Dancing with the Stars'
It all comes down to this. As Lady Gaga pimps herself out with a show-opening performance of "Just Dance," the eighth-season finale of "Dancing With The Stars" has commenced.
Despite re-running the episode before this two-hour finale, we get a rundown of how last night's performance episode anyway: Gilles & Cheryl and Shawn & Mark are both heading into tonight with impressive 58 (out of 60) scores, and Melissa & Tony are just behind with 56. Tom re-iterates, and maybe you need to know: Last night's judges scores will be combined with the home votes, but tonight all three couples will dance once again, and only the judges' cores will count toward who becomes the winner of season eight (joining this classy lineup: Kelly Monaco, Brooke Burke, Kristi Yamaguchi, Helio Castronevers, Drew Lachey, Emmit Smith, and Apolo Anton Ohno).
Results of Tuesday's (May 19) "Dancing with the Stars" finale after the break...
