Rob Lowe was on Good Morning America this morning and he got to take a picture with a “wild lion”! But before you freak out and think the Parks and Rec star will taste extra yummy to that big cat, the lion is really a Labrador-poodle mix with a King of the Jungle haircut.
Seriously just when you think that Rob Lowe can’t get any cuter, he takes a picture with liog and both of them have the same awwwdorable reaction.
How many shows can say that they were screened at the White House before their big debut? Not that many but 1600 Penn, that makes its timeslot debut at 9:30p tonight and the series premiere repeats at 8:30p, can say just that. The NBC sitcom was shown to President Barack Obama and his speechwriters yesterday and the cast and crew were there too watch it with them. Not only did they watch their show with the President in National Press Club, they also got a tour of his white house.
So why did this show get such an elite audience? Not sure, but it helps when Jon Lovett, one of the show creators used to be Obama’s speechwriter before leaving DC for Hollywood. That’s right 1600 Penn actually has a 1600 Penner working for them! Pretty interesting, no? And what is really interesting is that Lovett is actually naturally funny which is something you wouldn’t expect from someone who worked in what I think is such a stuffy environment.
During tonight’s episode we see how they make the most serious address funny when Becca’s (Martha MacIsaac) secret is out and her big brother (Josh Gad) tries to steer the attention away from her in his lovable idiot way. It is something only a show like this can do and they do it so well. So make sure to tune into NBC tonight at 8:30p and 9:30p for the family sitcom that takes place at the most famous address.
Betty White’s Off Their Rockers is back on NBC tonight at 8p for an hour and the senior citizen, hidden camera pranking show is just as funny as it was last season.
Last week I was on a conference call with Miss Betty White and she talked about the show and about her long spectacular career. On how Betty White’s Off Their Rockers is different from shows like Candid Camera:
You know, because I think that we wanted to do something that was a little bit more modern and a little bit more fun, and I think that the most fun part of this show is really their reaction to having been pranked, and I feel like you know, that’s a – it’s a more modern take on it to do it in the way that we’ve done it.
On what her Iron Rule for the show was:
Well, it’s silly and nonsensical, but good-spirited. We’re never mean-spirited, and that’s…that’s the iron rule.
On where she gets her humor from:
Well, I don’t know. I was an only child and my mother and dad were great and good buddies, and my dad would bring jokes home. He was a salesman, and he would bring jokes home, and he’d say, now, sweetheart, you can take that one to school, but I wouldn’t take that one to school. And so, we just – I don’t know. I always see more than one meaning to a word, so the double entendre kind of came naturally. But a double entendre is one thing, and then dirty humor is something else. I don’t like dirty jokes, but I do enjoy a double entendre.
On how television has changed throughout her career:
Well, I don’t think the television has changed nearly as much as the audience has changed. When I started out, television was just starting out, and everything was that miracle on the box in the corner of the room where people were actually moving around, and over the years, as television got to be such a major part of our lives, the audience has heard every joke. They know every storyline. They know where you’re going almost before the first line is out. That’s a hard audience to surprise and a hard audience to entertain, and it gets more difficult all the time. That’s why the real movers and shakers in the television business are the writers. They have a bigger challenge every day.
Does the woman who turns 91 next week plan on retiring anytime soon?:
Well, my problem is I love what I’m doing and I love this business and I enjoy the work and I love the people that I work with. I’ve been so lucky for all those 60 years, and I just – everybody says, well, when are you going to retire? Why don’t you quit? How can you quit something that you enjoy so much? I’m blessed with good health and blessed with good energy, so I’m just – as long as they ask me, I’m thrilled to say yes.
Well, my problem is I love what I’m doing and I love this business and I enjoy the work and I love the people that I work with. I’ve been so lucky for all those 60 years, and I just – everybody says, well, when are you going to retire? Why don’t you quit? How can you quit something that you enjoy so much? I’m blessed with good health and blessed with good energy, so I’m just – as long as they ask me, I’m thrilled to say yes.
Deception is the newest primetime soap to make it’s way on to our TV’s and this one will have you hooked from episode one that airs tonight on NBC at 10p. Show creator Liz Heldens describes it as “Donnie Brasco and the movie Sabrina had a baby”
The Bowers are you normal upper class family. Robert Bowers (Victor Garber) is the patriarch who runs the family business. Sofia (Katherine LaNasa) is his second wife who really run things. Edward (Tate Donovan) is the oldest son and he doesn’t like anyone to infiltrate his world. Julian Bowers (Wes Brown) is the younger son and he is the good guy. And then there was Vivian Bowers, the troubled daughter. I say was because she was found dead in what looks to be an apparent overdose but turns out it was murder. Now her family wants answers and so do others.
Like her estranged best friend Joanna Locasto (Meagan Good), and The Bower’s former maid’s daughter, who hasn’t spoken to her in years. Joanna is now a detective and she is being sent in by the FBI to investigate The Bowers and the death of her friend is the way in.
What will she find out about the family she used to think as her own? Will they accept her? Who killed Vivian? You will have to tune in every week to find out.
Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad spent 6 days a week together for several months starring in The Book of Mormon, but that was a long time ago in Hollywood years. So now that they both are living on the West Coast starring in their own NBC shows, are they still as close as they were on Broadway? Well as you can see in this video that was uncovered by Funny or Die, at least for one of them they have closed the book on their working relationship/friendship.
So even though it is over them as stage duo, you can still watch them both on NBC every week. Andrew is on The New Normal Tuesdays at 9:30p and Josh is on 1600 Penn Thursdays at 930p and we can pretend that they are still the two best friends separated by a 48 hours.
