words cannot describe how happy this makes me

NBC posted a new "preview" of sorts for the upcoming season of the office. so if you're like me and curious to see what the office did on their summer vacation, just hit play. the only sad part is that the new season doesn't start til sept. 27th. ahhhh. a whole month of waiting!!!

cheerleader who saved the world, meet your new boyfriend.

a new character has been cast on heroes.

according to tvguide:
Heroes newcomer Nick D'Agosto It was announced on June 18 that Nick D’Agosto will be joining the cast of NBC’s Heroes next season, playing the role of Claire’s (Hayden Panettiere) new boyfriend, West. Since moving to Hollywood in 2002, the Nebraska native has done numerous bit parts in television and movies, but his stint on Heroes will be his most high-profile role to date. TVGuide.com spoke with the perpetually youthful-looking actor hours after the news broke to find out what he thinks of landing the coveted gig.

looks kinda dorky. more kyle xy than heroes, don't you think?

recap: heroes "how to stop an exploding man"

*spoiler alert: if you did not watch last night's heroes, do not continue reading.*

so last night was the season one finale of heroes. we were promised that if they "saved the cheerleader" they would save the world. and i do have to say that although i thought the episode was good, the ending was a bit anti-climactic. there was no big super cliffhanger. i mean, hiro did teleport himself into the 15th century. but that doesn't make me squeal "omg i can't wait til next season".

so here's what happened:
-molly (the tracking system) did not die.
-the boring family (niki, micah, and DL) are still alive
-parkman was dumb enough to try and "shoot" sylar, and ended up getting his own bullets to the chest.
-hiro finally fufilled his destiny of stabbing sylar
-claire was reunited with mr. bennett, aka "noah"
-nathan came to peter's (and new york city's) rescue and flew away with him so he could explode in the sky, as opposed to manhattan

NOW, here are my questions:
-is parkman dead? he's kinda boring. now that peter absorbed his power, can they just kill him off?
-speaking of killing off characters, niki/dl storyline. please. spare me. we can save micah since he's a kid.
-who is this mystery bad guy molly speaks of that is "worse" than sylar? i smell a season 2 villain.
-did nathan die when peter exploded? is peter dead?
-how did NO ONE see sylar go down to the sewer. i'm assuming he's still alive.
-why did the writer's say reade street was on the lower east side? that's just lazy fact checking.
-and speaking of lazy, when peter was passed out on a nyc street, there was NO ONE ELSE walking down the street or sidewalk. really??
-what the hell is grandma petrelli's power????

all in all, a good finale. tonight, idol performances. tomorrow, idol results and 2-hour lost finale! eeek!

recap: heroes "landslide"

*spoiler alert! do not read if you have not watched the episode that originally aired on 5/14*

hiro and ando are in isaac's loft. hiro's moaning over failing to kill sylar, but ando tells him to grow a pair. ando tells them they can have the sword repaired. naturally, in the phone book there's a company that fixes swords (and has the creepy hero logo on it).

across town, the bennett/parkman/ted/petrelli/cheerleader reunion commences. mr. bennett agrees to let claire help "save the world" since it is her destiny. little do they know that sylar is close by and eavesdropping on their plans.

nathan and mr. linderman talk about nathan's political future. as long as nathan lets the bomb explode in nyc, he will be president one day. in the middle of some sappy moment about nathan's dad, nathan's wife interrupts them and he gives her a "gift". he touches her hands and we're lead to believe that he maybe healed her. linderman leaves and nathan and his wife argue about linderman. then of course, shazam! her foot starts moving and she stands up. she's healed!

the superteam (peter/claire/ted) are on their way to "saving the world" and peter overhears sylar overhearing them. peter panics and orders that they "get off the streets". i have no idea what good he thinks that will do, but we'll trust he knows what he's doing.

cut to ando and hiro who run into nathan. hiro tells nathan they are trying to stop the bomb and need his help. but nathan lies through his teeth and says they can't stop the bomb, "nobody can". hiro realizes it's too late to sway him and calls him a "bad guy" and a "villain".

hiro and ando take the broken sword to the shop to see if they can get the sword fixed. the shop keepter tells hiro it depends on "him". the door opens and it's zulu from star trek! hiro's dad! hiro is stunned to see his dad, and his dad tells him he has reached the end of his journey. although he is hesitant to speak to his father, hiro agrees to do so out of respect.

micah and the boring babysitter girl who can change what she looks like sit in the nyc apt. she bribes him with a comic books. keeps him somewhat happy. linderman walks in and says micah can change the world with his ability. and if he helps him, once he's done he can not only go home with his parents, but he'll give them a buttload of cash to be rich and happy forevs.

the superteam is walking down the street and suddenly fbi cuts them off. the blonde chick who was working with parkman arrests ted. claire and peter literally disappear and runaway to save themselves. turns out sylar phoned in an anonymous tip with their location under the alias "isaac mendez".

hiro and his dad talk about his journey and saving the world. and then hiro's dad becomes a total badass and tells hiro he's gonna give him sword lessons so he can kill sylar. AWESOME!

babysitter takes micah to the polls and has him "tell the computers" to vote for nathan petrelli. micah realizes the computers are all on the same network and assures the babysitter nathan will win by a landslide.

more snoozefest, jessica and DL find nathan. nathan wins the election by landslide just as micah said. nathan decides to help jess and DL find micah.

back to more exciting story, hiro and his dad have sword fighting lessons! badassery ensues! so awesome!

parkman and bennett are in some federal building to keep their "stop linderman" plan. they run into jess and DL and join forces.

out of nowhere, the whole molly/surresh storyline pops up. she tells surresh she is cured. she thinks about parkman and tells surresh he is in the building (she's totes right). eric roberts walks in and cuts their plans short because there is a helicopter waiting on the roof to take them to a "safe location". eric roberts is pissed and tries to stop bennett and parkman. and, IT'S A SHOOTOUT! eric roberts tries to kill parkman, but bennett gives him a lead sandwich instead. parkman and bennett make it to surresh and molly. but confusion city...bennett wants to kill molly. surresh has a gun on bennett, bennett has a gun on molly.

it's nighttime now and sylar flips over a police vehicle. he finds ted. he kills him.

back to the fun! hiro and his dad finish their sword lessons. dad is so proud! hiro goes out to find ando, but he is gone. ando has taken a sword to save the world himself.

claire and peter are stuck in traffic trying to get out of the city. they find ted's dead body and realize sylar stole ted's power.

oh this boring story again! jessica and DL find linderman and ask for micah. then linderman plays the money card and offers her millions of dollars if she kills DL. jess pulls the ol' switcheroo and turns into niki. she doesn't kill DL, but linderman shoots him. just as linderman is about to kill jessica, DL does it for her. it is assumed both DL and linderman are dead.

cut to nathan's victory speech. we see a montage of peter and claire, hiro going after ando, micah looking out the window, ando searching for sylar, blonde fbi chick, surresh and bennett. at the end of nathan's speech, we see sylar "practicing" his new power. THE END.

next week, the FINALE! it looks like DL is alive and reunited with jessica and micah. grandma petrelli says the bomb will go off. surresh takes responsibility for micah. parkman might die. claire tells peter the future isn't written in stone. and peter and sylar face off. GAME ON!

upfronts: nbc gives us what we want

nbc is officially holding their upfront presentation today at 3pm at radio city music hall in new york city. luckily for us, the network has already posted what shows are returning, which are cancelled, and what new shows will be added to the line up.

nbc has added five dramas, one comedy, and two new reality/competition shows. also, nbc made additional announcements regarding heroes, earl, and the office. looks like studio 60 has officially gotten the axe (good riddance), as have crossing jordan and the short-lived black donnellys. those that escaped cancellation: friday night lights (i seriously have to start watching it), scrubs, and las vegas (miracle)

-NBC "bulks up" with 30 combined episodes of "Heroes" and "Heroes: Origins," an innovative new spin-off that each week will introduce a new character -- one of whom will be chosen by viewers through the "Heroes" website on NBC.com to become a cast regular the following season.

-The network has ordered 30 half-hours of the hit series "The Office," including five hour-long episodes, and also has increased the season order for "My Name Is Earl" to 25 episodes.

meanwhile, the "comedy night done right" thursday will have the same shows, just in a slightly different order: NBC's acclaimed Thursday "Comedy Night Done Right" lineup will next year lead off with "My Name is Earl" at 8 p.m. (ET), which will be followed by "30 Rock" at 8:30 p.m., the Peabody Award-winning "The Office" at 9 p.m. and "Scrubs" at 9:30.

i can't even to begin to express how excited at the idea of 30 new office episodes...or 25 since five of them will be an hour long. i can't wait!!!!! (insert little girl squeal here)

here's what NBC's line up looks like for the 2007-2008 season:

*New programs in CAPS (with the exception of "ER")

MONDAY 8-9 p.m. "Deal or No Deal" 9-10 p.m. "Heroes"10-11 p.m. "JOURNEYMAN"

TUESDAY 8-9 p.m. "The Biggest Loser"9-10 p.m. "CHUCK"10-11 p.m. "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit"

WEDNESDAY 8-9 p.m. "Deal or No Deal" 9-10 p.m. "BIONIC WOMAN" 10-11 p.m. "LIFE"

THURSDAY 8-8:30 p.m. "My Name Is Earl" 8:30-9 p.m. "30 Rock"9-9:30 p.m. "The Office" 9:30-10 p.m. "Scrubs"10-11 p.m. "ER"

FRIDAY 8-9 p.m. "1 vs 100"/"THE SINGING BEE" 9-10 p.m. "Las Vegas" 10-11 p.m. "Friday Night Lights"

SATURDAY 8-9 p.m. "Dateline NBC"9-11 p.m. Drama Series Encores

SUNDAY (Fall 2007)7-8 p.m. "Football Night in America" 8-11 p.m. "NBC Sunday Night Football"

SUNDAY (January 2008)7-8 p.m. "Dateline NBC"8-9 p.m. "Law & Order"9-10 p.m. "Medium"10-11 p.m. "LIPSTICK JUNGLE"

for more info on the new shows, click here.

(via the futon critic)

recap: the office- "beach games"

first of all, let me say god bless jeff zucker for creating the concept of supersized episodes. with that said, last night's office episode was hilarious!

*spoiler alert! if you haven't watched the office "beach games" episode from 5.10.07 (shame on you), don't continue reading.*

the episode starts off hilariously with dwight in michael's office, trying to figure out what's "medically wrong" with michael. dwight asks him when he started feeling sick. michael replies "about 10 minutes ago." dwight replies back, "you mean when i brought in the paperwork?"

pam: About 40 times a year, Michael gets really sick, but has no symptoms. Dwight is always gravely concerned.

dwight tells him to point at the part where it hurts so he can help diagnose him.

dwight: you have to point to a specific part of the body.
michael: right there.
dwight: “abdomen. menses.”
michael: maybe.
dwight: “the uterus contracts after your egg passes through it.”
michael: not it. I don’t have eggs.

pam comes in and tells michael that he has a call from the CFO of dunder-mifflin. david (the CFO) tells michael that he's calling because michael is being considered for a job at corporate. after embarassing himself for a few moments (spilling the details about "breaking jan's heart"), david tells him to drive to ny the following week with his figures along with a recommendation for his replacement in scranton.

the next day, the staff is dressed and ready for "a day at the beach". of course michael is wearing his sandals t-shirt under his hawaiian shirt. after telling poor toby that he can't go (because "someone has to stay at the office"), the rest of the crew boards the party bus. michael tells them that they'll all be participating in "fun activities. fun-tivities" (my favorite line of the night). everyone but pam is allowed to participate. michael tells her she has to take notes for him on everyone's performance so he can evaluate them later.
they arrive at the lake and michael picks team captains (dwight, jim, stanley, and andy). they each pick team names.

dwight: we will be called gryffindor.

jim: really? not slytherin?

dwight: Slytherin are the bad guys, jim.

jim: i know. okay, we will be voldemort.

dwight: he who must not be named? I wouldn’t do that.

jim: vol-de-mort, vol-de-mort …

stanley picks "blue team" and andy picks "team usa". michael reluctantly tells the staff that they're all competing to be his replacement because he's being considered for a job at corporate. later we see jim and karen talking to david the CFO on the phone saying they want to be considered for the corporate job. they take part in various activities (carrying an egg on a spoon blindfolded, hot dog eating contest, sumo wrestling, and walking across fire).no one wants to walk across the fire until michael does it, so he attempts to, but chickens out. dwight shows michael his dedication and walks across the coals (and burns himself).
later we see michael talking to the staff telling them that they're going to have "tribal council" and vote. he asks jim to reveal why he would be a good replacement. jim tells michael he doesn't want to be considered for the regional manager job because he's going to meet with david in ny about the corporate job.

meanwhile, pam is by the coals and works up the courage to walk across them. she then approaches the staff and says she's been trying to be more honest lately. she asks everyone (rhetorically) why they didn't go to her art show. she says she feels invisible at the office. but the biggest revelation, she tells jim she called off her wedding for him! along with other crap. it was fantastic!

pam: hey, i want to say something. i’ve been trying to be more honest lately and i just need to say a few things. i did the coal walk! just, i did it. michael, you couldn’t even do that. maybe i should be your boss. wow, i feel really good right now. why didn’t any of you come to my art show? i invited all of you. that really sucked. it’s like sometimes, some of you act like i don’t even exist. jim, i called off my wedding because of you. and now we’re not even friends. and things are just like weird between us, and that sucks. and i miss you. you were my best friend before you went to stamford. and i really miss you. i shouldn’t have been with roy, and there were a lot of reasons to call off my wedding. but the truth is, i didn’t care about any of those reasons until i met you. and now you’re with someone else, and that’s fine. it’s … whatever. that’s not what i’m … i’m not … okay my feet really hurt. the thing that i’m just trying to say to you, jim, and to everyone else in the circle i guess, is that i miss having fun with you. just you, not everyone in the circle. okay, i am gonna go walk in the water now. yeah, it’s a good day.

michael: pam, that was amazing. but i am still looking for someone with a sales background.

if you missed last night's episode, nbc released a promo for next week's finale. the promo doesn't have any new scenes, but it does make for a good recap of last night. and there's stuff that i didn't include in the recap. but you should watch the 40 minutes of goodness for yourself. if you can't, watch the promo here:

preview: tonight's office- "beach games"

counting tonight, there are only TWO more episodes of the office left, which means two more weeks until someone puts a pacifier in my mouth because i'll be crying like a baby for the entire summer of re-runs.

tonight's episode is titled "beach games". here is the official summary from nbc:
Michael is being considered for a position in Corporate and has to recommend his replacement. While the group expects a fun outing at Lake Scranton, Michael has planned a day of Survivor-like competitions to find his successor. Meanwhile, Pam is not asked to join in any of the activities and is forced to watch Jim and Karen have fun together.

you can see two short clips of tonight's episode over at yahoo! tv. i cannot wait for the supersized fun.

recap: heroes "the hard part"

*spoiler alert: do not read if you have not watched the 5.20.07 episode*

at the start of the episode, hiro and ando find themselves back in their own time and realize it's time for them to "save the world" (YAY!). hiro turns to the comic book for answers, but it is incomplete. they decide to head to isaac's apartment for answers.

meanwhile, our little claire bear is back at the petrelli mansion when nathan's wife and two sons return home. i have no idea where his family has been this whole time. especially days before the election. but whatever.

parkman, mr. bennett, and ted are still on the run. still on their way to new york city. yawn.

back in vegas, DL decides to go look for micah. he asks niki/jessica/whatsherface to come with him. while that snoozefest is going on, we see micah in a nyc apartment with candice who is disguised as his mom.

thompson (eric roberts!) offers surresh a job. but surresh is smart and realizes they need him more than he needs them. eric roberts (yes, i'm calling him that from now on) agrees and shows surresh where he works. eric roberts introduces surresh to molly, whos is apparently the only girl in the world (seriously?) that can stop sylar. she's dying and surresh is the only person that can find a cure (how convenient).

back at isaac's loft, hiro and ando find isaac dead. they see sylar. sylar hears them with his supersonic hearing. hiro and ando teleport out of there in the nick of time without a trace.

DL and niki. zzzzzzzzz. suspect micah's in nyc. zzzzzzzz. go to ny to find him. zzzzzzzz.

surresh talks to little molly and takes a blood sample. tries to figure out how to come up with a cure.

back at the petrelli mansion, claire talks to nathan about ted...the guy who blew up her house and who she suspects will blow up nyc. nathan tells her he admires her bravery and tells her he'll make some calls. and he does...to mr. linderman!

sylar goes to queens to visit his mom who is clearly a little off. we learn that his mom always pushed him to do more with his life and that what he did was never good enough. it's like betty crocker's recipe for a serial killer. seriously.

claire and peter see nathan talking to eric roberts. claire doesn't trust him.

micah discovers his "mom" isn't really his mom. next.

sylar demonstrates one of his abilities for his mom a la turning water into snow. very edward scissorhands. she freaks (duh). hiro freezes time and tries to kill sylar. he fails. sylar breaks hiro's sword in halfsies. sylar scissorhands kills his mom...with scissors (again, duh). makes a painting from her mom's blood (creepshow!).

surresh figures out he is the key to molly's antibody. cute.

peter gives claire a gun and asks her to kill him if she ever sees he's the one to blow up nyc (too bad they're related, they are too cute).

grandma petrelli totally creeps me out and tells peter he has to let nyc blow up. borderline incestuous undertones.


peter and claire run into mr. bennett, ted, and parkman. while standing close to ted, peter starts absorbing his power and sees his hands glow. he freaks out. the end.

questions:
1) what is grandma petrelli's secret power? i know that bitch is hiding it.
2) why doesn't peter just stand away from ted? i mean, whenever he was far away from invisible man, he couldn't turn invisible. sounds like an easy solution.
3) why is niki/jessica/micah/DL still a storyline? and can we kill them off next season if it doesn't happen before then?
4) is linderman nathan & peter's dad? (thanks to adam winer for that one)
5) how the hell is hiro gonna save the world now with a broken sword???

"ain't no party like a scranton party, cause a scranton party don't stop!"

attention all office fans! we are getting closer and closer to having a long-rumored office convention in scranton. i never in my life thought i would be this excited at the possibility of traveling to scranton, pennsylvania.

in two weeks, two of the show's stars (angela kinsey and brian baumgartner) will be in scranton for hang out with the fans.

if i weren't going out of town on the 19th, i might actually head out there. but i'm holding out for the full-out party (at the celebrity breakfast to be held, it says there will be a special announcement about plans for the office convention in scranton). click here to see the flyer and info for the events on the 19th with angela and brian.

and just as a special treat, check out the nbc promo for this week's episode titled "beach games".

(via officetally)

preview: tonight's office- "women's apprecation"

the office returns tonight with a supersized episide! here's a summary of tonight's upcoming episode titled "women's apprecation":

Outrage breaks out in the office after Phyllis gets an unexpected eyeful from a flasher. Michael makes some important personal decisions when he takes the women on a special outing. Meanwhile, Dwight and Andy work on catching the predator.

if you can't wait the 4 hours (like me), you can check out clips of tonight's show on yahoo! tv.

in other office related news, the onion is reporting that cbs is planning on airing it's own version of the office. i think if this were a real article, the word sacrilege would come to mind. it's an entertaining article though and jennie tan (who runs officetally) is quoted in the "story".

and for all you krasinski fans (like me, duh), the license to wed trailer is finally available. i don't care if this movie has mandy moore and robin williams in it. consider my ticket already pre-bought on fandango.

Recap: Heroes

"String Theory" starts off 5 years into the future...5 years after the bomb went off in NYC. Hiro and Ando find themselves at Isaac's loft where they confront future Hiro. Although I guess the whole "space-time continuum" thing that Doctor Brown talked about in Back to the Future was bullshit. There were no cataclismic consequences of these two meeting face to face except that Hiro was afraid of future Hiro. Once future Hiro discovers that Peter saved Claire, he realizes that they can still prevent the bomb from going off by killing Sylar. That's when Parkman busts in with Homeland Security agents and they arrest Hiro. Future Hiro and Ando teleport to Las Vegas to find Peter.

At a strip club in Vegas, "Jessica" dances on stage as Hiro and Ando arrive to look for Peter, her boyfriend (first of all, does anyone find it weird that she has now presumably slept with both Petrelli brothers?) She won't tell future Hiro and Ando where Peter is, but does tell them that HRG man is in Texas. She goes to the bar where invisible Peter materializes.

The rest is a lot to take in, so I'll just use the ol' bullet points:

• Parkman questions past Hiro about all of the people he's murdered, but Hiro doesn't have any memory of this because these are all things future Hiro has done. Parkman tells President Petrelli (Nathan) that they have Hiro, but he doesn't seem to have any memory of things.
• Nathan summons Professor Suresh (who now works for him) and tells him they captured Hiro, and that he's decided to "exterminate" all of the people with "special abilities". Very weird that Nathan has turned Adolf Hitler-like and proposed a genocide of sorts.
• Surresh goes to Isaac's loft and finds the timeline.
• Back in Texas, HRG is testing a young boy to see if he has "special ablities". The boy tests positive, but he gives him and his family a new ID so they can escape the authorities. Future Hiro arrives and tells him that Claire is still alive.
• Surresh realizes that Hiro can travel through time and that he's trying to fix the past.
• Claire is a waitress at a small diner in Midland, TX and engaged to a busboy that works there. HRG is there and tells her to go into hiding.
• Future Hiro and Ando are almost captured by Parkman, but Peter comes and saves them.
• Parkman finds Claire at the diner.
• Back in Vegas, Peter tells Ando he is surprised to see him because he died in the explosion 5 years earlier.
• Surresh tells Nathan that Hiro was trying to kill Sylar before he exploded. But Nathan just tells him they will continue with the plan to exterminate those with abilities. Parkman tells them they have both Hiros in captivity, and Nathan tells Surresh to kill them both.
• Back in NY at the Petrelli mansion, Claire visits her biological dad Nathan, who thought she was dead. She's pissed at him for making people afraid of those with abilities. But he tells her he's met a lot of special people, including the one who allowed him to become president. Just then he starts opening her scalp and we realize it's SYLAR!

• Peter and Niki argue. Boring. She's pissed at him. ZZZZZZZZZZZ. He leaves her.
• At the site of the explosion, "President Petrelli" delivers a speech about finding a cure for the genetic code.
• Meanwhile, future Hiro and Peter fight their way into the Homeland Security team. Parkman stays upstairs with Surresh and the Haitian so that they are safe from Hiro and Peter's powers. As past Hiro begs for his life, Surresh apologizes and kills the Haitian instead. Snap!
• Past and future Hiro reunite. Peter holds off Parkman. Parkman calls Nathan to tell him the situation.
• Nathan flies from the bomb site and the crowds gasp.
• Peter confronts Nathan, realizing that it is really Sylar and that his brother is dead.
• Surresh holds off Peter and Sylar and past Hiro and Ando teleport back to the past.

NEXT WEEK: "The World At Stake" As Nathan and his family prepare for the election, Hiro and Ando prepare for a mission of their own.