David Anders by Justin Lubin/NBC
Episode Recap: “The Line”Heroes has never made me lose interest, but it did get off to a slow start. I knew tonight would be a good episode. OK, I hoped tonight would be a great episode. It was the lead-in to November sweeps. However, I didn’t want to set my expectations too high. I’ve noticed a growing trend with network television: they build up the months of November, February and May for Nielsen ratings, and then leave us hanging. Sometimes, the episodes that air during those sweeping months live up to the abundance of promos, previews and annoying scroll lines under everything you watch. Other times, a ferry crashes and we are left with the letters WTF on our minds. That being said, let’s recap.We’ve all been through high school hell, and I’ve watched the genius of Tina Fey's Mean Girls, but do people like the cheerleading captain really exist? If so, then she got what she deserved. (When she wrote the number of pounds to lose on the girls' f...
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Sophia Bush's underrated The Hitcher remake — and I say that even though she dissed me on a Q&A — arrives on DVD May 1.... Ghost: Special Collector's Edition is now out on DVD.... Mean Girls: The E! True Hollywood Story premieres March 17 at 6 pm/ET.... Best TV capsule review I've seen in ages: "9 pm, CW: The Search for the Next Doll: The girls are dropped off at Hollywood and Vine, and the one who returns with the least money after two hours is removed from competition. Just kidding." Props to the New York Daily News' David Bianculli.... If in your lifetime you read only one pithy retort from me, make sure that it's the one found here. I feel very strongly about it.
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Lacey Chabert, Hello Sister, Goodbye Life!
Oh, how Party of Five's sweet Claudia has grown up. In the nearly six years since the sibling sudser aired its swan song, Lacey Chabert has gotten wild with the Thornberrys, at one point found herself Lost in Space, and then fell in with some Mean Girls. This Sunday at 7 pm/ET, Chabert stars in ABC Family's Hello Sister, Goodbye Life!, a TV-movie about a snarky coed forced to watch over her 7-year-old half sister — with barely an assist from mom Wendie Malick — when tragedy strikes.
TVGuide.com: I have to think that having Just Shoot Me's Wendie Malick play your mom was a big incen
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Criminal Minds guest star Amber Heard previews CW network's best bet.
Sometimes my job gets spooky. Minutes after I Q&A'd Tara Lipinski (re: an upcoming Malcolm in the Middle), a TV Guide colleague asks if I want to chat up Amber Heard, an ingénue-on-the-rise who plays a big role on tonight's Criminal Minds (9 pm/ET on CBS) but more interestingly got the edgy film role Lipinski just told me she had to pass on. Alpha Dog (in theaters May 12), though, is but one of the many gigs Heard is about to hit you with. In fact, you may be looking at the fledgling CW network's first breakout star. You be the judge.
TVGuide.com: Get this: I just interviewed Tara Lipinski, who opted to pass on a role in Alpha Dog because of the, um, required nudity. That's the gig you wound up with, right?Amber Heard: I definitely think it is. Th
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Everwood"Somewhere in my heart I still think you are my person." This now replaces giving someone a pen as the worst thing that you can say or do to someone after they confess their undying love for you. That's just the kind of heart-wrenching stuff that I've missed while this show has been on hiatus for what seems like an eternity. I'm so glad to be back in this little mountain town for two hours with all its relationship dramas — no wonder Irv had enough material to write a book. Heck, he could probably write a dozen best-sellers. I'd so read that novel if it were out in real-world bookstores. Maybe they could release it if, heaven forbid, CW doesn't pick up this quality show. And Irv's first novel already did some good: It's got Andy doing some serious soul-searching and relinquishing his anger at his deceased wife, Julia, for ha
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So funny how this show debuts on the same night Amanda Woodward is on Boston Legal. Coincidence? Well, yes. But it's only fitting, since it takes place in a trendy L.A .neighborhood (Silver Lake) and features a group of friends well versed in betrayal, backstabbing and most important, bed hopping. Sounds a bit Melrose Place-ish, dontcha think? Actually, I feel like I'm watching Season 1 Melrose the whole time. You remember, that's when the show hadn't found the right formula yet, but it had oodles of potential. A few tweaks later (and by tweaks I mean Heather Locklear), it was enjoying ratings gold, baby. In this soapy drama, Denise Richards (Jolene) dons the short skirts. But here's what I don't get: Jolene goes off on Rose about how Rose once stole her boyfriend Billy? Come on! She's Denise Richards! She's the one who needs to be doing the stealing around here! Thankfully, I have a sneaking suspicion I'll get my wish soon.
A couple
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Tina Fey is our favorite TV anchorwoman. OK, we know she's on Saturday Night Live and isn't an honest-to-goodness anchor, but how many real news gals are as bright, funny and easy on the eyes as Fey? The "Weekend Update" funny girl also proved teen comedies don't have to be dumb by writing and starring in Mean Girls, which arrives on DVD this week. Here, Fey takes a break from her SNL preseason prep work for some Girls talk.
TV Guide Online: Were you a mean girl?Tina Fey: I was a little bit of a mean girl. I was kind of a mean nerd. I was mean to the girls I was jealous of — girls that were better looking or going out with boys that I liked. I could be really mean behind their backs, and just talk endlessly about them, which is what we call in the movie "word vomit."
TVGO: How was working with Lindsay Lohan?Fey: She's a really good actress and a lovely young woman. She was perfect for the part because s
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As Lindsay Lohan's high-school rival in Mean Girls, Rachel McAdams was truly a nasty beeyatch. Fortunately, the 27-year-old Canadian transplant is no Regina George offscreen. Actually, she's a total sweetheart, and her softer side definitely shows in The Notebook (due out in theaters Friday).
Based on the gooey bestseller by Nicholas Sparks, Notebook tells the tale of a couple (McAdams and Ryan Gosling) torn apart by World War II, then romantically reunited years later. "I'm a sucker in every way when it's all about love and soul mates," McAdams says. "I think you can fall in love with more than one person, but I don't know yet for sure. I'm not gonna not believe in soul mates."
Although he's a cutie, her onscreen amour with Gosling (The United States of Leland) wasn't always easy. "The thong was uncomfortable," McAdams laughs of one scene. "But Ryan's a real gentleman, and the g
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