4 minute spoiler video of Heroes Season 2 Episode 9 Cautionary Tales.
Scenes include:
Clair going to school as if nothing’s happened, refusing to leave town as her father has told her, and accusing him of abducting West.
Molly’s back to her old self but again wants to help out Parkman, who just wants her to be a normal little girl.
Bob takes Suresh to meet his new patner, Elle.
Video after the jump.
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Saturday Night Live was expected to be one of the early strike victims due to the nature of the show, and now the New York Post has received word from multiple sources that almost all of the production staff of SNL, even long-term employees, were informed Friday that they were being let go, reportedly without severence.
Regardless, the crew put on a non-televised show yesterday that will benefit the Writer’s Guild strike fund.
Other late night shows are left scrambling. Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien are reportedly in secret talks to return, though if they don’t, their staff, too, will suffer a similar fate. However, David Letterman will be paying his staff through the holidays out of his own pocket.
As reported previously, Big Brother 9 could be back as early as January. Robyn Kass of Kassting Inc posted the following on her MySpace:
“Yep, the rumors are TRUE! We’re coming back a little earlier this year….. apply now!”
Applications are now being accepted at CBS’ website. Open casting began today and will run through December 8th in cities around the country.
NY Daily News spoke with executive producer Allison Grodner, who seems a bit less certain, but they definitely are ramping things up in preparation for the best time slot they’ll have had in… ever.
“We have been told by CBS to get ready for anything, so there’s nothing that is certain at this point,” Grodner said. “We want it to be special, because we’ve never done something like this before. I promise you it will be different from any other ‘Big Brother’ you’ve ever seen.”
She confirmed there are no plans for the America’s Player twist this year. Good riddance I say. If they’re going to rig the show, I want them to at least work at it.
NBC will be moving Quarterlife, which is airing in 36 eight minute episodes on MySpace and Quarterlife.com, to TV, reports Variety. The TV show will air as 6 hourlong episodes as early as this spring.
The show was first developed three years ago for Touchstone Television and ABC but was not picked up. Touchstone returned the rights of the show to creator-producers Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, who have since funded the project through private funding, including NBC.
Networks and studios will resume talks with striking writers on Monday November 26, much earlier than previously expected. It is unclear which side approached the other with the idea. Both sides have agreed to refrain from releasing additional details or statements regarding this.
Lorette and Mandla finally turned on Angie in Survivor South Africa: Malaysia Episode 12, the first time all season they’ve actually done something from a gameplay standpoint. That left us with a final four of Grant, Amanda, Lorette, and Mandla. I haven’t been particularly impressed with any of the bunch, but I do have to give credit to Grant for playing the game the whole time, even if much of what he’s done hasn’t made any sense. Also, Amanda outlasting the rest of her tribe is worth noting.
The communique doesn’t beat around the bush. It warns them of an endurance competition where one of them will be eliminated. Lorette is confident about this because she had to do a lot of standing in the sun for her police training. Amanda assumes nobody will take her so she’ll have to get there on her own.
The challenge is a balancing act. They must stand on a post. The first person out will be out of the game, a twist I’m not crazy about. The last person standing will be able to choose who goes with them to the end.
For the first 15 minutes, they’re allowed to use a pole to help balance. Lorette turns around to face the other way, a smart move because she’ll remain focused on just one thing. As the largest person there, Mandla’s not surprisingly the first person out, just shy of the one and a half hour mark. Definitely a challenge designed to favor people with smaller feet. He has been eliminated from the game. At 2 hours 50 minutes, the tide rises to the rope line beneath them, which is the signal to get on one foot. What a stupid idea. All that work, and it comes down to this. Grant falls within seconds. Amanda falls seconds after that. Lorette is the last one to fall, and she wins immunity.
Believing he knows the type of person Lorette is, Grant feels he would offend her by campaigning for her to take him, so he just sits back and lets her decide on her own. Amanda, on the other hand, decides she needs to convince Lorette to take her. She says she doesn’t want to put too much pressure on her, but it’s hard to tell what Lorette’s actually thinking because Amanda just keeps getting monosyllabic grunts in response.
Lorette has chosen to take Grant with her. Not entirely surprising, and it was pretty much her only option with such a small jury. If she got rid of Grant, Angela and Dyke would have voted for Amanda, and Angie’s a big risk for voting against Lorette. Of course, Grant won’t be easy to beat, as he has been the puppetmaster of his tribe all along. He dragged Lisa along for way, way too long, then he did the same for Angie, and both of those two really shaky alliances suggest how much influence he had, as he saved people who should have been eliminated long before they were.
Even now, 4 weeks after the game began, nobody knows Grant’s an attorney.
Dyke asks Grant why he thinks Lorette does not deserve to win. He’s able to answer without offending, suggesting he played a better game.
Angela asks Lorette for examples of her proactive strategy. She discusses how she made strong alliances.
Angie wants to know how much of the relationship with Grant was real, and he says all of it was, going on about alliances and strategy and such. She obviously wants to know whether he’s actually her friend, a point which he somehow misses.
Mandla questions Grant about his strategy. Grant says he was playing all along, including not putting a target on his back in challenges, which some jury members may take offense to. He also makes a comment about Dyke, being booted for being too physically fit, and says it would have been stupid for him to have done this. Very easy for Dyke to misinterpret this and take it as an insult.
Amanda asks Lorette why their alliance played a charade, such as when Lorette said she considered Mandla her next target, which Amanda takes issue with because Lorette is always discussing integrity. Lorette says she would have taken Mandla out given the opportunity and that it wasn’t a charade.
For a lawyer, Grant stuck his foot in his mouth quite a bit during these questions. Lorette says she should win because she played hard and did her best in challenges. Grant acknowledges he came to play the game and wants them to vote on that basis.
What’s up with the delay in revealing the vote?
Angela reveals that she was pregnant while on the island but didn’t know it until afterward.
Rijesh blames the tribe shuffle for screwing up his game, when in reality he was buried by his overplaying long before.
Next, we got a look back at Survivor history, where Hein became the first person to make fire without anything manmade, along with the whining and disbelief from his tribemates that went along with it.
Hein is the winner of the viewer vote of soul survivor.
Rezki is still alive. They slaughtered another goat instead. Whatever difference that makes.
Elsie says she’s not really like she was on the show. Let’s hope that’s true.
Lisa says if she had to do it again, she might have lifted a finger.
Hein comes up with two scenarios about the challenge that cost him the game. He either fell asleep or was tired of playing. Looks like it’s still up to us to figure out what actually happened. My theory is that he just simply misjudged the time.
Votes
Dyke: Lorette
Angela: Grant
Mandla: Lorette
Amanda: Grant
Angie: Lorette
As much as I liked Lorette, it’s hard to see what she actually did in this game to deserve to win. I must say I’m shocked that Angie voted for Lorette, but ultimately, for someone who played the game so hard the whole time, Grant did completely screw up Angie’s question.
The Biggest Loser 4 Episode 9 saw yet another reshuffling, this time into duos. Despite her initial fear of being partnered with Amy, Kae narrowly escaped the chopping block. It came down to a vote between Isabeau and Ryan, and Ryan was sent packing.
The whole duo thing didn’t last very long. We’re now down to every player for themselves.
Bob gets upset at Neil’s vote against Ryan, despite the fact that he says he discussed the plan with Ryan.
Amy completes throwing Kim away, trading in her red shirt for a black one. Kim expresses her disappointment and asks Amy to keep the shirt, but she’s not interested.
Donuts, donuts, and more donuts. It’s a temptation. Inside one of the donuts is a token worth $5,000. I was initially thinking this wouldn’t be worth it, but they only have to eat one donut per round, with each round lasting a minute and allowing them to search through as many as they can. As with the Reese’s, Amy’s a little too happy to see this food. Also as with last time, Kae passes up the opportunity. I think she’s a little too hardcore at this dieting thing, but the rest of these people should take notes, as this is why she keeps blowing them out of the water. Nicole sits out of the second round. Round three has no time limit. Julie drops out regardless because she’s met her calories. Isabeau came within inches of finding the token but missed it, leaving a door open for Bill to win the money, to go along with the SUV he won last week.
The challenge is a 24k (15 miles) triathlon. The first 6 to bike 20k on the stationary bikes will move onto treadmills, where the first three to run 3k will move to the pool, where the first person to swim 1k wins. The prize is a 24 hour trip home. In addition, because they will be home for a full day, the winner will receive immunity, a particularly big deal for targets like the guys and Kae. Lastly, the winner will make a big decision, which won’t be revealed until after the challenge.
Kae’s first to both 5k and 10k. Isabeau’s pretty well out of it, while Amy, Neil, Julie and Bryan fight for the last two spots behind Hollie, Nicole, and Bill. With 3k left, Nicole starts to give Kae a run for her money. Bill and Hollie are still close behind. Isabeau, Julie, and Amy are now out of it, leaving Neil and Bryan looking in good shape to take the final two slots. Kae finishes first. Nicole is second. Bill is third. Hollie is fourth. Bryan is fifth. Neil takes sixth. Julie at 18k and Amy and Isabeau at 17k are eliminated.
Kae is first to hit .5k on the treadmill. She retains the lead throughout, hitting 2.5k first as well. Bill and Hollie are the second and third to hit 2.5k, but Bryan is close behind them. Kae finishes first. Bill finishes second. Hollie finishes third, inching out Bryan, and she’s confident in her swimming ability because she’s a swim coach. Nicole, Bryan, and Neil are eliminated at the 2.5k mark.
Kae, Bill, and Hollie move to the pool, where they will swim 40 lengths. It’s pretty obvious what’s going to happen here. Kae’s dominance in the first two events will be completely meaningless, as Hollie who barely made it through will win due to her swimming experience. Poorly designed competition, particularly bad considering how high the stakes are. Hollie wins, Bill comes in second with 30 laps, Kae finishes third with 26 laps.
In addition to the rewards, Hollie must now pick another person to give the reward to as well. Again pretty obvious what will happen. Perhaps not exactly who, but it’ll be a black team member, one of the girls, meaning Isabeau or Julie. She chooses Julie. Considering Bill did so well in the challenge, whereas Julie dropped out right away, I’d think it would have made more sense to choose him, not only picking a teammate but also reducing the ability for people to be upset that she’s playing favorites. They’re left with a warning: if they’ve gained weight at the next weigh-in, they will no longer have immunity.
Hollie goes home to see her best friend, who says she’s inspired her to start losing weight as well. Julie goes home to see her son and husband, who himself has started to lose weight, now down 28 pounds. Both women have to cope with food choices in the real world. Julie chooses to do the Subway commercial, which actually if you have to eat fast food is the best alternative, though they do have plenty of menu items that aren’t so healthy. Hollie has a salad with dressing on the side but also gets pizza, which is a bad choice even without cheese, though as she said it’s not bad once in a while. Then it’s time to exercise. Julie wears her husband out on the beach. Hollie takes her friend to the gym.
When Jillian walks in the room, Amy’s crying. Still.
Julie: 180 pounds (no change)
Hollie: 212 pounds (no change)
Julie takes the lack of change as an indication she has a lot to learn. Her worst week previously was a 2 pound loss in week 2. Hollie’s previous worst performance was also a 2 pound loss. I don’t think either of them should have immunity still. With no change, the cards should fall where they may, particularly since both should lose a lot of weight next week.
Bill: 234 pounds (-8, 3.31%)
Bill becomes the second person this season to lose 100 pounds.
Nicole: 222 pounds (-7, 3.06%)
Neil: 311 pounds (-10, 3.12%)
Amy: 242 pounds (-3, 1.22%)
Isabeau: 241 pounds (-5, 2.03%)
Bryan: 276 pounds (-2, 0.72%)
Kae: 159 pounds (-4, 2.45%)
So it comes down to Amy and Bryan. Isabeau raises a concern that Amy’s complaining too much about wanting to go home as she has from day one. Isabeau says she thinks Amy’s a threat, to which Jillian responds, “Are you kidding?” Bill weighs in as well. Comparing the weight losses, he says Amy is beating Bryan (not exactly true, but Bryan is indeed down there close to Amy toward the bottom of the weight loss percentages). He says his vote doesn’t matter anyway because Isabeau’s already voting for Amy. Neil, without having the issue of whether he’s black team or not, says Amy deserves to go home.
Votes
Nicole: Amy
Kae: Amy
Neil: Amy
Julie: Bryan
Hollie: Bryan
Bill: Bryan
Isabeau: Amy
I’m quite surprised by this move, but I’m all for it. As big a fan as I am of gameplay on shows like this, Amy got to an enough is enough stage of this competition quite some time ago. Unlike the classy exit speeches we’ve come to expect, Amy says karma’s a bitch and that the black team can’t trust Isabeau. Get off my screen already. This was at least a chance to redeem herself for all the complaining she’s done under both Kim and Jillian, but she couldn’t even get this part right. Today, Amy is down 100 pounds to 197 from her original weight of 297.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of The Biggest Loser 4 episode 11, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.
Sam and Andi continued to pretend to be “just friends” in Reaper episode 7. They’re probably gonna make him wait all season before he gets the girl.
Gladys comes to The Work Bench. Sock’s got questions and is “almost certainly going to do something stupid.” She’s less happy to see him than he is to see her. In the back of her car is what appears to be a body bag. She goes to run him over, he jumps out of the way… and gets hit by someone else not even trying to hit him.
Sam gets the dog of the month award from Ted, meaning he’s shown an utter lack of everything. Sock’s offended because he wanted to be dog of the month again. But Sam is the Devil’s employee of the month. He gets a watch as a reward. What’s the catch? He also gives him the case file for the next escaped soul, Curtis Dean Mays, a multiple murderer. Now Sam’s wondering what the catch is, too. He does stick him with getting the bill, but there’s gotta be more evil afoot than that.
Sock and Ben spy on Gladys’ shopping history and find out she’s been buying some rat poisoning. Sam says that’ll have to wait until they figure out where the killer is. It doesn’t make any sense yet, but Sam’s got a bird tattoo that he didn’t have before. They decide to go to the courthouse, where Sam sees another tattoo, a 6. He also shows the boys the gift he got for Andi, a necklace with a diamond in it, but they tell him that it’s a wife present, not a friend present. They convince him to get her something else, then they head upstairs to look for clues. If only they’d turn around, they would see that Curtis has walked in behind them.
They pretend they’re writing a book about true crimes and go to ask someone who works at the courthouse and says Curtis never used the same weapon twice and blamed everybody but himself, including his own now dead defense attorney. While they’re chatting, Judge Collins is killed by Curtis with barbed wire. They suspect the prosecutor is the next target. They finally get a vessel that doesn’t suck, a taser. Sock and Ben are still more interested in stalking Gladys than helping with Curtis, though.
Andi’s boyfriend Greg asks Sam for his help surprising Andi with a huge party at a club. Sam warns him she doesn’t want that, but he agrees to help. Then he gets another tattoo, a 1.
A bunch of kids go up to Gladys’ house and toss eggs at it. She runs out with a broom and chases them off her lawn. So apparently she’s this neighborhood’s mean old lady who all the kids are afraid of. She threatens to cook their brains, which I’m assuming is just a figure of speech.
Sam uses his taser. Too bad he used it on a cop, detective Dan Stafford, who looks nothing like Curtis. As he’s getting arrested, Dan sees his watch, so he takes the watch and leaves. He’s got the vessel as well.
Everybody meets up at the bar, where Andi reminds Sam she doesn’t want a surprise party. He’s afraid to deny it, smoothly running away saying Sock’s on fire. Andi takes this as a yes, and she gets upset at Greg, who she says hardly qualifies as her boyfriend. Josie says the person she’s describing for her boyfriend is somebody like Sam, and Andi again plays the friend card.
Sock and Ben return to Gladys’ place, this time when she’s at work. They find out she’s into angel figurines and flowers. Then she shows up and finds out someone’s been in her home, so she comes in swinging with a shovel. The way she goes crazy just makes the neighborhood, all of whom are watching the scene, even more convinced she’s mean.
Dan probably recognized the watch, which belonged to Curtis’ defense attorney. Sam’s afraid this will link him to the murder. Then the Devil’s kind enough to point out that Sam was also on the scene of the judge’s murder. To make him feel better, the Devil offers Sam the opportunity to “go all Barry Bonds on my ass” and gives him a baseball bat to hit him with. Sam’s more than happy to hit him again and again. When he gets back to work, Sam’s informed by Ted that the police showed up and searched his locker.
Sock, who claims he was 6 feet tall at age 7, starts to get sympathetic for Gladys, who he believes was once an angel and now is frustrated with little kids picking on her all day.
Greg’s got a new plan. He doesn’t want to throw Andi a surprise party on her birthday. Instead, he wants to blow it off, then throw the stupid party the next day. Sam tells Greg his idea is stupid, and Greg gets suspicious that Sam’s trying to sabotage their relationship, when in reality he’s doing a great job of sabotaging it on his own. Then they get into a chick fight.
Sock and Sam go to see the detective, where Sock pretends to be an attorney. Unsuccessfully. Dan threatens to beat his face with a phone book, getting him to leave the room. After all but accusing him of the murders, the detective spots some blood on Sam’s hand. Sam responds “That’s not my blood.” It’s just Greg’s blood from when he slapped him in the face, but still, not a good response. Then Sam starts asking the Devil for help and admits he’s talking to him. Dan spots Sam’s tattoo, which is now complete to spell out 613 Cardinal Drive, Dan’s address. Rather than locking him up, the detective seems to believe Sam’s story, so they go to check out his house. Sam asks for his taser back and tells him Mays is back.
Sock goes to see Gladys and apologizes for not considering her feelings. He goes into her house for coffee and cookies. She eventually tells him she wants to kiss him, and he’s fine with this. They start to kiss and get undressed. Then he wakes up from his nightmare.
Sam finally convinces Dan to get his taser. They go out to the car to get it, when a fireball comes flying at it. Like the barbed wire, Mays has a fire tattoo, as he’s drawing all his weapons off his body. Sam knows bullets won’t do anything, but he shoots Curtis with a shotgun. It’s enough of a distraction to prevent him from killing Dan and buys him the time he needs to get the taser from the burning car. Sam takes Dan into the house and calls 911 to get him some assistance. Before he can get through, though, Dan pulls a gun on him. Catching an escaped soul won’t work. He’ll need to catch an actual person to get credit for this, meaning Sam.
He tries to shoot Sam but can’t. Instead, the gun is turned around, and he shoots himself. Thanks to the Devil. With the combination of the defense lawyer’s watch and written confession upstairs, it should be pretty slam dunk that Dan gets blamed for being a copycat killer. It seems Dan, too, made a deal with the Devil. Catching himself was the fifth and final case in exchange for his soul.
Sam apologizes to Andi for hitting Greg, when she stops him and tells him they broke up… then she asks him “You punched Greg in the nose?” She jokes that she should have waited for her present first before breaking up, so Sam gives her the present he originally planned to give her. She cries and says she can’t accept the gift because it’s not a friend gift. He suggests not wearing it as a friend, but he’s too important to her for her to want to risk it.
When they go to the DMV to turn in the vessel, Gladys asks Sock whether he’s had any good dreams lately. This time, Gladys also has something to give Sam, a gift from the Devil. He doesn’t want to open it but Sock insists. It’s a get out of Hell free card. Whether it’s real or not, Sam’s keeping it.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Reaper episode 9 Charged, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on The CW.