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5 Facts About The New Bachelor‘s Best Contestant: Blogger Jenna Burke
Last night on the premiere of the new season of The Bachelor, the world got to meet a whole new cast of women out to win bachelor Ben Flajnik’s affections. Most of them were the predictably forgettable tanned dental hygienists and account managers of seasons gone by. But producers outdid themselves by casting the show’s first Blogger contestant.
Jenna Burke describes herself as a freelance writer, but ABC simply lists her occupation as “Blogger.” We suspect that means she is “unemployed,” but she is certainly a reality TV force to be reckoned with. Here’s what we learned about Jenna last night. More »
Fables Comic Book Writer Bill Willingham Assures His Fans That Once Upon A Time Is Not A Ripoff
Bill Willingham conducts an interview with himself with the intent of getting his fans to stop accusing ABC‘s Once Upon a Time from ripping off his comic book series Fables. But even with the series’ creator saying it’s OK, fans are now turning on him and calling him a coward. More »
Ladies Be Filmin’: Pan Am
Pan Am follows a flight crew on the eponymous airline: stewardesses (they wouldn’t become flight attendants for twenty years) bohemian Maggie (Christina Ricci), spy (!) Kate (Kelli Garner), runaway bride Laura (Margot Robbie), and sexually adventurous Colette (Karine Vanesse), sunny captain Dean (Mike Vogel), and crew Ted (Michael Mosley), and Sanjeev (Kal Parekh), as they fly a new plane’s maiden voyage from New York to London. More »
Ladies Be Filmin’: ABC’s Charlie’s Angels
Charlie’s Angels doesn’t just want to have it both ways, it wants to have it all the ways. It wants to do serious stories about the sex trafficking of underage Latin American orphan girls and have sexy hijinks. It wants to show strong women and have those women show total submission to a voice on a telephone. It basically wants to be Law & Order: The Playboy Club. More »
Ladies Be Filmin’: ABC’s Revenge
Contrary to what you might have thought from Revenge‘s massive advertising push, the show is not actually about a lady in a giant spiky dress, though that would be kind of an amazing premise. Rather, Revenge follows Emily (Everwood‘s Emily Van Camp) as she exacts revenge on the fancy Hamptons folk responsible for her father’s wrongful arrest and eventual death. For those of you who remember tenth grade English, yes, this is an extraordinarily loose adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo.
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The Daily WTF: The Pan Am Cast Gets Kiss-ified
I was delighted when I spotted this graffitied-upon poster for the new ABC series Pan Am in a subway station last night — the leading ladies have been turned into the band Kiss! Now that’s a show I’d watch. “Gene Simmons stars as a wayward stewardess in this drama set in the 1960s.”
Become Our Facebook Fan, Enter To Win A $150 Charlie’s Angels Beauty Gift Bag
Everyone deserves a second chance, right? That’s how a Park Avenue princess who became a thief, a cop who fell from grace and a street car racer with a mysterious past get together in this exciting and racy remake of the 1970s classic Charlie’s Angels, which premieres on ABC on Thursday, September 22 at 8/7c. Miami-based detectives Abby (Rachael Taylor), Kate (Annie Ilonzeh) and Eve (former Derek Jeter flame Minka Kelly) are no saints. They’re angels…Charlie’s Angels. And despite all the action, these ladies always look hot as hell. That’s why we’re offering one lucky fan of Crushable on Facebook a Charlie’s Angels-themed beauty gift bag, filled with nail, face and hair products from Sephora. That will certainly help you discover your inner Angel — right? Read on to find out how to enter to win. More »
12 New Fall TV Shows to Watch Out For
It’s that time again: The time of preparation for new seasonal television shows! We had some good ones over the summer, many of which we either wrote about or recapped. But many of those are now winding down, and as it’s now September, it’s time to start gearing up for the new fall shows—and believe you me, there are MANY of them. We’ve already told you about Ringer and American Horror Story, so forgive us if we don’t repeat ourselves here; but! Do take a look at these 12 shows. We think they’re going to be worth checking out: More »
Gallery: Performers at the CMA Music Festival
Are you guys watching the CMA Music Festival? Taped last month, the show’s airing right now on ABC, giving us performances by the likes of Taylor Swift, Blake Shelton and Lauren Alaina. Sounding good, America. More »
Crushable Presents: ‘Bachelor Pad 2′ Superlatives (AKA Welcome To STD Central)
Finally, the moment very few people have been waiting for: the 3 hour season premiere of Bachelor Pad. Shame on you ABC for making us stay up so late on a Monday. Considering that this show is basically an excuse for crazy people to act crazy while hooking up and breaking up with each other over and over again, we’re taking this opportunity to award superlatives for this season’s contestants. Enjoy! More »
Snap This: Ashley Hebert Gets Her ‘Bachelorette’ Makeover
Although Ashley Hebert was handpicked to become the newest Bachelorette, she still had to get an ABC-approved makeover before the show aired. The network is known for giving their stars makeovers – DeAnna Pappas‘ gorgeous curves seemed to fade into nothingness – and Ashley is no exception. More »
Love Lessons From The Bachelor: ‘Light-Hearted Craziness’ Will Only Get You So Far
Last night on The Bachelor, this season’s most controversial contestant got the boot. Michelle the hairdresser has polarized viewers for her opinionated commentary, and the ways she has tried to manipulate Bachelor Brad Womack.
But last night, Michelle took a tragic misstep. And it was a classic case of overconfidence killed The Bachelor contestant. More »
The Bachelor’s Brad Womack: Convicted Felon. With A Weird Name.
Oh the tangled webs Brad Womack weaves. Today we learned that on top of being a failure at picking a bride the last time he was The Bachelor, ABC’s current bachelor is also a felon.
More importantly, this fact escaped ABC producers because it all happened under his real name: Stephen Bradley Pickelsimer.
Aside from the whole wanting to hide from his arrest record, we can see why Brad decided to change his name from Pickelsimer. But now we’re confused. He actually chose to be called Womack? More »
So many dumped chicks. So many different faces. Some genius has compiled screengrabs of all the failed Bachelor contestants this season, right after they’ve been dismissed by Brad Womack. And it is brilliant. (FacesOfRejectedBachelorettes)
Gallery: The Most Gratuitous Shots Of Brad Womack Shirtless On ‘The Bachelor’
For those of you paying attention, Brad Womack has been chosen (again) as The Bachelor. He has been chosen mainly for two reasons. First: He has amazing abs. Second: He looks great with his shirt off.*
In fact, Brad has his shirt of so much this season that his torso should get its own residuals check. More »
Wanna Know Who Wins The New ‘Bachelor’?
Reality Steve is not a man who takes ending up on the cutting room floor lightly. The reality tv blogger filmed some commentary for an E! Bachelor special earlier this year, but was cut from the final version. And this week, as retribution, he has proceeded to give away just about everything that happens on the upcoming season of The Bachelor. Even though it will be weeks before the show actually premieres.
The Bachelor: Then and Now debuted a week ago on Wednesday, and all of Reality Steve’s commentary was cut. Weirdly, it was replaced by very similar opinions voiced by TV Divagal Delaina Dixon. More »
Brad Womack is the next ‘Bachelor.’ Again.
The Bachelor is seriously running out of ideas. Last night, Brad Womack was announced as the next star of the show. For those of you Bachelor fans with short memories, Brad is the 27 year old bar owner who couldn’t be bothered to pick a winner from his season of the show. Is ABC even pretending it wants these things to end in relationships anymore? More »
‘My Generation’ Just As Boring As Real Life!
My high school friend Dustin recently posted a documentary he’d made in the 10th grade to Facebook. It’s an expose on the school’s health and life planning classes full of hard-hitting interviews (“What do you think of the school’s health and life planning classes?”) with my friends about their Cleveland High experiences. I’m in it, but instead of answering Dustin’s questions I just roll my eyes.
Dustin’s video was about 100 times more interesting than last night’s pilot episode of high-school-ten-years-later “mockumentary” My Generation. The show compares footage of its characters in 2000 — the year they gradated HS — with present day stuff. Shockingly, the “overachiever” turns out to be a slacker bartender in Hawaii, the “beauty queen” ends up an ultra-domestic married woman, and the “rockstar” (term used loosely) has the kind of drinking problem where he orders margaritas at noon. Also, everyone in high school is still in love with someone else from high school, though not the person (from high school!) they’re actually dating.
Basically? It plays out like fan fiction written by an unpopular freshman from the bleachers of the homecoming game. More »
5 Suggested ‘My Generation’ Taglines
The new show I’m most excited about this season is the ABC drama My Generation, a “mockumentary” that tracks a group of high school classmates ten years after they’ve graduated. ABC’s been promoting the hell out of it, plastering billboards with photos of contemplative twentysomethings under captions like “Remember prom night? Meet your son.” and (over a photo of a marine) “Baby, I’ll make it home before she’s born.” Then there’s the sultry woman saying: ”You know this ring comes off, right?”
It’s all very dramatic but I don’t feel the posters necessarily a reflection of my generation — which is kind of what the title implies, right? I know ABC didn’t ask for my input, but like I said, I’m really excited about this show! So, solicited or not, I decided to offer five taglines that better reflect the title My Generation: More »