NetworksSorry, K&K. Turns out you really do need the third K to really round out the krazy. Without Khloe Kardashian (location: “Heaven”) around to say inappropriate things and act like a real human being, E!’s Kim and Kourtney Take New York feels boring and desperate, much like Kim herself. In last night’s premiere, Kim was single, horror show Scott was a maniacal horn dog looking to unleash his all of his pent-up sobriety energy on Kourtney, and Kourtney was instructed to order breakfast for Kim every morning or risk constant pillow thwacks to the head. Who would take care of Baby Mason if Kourtney had to go to the doll hospital? The responsible child care staff provided by E!? Shudder!
The producers helpfully arranged for Michael Copon, “an actor, like a singer” with whom Kim “worked” 5 or 6 years ago on The N’s Beyond the Break, to run into Kim at a club. The two later went on a date, but she wouldn’t even let him kiss her. What??? Perhaps Kim was holding out for Kanye West, who “randomly” stopped by the new SoHo location of Dash. (Oh, right, the whole point of this series is seemingly that K&K are going to run this NYC branch of their boutique, but so far they’ve just stood in the empty space.) It was weird that Kanye was able to take a break from tweeting so easily. All of a sudden, Kim had invited Kanye to her 30th birthday party in Vegas. “You wanna come,” she murmured, more telling than asking. “I do,” strobed Kanye. “I know you do,” gargled Kim. It was intense.
And then Scott ruined the moment, as he did in every other scene, and that was that. Kanye basically called him out on his toolishness, and to retaliate, Scott misguidedly got all revved up. “Look at me! I’m a calm, easy going guy!” said the complete whack job. It’s never true if you have to say it out loud. God, Scott. You can’t just wear half-summer-half-winter outfits. Even if there is a “half-soft half-hard” waiting in your pants.
Did anyone else shamelessly tune in to ‘Kim and Kourtney’? Bet you didn’t talk to your sister about the Kardashians and their lore for 35 minutes before the show! That would be so sad.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Panorama Season 59 Episode 3 Stop Stalking Me
Preview of 'Panorama':
Imagine you were being constantly threatened and abused by someone who wouldn't leave you alone. And no-one believed you. Stalking affects an estimated two million people in Britain a year, most of them women. Panorama tells the extraordinary story of one woman who's been recording years of abuse - as it takes away her job, her home and her child. Reporter Richard Bilton investigates how the UK fails to deal with stalkers.
Airing Details: 8:30 PM on January 24th, 2011 - Monday
Channel: BBC One Channel
Episode Details: Season 59 Episode 3
Episode Name: Stop Stalking Me
Imagine you were being constantly threatened and abused by someone who wouldn't leave you alone. And no-one believed you. Stalking affects an estimated two million people in Britain a year, most of them women. Panorama tells the extraordinary story of one woman who's been recording years of abuse - as it takes away her job, her home and her child. Reporter Richard Bilton investigates how the UK fails to deal with stalkers.
Airing Details: 8:30 PM on January 24th, 2011 - Monday
Channel: BBC One Channel
Episode Details: Season 59 Episode 3
Episode Name: Stop Stalking Me
'Hawaii Five-0' Tsunami Episode a False Alarm: Forgivable?
“This is one wave you don’t want to ride,” the promo told us. Yes, because it doesn’t exist. Last night’s very special tsunami episode of Hawaii Five-0 was a false alarm, so if you didn’t stick around to watch it after the Steelers beat the Jets, relax: You didn’t miss the opportunity to judge the special effects. Turns out the head of the Tsunami Warning Center was kidnapped so he could feed a hacker false data to create an evacuation, and a Coast Guard commander could steal $28 million from the police department’s evidence locker. The question is, was the payoff enough? McGarrett, Danno, and Kono had used $10 million of that drug money to save Chin from Hess, so they assumed they’d get busted after they saved the day and the governor, who had denied them the money, got word that only $18 million was actually in play. I thought for sure she was going to split up the team when she called McGarrett into her office, but I guess that was a little too NCIS. She just wanted to congratulate McGarrett on a job well done — the money was all there. Intrigued, or still pissed? PopWatch poll!
Coronation Street Season 52 Episode 17
TV Show: Coronation Street
Airing Details: 8:30 PM on January 24th, 2011 - Monday
Channel: Granada Channel
Episode Details: Season 52 Episode 17
Episode Name: EPISODE: 17
Airing Details: 8:30 PM on January 24th, 2011 - Monday
Channel: Granada Channel
Episode Details: Season 52 Episode 17
Episode Name: EPISODE: 17
Cher Lloyd's first interview after X-Factor
Love her or loathe her, the kid from the council house in Malvern, Worcs, is definitely looking - and acting - like an international pop star. And all this before she has even released a single. The Sun caught up with Cher on the famous Sunset Strip in LA for her first interview since The X Factor.
She was still breathless with excitement after meeting Lil Wayne - a controversial rapper, real name Dwayne Carter, who has been charged for drugs and weapons offences in the past.
Cher said: "Meeting Lil Wayne was actually the best day of my life. I'll never ever forget it. "The same people who took the mickey out of me at school loved Lil Wayne and now I am chilling with him in the studio."
The skinny teenager has also been recording with Lady GaGa's producer RedOne - real name Nadir Khayat - who has made Cher his No1 priority for 2011. RedOne said: "There are created stars and creative stars. Cher's a creative star - she's amazing."
The only negative for Cher is that she can't seem to put on any weight - even in the US, where the portions are super-sized. Cher is very sensitive about her tiny size 6 frame and is desperate to fill out to silence her critics.
She said: "My big insecurity is that I am too small. I see girls with curves and I'd do anything to be like that. I'm trying. I eat all the time. "I like a full-on Chinese, everything covered in sweet and sour sauce - with chips! I could eat that every day.
"But I think it's bad people criticise me, a 17-year-old girl, about my figure."
On a more reflective note, she continued: "If I could have done one thing differently I'd have waited until I was older before getting into this industry. I'd get so frightened of people saying hurtful things I'd put up a barrier, saying, 'I don't care and then they can't hurt me'. But I do care and it does hurt. Because of my style, I come across as hard and in your face. But I'm not like that."
Cher remains very grateful to Simon Cowell for giving her a chance on the show and signing her to his Syco label.
And she denied reports the pair have clashed over her artistic path, adding: "I wouldn't be here without him. Simon gets me and he's got my back. He knows me too well to give me rules - he likes the fact I'm a bit rebellious!"
It is amazing just how self-confident Cher appears in the super-slick surroundings of LA.
Her current lifestyle is a million miles away from her pre-X Factor existence in the backwater of Malvern with mum Dina and dad Darren. Cher admits her drive is fuelled by the childhood bullies who branded her a "gippo" and mocked her dream to become a rapper.
She said: "I grew up in a council house. We were outcasts because we were poorer. I have Romany roots and I'm proud of that. I walked everywhere because I didn't want to get in dad's car because it was like a tin can. People would call me council girl or gippo. I never hit them back but I always said to myself, 'One day... '.
"Now I feel like my day is coming. When I first arrived in LA I was in the penthouse suite at the Mondrian hotel. It was just ridiculous. I wanted my mum and dad here so they could experience it with me."
Talking about her distinctive look - featuring Dr Martens boots, lumberjack shirts and red hair - she insists she is High Street rather than haute couture. Cher said: "I'd rather wear Primark than Prada. I'd rather spend my money making my family happy. I'm saving everything I've got to move my family away."
X Factor viewers watched as Cher clung on to get into the finals despite voting controversies. But the public's criticism was the least of her concerns when she was hit by a family tragedy.
During the live shows Cher's uncle Edward died aged just 34. She said: "I had to go on stage the next day - I sang Shakespears Sister's Stay for him.
"I was really close to him. Before I even auditioned for The X Factor he would say, 'Here's our little Cheryl Cole'. He collected all of my newspaper cuttings and framed them all. I am still hurting a lot."
Cher was dealt another blow earlier this month when she read in The Sun that her boyfriend Karim Roundi, 20, had been cheating on her. She revealed: "It was very hurtful. It made me aware I can't just jump into a relationship and trust people - not now.
"Whenever I meet a boy I take them home to my dad. It made it more hurtful as he got my dad's approval."
When it comes to romance, Cher still has her eyes on fellow X Factor contestant Aiden Grimshaw, 19. The pair were rumoured to have got together during the show and she admitted: "Aiden is my perfect guy. I'd get married to him. He and I are two very different people but he is so quirky." (oh girl :/)
"He makes me laugh all the time - and my dad loves him!" The pair keep in touch and Cher can't wait to join him on the X Factor tour next month - but the same can't be said of all the contestants. Laughing, she said: "I'm not looking forward to seeing Wagner again - I want an injunction against him! He creeps me out. Hopefully he will fall off stage and not be able to perform his latest Pavarotti impression."
But Cher is just excited to not have to perform alone in her bedroom any more. She said: "I always wanted to rap but never really had the guts to do it because I'm just a skinny white girl. Then aged 13 I started rapping secretly because I didn't know whether people would accept me - some people still don't."
She was still breathless with excitement after meeting Lil Wayne - a controversial rapper, real name Dwayne Carter, who has been charged for drugs and weapons offences in the past.
Cher said: "Meeting Lil Wayne was actually the best day of my life. I'll never ever forget it. "The same people who took the mickey out of me at school loved Lil Wayne and now I am chilling with him in the studio."
The skinny teenager has also been recording with Lady GaGa's producer RedOne - real name Nadir Khayat - who has made Cher his No1 priority for 2011. RedOne said: "There are created stars and creative stars. Cher's a creative star - she's amazing."
The only negative for Cher is that she can't seem to put on any weight - even in the US, where the portions are super-sized. Cher is very sensitive about her tiny size 6 frame and is desperate to fill out to silence her critics.
She said: "My big insecurity is that I am too small. I see girls with curves and I'd do anything to be like that. I'm trying. I eat all the time. "I like a full-on Chinese, everything covered in sweet and sour sauce - with chips! I could eat that every day.
"But I think it's bad people criticise me, a 17-year-old girl, about my figure."
On a more reflective note, she continued: "If I could have done one thing differently I'd have waited until I was older before getting into this industry. I'd get so frightened of people saying hurtful things I'd put up a barrier, saying, 'I don't care and then they can't hurt me'. But I do care and it does hurt. Because of my style, I come across as hard and in your face. But I'm not like that."
Cher remains very grateful to Simon Cowell for giving her a chance on the show and signing her to his Syco label.
And she denied reports the pair have clashed over her artistic path, adding: "I wouldn't be here without him. Simon gets me and he's got my back. He knows me too well to give me rules - he likes the fact I'm a bit rebellious!"
It is amazing just how self-confident Cher appears in the super-slick surroundings of LA.
Her current lifestyle is a million miles away from her pre-X Factor existence in the backwater of Malvern with mum Dina and dad Darren. Cher admits her drive is fuelled by the childhood bullies who branded her a "gippo" and mocked her dream to become a rapper.
She said: "I grew up in a council house. We were outcasts because we were poorer. I have Romany roots and I'm proud of that. I walked everywhere because I didn't want to get in dad's car because it was like a tin can. People would call me council girl or gippo. I never hit them back but I always said to myself, 'One day... '.
"Now I feel like my day is coming. When I first arrived in LA I was in the penthouse suite at the Mondrian hotel. It was just ridiculous. I wanted my mum and dad here so they could experience it with me."
Talking about her distinctive look - featuring Dr Martens boots, lumberjack shirts and red hair - she insists she is High Street rather than haute couture. Cher said: "I'd rather wear Primark than Prada. I'd rather spend my money making my family happy. I'm saving everything I've got to move my family away."
X Factor viewers watched as Cher clung on to get into the finals despite voting controversies. But the public's criticism was the least of her concerns when she was hit by a family tragedy.
During the live shows Cher's uncle Edward died aged just 34. She said: "I had to go on stage the next day - I sang Shakespears Sister's Stay for him.
"I was really close to him. Before I even auditioned for The X Factor he would say, 'Here's our little Cheryl Cole'. He collected all of my newspaper cuttings and framed them all. I am still hurting a lot."
Cher was dealt another blow earlier this month when she read in The Sun that her boyfriend Karim Roundi, 20, had been cheating on her. She revealed: "It was very hurtful. It made me aware I can't just jump into a relationship and trust people - not now.
"Whenever I meet a boy I take them home to my dad. It made it more hurtful as he got my dad's approval."
When it comes to romance, Cher still has her eyes on fellow X Factor contestant Aiden Grimshaw, 19. The pair were rumoured to have got together during the show and she admitted: "Aiden is my perfect guy. I'd get married to him. He and I are two very different people but he is so quirky." (oh girl :/)
"He makes me laugh all the time - and my dad loves him!" The pair keep in touch and Cher can't wait to join him on the X Factor tour next month - but the same can't be said of all the contestants. Laughing, she said: "I'm not looking forward to seeing Wagner again - I want an injunction against him! He creeps me out. Hopefully he will fall off stage and not be able to perform his latest Pavarotti impression."
But Cher is just excited to not have to perform alone in her bedroom any more. She said: "I always wanted to rap but never really had the guts to do it because I'm just a skinny white girl. Then aged 13 I started rapping secretly because I didn't know whether people would accept me - some people still don't."
Baking Made Easy Season 1 Episode 3 Modern Classics
Preview of 'Baking Made Easy':
Chef, baker and patissier Lorraine Pascale shares her secrets, passion and knowledge on baking sweet and savoury recipes. Featuring old favourites as well as new twists on modern classics, plus tips on helpful shortcuts, techniques and kitchen secrets for baking.
An old favourite gets a makeover, and strawberry and mascarpone Swiss roll is more delicious than ever before.
Airing Details: 8:30 PM on January 24th, 2011 - Monday
Channel: BBC TWO Channel
Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 3
Episode Name: Modern Classics
Chef, baker and patissier Lorraine Pascale shares her secrets, passion and knowledge on baking sweet and savoury recipes. Featuring old favourites as well as new twists on modern classics, plus tips on helpful shortcuts, techniques and kitchen secrets for baking.
An old favourite gets a makeover, and strawberry and mascarpone Swiss roll is more delicious than ever before.
Airing Details: 8:30 PM on January 24th, 2011 - Monday
Channel: BBC TWO Channel
Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 3
Episode Name: Modern Classics
Chuck's Yvonne Strahovski Teases a 'Whole New' Sarah
You’re in good company if your heart was a bit crushed by last week’s interrupted marriage proposal on NBC’s Chuck (airing Mondays at 8/7c). “It’s very sad, isn’t it, what happened,” says Yvonne Strahovski, sharing viewers’ pain.
“[Sarah] wanted it to happen, she wants the proposal,” the actress shares in an exclusive TVLine video Q&A, shown below. Alas, General Beckman’s plan to send Sarah undercover as a “treasonous” CIA agent, all in the name of rescuing Chuck’s mother (played by Linda Hamilton), swung into action before Chuck could even get to “Will you…?”
Also in this not-at-all-unattractive video: Yvonne shares her take on the leather-clad, brunette Sarah making her debut in this week’s episode (“It’s a whole new side of Sarah Walker we’re going to see!”), previews the return of very special (and very funny) guest star, and absolutely effuses about her favorite episode of the season.
Oh, right — Strahovski also weighs in on the matter of Sarah and Chuck ever getting that marriage proposal business taken care of properly.
“[Sarah] wanted it to happen, she wants the proposal,” the actress shares in an exclusive TVLine video Q&A, shown below. Alas, General Beckman’s plan to send Sarah undercover as a “treasonous” CIA agent, all in the name of rescuing Chuck’s mother (played by Linda Hamilton), swung into action before Chuck could even get to “Will you…?”
Also in this not-at-all-unattractive video: Yvonne shares her take on the leather-clad, brunette Sarah making her debut in this week’s episode (“It’s a whole new side of Sarah Walker we’re going to see!”), previews the return of very special (and very funny) guest star, and absolutely effuses about her favorite episode of the season.
Oh, right — Strahovski also weighs in on the matter of Sarah and Chuck ever getting that marriage proposal business taken care of properly.
University Challenge Season 17 Episode 27 Sheffield / Magdalen College, Oxford
Preview of 'University Challenge':
In the first of their quarter-finals, Sheffield University plays Magdalen College, Oxford. Teams must win two quarter-finals to get through to the semi-finals. Jeremy Paxman asks the questions.
Airing Details: 8:00 PM on January 24th, 2011 - Monday
Channel: BBC TWO Channel
Episode Details: Season 17 Episode 27
Episode Name: Sheffield / Magdalen College, Oxford
In the first of their quarter-finals, Sheffield University plays Magdalen College, Oxford. Teams must win two quarter-finals to get through to the semi-finals. Jeremy Paxman asks the questions.
Airing Details: 8:00 PM on January 24th, 2011 - Monday
Channel: BBC TWO Channel
Episode Details: Season 17 Episode 27
Episode Name: Sheffield / Magdalen College, Oxford
The Lakes Season 2 Episode 4
Preview of 'The Lakes':
Observational documentary set in the Lake District. Last year, taxi driver Derrick Bird went on a murderous rampage through Whitehaven, and the programme reveals how some members of the community coped with the tragedy. Back in the South Lakes near Lowick, the show catches up with micro-pig breeder Rob Rose, who is taking two mini-boars to the Bowland Wild Boar Park in Lancashire for breeding so that the park can start to introduce micropigs to their herd. While he is there, Rob cannot resist the chance to try and get in the paddock with some of the really wild boars. With Rory McGrath.
Airing Details: 8:00 PM on January 24th, 2011 - Monday
Channel: ITV1 Channel
Episode Details: Season 2 Episode 4
Episode Name: EPISODE: 4
Observational documentary set in the Lake District. Last year, taxi driver Derrick Bird went on a murderous rampage through Whitehaven, and the programme reveals how some members of the community coped with the tragedy. Back in the South Lakes near Lowick, the show catches up with micro-pig breeder Rob Rose, who is taking two mini-boars to the Bowland Wild Boar Park in Lancashire for breeding so that the park can start to introduce micropigs to their herd. While he is there, Rob cannot resist the chance to try and get in the paddock with some of the really wild boars. With Rory McGrath.
Airing Details: 8:00 PM on January 24th, 2011 - Monday
Channel: ITV1 Channel
Episode Details: Season 2 Episode 4
Episode Name: EPISODE: 4
Fitness Guru Jack LaLanne, 96, Dies at Calif. Home
Fitness guru Jack LaLanne, 96, dies at Calif. home
Fitness guru Jack LaLanne, who inspired television viewers to trim down and pump iron decades before exercise became a national obsession, has died at age 96.
His agent, Rick Hersh, says LaLanne died of respiratory failure due to pneumonia Sunday afternoon at his home in Morro Bay on California's central coast.
Hersh says Lalanne ate healthy and exercised every day of his life up until the end.
LaLanne credited fitness with transforming his life as a teen, and he worked over the next eight decades to transform others' lives, too.
He said, "The only way you can hurt the body is not use it." LaLanne's workout show was a television staple from the 1950s to '70s. He maintained a youthful physique into his 80s.
Jack LaLanne's feats via wiki
-1954 (age 40): swam the entire length of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, underwater, with 140 pounds (64 kg; 10 st) of equipment, including two air tanks. A world record.
1955 (age 41): swam from Alcatraz Island to Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco while handcuffed. When interviewed afterwards he was quoted as saying that the worst thing about the ordeal was being handcuffed, which reduced his chance to Star Jump significantly.
1956 (age 42): set a world record of 1,033 push-ups in 23 minutes on You Asked For It, a television program with Art Baker.
1957 (age 43): swam the Golden Gate channel while towing a 2,500-pound (1,100 kg; 180 st) cabin cruiser. The swift ocean currents turned this one-mile (1.6 km) swim into a swimming distance of 6.5 miles (10.5 km).
1958 (age 44): maneuvered a paddleboard nonstop from Farallon Islands to the San Francisco shore. The 30-mile (48 km) trip took 9.5 hours.
1959 (age 45): did 1,000 star jumps and 1,000 chin-ups in 1 hour, 22 minutes and The Jack LaLanne Show went nationwide.
1974 (age 60): For the second time, he swam from Alcatraz Island to Fisherman's Wharf. Again, he was handcuffed, but this time he was also shackled and towed a 1,000-pound (450 kg; 71 st) boat.
1975 (age 61): Repeating his performance of 21 years earlier, he again swam the entire length of the Golden Gate Bridge, underwater and handcuffed, but this time he was shackled and towed a 1,000-pound (450 kg; 71 st) boat.
1976 (age 62): To commemorate the "Spirit of '76", United States Bicentennial, he swam one mile (1.6 km) in Long Beach Harbor. He was handcuffed and shackled, and he towed 13 boats (representing the 13 original colonies) containing 76 people.
1979 (age 65): towed 65 boats in Lake Ashinoko, near Tokyo, Japan. He was handcuffed and shackled, and the boats were filled with 6,500 pounds (2,900 kg; 460 st) of Louisiana Pacific wood pulp.
1980 (age 66): towed 10 boats in North Miami, Florida. The boats carried 77 people, and he towed them for over one mile (1.6 km) in less than one hour.
1994 (age 80): Once again handcuffed and shackled, he fought strong winds and currents as he swam 1.5 miles (2.4 km) while towing 80 boats with 80 people from the Queensway Bay Bridge in the Long Beach Harbor to the Queen Mary.
Fitness guru Jack LaLanne, who inspired television viewers to trim down and pump iron decades before exercise became a national obsession, has died at age 96.
His agent, Rick Hersh, says LaLanne died of respiratory failure due to pneumonia Sunday afternoon at his home in Morro Bay on California's central coast.
Hersh says Lalanne ate healthy and exercised every day of his life up until the end.
LaLanne credited fitness with transforming his life as a teen, and he worked over the next eight decades to transform others' lives, too.
He said, "The only way you can hurt the body is not use it." LaLanne's workout show was a television staple from the 1950s to '70s. He maintained a youthful physique into his 80s.
Jack LaLanne's feats via wiki
-1954 (age 40): swam the entire length of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, underwater, with 140 pounds (64 kg; 10 st) of equipment, including two air tanks. A world record.
1955 (age 41): swam from Alcatraz Island to Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco while handcuffed. When interviewed afterwards he was quoted as saying that the worst thing about the ordeal was being handcuffed, which reduced his chance to Star Jump significantly.
1956 (age 42): set a world record of 1,033 push-ups in 23 minutes on You Asked For It, a television program with Art Baker.
1957 (age 43): swam the Golden Gate channel while towing a 2,500-pound (1,100 kg; 180 st) cabin cruiser. The swift ocean currents turned this one-mile (1.6 km) swim into a swimming distance of 6.5 miles (10.5 km).
1958 (age 44): maneuvered a paddleboard nonstop from Farallon Islands to the San Francisco shore. The 30-mile (48 km) trip took 9.5 hours.
1959 (age 45): did 1,000 star jumps and 1,000 chin-ups in 1 hour, 22 minutes and The Jack LaLanne Show went nationwide.
1974 (age 60): For the second time, he swam from Alcatraz Island to Fisherman's Wharf. Again, he was handcuffed, but this time he was also shackled and towed a 1,000-pound (450 kg; 71 st) boat.
1975 (age 61): Repeating his performance of 21 years earlier, he again swam the entire length of the Golden Gate Bridge, underwater and handcuffed, but this time he was shackled and towed a 1,000-pound (450 kg; 71 st) boat.
1976 (age 62): To commemorate the "Spirit of '76", United States Bicentennial, he swam one mile (1.6 km) in Long Beach Harbor. He was handcuffed and shackled, and he towed 13 boats (representing the 13 original colonies) containing 76 people.
1979 (age 65): towed 65 boats in Lake Ashinoko, near Tokyo, Japan. He was handcuffed and shackled, and the boats were filled with 6,500 pounds (2,900 kg; 460 st) of Louisiana Pacific wood pulp.
1980 (age 66): towed 10 boats in North Miami, Florida. The boats carried 77 people, and he towed them for over one mile (1.6 km) in less than one hour.
1994 (age 80): Once again handcuffed and shackled, he fought strong winds and currents as he swam 1.5 miles (2.4 km) while towing 80 boats with 80 people from the Queensway Bay Bridge in the Long Beach Harbor to the Queen Mary.
Emergency Bikers Season 2 Episode 8
Preview of 'Emergency Bikers':
Paramedic Mark Hayes tends to a man who has been attacked. And a different kind of emergency biker rescues marine mammals from Scotland's beaches.
Airing Details: 8:00 PM on January 24th, 2011 - Monday
Channel: Five Channel
Episode Details: Season 2 Episode 8
Episode Name: EPISODE: 8
Paramedic Mark Hayes tends to a man who has been attacked. And a different kind of emergency biker rescues marine mammals from Scotland's beaches.
Airing Details: 8:00 PM on January 24th, 2011 - Monday
Channel: Five Channel
Episode Details: Season 2 Episode 8
Episode Name: EPISODE: 8
EastEnders Season 27 Episode 14 2 peas in a pod
Preview of 'EastEnders':
Whitney and Carol's relationship is damaged further in the aftermath of Bianca's imprisonment - but does Ricky have the strength to end their feud? A lonely Roxy makes a huge drunken gesture for best friend Christian, while Max delights in Tanya and Greg's difficult move to Walford. Ryan is stunned when Janine returns to the Square.
Airing Details: 8:00 PM on January 24th, 2011 - Monday
Channel: BBC One Channel
Episode Details: Season 27 Episode 14
Episode Name: 2 peas in a pod
Whitney and Carol's relationship is damaged further in the aftermath of Bianca's imprisonment - but does Ricky have the strength to end their feud? A lonely Roxy makes a huge drunken gesture for best friend Christian, while Max delights in Tanya and Greg's difficult move to Walford. Ryan is stunned when Janine returns to the Square.
Airing Details: 8:00 PM on January 24th, 2011 - Monday
Channel: BBC One Channel
Episode Details: Season 27 Episode 14
Episode Name: 2 peas in a pod
The Birth of Britain Season 1 Episode 2
Preview of 'The Birth of Britain':
Tony Robinson travels from the Scottish Highlands to Glasgow, the Lake District and the banks of the Thames to uncover how ice ages have shaped the country we live in today.
Airing Details: 8:00 PM on January 24th, 2011 - Monday
Channel: Channel 4
Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 2
Episode Name: EPISODE: 2
Tony Robinson travels from the Scottish Highlands to Glasgow, the Lake District and the banks of the Thames to uncover how ice ages have shaped the country we live in today.
Airing Details: 8:00 PM on January 24th, 2011 - Monday
Channel: Channel 4
Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 2
Episode Name: EPISODE: 2
Julia Bradbury's German Wanderlust Season 1 Episode 1
Preview of 'Julia Bradbury's German Wanderlust':
Julia Bradbury takes her boots and backpack to the Continent to explore the landscape of Germany and the cultural movement that made it famous - Romanticism
Airing Details: 7:00 PM on January 24th, 2011 - Monday
Channel: BBC TWO Channel
Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 1
Episode Name: EPISODE: 1
Julia Bradbury takes her boots and backpack to the Continent to explore the landscape of Germany and the cultural movement that made it famous - Romanticism
Airing Details: 7:00 PM on January 24th, 2011 - Monday
Channel: BBC TWO Channel
Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 1
Episode Name: EPISODE: 1
'The Closer': Not Dead Yet?
TNT is not ready to close the book on The Closer. We hear that the cable channel is contemplating ways to extend the hit crime drama starring Kyra Sedgwick, including ordering additional episodes with Sedgwick and continuing the show without her, with another character (Mary McDonnell's Capt. Sharon Raydor, perhaps?) stepping up on the existing series or via a new spinoff series.
Among the scenarios currently discussed at TNT is super-sizing the 15-episode seventh and final season to 21-episodes with an order for 6 extra episodes. That, of course, is contingent on a deal with Sedgwick, whose contract is up at the end of Season 7. Additionally, the cable network is eying a possible 9-episode order for a new series, either The Closer sans Sedgwick in the mold of the transition on NBC’s comedy The Office after the pending exit of star Steve Carell, or a spinoff series featuring characters from The Closer in a new setting. (The latter will probably be a little easier to pull off as Sedgwick plays the title character in the original series.) Two years ago, TNT took a stab at launching a Closer spinoff called The Fixer, about a professional fixer and his daughter, which was to feature two characters from the original series, G.W. Bailey’s Det. Provenza and Tony Denison’s Lt. Flynn.
It would be understandable for TNT to try to extend its flagship show, which remains the most watched basic cable series of all time and this summer helped launch TNT’s most promising series since The Closer, Rizzoli & Isles. (Some say the network may have jumped the gun too soon with the end-of-series announcement on The Closer in early December.)
Additionally, a potential order for 6 more episodes of The Closer along with 9 for a successor series would make a combined 15-episode run, giving TNT another full season to play with that would include a highly-rated 6-episode conclusion of The Closer starring Sedgwick segueing into the show without her. Sedgwick, who in August won her first Emmy for playing Deputy Police Chief Brenda Johnson, had said that she wanted to move on after the end of her current contract for The Closer that is up after Season 7.
Among the scenarios currently discussed at TNT is super-sizing the 15-episode seventh and final season to 21-episodes with an order for 6 extra episodes. That, of course, is contingent on a deal with Sedgwick, whose contract is up at the end of Season 7. Additionally, the cable network is eying a possible 9-episode order for a new series, either The Closer sans Sedgwick in the mold of the transition on NBC’s comedy The Office after the pending exit of star Steve Carell, or a spinoff series featuring characters from The Closer in a new setting. (The latter will probably be a little easier to pull off as Sedgwick plays the title character in the original series.) Two years ago, TNT took a stab at launching a Closer spinoff called The Fixer, about a professional fixer and his daughter, which was to feature two characters from the original series, G.W. Bailey’s Det. Provenza and Tony Denison’s Lt. Flynn.
It would be understandable for TNT to try to extend its flagship show, which remains the most watched basic cable series of all time and this summer helped launch TNT’s most promising series since The Closer, Rizzoli & Isles. (Some say the network may have jumped the gun too soon with the end-of-series announcement on The Closer in early December.)
Additionally, a potential order for 6 more episodes of The Closer along with 9 for a successor series would make a combined 15-episode run, giving TNT another full season to play with that would include a highly-rated 6-episode conclusion of The Closer starring Sedgwick segueing into the show without her. Sedgwick, who in August won her first Emmy for playing Deputy Police Chief Brenda Johnson, had said that she wanted to move on after the end of her current contract for The Closer that is up after Season 7.
Inside Out Season 17 Episode 12
Preview of 'Inside Out':
As the cuts begin to bite, David Akinsanya talks to the homeless charities facing the axe and discovers that the number of rough sleepers in the capital could hit an all-time high. David Whiteley investigates how innocent shoppers are being accused of shoplifting and forced to pay for crimes they didn't commit. And musician Lucinda Belle finds out how the harp is becoming hip again.
Airing Details: 7:30 PM on January 24th, 2011 - Monday
Channel: BBC One Channel
Episode Details: Season 17 Episode 12
Episode Name: EPISODE: 12
As the cuts begin to bite, David Akinsanya talks to the homeless charities facing the axe and discovers that the number of rough sleepers in the capital could hit an all-time high. David Whiteley investigates how innocent shoppers are being accused of shoplifting and forced to pay for crimes they didn't commit. And musician Lucinda Belle finds out how the harp is becoming hip again.
Airing Details: 7:30 PM on January 24th, 2011 - Monday
Channel: BBC One Channel
Episode Details: Season 17 Episode 12
Episode Name: EPISODE: 12
Coronation Street Season 52 Episode 16
TV Show: Coronation Street
Airing Details: 7:30 PM on January 24th, 2011 - Monday
Channel: Granada Channel
Episode Details: Season 52 Episode 16
Episode Name: EPISODE: 16
Airing Details: 7:30 PM on January 24th, 2011 - Monday
Channel: Granada Channel
Episode Details: Season 52 Episode 16
Episode Name: EPISODE: 16
Emmerdale Season 40 Episode 19
Preview of 'Emmerdale':
Carl is arrested after lashing out when he is accused of starting the fire. Aaron insists on spending all of his spare time with Jackson. Turner is unimpressed when Dermot muscles in on his patch.With Tom Lister, Danny Miller, Marc Silcock, Richard Thorp, and Frank Kelly.
Airing Details: 7:00 PM on January 24th, 2011 - Monday
Channel: ITV1 Channel
Episode Details: Season 40 Episode 19
Episode Name: EPISODE: 19
Carl is arrested after lashing out when he is accused of starting the fire. Aaron insists on spending all of his spare time with Jackson. Turner is unimpressed when Dermot muscles in on his patch.With Tom Lister, Danny Miller, Marc Silcock, Richard Thorp, and Frank Kelly.
Airing Details: 7:00 PM on January 24th, 2011 - Monday
Channel: ITV1 Channel
Episode Details: Season 40 Episode 19
Episode Name: EPISODE: 19
It's Time to Stop this Obsession with Works of Art Based on Real Events
Throughout their history, movies have been talked about in terms of dreaming: studios are "dream factories"; Hollywood is "the land of dreams". But scanning the list of contenders for this year's Oscars, such descriptions feels misplaced. The most striking thing about the leading films of the last 12 months is how many draw their inspiration from fact.
The leading Oscar contenders, The King's Speech and The Social Network, both offer fictionalised portraits of familiar but enigmatic public figures – a monarch and a monumentally successful entrepreneur. But it's also true of other hotly tipped releases such as The Fighter (about boxer Micky Ward) and 127 Hours (about rock climber Aron Ralston), as well as films still to hit our screens such as The Conquest (about the early life of President Sarkozy) or next year's Freddie Mercury movie starring Sacha Baron Cohen.
Is this glut of fact-based films a coincidence, or is something fundamental going on? Artists basing work on real people and events is hardly a new phenomenon. Shakespeare was very good at it, as Henry IV and Richard III attest. In Paradise Lost, Milton fictionalised the lives of two figures then regarded as historical: Adam and Eve. One of the greatest of all films, Citizen Kane, was inspired by the life of William Randolph Hearst. Even so, there has been a shift in recent years away from works of pure imagination towards ones that combine fact and fiction. This has been the case in every story-based medium.
Take literature. By far the most successful British novel of the last two years (if you measure success in terms of acclaim as well as sales) has been Hilary Mantel's Booker-winning Wolf Hall, based on the life of Thomas Cromwell. Though a superb literary achievement, Wolf Hall is also not unlike The King's Speech (or indeed The Social Network) in the way it takes a factual story whose contours are already familiar (in this case, the reign of Henry VIII) and attempts to unmask the private truth behind it. It is far from being alone. Accompanying Mantel's novel on the 2009 Booker shortlist were Adam Foulds's The Quickening Maze, about the poet John Clare, AS Byatt's The Children's Book, whose heroine is modelled on the writer E Nesbit, and Simon Mawer's The Glass Room, set in a (real) modernist villa in 1930s Czechoslovakia. Howard Jacobson's two closest challengers for last year's Booker likewise drew their inspiration from real events: Peter Carey, in Parrot and Olivier in America, fictionalised the life of Alexis de Tocqueville, while Emma Donoghue, in Room, gave us an imaginative response to Josef Fritzl. This spring the trend continues, with novels about Herman Melville (by Jay Parini), HG Wells (by David Lodge), and Princess Diana (by Monica Ali), to name a few.
Television and theatre are no different. In recent times BBC4 has churned out endless biopics whose subjects include Fanny Cradock, Kenneth Williams, Enid Blyton and Barbara Cartland. There was the Channel 4 drama The Deal (in which Michael Sheen made his debut as Tony Blair) and the Yorkshire Ripper-inspired Red Riding Quartet. In coming months, there's a BBC2 drama about the Munich air crash and an ITV film about Fred West. On stage, there's been the revival of political theatre, not to mention the spectacular success of plays such as Frost/Nixon and Enron.
What has prompted this flood of fact-based storytelling? The reasons for these kinds of cultural shift are never easy to pinpoint, but this one surely has a lot to do with changing ideas about privacy and truth. Over the past decade or so we have, as a culture, become much less attached to the idea that certain aspects of life should remain private. An increasingly intrusive press regards it as its job to sniff out the secrets of the rich and famous. Respect towards those in positions of authority has dramatically declined. The result is that a terrain to which entry was once largely barred – the private lives of those in the public gaze – has become accessible. And this has given new licence to artists. Even a decade ago, it would have been hard to imagine a film like The Queen – dealing with the relationship between a living monarch and a serving prime minister – being made. Now finding yourself in a novel or film is one of the hazards of being famous.
This scaling back of the private sphere has coincided with something else: a growing belief that it is in personal relationships and feelings that the important truths about the world are to be found. While the concept of a public facade has always existed, it has never held greater sway than it does today. Most people intuitively feel that the majority of what is reported – in newspapers, history books, government documents – is false, or only partly true, and that the important stuff happens behind closed doors, or inside people's heads. This is reflected in the way the New Labour epoch is discussed, with an overriding focus on the relationships between the protagonists and, often, their psychological states.
Yet this belief in a private domain where ultimate truth lies creates a problem. For we can be fed endless information – diaries and memoirs, leaked diplomatic documents – but none will necessarily tell us what went on. The apparatus of factual exposure habitually falls short. This, of course, is where art comes in. Artists may not be better acquainted with the truth than anyone else, but they can do something that others can't: describe plausibly what might have happened.
So much for the causes of our new fondness for factual drama. It is a trend to be welcomed or deplored? It may seem odd to begrudge artists any new outlet for expression that helps them pay the bills. Yet we would do well to be aware of the limitations of fact-based storytelling and recognise the confusions it can produce.
For one thing, if interest in a work of art is triggered by a desire to learn about real events, that represents a radical shift in our understanding of art's purpose. Throughout history, people have turned to art for various reasons, but two consistent ones have been a desire to be entertained or transported and a desire to learn more about what might be called (for want of a better term) the human condition. Yet in a world of docudramas and biopics, another factor enters the picture. Storytelling becomes a kind of lightweight pedagogical aid – almost a branch of investigative journalism. The risk here is that, by being placed at the service of factual knowledge, creativity loses its justification and becomes devalued as a result.
We can see this tendency at work in a comment made in 2009 by BBC4 controller Richard Klein, who defended the channel's reliance on biopics as follows: "As a small digital channel, it's hard to get anyone to come and watch pure fiction that no one has heard of before. Basing our dramas on factually based stories, we can re-examine and reinterpret, but people already have an interest." This depressing statement sums up an attitude that is creeping into our discourse, which is that a good story, on its own, isn't enough to "hook" people; that films, novels and dramas need to be bolstered by topical or historical "relevance."
If the rise of fact-based fiction creates confusion about the point of art, the same applies to our criteria for judging it. A work that re-imagines events becomes subtly different from one that makes up a story. As we saw last week with the "Nazi whitewashing" accusations thrown at The King's Speech, purely aesthetic judgments compete with other questions: how skilfully the storyteller re-creates the past; what version of history is being presented. The inevitable result is that attention is transferred from the work to the skill of the film-maker or writer. There's a necessarily self-conscious quality to films such as The King's Speech and The Social Network and this limits their ability to transport us.
Clever and interesting though such works may be, the truth is that, by the highest standards of art, they are meagre offerings that cannot escape the confines of their reality-bound aspirations. Against them, it is worth considering other recent, truly great, historical films, such as Michael Haneke's White Ribbon, or Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood, or indeed a historical novel like Colm Tóibín's Brooklyn. All are mind-blowing precisely because they are works of imagination that, while set in the past, don't tether themselves too closely to events. The King's Speech and The Social Network may deserve admiration, even acclaim, but in our headlong rush to celebrate them we should bear in mind that great art strives for more.
The leading Oscar contenders, The King's Speech and The Social Network, both offer fictionalised portraits of familiar but enigmatic public figures – a monarch and a monumentally successful entrepreneur. But it's also true of other hotly tipped releases such as The Fighter (about boxer Micky Ward) and 127 Hours (about rock climber Aron Ralston), as well as films still to hit our screens such as The Conquest (about the early life of President Sarkozy) or next year's Freddie Mercury movie starring Sacha Baron Cohen.
Is this glut of fact-based films a coincidence, or is something fundamental going on? Artists basing work on real people and events is hardly a new phenomenon. Shakespeare was very good at it, as Henry IV and Richard III attest. In Paradise Lost, Milton fictionalised the lives of two figures then regarded as historical: Adam and Eve. One of the greatest of all films, Citizen Kane, was inspired by the life of William Randolph Hearst. Even so, there has been a shift in recent years away from works of pure imagination towards ones that combine fact and fiction. This has been the case in every story-based medium.
Take literature. By far the most successful British novel of the last two years (if you measure success in terms of acclaim as well as sales) has been Hilary Mantel's Booker-winning Wolf Hall, based on the life of Thomas Cromwell. Though a superb literary achievement, Wolf Hall is also not unlike The King's Speech (or indeed The Social Network) in the way it takes a factual story whose contours are already familiar (in this case, the reign of Henry VIII) and attempts to unmask the private truth behind it. It is far from being alone. Accompanying Mantel's novel on the 2009 Booker shortlist were Adam Foulds's The Quickening Maze, about the poet John Clare, AS Byatt's The Children's Book, whose heroine is modelled on the writer E Nesbit, and Simon Mawer's The Glass Room, set in a (real) modernist villa in 1930s Czechoslovakia. Howard Jacobson's two closest challengers for last year's Booker likewise drew their inspiration from real events: Peter Carey, in Parrot and Olivier in America, fictionalised the life of Alexis de Tocqueville, while Emma Donoghue, in Room, gave us an imaginative response to Josef Fritzl. This spring the trend continues, with novels about Herman Melville (by Jay Parini), HG Wells (by David Lodge), and Princess Diana (by Monica Ali), to name a few.
Television and theatre are no different. In recent times BBC4 has churned out endless biopics whose subjects include Fanny Cradock, Kenneth Williams, Enid Blyton and Barbara Cartland. There was the Channel 4 drama The Deal (in which Michael Sheen made his debut as Tony Blair) and the Yorkshire Ripper-inspired Red Riding Quartet. In coming months, there's a BBC2 drama about the Munich air crash and an ITV film about Fred West. On stage, there's been the revival of political theatre, not to mention the spectacular success of plays such as Frost/Nixon and Enron.
What has prompted this flood of fact-based storytelling? The reasons for these kinds of cultural shift are never easy to pinpoint, but this one surely has a lot to do with changing ideas about privacy and truth. Over the past decade or so we have, as a culture, become much less attached to the idea that certain aspects of life should remain private. An increasingly intrusive press regards it as its job to sniff out the secrets of the rich and famous. Respect towards those in positions of authority has dramatically declined. The result is that a terrain to which entry was once largely barred – the private lives of those in the public gaze – has become accessible. And this has given new licence to artists. Even a decade ago, it would have been hard to imagine a film like The Queen – dealing with the relationship between a living monarch and a serving prime minister – being made. Now finding yourself in a novel or film is one of the hazards of being famous.
This scaling back of the private sphere has coincided with something else: a growing belief that it is in personal relationships and feelings that the important truths about the world are to be found. While the concept of a public facade has always existed, it has never held greater sway than it does today. Most people intuitively feel that the majority of what is reported – in newspapers, history books, government documents – is false, or only partly true, and that the important stuff happens behind closed doors, or inside people's heads. This is reflected in the way the New Labour epoch is discussed, with an overriding focus on the relationships between the protagonists and, often, their psychological states.
Yet this belief in a private domain where ultimate truth lies creates a problem. For we can be fed endless information – diaries and memoirs, leaked diplomatic documents – but none will necessarily tell us what went on. The apparatus of factual exposure habitually falls short. This, of course, is where art comes in. Artists may not be better acquainted with the truth than anyone else, but they can do something that others can't: describe plausibly what might have happened.
So much for the causes of our new fondness for factual drama. It is a trend to be welcomed or deplored? It may seem odd to begrudge artists any new outlet for expression that helps them pay the bills. Yet we would do well to be aware of the limitations of fact-based storytelling and recognise the confusions it can produce.
For one thing, if interest in a work of art is triggered by a desire to learn about real events, that represents a radical shift in our understanding of art's purpose. Throughout history, people have turned to art for various reasons, but two consistent ones have been a desire to be entertained or transported and a desire to learn more about what might be called (for want of a better term) the human condition. Yet in a world of docudramas and biopics, another factor enters the picture. Storytelling becomes a kind of lightweight pedagogical aid – almost a branch of investigative journalism. The risk here is that, by being placed at the service of factual knowledge, creativity loses its justification and becomes devalued as a result.
We can see this tendency at work in a comment made in 2009 by BBC4 controller Richard Klein, who defended the channel's reliance on biopics as follows: "As a small digital channel, it's hard to get anyone to come and watch pure fiction that no one has heard of before. Basing our dramas on factually based stories, we can re-examine and reinterpret, but people already have an interest." This depressing statement sums up an attitude that is creeping into our discourse, which is that a good story, on its own, isn't enough to "hook" people; that films, novels and dramas need to be bolstered by topical or historical "relevance."
If the rise of fact-based fiction creates confusion about the point of art, the same applies to our criteria for judging it. A work that re-imagines events becomes subtly different from one that makes up a story. As we saw last week with the "Nazi whitewashing" accusations thrown at The King's Speech, purely aesthetic judgments compete with other questions: how skilfully the storyteller re-creates the past; what version of history is being presented. The inevitable result is that attention is transferred from the work to the skill of the film-maker or writer. There's a necessarily self-conscious quality to films such as The King's Speech and The Social Network and this limits their ability to transport us.
Clever and interesting though such works may be, the truth is that, by the highest standards of art, they are meagre offerings that cannot escape the confines of their reality-bound aspirations. Against them, it is worth considering other recent, truly great, historical films, such as Michael Haneke's White Ribbon, or Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood, or indeed a historical novel like Colm Tóibín's Brooklyn. All are mind-blowing precisely because they are works of imagination that, while set in the past, don't tether themselves too closely to events. The King's Speech and The Social Network may deserve admiration, even acclaim, but in our headlong rush to celebrate them we should bear in mind that great art strives for more.
Glee Cast Celebrates Naya's Birthday in Vegas, Daily Mail Bitter they Weren't Invited
She plays a bitchy, backstabbing cheerleader on hit show Glee.
But Naya Rivera was not short of friends to help her toast her 24th birthday in Las Vegas this weekend.
And her fellow Glee clubbers certainly their hair down in sin city as they partied hard at The Bank Nightclub in the Bellagio hotel.
The group, which included star Cory Monteith, as well as Heather Morris, Harry Shum, Jenna Ushkowitz, Chord Overstreet, Kevin McHale and Amber Riley, looked like they'd been at the champagne as they sang Happy Birthday.
While she is in a supporting role onscreen, there was little doubt who was the leading lady at last night's birthday bash. And she played up to the occasion.
Naya, who plays Cheerio Santana, dazzled in a bronze sequinned dress and towering nude heels.
Posing inside the venue, the stunning brunette worked the tiny dress, which showed off her figure with its short hemline and plunging back.
The Glee students are not exactly known for their clean cut antics on the show, and the stars were not shy in letting loose in Las Vegas.
Amber Riley and Chord Overstreet appeared decidedly dishevelled at the party, as Jenna Ushkowitz and Heather Morris giggled and struggled to stay upright.
Meanwhile Kevin McHale blatantly ogled the attractive blonde waitress presenting Naya with her cake.
Cory Monteith appeared to miss out on the birthday cake, but may have been hitting up the casino, tweeting during the night: 'Vegas! Betting it all. Red or black?'
Missing from the festivities were Lea Michele, Chris Colfer and Dianna Agron.
Lea, who stars as good girl Rachel Barry, was held up with mysterious work commitments in Los Angeles.
The actress tweeted: 'It's very rare that u could have so much fun working on a weekend! Can't spill the beans yet as 2 what I was up 2 2day..but it was awesome! (sic)'
Mark Salling, who portrays bad boy Puck on the show, was also noticeably absent.
He and Naya were an item during the first season of the show, but broke up when heartthrob Mark said he was 'not in a committed or exclusive relationship.'
The pair were later forced to deny internet rumours that Rivera had egged and keyed his car when she found out he was seeing other women.
Despite his absence from her birthday, both have insisted they are the 'best of friends.'
The entire cast is riding high after taking home three awards at last week's Golden Globes, including Best Supporting actor gongs for Chris Colfer and Jane Lynch.
A sneak preview of a song from their highly anticipated Superbowl episode, to be aired after the game in the U.S. on February 6, has been released.
The gang sing a mash-up of Michael Jackson's Thriller and Yeah Yeah Yeah‘s Heads Will Roll.
'You can never re-create something as incredible as Thriller, and I don’t think we’re trying to,' Lea Michele recently told Entertainment Weekly. 'We’re making it our own.'
But Naya Rivera was not short of friends to help her toast her 24th birthday in Las Vegas this weekend.
And her fellow Glee clubbers certainly their hair down in sin city as they partied hard at The Bank Nightclub in the Bellagio hotel.
The group, which included star Cory Monteith, as well as Heather Morris, Harry Shum, Jenna Ushkowitz, Chord Overstreet, Kevin McHale and Amber Riley, looked like they'd been at the champagne as they sang Happy Birthday.
While she is in a supporting role onscreen, there was little doubt who was the leading lady at last night's birthday bash. And she played up to the occasion.
Naya, who plays Cheerio Santana, dazzled in a bronze sequinned dress and towering nude heels.
Posing inside the venue, the stunning brunette worked the tiny dress, which showed off her figure with its short hemline and plunging back.
The Glee students are not exactly known for their clean cut antics on the show, and the stars were not shy in letting loose in Las Vegas.
Amber Riley and Chord Overstreet appeared decidedly dishevelled at the party, as Jenna Ushkowitz and Heather Morris giggled and struggled to stay upright.
Meanwhile Kevin McHale blatantly ogled the attractive blonde waitress presenting Naya with her cake.
Cory Monteith appeared to miss out on the birthday cake, but may have been hitting up the casino, tweeting during the night: 'Vegas! Betting it all. Red or black?'
Missing from the festivities were Lea Michele, Chris Colfer and Dianna Agron.
Lea, who stars as good girl Rachel Barry, was held up with mysterious work commitments in Los Angeles.
The actress tweeted: 'It's very rare that u could have so much fun working on a weekend! Can't spill the beans yet as 2 what I was up 2 2day..but it was awesome! (sic)'
Mark Salling, who portrays bad boy Puck on the show, was also noticeably absent.
He and Naya were an item during the first season of the show, but broke up when heartthrob Mark said he was 'not in a committed or exclusive relationship.'
The pair were later forced to deny internet rumours that Rivera had egged and keyed his car when she found out he was seeing other women.
Despite his absence from her birthday, both have insisted they are the 'best of friends.'
The entire cast is riding high after taking home three awards at last week's Golden Globes, including Best Supporting actor gongs for Chris Colfer and Jane Lynch.
A sneak preview of a song from their highly anticipated Superbowl episode, to be aired after the game in the U.S. on February 6, has been released.
The gang sing a mash-up of Michael Jackson's Thriller and Yeah Yeah Yeah‘s Heads Will Roll.
'You can never re-create something as incredible as Thriller, and I don’t think we’re trying to,' Lea Michele recently told Entertainment Weekly. 'We’re making it our own.'
DanRad is a Flashy, Orange .........PUMPKIN
If you had the power to change something in you?
I fear death! I dread it. I know one day he will come knocking on my door. But if possible ... I want to be conspicuously absent! (Laughs) So, I would damn well be invisible. I could escape it better!
Imagine Daniel, it offers tomorrow to become a true magician, a magical humanitarian. How would you use your power?
I'd want the power that allows millions of people in Third World countries to have equal access to our drinking water ... If I were a magical humanitarian, I'd gush fountains, geysers, lakes freshwater in areas which are severely lacking. Water, that's life. Not understanding this is to take the risk of witnessing the wars in areas already highly unstable politically!
On whom you would wish a bad fate?
Do not expect me to give you names! I would not want my magic wand to turn into a whip against me! But I can tell you about the individuals who I generally don't support. I have great difficulty, for example, with people who do not fulfill their commitment. Their incorrectness, selfishness are attitudes that I dislike greatly. Apart from that, I think I'd easily throw a spell on all those who say here and there that Robert Pattinson and myself are fighting a war, thank you! That'd be really great, no matter what!
If you had to transform into an animal you would be ...
A wolf! I love the way the animal moves! It emerges from this beast a sense of power but also a kind of sweetness in her eyes. And as I am a rather chilly person, the idea of being covered with a thick fur would please me more ...
And if it were an object?
A pumpkin! Do not ask me why! This is what comes immediately to mind. I like its hard on the outside and tender inside! And it is an old and very trendy vegetable. Do you know a lot of vegetables if displaying a flashy orange?
And if you were reincarnated into a typically British subject ...
A golf club! It's a sport I love practicing. Unfortunately, I still lack precision in my swing. When I get to the green ... it's, "Take cover!"
If you were reborn in the skin of a famous person?
Bart Simpson! I know it's a cartoon! I've been a fan since forever.
If you could bring back to life a character that you admire?
John Lennon! I so wanted to know! This guy has revolutionized the music of the twentieth century. His compositions, his lyrics will still be sung in a hundred years. He was, moreover, a man of conviction. A true humanitarian for it! I think if he were still alive, he would deploy all his energy to ensure that the lyrics of Imagine became a reality! His talent, his sense of rhythm, his pronouncements are lacking today.
If you could to teleport somewhere in the world?
Bahamas. On an island cut off from everything, away from civilization. Since I'm the face of Harry Potter, I did not see the time coming. My dream is to revive certain parts of my life. I feel I have "flown" through my childhood. The pace of filming of Harry Potter is so intense that I did not see my aging. My only "mirror" ultimately, is the saga that I will be linked to over the years! Strange, no?
If you could relive a moment in your life ...
Probably the day I was given the role in Equus, a play by Peter Shaffer written in 1973. I could finally prove to those who doubted that I could play something other than a bespectacled wizard riding a magic broom!
If you were zapped through a painful moment of your existence?
Whoa! Your question is too personal ... it's me that you'll eventually zap! (Laughs)
I fear death! I dread it. I know one day he will come knocking on my door. But if possible ... I want to be conspicuously absent! (Laughs) So, I would damn well be invisible. I could escape it better!
Imagine Daniel, it offers tomorrow to become a true magician, a magical humanitarian. How would you use your power?
I'd want the power that allows millions of people in Third World countries to have equal access to our drinking water ... If I were a magical humanitarian, I'd gush fountains, geysers, lakes freshwater in areas which are severely lacking. Water, that's life. Not understanding this is to take the risk of witnessing the wars in areas already highly unstable politically!
On whom you would wish a bad fate?
Do not expect me to give you names! I would not want my magic wand to turn into a whip against me! But I can tell you about the individuals who I generally don't support. I have great difficulty, for example, with people who do not fulfill their commitment. Their incorrectness, selfishness are attitudes that I dislike greatly. Apart from that, I think I'd easily throw a spell on all those who say here and there that Robert Pattinson and myself are fighting a war, thank you! That'd be really great, no matter what!
If you had to transform into an animal you would be ...
A wolf! I love the way the animal moves! It emerges from this beast a sense of power but also a kind of sweetness in her eyes. And as I am a rather chilly person, the idea of being covered with a thick fur would please me more ...
And if it were an object?
A pumpkin! Do not ask me why! This is what comes immediately to mind. I like its hard on the outside and tender inside! And it is an old and very trendy vegetable. Do you know a lot of vegetables if displaying a flashy orange?
And if you were reincarnated into a typically British subject ...
A golf club! It's a sport I love practicing. Unfortunately, I still lack precision in my swing. When I get to the green ... it's, "Take cover!"
If you were reborn in the skin of a famous person?
Bart Simpson! I know it's a cartoon! I've been a fan since forever.
If you could bring back to life a character that you admire?
John Lennon! I so wanted to know! This guy has revolutionized the music of the twentieth century. His compositions, his lyrics will still be sung in a hundred years. He was, moreover, a man of conviction. A true humanitarian for it! I think if he were still alive, he would deploy all his energy to ensure that the lyrics of Imagine became a reality! His talent, his sense of rhythm, his pronouncements are lacking today.
If you could to teleport somewhere in the world?
Bahamas. On an island cut off from everything, away from civilization. Since I'm the face of Harry Potter, I did not see the time coming. My dream is to revive certain parts of my life. I feel I have "flown" through my childhood. The pace of filming of Harry Potter is so intense that I did not see my aging. My only "mirror" ultimately, is the saga that I will be linked to over the years! Strange, no?
If you could relive a moment in your life ...
Probably the day I was given the role in Equus, a play by Peter Shaffer written in 1973. I could finally prove to those who doubted that I could play something other than a bespectacled wizard riding a magic broom!
If you were zapped through a painful moment of your existence?
Whoa! Your question is too personal ... it's me that you'll eventually zap! (Laughs)
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