Two and a Half Men

Two and a HaThey say that lightning never strikes the same place twice.

But Two and a Half Men star Jon Cryer has revealed he could not believe it when the show became engulfed in the fallout of yet another high profiled meltdown.

He admitted he could not believe when Ashton Kutcher, who replaced the fired Charlie Sheen, showed him a video of  show star Angus T. Jones' infamous 'filth' rant.

The 19-year-old actor, who has been in the show since its inception, launched a tirade against the sitcom in a video he filmed with his church pastor.

But while he was shocked, he said living through former co-star Sheen's falling out with creator Chuck Lorre left him better prepared for it than Ashton.

He told Fox411: 'It is surreal to be part of several internet s*** storms. 

'When the latest one happened Ashton came up to me and he looked like he had seen a ghost and he was like, "Did you hear about Angus?"

'And I was like, "He is ok?" He said, "sort of," and he showed me the video.

'And as I said having become a veteran of the internet s**t storm afterward I just looked at Ashton and said, "Well do you think he still wants to go in on the crew gift?"

'It’s just been one after the other. 'My life has taken a lot of strange turns.

'Mostly I’m just glad everybody is still alive.'

And while some people have claimed the show is cursed, the Pretty in Pink favourite doesn't agree.

The star, who has one two Emmys for his role as Alan Harper on the CBS hit, said: 'It is crazy. I have no explanation for it. 

'You could say the show is cursed except the show has been cursed with being monumentally successful so it’s hard to call that a curse.

'Angus’ one was so minor because I wasn’t actually worried that any actual harm would come to him and he’s already been back to work several times.'

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As host and executive producer of the late-night talk show "Jimmy Kimmel Live" for the ABC Television Network, Jimmy Kimmel is a busy man. Like most talk shows, "Jimmy Kimmel Live" features celebrity guests, comedy bits and live music. Unlike most talk shows, it also features Jimmy's family – including his cousin Sal, his parents and Aunt Chippy. His childhood best friend, Cleto Escobedo, serves as bandleader, alongside his dad, Cleto Escobedo, Sr., on saxophone. "Jimmy Kimmel Live" airs weeknights at 12:00 a.m. 

Kimmel has hosted the American Music Awards on ABC five times. He also was the host of the ESPY Awards in July 2007. He co-created and executive-produced the hit MTV2 series' "The Andy Milonakis Show" and "Crank Yankers." In addition, Kimmel co-hosted Comedy Central's "The Man Show," served for four seasons as on-air prognosticator for "Fox NFL Sunday," and co-hosted Comedy Central's long-running and popular game show, "Win Ben Stein's Money," for which he received two Emmy nominations and one win for Best Game Show Host in 1999. Kimmel has also served as roastmaster for Comedy Central's roasts of both Hugh Hefner and Pamela Anderson. 

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Born in Brooklyn, NY, and raised in Las Vegas, NV, Kimmel began his career in morning radio. Fired from stations in Phoenix, Seattle, Tampa and Tucson, Kimmel's luck finally changed as Jimmy the Sports Guy on KROQ-FM Los Angeles' "Kevin and Bean Show," where his popular comedy sportscasts never even got him fired once. 

Kimmel currently resides in Los Angeles.

‘Nashville,’ Season 1, Episode 7, ‘Lovesick Blues’:

It has been two weeks since we last convened in Nashville so let’s get right to it. Juliette and Sean Butler are getting cozy with their lips at Juliette’s house when her manager breaks the news that football fans and tabloids are blaming her for Sean’s poor performance in recent games. At the label, she gets more bad news—they only want her to sing one song at the Edgehill anniversary concert at Ryman Auditoriam and moreover, they want her to do a duet with Rayna. Juliette Barnes is not amused.

Avery is feeling kind of sad even though his career is taking off. His new manager has booked a gig at a fancy venue but he can’t really enjoy his change in fortune because he knows Scarlett won’t be in the audience, staring at him adoringly. Avery made his bed but he sure doesn’t like having to lie in it.

At the Bluebird, Deacon is performing a mournful song and Scarlett can barely hold it together, crying silently, wiping the tears away. The break up has left her a bit of a mess. Gunnar sidles up to her, tries to make sure she’s ok, and suggests she writes her tears away but she says, “it’s just not there.”

In a late evening meeting just between candidates, Coleman tells Teddy he learned a lot from Lamar about playing to win and gives Teddy until the weekend to withdraw from the mayoral race. Teddy gets indignant, particularly when Coleman hands him the pictures of Teddy in a questionable embrace with Peggy.

There’s also plenty of indignation to go around at Juliette’s house as she talks through all the reasons why she doesn’t want to perform with Rayna. Unfortunately, her manager disagrees and yet again, she might not get her away. She cannot seem to stop her star from falling further still.

Lamar, Tandy, and Teddy are scheming at Lamar’s home, trying to find a way toexplain the photos of Teddy and Peggy. Teddy, “of course,” doesn’t want to subject his wife and daughters to the scandal but Lamar and Tandy insist Teddy can explain the photos without disclosing his credit union embezzling misdeeds so long as they get rid of Peggy. It’s not clear if they mean to rid Nashville of Peggy permanently or temporarily but knowing Lamar, either option is possible.

Deacon is leading the house band for the anniversary show so he runs into Rayna  at rehearsal and they fall into an easy rhythm real fast. You can’t fight chemistry. They’re interrupted by Marshall, the head of the label, who tells Rayna she’ll have to perform a duet with Juliette. Rayna says hell no, and insists she doesn’t take orders while Marshall says he’s not asking. He walks away with the threat of releasing her greatest hits album, immediately, lingering in his wake. A little later, Rayna has a change of heart after talking to Liam. She tells Buck to tell Marshall she’ll do the duet so long as she gets to make her own album, with her music, produced by Liam. Looks like Rayna is learning how to play the game.

Hailey, Gunnar’s girlfriend, tells Scarlett the best way to get over a man is to get under another. At some point we’ll have to talk about how this is not really true. In the meantime, Scarlett gets all gussied up and when Gunnar sees her at the bar, all he can say is, “Wow.” Not a moment later, a man has asked Scarlett to dance.  After, she and the guy are kissing and Gunnar ruins the moment by pulling them apart and acting all offended and puritanical.

It’s a diva showdown at the anniversary show rehearsal. Juliette cuts right to the chase by letting Rayna know they can skip pretending to like each other. Rayna smirks and shrugs it off but not for long. It’s clear they can’t agree on a song, neither woman offering the other an ounce of respect. Rayna cuts Juliette right down to size by talking about how she helped make the label and how Juliette hasn’t earned her place. Juliette is quietly stunned and stalks out. Deacon, ever her knight in shining armor, sets Rayna straight and reminds her that once upon a time, Rayna was told her sound wasn’t country enough. He leaves her with his cold disapproval and a copy of Undermine, the song he co-wrote with Juliette, telling Rayna the younger singer has it in her to be a great songwriter. Rayna stares after him, quietly stunned, too.
At the hallowed Ryman Auditorium, Juliette is trying to gather herself and stay in the moment. Sean Butler shows up with flowers and all kinds of romantic talk about how much he wants to make love to her but won’t because he respects her too much and wants to get to know her. Millions of eyes roll, such cynical hearts.

Right before they go on stage, Rayna and Juliette agree they never want to perform together again which is television foreshadowing for, They’re going to be performing together all the time now. Turns out, they wrote a song together, a tough girl, put a man in his place anthem. Together, they make some magic, bringing funk and sass. From the audience, Marshall says the song is going to be huge. They strut all over the stage and flirt with Deacon and then Liam and Deacon even get into some guitar dueling. It’s all very exciting. By the end of the song, the crowd goes wild. Liam and Deacon fist bump. Even Rayna and Juliette give each other careful smiles. There’s gonna be some change coming to Nashville. You can just tell.

COMMUNITY Season 4 Episode 11 Basic Human Anatomy

ANNIE AND SHIRLEY PLOT TO SAVE THEIR SPOT AS CLASS VALEDICTORIAN – TROY AND ABED ACCIDENTALLY SWITCH BODIES – When Annie (Alison Brie) and Shirley (Yvette Nicole Brown) learn that Leonard (Richard Erdman) is actually holding the spot as the class valedictorian, they join forces to bring him down. Meanwhile, Troy (Donald Glover) and Abed (Danny Pudi) reminisce about one of their favorite body switching films and when they inadvertently re-enact a critical scene, things start becoming a little funky at Greendale. Joel McHale, Chevy Chase, Gillian Jacobs, Ken Jeong and Jim Rash also star.

vampire diares Season 4, Episode 20 - The Originals

Klaus goes to New Orleans to investigate a mysterious piece of information about a plot against him. His research leads him to an old protege of him, Marcel, a vampire who is in control of both the humans and supernatural creatures of the city. Elijah is determined to help Klaus get his redemption, follows him and finds out that Hayley, who had visited the city searching for clues of her family, was captured by a powerful witch, Sophie. At the same time, in Mystic Falls, Damon and Stefan go on with their plan with Elena, and Katherine reveals a vulnerability to Rebekah and asks her to make a message delivery.

Grey's Anatomy

Episode 21
 Sleeping Monster

Bailey finds herself at the center of a CDC investigation surrounding the death of several of her patients, as Jackson and the rest of the board members argue over how to address the crisis with the public. Meanwhile, Cristina teases Alex about his unspoken feelings for Jo, and Owen continues to take special care of Ethan as the condition of his parents remains uncertai.

The Following "The End Is Near" Review: Not Near Enough

Being Debra Parker seems like a lot of work.

Between giving people obvious orders so that the audience understands why your team is about to be comically ineffectual and finding ways to become a liability at every turn, she has to be exhausted at the end of the day. I imagine that she must come home, kick off of those shoes, melt into an Olivia Pope-inspired bowl of wine on a stem, and just reflect on how she's George Costanza-ing her career.

Although, I'm not really sure it's George Costanza-ing, because that would mean doing the opposite of your impulses to better results. It seems like she thinks of the best decision, does the opposite, and it becomes the worst thing that ever happened to her.

It troubles me, watching how ineffectual she is as a manager, how passive she is as a leader, and how weak she is while being in charge of a team that's been proven to constantly be in danger while she can barely control her weapon. Did you see her shooting in the hallway? Each kickback was like someone had just caught her gun while fishing and refused to let that treasure go. Emma had a better time handling the recoil, and she's just a frail pixie visiting our human world. Also, I've been yelling "Stop going down dark hallways alone!" so often that I'm starting to think people on TV can't hear me.

So she did go down that hallway alone and she did send that poor soldier away without any backup or cover and she did get buried alive (or at least that's what we were led to believe from how the episode trailed off). Which is sort of fitting, because so many of Poe's characters in stories revolving around being buried alive suffer from some sort of catalepsy, and Parker can often be confused for being completely braindead.

Oh, that might not be fair to Parker, since she's supposed to just be a cult expert, not a natural born leader or gruff military type. But the bureaucracy of the FBI seems to always set her up to fail and it's miserable to watch. There are times where I feel like our weekly poll could be comprised entirely of things Parker did.

But she can't take all the blame for this week's shenanigans because everyone got duped by some weak plans by a hack writer. I can't help but think that if they could've jumped to the same conclusion we all arrived at almost instantly, everything would've ended up a little happier. Let's run through our collective thought process regarding the episode: Reporter mentioned that everyone should hide out in the recreation center. The murder cult people were not only out and about, but right there in the same crowd, and they even stabbed the reporter. They were all in danger. We knew they were all in danger because, even without reading "Mask of the Red Death," any time people gather together in one spot and it's expressly mentioned, it's a terrible idea.

But Parker's FBI didn't have the benefit of our limited omniscience. They did, however, have a working knowledge of the story Carroll hinted at all episode, from the book to the stabby telegram. Watching them work it out among themselves was painful. As soon as they mentioned the plot of "Red Death," you all knew immediately where Carroll's minions were. While they struggled to find the answer, you were painfully aware of what the next step would be. But Ryan's seeming precognition of Carroll's behavior didn't help him.

I don't blame Hardy & Co. for running for the evacuation after what felt like a tortuously long scene. I mean, it was weird that the police wanted to round up civilians like sitting ducks, since they didn't seem to be doing a whole lot of security on the building (maybe they asked, "Are you in a murder cult?" at the door). But the sheer theatricality, even if it was convenient for Carroll that the police did ask everyone to assemble rather than employing a curfew or telling everyone to stay in their homes until they were done sweeping the area (maybe that's just us living in a post-Boston-bombing world), would be enough to attract the full force of the FBI's mighty hand. With all these pieces falling into place, how could this not be the plan Carroll had all along?

The other person I don't blame: Jacob. I liked that Jacob looked around and basically said, "Hey, I don't want to be a red shirt." Because Aaron—my pick for standing on Carroll's charred remains and laughing hysterically as the last one left—died, really, for no good reason. The followers at the rec center were basically target practice for the Keystone Kops (did Hardy add to his body count?). And the cult has a history of losing so many people along the way, martyrs for Carrollism. Jacob said he loved Joe (a facet of the story that has yet to convince me—Carroll doesn't seem engaging enough to command that kind of adoration) but it was time to get the heck out.

Forgiving Emma was terrible, though. When Emma came in sobbing, "I hate what I did to you," I wanted Jacob to still be furious. He was trapped. There was nothing else but death for him because he couldn't run and there was definitely no chance for him to have a normal life again. He had to stay in the cult and do Carroll's bidding. His life was ruined. And I get the sense that all of that was Emma's fault. He just wanted to do a couple activity. But instead of taking a trip to the Grand Canyon or going on a spa getaway, Emma wanted to be part of a cult. Her trespasses, leaving Jacob to die and being Joe's sexual outlet while he was in crisis, are the kind it's okay to hold a grudge for. But he forgave her. And he paid the price for being so very stupid. But it's just as well. How many times could Jacob come around the corner and announce, "You killed them." Yes, Jacob. She's in a murder cult.

Speaking of forgiveness, the show desperately wants us to forgive Claire for being a harpy for most of the season. After we facepalmed last week when Claire stabbed once and hoped Carroll would just keel over from a flesh wound, she made herself useful this week in freeing the hostages. I can appreciate that she stabbed Carroll again in the same spot because, cripes, that has to hurt. But it's interesting that she never went in for the kill. She basically had Joe on the ropes while Emma and Jacob were, based on how long it took them to react, arranging the cop bodies in dirty positions ("I think that's illegal in Virginia!"). She could've ended it right there by putting him down. Instead, she kicked him and caused him more pain. Then they ran. Obviously, the show doesn't want to kill Carroll off, but considering all the hate she harbors and the obvious disregard for his well-being, it's becoming more apparent that she'd rather not be the monster slayer.

The next time we meet will be the finale! Who will survive? Who will Ryan shoot next? Will Carroll kill Claire and dump her in the ocean? Or will Claire get Stockholm Syndrome and want to stay with her ex-husband? Will Hardy have any more awkward and inappropriate post-coital pillow talk? Stay tuned for the (almost assuredly) ridiculous conclusion to Season 1 of The Following!

NOTES

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– The final chapter has begun? This is the end of the book? Was it a novella? I know that Carroll had some other things in mind that Roderick's betrayal and scores of dead followers may have affected but Joe really made it seem like he had all sorts of puzzles and tricks for Ryan but, outside of that one "kill all the Claires" chapter, there weren't really a whole lot of obstacles. I bet Joe's feeling pretty sheepish about making a big deal about it early on. Probably wished he'd slow-played his hand a little.

– Part of the Carroll School of Killing with Love must be shushing them while they die. It's an art to murder someone and then tell them to be quiet while life escapes them. And the dying people do it like they have something to lose. Hey, you're dying. If you want to sob or yell or gurgle the blood that's filling your throat, you should go ahead and do it. What's the worst that can happen? You die faster?

– Hey, FBI agents: Stop getting kidnapped.

– I'm 95 percent sure Parker's going to get out of the box alive, but why are the cult members doing that? You have to wonder why they're going through the trouble of burying her, how they had the box available to bury her in, and what the overall purpose of keeping her alive long enough to die slowly is? I'm guessing all will be revealed next week but it seems pretty silly right now.