
The Taste (ABC, 8 p.m.) — I need another cooking competition like Lindsay Lohan needs another hole in her head, but hey! This one features Anthony Bourdain and Nigella Lawson. Come for Bourdain’s cutting insults, and stay for the Nigella eye-candy. Also, The Taste is pre-empting Happy Endings and Don’t Trust the B—-, and we may never see another Don’t Trust the B— again.
New Girl (Fox, 9 p.m.) — “Winston and Cece have an embarrassing encounter.” That could mean so many things, but none of them come to mind at the moment.
Parenthood (NBC, 10 p.m.) — It’s the season finale of Parenthood, which — like last year — received a reduced order so that NBC could bring in Smashed because the people over on NBC are not very bright (though, clearly smarter than the people on Fox News). Bring a second box of tissues, because Parenthood season finales are even weepier than regular episodes.
Private Practice (ABC, 10 p.m.) — It’s the series finale, which is the only reason I mention it. I won’t make that mistake again.
Emily Owens (CW, 9 p.m.) — The CW officially canceled this show back in November. It’s nearing the end of January. WHY IS IT STILL ON? I’m not sure CW understands what canceled means.
LATE NIGHT LISTINGS: Dana Carvey (where has he been?) is on Leno, along with Emmy Rossum; Julie Bowen is on Kimmel; JLo is on Jon Stewart; and Kathryn Bigelow will be on The Colbert Report.



Private Practice is the Grey’s Anatomy spin off from a few years ago, right? It’s only ending now? Not… I dunno, after 3 or 4 episodes made it to air?
I would watch Nigella read the phone book for an hour.
Only if she gradually disrobed while reading. Maybe one article of clothing for every mispronunciation, or something like that.
Jesus, you guys will find any girl hot, hey? That bitch is fat.
See Raylan get his ass kicked by Sexy Bartender’s husband.
That should have been today’s WOT headline
I hope in the very first episode of The Taste a contestant runs up to Anthony Bourdain and lops his head off like Lucy Liu in Kill Bill
Het Tony, congrats on completely selling out.
I laugh at the New Girl comercial with Schmitt’s half-shaved eyebrows everytime that thing comes on. Not often you see a totally original gag.
I bet Lindsay Lohan could make use of another hole in her head.
I know I could.
So are we not going to talk about last night’s premiere of The Following? That show was the tits.
I plan on watching it On Demand, it looks amazing.
I couldn’t record it due to conflicts on my DVR, but I plan to watch it On Demand. It looked super good!
DVRed and waiting at home.
FYI, FOX is rebroadcasting the episode from Monday on Friday at 8.
I was pretty impressed with it. Seems like there are a ton of different ways they can take the show.
Also, terrible guacaMOLE cop isn’t in future episodes.
You were totally justified not to mention Justi.. oh shit.
FUCK YOU……JUSTIFIED
I watched The Taste, aka 3 Obnoxious Male Chefs and a British Lady Whose Accent Makes Her More Credible, last night. It’s now officially impossible to take Bordain’s “I’m so edgy” persona serious anymore. Props for getting paid, but he can no longer tweet snarky comments about other chefs or advertising. YOU’RE ON THE FOOD VERSION OF “THE VOICE!” ON ABC!!! So punk rock. I miss No Reservations even more now.
It was pretty much impossible to watch. Nigella is hot, fine, but so is every chick on the internet. I couldn’t take the sheer douchiness of the whole thing. The unfunny, mostly awkward banter between the contestants and the chefs was also quite off putting.
While we’re ragging it, the worst part was listening to the chef’s name drop all the countries they’ve been to. “Ahv’ yoo been to Italy? I ahv’ and thees ees not crudo!” Hey Ludo (really btw? You go by Ludo?) You’ve been in the States for a while now. Stop overdoing the accent.
Ok so really the worst and most confusing aspect was that it was an endless stream of the judges tasting food, disliking it and telling people no. Now THAT’s great television!
Also, did we really need two hours of that shit?