Burning Love (E!, 10 p.m.) — Series premiere. Kind of. Burning Love is a hilarious web series that, for unknown, awesome reasons, E! bought the rights to broadcast on TV. The reality dating show spoof stars Ken Marino, with special guests Michael Ian Black, Kristen Bell, Jennifer Aniston, Ben Stiller, June Diane Raphael, and Paul Scheer, among a billion other funny people. It’s like another Party Down, but on an even worse network.
Adventure Time (Cartoon Network, 7:30 p.m.) — “Vault of Bones” sounds like an amazing Game of Thrones spinoff.
How I Met Your Mother (CBS, 8 p.m.) — It’s shocking that it’s taken this long for How I Met to do an episode called “Weekend at Barney’s,” especially considering how much Ted reminds me of a propped-up corpse.
Carrie Diaries (CW, 8 p.m.) — It’s a Christmas episode, proving The CW cares about timeliness more than NBC.
Bunheads (ABC Family, 9 p.m.) — Season finale. My favorite show that I’m ashamed to admit I kind of love concludes its wonky first season tonight, with an episode fittingly titled “Next.” Hopefully, there is a next — ABC Family hasn’t announced if Bunheads will be picked up for season two — though I wouldn’t mind not having to see a Pretty Little Liars MOST SHOCKING SECRET EVER promo again.
LATE NIGHT GUESTS: Alec Baldwin and Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell on Letterman; Russell Crowe and Eli Roth on Leno; Matthew Fox on Kimmel; Keith Olbermann on Ferguson; Alan Cumming, Michael Phelps, Kate Upton, and Unknown Mortal Orchestra on Fallon; Zooey Deschanel, Bret McKenzie, and Japandroids on Conan (!!!); Donnie Wahlberg on Stewart; and Simon Garfield on Colbert.
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The Burning Love live panel a couple of weeks ago was fucking awesome. They sort of touched on why E! got it, and I guess it was as simple as E! just winning the bidding war and not being complicated with contracts.
Burning Love is phenom. I think so far, despite the amount of talent on the second season (now airing on Yahoo!) I actually liked the first season better. Most of that is Marino, though. He plays such a good dummy.
If “Burning Love” is half as funny as “Childrens Hospital” then count me in.
I think it’s way funnier.
After the first two entries I was like “IT’S GOING TO BE THE GREATEST NIGHT OF TV EVER WOOHOO!!!” but things went downhill very swiftly.
I will buy Burning Love when it comes out on DVD. It’s that good. The women are also smoking hot, which never hurts. I didn’t even know there was a second season.
Not sure I get the Bunhead affection. I turned in for one episode when I first saw it mentioned a while back and it felt… well… not like an after school special… more like those shows that would air after school that were geared to teenagers, like Saved By The Bell. I rolled my eyes enough to get eye strain.
But then that would kind of make sense. I think I’m the only person on the planet who didn’t appreciate SbtB in all its cheesiness.
It has its ups and downs, and is definitely not for everyone. but overall it’s a solid show with a great cast and moments of being really really good. That being said it IS on ABC Family, so I think they’re contractually obligated to spend a certain amount of time each week on teenage girl melodrama :/
I’d say give it a 2-3 episode test, especially if you happened to like Gilmore Girls. Sure it’s no Breaking Bad or Mad Men, but damn it sometimes I just want a light, entertaining show where people talk really fast at each other and this fits the bill perfectly.
My wife watches Bunheads, and while I don’t pay much attention to it, I also don’t openly cheer for the characters to die and complain when a fiery airplane crashes fails to kill off enough of them like I do with Grey’s Anatomy.
Well, I do endorse a pro-Gilmore girls/anti-Grays Anatomy platform.
It’s about time someone mentioned Burning Love. It’s the funniest thing on the internet.
“especially considering how much Ted reminds me of a propped-up corpse.”
False. The corpse still had charisma. And “gifts.” Ted is a black hole destroying everything he’s in the vicinity of.
I may watch “Burning Love”, but I don’t know. I don’t have DVR and the trade off of a good show and Kardashian Kommercials isn’t really balancing out for me.
CONANDO!! SI!!
A better headline would have been “If you were down with “Party Down,” you’ll love “Burning Love.”
Up with skirts!
NBCuniversal (Bonnie Hammer) is pushing for a lot of new scripted shows to land on E! in the future. Surprised to see a comedy as the first, I can’t wait to see this show.
“I look at you, and you’re a beautiful woman. But then, your insides are full of monkey.”
Stayed up for Conan to find the wrong McKenzie. It’s just been raining…on my face…
Burning Love was outstanding. Just the right amount of Michael Ian Black.