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New Better Off Ted Tonight - 'Battle of the Bulbs'
 Better Off Ted's second season continues tonight with the brand new episode titled 'Battle of the Bulbs'.
Lem flips out when his mother (guest star Khandi Alexander), a brilliant scientist who has always intimidated him, comes to visit and begins an affair with Dr. Bhamba (Maz Jobrani).
Meanwhile, Ted gets miffed when Linda suddenly gets all the credit after she makes a suggestion to improve on his prize project, a light bulb that burns forever.
TONIGHT - 9:30/8:30C on ABC 22 Dec 2009 Posted by: Luke Category: Better Off Ted
Ellen & Portia Win 2 AfterEllen.com 2009 Visibility Awards
 In our annual Visibility Awards, we formally recognize the people who have positively or negatively impacted lesbian and bi visibility in American entertainment during the year.
From Best Movie to Worst Song to Lesbian/Bi Woman of the Year, these awards recognize the television shows, movies, music, books and people who entertained, inspired, or disappointed us in 2009.
BEST VERY SPECIAL LESBIAN EPISODE (AMERICAN)
Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi on The Oprah Winfrey Show 11/09/09 (Syndicated)
It was promoted as "An Oprah Show special event" and it truly was, especially in terms of lesbian visibility. Our favorite wives made a memorable appearance on the show, talking about coming out and falling in love, and sharing a video of their wedding day preparations.
De Rossi even explained the importance of being able to (officially) use the term wife:
"It's a legal stamp of validity. It's hard to know it feels until it happens. I hope everyone gets to have that feeling. The thing about being a gay couple is that, in the past, you referred to your wife and there was quotation marks around it and people could snicker about it. Now, it's fact, it's law she's my wife. I get to say she's my wife and it's a fact".
We couldn't have said it any better ourselves.
LESBIAN COUPLE OF THE YEAR (AMERICAN)
Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi
StuntDouble writes, "For women who thought they might never work in Hollywood again once they came out, Ellen and Portia had one heck of a successful year. Ellen landed herself on the cover of O Magazine and secured a spot as a permanent judge on American Idol. Portia's freshman show, Better Off Ted, was a ratings success, leading to a second season. And the much-hoped-for Arrested Development movie reached the negotiation phase.
Together they became the first gay couple to tackle The Newlywed Game, and in a joint interview with Oprah they spoke more candidly about their relationship than they ever had before.
Oh, and as year-end bonus, Portia smacked down Elisabeth Hasselbeck with ease and aplomb when she started spewing gay marriage nonsense during an interview with de Rossi on The View. We've been watching the clip on repeat since it happened, and we're pretty sure it will carry us into the new year." 22 Dec 2009 Posted by: Luke Category: Portia News
ABC Double-Dipping Better Off Ted and Scrubs
 While it's great that fans of Scrubs will be able to see two episodes of the show each and every week starting January 5, that's actually not a sign that ABC loves the show so much and it gets such great ratings that they want to have it on their schedule as much as possible. They're burning off all of the episodes quickly.
They're doing the same thing with Better Off Ted, which somehow made it to a second season (that's not a comment on the show, I'm talking about how it was a surprise that ABC renewed it). Both shows will have two episodes on Tuesday nights for the next several weeks, and both shows will see their 13 episode seasons end in late January.
Of course, this doesn't necessarily mean that the shows won't be back for another season (after all, we all thought Scrubs was gone a couple of seasons ago), but it probably means that the shows won't be back for another season. 22 Dec 2009 Posted by: Luke Category: Better Off Ted
Better Off Ted Cast Discuss Their Favorite Experiments on the Show
20 Dec 2009 Posted by: Luke Category: Better Off Ted
Better Off Portia - New Article for The Boston Herald
 The actress revels in her dastardly role on ABC sitcom
Portia de Rossi says there’s no way she could ever be like Veronica, the ruthless boss she plays on the ABC comedy Better Off Ted (Tuesday at 9:30 pm).
“I care too much, and I’m attracted to characters that don’t care at all,” de Rossi said in a recent telephone interview.
“I’m always worried about how I come across. Most people want to be liked. To play a character that doesn’t care is very liberating. I wonder what it would be like not to care. I just get to laugh all the time. The absurdity of what Veronica says is so fun to me.”
The 36-year-old said Veronica reminds her of Lindsay Bluth, the character she played on the critically acclaimed Fox comedy Arrested Development.
“Lindsay Bluth was really insensitive, too,” she said. “When Arrested Development ended, it was important for me to go from a brilliant, special show to another brilliant, special show.”
Since Arrested went off the air in 2006, rumors have swirled that a big-screen version of the series is in the works. Alas, de Rossi doesn’t have an update.
“I talked to (executive producer) Ron Howard four weeks ago,” she said. “He seems to think there’s a possibility of the movie being made next spring. But I haven’t seen a script and we all have jobs. I don’t know how we’ll all get together. But I know we all want it to happen. I just have hope like the rest of you guys.”
For now, she’s busy promoting Better Off Ted, which received strong reviews when it debuted last spring but earned mediocre ratings.
“These are the best episodes that we’ve ever done,” she said. “I’m excited to talk about them. For me, this is the best character I’ve ever had on the best show, and I want it to keep going. I want people to see it. All we can do is get the word out there. I would ultimately love this show to go for many, many more seasons.”
The actress also is working on a book about her lifelong battle with eating disorders.
“I just think I have the kind of firsthand information that I can pass on to people that I was looking for when I was struggling,” she said. “The inner workings of how a simple diet can turn into something that is deadly. There’s no lonelier place than struggling with an eating disorder. People can maybe see some similarities and apply it to themselves.”
The Australian native is married to comedian Ellen DeGeneres and has appeared on her wife’s talk show. Asked if the two have ever thought of working together, she sounds genuinely surprised.
“We have never talked about it,” she said, and then laughed. “Maybe I’ll go home and talk about it.”
20 Dec 2009 Posted by: Luke Category: Portia News
New Upcoming Better Off Ted Episode Promotional Stills
20 Dec 2009 Posted by: Luke Category: Better Off Ted
Michael Cera Expects to Shoot Arrested Development Movie in 2010
 If not for Arrested Development, it's hard to imagine there ever would have been a Juno, a Superbad or the unlikely A-list Hollywood star that is Michael Cera. It seems only appropriate, then, that the 21-year-old's New Year's resolution is to finally return to the beloved Bluth family.
"I think sometime next year, hopefully, we'll be shooting," Cera revealed to MTV News on Thursday afternoon (December 17), giving renewed hope to the die-hard fans who've been pining for Arrested Development: The Movie since the groundbreaking comedy was yanked off the air. "I hope [we'll shoot in 2010]. I think that's realistic."
For a good while, the rumor among AD fans was that Cera was the only star from the TV show who didn't want a reunion movie. In January at the Sundance Film Festival, Cera told us the script was "more hypothetical than people think." But now, he's confident enough movement has been made to finally bring Gob, Buster and, of course, Tobias Fόnke back.
"I'm really excited to get to be around everyone again," Cera said, eyeballing a reunion with Jason Bateman, Portia de Rossi, Will Arnett, David Cross and the rest of the gang. "It was so weird when the show was canceled. You're doing a TV show, and it feels like family, and then you're not doing it anymore.
"It was a really strange thing to leave," he added, remembering the unceremonious finale to the criminally low-rated 2003-06 comedy about a wealthy family learning to live after being stripped of their assets. "I'm excited to be around them all again."
But of all the actors on Arrested Development whose careers have skyrocketed since, Cera added, he's particularly excited to reunite with the 20-year-old actress who played his cousin, friend and possible lover.
"I'm excited to get to work with her again," he said of Alia Shawkat. "I'm pretty sure it will happen," Cera added. 20 Dec 2009 Posted by: Luke Category: Arrested Development
Better Off Ted 'The Lawyer, the Lemur and the Little Listener' Screencaptures
20 Dec 2009 Posted by: Luke Category: PortiaPhotos Updates
New Better Off Ted Tonight - 'The Lawyer, The Lemur and the Little Listener'
 Better Off Ted's second season continues tonight with the brand new episode titled 'The Lawyer, The Lemur and the Little Listener'.
When a wave of layoff hits Veridian and little Rose seems to have inside info because of a friend in her Hive playgroup, Veronica tries to pump her for information, much to Ted's disapproval.
Meanwhile, Linda is elated to sell her first children's book - until someone points out that her lead character, a lemur, is the spitting image of Phil - and Lem starts a passionate affair with one of the company lawyers (guest star Chelsey Crisp), only to find out that his paycheck is being docked for the "billable hours" he's spending with his new girlfriend.
TONIGHT - 9:30/8:30C on ABC 15 Dec 2009 Posted by: Luke Category: Better Off Ted
Entertainment Weekly Gives Better Off Ted an A-
 Scrubs and Better Off Ted, both back for new seasons, work on the absurdist, surreal side of sitcoms. Set firmly in the workplace-comedy genre, Scrubs and its medical backdrop, and Ted and its Veridian Dynamics company, regularly unmoor themselves from reality. The musical numbers that Scrubs' J.D. (Zach Braff) and Turk (Donald Faison) break into, or Ted's company-mandated dating based on genetic compatibility, are loopy larks that require likable characters we can relate to; otherwise, the foolishness would become irritating.
Scrubs is pushing the irritation envelope as it returns from the near dead in a revised form. Zach Braff is committed for only a half-dozen episodes, and other regulars are gone or scheduled for a few cameos (Christa Miller is snuggled down in Cougar Town, for example, and Neil Flynn's janitor is a dad on The Middle). So Scrubs has recruited some new hospital students.
You can see how show creator Bill Lawrence and his writers are attempting an internal spin-off. Kerry Bishι plays Lucy, a new student in the medical school that is the show's updated setting. Lucy is one of J.D.'s students…in more ways than one. As was evident from the back-to-back episodes that premiered Dec. 1, she is going to gradually, steadily take over the funny voice-over narration that J.D. did.
Right now Lucy is just a wide-eyed innocent with eager-beaver ambition, but she's verging on dumb. In other words, the writers need to get a fix on that character fast, or she won't be someone to root for. Of the other newbies, I like the bratty, entitled Cole (Dave Franco, younger brother of some guy gueststarring on General Hospital) and grumpy Drew (Michael Mosley, a David Simon recruit from The Wire and Generation Kill[i/]).
Thank goodness [i]Better Off Ted has returned intact. I love everything about this show, from star Jay Harrington's delivery of Ted's straight-man lines with WASP ramrod posture to the show's up-front critiques of corporate capitalism. The first two episodes contain strong subplots about staff downsizing and rolled-back pensions, indicators that Ted is doing a better job of folding real-life resonances into its silliness.
Not that the silliness isn't out in force. The first episode found a way to bring Portia de Rossi's predatory boss in contact with Malcolm Barrett's lowly researcher Lem (she needed his sperm 'scuse me, ''my baby ingredients,'' he called them). The second episode revived a subplot I thought had been dropped: Linda's (Andrea Anders) desire to be a children's-book author. Well, that was the ostensible plot. It was really just an excuse for fine moments such as Linda's spontaneous nickname for Ted (''Bloopity-bloo'') and Ted's immortal observation ''Hmmm, Tasered flesh smells bacon-y.''
I think we're all better off with Ted.
Scrubs: C+
Better Off Ted: A 10 Dec 2009 Posted by: Luke Category: Better Off Ted
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