It’s Valentine’s Day weekend and I’ve got your guide to what to watch — with our without a sweetie — this weekend. Plus, why “Ugly Betty” is about to get a little less “Ugly.”
“Ugly Betty” – Brace Face No More!
Well, it’s not going to save the show from cancellation – that news has already been announced – but at least Betty (America Ferrera) won’t have that shiny smile anymore. ABC confirms that after four long seasons, Betty will finally get her braces off before the end of the series. Kathy Najimy will play the role of the orthodontist who finally frees Betty’s pearly whites from their silver prison. Apparently, Betty’s original orthodontist was too busy to do the deed. Jesse Tyler Ferguson played the doctor in a couple of episodes. I’m guessing he is a little too busy working on a little show called “Modern Family,” where he plays half of TV’s best gay couple.
Weekend TV Watching
Tonight on NBC, it’s the Opening Ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Games. Saturday’s primetime events will feature alpine skiing, freestyle skiing and speed skating. Apolo Anton Ohno eyes gold in the men’s 1500 meter. Sunday’s primetime events will include figure skating, alpine skiing, luge and freestyle skiing. Alpine phenom Lindsey Vonn debuts in the women’s combined. To check out the full schedule, go to www.nbcolympics.com
There are plenty of options to watch other than the Olympics on NBC this weekend. Not that I’m discouraging you from that. However, it is after all the first weekend of sweeps, which means brand new episodes of your favorite shows abound on Sunday – assuming you are not out celebrating Valentine’s Day with someone special. You can always set your DVR though.
FOX has all new episodes of its animated line up “The Simpsons,” “The Cleveland Show,” “Family Guy” and “American Dad.” “The Simpsons” gets into the Olympic spirit in this episode when Marge and Homer take a liking to curling and wind up at the Olympic trials. Bob Costas has a cameo. The Black Eyed Peas beauty Fergie cameos on “The Cleveland Show” as a love interest to Holt.
On ABC, “Desperate Housewives” takes a break this week and in its place is a two-hour “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” where actor and filmmaker Tyler Perry pitches in to help build a home for a Maryland couple who devote their time to mentoring underprivileged kids.
CBS premieres the 16th season of “The Amazing Race” on Sunday night. Eleven teams will battle it out in a cross country trek, which begins in Chili this season. The most famous face this season is that of 20-year-old Caite Upton. She’s best known as the former Miss South Carolina who competed in the Miss Teen USA pageant in 2007 and botched the answer to the question, “Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can’t locate the U.S. on a world map. Why do you think this is?” Her rambling response of, “because, uh, some, people out there in our nation don’t have maps and, uh, I believe that our, uh, education like such as, uh, South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and, I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S,” earned her lots of airplay all over the cable news networks and as a punch line on the late night shows.
A refresher of Caite’s 2007 Miss Teen USA flub HERE for your enjoyment.
Will she redeem herself on “Amazing Race.” I guess you will have to tune in and find out.
HBO premieres a new show Sunday night, from the team who brought us “Entourage” (including Mark Wahlberg), called “How To Make It In America.” The show stars Bryan Greenberg, best known from the short-lived ABC show “October Road”, as a twenty-something guy trying to make a name for himself as a men’s jeans wear designer. To get the money to start his business he works at Barney’s New York, but with the help of a friend decides perhaps it would be easier to hustle the money from alternative sources, including a drug dealer and a slimy hedge fund manager.
At the show’s New York City premiere, Greenberg told us, as a once struggling actor, he could relate to the struggle of his character. “When I was finishing theater school, you know, I had no money. I had all these student loans. I’m trying to, you know, chase my dream as an actor and I have to take all these crappy jobs just to get by and just to audition,” he said. “So I can definitely relate to the hustle. I mean my character is borrowing money from drug dealers and stock brokers. I didn’t have to do that but, you know, I did bartend and do extra work and cater and work for a mortgage broker and all this.”
Check out more from the NYC premiere HERE
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