Cory Monteith, 31 better known as Finn Hudson on FOX’s Glee was found dead in his room at the Fairmount Pacific Hotel in Vancouver on Saturday. The cause of death was not given.
So leave it to CTV, by way of journalist/former Reuters Deputy Social Media Editor Matthew Keys to let us know that Monteith’s last tweet was explaining what a Sharknado is:
CTV reporting Glee star Cory Monteith found dead. His final tweet was about Sharknado – pic.twitter.com/sSyi81jT21
— Matthew Keys (@MatthewKeysLive) July 14, 2013
Hat tip to stand-up comedian/friend in real life, Mimi Vilmenay for the heads up.
So, what else is on?
Monday, July 15
Home Run Derby (8pm ET, ESPN)
In the wake of Tim Lincecum pitching a no-hitter against the San Diego Padres on Saturday, I am feeling compelled to write about sports aside from competitive eating and Mixed Martial Arts.
But really, I’m just going to use this as a reason to talk about MTV’s Rock N’ Jock series. Here’s a list from MTV published in 2010 detailing the best Rock N’ Jock All-Stars of all time. And here is an Onion article announcing Bill Bellamy’s induction into Rock N’ Jock’s Basketball Hall of Fame. Onion or not, the Rock N’ Jock Basketball Hall of Fame really does exist. Albeit in my garage, and it really is just a pile of FOX’s Fastlane (starring Peter Facinelli, Bill Bellamy, and Tiffani Thiessen) DVDs.
Back to the Home Run Derby, with it taking place in New York, I’m gonna assume the actual start time for us Best Coasters is 5pm. Temporal mechanics!
Tuesday, July 16
Whose Line is it Anyway? (8pm, The CW, season premiere)
Finally, the show that made high school theater nerds and families across the country go ‘lol’ comes back with the dark and gritty reboot we’ve all been waiting for. Hosted by San Francisco native and comedy dynamo Aisha Tyler (Archer, and host of podcast Girl on Guy) with returning Whose Liners Ryan Stiles, Wayne Brady and Colin Mochrie.
Covert Affairs (9pm, USA, season premiere)
Sexy spies by way of Piper Perabo and Peter Gallagher eyebrows by way of Peter Gallagher’s eyebrows. Part one in a two part Tuesday night USA blue sky television block.
Suits (10pm, USA, season premiere)
Part two in a two part Tuesday night USA blue sky television block. Holy shit, did USA really cut its Suits season premiere trailer as a Game of Thrones parody? I thought this was a fanmade video at first, and USA probably got a random Suits/Game of Thrones fan to cut this for them, but wow. Slow clap, USA.
Wednesday, July 17
Here Comes Honey Boo Boo (9pm, TLC, season premiere)
Season two of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo opens with a watch-and-sniff stunt incorporated by the producers. Typing that sentence means that as a society we have officially flown too close to the sun.
But hey, for all the low-hanging fruit shit people give Honey Boo Boo, it might just be the most honest portrayal of a loving family on TV. Well, more honest than Modern Family, I suppose.
Thursday, July 18
Project Runway (9pm, Lifetime, season premiere)
I only watched season three of Project Runway, and for the following year prefaced any and all fashion related thoughts with ‘as someone who watched a season of Project Runway.’ It was a dark period for me.
Blast Vegas (9pm, SyFy)
While almost certainly not replicating the magic that Sharknado had (at least on social media, not so much in actual ratings), Blast Vegas is another SyFy B movie starring Frankie Muniz and BARRY MOTHERFUCKERING BOSTWICK (Rocky Horror Picture Show, Spin City, but more importantly, the underrated 80’s classic MEGAFORCE). Blast Vegas answers the question, “what happens when a bunch of bros accidentally unleash an Egyptian curse in Las Vegas?”
Friday, July 19
Teen Beach Movie (8pm, Disney)
I can only assume that from the title, this is a movie about the 2008 financial meltdown.
Saturday, July 20
Celebrity Ghost Stories (9pm, Bio, season finale)
What’s better than a ghost story? A ghost story told by a celebrity, of course. Because while celebrities are just like you or me, they remain empirically better than the rest of us. So that’s why when celebrities fall on hard times, it is way easier for them to bank on the fact that maybe since they were on a couple of Eight is Enough episodes in 1980 they can now get on shows like Celebrity Ghost Story to try to re-enter the national conversation, and enter a fourth, fifth, or sixth act in their professional career.
In honor of Barry Bostwick starring in Blast Vegas on, here is a clip of him talking about seeing a g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-ghost boy in the v-v-v-v-v-v-vacation home. (Bio won’t let me e-e-e-e-e-e-mbed videos.)
Sunday, July 21
Sister Wives (9pm, TLC, season premiere)
Part one in a two part TLC religious fringe manufactured reality television block.
Breaking Amish (10pm, TLC, season premiere)
Part two in a two part TLC religious fringe manufactured reality television block.
ICYMI:
– Community has become a show whose sole purpose is to toy with our emotions. The beloved cult show consistently on the brink has seen showrunner Dan Harmon get fired, then re-hired, Chevy Chase’s departute, and now news comes that Donald Glover will only be appearing in five of next season’s the thirteen episodes.
– I guess I have to face the reality that Happy Endings is not coming back next season, since Damon Wayans Jr might return to New Girl. Savvy viewers may remember Wayans’ Coach character as one of the leads in the show’s pilot, done during Happy Endings’ purgatory state between seasons one and two. When Happy Endings got the go-ahead for season two, Wayans was written out of New Girl, and was replaced by Lamorne Morris.
– New season of Arrested Development being talked about? Sure!
See you next week!
