Weekly Buzz
Latest Pop Culture News
-The digital TV conversion has been pushed back to June.
-You can download the new Smashing Pumpkins song featured in the Hyundai Super Bowl commercial here.
-CW’s “Reaper” returns March 3.
-TNT is renewing “Leverage,” starring Timothy Hutton.
-TNT’s new series, “Trust Me,” isn’t doing well in the ratings. It lost about 65 percent of its audience from its Jan. 26 premiere, which drew 3.4 million viewers thanks to The Closer lead-in. On Monday, however, it only had 1.9 million viewers. The show stars Eric McCormack and Tom Cavanagh.
-ABC Family has canceled “Kyle XY” but renewed “Greek.”
TV PREMIERES
Sunday - Nitro Circus (MTV); The Collegehumor Show (MTV); Rob Dydrek’s Fantasy Factory (MTV); How’s Your News? (MTV); HGTV Showdown (HGTV)
Monday - Top Gear (BBCA)
Tuesday - T.I.’s Road to Redemption (MTV)
Wednesday - Important Things with Demetri Martin (Comedy Central)
TV FINALES
Monday - Worst Week (CBS)
MOVIES opening Friday, Feb. 6
-He’s Just Not That Into You
-The Pink Panther 2
-Coraline
DVDs to be released Tuesday, Feb. 10
-Nights in Rodanthe
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-Back to the Future (special edition). Part II and Part III also available in special edition
-Nascar: The Ride of Their Lives (documentary)
-Melrose Place: Fifth Season, Volume One
-Miracle at St. Anna
-Alvin and the Chipmunks: Mystery of the Easter Chipmunk
ALBUMS to be released on Tuesday, Feb. 10
-Missy Elliott, “Block Party”
-Van Morrison, “Astral Weeks Live at the Holiday Bowl”
-Ben Folds, “Stems and Seeds”
-Mos Def, “The Ecstatic”
-Buddy Holly, “Memorial Collection”
-Warren G, “The G-Files”
-India.Arie, ‘Testimony Vol. 2: Love and Politics”
-Lilly Allen, “It’s Not Me, It’s You”
-Dan Auerbach, ‘Keep It Hid”