Chris O’Donnell (NCIS: L.A.), Tony Roberts, and Arrested Development

Land of Punt’s new favorite show is getting a new character. NCIS: Los Angeles has cast Monet Mazu to play Callen’s (Chris O’Donnell) love interest. Mazu will play Natalie Buccola, a secret service agent who becomes smitten with the mysterious Callen. Poor LL Cool J, always the bridesmaid. Buccola will make her first appearance in [...]

Criminal Minds Spin-Off Is On It’s Way

First CBS gave us NCIS. Then they decided to have Neil Patrick Harris host every awards show on the “Eye.” Then they gave us NCIS: Los Angeles. They they routed Dan Rather in court. Now CBS is once again making our hearts swoon. Coming next season to the Tiffany, a Criminal Minds spin-off. Land of [...]

Saturday Night Live Cast Member Drops F-Bomb

An “F-Bomb” was dropped on the season premiere of Saturday Night Live. When we heard the news we immediately thought someone said “Fallon.” But after further investigation we realized a cast member actually said the mother of all dirty words live from New York. Brand new cast member Jenny Slate uttered the forbidden expletive during [...]

NCIS and NCIS: Los Angeles, Greatest 2 Hours Of Television

NCIS‘ seventh season premiered Tuesday and the series debut of NCIS: Los Angeles followed. It was, beyond a shadow of the doubt, the greatest two hours of television in the history of humanity. In NCIS, Gibbs, DiNozzo, and McGee (Sean Murray) travel to Africa to rescue Ziva (Cote de Pablo) from the clutches of terrorists. [...]

Guiding Light, That’s How You End A Show

Ending a serial television show, either comedic or dramatic, is extremely difficult and wrought with pitfalls. Since finales are usually reserved for long running and successful shows there’s a presumption that the final episode will be given the resources and attention not reserved for regular productions. Therefore there’s the assumption that the finale will be [...]

2009 Emmy Award (*YAWN*) Winners

Two shows no one watches won top honors at an award show no one watches. The snarky and smarmy 30 Rock won best comedy series while the fustian Mad Men won best drama series. It was the third-straight win in the comedy category for the 69th highest rated television show of 2008-2009 and the second [...]

West Interrupting Swift, Blown Way Out Of Proportion

Can you name a past winner of a Video Music Award? While you ruminate on that, allow Land of Punt to recap the lowlight of this year’s MTV Video Music Awards show. During her acceptance speech, teen country sensation Tayor Swift was interrupted by hip hop genius Kanye West. West “stormed” the stage, “ripped” the [...]

Leno Grabs Good Ratings But…

When NBC first announced that Jay Leno would be on at daily at 10 P.M. critics wonder about the concept. Would a “Tonight Show” type program work in primetime. Now that The Jay Leno Show has premiered that question still remains unanswer. Leno isn’t the problem. He’s funny, affable and very accessible. He’s probably the [...]

Oprah Winfrey and The Black Eyed Peas Flash Mob

Oprah Winfrey started her 24th season with a performance by the Black Eyed Peas. The show took place on an erected stage located on Chicago’s Miracle Mile. Thousands were in attendance. During the BEP’s performance of “I Gotta Feeling” the crowd slowly started dancing in unison. This “mob dance” was a “surprise” to her Majesty [...]

Kings of Leon Rock The Today Show & Ann Curry

Who would have thought house fraus, cackling hens, and other assorted housewives were into Kings of Leon? The most underrated band in America, played on the Today Show Friday. KOL performed “Notion,” “Use Somebody,” and “Sex On Fire.” Meredith Vieira interviewed the boys and said they were the next “U2″ (insulting to both bands) and [...]