Posted by Dustin on 12.15.2008 at 1:03 pm

Official NBC spoilers for Chapters 19 and 20 of “Lipstick Jungle,” airing in January.

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Posted by Dustin on 12.13.2008 at 10:41 pm

So I have two weeks of thoughts to post on “Lipstick Jungle.” I’m going to forgo any big recaps and just go with my thoughts with a bit of recap to preface.

Kirby and Nico continued to disagree over the baby, with Kirby putting his foot down saying he and his priorities, as well as his job, basically came first. On one hand I can’t blame him as this wasn’t what he had signed on for. I guess he and Nico never had the kids discussion, did they or didn’t they want them. On the other hand, they’ve been making Kirby all about Kirby the past few episodes as well, so it was no shock to see how he was acting. It’s almost as if they want us to not like him.

Nico wanted to adopt Charlie, but Megan’s parents came to take Charlie and Megan back home with them. Nico faced losing the baby. She and Kirby later broke up as neither were happy anymore. I just feel like they wanted to break them up to pave way for Nico and her boss to have a fling, which has also been a long time coming. He’s been interested in her all season, now that she’s free, he’s going to go after her. I don’t know if I like the idea of these two together at all honestly. Nico meanwhile began hormone treatments to harvest her eggs.

Victory had to do a shoot involving a nude model for a campaign for her clothing, unaware that SHE was to be the model until after she approved. Kirby was called in to be the photographer in order to calm her nerves. There were some great scenes of her freaking out and downing shots to get through it, but once she got comfortable she gave it her all. Baring herself for the shoot gave her the courage to confront Joe and tell him what she was feeling, to thank him for all he’d done for her, and to say she would have said yes. They kissed then did the wild thing. It seems like these two are back together, with Victory planning to propose to Joe this time. I just can’t help but think he’s not going to say yes though, I don’t know why. It just seems nothing is going right for the ladies lately.

Finally Wendy had to agree to be partners with this creepy producer, who Cassidy gave her script to first, but he ignored it for months. He had the pull in the industry and a studio ready to produce it, Wendy didn’t at the moment. Wendy agreed to work with him, rather than sell out to him. This annoyed Shane, who kept dropping snarky comments about how “nobody was paying him to just stay at home and not work.”

Shane got a job offer to go on tour with Natasha Beddingfield for four months and wanted to take it. Wendy had issues with him being away for so long, which led to serious fights. Shane started slinging the insults, such as why couldn’t she let it be his turn now, and she liked it better when she was taking care of him. Their son overheard them fighting, which causes problems for him at school.

I have to say, I HATE that they did this to Shane and Wendy. Just like Kirby and Nico, it seemed these issues just suddenly appeared. More than that, they just suddenly turned Shane into a jerk. How soon he forgets he has a job and these connections because of Wendy! In the end he did what he wanted to do, accepting the job to go on tour for 4 months. Hello, has he forgotten Wendy is friends with that guy that would love to bop her? He’s just walking away when his marriage is in trouble? I can already see him being on the road and his manager putting the moves on him, which maybe is what he wants.

We’ll have to wait till January to find out what happens next, as that is when “Lipstick” (and pretty much every other show) returns.

Posted by Dustin on 11.27.2008 at 1:54 pm

Last week was the Thanksgiving episode of “Lipstick Jungle.” Wendy was fixated on preparing a local meal, with all the ingredients coming from withing 100 miles. Of course now TV Thanksgiving is complete without complete and utter chaos.

Shane’s manager’s dog decided to up and die, so he spent the whole episode consoling her and trying to find someone to take the dog, but everything was closed. They went to bury it in Central Park, only to get into trouble with the law. I wasn’t a fan of this, mainly cause it seemed the poor doggie’s death was being used by the manager to try and get into Shane’s pants. Is the man totally clueless that this girl is hot for him?

Dahlia showed back up in Victory’s life, bringing her a client. A man needed a wedding dress for his bride to be. She designed one, but was shocked when the bride showed up. She was a full figured gal, not who Victory normally designs for. Dahlia and Victory however made things work and made a beautiful dress for her, helping her with some self esteem issues. Dahlia had a personality transplant in this episode, admitting she had been a total bitch and was sorry. I liked this story most of all because the message behind the client and the dress was really great. Plus it was nice that they had Victory doing a dress for someone who wasn’t a twig. I also actually liked Dahlia in this episode, she was funny and likable!

The final story involed Nico and Kirby, who ended up with baby Charlie for the night. The baby mama had to go home for the holidays, her family didn’t know about the baby and she wanted to break it to them. No surprise, she abandoned the kid with them and wasn’t planning on coming back. Having the baby spoke to Nico’s maternal instincts, and she was thinking about trying to adopt him if possible. When Kirby found out, he was pissed. He was fine babysitting for the night, but that was it. He felt betrayed that Nico kept the fact that the girl wasn’t coming back from him, she had known for a few hours when she got a call from her. This story I felt didn’t make too much sense to me. Kirby spent the whole episode being great with Charlie, as well as Wendy’s kids. So for him to at the end do such an about face and almost be like “Oh hell no, I don’t want kids, can’t stand them” was odd. They seem to be doing everything they can to make Kirby a jerk and ruin his relationship with Nico. On a side note, watching Wendy’s daughter lust after Kirby the whole episode was hilarious!

Posted by Dustin on 11.26.2008 at 5:16 pm

NBC is bumping both “Heroes” and “Chuck” for the month of January in favor of airing some new reality shows on Monday nights. The other two shows will however return for February sweeps.

“Lipstick” is also off the schedule, as NBC has to make an official decision whether to pick it up for a 3rd season. It seems when the current episodes run out, the season will end.

The full press release on the new mid-season line-up for NBC follows . . .

NBC ANNOUNCES SCHEDULE FOR JANUARY 2009 WITH PREMIERES OF NEW SERIES, ORIGINAL MOVIE EVENT, RETURN OF SERIES FAVORITES

Lineup Features Premieres of “Superstars of Dance” on January 4, “Howie Do It” (January 9) and “The Biggest Loser: Couples” (January 6); “Friday Night Lights” Returns for NBC Season Premiere (January 16)

NBC Offers Original Movie Event “The Last Templar” on January 25-26

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. - November 25, 2008 - NBC announced today the January 2009 schedule that features the series premieres of “Superstars of Dance” (debuting January 4) and “Howie Do It” (January 9), the returns of “The Biggest Loser: Couples” (January 6) and “Friday Night Lights” (January 16).

Likewise, NBC will broadcast the original movie event “The Last Templar” Sunday and Monday, January 25-26, 9-11 p.m. ET both nights).

NBC also showcases the new specials “Saturday Night Live Sports Extra” on Sunday, January 4 (7-9 p.m. ET) and “Saturday Night Live Film Festival” on Sunday, January 18 (9-11 p.m. ET). “Dateline NBC” also will broadcast a Presidential Inauguration Day Special on Tuesday, January 20 (10-11 p.m. ET).

Among the new night-by-night lineup changes are:

The two-hour premiere of “Superstars of Dance” - from the producers of “So You Think You Can Dance?” — will be broadcast on Sunday, January 4 (9-11 p.m. ET) before the series resumes in its regular day and time on Monday, January 5 through January 19 (8-10 p.m. ET). The new competition series — showcasing the world’s best and most varied dancers — will be followed on Mondays by “Momma’s Boys” (10-11 p.m. ET), the new alternative series from executive producer Ryan Seacrest.

The season finale of “Superstars of Dance” will wrap on Monday, January 26 (8-9 p.m. ET).

On Tuesdays — from January 6 — NBC will telecast “The Biggest Loser: Couples” (8-10 p.m. ET) followed by “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” (10-11 p.m. ET).

Fridays will see the debut of “Howie Do It” — starring Howie Mandel of NBC’s “Deal or No Deal” (8-9 p.m. ET) — beginning January 9.

The critically acclaimed “Friday Night Lights” will then return to NBC’s Friday-night lineup on January 16 (9-10 p.m. ET).

The new January program schedule grid follows (all times ET); new series are capitalized:

MONDAYS (beginning January 5)
8-10 p.m. — “SUPERSTARS OF DANCE”; premieres Sunday, January 4 (9-11 p.m.); season finale Monday, January 26 (8-9 p.m.)
10-11 p.m. - “MOMMA’S BOYS”
(”Chuck” and “Heroes” return in February)

TUESDAYS (beginning January 6)
8-10 p.m. - “The Biggest Loser: Couples”
10-11 p.m. — Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”

TUESDAY (January 20)
10-11 p.m. - “Dateline NBC”: Presidential Inauguration Special (10-11 p.m. ET)

WEDNESDAYS (beginning January 7)
8-9 p.m. — “Knight Rider”
9-10 p.m. - “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” encores (”Life” returns in February)
10-11 p.m. — “Law & Order”

THURSDAYS (beginning January 8 )
8-8:30 p.m. - “My Name Is Earl”
8:30-9 p.m. — “Kath & Kim”
9:00-9:31 p.m. — “The Office”
9:31-10 p.m. — “30 Rock”
10-11 p.m. - “ER”

FRIDAYS
8-9 p.m. — “HOWIE DO IT” (series premiere January 9)
9-10 p.m. - “Friday Night Lights” (beginning January 16)
10-11 p.m. — “Dateline NBC” (beginning December 5)

SATURDAYS (beginning January 10)
8-11 - “Law & Order” and “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” encores

SUNDAYS (January 4)
7-9 p.m. - “Saturday Night Live Sports Extra”
9-11 p.m. - “SUPERSTARS OF DANCE” (premiere)

“Sunday — Event Specials”
8-11 p.m. - “THE GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS” (January 11)
9-11 p.m. - “SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE FILM FESTIVAL” (January 18)
9-11 p.m. — THE LAST TEMPLAR — (January 25 and Monday, January 26)
6:15-10 p.m. — SUPER BOWL XLIII (February 1)

Posted by Dustin on 11.22.2008 at 8:31 pm

Official Spoilers for the next two episodes of “Lipstick Jungle” airing December 5th and 12th.
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Posted by Dustin on 11.17.2008 at 7:32 pm

Brooke Shields has been quoted in US Weekly saying that “Lipstick Jungle” HASN’T been cancled!

“They thought that because My Own Worst Enemy has been shut down that the same thing had happened to us, and it’s not true,” she told reporters at Sunday’s Cookie magazine Kidsfest in NYC.

“They’re not breaking down the sets,” she added. “We’re still working. We still have more to do, so it’s erroneously presented that we’ve been canceled, thank God.

Thanks to Malorie for the heads up!

Posted by Dustin on 11.16.2008 at 1:46 pm

Well even though the show has been canceled, I’ll still watch it to the end. They’ve finished filming all the episodes for this season, which probably means we will have a cliff hanger ending and no resolution . . . unless they anticipated this could be the last season and don’t leave us hanging. I really am hoping for the later.

Nico met Kirby’s mom, who was far too much like her for her. Kirby’s mom (Rosanna Arquette) was a cougar of her own, and she really didn’t like someone like herself dating her son. She tried to do everything she could to put doubts in both their heads, but it didn’t work, and Nico jumped the gun and suggested Kirby move in with her.

Wendy meanwhile finally told Shane about “the kiss,” and he wasn’t happy because she waited so long to tell him. Wendy decided she and Shane probably shouldn’t work together after all. She continued to be interested in starting her own company and producing piercing girl’s script when she got another job offer with an amazing company, better than the last. Nico however recommended her for the job, unbeknownst to her.

Victory meanwhile finally found out from Joe’s assistant Anne that he was planning to propose to her and she freaked out. The girls didn’t know how to tell her they knew, or if they should tell her. They all went away to this wilderness retreat ran by a friend and former associate of Wendy and Nico’s, who fled the city and a high power job and couldn’t be happier that she did.

Nico, in the wilderness, continued to have these weird midlife crisis signs. She decided to buy land out in the country for a getaway for her and Kirby, only to find out he loved the chaos of the city and didn’t like the country so much. He grew up there, which is why he left.

Wendy used the retreat to figure out if she wanted to take this job or not, while Nico was a bit miffed that she hadn’t taken it nor even told her of the offer. Wendy soon found out that Nico recommended her for it. Wendy was upset, but Nico was as well. Nico said Wendy forgot about their original plans to run an entire production company/studio/publishing giant together. Wendy didn’t even remember saying that, but if she did it was when she was young and was first starting and her plans had changed. Nico said work sucked not knowing Wendy was the next floor up, and she missed their dreams.

The girls all decided to head back to the city, but the car ran into trouble on the way. Victory, who had realized on the retreat that she would have said yes if Joe had proposed, called him for help. He came along to help, but also to give her the title and ownership of her business back and to say goodbye. She was left in tears.

Next week is the Thanksgiving episode, which looks to be funny and chaotic. It seems the Baby Mama is back and from previews dumps the baby with Nico for a bit, but possibly runs off? Nico is saying she thinks she’s gunna try and keep the child.

It just seems the show is making little waves in Nico and Kirby’s relationship. The age difference, the mom, the jumping in at moving in together, the money, now a child. I get the feelin they are going to have something happen with Nico’s new boss Griffin too.

Wendy I think I don’t want to take this job she’s been offered. I much rather see her live her dream of starting her own company. Sure it will be hard as hell and they might be poor for awhile (okay not as well off), but I think in the end she’d be happier. I also want to see piercing girl’s movie take off with Wendy helming it.

Finally Joe and Victory. I don’t know what to think. I have a love/hate/OMG this is so boring relationship with their story. I finally started to feel for Joe when the mess with Rodrigo happened, but I also think he’s being a bit of an ass. I mean they had broken up, he can’t go getting pissy that it looked like she had moved on. Perhaps instead of just popping the question out of the blue he should have at least asked her back out on a date to do so?

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Posted by Dustin on 11.13.2008 at 12:57 pm

Well this is sad news, but not entirely unexpected. According to Ausiello, TVGuide.com and more . . . NBC has canceled “Lipstick Jungle.” All previously recorded episodes will probably air, but no new ones have been ordered. It’s unknown when the show will last air. “My Own Worst Enemy,” has also been canned.

Posted by Dustin on 11.05.2008 at 12:18 am

Last week we got two episodes of “Jungle” as the show made it’s move to Friday nights. Both shows were fairly good as well.

Wendy continued to deal with the loss of her job, and got dealt more blows. She was hoping to finally start a company of her own with Sal, which they always discussed doing, until Sal was given her own job. He turned on her and fairly quick.

Later though helping Victory out of a jam with her fashion show, she ran into the piercing girl at the copy shop. She let her still believe she’s still a big shot, and agreed to read the girls script in exchange for her helping her with some fliers. Wendy was stunned to find out she loved the script and decided it had to be made into a movie. She was going to finally form her own company to see it done. I’m just getting a bad feeling that Sal is going to swoop in and try and steal this from her.

Niko ran into Charles’ Baby Mama with her baby and went soft, sending gifts and oddly becoming attached. She soon began to realize perhaps she wanted a baby. It was something she wrote off years ago, now she was rethinking it. Oh brother! It’s too early to introduce a new baby, that’s usually the death knell of a show.

Nico also had some issues with Kirby over finances. She was paying for everything, while he was struggling to pay the rent. Money became an issue and the girls convinced Nico to let Kirby pay for things if it basically let him feel like a man and more secure. She did, at the expense of food! At the end of one of the shows he had to send back most of the Chinese food they ordered as he didn’t have enough. Okay I think Nico needed to step in and just demand to let her take care of that. That was Chinese food abuse right there.

Victory had a nightmare that Joe fell off a mountain, and was stunned to learn the next day he was planning to go mountain climbing. He was going to do Everest or something nuts. In the end, he even agreed it was very weird and didn’t go. The two seemed to make progress at at least being friends.

However in the next episode, Joe was clearly having revelations about his life. He finally decided to propose to Victory, and Nico and Wendy somewhat gave him a little push saying she was not with Rodrigo anymore.

Victory meanwhile fired her publicist Dahlia, who turned on her and set out to destroy her upcoming fashion show. She relied on her friends to help her pull it off, which included Rodrigo to build the stage. As she gave a thank you speech, she singled him out as a great guy. This sent Joe, who was ready with a ring, running! Nico and Wendy were stunned, they didn’t know if they should tell Victory or not. Then of course the sad part was, Victory and Rodrigo still agreed they wouldn’t work out in the end. I haven’t been loving Joe that much lately, but even I can see how bittersweet this whole thing was. However they can’t have them get married so quick. I mean it took Carrie what, 10 years to get Big

Posted by Dustin on 11.03.2008 at 3:48 pm

Official NBC Spoilers for the next 2 chapters of “Lipstick Jungle.” Remember the show now airs Friday nights at 10pm!

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