We've come to the end of another Sourcies season, only to find that a New CW-World Order has arisen. In the past, the Sourcies had broken down into a battle between two fan favorites -- Supernatural and One Tree Hill -- with Gossip Girl occasionally landing a punch. But now? Now there's a new 800-pound gorilla in The CW jungle, and its name is The Vampire Diaries.
The freshman vampire romance dominated the Sourcies, winning eight of the 10 categories. The Salvatore boys and the women who love them brought wins in Best Kiss, Best Fight, Hottest Moment, Best Villain, Biggest Surprise, Best Recurring Character, Favorite Bad Boy and Best Cliffhanger.
But the Winchester boys and their allies on Supernatural fought back. They managed to fend off the bloodsucking fiends and take the Funniest Moment and Most Heartbreaking Moment categories.
If you take the two televised titans out of the equation, One Tree Hill, Smallville and Gossip Girl got the most love. One Tree ill was second-runner-up for Best Kiss, Most Heartbreaking Moment, Favorite Villain, Funniest Moment and Favorite Recurring Character. Smallville was second runner-up for Best Fight, Hottest Moment and Favorite Cliffhanger. And Gossip Girl brought in the yellow ribbon for Biggest Surprise and Favorite Bad Boy.
Congratulations to all the shows, and thanks to all of you for voting!
The Sourcies wind up the season with Best Cliffhanger
Yet another Sourcies season comes to an end... but we've saved the best for last! Our top shows hit us with loads of delicious cliffhangers this year, but which one rises above the others? Take a look and see what you think:
The poll closes on July 21 at 11:59pm central. Feel free to share the poll, but send folks back to us to comment. We'll wrap up all of the Sourcies on July 22 -- and then we dive straight into Comic Con!
Everyone loves a bad boy, even if they don't want to admit it. The same is true at The CW, so we're not going to judge -- we'll leave that up to you. Whether it's Dean, Damon or Chuck, we want to know about it. This time, it's good to back your rebel without (or with) a cause.
Who's your guilty bad boy pleasure? Polls close on July 19 at 11:59 p.m. Central, so get voting!
The Sourcies Plays Favorites with Best Recurring Character
You know we love our stars on The CW, but sometimes it's the people we don't see every week that make a show shine. With that in mind, we've got a passel of familiar faces nominated for Best Recurring Character. Take a look:
We're winding down the competition, so this poll will close MONDAY, JULY 19 Wednesday, July 14 at 11:59pm Central. (Sorry -- I'm apparently really looking forward to Comic Con, because I jumped a week ahead on my calendar.) One vote per person. Feel free to share this poll with all and sundry, but send folks back to us to comment.
And congratulations to The Vampire Diaries, which won the Biggest Surprise category with the revelation that sweet little lip-locking Elena was actually fiendish, finger-chopping Katherine. Chuck's disappearance on Supernatural was a close second.
The Sourcies love a good laugh, and The CW loves to deliver said snickers. We had plenty to laugh at on our fave shows this season -- sparring couples, secrets (and more!) revealed, high-times hijinks, badly worded confessions, smirking bad boys, and a certain "homage" to other TV shows that left no one unscathed. Take a look:
Which moment split the most sides? Your votes decide! The poll is open until 11:59pm on July 11. One vote per person. Feel free to share the poll (and send it out to all your fellow fans -- that's what's driving the voting!), but please send people back here to comment.
Editor's note: Le sigh. Once again, we're having trouble making a closed poll believe it's a closed poll. I've begged our poll provider for help with this, and I'll keep you updated. In the meantime, here's a screenshot of the results taken after the poll was supposed to close:
Congrats to Supernatural, which narrowly edged out The Vampire Diaries with a 4.5 percent surplus of votes. No one else even came close (although OTH fans did their best for the Brooke/Haley v Bunny Battle.) Thanks for voting!
And congratulations to Katherine from The Vampire Diaries for winning the closest competition yet! She took the title over Lucifer by only nine votes. Nine! We're thinking Lucifer should put her on payroll, because she's obviously got the chops to be his number-one purveyor of mayhem while he's trapped in the pit.
POING! The 2010 Sourcies have got some surprises for you!
Apparently the CW enjoys the sound of jaws hitting floors, because they served up several helpings of surprise this season. What shocked you the most? Baby drama? Mistaken identities? Relationship surprises? Big character twists? Take your pick for our contestants below:
Poll closes at 11:59 pm Central on July 7 (assuming our poll provider fixes the bugs). One vote person. Feel free to share the poll, but send people back to us to comment.
In results news: After a seriously hard-fought battle, Supernatural ended The Vampire Diaries' winning streak by the barest of margins. Congrats to Supernatural for taking the Most Heartbreaking Moment category!
The Sourcies embrace the eeeeeeeeeeevil with Best Villain
If you listen to our podcasts, you know that we have a weakness for unrepentant, mustache-twirling eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil on our shows. Fortunately, The CW knows what we like, and they deliver villains galore. Now, we're not talking about boys with a tough attitude that conceals a heart of gold -- that's what the Bad Boys category is for. We're talking villains -- people who would happily eat your heart just because they were a bit peckish. You know, wicked.
But what flavor of wickedness do you go prefer? Machiavellian machinations? World-dominating supervillainy? Complete craziness? Sexual ensnarement? Honest-to-God end-of-the-world-we're-all-gonna-die destruction? There's so much to choose from! Take a look:
Who's the evilest of them all? Your votes decide! The poll is open until July 4 at 11:59 pm Central. One vote per person, and yes, we're enforcing that to the best of our ability. Feel free to share the poll, but send people back here to comment.
Oh, and a big congrats to Stefan and Elena from The Vampire Diaries, who handily won Hottest Moment. No one else was even close!
The Sourcies jerk some tears with Most Heartbreaking Moment
You'll excuse us if we're a little fragile at the moment -- we've been sobbing quietly into our hankies as we went through the roster of your nominations for most heartbreaking moments on the CW this season. It was a bad year for moms, love and brothers on The CW, and we're still recovering. See what we mean below:
OK, because our poll provider is being wonky, and the poll is supposed to be closed, I'm taking a snapshot of the results and taking it down. And the winner is:
Oh, and congrats to Damon and Alaric of The Vampire Diaries, who defeated the tomb vamps and won the title of Best Fight. Actually, those tomb vamps were less of a challenge than Castiel and Dean from Supernatural -- the vampire/teacher duo fended off the angel/Hunter smackdown by only 4 percent. Well done winning that tough fight, boys!
The CW sure knows how to heat thing up ... so much that we couldn't limit ourselves to just five super-hot moments in this Sourcie category! Check out the video to see which moments made our temperatures rise this years:
Who's the hottest of them all? Your votes decide. The poll closes at 11:59 pm Central on June 28. One vote per person -- and yes, we've got our tech as secure as possible, so we mean that. (If we tightened it any more, we'd have to ask you to come in and cast paper ballots!) Feel free to promote and share the poll -- heck, we encourage you to get as many of your fellow fans across the globe to vote -- but please send people here to comment.
Oh, and speaking of hot: Congratulations to Damon and Katherine (although he thought it was Elena) of the Vampire Diaries, who took the Sourcie for Best Kiss with 43 percent of the vote. Well done! (Oh, and Damon -- if you need to practice your pucker over the summer, we're available...)
NOTE: NOMINATIONS ARE CLOSED! Check back later today for the first Sourcie!
Hello out there in Sourceland! We've got big plans afoot for the summer, and we need your help! We're compiling nominations for the 2010 Sourcies, which will run from June 14 through July 16. Why the short run? Because after that, we'll be sending you news from Comic Con, the TCAs, the Teen Choice Awards, and still more events until the new season starts. So let's got to it!
Our Sourcies categories this year are:
Best Kiss
Hottest Scene (as in, sparks flying between two people, usually with some bom-chicka-wow thrown in)
Best Fight
Most Heartbreaking Moment
Most Surprising Moment
Best Villain
Funniest Moment
Favorite Bad Boy
Favorite Recurring Character
Best Cliffhanger
We're expecting big things this year with the addition of The Vampire Diaries -- will the Salvatore brothers be able to give the Winchester boys from Supernatural a run for their money? And how will One Tree Hill fans vote now that Leyton is out of the picture? Do the scrappy underdogs from Life Unexpected have a chance at glory? Will Gossip Girlreap in votes what it gets in buzz? Will Melrose Place get some love from the fans even though the network canceled it? Will Smallville fans come out in force after the move to Friday night? Will 90210's crazy plot twists make the grade? And will America's Next Top Model bask in rewards or wallow in dreckitude?
It's all up to you: Let us know what scenes, characters and moments should appear in each category. We'll present our slate of Sourcies starting June 14 -- get ready, and may the best show win!
Gossip Girlwas eliciting shrieks of rage with the season finale -- and that's mostly just Janine and Lindsey's rage towards me for my first question. Protect your ears, people, and turn down the volume at the 34 second mark. I mount a defense for Jenny, which mostly falls on deaf ears (and that's only partly an aftereffect of the aforementioned 34 second mark) -- but hey, I tried, ok? We also discuss the peculiar boy logic that goes into soothing pain with anonymous sex, debate whether Blair was justified in her reactions, praise Eric and Dorota for being awesome, worry about Serena's hospital-going wardrobe choices, and theorize on how the next season will play out (Hint - There's a soap-opera standby they haven't even touched yet!) Check it out!
The CW: Hellcats and ass-kickers join the schedule
The CW is sticking with what works, adding just two new shows to its schedule. But those two shows allow the net wot stretch out its original programing over five nights -- a first for the relative newcomer.
In keeping with The CW's emphasis on TV for chicks who spend, the net's two new shows feature women -- one concentrating on women who do high kicks, while the other follows a woman who kicks ass.
New shows:
Hellcats - Wednesday 9pm
So, remember "Bring It On?" Remember the part where a rebel-type chick who used to be a gymnast joined the cheerleading team, and hilarity ensued? Take that plotline, move it to a university in the South where football is life, then stir in Ashley Tisdale as the leader of the cheerocracy and Tom Welling as an executive producer. Go, Hellcats!
Nikita - Thursday 9pm
Maggie Q is the titular character, a woman who was taken out of prison and trained to kill for the CIA. Now she's escaped the agency, and she wants to make sure the ones she left behind have an opportunity to flee as well. Plus, Maggie Q had the best quote of the Upfronts: "I don't think any of you understand how good looking it is backstage. It's very intimidating. I had to push the A cups up a little. We exist!" How can we not want to love the show after that?
We've got the full fall schedule -- and our comments -- after the jump. Read on!
Lots of long faces on this gut-wrenching and mind-blowing season finale of Gossip Girl. In the midst of welcoming a new life into the world, these characters also said many good-byes. Some relationships fizzled, while other old flames were rekindled. And in the biggest turn of events, Chuck deflowers Jenny. And in a bigger turn of events, she whines about it like a baby to anyone who will listen as if the man took advantage of her. She chose to get into bed with Mr. Bass. She’s been at his humble abode for most of the season trying to sneak into Nate’s bed, why is she acting like Chuck did something wrong? She might feel cheap and guilty because she gave away her precious gift to a cad who could care less about her, but no one forced her to get under the covers.
Here are some other highlights from the episode:
Fool me once: Eric let bygones be bygones until Jenny tried to break up Rufus and Lily. Now he’s angry and willing to “totally send her crazy ass away.” But, in the final hours he changes his mind. Someone give that kid a medal for being the sweetest thing on the show.
Defriended: Dorota kicked Chuck off her list of Facebook friends and severed ties with him in real life. A diss isn’t real until it happens on Facebook.
Ditch the bitch: Georgina returns in a frightful blond wig and she’s running from the Russians.
A picture’s worth a thousand words: Jenny takes a picture of Serena and Dan crashing in bed and posts it on Gossip Girl. Blood is apparently not thicker than Jenny’s desire to nab Nate.
Bring it on: Blair jets to Brooklyn to give Jenny the “smack down” she deserves. And by smack down she means a drag-down, knock-out sucker punch given with razor-edged words. Chuck loves Blair. Nate loves Serena. Dan loves Vanessa. No one loves Jenny. Ouch!
Signs: Last season, the show used Bloc Party’s mournful “Signs” as a backdrop to Chuck’s mourning. This season, Blair informs us that signs are for the “religious, the superstitious and the lower class.” She’s a poet in disguise.
Jenny and Serena were battling for the title of "Most Selfishly Despicable" on Gossip Girl-- and, to steal from "Alien vs Predator", whoever wins, we lose. We get our rant on as we contemplate Serena's toddler-like behavior, Jenny's crazy rationalizations, the sudden appearence of Jenny's bounteous bosums, caper flicks, rugby bores, and what damn well better happen next week or there will be violence. Plus, literary smackdown: Two women of British literature enter, one author leaves!
He cleans up well... but Dr. Van Der Woodsen is still an idiot
This week’s episode of Gossip Girl sure felt like a caper film. Chuck and Jenny enlisted the whole gang, one by one, to help reveal Will’s dastardly scheme to steal Lily away from Rufus. It seems Will had an ally in Holland who not only prescribed the fake drugs for Lily, but also lied straight to the faces of the entire Van Der Woodsen clan about an elicit evening with Rufus. Jenny, playing the selfish card yet again, almost managed to thwart the whole operation. It looks like she’s had enough of the good life and hopes Brooklyn will take her in and welcome her return. And if that doesn’t work, Chuck’s pad will do in a pinch, especially with Nate still taking up residence there. When Jenny wants something, she’ll do anything to get it. Here are some other high and low points from the show:
Most selfish: Jenny wins this designation all the time. We can vaguely understand her need to break apart Nate and Serena. The heart wants what the heart wants after all, but trying to bust up Rufus and Lily’s marriage is just cold.
Best fashion trend: Those long, cascading skirts on Blair and Jenny. Ladies, throw out the cocktail dresses and opt for ball gowns.
Best ultimatum: Chuck setting up a meeting point at the Empire State Building for Blair to, once and for all, decide if she wants to be with him. So romantic and cinematic, but will she show?
Best family pedigree: Nate rarely relies on his family’s deep connections, but when he does, he does it with a bang. Just a quick call to the cops and Will’s goose is cooked.
Now, we could say this Gossip Girl podcast is all about Serena's daddy issues, or her entitlement issues, or Jenny's entitlement issues, or Vanessa's out-of-character wimpiness, or Eric's snarkiness, or that utterly awesome CHuck/Lily moment at the party, or the impending revelation of all of Dr. van der Woodsen's evil plans, or Chuck's romantic gesture, or Blair findingher new home, or trophy-wife neighbor's heinousness, or, you know, anything actually plot related. But it's not. It's really a cautionary tale about how we shouldn't podcast before lunch. Bad things happen. Very bad things. Send waffles!
Since we follow a whole lot more entertainment than just The CW, we've put together Snark Syndicate; a Facebook page that runs tabs on the industry and directs readers to the best news and time-wastingest content. Like this re-edited video about George Costanza. Why did we post it? Because it's hilarious. We love it. You'll love it too.
We also cover items with a little more heft, like the Conan O'Brien vs. NBC saga, what's going on with your favorite Glee actors and what TV pilots to expect this fall. Basically, it's a one-stop-shop for some entertainment news, our Source content and some extra giggles.
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Best of all, this is another chance us to interact with you and you to interact with each other. Comment on our posts, let us know what you like and don't like in entertainment, and start some conversations. We'd love to hear from you.
This week’s episode of Gossip Girl focused on how adept these folks are at avoidance. Chuck refuses to see Lily, Blair pretends to live the life of a Columbia girl instead of facing her reality at NYU, Serena pushes her ghosts back into the closet to present a better self to her father and Lily won’t even discuss the possibility that William’s motives involve more than just curing her illness. For a bunch of rich people, they sure don’t spend anything on therapy. Maybe a session with a shrink will force them to face their issues and discuss them. Here are some other thoughts:
Rules: Politics, “Jersey Shore” and where you want to eat. This is going to be a fulfilling relationship. Putting limits on conversational topics can only lead to destruction, especially when it involves an extended stay in Haiti.
Cooking as therapy: Rufus apparently likes to cook enough food for a football team.
One big happy family: Serena does everything with an attitude of petulance. We’re not saying she can’t welcome her father back into her life after umpteen years of abandonment, but have a little understanding for the people that don’t share her enthusiasm (Eric and Rufus).
Falafel: The breakfast of paralegals.
Welcome Back, Kotter: Serena’s moving back home to squeeze Jenny out and William is subletting downstairs. The Brooklyn loft is going to start looking pretty good.
Sisters: Serena and Jenny locked into a catfight over a bedroom. It’s almost like they're actually related.
Serena meets Daddy Dearest again, Jenny has her sights set on Nate again, and Vanessa and Dan joust about Tisch again on Gossip Girl. We discover the word that cannot be mentioned in Lily's presence, find out whether Nate is immune to to the combined powers of Chuck and Jenny, and realize we kind of love Willa, even if she is transparently after Dan and kind of bitchy. Plus, Dorota wisdom! Chair plot! Bad accents! Janine rants! Breaking Lindsey! Check it out!
Billy Baldwin talks about Gossip Girl and how Dr. van der Woodsen isnt that terrible...sort of.
As pervasive as they are in entertainment, it was only a matter of time until a Baldwin ended up on Gossip Girl. We've got the skinny on how Billy Baldwin became William "Billy" van der Woodsen and his changing relationships with the characters on the show. Check out the interview below.
