Day: October 3, 2023

Late shows return … with a lot to talk about

The late-night TV world boomed back Monday and everyone seemed excited to be there.
How excited? “More excited than the guy who went to see ‘Beetlejuice’ with Lauren Boebert,” Jimmy Fallon said. “More excited than the Jets fans for the first three plays of the season.”
Yes, they had a lot to talk about.
Boebert (a congresswoman from Colorado) and her guy were ejected from a theater, after being accused of vaping, groping and yelling. Jets fans were giddy until their new quarterback was injured on the third play. There was much more.
At 6:17 a.m. Monday, Jimmy Kimmel (shown here) said, one of his writers received this text from his mother: “Please don’t make tonight’s monologue all about Trump.” Kimmel shared that text with the audience and then … well, had a long chunk of the monolog that was all about Trump. Read more…

Best-bets for Oct. 5: cooks, cats and lust

1) “Hell’s Kitchen,” 8 p.m., Fox. Last week’s opener left Gordon Ramsay seeming oddly pleasant. The women edged the men via a tiebreaker and no one was sent home. Now each side has to work on a dinner service and Ramsay returns to his screaming mode. Then “Lego Masters” (shown here) has an unusual challenge: Turn plastic bricks into playful home for real kittens. Read more…