Each week TV Tango takes you around the dial and across the web so you can read recaps of the hottest programs and catch up on the biggest and best TV-related lists, news stories & fun sites/links from the previous week.

Rapid Recaps From Last Week

Chuck – no new episode last week

TV Web-bits From Last Week

• GoldDerby remembers the Best Christmas Episodes according to Chris Beachum and Rob Licuria.
• The Daily Beast looks back at the Top 10 Nontraditional Holiday Episodes.
• TV Squad lists the Best and Worst of TV in 2010 and the Best and Worst of the Year in TV: Staff Picks.
• What Alan’s Watching honors the Best Returning Shows of 2010.
• TV Squad looks back at the End of the Road: TV Shows That Got Canceled or Retired in 2010 and Hardly Knew You: The Short-Lived Shows of 2010.
• Pajiba selects the 10 Best Television Episodes of 2010.
• Television Without Pity surveys the Year in Review 2010: TV’s Biggest Disappointments.
• The TV Addict runs through Our 2010 Year in Review: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, and Part V.
• Cultural Learnings showcases the Top Scenes of 2010 and My Top 10 TV Series of 2010.
• The Telefile chooses the Top 10 Characters We’d Like to Regift (2010 Edition).
• The TV Addict submits the Top 5 Most Annoying TV Characters of 2010.
• The TV Addict names the Top 5 Celebrities We’d Love to See Less (Or None) of in 2011.
• TV Squad celebrates the Top 10 Most Powerful Female TV Characters in 2010.
• A few news-tweets from the TV Tango Twitter Feed over the past week:
  • Sun (12/26): We mourn the loss of filmmaker, Bud Greenspan, who won 8 Emmys for his inspiring documentaries about Olympic athletes. He was 84.
  • Fri (12/24): More Jersey on TV? RHONJ, JERSEY SHORE, JERSEY COUTURE, JERSEYLICIOUS, and now Lifetime is developing JERSEY CHEER. (source: trademark app)
  • Thu (12/23): Comedy Central premieres ONION SPORTSDOME Jan 11 at 10:30p. The finest sports news and petty personal attacks. About: http://bit.ly/erBFZi
  • Thu (12/23): #PRIMEVAL is returning to BBC AMERICA with the new season starting on Jan 1 9pm. Check out these new prequel videos http://bit.ly/i9vsNX
  • Tue (12/21): CBS midseason: Comedic drama CHAOS premieres Friday, April 1 8p. Succeeds THE DEFENDERS which will have completed on-air order for season.
  • Tue (12/21): CBS: RULES OF ENGAGEMENT moves from Monday 8:30p to Thursdays 8:30p on Feb. 24. Takes $#*! MY DAD SAYS slot which will be over for season.
  • Tue (12/21): CBS midseason: CRIMINAL MINDS: SUSPECT BEHAVIOR, a spin-off of CRIMINAL MINDS, premieres Wednesday, Feb. 16 (10PM).
  • Tue (12/21): CBS midseason: THE DEFENDERS moves from Wednesdays 10p to Fridays 8p effective Feb. 4. New sitcom MAD LOVE premieres Mon, Feb. 21 (8:30p)
  • Tue (12/21): CBS shifts #BlueBloods to Wednesday 10pm for 4 weeks begin Jan. 19 then back to regular Friday at 10p slot on Feb. 11 per #MichaelAusiello
  • Tue (12/21): FX announced season 2 of #JUSTIFIED will return on Wednesday, February 9 at 10 PM and run for 13 weeks. About series: http://bit.ly/ihGDr7
  • Tue (12/21): Paul Reubens brings THE PEE-WEE HERMAN SHOW ON BROADWAY to HBO in 2011. The special to shoot in January at end of its Broadway engagement.
  • Mon (12/20): Congratulations to Betty White who has been named The Associated Press' Entertainer of the Year.
  • Mon (12/20): Just launched THE AMAZING RACE- THE GAME the official mobile game now available at the itunes App Store for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.
• Watch the embedded video below, and enjoy Jimmy Fallon and his Christmas Choir sing about the top stories of 2010 -- to the tune of "12 Days of Christmas"

 

 

Abe Fried-Tanzer is a recent graduate from New York University, where he majored in cinema studies and journalism. He makes it his priority each year to see every Oscar-nominated film and watch every new television pilot, and writes reviews and awards predictions at Movies with Abe and TV with Abe.