America has a new Idol and it’s dreamy Mikhail - the one-eyed, grenade-toting Russian! Bold choice, America…

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Ever wondered what Tenacious D might’ve been like with Wes Anderson’s sensibilities and charming accents? Well, HBO is giving us the chance to find out with its new series, “Flight of the Conchords”. “Conchords” is about “New Zealand’s fourth most popular folk-parody duo” of Jemaine Clement & Bret McKenzie and their attempts to break into the New York music and dating scene. HBO is offering the pilot episode online for free before it premieres and I found the episode to be much more funny and entertaining than it initially sounds.

“Flight of the Conchords” premieres after (already awesome) “Entourage” on HBO June 17 at 10:30.

Not sure why I am just now hearing about this, but it seems MTV has cleared all of those back-to-back Road Rules/Real World episodes from its schedule and are allowing the very funny guys from Human Giant to host MTV (and MTV2) LIVE for 24 Hours Straight starting today! Their show is really funny and it looks like they’ve got some great guests lined up for their 24-hour gig. I just saw Albert Hammond Jr. perform and it looks like they’ve also got Ted Leo, The National, Tapes ‘n Tapes, and lots of other rad musicians.

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