The Must List: What's Hot for the Week Ending Jan. 23, 2011

The Screen Actors Guild Awards, Taylor Swift's latest video, Jay-Z and Kanye West collaboration, and more
By EW Staff
January 20, 2011 at 10:00 PM EST

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THE SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS

ILLUSTRATION BY JOSUE EVILLA; Lynch: Patrick Ecclesine/Fox; Statuette: Vince Bucci/Getty Images; Hamm: Michael Yarish/AMC; Bridges: Wilson Webb; Portman: Niko Tavernise

Always a fun, glamorous ceremony, the SAGs celebrate the best in TV and movie acting — and give a key preview of the famous faces who’ll shine at the upcoming Academy Awards. (TNT and TBS, Jan. 30, 8 p.m.)

See the nominees
Go to the SAG’s YouTube channel
Go to EW’s award season coverage

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''LOVE YOU MORE,'' the Pierces

Neil Krug

Coldplay bassist Guy Berryman steps in to produce the Alabama-born sisters’ torchy, atmospheric ­ballad from their excellent new EP of the same name.

Download the song from iTunes
Go to their official site

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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST on Broadway

Joan Marcus

A sparkling new Oscar Wilde production offers a hilarious twist: The imperious Lady Bracknell is played by a man.

Watch a video about it
Buy tickets
Read the EW review

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THE COMPANY MEN

Ted Bois

This engrossing R-rated drama threads together the stories of three men (including Ben Affleck) who are laid off from their white-collar jobs.

Watch a trailer from Apple.com
Find showtimes
Read the EW review

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ARCHER

FX

The outrageous, spoofing animated spy series from the minds behind Adult Swim’s Frisky Dingo and Sealab 2021 is back for a second season of subversive comedy, voiced by Arrested Development‘s Jessica Walter, among others. (FX, Thursdays, 10 p.m.)

Watch a promo
Download season 1 episodes from iTunes
Go to the official site

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Taylor Swift's ''BACK TO DECEMBER'' video

The singer’s stark, lovely new spot from her smash album Speak Now finds her bereft on a bleak winter’s day, working through her melancholy over the love she let go.

Watch the video
Download the album from iTunes
Read the original EW review

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KAPUTT, Destroyer

Ted Bois

The Vancouver ­indie outfit’s soulful latest is awash in ’80s synths and sax solos. Singer-songwriter Dan Bejar’s languid delivery only highlights his pained yet poignant lyrics about the harsh realities of life and love.

Download the album from iTunes
Read more about Bejar

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THE DEATH INSTINCT, by Jed Rubenfeld

A deadly terrorist attack rocks downtown Manhattan in September…1920. Rubenfeld’s gripping novel revolves around the ­real-life Wall Street bombing and will have you enthralled from page 1.

Watch a video about the book
Buy the novel

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BEING ERICA

Stephen Scott/Temple Street Productions/SoapNet

Have any regrets? Well, this Canadian cult series’ main character does, and she can go back in time to fix them. While ABC develops a Stateside version, enjoy the original when season 3 premieres Jan. 26. (SOAPnet, Wednesdays, 11 p.m.)

Download previous seasons from iTunes
Go to the official site
Read EW’s original take on the series

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''H.A.M.,'' Jay-Z and Kanye West

Johnny Nunez/WireImage.com

As in: Hard as a Motherf—er. On the superstar duo’s first single from their upcoming collaboration Watch the Throne, the rappers engage in a fierce, profane duet, laying out exactly why the crowns rest on their heads and not on their so-called competition’s.

Download the song from iTunes
Follow Kanye on Twitter

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