The Must List: What's Hot for the Week Ending June 27, 2010

Morning concerts on TV, ''Predator: Ultimate Hunter Edition,'' Lisa Kudrow's ''Web Therapy'' app, and more
By EW Staff
June 23, 2010 at 08:45 PM EDT

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ILLUSTRATION BY GLUEKIT; Lady Gaga: Rob Verhorst/Redferns/Getty Images; Blige: Beth Hall/Getty Images; Chesney: Rick Diamond/Getty Images

TV’S MORNING CONCERTS

You know what summer means? Rockin’ out early to morning-show concerts. We can’t wait to rise and shine with Mary J. Blige (on Good Morning America July 2), Lady Gaga (on Today July 9), and Keith Urban (on The Early Show in late summer).

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Heidi Gutman/ABC

THE BACHELORETTE

You can usually count on the male contenders to be true characters, and this time around is no different. Our ­single gal Ali has among her suitors an ”entertainment wrestler,” a landscaper, and a singing and dancing Renaissance man named Roberto, making this season’s ­parade of awkward dates crazier than ever. (ABC, Mondays, 8 p.m.)

Go to EW’s hub for blogs and recaps

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Jen Maler/Retna Ltd.

NIGHT WORK, Scissor Sisters

The glam band’s stellar dance album touches on everything from the grim reaper to a wild night with men who smell ”like cocoa butter and cash.”

Order the album from iTunes
Watch a Scissor Sisters video

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EXTRA LIVES, by Tom Bissell

A fascinating non­fiction meditation on the art of videogames, this book is also sure to make you feel better about spending 50 hours on Call of Duty.

Read an excerpt
Buy the book from Amazon

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Sebastian Mlynarski

WINTER’S BONE

A favorite at Sundance, this tense R-rated drama follows a girl in the Ozarks as she doggedly tries to track down her drug-dealing, bail-jumping father. Young actress Jennifer Lawrence gives a raw performance that cuts straight to the film’s heart.

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

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Everett Collection

PREDATOR: ULTIMATE HUNTER EDITION

Two future governors (Jesse Ventura and Ah-nuld) take on an alien using an arsenal of guns, knives, and one-liners in the R-rated 1987 thriller. The new Blu-ray ­has fresh docs and commentary tracks.

Watch the trailer
Buy the Blu-ray from Amazon
Read about the upcoming Predators reboot

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Magnolia Pictures

180° SOUTH soundtrack

Surf-folk hero Jack Johnson, the Shins’ James Mercer, Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock, and singer-songwriter Mason Jennings provide a spare, beautifully organic original soundtrack for the Patagonian adventure documentary.

Watch the trailer
Buy the DVD from Amazon

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101 PLACES NOT TO SEE BEFORE YOU DIE, by Catherine Price

This clever collection of travel advisories lists all the places that are definitely not worth a trip, including a rendering plant, Times Square on New Year?s Eve, and, bien sûr, Euro Disney.

Go to the official site
Buy the book from Amazon

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Susan B. Landau

Lisa Kudrow’s WEB THERAPY app

The Friends star’s hilarious Web series about a clueless therapist gets an iPhone app with free YouTube videos, links to buy episodes, and clips of Kudrow belittling all your mental health issues. ($1.99 on iTunes)

Download the app
Watch a video
Read the EW review of the series

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SOMEWHERE trailer

This affecting clip for Sofia Coppola’s latest — a drama about a movie-star father (Stephen Dorff) and his daughter (Elle Fanning), due out Dec. 22 — brings to mind the dreamy melancholy of the director’s Lost in Tran­s­­lation. Our hopes are officially high.

Watch the trailer from Apple.com

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