"The L Word" becoming a reality show
Showtime will follow six lesbians in "The Real L Word: Los Angeles," from "L Word" creator Ilene Chaiken and the producers behind "Top Chef."
Erin Andrews talks to Oprah about nude "nightmare"
The ESPN star spoke to Oprah last week for an interview that will air Sept. 11. Andrews, who will work ESPN's "Thursday Night Football" game this week, said she "opened up the computer (and) could feel my heart pounding."
"The View" goes interactive, will add a green room cam
Babs & Co. are revamping the show to allow viewers more access.
"Idol" guest-judge Katy Perry calls Simon a "very truthful, honest a*shole"
Perry won't hold back when she works alongside Simon Cowell: "I'm not there to build them up, buttercup," she says.
It's true: Paula Abdul she's getting a Vegas show
The former "Idol" judge also reveals that her "Drop Dead Diva" stint has been bumped up from a guest spot to recurring. PLUS: Check out Judge Paula.
MTV's "Teen Wolf" remake won't be like the movie
"It has a fresh take and is very different from the original," says MTV's Liz Gateley. "It has more of an 'American Werewolf in Paris' feel to it. It's a dramatic thriller with two best friends in the center who provide a great comedy element: They are two very relatable characters on the outer circles of popular cliques."
Josh Schwartz's next project: An ABC female lawyer dramedy
On the heels of selling CBS on his first comedy, Schwartz will try his hand at a dramedy based on a real-life high-powered lawyer.
According to Dave Itzkoff, "Sopranos" alum Matthew Weiner and his "Mad" writing staff "seem to be so enamored with their characters that they are content to assemble them in potentially interesting settings, let the cameras linger on them and hope that an interesting scene emerges. This unhurried strategy may produce the occasionally transcendent image — think of Don and Betty Draper kissing in the moonlight at the end of the episode — but doesn’t do much to advance the internal narrative of the series."
When "The Jay Leno Show" debuts in two weeks, NBC will unveil a branding campaign that is aimed at harkening back to its Peacock heritage. "The NBC peacock is 53 years old but has incredible heritage and brand equity," says NBC's marketing boss Adam Stotsky. "We've seen research that suggests an incredible unaided awareness that the icon means NBC." He adds: "Color is also what we strive to do in our programming."
"I went to therapy," says the "Jon & Kate" star. "I have huge bills so (detractors) can't denounce that … For (Kate) to say she'd been working on it – well, I'd been working on it too, and at one point in time I just gave up. There's a point in time where you just say, 'This is not going to work.' So I just moved on." That point, he says, was October 2008. In May, he started "talking to Hailey Glassman, but they didn't start dating until the divorce papers were filed. Now, he says, they are "boyfriend and girlfriend." PLUS: "Jon & Kate" send 
Will Ryder, the director of sitcom porn versions of "The Brady Bunch" and "The Cosby Show," calls it "the new gold rush in porn." He adds: "I don’t think people realized that this was more akin to making sitcoms as opposed to making porno. We’re entertainers, not pornographers … We wanted to make Hollywood sitcoms that had sex. And that’s all we’re doing. And we really achieved it." Ryder has directed many "Brady Bunch" porn spoofs, but he doesn't plan to have the adopted brothers and sisters have sex with each other, at least not yet. What's next? Possibly a "Mary Tyler Moore" porno.
Has "Runway" become too mommy-ish? Has the "queer quotient" been toned down? Has it become too safe? Amelia McDonell-Parry thinks so, and that's why she says "Runway" is over. "On Bravo’s 'PR,' she writes, "often the edgiest designers were given the opportunity to harness their creativity over the course of the show, she writes. But "in the first two episodes of Lifetime’s 'Project Runway,' the two edgiest and forward-thinking designers—Malvin and Ari—were given the boot before those who lacked innovation or, um, sewing skills."
Co-creator Peter Tolan confirms that the FX series will bow out in two years time. "Within the next couple of weeks, we're going to begin shooting the last 19 episodes, which will be the final two seasons of the show," he says, adding: "I think they're stretching the airing of it out until the 10th anniversary. So if you put 10 episodes on next year and nine the following year, you'll land there."
Linney will also exec produce "The C Word," is a dark comedy in which Linney portrays a cancer patient. "Cancer is not usually the subject of a half-hour comedy," says Showtime's entertainment president, but Laura saw what we did in this complex show — a woman who gets a wake-up call that causes her to shake up her life and family. She will no doubt make this character both heartbreaking and disarmingly funny."
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