Bravo spins off the stars of "Real Housewives," "Runway," "Top Chef"
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ethenny Frankel, Christian Siriano and Fabio Viviani are each getting their own reality show. Frankel's will follow her life as a natural foods chef, Siriano's will document the opening of his new store and clothing line and "Fabio: A Catered Affair" will capture his new business.
Letterman takes Madonna out to eat NYC pizza for the 1st time
Madonna also confessed to Dave, perhaps jokingly, that she smoked a joint prior to her infamous 1994 interview.
Jimmy Kimmel films a sex tape — with Kevin Nealon
"If you want to do something big, you have to make a sex video," Kimmel advises Nealon in a YouTube video released just hours after he was alleged to be in a video with Sarah Silverman.
Conan "apologizes" to Newark's mayor
The "Tonight Show" used Newark Mayor Cory Booker's mock ban on Conan to further make fun of the New Jersey city.
Nigel Lythgoe: "SYTCYD" is "about exposing talent, nothing else"
"I am shocked," he tweets, "that people think that poor dancer was not wearing panties."
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Lauren Conrad's novel will beocome a movie, thanks to "Twilight" producers
The former "Hills" star will serve as a producer on the big-screen remake of "L.A. Candy." PLUS: Spencer Pratt claims MTV booted Lauren from "The Hills."
Laurence Fishburne: "I'm still trying to figure my character out"
The "CSI" star says he's still grappling with the complexities of his character, especially since he joined the team having not watched the CBS drama. "When you step in for someone who left you're sort of damned if you do, damned if you don't. I can't make sense of all the expectations," he says. "I have to fit into this but haven't yet quite decided how to do the character."
Real-life paramedics hate "Trauma"
"I have never gone from 0 to 60 with hatred so fast in my life," paramedic Devin Kerins, author of "EMS: The Job of Your Life," wrote of the premiere. He added, "If you're gonna have sex in the ambulance, would you do it in the middle of a major street in broad daylight?"
Alyson Hannigan has a "Booby Scare" with Minka Kelly, Emily Deschanel, Kat McPhee
Check out their FunnyOrDie slumber party.
CBS will premiere the Pittsburgh-set "Three Rivers" against a Steelers game
That means people in the Three Rivers area aren't likely going to tune into "Three Rivers."
Oprah's ratings are up, up, up
After seeing her ratings decline last year, Oprah Winfrey's premiere numbers were up 30% and she had 144% more viewers than 2nd place "Dr. Phi. "The great bookings early on have showed we can still kick it up a notch," says Tim Bennett, president of Winfrey's Harpo Inc. "We knew we had to come out strong."
Lisa Kudrow performs "Smelly Cat" on stage
According to People, the former "Friends" star was on stage with Courteney Cox at a charity benefit when a fan shouted "Play 'Smelly Cat!'"
"Everwood's" Sarah Drew becomes a "Grey's Anatomy" doctor
She'll play April, a 4th-year doc.
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"SNL's" Bush-mocking word and profanity a hot topic at White House press briefing
One reporter yesterday asked about Obama's "strategery," which prompted the president's spokesman, Robert Gibbs, to respond: "I love it how a 'Saturday Night Live' word has entered into the lexicon … I'm gonna curse in a minute."
Sitcoms rediscover the heartland
From "Parks and Recreation" to "The Middle," networks networks are trying to recapture some Midwestern sensibilities.
TiVo denies "The Jay Leno Show" is "TiVo-proof"
Leno does have fewer time-shifting viewers, but many of them are watching the show within an hour, suggesting that they're skipping the ads and, likely, the 11 o'clock news.
Alan Ball: "True Blood" was a way of lightening up after "Six Feet Under"
"Six Feet Under," he says, "was about life in the presence of death. But after that show ended I thought to myself: 'OK, I’m done looking into the abyss now. I’m ready for a theme park ride.'"
When will CBS quit cloning its dramas?
We have three "CSIs," 2 "NCIS" shows and, pretty soon, two "Criminal Minds."
Kathy Najimy gets "Desperate"
"Peggy Hill" will play a police officer who stole Susan's boyfriend in high school.
Susan Lucci will move west with "All My Children"
Most of the New York cast will join "AMC" when it moves to L.A. later this year.
BBC reality show sends a family to live in the 1970s
“Electric Dreams” drops off a family in the '70s with the latest modern technology. Each day, they advance to a new year and get new gadgets.
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Kelsey Grammer's "Hank" is simply godawful
The ABC sitcom, says Tim Goodman, is "a moronic and ghastly effort that suffocates under the cloying and annoying blanket of a laugh track so disturbing it should be destroyed. As should the show. What makes no sense about 'Hank' – beyond the fact that it even exists – is that the sitcom is an old-school, multicamera affair with that intrusive laugh track. The three sitcoms that follow it are all single-camera comedies with no laugh track. 'Hank' sticks out – and not in a good way."
Grammer is too "Frasier"-like // "Hank" is lame and predictable
"Hank" seems pitiful // Comes across as empty condescension
"The Middle" is just a middling sitcom
"The Middle," says Heaher Havrilesky, "is worth watching mostly because it demonstrates the perils of lingering somewhere in the middle, whether it's between darkness and light, between subtlety and obviousness, between sharp, hilarious jokes and clumsy, mildly amusing punch lines. ABC's 'Modern Family' is the really great family sitcom to air this fall, and Fox's "Brothers" is the really bad one. Until it disregards the knee-jerk reactions of lowest-common-denominator testing audiences, 'The Middle' will remain somewhere in the middle."
"Middle" is in sync with middle America's mood // "Middle" is much better than "Hank"
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Adam Lambert No. 2 on Amazon
The "Idol" runner-up is, at the moment, more popular than Madonna, Susan Boyle and the Beatles. Only Barbra Streisand is more popular.
Happy 40th birthday, "The Brady Bunch"!
The Bradys was never a Top 25 show, yet, as Christopher Muther points out, it "is still seen daily in syndication around the world and has become an inescapable part of pop culture. 'The Brady Bunch' is adored as much as it is maligned, and as the show reaches middle age, it is the fictional family that America refuses to forget."
"SNL" F-bomb intentional? No way!
"SNL" historian Tom Shales seriously doubts that Lorne Michaels planned to have the F-word uttered live on national TV. "I have known Lorne Michaels for more than 30 years and i could tell by the sound of his voice on Sunday that he was NOT happy it happened, not at all," he says. "I just cannot believe they would be so crass — the show really doesnt NEED publicity. And if they planned it, they wouldnt have waited until 12:45 or so to do it."
Jon Hamm caught buying "Mad Men" DVDs
"You've got me in a dork moment," said the actor, who was seemingly in disguise with glasses and cap when he was captured buying two "Mad Men" DVDs as a "gift." Apparently Hamm can't get "Mad Men" DVDs for free. PLUS: Who else is missing Joan?
Kristin Cavallari: I'm all for "The Hills" creating my reality
"I pretty much do anything they have me do because I don't care," she says as "The Hills" makes its 5th-season debut tonight. "I mean, we're filming a TV show. Let's make it interesting. Let's have a good time with it."
"How I Met Your Mother" reverts back to its disappointing side
Last night's episode was just shameful, especially the gags already done by "Friends."
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Showtime is partnering with the BBC on "Episodes," which will see what happens when a hit British TV comedy is Americanized with LeBlanc starring in the remake. The show is from "Friends" exec producer David Crane and "Mad About You's" Jeffrey Klarik. "We jumped at the chance to get involved with this cock-eyed look at network television told through the eyes of unsuspecting British producers who don't know what hit them when they enter the lion's den of Hollywood," says Showtime's entertainment president. "And Matt LeBlanc — wryly sending up his own image — is icing on the cake."
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