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."
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."
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."
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."
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."
Jon Gosselin will continue to appear, but beginning Nov. 2 "Jon & Kate Plus Eight" will become "Kate Plus Eight" as the cameras spend more time focusing on Kate Gosselin and her eight kids. "Given the recent changes in the family dynamics, it only makes sense for us to refresh and recalibrate the program to keep pace with the family," TLC's president said in a statement. "The family has evolved and we are attempting to evolve with it; we feel that Kate's journey really resonates with our viewers." PLUS: 
"Saturday Night Live" doesn't use a delay, and so Jenny Slate's F-bomb resulted in what Michaels calls "an actor's worst nightmare." "I don't want that show to be remembered for one word," he says, adding that "it was literally her first time on the show. There was nothing dirty, just a slip of the tongue. It was 'frickin', frickin', frickin' ' and then boom! The pain that Jenny is going through is, I'm sure, considerably worse than that experienced by anybody who saw it."
With last night's episode, Heather Havrilesky says, "Matthew Weiner beautifully illustrates the unnerving invasiveness of modern, postwar culture, the ways that empty trends and bad ideas and innocuous shifts in personal taste seem to join together, gather momentum, and crash down upon the populace like a sociocultural tsunami. At the moment when you think the boom times will never end and you'll live out the balance of your days on Easy Street, half of your personal nest egg disappears, you lose your job, you're uninsured, and before you know it, you're nearing bankruptcy. That's not just a cautionary tale."
You'd be wrong to think the best acting on NBC's newest drama is done by the helicopters, says Tom Shales. As he points out, "The show ratchets up the sense of peril that the often brave, sometimes foolhardy team members face; they definitely get their hair mussed, unlike characters on some similarly themed shows of the past. The drama in their professional lives, and some of the drama in their personal lives, is treated with an unusual amount of intelligence, considering the show's basic goal is thrill, thrill, thrill. Which it does, does, does — to a breathtaking degree, at least in the pilot."
