From the daily archives:

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

September 8, 2009

Tyra Banks unveils her weave-free hair
She also posted a photo of her "REAL hair" on her Twitter page.


"Jon & Kate" saw Dr. Phil; Jon suspected Kate had an affair with her bodyguard

In a "Primetime" special tonight, Jon further bashed his future ex-wife, saying he suspected she had an affair (even though he had no proof) and that Kate deliberately "separated" him from his mother and brothers. He also said that the couple saw Dr. Phil to save their marriage, but only got advice on how to save the show.


Ross the Intern returns for "The Jay Leno Show"

Leno also announced a slew of new comic correspondents including Nick Thune, Brian Unger, Liz Feldman, Owen Benjamin and Maria Franklin.


"Criminal Minds" gets Gavin Rossdale to play a serial killing rock star

He'll guest as a Goth rocker who also works as a serial killer in his spare time.


Peter Gallagher lands on USA

"The O.C." dad will play the CIA director on "Covert Affairs," supervising CIA trainee Piper Perabo.


Judd Nelson nabs "Psych" role

He'll play a CDC researcher this fall.


Fox goes after a sci-fi Western

"Chuck" exec producer will make a "Planet of the Apes"-like series about a "a gunslinger caught between worlds."

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September 8, 2009

Jon Gosselin despises Kate, claims she was verbally abusive
"I was beaten down," he says in an ABC News interview of Kate, whom he can't sit next to while filming "Jon & Kate" because "I can't sit on someone right now that I despise." "She would hold my kids over my head. I would want to spend time with my mom, and she would say, 'Don't spend time with your mom, spend time with your kids.' Why can't I spend time with my mom and my kids?"


Fox confirms it won't air Obama's Wednesday speech

The network doesn't want to disrupt the season debuts of "SYTYCD" and "Glee."


Oprah: Whintey Houston was "the best interview I've ever done"

"I think it’s the best interview I’ve ever done," Oprah says of her two-day interview airing next week. "But I guess you’re supposed to let other people say that about yourself. I can’t think of a moment, ever, when I had a stronger connection to the person I was interviewing." PLUS: Oprahpalooza takes over Chicago and can Oprah save music?


Tyra Banks to launch an online magazine — "TYRA"

"TYRA: Beauty Inside and Out" will focus on beauty, fashion and healthy living.


Denis Leary's firefighter charity is among the worst celebrity nonprofits

The Leary Firefighters Foundation received one star for its poor financial performance in 2007.


Larry David is only watching "Gossip Girl" these days

Asked if he watches TV, David replies: "Not really. I find it very hard to sit down and devote an hour to television. And I don't have any TV-alone time when I can watch shows. I have two teenaged daughters, so sometimes I'll watch shows to spend time with them. I watch 'Gossip Girl' with my teenagers."


Dallas Cowboys keep Spike TV reality star

Jesse Holley, winner of Michael Irvin's reality show "Fourth and Long," has earned a spot on the Cowboys' practice squad.

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September 8, 2009

Lorne Michaels is worried about "SNL's" 35th season
"Saturday Night Live" historian Tom Shales visited with Michaels and found that he "can barely hide a world of worry." Why? As Shales explains, "this season seems predestined to be worrisome. There's no election, for one thing. Even more potentially troublesome: Tina Fey is locked into her prime-time hit '30 Rock' (produced by Michaels and based on the tribulations of doing an "SNL" sort of series) and can't come back on any sort of regular basis to do her smashing impersonation of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, even though Palin has shown a knack for keeping her name in the news." PLUS: Kristin Wiig is NOT joining "Weekend Update."


Does "SNL" have a lady quota?

The ouster of Michaela Watkins and Casey Wilson raises the question of whether "SNL" has been fiar to women.


Darrell Hammond negotiating a return to "SNL" for his 15th season

Hammond's last episode appeared to be farewell to "Saturday Night Live's" longest-serving cast member.


Fox messes up its "tweet-peat" of "Fringe"

The episode was nearly unwatchable with Twitter covering most of the action on screen.


"Dancing's" Karina & Maksim break up

The had planned to get married next summer.


"24" adds 3 more

The newest batch of actors include Rami Malek, Julian Morris and Hrach Titizia.


WGA owes Jay Leno an apology over strike allegations

According to Variety, the WGA West trial committee that cleared Leno of scabbing during the strike says that Leno has "been done a disservice and (had) his reputation harmed by these proceedings," and is owed an apology.
Leno didn't anticipate he'd be hated so much // Report: NBC isn't helping Leno
Drew Barrymore is 1st to accept Leno's green car challenge

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September 8, 2009

Want to escape from real world problems? Don't watch primetime TV!
Escapism seems to be a thing of the past in this fall TV season. As Matthew Gilbert points out, "If you’re heading to the land of nighttime drama and comedy to be succored by happy endings and secure social roles, you’re trying to get milk from a stone. Best go spend a few hours cruising YouTube for cat videos. A superficial scan of fall 2009 titles – 'Trauma,' 'The Forgotten,' 'Bored to Death,' 'The Good Wife,' the ironically named 'The Beautiful Life: TBL' – suggests as much. And the series’ themes, from sleeper-cell aliens and post-traumatic stress to inadequate doctors, aren’t quite the stuff of lullabies."


Sitcom porn films want newspapers to critique their work

Critics are being bombarded with "The Cosbys XXX" and other porn sitcom spoofs.


"The G4 Man": What kind of guys watch G4?

As the Washington Post notes, "The channel offers a window into the attitudes of a particular subset of young Americans. One detects a whiff of D&D in the air and also a bit too much Axe body spray. These aren't exactly dudes. That term connotes guys who get out a bit more often and have a greater interest in spectator sports. The athletic event of greatest interest to the G4 man is a ninja warrior obstacle course."


Janet is working on a Michael Jackson VMA tribute

She is planning an amazing performance.


It took 11 seasons for "Big Brother" to become a hit

This year's "BB" is No. 2 among summer shows. But why now?


Danny DeVito tweets: "My nuts are on fire"

The "Always Sunny" star (if it's really him) also wrote on his new Twitter page: "Happy Labor Day Bitches."


TLC filming Mormon quintuplets

For the new show "Multitude of Multiples."

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September 8, 2009

Marc Cherry to spin off "Desperate Housewives" in Sprint commercials
“They’re kind of like the old Taster’s Choice commercials, but we added a lot of wicked dark humor, murder and adultery and betrayal,” Cherry says of the ads, which will begin running during the season premiere to stop viewers from hitting the fast-forward button. PLUS: "Housewives" dress in vintage gowns.


ESPN is hungry for the Olympics

"There's no question the Olympics would continue the process of establishing ESPN as the home of championship sports and great sports," one ESPN exec says of landing the Olympic games for 2014 and 2016.


Obama tells kids: Don't count on becoming a reality star

"I know that sometimes, you get the sense from TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard work," he says in his address to all returning students.


Has "House" ruined healthcare?

A new Kaiser report faults the Fox show for "pushing medical practice to the extreme."


Watch Bob Barker take on WWE "Raw"

The former "Price is Right" host got physical last night. (Watch Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4)


Playboy model with GG breasts wins "Big Brother" UK — after "shocking" weight gain

Check out 20-year-old Sophie Reade's transformation from before she entered, during her stay in the house and after she won last Friday.


Claim: Letterman is the last grown-up on network TV

And growing up is the reason why David Letterman has triumphed over Jay Leno, according to Peter W. Kaplan. "Somehow," he says, "without anyone looking, David Letterman has superseded the usual TV categories of comic, or talk-show host, or broadcaster. He paces the stage at night worrying about the Afghan-election recount and generally free-associating about the flies and vultures flapping around in his head. His nightly broadcast from Broadway has become a weird and great American entity unto itself, a blurred throwback, an amalgam of the tradition he came from: Johnny Carson, Edward Murrow, Jack Paar. And the most middle-American of talk-show hosts has become the most New York–centric."
Stand-up comic dying of cancer gets his wish — a performance on Letterman
Auburn University's "Dave Letterman Physics" course has nothing to do with Letterman

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ODDS & ENDS

September 8, 2009

Couch potato researchers measure perspiration, breathing, movement, heart rate

Glamour magazine in UK slams Matthew Fox for bad interview

"Survivor" spoofs "Lost" as Jeff Probst tackles Dharma Initiative

Police called when fans storm "Gossip Girl" set // "Gossip" is still stuck in the 1920s

Tom Welling shows off his black "Smallville" costume

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September 8, 2009

"Sons of Anarchy" enters Season 2 at a "Shield"/"Sopranos" level of quality
As Alan Sepinwall explains, "Entering season two, the 'Hamlet' allusions have more or less gone away and 'Sons of Anarchy' is more purely pulp fiction than it was at this time last year. But if (creator Kurt) Sutter has lowered his sights a bit, he's now unerringly hitting the target. Because 'Sons' is about a criminal gang, and because its creator cut his teeth writing about Vic Mackey, comparisons to 'The Sopranos' and 'The Shield' were inevitable. And where last year those comparisons weren't flattering, now 'Sons' is starting to hold its own against its spiritual ancestors."
A middling "Sons" becomes engrossing in Season 2
Season 2 is newbie-friendly // Hunnan lacks the acting chops of Michael Chiklis
How does Katey Sagal's husband get her to degrading scenes? // Hunnan sees parallels
Q&A with Kurt Sutter: Why Charming is like Mayberry


Soulless new "Melrose Place" doesn't match up to the original

Too much has changed, says Mary McNamara of the "Melrose" revamp. "The young and the soulless dominate television these days, with the CW's own 'Gossip Girl' and MTV's 'The Hills.' Indeed, creators Darren Swimmer and Todd Slavkin have filled the now iconic courtyard apartments with characters that seem to have been plucked from other shows, 'Grey's Anatomy' perhaps or 'Chuck,' or from failed sitcoms like 'Notes From the Underbelly.'"
"Melrose Place" is nothing without Heather Locklear (or Alyssa Milano)
Old "Melrose" vs. New "Melrose" // CW's "Melrose" is better // Even acting is better
Laura Leighton didn't hesitate when contacted // Katie Cassidy: The Breakout star?

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