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."
