Sarah Michelle Gellar's HBO pilot: Dead?
Gellar's eccentric family comedy "The Wonderful Maladys" reportedly didn't get picked up, though an HBO rep wouldn't confirm it. A poster on Whedonesque.com contacted "Wonderful Maladys" co-star Nate Cordrry and the pilot's director, who both said the show was dead. Gellar, whose body has bounced back from her pregnancy, filmed the pilot in May.
Jimmy Kimmel: Balloon Boy's dad asked me for $25,000
"This is weird," Kimmel said of the time several years ago that Richard Heene approached him to put his name on a rocket going to space.
Jon Gosselin's lawyer calls TLC's lawsuit "weak, feeble and baseless"
Says the attorney: "Jon will vigorously defend against this baseless action, assuming Discovery and TLC choose to go forward with their claim by legally serving him with notice."
Conan and Newark's mayor make nice
Cory Booker explained why he took exception to Conan's insults about him: "When there's a herd going after you, you have to go looking for the weakest gazelle."
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar embarrasses himself on "Jeopardy!"
By answering a question with "Who is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar?"
Maksim Chmerkovskiy subbing for Derek Hough on "Dancing"
Hough is too sick to rehearse with Joanna Krupa, so Maksim may fill in on Monday's show.
"Fringe" is languishing on Thursdays
Did Fox make a mistake putting the sophomore drama on TV's most competitive night and timeslot?
Tim Gunn lands "Sex and the City" gig
The "Project Runway" star will make a cameo in the upcoming sequel.
Gourmet magazine is dead, but it'll live on Sunday on PBS
Ex-Gourmet mag editor Ruth Reichl hosts "Gourmet’s Adventures With Ruth."
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TLC sues Jon Gosselin for breach of contract
Two weeks ago, TLC threatened to sue Gosselin for going on Larry King. Today, a suit was filed against the "Jon & Kate" star for not meeting his obligations to the show, for appearing on other shows and for making unauthorized disclosures about "J&K." TLC accuses Jon of entering into "a lucrative arrangement" with "Entertainment Tonight" and "The Insider." The suit also says Jon "routinely sold photographic rights to various media outlets."
Richard Hatch released from federal prison
The "Survivor" winner is now a free man, though he won't be allowed to leave the state of Rhode Island without permission.
Fox Reality Channel will become "National Geographic Wild"
The new channel will be chalk full of animal and natural history programming.
"Survivor" Russell has an extensive criminal drug history
Russell Hantz was arrested four times before the age of 26, including twice in huge drug busts. PLUS: Jeff Probst explains the birth of the "Next Time on … 'Survivor'" pause.
Which TV stars will "break out" and become A-list movie stars?
Jeff Simon wonders which TV stars will still maintain their fame after their boob tube stint. For instance, he writes, "Anyone looking at 'Grey’s Anatomy' would guess that whenever it is down the road that a priest comes in to give the show last rites, it’s unlikely that Ellen Pompeo has blazing movie stardom ahead of her. But nor, despite her success in Romcoms and Apatow-land, does it seem to me that Katherine Heigl is on her way to becoming the next Jennifer Aniston, much less the next Julia Roberts."
Elisabeth Moss will guest on "Mercy"
The "Mad Men" star will play a cancer patient, who is bald and wears a head scarf.
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"Celebrity Apprentice" cast unveiled: Sharon Osbourne, Cyndi Lauper, Sinbad
Rod Blagojevich and Darryl Strawberry are also competing, as well as Summer Sanders, wrestler Goldberg, Holly Robinson Peette, Carol Leifer, Bret Michaels and Sharon Osbourne.
"FlashForward" sucks at trying to be "Lost"
"You know what happened this week?" asks Daniel Carlson. "Same stuff as last week. No progress was made at all in any area."
Balloon Boy pukes twice as his "we did this for a show" comment is scrutinized
"Mom, I feel like I'm going to vomit," Falcon said this morning on "GMA" after being asked about the "for a show" comment made on Larry King.
Balloon Boy's family already pitched TLC on their own reality show
Even before this incident, the Heene family pitched a reality show "all over town." During last night's monologue, Jimmy Kimmel said even he was approached by the dad.
Kelly Ripa returning to "All My Children"
She and Mark Consuelos will be back for the 40th anniversary.
"Lost" plane may crash on "Desperate Housewives"
The Oceanic Airlines cameo is being done just for fun.
Twitter can lead to headaches when TV actors and producers speak their mind
The unfiltered nature of tweeting means that anything and everything — even the "Bones" creator's joke about swine flu on set — can be blown out of proportion. PLUS: Scott Baio gets in Twitter war with "liberals."
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ABC did extensive testing before giving "Ugly Betty" a makeover
The result is a brand-new Betty Suarez, who debuts her new look in tonight's two-hour premiere, with silkier hair, tweezed eyebrows and a more fashionable pair of red glasses. Later this season, Betty will get a shorter haircut and, finally, remove her braces. "We thought she could get her braces off, walk out of the dentist's office and trip and bust her teeth so she's back in braces," says exec producer Victor Nelli Jr. He says another possibility is a cast-wide musical routine.
"Glee" cast will perform at the World Series
Major League Baseball had to give the greenlight for "Glee" to perform at Game 3 on Halloween night. PLUS: "Glee" sings "Bust a Move."
Argument over "The Office" leads to jail scuffle
Two female inmates watching "The Office" at the Sheboygan County Jail in Wisconsin got into a hair-pulling fight when another inmate wanted to watch something else.
Why did Lauren Graham join an ensemble, rather than launch her own show?
The new "Parenhood" star says she likes the change of pace from "Gilmore Girls," where she had so many lines.
Caption these "Friday Night Lights" photos
DirecTV has released three stills from the new season.
Why did ABC reject an ad for CougarLife.com?
The dating Web site submitted an a commercial in which construction crew workers ogled a teacher in her late 30s. But the network of "Cougar Town" rejected the ad because, it says, the Web site had yet to launch.
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