Tuesday, October 20, 2009

October 20, 2009

Jon and/or Kate have appeared on 50 mag covers since March
That's more than any other celebrity, including Brad and Angelina.


The Weather Channel will start showing movies

“The Perfect Storm" will be followed by "March of the Penguins," "Misery" and "Deep Blue Sea" — with weather scrolls included.


ABC picks up a full "Castle" season

The Nathan Fillion drama has held onto much of its "Dancing" lead-in.


Adam Lambert takes photographs with a naked woman

Warning: This Details photoshoot is not safe for work.


Flu bug strikes "Dancing"

Everybody is trying to avoid Derek Hough and Mark Ballas.


"SYTYCD" judge to produce the Oscars

"Hairspray" director Adam Shankman just might be the first Oscar producer to have danced on stage at the Academy Awards.


Comedy Central buys "It's Always Sunny" reruns for $400,000 an episode

"Sunny" in syndication joins the Comedy Central lineup next summer.

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October 20, 2009

Sarah Palin will do Oprah on Nov. 16
Finally, they meet: The former Alaska governor will promote her new book as part of a "world exclusive" event.


"Big Brother" winner confesses to using his prize money to deal drugs

Adam Jasinski from last spring's 9th season could face up to 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine for using his $500,000 winnings to buy 2,000 pills.


NY guv wants to go on "SNL" — and possibly confront Fred Armisen

"I've offered to come on 'Saturday Night Live' because I thought I would help them get the ratings," says Patterson, whose approval ratings are at 20%.


Due to 9/11, Washington has been spared from air-polluting "V" stunt

ABC will be able to freak out people in New York, Los Angeles and other cities, but not Washington, where there are strict limits on the airspace. The "V" skywriting stunt is expected to pollute the sky with 400 gallons of fuel containing 800 grams of lead.


Bronson Pinchot was depressed during "Perfect Strangers"

"It’s really just like a relationship," the 50-year-old says of playing Balki Bartokomous. "At the start, you’re so in love and you can’t believe it, and then you settle down and it’s comfy, and then you start to get bored, and then you get resentful, and I think at the very end, it was pretty bad. Never ever between Mark (Linn-Baker) and I."


Justin Timberlake tries to be funny on ESPN

Watch Justin's new instructional video teaching offensive lineman how to perform.


"30 Rock" taps a real-life porn star to play "Porn Liz"

"I Was a Teenage MILF" star Savanna Samson says of this week's episode: "It's really an honor to play the porn version of the Tina Fey character as I've admired her for years on ‘Saturday Night Live’ and I love what she's done with this series."

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October 20, 2009

"The Jay Leno Show" deserves to live — no, it deserves to die!
The Boston Globe offers "he said, she said" columns defending and blasting the Leno show. "I don’t really need another cop or medical show at 10," says Joanna Weiss. "And so I want 'The Jay Leno Show’' to go on." Meanwhile, Matthew Gilbert denounces 10 o'clock Leno: "This little flurry of staged enthusiasm is as inauthentic as the opening salvo of an infomercial."


Bethenny Frankel is 2 months pregnant

The recently engaged "Real Housewives" star had been trying to keep the news private.


Kate Gosselin will answer your questions in TLC special

Without any more "Jon & Kate" footage, is TLC now flying by the seat of its pants?


"NCIS" boss calls rise to No. 1 "remarkable"

""Everything that is happening is remarkable but it's probably more remarkable to people who haven't watched the show," says exec producer Shane Brennan. "We're a very strange little show," adds Michael Weatherly, of the show's appealing mix of genres. "There's a real '80s and even '70s throwback feeling. You get a kind of 'Barney Miller' feel with it. It's not quite so grim and static and monotone and dour as a lot of crime shows."


Claim: Fans of the smug "Mad Men" like to congratulate themselves

The problem with the AMC "costume drama," says Benjamin Schwartz, " is that it "deliberately shocks its audience by presenting as reasonable and commonplace behavior we now find appalling. He says that "Mad Men" "directs its audience to indulge in a most unlovely—because wholly unearned—smugness. As artistically mistaken as this stance is, it nonetheless helps account for the show’s success. We all like to congratulate ourselves, and as a group, Mad Men’s audience is probably particularly prone to the temptation." PLUS: "Mad Men" used an L.A. landmark as the Rome Hilton.


"Good Wife" and "Cougar Town" portray women the same way

Julianna Margulies' Alicia and Courteney Cox's Jules are "incomprehensible invaders: independent, single (or single-ish) older women seeking change in their lives and succeeding (sometimes, at least)," says Jon Caramanica. "As a result, they're treated like fragile, curious creatures that might implode on contact. Or lash out." PLUS: Margulies elevates "Good Wife."

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ODDS & ENDS

October 20, 2009

Bloated "Dancing" has become predictable // Kelly O. hospitalized

Coming to Fox: Polygamists and "Daylight Robbery" housewives

"Criminal Minds" celebrates 100 episodes with a giant cake

Did "Celebrity Fit Club" make Kevin Federline suddenly skinny?

Tracy Morgan backtracks on anti-Cheri Oteri and Chris Kattan comments

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