Kirstie Alley gets her own A&E reality show
Cameras will follow as Alley tries to lose weight while juggling the responsibility of being a single mom to teenagers.
Claim: "Cheaters" hires people to pretend their cheating
"Inside Edition" tonight uncovers numerous instances of fake cheating. Two women interviewed even claim that, though underage, producers got them drunk to make the show sexier.
Bravo: TV's most moral network?
The "ESPN for gay men and their simpatico BFF divas," as Hank Stuever refers to Bravo, seems to believe in people with its spate of reality shows, "imparting, in the slyest and most intuitive of ways, a sense of what's right and what's wrong." As he points out, "People on Bravo, one way or another, always get what's coming to them," adding: "Bravo asks its very engaged audiences to decide right from wrong, to judge the sinner apart from the sin, and to do unto others as if the camera is always watching you."
Bravo sets its next reality show in a NYC nightclub
New York nightlife impresario Amy Sacco of Bungalow 8 fame is taping a pilot about her life behind the scenes.
Kathy Griffin to host ABC's "Let's Dance"
Premiering later this month, "Let's Dance" has celebs reenact famous dance sequences in pop-culture.
Maggie Grace: Holding out on "Lost"?
So far, she's the only cast member not coming back for the final season.
"Flight of the Conchords" may not return
Jemaine Clement says "it very likely might not" return for a third season because the show is too much work. But he added, "It could come back in a shorter season or like a special."
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Half-black/half-Chinese contestant raises eyebrows on China's "Idol"
"Go Oriental Angel" finalist Lou Jing, 20, (watch her here) is a product of an African-American father and a Chinese mother. According to the Guardian, she has "provoked a storm of abuse on the internet, a rare debate on racism in the media, and a bout of self-examination in a country where skin colour is a notoriously sensitive subject."
Apple proposes unlimited TV downloads for $30 a month
The iTunes-like service would use a revenue-sharing model while simultaneously annoying the cable companies.
Is Joanna Krupa playing the sex card to stay on top of "Dancing"?
The "overrated" Playboy model and Derek Hough seem to be coasting on their sex appeal.
Joanna Krupa once starred in a fetish video with "Joe Millionaire's" runner-up
Check out "No Shoes No Mercy," starring Krupa and Sarah Kozer.
"Murphy Brown" cast reunites
Heather Locklear was originally CBS' first choice to play Murphy, Candice Bergen sad on "The Early Show."
Adam Arkin: It's ironic that I'm playing a "Sons of Anarchy" white separatist leader
"We talked about my own ethnicity and the irony of having someone with a Jewish background playing a white separatist, nationalist character," says Arkin, who gave his character a slight European accent.
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"V" somehow managed to get everything right
ABC's remake of the 1983 miniseries could easily have been "Knight Rider" or "Bionic Woman." Instead, as Robert Bianco notes, "writer Scott Peters, whose 'The 4400' was one of TV's best recent alien-invasion dramas, hits all the right chords. He adds just enough modern media twists and political/sleeper-cell parallels to contemporize the story without drowning it in paranoia. The clothes and hair have changed, no doubt for the better, but the essentials are all in place — including, we can only hope, the visitors' legendary fondness for hamsters."
"V" a barbed commentary on Obamania // Can "V" avoid "FlashForward's" problems?
Storytelling is too sladash and formulaic // It's terrific, with a masterpiece beginning
Will "V" fail like most genre shows? // Original "V" creator happy with remake
New "V" is shinier than the original, but somehow less frightening
Laura Vandervoort: "I'm a horrible person" // Morena Baccarin freaked out by 1st "V"
How did Elizabeth Mitchell end up becoming an action hero?
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