ABC drops Adam Lambert from "Jimmy Kimmel" and "New Year's Rockin' Eve"
The "Idol" runner-up was scheduled to appear on ABC twice this month — on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" on Dec. 17 and Ryan Seacrest's "New Year's Rockin' Eve." Lambert broke the news on Twitter: "Yes, sadly friends, ABC has cancelled my appearances on Kimmel and NYE. : ( don't blame them. It's the FCC heat," adding that "I AM doing Leno though. And lookin into something for NYE." Asked to respond, an ABC spokesperson would only say, "We decided not to move forward with the booking at this time."
Fox getting back into sketch comedy with "Inside Jokes"
"Entourage's" Kevin Connolly is behind the project, described as "a simple, straight-forward but totally fresh way of doing short-form comedy that we hope will resonate as familiar yet innovative — and most of all funny."
In Comcast deal, NBC's code name was "Navy"
Read about the behind-the-scenes secret negotiations to acquire the Peacock.
"Big Bang Theory": TV's new comedy king?
For the first time, "Big Bang" beat timeslot neighbor "Two and a Half Men" in total viewers.
George Cooney hires DJ Qualls and his former "ER" co-star for "Delta Blues"
Abraham Benrubi will star in the TNT series as a part-Native American police officer, while Qualls will play his protege.
CBS celebrating Christmas with "Deer Valley Celebrity Skifest"
Larry David, Neil Patrick Harris, the band Train and Ty Burrell are among the celebs on tap for the Dec. 20 special.
MTV renews "The Hills" and "The City"
"Hills" will return for a 6th season, despite declining ratings. "City" will be back for Season 2.
Byron Velvick and Mary Delgado, who set a "Bachelor" record for being together, have called it quits five years after appearing on the show. Delgado, of course, made headlines in 2007 when she was arrested for assaulting Velvick.
Ron is the NBC comedy's secret weapon, says Jonah Weiner. "Unlike his Office-family forebears Michael Scott and David Brent, Ron doesn't try to hide his laziness or unpleasantness beneath bad jokes and feigned capability; he regards laziness and unpleasantness as political statements," says Weiner. "Throughout the series, Ron has regularly stolen his scenes, and this season the writers have taken notice, working him more centrally into scripts."
There are at least three novel elements "Glee" injected into the "HSM" formula, says James Wolcott. 1) Sue Sylvester, 2) Courting many demographics and 3) Respecting its borrowed offerings. Of Sylvester, he says: "'Glee’s' genius coup is to give us a villain figure of seething hostility and cunning antagonism—a Taser in a tracksuit who fuses the raw pessimism of Hobbes (life is 'nasty, brutish, and short') and the superman philosophy of Nietzsche (the 'will to power') into one malevolent, fun-loving gal."
Season 3 will happen, "but it's a matter of finalizing all the other deals," says Kurt Sutter, who also explains "the Half-Sack thing." His plans for next season? "To take them into a world that is outside their own, where they don't have control, where they are subject to other people's laws and beliefs and perameters. Where they aren't quite the big fish in the small pond."
The "Family Ties" mom, who's now 62, came out this morning on "Today," revealing she has been in a four-year relationship with a woman. "I am a lesbian and it was a later-in-life recognition," she told Matt Lauer. “Some people would say, well, you’re living a lie and, you know, the truth is — not at all. This has only been for the past seven years."
