"Idol's" Bikini Boy speaks: "I basically spent three days in that bikini"
Ty Hemmerling (watch him here) borrowed his girlfriend's bikini to pull off last night's "Idol" stunt. "The first song I sang was Katy Perry, 'I Kissed a Girl' — and I liked it," he recalls.
Ellen DeGeneres: Simon Cowell is meaner than I thought
"I had one idea of Simon when I came in, and it's changed," Ellen says of her "Idol" experience so far. "He's actually meaner than I thought. … It's hard to listen to him tell people things and me not to go, 'You poor thing!'"
Is Kate Gosselin's TLC reality show dead?
It was supposed to debut next month, but TLC has yet to reveal anything concrete about the show. Meanwhile, Kate isn't as newsworthy as she once was.
Watch the reality TV debuts of Sarah Jessica Parker, Lisa Kudrow, Brooke Shields
NBC's "Who Do You Think You Are?" Also features Spike Lee, Susan Sarandon, Matthew Broderick and Emmitt Smith as they journey to discover their ancestors.
Can "Jersey Shore" cast give Jay Leno's "Tonight Show" return a ratings jolt?
Most of the cast is spending this week taping a bit for the third night of Leno's return to 11:35. PLUS: "Jersey" to air in UK.
"That's What She Said"
Where did this ("Office") catchphrase come from? Megan Mullally tells all….
Fox, ESPN, CBS may try to snatch the Olympics from NBC
The Peacock has been losing money on the games, so it might be time for a new network to step in.
"Underbelly," Australia's controversial "Sopranos," debuts on DirecTV
What is interesting about "Underbelly," which delves into Australia's gangland drug wars with explicit violence and nudity, is that it's based on real-life mob events that took place through the mid-2000s, during "The Sopranos'" run. In fact, the show was banned in Melbourne to avoid tainting jury members. DirecTV, however, is airing the series out of order, beginning with the 1970s-focused Season 2 tonight, followed by the 1990s/2000s-era Season 1. (Watch the promos for Season 2 and Season 1)
That's according to "Physics of the Impossible" author and Science Channel host Michio Kaku, who says that in some interpretations of quantum theory, people could actually exist in multiple states at the same time. "If time forks into two rivers, then you have two parallel realities, which evolve independently of each other," Kaku says. "Your own past is fixed, but you can meet copies of yourself in parallel universes in different time eras and then change your history. You can chance the past of the alternate reality that split off. It might also be possible that in these other realities, people who are dead in our reality are still alive in other universes—so Elvis might still be alive in another reality."
Lee Zlotoff, creator of the 1985-92 ABC action series, is developing his own "MacGyver movie — and he feels the "SNL" film spoof is "infringing our rights," says his attorney, Paul Mayersohn. Zlotoff's attorney says he's considering taking legal action, including filing a copyright and/or trademark lawsuit and getting an injunction to stop the film from being released. But doesn't "MacGruber" have the right to parody "MacGyver"? "There’s a broad right to parody, and in this instance it’s clearly parody," says First Amendment attorney Alonzo Wickers. "I don’t think a viewer will believe the 'MacGyver' folks authorized this."
"Once again," says Matthew Gilbert, "we were their willing little playthings as they brought us yet another step closer to the great mystery of the island, then pulled us back two steps to keep us awake and guessing. Oh yeah, and they essentially broke time in two, pulling our brains in opposite directions by asking us to follow closely while two very different fates played out simultaneously. The plane crashed, and the plane didn’t crash — both. Time passing became times passing."
"It felt like a finale," Josh Holloway says of tonight's 2-hour premiere. "That scale. Wow." As the NY Times notes, "Lost" actors have implied that "viewers hoping to quench their thirst for answers in the season premiere might find themselves drinking from a fire hose." "We came up with the final image of the show a long time ago, back when we were first plotting out the mythology in the first season," notes Carlton Cuse. He adds: “We still have six hours of the show to make. That is sort of the equivalent of three feature films. We have to do all the writing for those in about eight or nine weeks, and we have to finish shooting them between now and the middle of April."
The acclaimed actor of stage and (big) screen is set to star in "Beach Lane," a multicamera pilot from Lorne Michaels and "NewsRadio" creator Paul Simms. Broderick will play a "celebrity author hired by an irresponsible millionaire heir to run his struggling small-town newspaper in the Hamptons." His decision to do a sitcom follows Broderick's guest stint on Michaels' "30 Rock."
"We don't need to know about Brent's back story – the English Office exists in a cocoon and in the DVD," he says of his upcoming cameo. "Michael Scott could just bump into Brent, who is a bloke from England. I don't think we'll take any of the other UK characters over – we'll probably leave it with just me because it's just too complicated."
Among the options for Season are South Beach and 
