Sarah Palin & Mark Burnett shopping an Alaska reality TV show
Producer Palin? The former Alaska governor — who spent Tuesday at NBC's Leno taping, CBS' Television City and Fox's "American Idol" — visited ABC today to shop a "planet-Earth type look" at her home state. The former Alaska governor isn't done making the TV rounds. Palin, who also met with Fox reality guru Mike Darnell and CBS execs today, plans to meet with NBC on Thursday.
Obama going on "America's Most Wanted"
The president will help celebrate the show's 1,000th episode this Saturday.
Jay Leno takes Chelsea Handler up on a helicopter ride
It's the latest "Tonight Show" stunt: "Chelsea and I are going to join the mile-high club," says Jay.
Scott Porter to become a CW "Nomad"
He'll play a recent college grad who works odd jobs for the CIA.
Hiroyuki Sanada: I can't say if my "Lost" charcter is dead
He says of Dogen: "This is ‘Lost.’ I would tell you, but I can’t."
ABC taps Debra Messing to play a conservative pundit
She'll star in and exec produce the comedy "Wright vs. Wrong."
Man arrested for threatening to kill Dr. Drew's family
Charles Pearson allegedly sent Drew Pinsky messages that he was going to kill and eat his wife and children.
Tenley says "Bachelor" Jake wanted sex first
"Jake likes that physical level taken care of first," she tells Ellen.
Ellen DeGeneres has been too shy as a judge, says Mary McNamara. "Far from taking on the famously raven-harsh Cowell, as she promised to do," she says, "DeGeneres seemed at times in danger of disappearing almost entirely, dwindling to nothing beyond those unblinking baby blues and that Ryan Seacrest cowlick. Did it leave us missing Paula Abdul? No, Kara DioGuardi, with her embarrassing lust for Casey James, seems to be perfectly happy playing the nutty card."
Ryan Murphy's once-shocking series comes to an end tonight, past its prime. From 2004 to 2007, before the economic collapse, Murphy says that "'Nip/Tuck' perfectly mirrored the time we were in. What's interesting for me as a writer is that I wasn't trying to make a commentary about social mores in the country. I always thought the show was a satire about the country." Media analyst Brad Adgate, meanwhile, points out: "It's the end of the first generation of cable originals that really made in-roads in television programming. There are very few shows that have helped identify a network and that strike a chord on a lot of different fronts. 'Nip/Tuck' really hit the zeitgeist because it was so topical. It has a very secure place as one of the most impactful shows of the past decade of television."
