Monday, March 8, 2010

Real-life "Glee" romance confirmed
Mark Salling and Naya Rivera are dating off-screen.

"Sopranos" creator to rock it on the big screen
David Chase's first major motion picture will be about a rock band in the '60s.

NBC renews Miss Universe and Miss USA
While Miss America is homeless, the two Trump pageants will keep their network home.

Comedy Central unveils the 1st-ever "South Park" deleted scene
The 13th season DVD set will be the 1st to include deleted scenes.

Jabba the Hutt meets "Parks and Recreation"
It's "Hutts and Rec."

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Yup, "Will & Grace's" Sean Hayes is gay
Twelve years after shooting to fame playing Jack McFarland, Hayes finally talks about being gay with The Advocate. "I am who I am. I was never in, as they say. Never," he says.

ABC taps Rob Morrow and Tom Cavanagh for pilots
Morrow will star in Jerry Bruckheimer's legal drama "The Whole Truth," while former "Ed" star Cavanagh will play "Edgar Floats," a police psychologist turned bounty hunter.

MTV's "Skins" cast revealed?
The pilot of the Baltimore-set remake of the British teen series reportedly filming last week. Is this the cast?

Jay Leno reacts to his 1st week back, says he'll appear on "Marriage Ref"
Leno tells "Access Hollywood": "We learn… you know, (from) some mistakes, and we know what to correct. You just try to keep the energy up and keep it going and there’s a big cross section of America out there you have to appeal to, you can’t just (target) one demographic group and that’s the whole trick.”

"Pros vs. Joes" reunites enemies Donovan McNabb & Terrell Owens
The former Philadelphia Eagles teammates will appear on the Spike TV reality show, which this time around will pit NFLers who played college basketball vs. former NBA stars.

David Arhculeta writing his memoir
The "Idol" runner-up's book, due out June 1, has been titled, "Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance."

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Conan's sole Twitter followee offers to wed on his show
Nineteen-year-old Sarah Killen — who has received a Mac, wedding rings, wine, a dress, a limo and more as a result of Conan's tweet last Friday — says "he's changed my life." But would he serve as her fiancé's best man?

"Lost" meets "Baywatch"
What if the castaways had the "Baywatch" theme.

Kathy Ireland denies being drunk on the Oscar red carpet
Her bizarre behavior, she says, was the result of being happy to be there.

"Modern Family" in Hawaii
Check out the cast as they hit the beach.

Syfy remaking "Little Red Riding Hood" with Felicia Day
In "Red," a TV movie premiering in 2011, Felicia Day will star as a werewolf-hunting descendant of Little Red Riding Hood who brings her fiancé home, where he meets the family and learns about their business.

Google Search coming to Dish
A new test service will allow Dish users to easily search for programs with Google.

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Oscarcast was a drag
Too much Clooney! Too much Streep! "An hour into the telecast of the 82nd Academy Awards, you couldn't help but hope that somewhere backstage at the Kodak Theatre someone was waving a script and yelling: 'Tempo, people, tempo.'" says Mary McNamara. "Despite everyone's best efforts, this year's Oscars seemed to suffer from a crisis of confidence. Although studded with entertaining and emotional moments, it just never seemed to get going."
Oscar ratings soar: 41.3 million tuned in, highest since 2005
Steve Martin & Alec Baldwin were seriously funny — best combo in 82 years
Hosts were dynamic, ceremony was bloated // Letterman deserves an apology
Neil Patrick Harris overexposed; producers gave themselves to camp excess
5 ways to fix Oscar: Stop hiring bad hosts, no more presenters under 25
Tom Hanks: We always planned to rush Best Picture
Tiger Woods jokes axed // Kathy Ireland's teleprompter snafu
The story behind Oscar's "Kanye moment"
Academy: We omitted Farrah Fawcett's name on purpose

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Betty White: I'm going on "SNL"
Without offering details on whether she'll host or not, White said she'll appear on "Saturday Night Live. "I don't know why or how," she says of the fan support, "but it's been wonderful."

"Modern Family" can't stop driving Toyota
Despite the automakers' bad reputation, the sitcom has to continue filming scenes with Toyota cars as part of a product placement deal.

Taylor Momsen, 16: "I smoke, so what?"
The 16-year-old "Gossip Girl" star says: "Why do people give a s— what a 16-year-old girl who they’ve never met does? It’s not like I’m sitting there going, ‘Kids, you should go buy a pack of cigarettes.’ When I walk outside with a cigarette and someone takes a picture of it and puts it on the Internet, its not my problem. I’m just living my life and I’m not gonna live my life for other people.” PLUS: Matthew Settle & Kelly Rutherford bond off screen.

Report: NBC let "godlike" Seinfeld avoid "Marriage Ref" audience testing
Jerry Seinfeld was viewed as a savior at NBC — so much so that the Peacock let his reality show go from pitch to green light to production.

Watch Simon Cowell's revealing interview with Piers Morgan
The "Idol" judge tackled just about everything in a grilling from his "Got Talent" employee. PLUS: Simon slams Sting for criticizing him.

Simon Cowell calls Howard Stern in private
The "Idol" judge, according to the shock jock, wanted to "set the record straight" over comments he made slamming the idea of Stern as an "Idol" judge.

How homophobic is "SNL"?: Introducing the "SNL Homowatch"
Washington Post TV critic Hank Stuever has begun tracking the number of gay jokes per "Saturday Night Live" episode — the Zach Galifianakis episode had three. Pointing out that "SNL" likes gay and anal sex jokes, Stuever writes: "For years, I’ve been vaguely (in a teensy way) bothered by 'Saturday Night Live’s' complete dependence on sketches that make fun of being gay. I don’t know exactly why. I’ve written a little about this before — 'enlightened homophobia,' which is probably socially harmless (as is most televsion, really) but nevertheless irritates me."

Tony Danza cried 3 times during his 1st week of teaching
Danza has been filming his classroom reality show for six months, and he's loving it so far. "It would be hard in any case, but trying to do it as a TV show makes it even harder," he says.

"Big Love's" messy season comes to an end
"This year was a pretty spectacular creative failure," says Alan Sepinwall, who adds: "the show's storytelling this year has become such a ridiculous mess – trying to stuff what felt like three seasons worth of plot and character arcs into a 9-episode bag – that I'm finding it hard to care about any of it."
A new beginning // "Damages" vs. "Big Love" // Its dramatic credibility obliterated

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What happens when vegetables watch TV?

It's official: Brooke Burke is the new "Dancing" co-host

Zach Galifianakis shaves beard during "SNL" // Zach tried to make "SNL" funny

ABC renews "Brothers & Sisters" for Season 5

Dr. Drew Pinsky is leaving his under-scrutiny hospital after 19 years

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