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Nigel Lythgoe leaves American Idol for new venture

By Emily Morgan   |   August 6, 2008 at 9:52am   |   0 Comments

American Idol may be losing an executive producer, but Nigel Lythgoe, the producer behind Idol and So You Think You Can Dance, has a new show in the works.

Kimmel and Silverman trade video taunts

By Emily Morgan   |   February 26, 2008 at 9:00am   |   1 Comments

What do you do when your longtime girlfriend tells you she’s “f***ing Matt Damon?” If you’re Jimmy Kimmel, you f*** Ben Affleck!

Friendships may help bring end to writers strike

By A. James Memmott   |   February 8, 2008 at 3:00pm   |   0 Comments

Every movie about a strike needs a heroine, someone brash enough to stand on top of a table with a megaphone and demand justice.

But some credit for the possible ending of the three-month-old strike by the Writers Guild of America may be going to a different sort of heroine.

New York Times reporter Michael Cieply writes today that Laeta Kalogridis, most recently the executive producer of Bionic Woman, helped bring the warring parties together not with a megaphone but with a phone and with e-mail.

Winners and losers swap roles on American Idol

By Emily Morgan   |   January 15, 2008 at 10:05am   |   0 Comments

With the writers strike, many TV addicts are left with only reality television to entertain them. To help fill the void, reality show heavy-hitter, American Idol, returns tonight and tomorrow for its seventh season premiere on Fox.

But American Idol may be one reality competition that isn’t actually about winning or losing. Lately, winners have been losing recording contracts and losers are topping charts, winning Grammys and Oscars, and debuting on Broadway.

Make way for Rachael Ray

By Ali Jones   |   January 5, 2008 at 6:13am   |   1 Comments

Move over Martha Stewart because Rachael Ray’s souffle is rising.

In a year that saw the share price of the once-mighty Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia sag precipitously, Stewart dropped off Fortune’s list of the 50 Most Powerful Women.

Ray, meanwhile, strengthened her claim as America’s new domestic diva in 2007. She signed a new contract with Food Network, and pulled down $16 million for her thriving year-old network television talk show.

Gossip Girl resurrects OC themes

By Emily Morgan   |   November 9, 2007 at 4:09pm   |   0 Comments

If you’re familiar with the phrase, “You know you love me,” you’ve been tuning into one of the latest guilty pleasure TV shows: Gossip Girl.

The new drama is from writer and producer Josh Schwartz, best known for creating the The OC, which went off the air in February 2007.

Cast of characters in the writers strike

By Paul Braus   |   November 6, 2007 at 9:46am   |   0 Comments

Awkward. That’s the best way to describe John Bowman’s position in the writers strike that began today. He is chairman of the negotiating committee for the Writers Guild of America, but also executive producer of the new series, “Frank TV,” starring comedian Frank Caliendo.

By striking, Bowman is walking away from his producer job.

This is the first industrywide writers strike since 1988. About 12,000 movie, TV, radio and animation writers are involved.

Colbert vote skyrockets

By Emily Morgan   |   October 27, 2007 at 11:27am   |   0 Comments

He claims he IS America in the title of his best-seller, I Am America (And So Can You!). So why is it so surprising that Stephen Colbert has announced he’s running for president?

For starters, Colbert is running only in South Carolina. And he’s a comedian.

DUI is a death sentence for Lost cast members

By Emily Morgan   |   October 25, 2007 at 4:40pm   |   1 Comments

There are many ways to meet one’s fate on The Island. ABC’s Losties have perished because of a man-killing smoke monster, gunshot wounds, deadly illnesses and drowning. Add another character-killer to the list: DUI.

In Hawaii, where the series is filmed, several Lost stars have been caught driving under the influence and it seems the punishment for the offense goes beyond the courthouse punishment. All actors who have been arrested in Hawaii during filming have had their characters killed off on the show.

The Office staff tries to exhaust all possibilities

By Emily Morgan   |   October 22, 2007 at 7:19am   |   0 Comments

Fans of NBC’s hit comedy series The Office have spent many Thursday nights waiting and hoping for the central star-crossed couple, Jim Halpert and Pam Beesly, to finally start dating.

After sitting through Pam’s engagement to Roy and Jim’s relationship with Karen, Jim and Pam enthusiasts got their wish in the season three finale. Jim turns down a position at Dunder Mifflin’s corporate headquarters in New York, dumps his current paramour, and asks Pam to dinner.


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