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If you were one of the many who took actor/comedian Steve Harvey’s best-selling advice to Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, the star will soon be sending some more pearls of wisdom your way soon via your television set. EW has confirmed that the author is developing a comedy-based talk show inspired by the 2009 book that will air in syndication through NBCUniversal Domestic Television Distribution. READ FULL STORY »
Sarah Silverman is set to return to TV, this time at NBC.
The comedian has sold a sitcom project to the network that’s loosely based on her own life. The as-yet-untitled series is about a newly single woman who just got out of a decade-long relationship. (Hello, Jimmy Kimmel!) NBC has made a pilot commitment.
NBC is the hunt for a new female-driven Seinfeld-like comedy, enlisting comedians Whitney Cummings and Chelsea Handler for projects, and now Silverman.
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Gabriel Macht, who stars as Suits‘ Harvey Specter, one of New York’s best (and best-dressed) legal closers, had an idea that USA would renew the show for a second season even before creator Aaron Korsh announced it on set last week as they were shooting the Sept. 8 season 1 finale. In addition to making USA the most-watched network on Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET this summer, “Everybody at USA was constantly telling us how great the show is,” Macht says. “Jeff Wachtel, who co-runs the network, was like, ‘Gabriel, I’m telling you. We pull out our pens to take our notes for each episode, then all the sudden, we put the caps back on the pens and we just watch, and we’re entertained, and we don’t have any real notes.’ That was pretty exciting to hear along the way.”
With four episodes left this season — and 16 episodes ordered for 2012 — it’s officially safe to let ourselves get invested in trying to figure out who the mysterious man who only wears Tom Ford suits is. We asked Macht for some clues. Here’s what he had to say: READ FULL STORY »
OWN’s fall schedule is up, and it includes the previously announced debut of Rosie O’Donnell’s new talk show. The Rosie Show will be paired on weeknights with remixed repeats of Oprah Winfrey’s talk show that offer helpful life advice. ”With Rosie and Oprah holding down our weeknights, we have a great opportunity to seamlessly reach our core audience on weekends with these strong original and returning series,” OWN president Erik Logan said in a release. Here’s the lineup (second season premieres of Enough Already! with Peter Walsh, In the Bedroom with Dr. Laura Berman, and Oprah’s Master Class have yet to be released): READ FULL STORY »
Ready to check out Jesus and Ben Linus fighting crime? Here’s your first look at the new art for CBS’ Person of Interest, which teams an intense Jim Caviezel and an equally focused Michael Emerson as they try to prevent crimes before they happen in New York City. Here’s some exclusive first look marketing art (and if you haven’t already seen the trailer it’s here): READ FULL STORY »
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An ex-TeenNick star is headed to the most drama-filled zip code on TV.
Former Gigantic star Ryan Rottman (left, yum) will appear in next season of 90210, EW has learned.
Rottman, whose other credits include a guest spot on Greek and Nickelodeon’s Victorious, will play Shane, a smart, handsome gay 20-something who is confident in his identity and is committed to fighting for marriage equality.
Hmmm, sounds like he’d be a perfect new friend for Teddy. Am I right?
The new season of 90210 kicks off Tuesday, Sept. 13.
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Have you been missing your weekly servings of Andy Dwyer, that shoe-shining, Mouse Rat-fronting manchild from Parks and Recreation? While you await the show’s return on Sept. 22, check out something almost as good as 5,000 candles in the wind: an official Andy montage culled from the first three seasons of the Indiana-set comedy! Watch Andy (Chris Pratt) run an ill-fated receiving route in the parking lot, exhibit terrible waiting skills, vividly demonstrate how food gets converted into energy, and much more! (You won’t see him rattle off the list of former band names here, but surely that’ll be included in part 2, right?) Madames and miss…wahhs?, if you would do me the obligation of having… your honor… heretofore… eh, just press play and enjoy your journey into the world of Andymation. READ FULL STORY »
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It’s official: UFC is moving to Fox and FX, with Spike TV canceling its long-running reality hit The Ultimate Fighter.
As part of a multi-year deal, Fox will air four live UFC fights per year. Ultimate Fighter will now air on FX. Instead of taping Fighter months in advance like on Spike, each Fighter episode will be shot the same week as when the episode airs and will followed by a live fight. FX will carry six regular fights per year in addition to 24 Ultimate Fighter
“This is the pinnacle,” says UFC president Dana White on a conference call with reporters, talking about landing on Fox. “This is what I always wanted. I couldn’t be more proud. All those people who thought i was a lunatic 10 years ago when I said this was going to be the biggest sport.”
White assured that the broadcast fights will be significant match-ups, rather than saving all of the important bouts for Pay Per View. “We want to pull ratings, we want to pull the big numbers,” White said.
Here’s a statement by Spike TV: READ FULL STORY »
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UPDATED BELOW: Russell Armstrong was more than $1.5 million in debt at the time of his suicide Monday, according to his attorney, and his mother told Headline News that he was dreading the way he would be portrayed in the upcoming season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. “Before the new season even started, before he took his life, he said, ‘Mom, they’re just going to crucify me this season,’” John Ann Hotchkiss told HLN’s Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell. “He said, ‘I don’t know what to do. I’ll never survive it.’”
Armstrong’s attorney Ronald Richards told ABC News that the show’s celebration of outrageous excess plunged Armstrong into debt “as a result of trying to keep up with expectations for the lavish lifestyle portrayed on the show.
“These couples join these shows, and then they keep trying to outdo each other and they end up spending all their money trying to sustain a lifestyle that’s unrealistic and wasn’t there prior to the show,” continued Richards. “The weekly social events, the dinners and all the BS, trying to pretend you have unlimited resources in Beverly Hills is tough. When every night is a potential sound bite or posting on a website, you end up getting addicted to it, you go out all the time.”
Bravo declined to comment on these remarks. The network currently has Housewives scheduled for a Sept. 5 premiere, but recent events have brought into question whether the network will still air the show as planned.
UPDATE: Bravo to re-edit ‘Housewives of Beverly Hills’ due to Russell Armstrong’s suicide
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MTV has fired back at Abercrombie & Fitch after the clothing company offered Jersey Shore‘s The Situation money to not wear its clothes.
“It’s a clever PR stunt,” writes MTV’s Lisa Chudnofsky in a rebuttal posted on the network’s blog, “and we’d love to work with them on other ways they can leverage Jersey Shore to reach the largest youth audience on television.”
She continues: “Oh, Abercrombie, what kind of snowball hath y’all set in motion? We hate to add to the avalanche of publicity that A&F is currently eating up at the expense of our innocent reality TV icons (who declined to comment because they were too busy getting more famous) — mostly because that was the whole point of this shenanigan, wasn’t it? — but we’re all family here at MTV, and no one messes with our “Situation.” There are plenty of neon sweatpants in the sea of franchised fashion, so we encourage him to take the money. And donate it all to Ed Hardy.”
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On tomorrow night’s episode of Strike Back, Cinemax’s new original series that chronicles the top-secret hunt for an elusive terrorist mastermind, Scott (Animal Kingdom‘s Sullivan Stapleton) and Stonebridge (Camelot‘s Philip Winchester) find themselves in a precarious situation, outnumbered by heavily armed terrorists inside an Indian hotel. Consider it a bonding moment for the odd couple, though, for when the duo emerge relatively unscathed, the roguish Scott is officially offered a spot on the Section 20 team. But there are some stipulations, as Col. Grant explains in the clip below. Take a look. READ FULL STORY »
A face familiar to ER fans has landed on ABC’s Pan Am.
Goran Visnjic has been cast in a four-episode arc on the upcoming 1960s-set airline drama. The actor, who played Dr. Luka Kovac for nearly a decade on the NBC hit, will portray a sexy Yugoslavian immigrant torn between his communist Eastern Bloc homeland and the potential freedoms and opportunities of the West.
Pan Am debuts Sept. 25. And have you checked out Christina Ricci in ABC’s Pan Am photos yet? And below is the Pan Am trailer (along with other fall trailers from ABC, use the buttons on the side to browse). READ FULL STORY »
CBS tweeted a couple choice pics of former House co-star Lisa Edelstein on the set of The Good Wife, where she has a recurring role next season as a lawyer and expert poker player. Here’s Edelstein along with Josh Charles, who she previously worked with on Sports Night. “I have to say, @BaltimoreJosh really makes the workplace a nice place to be,” she wrote. READ FULL STORY »
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