Donald Trump wants the American Chopper team to build him a bike.
On back-to-back episodes of the Discovery hit airing this Monday, Trump stops by and meets Paul Senior and the crew. Senior talks to Trump about how his legendarily estranged relationship with Junior. Trump, naturally, thinks about the split in financial terms.
“Don’t leave him anything,” Trump advises. “Don’t leave him 10 cents.” See the exclusive video clip below. READ FULL STORY »
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CBS has ordered a comedy pilot from the married Bridesmaids duo Ben Falcone and Melissa McCarthy.
Falcone played Air Marshall Jon in the hit comedy, which of course co-starred his real-life spouse McCarthy.
The untitled CBS project has Falcone starring and co-writing the project, with McCarthy (who also stars on CBS’ Mike & Molly) executive producing. The pitch: “Comedy series about a single 37-year-old man (Falcone) who loses everything he has in the real estate collapse and finds himself back home in the house he grew up in with his parents.” Larry Dorf (Mad TV) is also a co-writer on the project.
Ready for some gorgeous new Game of Thrones season 2 photos? Here’s the first season 2 profile pics of nearly the entire cast of major characters. There’s 17 new images: Brienne, Tyrion, Balon Greyjoy, Arya, Daenerys (twice), Sansa, Joffrey, Renly, Melisandre, Stannis, Bran, Robb, Cersei, Catelyn, Jon Snow, Theon, and Davos — whew! Why are you still even reading text at this point? They are all here:
NEXT: Arya has grown up a bit…
The CW’s dry spell might be over. Lacking a big breakout hit since 2009′s Vampire Diaries, the network boasts a pilot roster this season filled with head-turning ideas from top producers like J.J. Abrams and Greg Berlanti. “The overall quality is as high or higher than we ever had,” said CW’s development head Thom Sherman. “Everybody is really jazzed.”
The first full CW slate developed under the network’s new entertainment chief Mark Pedowitz, the lineup aimed for broad-appeal, promotion-friendly concepts while still sticking within the network’s adults 18-34 demographic. Noted Sherman: “When people came in to pitch ideas we asked them, ‘What’s the billboard?’”
Below, Sherman offers some tantalizing new details about each of the projects. There’s a Sex and the City prequel on Carrie Bradshaw’s high school years, a grounded adaptation of the DC Comics hero Green Arrow, a future-set fantasy that’s “The Hunger Games meets The Bachelor,” and even a time-traveling musical. READ FULL STORY »
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Dr. House is hanging up his cane.
The network will conclude the long-running medical drama House this season.
“The decision to end the show now, or ever, is a painful one, as it risks putting asunder hundreds of close friendships that have developed over the last eight years — but also because the show itself has been a source of great pride to everyone involved,” said executive producers David Shore, Katie Jacobs and star Hugh Laurie in a joint statement. “The producers have always imagined House as an enigmatic creature; he should never be the last one to leave the party. How much better to disappear before the music stops, while there is still some promise and mystique in the air.”
House is produced by Universal Television and the question has been raised in the past if the studio’s sister network NBC would pick up the show if Fox cancels it. Sources say there’s no plans to take the drama to NBC, however, and NBC entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt said last month it was unlikely the network would pick up the show given its age and cost. It also seems rather unlikely a cable network would be able to afford the show. READ FULL STORY »
Syfy is ordering a third season of Being Human.
The network made the announcement after just four episodes into the second season of the vampire/werewolf/ghost threesome story. Syfy is lining up another 13 episodes for the third round.
Viewership for the second season has rose 27% in Adults 18-49, with the show averaging 2.4 million total viewers. Also, the network likes us to point out that women comprise 52 percent of the show’s audience, making it the channel’s most female-skewing scripted series ever.
Read more:
‘Being Human’: How did it compare to the British version? Will you continue watching?
Syfy’s ‘Being Human’ more ‘gritty’ than ‘Twilight’?
Carrie Bradshaw’s first love isn’t a boy…
The CW’s Sex and the City prequel pilot The Carrie Diaries stars a young Carrie Bradshaw coming of age in the 1980s. When the project was first announced, some readers wondered how it would distinguish itself from Carrie Diaries executive producers’ Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage’s other CW soap Gossip Girl (romantic prime-time soap, New York City setting, voiceover narration…). CW’s development head Thom Sherman ran down the ways that Carrie Diaries will feel unique from the network’s previous shows.
“The focus is so much on the Carrie Bradshaw’s character and who she was at 16, 17 years old,” Sherman tells EW.com. “We weirdly compare it to Smallville because it’s an origin story — how she started writing, how she came to love Manhattan. Basically how we frame the show is: ‘Carrie at 16 found her first love and it’s not a boy — it’s Man-hattan.’ The other unique aspect is obviously the time period.” READ FULL STORY »
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CNN contributor Roland S. Martin, who was accused of bullying and encouraging violence against the LGBT community after tweeting on Sunday that any man at a Super Bowl party who’s psyched for David Beckham’s H&M underwear ad should be smacked, posted his final thoughts on the controversy to his website last night. “That is furthest from the truth, and I sincerely regret any offense my words have caused,” he wrote. “I have consistently said on television, radio, and in print, that I am steadfast against bullying. As I wrote on CNN.com, as well as said on the nationally-syndicated Dr. Phil Show, I believe parents and schools need to take an active role in ending this epidemic that afflicts kids nationwide, gay or not.” [UPDATED 2/8/12, 3:10 ET: Martin was suspended by CNN, who released a statement reading, "Roland Martin's tweets were regrettable and offensive. Language that demeans is inconsistent with the values and culture of our organization, and is not tolerated. We have been giving careful consideration to this matter, and Roland will not be appearing on our air for the time being." It is not clear how long Martin's suspension will last.]
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The CW’s Arrow is going to be pretty different from the Green Arrow character on the network’s recently retired hit Smallville. Think Bourne Identity with lots of arrows.
Fans of the DC Comics archer figured they were in for a change the moment the project was announced. The producers include Greg Berlanti (Everwood), Marc Guggenheim (FlashForward), and Andrew Kreisberg (Vampire Diaries, Fringe). Then the formidable-looking Stephen Amell was cast, taking over the role from Smallville‘s Justin Hartley.
CW’s development head Thom Sherman tells EW.com there will be several other differences as well. READ FULL STORY »
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This is a bummer: ABC’s promising thriller The River got off to a relatively modest start in the ratings Tuesday night.
The two-hour opener averaged 7.5 million viewers and a meh 2.4 rating in the adult demo, up 4 percent from the comparable debut of Off the Map last year. Moreover, the show lost a 10th of a rating point each half hour during its run. The news is a bit surprising considering how successful ABC has otherwise been at launching new shows this season, often delivering stronger premiere ratings than expected. This isn’t a lethal number, but I think most expected (and certainly hoped for) something bigger.
ABC also aired two episodes of Last Man Standing (7.9 million, 2.4), down slightly from a few weeks ago. The second half hour featured a guest appearance by Kim Kardashian (yes, I agree, but her episode did slightly better than the first).
So what did well last night? READ FULL STORY »
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On NBC’s Parks and Recreation, Nick Offerman plays a hands-off boss, but he’ll be playing a different kind of man in charge later this year. It may not even be spring yet, but Offerman already has recorded a guest spot for the Christmas episode of The Cleveland Show, voicing a sexist, philandering department-store owner who requires the female elves (including Roberta) to don hot pants to attract customers. “He’s very handsome and gassy,” Offerman tells EW. READ FULL STORY »
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The man who believes his face should be in the dictionary next to the phrase ‘too much swag’ is about to get his chance to shine: MTV will premiere Pauly D’s Jersey Shore spin-off, appropriately titled The Pauly D Project, on March 29 at 10:30 p.m. The series will take viewers away from Seaside Heights as Mr. Delvecchio pursues his DJ dreams, scoring a record contract with 50 Cent’s G-Note Records and opening for Britney Spears on her “Femme Fatale” tour, all while palling around with his closest friends from his home state of Rhode Island. READ FULL STORY »
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