Author: Tabloid Baby

Yes, guys, all you comic book-loving Heroes fans: Today is the day that Hayden Panettiere, the cheerleader, is “legal”. As if we’d ever have a chance! Here’s her MySpace page, anyway. (And check out her wikipedia page, which states: “She is currently dating Stephen Colbert.”) More Hayden birthday pix… after the jump…

Four words: Mike. Boogie. Genital. Warts.

BEWARE! NSFW! KEEP THE AUDIO DOWN! One of our readers passed along this link to a promo that Showtime has started using to promote its well-received lineup. It shows that folks at the network are giddy about their recent success with shows like Dexter and Weeds. Maybe too giddy. Here’s the question: if you were [...]

Fox’s 24 continues to go for brains over beauty in the female costar department, as it pumps up the cast in its new, re-written, “green” seventh season with comedian, butterball and leftist chatterbox Janeane Garofalo. The little wisecracker will play a government agent on the team investigating the crisis surrounding Jack Bauer and crew. And [...]

It took only a few hours, but already there’s growing unease over CBS’ promotion of a Playboy model and WWE bimbette as a contestant on Survivor: China, with more than few insiders worrying that Ashley Massaro‘s participation drags the prestigious franchise down to the level of The Surreal Life (see Joanie “Chyna” Laurer). It’s one [...]

Brian Dunkleman, eat your heart out. Ryan Seacrest has been handed another high-profile gig on Fox, hot on the heels of the announcement that the metrosexual softie will be “hosting” the Super Bowl in February. Ryan (who, as we’ve pointed out, did an extraordinarily professional and straightforward Dickclarkian job hosting the last season of American [...]

Donald Trump isn’t taking new NBC boss and party animal Ben Silverman’s reprieve of his reality series The Apprentice lightly. Ben came up with the idea to revive the series with an all-star celebrity edition, and Donald is reaching for the stars to fill it. They’re fallen stars… but pretty big fish nonetheless. Unholy trinity [...]

Hey! Never mind the genocide and human rights issues connected to Survivor: China, which premieres next month. This season, the producers are adding a morality battle royale by matching up a full-frontal nude WWE wrestling diva with a Christian radio hostess and former beauty queen. Ashley Massaro is a SmackDown! sweetie who won the 2005 [...]

CBS this morning introduced the 16 castaways who will compete in Survivor: China one month from today. The sixteen Americans will start out in downtown Shanghaim, then move to HuangPu Mountain’s Mi Tuo Temple for a Buddhist ceremony where they will be instructed to leave all of their worldly possessions behind. The castaways will then [...]

Kristen Bell is joining the crowded cast of NBC’s Heroes. The former star of Veronica Mars will show up amid the mob in October, in a “key multi-episode arc. She’ll be playing “Elle,” described as “a sexy, mysterious young lady who has ties to the supposed death of Peter, H.R.G.’s past and the future of [...]

What a coincidence that the Disney Channel movie, High School Musical 2, smashed all kinds of viewing records and revived the family musical this weekend, the very same weekend that the stage musical spawned from a reality television series opened on Broadway. The latest revival of Grease, whose leads were chosen by audience vote on [...]

Where were you Friday night? Watching High School Musical 2? Everyone else was. Numbers for the premiere of the movie on the Disney Channel were massive– even bigger than the Disney Channel suits imagined with all the publicity, hype (check out that Rolling Stone cover) and sneak previews they arranged– and all the kids under [...]

So what are the chances that CBS’ much-hyped, over-the-edge reality show, Kid Nation, is yanked before its September 19th premiere? We told you there’d be problems with the Lord of The Flies reality show that took 40 kids between the ages of 8 and 15 and and set them loose in a New Mexico ghost [...]

Once upon a time, long long ago, HBO was a place that took challenges, which thought so much of itself that it actually dared to declare that “it’s not TV.” Then all that money went out the window on Rome, The Sopranos and Deadwood went away and John from Cincinnati challenged viewers in ways that [...]

The third season of the FX comedy It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia doesn’t premiere for another month, but one of the episodes is already available online. And it’s not through any pirate operation–unless you consider Rupert Murdoch’s entity to be a something of a pirate ship. FX has teamed with MySpace to give fans an [...]

With his CSI franchise going strong, The Amazing Race around for at least another season, and his National Treasure sequel coming to theatres for Christmas, movie trashmeister– and respected television producer– Jerry Bruckheimer has put everything into a blender and come up with a new series for CBS. The Bruck is teaming up with the [...]

Hey, enough with the gay jokes! Ryan Seacrest may have been Merv Griffin‘s last great discovery… …he may like a little Botox here and there… …those Teri Hatcher face-eating photos were suspect… …and hey, who wouldn’t flirt with Anderson Cooper? But he’s All American and everything to everyone– and will soon be packing solid butch [...]

CBS today revealed the identities of the forty kids who’ll be participating in the network’s most controversial reality series: Kid Nation, that Lord of The Flies-meets-Nickelodeon show that premieres in September. Producers plopped the kids, ranging in age from 8 to 15, in the ghost town of Bonanza City, New Mexico, earlier this year, supposedly [...]

Get ready to get out the white marker and draw cocaine dots and semen drippings on your television screen when Perez Hilton, the chubby, multi-colored gossip terror makes his debut as a rapper on MTV’s Celebrity Rap Superstar. The new live weekly series matches “mentors” like Tone Loc, Paul Wall and Warren G with eight [...]

Finally! A performer who wants a late night talk show who might actually be suitable for the job, Billy Crystal reportedly has his big, setimental sappy, Yankees-loving heart set on Conan O’Brien‘s job when (and if) Conan takes over for Jay Leno on The Tonight Show in 2009. Billy, who’s already proven his interviewing skills [...]

We’d think that bigshot series creator David Milch had burned a bridge or two at HBO after he decided to scuttle his successful, praised and beloved Deadwood in favor of the incomprehensible, anger-making John from Cincinnati, a series about a family of surfing scumbags that in its original incarnation had nothing to do with surfing [...]

Mandy Patinkin will be back on Criminal Minds next season, after all. For one episode. For one scene. CBS announced that the divalike Mandy will show up on the October 3rd episode to provide closure for his character, the FBI analyst Jason Gideon, who is suddenly disappearing from the series because Mandy

Now we’ll never know what was going on. We’ll never learn what “Mother of God, Cass-Kai” means. We’ll never know if John and Shaunie were surfing in from heaven or a UFO. We’ll never– Oh who gives a s***? We weren’t supposed to know. And you weren’t watching, anyway. John from Cincinnati, David Milch’s saga [...]

Here’s how a Law & Order SVU star keeps cool: with hot models spraying him down with Evian. This exclusive pic shows Christopher Meloni in between whacks at the polo matches in posh Bridgehampton, Long Island this weekend. Which is not too different from the way he stayed cool while filming Oz and demonstrates that [...]

What a crew in the Big Brother 8 house! All the crying and praying and cursing and hand-clapping can’t hide the fact that this gang of reality TV contestants may be the most intolerant–or at last representative group yet. As we’ve shown you, Amber’s Jew-hating comments are just the tip of the not-nice-berg (Berg?). Now [...]

James Gandolfini isn’t going to wait to find out if Tony Soprano has done to his career what Superman did to George Reeves. No, we don’t mean that Ben Affleck will one day play him in a middling movie, but that he’s about to find out if he can ever play a role without bringing [...]

“Merv was said to favor Vanna White as the letter-turner for Wheel of Fortune not because she was particularly good with the alphabet but because she had “a big head,” and big heads are thought to read better on TV.” – from “10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Merv Griffin” Merv Griffin‘s passing signals [...]

Reports that movie legend Harvey Keitel was about to replace Mandy Patinkin on the CBS drama Criminal Minds seemed too wild to be true and they were. The more TV-appropriate actor Joe Mantegna has signed to fill the Mandy-void on Minds after talks with the 67-year-old Mean Streets giant failed to turn him into the [...]

A few weeks back, we told you that Merv Griffin was really sick and suggested that you send him a get well card. This morning, he’s gone to that big game show in the sky. Merv was a gracious TV host, a television visionary, a genial presence, a jolly personality and– a man of mystery! [...]

If you read Flipit‘s very funny recap of last night’s Big Brother 8, you may have figured that there was no mention of Amber Siyavus Tomcavage‘s anti-Semitic comments that showed up on the Showtime aftershow feed and all over the Internet (see it here), giving the show some buzz that all the bikini shots and [...]

As the network newsreaders say when plugging one of their tabloid shows: “A programming note”: Sunday is the season– and possibly series– finale for the greatest and most profound series with the coolest opening credits ever seen on television: John from Cincinnati. We realize that no one can forgive creator David Milch for ditching Deadwood [...]

Though ABC’s Ugly Betty is a rip-off of a telenovela from Colombia, and though the coffee and cocaine country inspired a subplot on Entourage, most of the US TV network minds have been stealing their reality TV ideas from Europe. But the newest copycat show on the fastest track here, in Brazil, France and the [...]

Law & Order legend Chris Noth has finally signed on to the Sex and the City movie. He’ll join Sex girls Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis in a film whose potential has suffered from three years of delay, loss of momentum and buzz caused mainly by Kim Cattrall’s misconceptions that [...]

After 20 seasons and 16 years, MTV’s The Real World is finally going Hollywood, finally bringing its cast of unknowns into ground zero of the celebrity culture it helped create– a celebrity culture of fake celebrities who are famous for being famous (and/or for being assholes) and preaching to the rest of the world about [...]

Everybody (nobody) cried when scenery-chewing, showtune-singing divo Mandy Patinkin suddenly pulled out of the CBS drama Criminal Minds last month. And the big question everyone (no one) asked next was “who could replace him?” Adam Arkin? Leonard Nimoy? Well, the word this morning is that CBS is negotiating with the great actor Harvey Keitel. Which [...]

Oy vey! Big Brother is now the Mel Gibson of reality shows, now that the Anti-Defamation League has gotten into the act over one of its contestants’ bizarrely stupid anti-Semitic comments. As you saw over at Clipgasm last night, contestant Amber Siyavus Tomcavage has gone from weeping, palsy-mouth waitress to Jew Hater #1 when she [...]

This just in from E! Entertainment Television on that Kim Kardashian reality series we told you about this morning: E! ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION AND RYAN SEACREST ANNOUNCE NEW NON-SCRIPTED FAMILY SITCOM WITH HOLLYWOOD SOCIALITE KIM KARDASHIAN AND HER OUTRAGEOUS FAMILY August 8, 2007 – This fall E! is set to debut “The Untitled Kardashian Series,” a [...]