Author: Tabloid Baby

Rest easy. Syndicated stalwarts Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! have been renewed through 2012. Meaning that the Pat-Vanna-Alex trinity will spare millions the ordeal of watching the Mary Hart-Pat O’Brien-and-young-interchangeable-twinkies quartet in the unholy teaming of Entertainment Tonight and The Insider.

What better way to kick off the first working day of the brand new year than with news of a brand new network prime time TV series pilot that’s new and fresh and rips off not only a hit movie– but a failed series from ten– whoops, new calendar year– eleven years and a couple [...]

So what were they serving at MTV’s New Year’s Eve bash? You’d figure with all that experience on TRL, Times Square champagne sponge Vanessa Minnillo would know to hold back the f-bomb on live TV– no matter how much bubbly she was guzzling with her cohost boyfriend.

Sheesh, that Dick Clark sure was a buzzkill last night, wasn’t he? What a way to count down to the New Year. But while Ryan Seacrest was perfecting his pucker for the much-hyped peck from Christina Aguilera (what was that all about?), the real fun was seen on TV in Japan, where a top-rated New [...]

From The “Hey, At Least It’s Not Another Death Announcement” Department: Las Vegas may be TV’s funniest, swingingest, sexiest dramedy set in Sin City, but it’s not safe for single guest stars. First Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas made an appearance and wound up engaged to star Josh Duhamel. Now, it’s Nikki Cox, who [...]

And this is supposed to be a holiday week? Every time we turn on the TV, there’s another dead person! Hooded hangmen! A corpse onstage at the Apollo Theatre! Chevy Chase SNL highlights! It’s all too depressing– and we’re still a day away from Dick Clark on New Year’s Rockin Eve! So let’s lighten up [...]

Saddam Hussein almost took a member of the media with him yesterday. See the new viral video star after the jump. And laugh!

We smell Jeff Conaway in the wings, now that Olivia Newton-John, star of the 1978 blockbuster movie Grease, will be guest-starring in NBC’s Grease Broadway talent search. Olivia, who’s spent much of the past year spinning the mysterious disappearance (and subsequent sightings) of her alleged boyfriend into fodder for an album and concert act, will [...]

American Idol‘s Simon Cowell and his manboobs are seen spending their Christmas holiday tanning on the beach in Barbados. And get a load of their topless companion…

Hey, Saddam Hussein may be hanged any day now! Everybody hates him, right? So let’s have some fun with it! Let’s play Saddam Hussein’s Hangman!! That seems to be the reasoning over at the Game Show Network, which has gotten some good ink with its TV documentaries on the likes of Chuckie Baby Barris and [...]

Word out of that entertainment mecca, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is that the folks who produced Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood are working on a new series for kids. The Pittsburgh-based Family Communitcations, Inc. is in talks with producers of several top kiddie shows about coming up with a series that covers the same issues and themes of Mister [...]

We were waiting for the third shoe to drop in the They Die in Threes curse, but after Lionel from The Jeffersons and James Brown, Gerald Ford seems to come out of left field– even though he’s been waiting in the wings for weeks now. But like Mike Evans and The Godfather of Soul, the [...]

Oscar season begins officially this morning as nomination ballots for the Academy Awards® are being mailed out. This will be the 79th annual Academy Awards®, seventy-nine being the apparent average age of the Academy voters and the comparative age of the stodgy Oscar telecast in comparison to all the other awards shows cramming the TV [...]

James Brown wasn’t only “the hardest working man in show business,” he was one of the most influential musicians and performers of the past century, and always entertaining on television– in good times and bad…

The Christmas morning tradition around the Tabloid Baby office is to open presents and then stare at the WPIX TV Yule Log from 9 am til noon. But if three hours of crackling fantasy and saccharine Yuletide music isn’t enough, we found a TV fireplace you can stare at for 24 hours straight.

It’s not quite as pretty as a Dick Clark-Ryan Seacrest cage fight (will the young twink ever wrestle away the mic from the stubborn old man?) on a rockin’ New Year’s Eve, but ABC is giving us another reason to stay in bed on December 31st– and getting a head start on its 2007 promotions– [...]

Here’s a surprise holiday gift– or not– for all you Lost fans out there. It looks like our favorite wild child, Michelle Rodriguez, is returning as Ana Lucia when the series comes out of hibernation on February 7th. Even though she’s dead.

Dunkin’ Donuts “Fratalian” commercial… the car ad with the screaming kid… the burger spot where the guy says, “Heads up barbeeeeque lovers! Your burger’s ready!”… Wendy’s “Stuck in The Middle with You” ad… the one where little Digger goes underneath a person’s toenail… Heidi Klum trying to sing “Santa Baby”… We all have out favorite [...]

Sometimes we fast-forward or delete the commercials. Sometimes we replay them and laugh because they’re better than the show. We’ve been cracking up at the ad in which the Dodge Nitro SUV blows up a car with a jumpstart– great comic timing, the way the car disappears for a few beats before falling crashing back [...]

Big fat loudmouth Rosie O’Donnell may have started the fight with Donald Trump, but she wisely refused to escalate it this morning from her bully pulpit on The View. We’d guess her people convinced Rosie that in a rare instance, she’s getting some sympathy, thanks to Donald’s surprisingly, ungentlemanly, unsportsmanlike, undignified and TVgasmic comments about [...]

CBS has finally updated its Survivor: Cook Islands voting history site to reveal the breakdown of the Final Three jury vote that awarded the million dollar prize to Yul Kwon. And it turns out, jungle boy Ozzy Lusth’s instincts were right on:

The Dating Game spoof ad was pretty funny when it ran during the Survivor finale– until we realized it was a promo for a new CBS sitcom starring David Spade. And now CBS is giving Rules of Engagement what Variety calls “the best comedy timeslot on TV.” The show comes from Adam Sandler’s company– another [...]

NBC celebrates the holidays by uncensoring its Saturday Night Live viral video hopeful and encouraging guys to send the dirty version to their girlfriends. So we’d figure Fox would know how to get some promotional value for the whole family and screw with tradition, to boot. So why doesn’t the box explode??!! For believers on [...]

Wow, a month away from the new season of American Idol, and Idol news is gushing out like water from a giant faucet. Producers already have us guessing about next year’s big surprise mid-season event (we like B-Side’s prediction). Now, there’s American Idol news that’s not even about American Idol. Where to begin? How about [...]

We just noticed that Mike Judge and company are getting a big vote of confidence now that their once-left-for-dead King of The Hill returns next month for its 11th season. Fox announced that King will get the coveted 8:30 p.m. slot following The Simpsons. Seth MacFarlane’s American Dad moves to 9:30, following Family Guy, which [...]

Janeane Garofalo, who once got the roles now going to Mary Lynn Rajskub, is headed back to prime time with a new CBS drama, but this time, she won’t be a sarcastic, sardonic, quirky, sassy supporting character. She’ll be a sarcastic, sardonic, quirky, sassy star. The little comedienne, a voice on Comedy Central’s Freak Show, [...]

Ozzy Lusth, the Survivor: Cook Islands jungle boy with the porn actor past, blames one person for his loss to Yul in the big finale: “I have a pretty good idea of who voted for me and who did not. I think that maybe some people have a small amount of regret after seeing the [...]

The drumbeat for the new season of American Idol is building. The promos are running for the two-hour premiere on January 16th,

This just in from the No New Ideas Dept: AMC is ready to start production on a remake of the classic cult sci fi series The Prisoner. The original series premiered in 1967 in the UK, ran for two seasons on CBS, and gave its star Patrick McGoohan a nice afterlife signing photos at sci [...]

Marking a year since he disappeared from the public eye and began doing his show in private for pay audience on the Sirius Satellite network, Howard Stern made the round of talk shows to try and get some more subscribers, some attention, and maintain some semblance of relevance (sadly, he was wearing the same outfit [...]

There’s still time for a celebrity or star to crash a car, unleash an anti-Semitic or racist rant, or appear in a porn video, but the gang at Viral Video Chart have already picked the Top Ten Most-Viewed Celebrity Viral Videos of 2006. The celbutards did very well in the competition– but Michael Richards only [...]

After 13 seasons of Survivor, is Mark Burnett running out of fresh ideas? Last night’s three-hour Survivor: Cook Islands finale ended with a tease of next spring’s Survivor: Fiji and its twists. So why does it sound so similar to the new season of another Burnett show: The Apprentice, which launches January 7th?

This doesn’t count as a spoiler. Never mind who won. No matter whether Brad got to announce if he and JP are an item. We don’t care why Ozzie got so swollen. Check the Recaps for those details and the winner of Survivor: Cook Islands. We’re here to let you know that at about the [...]

Ha! And now for something completely different– a Saturday Night Live clip that has people laughing– and talking. A day short of a year after the broadcast of his Lazy Sunday, Andy Samberg is back with another music video that will soon be spreading across the Internet. This one’s got Justin Timberlake… a holiday theme… [...]

We’ll spare you the “Price is Right” puns. After weeks of speculation and rumours, word is that Dave Price (left) will be the next host of The Price is Right. Our pal Verne Gay at Newsday reports that the nerdy New York City weatherman-turned nerdy network weatherman will keep his morning job alongside the Chenbot [...]

ABC had big plans for the sci fi mess Day Break as a fan-sating fill-in during the chancy 13-week midseason hiatus for Lost. With Taye Diggs as the star, a creepy Groundhog Day premise and a demanding serialized structure, the strongest thing Day Break had going for it was the Lost teaser “nugget” buried in [...]

Remember Sekou Bunch? We didn’t think so. He was the first contestant voted off Survivor: Cook Islands. He lasted three days on the island and one episode on TV. But he’ll be back for Sunday night’s finale, and in the spotlight– performing a song he wrote when he got home. The song is called Survivor. [...]

Planning to be alone on Christmas? Don’t feel like going out to catch the December 25th premiere of the Weinstein Company’s bloody slasher pic, Black Christmas? Well, let this be a warning if you happen to be sitting in front of the TV set and tune in NBC: Two all-new, back-to-back Christmas episodes of Deal [...]

She quit the show in disgrace amid a particularly sleazy divorce scandal, but country singer Sara Evans will make a dancing comeback on the Dancing with The Stars arena tour. Oh yeah– and so will Jerry Springer.