Author: Tabloid Baby

Big surprise: Beyoncé and Justin Timberlake lead the pack in the MTV Video Music Award nominations, with seven each. Video of the year. Male artist of the year. Female artist of the year. Etc. Us? We like those crazy drunk girls from England. But anyway, the nominations were announced on TRL this afternoon. Get a [...]

Former afternoon kiddie host turned weird, thin middle-of-the-night TV presence Carson Daly has gotten a contract extension at NBC, and with it a new reason to hope that someday he’ll get to take over for

The foreign (British) producers of American Idol couldn’t find one American performer qualified to host the Idol spin-off, The Next Great American Band (and why should they, what with broadcast giants like Cat Deeley, Denise van Outen and Cameron Daddo bouncing around the airwaves?). At least that’s how things look, with the rumour that they’ve [...]

Spencer Pratt wants to spread the hate! The Kim Kardashian of reality television wants everyone to attack him on his website if they blame him for breaking up the timeless friendship between his galpal, the recently remade Heidi Montag and fellow star of The Hills, Lauren Conrad. Spence’s controversial shocking invitation just happens to come [...]

How gay is your television? The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation spent a year watching to find out. The good folks at GLAAD looked at all 4,693 hours of primetime programming on the five major broadcast networks– ABC, CBS, The CW, FOX, and NBC– for an entire year beginning June 1, 2006. Ad today [...]

The show limped into the Excel Power Arena in St. Paul, hours after President Bush stopped by the site of the bridge collapse. There were five thousand empty seats– a far cry from last year’s 16,000 fan sellout– and lots of yawns in what was described as a “nearly three-hour karaoke-like show”: The only time [...]

It’s a crowded field out there in cabletelevisionland and even the most staid respectable networks are going all-out, Jackass, X-Treme, Fox Reality, tabloid on us to get our attention. And it turns out that even the respected National Geographic Channel is no exception. Then again, back in the 50s, a lot of guys liked to [...]

Dick Donato’s verbal abuse and threatening manner toward fellow contestants Jen Johnson and Kail Harbick on Big Brother seemed to cross the line on last night’s broadcast when he poured a glass of iced tea over Jen‘s head. But while we and others expected producers to reprimand or possibly even evict him for the physical [...]

How are they going to fit all the heroes on Heroes now that there’s yet another hero added to the cast of the already heroes-crowded NBC hit. The latest hero to join Heroes‘ second season is actress Jessica Collins. Jessica will play Sophie, a mysterious woman with powers who works at the organization that’s tracking [...]

Except for a phony gossip item about romantic heat between 17-year-old virgin winner Jordin Sparks and also-ran Chris Richardson, we haven’t heard much from the road about the American Idols Live concert tour, the show featuring the top ten

Prison Break actor Lane Garrison got a real-life prison break (get it?) in court today. The judge declined to sentence him for his fatal car crash, saying he needed more information about Lane’s psychological condition. Beverly Hills Judge Elden S. Fox said he wanted to make sure he was treating Garrison as he would a [...]

Now what self-respecting celebutard would run around the beach in a GGW gimme bikini in the summer of ’07?

Sounds like a case for Comic Book Guy: Dean Cain, who portrayed the Man of Steel in ABC’s Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (with Teri Hatcher as Lois), will be a guest star on the CW’s Superboy series, Smallville. Cain, whose time in tights ended ten years ago, will show up on [...]

Not a good week for little people who stand tall in the public eye. As if it’s not bad enough that Barry Bonds called Bob Costas “a little man midget.” Now it’s been revealed that Matthew Roloff, “Pop” on the TLC reality show Little People, Big World, was busted for DUI last month. The 45-year-old [...]

Whoopi Goldberg was introduced this morning as the latest co-host of The View. She joins Barbara Walters, Joy Behar and Elisabeth Hasselbeck as the latest reason not to watch the daytime yakfest. Whoopi fills the Rosie O’Donnell chair (as, in Barb’s word, “moda-waita”), a wide seat in which she gets to play the loud, sexless, [...]

Here’s the top television talk in the UK this morning: Rufus the Bottom Pincher!

The next time you hear one of those pompous network news-types complain about tabloid journalism, remember that it’s ABC News this morning that’s rushed out word of Diana Sawyer’s exclusive interview with Nicole Richie so they can beat the celebrity tabloid rag OK! magazine to the punch before they come out with the very same [...]

After all these years of having us believe it was discipline and healthy habits, Star Jones Reynolds is finally admitting that gastric bypass surgery shrunk her suddenly from a 300-plus pound freebie-chomping Bridezilla behemoth to a shriveled, bespectacled, female-married-to-a gay-guy version of TV’s Urkel. Big surprise, right? But though her “confession” is one of those [...]

And you thought our own Sutter Cane was bummed out yesterday? His movie director heroes are dropping like flies this week, and it’s only Tuesday morning. First, Sweden’s Ingmar Bergman pops his clogs; now we get word that Italy’s Michelangelo Antonioni went toes up last night. And you know they do die in threes. Who [...]

Fox must have paid a lot of money to get Glenn Close to star in the twisty-turny FX legal drama Damages, because they’re going to make you watch at least a piece of it– whether you expect to or not. After running last week’s premiere episode nine times over the past week, they’re running the [...]

They’ve been busted. They’ve been mugshot. They’ve been sentenced to jail. They’ve had sex tapes. They’ve gotten skinny. Now Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie have been… canceled. E! has pulled the plug on The Simple Life. How could they?

Mark Burnett’s Pirate Master is even more cursed than it appeared before it was canceled and set adrift on the Internet last week. One of its contestants has been found dead in an apparent suicide. Cheryl Kosewicz, the deputy district attorney from Sparks, Nevada, was the fourth pirate eliminated from the CBS game show that [...]

As we get word this morning that NBC’s original late night host Tom Snyder has died at 71, the network is moving forward with its plans to have

Nicole Richie once again played second fiddle to her The Simple Life costar and former BFF Paris Hilton, as she was sentenced today to serve 90 hours in jail for driving under the influence– on the wrong side of the freeway– in December. The 25-year-old was sentenced to 96 hours, or four days in stir. [...]

There was a time when Whoopi Goldberg and Ted Danson were the hottest, most controversial couple in Hollywood. Until… until this week anyway, when Ted is playing second fiddle to Glenn Close’s latest Cruella de Vil hatchet-faced villainess on FX’s new Damages, and ABC is leaking the news that Academy Award®-winning Whoopi is about to [...]

How’s that for a TMZ headline? MTV’s original reality franchise heads to Australia in its 19th season, as Real World: Sydney premieres August 19th. Three males and four women landed in Oz, where they didn’t simply go on walkabouts, drink lotsa beer, argue and have sex, but worked for the Contiki Holidays vacation company. MTV [...]

Showtime’s suburban pot-dealing comedy Weeds returns for a third season in a couple of weeks, and if the addition of Mary-Kate Olsen to the cast isn’t enough to get some attention, maybe naked shots of Weeds star Mary-Louise Parker will do the trick. See the ad that wil surely be described as “bold” and “provocative”– [...]

When we last saw the character Michael Dawson in the Season 2 finale of Lost, he was leaving the island with his son Walt, after having killed Libby and Ana-Lucia. Looks like he didn’t get away, after all. ABC has announced actor Harold Perrineau wil be returning to the show next season.

It was a busy night for The Tonight Show. Homer Simpson filled in for Jay Leno on the monologue, demonstrating to NBC suits that it might not be so hard to replaced the long-jawed one, after all, and leaving Jay free to bash Lindsay Lohan, who missed her appearance for obvious reasons, and allowing her [...]

Fresh out of rehab, just turned 21, recently booked for a DUI in Beverly Hills, busted for drunk driving this morning in Santa Monica, mugshot above. What would you do to save Lindsay Lohan?

Life ain’t easy for HBO in a post-Sopranos world. The network has just ordered up twleve more episodes of their Mormon polygamy dramedy, Big Love. If they announce a second season of John from Cinicinnati, we’ll know they’re really in trouble.

It looks like the grown-ups of Laguna Beach really did have enough of MTV tarting up their town and ruining their reputation. The fourth season of the series will take place eleven miles up the coast, in Newport Harbor. Newport Harbor: The Real Orange County will premiere on MTV August 15th with a new high [...]

Pirate Master, Mark Burnett’s vanity reality project that he sold to CBS as a “Survivor on a pirate ship” that was going to coast to success in the wake of Pirates of The Caribbean but turned out to be Shenanigans in cute pirate costumes, has finally been scuttled, sunk, cut adrift and sent off in [...]

Drew Carey made the announcement today on a taping The Late Show with David Letterman: he’s taking over for Bob Barker on The Price Is Right. He’s also hosting the new CBS primetime game show, The Power of 10, that premieres next month. He says that CBS suits first contacted him about thePrice gig immediately [...]

Wouldn’t you figure that the week The Simpsons Movie hits theatres that second-string Fox animation prince Seth MacFarlane would float the idea for his own

At age 61, instead of heading toward retirement, Goldie Hawn is returning to television. Taking a cue from 60-year-old neighbor Sally Field, the one-time bikini bimbo and sexy funny movie star returns in a multi-generational drama series at ABC. This one is based on the recent nonfiction book, Leap! What Will We Do With the [...]

Fox’s 24 gave the United States its first African American president with Dennis Haysbert. Now it’s about to give us the first female president. Broadway actress Cherry Jones will play President Allison Taylor when the show about the exploits of counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) returns for its seventh season– and day– in January. [...]

The TV Critics Association showcase, where the networks trot out their new offerings, wrapped on a hostile note as producers of the CW’s new Gossip Girl series tried to defend the underage sex, drug use and drinking that the pilot seemed to glorify and condone. Gossip creator Josh Schwartz (you know him as the man [...]