Author: Tabloid Baby

Imitation remains the sincerest form of television, especially when it comes to edgy new series venturing into uncharted territories. Some are a bit more blatant about it, like CBS, who saw the success of House and came up 3 Lbs., its own series about a prickly genius surgeon that premieres tomorrow night (get an early [...]

Laguna Beach has declared war on Laguna Beach. It seems lots of folks in our favorite oceanfront reality soap city long for the good old days, when their community was known as the home of Timothy Leary, LSD, bad art galleries, nude beaches, gay cruising and weird statues. Or the place where the ultra-rich barged [...]

Ricky Gervais has the perfect comedy face. Seriously. Scientists in the UK with a lot of time their hands used computer software to research the facial features most likely to make people crack up. They scanned 179 faces of 20 comedians and concluded the winning look combined a round face, small forehead, wide nose, big [...]

This is sure turning into a banner week for online television. We haven’t even gotten around to talk about MTV’s all-encompassing Internet plans for its new quasi reality series, Twentyfourseven (December 6), when NBC-Universal goes and launches its Dotcomedy.com broadband channel, a sprawling dumpsite for all kinds of television comedy. There’s stand-up; there’s late-night fare [...]

Smith was the most expensive and most-hyped new CBS series of the season. With an all-star movie cast including Ray Liotta, Virginia Madsen and Amy Smart, the show about big-time high-stakes robbers was bound to make history. And it did– as the first cancellation of the season. But now CBS is burning off the four [...]

Looks like the movie career isn’t working out so well for David Duchovny. The former Fox Mulder could be starring in a prime time TV series for the first time since The X-Files left us in 2000. At least he can hold his head up and say it’s for Showtime, and that he’s got two [...]

And the Jeopardy answer is: “From the start, they have delivered the superb show that we wanted. The critical support has been rock-solid and there is a passionate core audience. We can’t wait for what’s going to come in the remainder of the season.” BUZZ! “What is any new drama series except Studio 60 on [...]

Jericho might have its mysteries, but it’s no Lost, not yet anyway. But don’t tell the programmers at CBS. The network is going to conclude the cliffhanging serial drama’s “Fall Season” (that’s a new one) after eleven episodes on November 28, then keep the show on hiatus for ten weeks. It’s set to return Feburary [...]

Kellie Pickler may be a crap singer, but she sure made us laugh on American Idol with her country bumpkin routine, struggling through words like “calamari” and “salmon,” apologizing to Simon Cowell every time he told her how badly her performance sucked and overall making Jessica Simpson look like Madeleine Albright (while inspiring all those [...]

We read the first line of VH1′s press release and felt vindication at last: “No year has ever been bigger for super-star babies than 2006… and who doesn’t love a big baby?” Then we read on and realized they weren’t talking about tabloid babies like us, but the Suris and Jayden Jameses and Shiloh Pitts [...]

Everyone agrees that ABC is taking a big risk, yanking Lost off the schedule for thirteen long cold weeks after tonight’s episode (merely the sixth of the new season). The suits say the production schedule leaves them no choice. But the producers will be leaving us little crumbs along the way to the Feburary 7th [...]

On the groggy morning after Arnold Schwarzenegger’s landslide re-election as California’s governor, we find that his Terminator franchise lives on. Fox has picked up the pilot for The Sarah Connor Chronicles, a series that picks up the movie storyline, with Sarah and her son still fighting the enemy in current-day Los Angeles. The role of [...]

Bravo has a thing for working stiffs– as long as they’re good-looking and have glamourous jobs. So in the spirit of its docu-soaps set in a hair salon, fitness club and tabloid newsroom, next stop is a swank Palm Springs hotel. Welcome To the Parker will take us behind the scenes of the luxurious but [...]

It’s the television appearance of the day that’s gotten the most talk but fewer views because most of us don’t get to watch The View (only because we’re at work, right?). So here’s a look at the cleaned-up and coiffed Amazing Race losers, Kentucky coalminer Dave Conley and his lovin’ wife Mary, as they hit [...]

The Kentucky coalminers are turning out to be winners, after all. We told you yesterday about Dave and Mary Conley’s adventures as celebrities in New York City after being eliminated from The Amazing Race. Now, after an appearance on The View this morning, they’re making out like winners on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition– or at [...]

The long search to find the next Jeff Conaway ends on Friday, when casting for the reality series, Grease: You’re the One That I Want, wraps up at L.A.’s Venice High School, the site of fictional “Rydell High” in the 1978 Grease movie. Hopefuls who audition with the song “Greased Lightning” might want to jump [...]

Thanks, Entertainment Tonight. We’d have to say this segment is what the phrase “takes the cake” was written for. Then again, the removal of the innocent civilian from Anna Nicole’s pharmaceutically-fueled breeding space only grabs second place in the most gag-inducing segment broadcast on television yesterday…

Now this is how we like our awards shows– and this is really how we like our country music stars! Faith Hill thought she had “Female Vocalist of the Year” in the bag at the Country Music Association Awards last night. Then the prize went to American Idol‘s Carrie Underwood and… Yee-ha! It looks like [...]

Guess who’s sleeping over with Tom and Terry? If you haven’t seen last night’s episode of The Amazing Race, beware of spoilers after the jump.

Pity poor Éamonn Holmes. The Irishman is a fixture on British television, a colorful presenter and personality who’s moved from the news desk to quiz shows, and been splashed across the tabloids because of tiffs with his morning show co-host and romantic traumas as he waits for his marriage to be annulled. He’s so popular [...]

Pirates won’t be confined to the movie screen next summer. CBS will cash in on the launch of the third Pirates of The Caribbean movie with a new unscripted series from Survivor captain Mark Burnett. Casting for the series will begin soon. So never mind the eyepatch. Find that seasickness patch.

Are you hooked on Desire or Fashion House, checking in with this site for the latest recap of the Anglicised telenovelas? Don’t feel bad. Neither are too many other people. Fox’s MyNetworkTV venture, the new network that rose from the ashes of UPN and the WB, is tanking so badly that folks inside Fox are [...]

Paris Hilton isn’t really an heiress. She stands to inherit little from the Hilton hotel fortune and has to work for a living. She was pushed into the spotlight by her mother and maternal grandmother. She makes up stories. She inspired the new word celebutante (and celebutard). Zsa Zsa Gabor and Liz Taylor are among [...]

Sure he’s a neat dresser, seems a little fussy and appeared in Broadway musicals. But it wasn’t the pressure of general “gaydar ” speculation that led Neil Patrick Harris to follow T.R. Knight and declare his homosexuality to sob sister People magazine yesterday. Doogie Howser‘s proud “coming out” statement followed days of frantic attempts at [...]

Fox is switching grooms at the altar when it comes to Spring weddings and Spring programming. It’s just pulled the rug out from under the announced series The Wedding Album, which would have starred veteran Latin TV heartthrob Bruno Campos, and replaced it with a David E. Kelley rewrite they”re calling The Wedding Store– for [...]

Watch where you step. Thirteen contestants from VH1′s Flavor of Love are returning to TV to learn some class. After competing for the affection of wacky rapper Flavor Flav– even the winners of the two seasons failed at that– and embarrassing themselves in manners including various of bodily functions, beginning with spitting and working its [...]

Borat has been on more TV talk shows than Madonna this week, but despite his often-hilarious showcases with the likes of Letterman, Conan O’Brien and Saturday Night Live, his most memorable appearance promises to be tomorrow on Julie Chen’s morning news show. Unfortunately, it looks as if the Kazakhstani won’t be asking Julie to undergo [...]

We figure it’s safe to bet there probably won’t be another season of Meet The Barkers. Be forewarned Christopher, Adrianne, Flav and Deelishis, we guess it’s really over between MTV odd couple, Shanna Moakler and Travis Barker. Shanna, who went on to Dancing with The Stars after Travis filed for divorce in August, is now [...]

Note to TVgasmers: Pass your reality TV recaps to your little brothers, sisters and kids (or, depending on your age, your pals). Turns out reality TV is not the end of civilization as all the pointy heads have been warning us, but in fact, the best, most wholesome and cleanest stuff on the box for [...]

They’re beaming off over Star Trek at TV Land, as the nostalgia channel gets ready to add the classic sci fi series to its schedule of oldies. Through next Tuesday, the network is offering five full episodes online for free. And they’re already taking questions in advance for a live Internet video chat with three [...]

And you got creeped out by Bill Maher’s costume? Try and guess which reality TV star is sharing this shot, and can look forward to seeing it printed again and again. (Hint: It’s not Dennis Rodman)

What is it with Flavor Flav? It’s got to be the Viking helmet. The star and object of lust in Flavor of Love has announced he’s expecting a baby– his seventh. And guess what? The mother is not Deelishis, the lushis contestant he picked as his new true love on the second-season finale a couple [...]

It’s good to know that the cable networks are breaking new ground when it comes to putting their twist on traditional programming. TBS is giving a sitcom to a stand-up comedian in which he plays the dad at the center of a smart aleck family. The latest golden ticket winner is redneck… uh, “Blue Collar” [...]

The best Sweeps promos on television right now have to be to be NBC’s teases for Friday night’s Law & Order, with Chevy Chase in the midst of a Clark Griswold-style, anti-Semitic meltdown: “Screw you, Sugar Ti–” “I have powerful friend!” “You’re a Jew, right?” Whoever came up with the idea of using old Chevy– [...]

Talk about a bizarre Halloween coincidence. Only hours ago, we posted our first story about dwarves. Now we realize that tonight, Halloween, the goblins behind network programming have wound up in a spooky standoff. The treat: two series are running romantic storylines built around little people. Dwarves. The trick: both are airing at 10 pm [...]

Talk about a bizarre Halloween coincidence. Only hours ago, we posted our first story about dwarves. Now we realize that tonight, Halloween, the goblins behind network programming have wound up in a spooky standoff. The treat: two series are running romantic storylines built around little people. Dwarves. The trick: both are airing at 10 pm [...]

Dwarves and catapults. Sounds like a reality TV concept from hell, perfect for this Halloween, but it almost knocked off the head of a family member featured on Little People, Big World. Nine-year-old Jacob Roloff, a full-size boy whose parents and older brother are dwarves, underwent surgery for a dented skull after a 25-foot medieval [...]

Dwarves and catapults. Sounds like a reality TV concept from hell, perfect for this Halloween, but it almost knocked off the head of a family member featured on Little People, Big World. Nine-year-old Jacob Roloff, a full-size boy whose parents and older brother are dwarves, underwent surgery for a dented skull after a 25-foot medieval [...]