Author: Tabloid Baby

Everybody knows that Big Brother is the fave reality competition show in TVgasmland, but the summer fling has flagged in newsworthiness and sexiness compared to its counterparts around the world (most notably, the UK BB, which for a couple of seasons now has served up steady headlines of racism, sex & violence). Until now. In [...]

One day not so far in the future, every show nominated for an Emmy will have appeared on the Internet and the Internet only. But the clip above has made history, or at last an Emmy footnote, by being the first. The Starting Line is an unlikely history-maker, coming from Fox’s Drive, a show that [...]

The heroes of NBC’s Heroes are going to be fighting for screentime as well as the future of the world. On the heels of Dania Ramirez‘s hiring as a hot young hero named Maya, and new recurring characters played by Nick D’Agosto, Barry Shabaka Henley, Holt McCallany, David Anders, Eriko Tamura, Lyndsy Fonseca and Dianna [...]

Tammy Fae Bakker-Messner appeared on Larry King Live last night, in such sad, shocking shape that she made Larry look good. Even with her eyeliner in place. Tammy Faye, who went from fleecing poor and old people to pay for her lavish lifestyle to happily entertaining a new flock of gays and reality TV fans, [...]

Sarah Silverman says she regrets those ‘cell bars painted to look like penises’ jokes she made about Paris Hilton at the MTV Movie Awards. Paris was in the audience with a camera in her face while Sarah went to town, and a few hours later began the first leg of her notorious jail stay. Sez [...]

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WARNING! BEFORE YOU HIT “PLAY”: STRONG LANGUAGE! NSFW! Ricky Gervais strikes back! Earlier this week, we told you about the backlash in the UK, where his countrymen are claiming that the creator amd star of The Office and Extras has turned into the same insuffereable celeb-sucking, wanking fame whore he played in the shows. Well, [...]

The dog days of summer aren’t healthy for old talk show legends. Last August, we lost talk show legend Mike Douglas. Today, there’s word that Merv Griffin, who went from married New York City talk show host to flamboyant West Coast billionaire bachelor game show magnate, is back in the hospital with prostate cancer. Typically [...]

An HBO dramatic series that everyone loved and an HBO TV movie that nobody seemed to like — but that looked real classy– top the Emmy Award nominations this morning. The Sopranos took 15 nominations in the primetime race, including bext drama (hey, maybe Tony lived, after all!) But Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee [...]

Somebody’s gone and recreated the opening to The Brady Bunch with nine separate YouTube screens. Very cool. And it’s news (well, as much news as

Earlier this month, we told you that Erin Murphy, who’s still remembered for playing Tabitha on Bewitched and is set to be seen as a judge on the new VH1 series, Danny Bonaduce’s Child Star, was headed into surgery so doctors could try to remove what she described as “a tumor the size of a [...]

NBA star LeBron James will host the season premiere of Saturday Night Live this fall. But while the Cleveland Cavalier is signed up, castmember Maya Rudolph is not. SNL boss Lorne Michaels (the model for Austin Powers‘s Dr Evil) said at the TV Critics’ show that “talks are continuing” to hold onto to Maya. We [...]

Picture-perfect pretty Jaime Pressly has slammed poor Ugly Betty for sending the wrong message about plastic surgery. “They’re purposefully big-upping the ugly fat girl to make everybody feel great, but it also glamorises the fact that people are getting plastic surgery because they can. It’s really bizarre.” And, she adds of the series that will [...]

William Shatner has signed on to host a celebrity-interview show on the Biography Channel. Who better to revive the golden era of talk shows, the days of Dick Cavett, David Susskind and Stanley Seigel, and rescue it from the product-pushing cue card readers like Jay Leno and James Lipton? And what better way for The [...]

“TV has a very measurable effect on our national mood. When TV gets bitchy and pissy, you find Americans getting bitchy and pissy too.” Aaron Sorkin had one of the most anticipated and big-budgeted series of the past season with Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip, and with comic actors like DL Hughley of Cloud [...]

Finally, a Criminal Minds mystery worth following: Mandy Patinkin is off the show and no one knows why. It’s not over salary. It’s not about the contract. It may be about “creative differences.” It may be all in Mandy’s mind. Showrunner Ed Bernero writes on the Criminal Minds fan blog that the network and studio [...]

NBC’s new party animal programmer Ben Silverman is on a roll. Lets see… he’s got Isaiah Washington in a development deal (what do you bet research showed more people in the great viewing public who took his side in the “faggot” incident) and using him to pop up The Bionic Woman … Jerry Seinfeld to [...]

Jerry Seinfeld is returning to NBC situation comedy. He’ll pay himself in the miraculous, almost-didn’t-get-there second-season premiere of 30 Rock. Sez Seinfeld in a statement:

NBC’s new programmer and party animal Ben Silverman is awild man! Not ony is he angling to steal reality TV (When Good Pets Go Bad, Temptation Island, American Idol, etc.) evil genius Mike Darnell from Fox– he’s putting Isaiah Washington back on television! They’re announcing today at the TV Critics meeting that they’ve signed the [...]

Sorry, John O’Hurley. Too bad, Mark Steines. Nice try, Rosie. No way, Snoop Dogg. The rumour of the day is that

The Disney Channel is going all-out next month for the premiere of High School Musical 2. The sequel to the modern-day Romeo & Juliet TV movie will premiere on a Friday night, have an interactive repeat on Saturday, and show up again on Sunday in a sing-along version. There will also be an Oscar-style pre-show [...]

David Duchovny was at the TV Critic’s Press tour in Beverly Hills this weekend, promoting his new Showtime series, Californication, in which he plays a sex addict writer and gets to be as close to movies, sex- and language-wise as television allows. But when you get right down to it, Duchovny had real movie aspirations [...]

British TV stars continue to take the lead from John Cleese and Fawlty Towers, which ran a mere twelve episodes over two seasons (or “series”), yet retains its place as a classic TV comedy, when it comes to not running a show into the ground. Ricky Gervais, whose original UK version of The Office played [...]

And you thought the Paris Hilton jailbreak was a waste of oxygen? The Beckhams are in LA. And seriously, do these people have fans? Aside from his soccer prowess, which is appreciated in other parts of the world, are people really curious about these very British, very European proles with pretensions? Does any one give [...]

Curb Your Enthusiasm returns for a sixth season on HBO on September 9th, but even hardened critics (some of them hardened by watching the pilot for Tell Me You Love Me the hardcore “porn” show HBO is premiering the same night), were surprsied when star Larry David showed up to take questions at the Television [...]

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Tabloid Baby’s good friend and contributor, public access TV legend and Tom Green Show regular Dr. Franklin Ruehl is turning out to be the most busy utility man in reality television. Last month, not long after he’d appeared as himself on NBC’s Identity, he turned up dead, as a corpse who gets a bronzing treatment [...]

Any reality show that votes

So whatever happened to Michael Richards? Seinfeld‘s Cosmo Kramer, who became an instant pariah after a racist tirade from the stage of a comedy club was captured on cellphone video, has been in Cambodia with a group that follows the teachings of a 29-year-old Hindu mystic called “Swami G.” Seriously. Richards says he’s been attending [...]

The CW has finally found a kissin cousin for Clark Kent when Smallville returns in the fall. Well, maybe not kissin’. But they have cast a sexy Supergirl. Laura Vandervoort has flown away with the role of the blonde superheroine. The biggest surprise is that she’s not a British thespian (from Fox’s Terminator sequel to [...]

Remember we told you back in March that Court TV was going to change its name? Now they’ve done it. Beginning January, the new name of Court TV is truTV. The idea is that they’ll be concentrating on “nonfiction” programming, which we’d have to guess wil be “tru.” Or “true.” Like The Truman Show. Which [...]

Gotta love that Rosie O’Donnell. Or not. Get a load of this picture of Rosie putting on a show in front of 1,500 people on her latest gay and lesbian family cruise from New York to the Bahamas. In what was supposedly part of her standup routine, she painted up a big photo of Elisabeth [...]

Chelsea Handler is the new Jon Stewart! She’s the new David Spade! She’s the femme Bill Maher! She’s everyone on The View in one sexy, funny bod! She’s funniest, most talented woman on television and if people would give her a chance they’d definitely be… Chelseafied! And starting Monday night, Chelsea Handler has yet another [...]

Springfield, Vermont, today was proclaimed the official hometown of The Simpsons. The town beat out 13 other Springfields for the honour, which includes hosting the premiere of The Simpsons Movie on July 21st. The town was a late entry. 20th Century Fox ran an online poll on the USA Today website inviting people to vote [...]

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When the clock starts ticking in January for Season 7– make that Day 7– of

The “L” in The L Word, which is supposed to mean all sorts of other things besides “lesbian” in Showtime’s girl-on-girl drama series, can now stand for “lotsa writers”, with the launch of an L Word contest that climaxes with the first “fan-scripted scene” in television series history. Funny that the insertion of fan fiction [...]

Dan Patrick is leaving ESPN after 18 years and an influence on TV that goes far beyond sports. Dan made his mark in the 90s, when he teamed for five years with Keith Olbermann on SportsCenter, the sports news show that’s been shown every day on ESPN since the network was founded on September 7, [...]