Author: Tabloid Baby

Here’s the trailer for Californication, the new series that brings David Duchovny back from his illusions of Hollywood movie grandeur… to television. Or something like television, since Showtime has its own aspirations to climb up to HBO artistic levels. Amd since Duchovny plays a sex addict writer named “Hank Moody,” we’d even guess there’s some [...]

Rosie O’Donnell says her dream of hosting The Price Is Right “looks like it ain’t gonna happen.” But one thing you have to say about the big uncensored celebrity (in drag, above): she’s got balls. Amid a crowd of pretty boy contenders for the Bob Barker role, including Mark Steines, John O’Hurley and Drew Carey, [...]

Jordin Sparks hasn’t even made headlines with her first Right-to-Life remarks and already producers are gearing up to find a new American Idol. A month after Jordin’s controversial Idol win and a week before the Idol concert tour producers have announced audition cities for Season 7, and this time they want to make sure they [...]

With flopperoos Pirate Master and On The Lot clinging to life on CBS and Fox and the combination of the two summer stinkers leading some to declare the end of reality TV’s first Golden Era, producer Mark Burnett is heading back to his roots. The former British commando is teaming with a “mixed martial arts” [...]

It looks like Paris Hilton‘s first interview after getting out of jail will take place with Larry King on CNN. The flatulent old lizard gets the exclusive, apparently for free, after the geniuses at ABC and NBC network bungled the negotiations and walked away amid publicity over the big money figures that were being offered. [...]

A spokesman for the LA County Sheriff announced a little while ago that Paris Hilton will be released from jail on Tuesday, June 26. He didn’t specify the time of day– so your favorite programming could be pre-empted at any time!

How can the bozos who run network news expect us to believe what they report when they lie so blatantly? NBC denies it’s agreed to pay $1 million for an interview with Paris Hilton, while at the same time ABC News admits it was willing to pay $100,000 for “production materials such as photographs or [...]

Rosie O’Donnell met with the producers of The Price Is Right to talk about the hosting job. She confirmed it on the “ask ro” section of her current showcase, her always entertaining blog: Martha writes: Hello Rosie,
How did your interview go today? Love, Martha rosie replies: we had a nice lunch Molly writes: Rosie, how [...]

Jason Wahler from The Hills is out of “serious rehab” (serious jail-doding rehab, says he’s ready for a life without every touching another drop of booze, has a pretty new blonde girlfriend– and most important– relates to Lindsay Lohan. Amid at least four arrests for booze- and violence-related and racially insensitive incidents in various states [...]

Hey, we almost forgot to mention that CBS gave three hours of airtime to the American Film Institute to count down its latest list of the 100 Greatest 100 Movies of all time. A pretty risky proposition, considering how On The Lot is tanking over at Fox– and guess what? Only one movie from Tabloid [...]

Isaiah Washington must be pretty pissed off that he wasted all that time being around gay people, apologizing, explaining and taping public service announcements for tolerance, because he’s back, he’s mad as hell again– and some might even say he’s “blaming the victim” as he tries to repair the career damage from his Grey’s Anatomy [...]

With Bob Barker backing off from his endorsement of Rosie O”Donnell and that nerdy Milhouse-looking CBS weatherman hopping around in the wings, a new name has risen to the top of the list of contenders to host The Price Is Right. Drew Carey is about the same build as Rosie, but a little less butch [...]

We knew Paris Hilton‘s jailhouse stint would pay off in the long run, but according to a report this morning, the poor little bitch girl won’t only pass “go” when she walks out sometime next week– she’ll collect one million dollars. The New York Post says NBC (and that includes NBC News) has agreed to [...]

Good morning, USA! Fox has ordered a fourth season of American Dad. The network wants 22 episodes of Seth MacFarlane’s B-show, scheduled for 2008-2009.

What’s up with VH1? The network that brought us Breaking Bondauce,Behind The Music and Dice Undisputed has announced a line-up of new shows that’s more suited for Bravo, Logo or Lifetime– a soft and squishy line-up that’s highlighted by a series featuring two women in their seventies! And we don’t mean the 1970s. Meet the [...]

Donald Trump isn’t waiting for his Trump’s Tramps series on Fox to get back into the reality television business after the crapulous LA turn of The Apprentice and his ignominious split with NBC. He’s now hooked up with MTV for Reality Place, a reality series that mixes The Apprentice and The Real World with the [...]

Maybe Mark Burnett is desperate for a sure thing after the twin flops of Pirate Master and On The Lot, but he’s got another All-Star edition of Survivor headed our way whether we or Jeff Probst like it or not. Word is that the series is scheduled to go into production in October, and run [...]

American Idol superstar Sanjaya Malakar insists that his big sister Shyamali won’t be accepting any of those offers to pose nekkid in any men’s magazines. “She was never the type to flaunt it,” Sanjaya says about the Hooters waitress who didn’t make it to the finals but managed to score with viewers by simply appearing [...]

While America’s Got Talent goes strong for another week with the likes of Boy Shakira, the original British version of the show wrapped up its season hours ago with a winner who looks like an EastEnders version of William Hung– but sings a bit differently. Paul Potts, a 36-year-old carphone salesman with Simon Cowell’s old [...]

The incredibly-expanding Nicole Richie today got one more postponement of her trial on charges of driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol. But the judge says this is it, and she’s got to face the music on July 11th. Nicole will face trial in connection with her arrest last December for driving the wrong [...]

“Boston” Rob Mariano, four-time reality TV show loser and one-half of the beloved “Romber” reality TV couple, has formally announced that big reality show with the $10 million prize that he’d promised would revolutionize reality TV. Tontine, named for the investment scheme that pays off to the last surviving investor, will follow 15 contestants over [...]

Who says Hillary Clinton doesn’t have a sense of humour? What’s funnier than an assassination joke in the middle of a presidential campaign? Ha. Ha. Ha.

Coral Smith, the brash and busty cast member from The Real World: Back to New York who went on to become a reality TV mainstay on shows like Clash of The Reality TV Stars and Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Fresh Meat, has found herself a new way to keep herself in the spotlight. She’s come [...]

Dr. Seuss has put the whammy on Christina Applegate‘s new comedy. ABC has been giving a push for a fall series announced as Sam I Am, starring the former Kelly Bundy as Samantha Newly, an amnesiac who can’t remember anything about her life. But because the show title draws on the first lines of the [...]

Fist-fights, nudity, contact lingerie mud football, nervous breakdowns and insulin shock are just a few of the treats our hair metal frontman pal from Poison is promising as he tosses the cowboy hat and brings the bandana to VH1 this summer for Rock of Love with Bret Michaels. And take a close look above at [...]

An interesting dinner meeting could lead to unexpected reshuffling of late night talk show hosts as NBC boss Jeff Zucker wined and dined fake news anchor Jon Stewart and his agent. Conan O’Brien and Jay Leno were also at the table, but only in spirit, becauseConan is set to take over The Tonight Show with [...]

Heroes will have yet another hero next seson. Nick D’Agosto will come on board to play Claire’s (Hayden Panettiere) boyfriend, West. Producers say he’ll have “a very cool superpower.” Nick is the second new hero added to the next Heroes season.

It was an overflow crowd at the Webb-Freer Funeral Home in Blue Springs, Missouri, Saturday morning for Frankie Abernathy‘s funeral. Fifteen year-old kid sister Mamie Hunter led the eulogies, silencing everyone when she walked to the front with purple and magenta hair, making them laugh when she said, “I have a confession to make. This [...]

Maybe it’s revenge against all those models who filed lawsuits or dangled lawsuits against him, but Bob Barker is going out with a bang by endorsing Rosie O’Donnell as his host on The Price Is Right. Old Bob, whose last appearance as host on the daytime show aired yesterday, made the comments backstage at the [...]

Bob Barker & Ellen DeGeneres were the big winners at The 34th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards show at the Kodak Theatre and on CBS last night. Old Bob, on the day his last appearance on The Price Is Right went to air, won his 19th trophy for best game show host. Ellen won six awards, [...]

Services will be take place tomorrow morning at 10:30 at the Webb-Freer Funeral Home in Blue Springs, Missouri, for Frankie Abernathy, the housemate from The Real World: San Diego who died Saturday at 25. Frankie was the pierced, tattooed, Hello Kitty-loving, boat-fearing emotional cutter who happened to have cystic fibrosis. She’s thought to be the [...]

From the Yeah, Right, Like This Would Ever Happen Dept: Al Pacino says he’d like to be a contestant on Dancing with The Stars. “I would consider it,” the great actor tells Time magazine. “All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be, I am a dancer. But I don’t think [...]

Earlier this week, we let the cat out of the bag and revealed that E!’s Sunset Tan reality show faked a scene in which a pair of tanners called the Olly Girls were sent to apply bronzer to an embalmed corpse (see it here). The “corpse” was not only alive-and-kicking– he was none other than [...]

NBC’s new programming boss and party animal Ben Silverman made his first fortune copying shows that were successful elsewhere on the world and copying them in America. From Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? to Big Brother, The Office to Ugly Betty, Silverman showed that imitation is the sincerest form of television and that in [...]

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NBC has confirmed that Victoria Beckham‘s much-heralded, supposedly hilarious, superstar-studded reality series has been chopped back to a mere primetime special with a boring name in the dead of summer. Victoria Beckham: Coming to America (didn’t we see that Eddie Murphy movie?) will take up an hour of Monday night airtime (8 to 9 pm) [...]

Paris Hilton is said to be “petrified,” totally bummed and of course, praying about her so-not-hot transfer back to the Lynwood women’s jail last night to possibly serve out the rest of her heavy prison sentence, but she’s bound to be much more animated when she gets out. Stan Lee, the man behind Marvel Comics [...]

“We will not be ending with a blackout.” That’s the promise from the executive producer of Lost, amid fers that the surprise and unsatisfying finale of The Sopranos may have opened the door for other favorite shows to end in limbo. (Limbo? Isn’t that another Lost theory?). Carlton Cruse and co-creator Damon Lindelof say they [...]

Big time writer and very funny blogger Ken Levine has a hilarious column worth passing around. It’s a list of all the changes that would have been demanded, had The Sopranos run on, let’s say, CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, or the CW– anywhere but HBO. Item #1: The finale would be at least two hours. [...]