Author: Tabloid Baby

Everyone gives short shrift to the also-ran wanna be networks like The (“can’t work”) CW, but hidden within yesterday’s fall schedule announcement was a landmark tidbit: Online Nation, set to be trounced on Sunday nights under the weight of 60 Minutes, football and– if it lasts so long– Family Guy, features Stevie Ryan, better known [...]

We can’t forget The CW. Well, we won’t forget The CW, which announced its fall schedule at the upfronts today. They’ve got six new series, still a chance to watch America’s Next Top Model twice in the same week (sorry, same episode) but still no programming on Saturday nights. And no Veronica Mars, which was [...]

TVgasm was one of the earliest cheerleaders and shameless shillers for the comedy troupe Human Giant. The support of pop culture pioneers like B-Side helped land the group its own series on MTV. Now, the Giant is up for a second season– but MTV is making them get it the hard way. No, not that [...]

Fox unleashed a three-pronged scheduling attack as it introduced its 2007-2008 schedule at the annual “upfronts” presentations, saving four of its seven scripted series for January, starting up a new season in the spring, and starting the fall completely unscripted on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. But despite Anthony Anderson starring in the New Orleans cop [...]

The conspiracy theorists are in overdrive this morning after Melinda Doolittle‘s surprise ouster from American Idol. Though Melinda has been the front-runner in the competition from the start, though she went into the semi-final vote a clear favorite– and despite all indicators pointing otherwise– the season’s best singer was sent home in an Idol stunner [...]

“So a Seinfeld veteran can’t be on TV but a vampire can? TV just got really, really goyim!” No, Julia Louis Dreyfus didn’t really say that, but her New Adventures of the Old Christine didn’t make it into the “edgy” Fall lineup that CBS announces at an upfront presentation at Carnegie Hall this afternoon (Christine [...]

A big Tabloid Baby razz to radio station KISS 106.1 in Seattle, for trying to humilate the hometown teenager who’s been the brightest light of this American Idol season (and we don’t mean Jordin). The station invited good-natured and charismatic Sanjaya Malakar to appear at a promotional concert over the weekend, featuring the busty Idol [...]

No, it’s not another segment of The O’Reilly Factor. No, it’s not Katie Couric yelling at her assistant because the latte isn’t non-fat. It’s a BBC reporter, losing his cool while speaking to a Scientology member while filming a documentary special on the religion. The Scientologists claimed the BBC was out to smear them, so [...]

“I get kicked out for a caveman and shows that I out-performed because I’m not owned by (ABC Television Studios)? So a Chicano can’t be on TV but a caveman can?” George Lopez isn’t happy about the “really, really white” fall schedule that ABC announced this morning. No George Lopez Show – and no According [...]

Heading the class of freshmen among NBC’s fall lineup announced today is British import Michelle Ryan as the new Bionic Woman. See Michelle jump. Above. See her fight with her new bionic limbs… after the jump…

We told you Friday that NBC had decided to renew the much-loved but little-watched Friday Night Lights. Addressing the issue of the show’s changing timeslots, we mentioned: “For some reason, there’s been no talk about running the damn show on Fridays!” Dumb idea? Some thought so. But apparently, the execs at NBC took us seriously, [...]

With American Idol and Dancing with The Stars headed toward their finales in the coming weeks, it’s worth mentioning that the frontrunners in both shows are giants in terms of size as well as stature. Laila Ali and Jordin Sparks are plus-sized and proud– and while the experts debate anorexic female role models, stick insect [...]

Dick Wolf and NBC Universal have sorted out the Law & Order mess for the time being. Despite his status as a mainstay for NBC and various versions of the L&O franchise being aired every hour on some network somewhere on the dial, the producer who can only get a hit if he puts the [...]

For generations of TV viewers, Lucille Ball is forever embalmed in black and white. So it’s funny to find out she’d ordered that her body not be embalmed when she died. That’s the kind of information you pick up trolling eBay, where today bidding is heating up on imaginative memento of the I Love Lucy [...]

The Discovery Channel needs to find a new host for Shark Week. Jimmy Hall, recently named to lead the series, was killed this week on an expedition to the Arctic. Just as Animal Planet adventurer Steve Irwin was killed by a stingray far from his beloved crocodiles, so did Hall die far from his sharks– [...]

Now that Jordin Sparks has moved into the forefront of the American Idol race, the backlash is underway, with conspiracy theories in full swing– and a political hot potato that’s jumped from the back burner to center stage. We toldyou about the initial controversy over Jordin’s entry into this season’s contest (aided by Idol sponsor [...]

Spencer Pratt from The Hills, best known as the armpiece to the surgically-altered Heidi Montag, has injected himself into Paris Hilton‘s jailhouse dilemma by launching his own “Free Paris” petition on his MySpace page. Now the original Free Paris petition is a brilliant literary parody that’s so funny, James Lipton gave a dramatic reading of [...]

May 10, 08:07 PM We are here! Greg and Ethan are here and we are happy to report that Jaime couldn’t join us because it’s so late in her pregnancy. If you took our lead and logged on to the castmembers’ live blog during last night’s season finale of NBC’s My Name Is Earl, and [...]

NBC has finally given the green light to a second season for Friday Night Lights, the 30 Rock of small town football dramas (low ratings, some critical praise, big love from entertainment boss Kevin Reilly, and a tortured, drawn-out wait for an eleventh-hour decision). The renewal really is the equivalent of a completed Hail Mary [...]

Star Jones, er… Star Jones Reynolds, whose hiring at Court TV ultimately led to yesterday’s announcement that sour-faced crazy lady Nancy Grace would leave the network to concentrate on annoying viewers of CNN Headline News, will share the screen with her rival in the season finale of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. The episode [...]

NBC is really into live-blogging their season finales. Hot on the heels of Tina Fey‘s once-removed chat with fans (she said somebody else did the typing) after the 30 Rock season ender– and not long after the Earl‘s historic Laugh ‘N’ Sniff Smell-O-Vision episode– some of the My Name Is Earl crew is live-blogging after [...]

A few months ago, the folks at American Idol surprised us during an elimination show with word that they were about to do some good with a telethon called Idol Gives Back. Last night, they got back to being greedy. Not satisfied with the dozens of hours of airtime they’re already hogging on Fox, the [...]

Someone at Bravo decided that Tim Gunn of Project Runway was too snooty and stylish to star alone in a show called Tim Gunn’s Guide To Style, so they announced a search for a down-to-earth sidekick to make him more approachable– sort of like the case of Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric– or The Brain [...]

The big question from last night’s American Idol isn’t when Barry Gibb started talking like Sean Connery (well, okay, that is a big question), but whether an eventual win by 17-year-old Jordin Sparks has been in the cards from the start. A month ago, Idol was shaping into a clash of the divas Melinda Doolittle [...]

Why wait in line when you can wait two years to see the week’s hottest movie blockbuster at home? FX has wrapped up the TV rights for Spider-Man 3. The cable network has signed a five-year deal for the TV rights for the movie, and because the domestic box office receipts will determine the license [...]

Bravo’s Top Chef will launch its third season with a cook-off between chefs from seasons 1 and 2. Top Chef: 4-Star All-Stars” will pit first season winner Harold Dieterle, Stephen Asprinio and finalists Tiffani Faison, and Dave Martin against season two‘s winner Ilan Hall, his arch-enemy Marcel Vigneron and fellow finalists Sam Talbot and Elia [...]

Hey, that Minnie Driver has certainly come into her own in the FX series The Riches, hasn’t she? And if each successive episode isn’t quite as great as the last, she’s bound to get an Emmy nomination at the very least, and today got the ultimate reward as her series was officially renewed for a [...]

Eric Sanchez and Danielle Turner, the “dating couple” who won the million dollar Amazing Race: All-Stars prize, are no longer a “dating couple”– though any suspicions that Eric and Danielle were really lovers to begin with were dispelled in the finale that aired Sunday night, when Eric phoned his former Race partner Jeremy Ryan (above, [...]

There’s new life to Talkshow with Spike Feresten, the mysterious late night talk show that no one watches– and the renewal could hasten the death of MADtv, the show it follows on Saturday nights. With Fox ordering up a second season, the half-hour Spike will return to Saturday nights at midnight in the fall and [...]

Professional reality TV couple Rob Mariano and Amber Brkich didn’t make it to compete in the finale of last night’s The Amazing Race: All-Stars, but their pained smiles and polite applause for the winners were a highlight of the final scene. And now they say they’ve got a reality TV series in store that will [...]

Now it’s official: the Lost countdown is underway. ABC has allowed the producers to set a date for the series’ final episode. As we reported, there will be two more seasons worth of shows– but they’ll be grouped into three mini-seasons, leading to a final episode three years from now. The series will extend for [...]

With Lost hitting a new peak with Wednesday’s episode (fans in the Tabloid Baby offices have been in conversation and debate for days now), that Lost endgame we told you about back in January is in play– and there are reports that ABC will soon announce a solid date for the final episode of the [...]

Paris Hilton is headed to jail! Just moments ago, LA Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer sentenced the heiress and reality TV princess to 45 days in jail for violating probation. She must go to jail on June 5th and will not be allowed to beat the sentence through work release (which could have made [...]

American Idol Timberfakes Chris Richardson and Blake Lewis have been raising eyebrows all season with their Lenny & Carlish, Scrubsian guy love that inspired the (above, left) fake photo that spread through the Internet a few weeks ago, and raised a few more with their giggly shared whispers and declarations of affection before Chris was [...]

Who needs the Gilmore Girls when you’ve got farmboys? The CW is looking to continue its reality roll (Top Model, Beauty & The Geek, Pussycat Dolls) by adding a rural twist with Farmer Wants a Wife. No, it’s not an original idea! American Idol producers Fremantle based it on a UK series calld Farmer, again [...]

Paris Hilton will be on her best behaviour when she faces a judge– and a possible 45 days in jail– this afternoon in Los Angeles Superior Court. Prosecutors say they’re fed up with the queen of all celebutards (and star of The Simple Life) and want her to learn a lesson after allegedly violating the [...]

With the celebutainment shows in a tizzy over video of a TV legend and tabloid tightrope walker stripped to the waist and drunk out of his gourd, video verite subject and self-described “recovering alcoholic” David Hasselhoff is putting the best possible spin on an embarrassing tape made while he was in Las Vegas performing in [...]

It’s official. Gilmore Girls is cancelled and will be gone by the end of the month. The axing has been rumoured for months, but recently there was talk there’d be one more 13-episode season to wrap things up– but only if Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel, who play mother and daughter Lorelai and Rory Gilmore– [...]