Author: Tabloid Baby

Who wants to win a free copy of the book Tabloid Baby? Uhh… okay, let’s try that again: Who wants to win scripts from nine different NBC series, each one autographed by the series stars? NBC is giving them away, and all they’re getting in return is your email address so you’ll wind up on [...]

NBC is being deliberately vague about the future of Scrubs. Last week, they ran a promo warning there are “just four episodes left.” A spot during Monday’s Heroes hyped “the final episodes” of the series. Usually, the networks make it clear the countdowns are leading to a season finale. In this case, the fate of [...]

President Bush may be out of step with the American people when it comes to Iraq, but his handlers were smart enough to get him to follow up his veto by showing up with his wife and saying the name “Bono” on American Idol. Unfortunate though, that he could have been talking about Sonny Bono, [...]

Los Angeles, New York and Miami miss out on the orgies and gunplay this September, as MTV is taking its Video Music Awards to Las Vegas– and what happens in Vegas this time around really is staying there. The 24th annual version of the show will take place at the Palms Hotel and Casino. And [...]

Today we learn of the deaths of two classic TV sidekicks named Tom: Tom Poston, who goes back to the Golden Era but is best remembered from Newhart, at 85, and Tommy Newsom, Johnny Carson’s backup bandleader and comedy foil from the heyday of the The Tonight Show, who made it to 78. Sadder still: [...]

Ellen DeGeneres hurt her back and is turning the ordeal it into an All-American, Lettermanesque stunt on her talk show this week– and getting as close as she’ll come to having a man in her bed since her guest shot on The Larry Sanders Show. As for Seacrest…

Who’d have thunk That ’70s Show would turn out to be a breeding ground for Hollywood powerbrokers not seen on a sitcom since that ’50s show, Happy Days, launched Ron Howard, Henry Winkler and Anson Williams? But a new deal has Wilmer Valderrama competing with former costar Ashton Kutcher in the race to become the [...]

Why The Devil Wears Prada is up for an MTV Movie Award is something you’ll have to explain to us later (help us out, Sutter). Maybe it’s because the word “devil” is in the title? Anyway, the nominations have been revealed. The more target-audience-friendly 300 leads the pack with a whopping five nominations, Pirates of [...]

We didn’t get around to this one this morning, but it’s worth mentioning because we know there are more than a few Jack Bauer fans out there: The LA Times has gone public with the buzz that Fox’s 24 is not what it once was, and in fact that the clock has begun ticking for [...]

Roseanne Barr for Rosie O’Donnell? Do you believe ABC would really replace the fat (yes, we said it–”fat”), loud, angry, liberal bigmouth with mental problems on The View with an older louder, fatter, angrier, even more politically extreme bigmouth who’s probably mentally ill? Though Roseanne’s been angling for a return to the small screen, we’d [...]

MTV isn’t about to throw in the towel on the show that was once a youth magnet, tastemaker, trendsetter, starmaker and its most popular hour of the day. In hopes of returning to its former glory, TRL, teetering on the brink of cancellation despite all the cuties who’ve been slid in to replace old Carson [...]

She was a Top 10 finalist on the Carrie Underwood season of American Idol, and her only recorded song is her rendition of “Total Eclipse of the Heart” on the Idol finalist disc from that season, and until now she’s been best known as the target of a stalker who showed up at her grandma’s [...]

Somebody’s finally putting MySpace to work on television, and oddly enough it’s got nothing to do with dating, comedians or rock bands. Well, maybe comedians. Survivor” honcho Mark Burnett is planning to use Rupert Murdoch’s networking site for a political reality show for the Internet and television. Rupert Murdoch and politics? Strange, we realize, but [...]

Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip will be returning the NBC schedule after all. Aaron Sorkin’s serio-solemn take on life behind the scenes of a live network comedy series was yanked after 16 episodes in February and replaced with The Black Donnellys– which was cancelled earlier this month, and replaced by The Real Wedding Crashers, [...]

Our favorite Teutonic supermodel-judge-host Heidi Klum appeared on Germany’s Next Top Model with a fetching facial accessory. Either that or Seal misplaced his codpiece. (And yes, we’re accepting captions.)

We’ve all heard heard the story that Howie Mandel is a germophobe who won’t shake hands and has trouble with hotel rooms. Our pal Ray Richmond says he’s heard it so often, he says, “It made me curious as to whether the charge was true or simply evolved out of an urban legend, so when [...]

We didn’t jump on the Alec Baldwin answering machine story when it broke because it was a cheap shot from a sleazy gossip website run by people who don’t have kids; a private matter that involved an eleven-year-old girl. But then Alec fired his agents, tried to quit his TV series, turned to Dr. Phil [...]

Heather Mills is gone from Dancing with the Stars and Grindhouse should be gone from theatres by now, but this tribute from The Spine is worth passing on. Now let’s count the days until…

If we had the chance, we’d have lots of questions for Tina Fey. The star and creator of NBC’s 30 Rock saw her show grow from an amateurish, patchy, not-ready-for-prime-time sketch comedy joke to the funniest comedy on TV, all in one herky-jerk season. She’s also seen the femme-centric series, based around the fictional Girlie [...]

American Idol flaunted its generosity and heart on last night’s Idol Gives Back charity show by teasing viewers for two hours about “shocking” voting results, only to forego elimination altogether (two contestants will go home next week). But while Chris Richardson and LaKisha Jones were spared for another seven days, the special was notable for [...]

That wasn’t much of a Drive! Fox’s expensive, hyped midseason drama about an underground, illegal, life-and-death cross-country road race has been yanked from the schedule after two weeks. Drive had been given a huge promotional push and platform on American Idol and a 24-style two-night premiere. But its low ratings on Mondays have been hurting [...]

If we were a certain celebrity dirt site headed for television, we might have said we’ve got the pix of Heidi Montag’s new “Hills” (and then gotten back to drooling over the Matthew McConaughey shirtless shots), but as it is, here are the Before and After photos of The Hills villainess Heidi Montag– before and [...]

Bad news for Tina Fey. With her NBC comedy 30 Rock finally firing on all cylinders as it nears the end of its first seaon tomorrow tonight– and the critic for the LA Times getting so excited that he compared her to Mary Tyler Moore (yeah, the Cleveland version, maybe), the real star of the [...]

American Idol judge Randy Jackson last night called Jordin Sparks’ performance of You’ll Never Walk Alone “one of the best vocals by any contestant ever on the show ever in six seasons.” But forget Whitney, Celine, Mariah or Fantasia– how does the rendition by Coca Cola’s anointed Idol winner stack up against Jerry Lewis? After [...]

Rosie O’Donnell announced this morning that she won’t be sticking around for a second season of The View. Sure, the official word is that she wanted $10 million for one year and ABC wanted her to sign for three years, and there’s been talk of her getting her own soapbox, er, bully pullpit, umm… make [...]

Less than a week after Sanjaya Malakar was eliminated mysteriously from American Idol, one-legged “charity campaigner,” former porn model, Paul McCartney exploiter and British pariah Heather Mills was sent hopping from Dancing with The Stars, leaving most Americans confused about who she is or why she was on the show for any thing other than [...]

NBC’s sci fi hit (and TV Land’s future classic) TV series Heroes was hailed in its return last night, but it’s being damned today for allegedly ripping off a pivotal plot twist from the modern classic graphic novel-comic book series, Watchmen. Watchmen has been kicking around Hollywood for twenty years, but is finally scheduled to [...]

Maybe you’ve seen this Burger King spot that hangs on a very corny joke: a guy emerges from a bathtub with a sponge on his head. He says to his wife: “Hey, honey. Guess who I am. Come on. Who am I? SpongeBob!” Then he gestures downward, below the view of the camera. “No pants.” [...]

It’s one thing for an American Idol executive producer (Cecile Frot-Coutaz ) to assure Entertainment Weekly that Sanjaya Malakar won’t win– days before he’s eliminated. But what’s up with the scoring at Dancing with The Stars? On last night’s live show, wacky cohost Samantha Harris gave away Leila Ali’s score before the judges made their [...]

Sanjaya Malakar’s World Domination Tour continues tonight as he reads the Top 10 List on The Late Show with David Letterman. “The Top 10 Things I Learned from American Idol“… after the jump…

Yes, NBC’s Heroes was the show that took the “Future Classic” prize at the TV Land Awards Show that aired last night. And that’s not the end of the accolades for the freshman sci fi fave, which returns for the season’s final five episodes tonight at 9. You can watch a live webcast of “An [...]

Sorry, Ryan Seacrest. Now you’re really “out.” Ellen DeGeneres, not you, will host the Wednesday edition of American Idol‘s two-night Idol Gives Back special this week. The two-night fundraiser benefits relief programs for poor kids in Africa and the US. It will feature a whole passel of celebs including Kelly Clarkson, Pink, Gwen Stefani, a [...]

Us Magazine is posting photos of former Laguna Beach star Jason Wahler engaged in what they claim is a dangerous game of Russian Roulette– with a real gun, loaded with a real bullet. Us says the pictures were taken last summer. They show the 20-year-old and a buddy, a rapper called Jay 211, holding a [...]

Seen together over the weekend at the Tao nightclub in Las Vegas.

With racial and social prejudice getting a lot of ink and airtime in recent weeks, thanks to Don Imus, Sanjaya Malakar and Virginia Tech (not to mention Borat’s scheduled appearance on Idol Gives Back), the Game Show Network has found itself on the crest of topicality with a new game show that turns people’s prejudices [...]

The Fifth Annual TV Land Awards Show airs tonight at 9, giving us all the chance to see what’s become of the survivors of classic and kitsch TV shows of the past forty years, and the totally unexpected potential of witnessing Valerie Bertinelli and her former One Day At A Time costar Mackenzie Phillips morph [...]

What a nice young man! Sanjaya surprises us once again with a new, conservative look as he walks the red carpet tonight at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in Washington. And if you think it was painful to hear him sing, just think of all the poor folks who had to listen to [...]

Discovery may be marking Earth Day with a Planet Earth marathon, but MTV is really doing it up and changing the course of the environment tomorrow afternoon with a very special “Green” episode of Pimp My Ride. Gangsta rapper host Xzibit will team with California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to “pimp” a 1965 Chevy Impala by [...]

Kristine Lefebvre was fired by Donald Trump before reaching the Final Four on The Apprentice Los Angeles, but she’s getting her revenge by upstaging his finale this weekend with word that she’s posing for Playboy. At the ripe age of 37, Kristine is set to appear on the cover of the June issue– as naked [...]