It's finally happened. Larry King -- a suspendered person famous for marrying ladies and interviewing people in a gruff, oft-confused haze -- has announced that he will be ending his CNN show Larry King Live this fall. "With this chapter closing I'm looking forward to the future and what my next chapter will bring," he said in a statement, "but for now it's time to hang up my nightly suspenders." Yes, and those suspenders? Try all you want, but they don't fit you, Piers Morgan. [CNN]
The good news: Rob Lowe is turning into the scheming capitalist from Tommy Boy that you always wanted him to be. The bad news: He is taking over the planet, and you're not invited. The Brothers and Sisters actor is reportedly teaming up with very powerful people for a lucrative multimedia deal, and he's also releasing a memoir and trying out a gig as a reality TV producer. If he's the new Oprah, I hope he considers giving iPods and $10,000 checks to less fortunate Brat Packers. Eye-popping details follow.
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Add Elijah Wood to the list of film actors who are crossing over to television this year. The Lord of the Rings alum will star in FX's adaptation of the Australian series Wilfred. Jason Gann, who co-created and starred in the original project, will reprise his role as the title character for the U.S. iteration. The pilot script, from David Zuckerman (Family Guy, American Dad) centers on a guy (Wood) and a mixed-breed dog Wilfred (Gann) "who is part Labrador retriever and part Russell Crowe on a bender." This marks Wood's first starring role in a television series. [EW]
Double Exposure, Bravo's reality series about travails in the world of professional photography, bring aboard the photogenic talents of one Lindsay Lohan. We waited all last episode for her arrival, but now she's here and making demands. Your level of discomfort and paranoia will grow throughout the episode, and you may be concerned that you are living in a real-life Truman Show version of I Know Who Killed Me.
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Apparently if you renew a reality show for enough seasons, it starts to turn into other reality shows. Big Brother, the CBS summer series where housemates evict each other and compete in backyard stunts, is stealing an idea from ABC's deflated reality series The Mole and throwing a "saboteur" in the house who will pose as a player but will "disrupt the lives of fellow contestants" and "earn additional rewards as long as they go undiscovered, fulfilling fan-inspired tasks." Should the network go even further in its Mole pilfering?
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We may not know why Bravo VP Andy Cohen hosts a weekly late night talk show where he asks his male guests to take off their shirts, but we are are dedicated to tracking the program in all of its bizarreness. With that in mind, let's review the WTF-iest moment from last night's Watch What Happens Live, featuring Caroline and Albie Manzo.
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Just a week after Fox pulled the plug on a new reality series that critics had nicknamed So You Think You Can Be On Glee -- a project showcasing worldwide auditions for Ryan Murphy's song-and-dance series -- Oxygen has decided to repurpose the discarded project for its own cable lineup. Still, for the telegenic and musically gifted actors between the age of 16 and 26 who remain interested, there are a few catches about Oxygen's latest unscripted foray that you may want to hear before taping another audition video.
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Yesterday, Jason Bateman tried to blame his iPhone line-jumping on paparazzi who were terrorizing the crowd gathered outside of the Apple Store. Now, several eyewitnesses are coming forward to refute the actor's claims: "There was, at most, one photographer who kept a respectful distance," one bystander told Us, while another added that the crowd was (understandably) very angry: "There was a chorus of boos and then people shouting, 'What?' and 'We've been here for hours!' [...] They escorted him like he was a pretty big deal." Apple, you might want to rethink that Arrested Development app. [Us]
Producers finally let Ali Fedotowsky judge the last six Bachelorette hunks the way the rest of us choose life partners and interns: with naked wrestling matches. And we're all the wiser for it! While last night's episode kicked off with the hari kari elimination of Justin, who was revealed to have two girlfriends at home and a plan to "use the show to get famous" (don't laugh, Bob Guiney is still raking in TLC/Game Show Network dollars -- oh, all right, laugh), we still have five other lads to declare fit or unfit for Ali's un-sensual loving. Pair your rankings with ours.
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There was a time when the Real Housewives of New Jersey was fun to watch -- and that time has long since passed. Viewers are now stuck with a cast of four (you're better off, Dina) quibbling housewives playing tug of war with the cameras as they fight to show off every gory detail of their breast augmentations, gratuitous shopping trips and their descents into stage-motherhood. Last night's installment was no different. Danielle recovered from her latest surgery and discovered new battle tactics courtesy of Paris Hilton. Meanwhile, Jacqueline and Teresa splurged on a shopping spree that caused PETA members worldwide to weep. And somewhere, Caroline Manzo cried about the loneliness of fame, or something. Instead of reconsuming the fattening filler, join Movieline after the jump to get the heartiest moments -- both real and fake -- from last night's episode.
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Never change, Kristen Stewart. While most other starlets tackle the late night circuit with television-ready anecdotes and easy laughter to make any host or audience swoon, the Twilight franchise star can never quite conquer her nerves. Take last night's appearance on the Late Show, where the actress sputtered through a story about how her co-star Taylor Lautner demanded that she go bowling after an emotional trip to the Holocaust Museum. It could have been talk show gold, but became instead a rambled story so awkward that David Letterman visibly cringed before segueing into an equally uncomfortable segment about K-Stew's pet wolf. Steel your own nerves and click through for that clip as well as the other highlights you missed last night while begging your agent to get you the role of Steve Carell's Office replacement.
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And you thought Horse-Boy had the makings of a good Hollywood project. On Monday, federal prosecutors charged 11 people with being part of a Russian espionage ring. In other words: Spies! And lest you think this isn't like some Cold War paranoia fantasy, the accused -- who were "living under false names and deep cover in a patient scheme to penetrate what one coded message called American 'policy making circles'" -- partook in every spy cliche you could imagine: forged passports, false identities, messages written in invisible ink and even the exchanging of "identical orange bags as they brushed past one another in a train station stairway." Suck it, John le Carré! Unless this is all an elaborate viral marketing campaign for Salt, the Russian spies seem ripe for Hollywood intervention. But this story is too sprawling for just a movie -- it needs a TV show. Ahead, Movieline looks at the five networks who should be interested.
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· Former 24 actress and comedienne Janeane Garofalo is close to signing onto CBS' Criminal Minds spin-off. The new series, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, already stars Oscar-winning Forest Whitaker as the head of a pack of agents within the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit. Garofalo starred in a medical drama pilot earlier this year from John Wells which was never picked up to series. [EW]
A CW star gets his fangs, a murderer asks for $1 million, and more TV Bites after the jump.
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On the next segment of Bachelorette Ali Fedotowsky's world tour, she makes her potential paramours strip down and oil up. Why? Because we've earned it, see. All those weeks of people named "Chris N." or "Jonathan K." or "Toonces J." pretending to compete were silly children's games compared to the gladiatorial stuff we're about to behold. I'm prepared to give a thumbs-up ahead of time!
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Nearly six months after her ping-pong debut on the Tonight Show, Susan Sarandon is making her new hobby the subject of a docuseries. The Oscar-winning actress told People about her plans to film the young players who frequent SPiN, a New York City ping-pong club she helped fund earlier this year: "We're just in the early filming stages now. [...] We want the tone of it to be funny and quite different than anything else that anybody's seen before." I guess this makes Gwyneth Paltrow's taco-making tutorial almost seem relevant. [People]
