Lost may be going off the air in a little more than a week, but this summer, you can own a piece of the action. Hollywood memorabilia auctioneer Profiles in History will be auctioning off many of the most major props, costumes and set pieces from the show, and after taking a look at what's on the block, we've found 5 props you may want to bid on -- and 5 that aren't worth the dough.
It's a sad day for Sam Waterston fans everywhere, as our sister site Deadline is reporting that after two decades, NBC is pulling the plug on Law & Order. The crime drama has spun off multiple series for the network including Law & Order: Los Angeles, set to premiere this fall, but will fans of the mothership show rally like angry, fluffalanche-wielding Vincent D'Onofrio loyalists? Developing... [Deadline]
To the delight of shrieking Twi-hards across America, Oprah's Twilight spectacul-aaaaaaar aired today. Kristen Stewart spent the hour fidgeting in her seat and avoiding eye contact with everyone, even the Jamaican fan whom Oprah had flown in just to meet her. Robert Pattinson responded to every serious questions with quippy answers ("She's pregnant," he shouted when Oprah asked if he was dating Stewart). Taylor Lautner talked about his abs and Dakota Fanning seemed wise beyond her years. Basically, it was every Twilight promotional interview you have ever seen plus Oprah. Fortunately, Movieline has compiled the five anecdotes you have not already heard a thousand times after the jump.
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This morning, NBC announced that it plans on taking advantage of the same social networking tool that swept Betty White into Studio 8H and helped rally over 12 million people into actually watching Saturday Night Live this weekend. The network's Facebook-compatible program, Fan It, will reward NBC viewers for talking online to their friends about NBC shows with NBC merchandise. Interested, I clicked over to NBC's web store just to see if there was any swag that could possibly sway me into enlisting in NBC's incestuous PR machine. And there it was, right next to the Biggest Loser Bath Scale ($40) and the Heroes Helix Symbol Pendant Necklace ($15): proof that NBC is still exploiting Betty White.
The Divine Miss M joins the panel of The Marriage Ref tonight, and hopefully she'll make it worth our while with the following quip: "It must've been cooold there in your husband's shadow -- when he wanted to install a stripper pole in the den! Dealbreaker!" Maybe she could make several hundred "The Rose" innuendos regarding a couple from Omaha's sex life. Most of all, let's hope she tries hugging her famous co-panelist, because it might cause him to yell "No Deal" at the sky and wash his clothes six times.
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Final ratings are in for the Betty White-hosted episode of Saturday Night Live, and they're even better than expected: The 88-year-old brought 12.1 million viewers to the broadcast, including a 4.9 share in the coveted 18-49 demo. Yowza! Beat that, Alec. [NYT]
Though I was feeling a little down on Lost yesterday when executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse told HitFix that they had no plans to solve one of the show's still-outstanding mysteries (just who was on the other end of that outrigger shootout last season?), I've found my fannish tendencies revived today by a most unlikely source: Marilyn Manson. The shock rocker painted a portrait of Lost's John Locke for his bassist, Twiggy Ramirez, and while I might have preferred a watercolor Lapidus, this will do in a pinch. Check out a bigger version below. [Facebook via Vulture]
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After her brilliant turn on Saturday Night Live this past weekend, Betty White decided to take a well-earned victory lap last night on the Tonight Show. But instead of receiving a foot rub from Jay Leno, she found herself giving an encore performance that had her singing, dancing, story-telling, avoiding scare-related death, and then surviving a bedroom role-playing joke from the host himself. Click through for that exhausting segment, as well as the other highlights you missed last night while revisiting your favorite cartoon chicks in history.
The American Idol audience is getting a hold on this "Vote out the right contestant, please" idea. Two weeks in a row, we've watched the correct troubadour saunter back to an awaiting womb -- last week jiving fetus Aaron Kelly crawled back into the one he calls home, and and this week Michael Lynche was forced to acknowledge his wife and their newborn. Tough luck. After the jump, we reflect on Michael Lynche's legacy with a fast funeral where Kara DioGuardi's tears don't seem as embarrassing.
· After Fox greenlighted five pilots to series yesterday afternoon, the network snuffed out six others, including Ben Stiller's CIA comedy The Station. Stiller announced the death last night via Twitter: "I like to produce a failed pilot for Fox about once every ten years. Latest was the Station. Written directed and acted by a great group." The other casualties include, Tax Man, which starred Martin Short, Judy Greer and David Krumholtz in a workplace comedy and Strange Brew, a comedy starring Laurie Metcalf as a newly sober matriarch whose family runs a brewery. Fox also killed Christian Slater's comedy Breaking In, as well as Breakout Kings and ironically, Most Likely to Succeed. [Deadline]
ABC picks up a family of superheroes, Mark Wahlberg writes about females looking for love, and more TV Bites after the jump.
Well, not that kind of Arrested Development reunion. (Trust us, it's never gonna happen.) Instead, Fox has ordered to series a new pilot from Arrested creator Mitch Hurwitz that reteams him Will Arnett in the story of a rich jerk who falls for a do-gooder (Keri Russell). The show used to be named Wilde Kingdom, but now that title's been changed to Running Wilde. Why not "Cougar Town"? It may be up for grabs soon... [Deadline]
This week, MTV finally released a marvelous box set of Daria, the alternative-rocking cynic's favorite TV series about high-school survival. As I reacquainted myself with the show's great characters (including arty best friend Jane and fashion-clubbing brat Sandi), I wondered: What makes a cartoon chick cool? After evaluating TV history and plucking from all areas of the animated spectrum, Movieline has chosen the ten coolest cartoon females in history. All listed ladies are sublime, but the #1 retains an untouchable patina of sophistication, camp, and cool.
It's a busy afternoon for pilots and unlikely series renewals; just hours ago, Fox ordered new seasons of two on-the-bubble series and greenlighted four pilots to order. Meanwhile, FX imported a live-action comedy from Australia, and NBC -- poor NBC! -- is still batting a few of its higher profile projects back and forth while courting Jimmy Smits for multiple series, hoping that the West Wing alum will be the network's savior. Here's a full run-down of today's pilot news.
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When Bear Grylls gave himself an enema on Man Vs. Wild, did you cry out for more? Listen, as the rugged outdoorsman teases an upcoming episode: "I was half way up a rock face and had diarrhea," he tells Best Week Ever. "I'm trying to sort of get off of this rock, and I realized it was all about to happen. I had to just say to the camera man, 'Listen, turn the camera off, I've got to go. Now.'...And there's just diarrhea in free air. I look up and see this red light blinking and he's like, 'You've got to be joking, this is great!' You think that would never get on TV, but it does." [Best Week Ever]
Cougar Town creator Bill Lawrence has a regret or two: "I'd like to [change the title], and the studio has been talking about it," he tells Hitfix. "It's tough, man...It's a great hindsight mistake." While it would be unusual for a major network show to change its title between seasons without a radical recasting or rejiggering as inspiration, who knows what's typical anymore in today's crazy, mixed-up world of television? We put it to you, then: if this Courteney Cox sitcom changes its title, what should they call it?
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