If you have ever yearned to own a hand-annotated Star Trek script or William Shatner's custom Harley-Davidson motorcycle, consider yourself in luck -- and get out to Las Vegas. Late Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's personal effects and memorabilia from his iconic show -- including costumes and Roddenberry's own studio pass -- will go on the block June 27 at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino. [AP]
Watching Celebrity Apprentice isn't the same knowing bandanna sorcerer Bret Michaels is in intensive care, but the Poison rocker worked up an immortal sweat in last night's workout-themed episode. The Donald assigned the seven remaining players (on redistributed teams) to hold workout classes at a fitness center and raise money using desperate phone calls and Holly Robinson Peete's rolodex. While Holly's team (with Cyndi, Summer, and Curtis) won the challenge, no one was sent home because Trump declared everyone a winner -- and because Michael Johnson left early and NBC has an episode requirement to fill. Inspiring, indeed. So where does that leave us? Why, counting up the most unprofessional quotes from our celebrity contestants, of course! Guarantee: The No. 1 will inspire you to put down that cheesecake and pick up your aroused groin.
· As it turns out, Rob Lowe's casting in NBC's Parks and Recreation was not an idea from producers, but the vision of NBC entertainment chief Angela Bromstad, who thinks that the West Wing star could be the show's "Alec Baldwin." NBC brass are hoping that Lowe will help lure female viewers to the show, which currently rates much better among young men than women. Said Parks executive producer Mike Schur, "This is like us buying a Super Bowl ad. [...] We just need to do things to be noisy and move the dial a little bit." [The Wrap]
Conan's production company finds a new home, a Numb3rs alum moves to CSI, and more TV Bites after the jump.
Since Glee creator Ryan Murphy has spoiled almost every surprise that's happening on the show between now and the finale -- Google "Glee spoilers" and find out for yourself -- it seems only logical that he'd move onto the next big thing for his series: The spring tour. And if you thought that the four-city Glee Live! tour was going to be a thrown together money grab, prepare for some disappointment. This thing sounds pretty involved.
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The most satisfying part of last year's endlessly endless Oscar season? Watching Precious star Gabourey Sidibe turn into "Gabby," the bubbly and energetic girl that killed on talk shows and made everyone -- but Howard Stern -- fall in love. So it should be no surprise that her appearance on Saturday Night Live followed suit. Sidibe charmed, delighted and elevated even the lamest skits to laugh-worthy heights -- see: the should-have-been-bad-but-was-really-funny Mrs. Johnson sketch -- and, unlike last week's host Ryan Phillippe, she seemed genuinely happy to be there. As a result, this turned out to be one of the best episodes of the season. Check out the Mrs. Johnson skit and more highlights -- including a bit from Will Forte that basically reinvents awesomeness -- after the jump.
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With the backing of much Internet praise -- praise, which seems inversely proportional to the show's actual viewers -- the second season of Party Down premiered on Starz last night. Altogether now: Hooray! And while "Jackal Onasis Backstage Party" was slow, moderately funny, incredibly awkward and fairly depressing -- so, y'know, a perfect episode of Party Down -- one thing stood out like a sore thumb: the presence of Megan Mullally. Who let her in this building?
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They may have lost Project Runway last night to Seth Aaron Henderson, but second- and third-place finishers Emilio Sosa and Mila Hermanovski seem to have gained some respect for one another since shooting their contentious season. In a Movieline interview with the opinionated duo, Mila and Emilio discussed disagreeing with Tim Gunn and Michael Kors, snipes from less "mature" contestants, and the state of their tensions (which I may have aggravated after Emilio noted that he hadn't watched the finale because he doesn't have cable, and I informed him that Mila called his final line "Harlem in 1994").
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Mark June 27 on your calendars. HBO has announced that as the date it will premiere the seventh season of Entourage and the second season of Hung. Both will follow True Blood, which is returning June 13. [THR]
In 2003, an eleventh-grade student named Nikki Simmons asked her favorite talk show host, Conan O'Brien, to be her junior prom date. While Coco, who was still hosting his Late Night show in New York City at the time, could not make it to to the Rust Belt for the event, he did send her a letter politely declining the invitation. Click through for his handwritten note.
Following a nail-biting finale against competitors Mila Hermanovski and Emilio Sosa, Seth Aaron Henderson was declared Project Runway's season seven champion. His Bryant Park collection comprised the cold and the carnivalesque. Leathers, plaids, Harlequin prints, and military jackets dominated his presentation, adding up to an explosive palette and hell of an opening statement on fashion's biggest stage. Movieline caught up with Seth Aaron this morning to discuss his big win, making Tim Gunn get on a trampoline, and what he's going to do with the strangest part of his earnings.
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Enjoy this season of the underrated comedy from Rob Thomas and Paul Rudd because already, its actors are signing onto other projects making the prospect of a third season uncertain. Adam Scott signed up for a lengthy Parks and Recreation arc, Ryan Hansen is filming an NBC pilot and Lizzy Caplan (to whom Movieline spoke last month) also snapped up a pilot project from CBS. Tonight, Megan Mullally takes the place of Jane Lynch, who left to film Glee.
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Here's another blindside that notorious Survivor player Russell Hantz didn't see coming. The current "Heroes vs. Villains" contestant was arrested this morning for battery at a Louisiana street festival, reports TMZ. Alas, he had already given his "get out of jail" immunity idol to Parvati. (How about that tribal council last night? Jeff Probst is stone-cold melting down about it.) [TMZ]
Glee creator Ryan Murphy has made a point of announcing how anybody can audition for one of three roles being added to the show for next fall -- anybody, that is, except for Ugly Betty star Mark Indelicato. Since one of the new characters is a boyfriend for the flamboyant Kurt, we humbly suggest that Murphy suspend his required age range for the role and give the out-of-work Indelicato (who play the equally fabulous Justin on Betty) a chance to make this gay pairing almost too glittery for broadcast television. [Twitter via Joe My God]
Last week on the Housewives of New York City, Jill insulted anyone who came within a five-mile radius of her and Bethenny found out that she was pregnant. But when Bethenny returned for last night's episode, she was magically engaged, leaving viewers to shout angrily at the screen, "What kind of reality fiance does not propose on camera?" Meanwhile, Kelly burnt pancakes in the Hamptons, Alex did something of no interest to viewers, Sonja tried to provoke a sexual awakening within LuAnn and Jill cleaned up after her dog relieved itself in the foyer. Yes, those parts made up the sum total of last night's episode, "Let's See That Ring." Join Movieline as we wade through the wreckage and find the truest and fakest moments.
Last night's Fringe marked a huge reversal from the past two weeks' filler episodes and gave us some real answers about shape-shifters and traveling between universes. In The Man from the Other Side, Thomas Newton opens a portal and gets someone he referred to as Mr. Secretary through to our universe. Peter, trying to stop Newton, realizes almost presciently that Walter kidnapped him out of the alt-world when he was young. And of course, angrily, he runs away. Now, I find it implausible that Peter could be angry at Walter for saving his life, but let's take a look at the science of last night's episode, shall we?
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