Americans don't like being told what to do -- especially by stuffy Brits -- but in a country where politicians cannot legislate that citizens eat healthier, a limey with tousled hair might be our only hope. Jamie Oliver hops the daily direct flight from Heathrow to Huntington, West Virginia, and tries to make a bunch of hard-working people see the error in their weights. Take away the mass market fast food, mate, but do not mess with the pepperoni rolls.
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New York Fashion Week -- that magical time of year when fashion insiders pack into Bryant Park tents to, uh, do something while the Housewives of New York City squabble from their first-row runway seats. Last night's edition of RHoNYC, aptly titled "Fashion and Fighting," included the traditional fashion show histrionics and a few other surprises, like a faulty reference to the stalker cult classic Single White Female and the possibility of an afternoon delight. After the jump, Movieline picks out the truest and fakest moments from Bravo's latest reality programming low. (If that doesn't interest you, why don't you take Bethenny's own advice and "Go read another book on etiquette and manners"?)
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What will Heidi Montag do now that The Hills has been canceled? Screenwrite! "After working with Oscar-winner Ron Howard on a short film project [for FunnyorDie.com] and then working for days with the comedic genius director Dennis Dugan and his team of brilliant comedy visionaries at Happy Madison on Just Go With It starring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston, I have been able to truly find what makes me the happiest in life," Montag told People. "I am making the first 3-D beach comedy about a shark that attacks a small beach town and I save the day with my 3-D boobs." Yes, I can see the logical progression of thought there. The ghost of Gene Kelly is rescinding his support. [People]
Color(block) me shocked: This challenge ruled. Tim Gunn raised his forefather arm in the air, waved it over the dowdy Gettysburg crowd, and deployed a fabulous assignment that would stun even a hardcore fashionista like Ambrose Burnside. Ready for the glam?
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Bravo still hasn't formally announced the cast of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, but last week, E! got the jump on the network, dishing the dirt on five of its cosmetically maintained cast members (including two Hilton relatives, Mrs. Kelsey Grammer, and a woman with the immortal last name "Vanderpump-Todd"). However, is there a sixth Housewife who's flown under the radar?
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It's been a monumental week for John Corbett. On Monday, the (far superior) second season of his Showtime drama United States of Tara premiered to numbers so impressive that the premium cabler has already ordered a third season. Meanwhile, the actor best known as Carrie Bradshaw's lost-love Aidan lied to Movieline about his involvement in the Sex and the City 2 movie. When an official trailer for the franchise's second film revealed a (gasp!) coincidental desert rendez-vous between Carrie and her former furniture designer beau, Corbett took to the Ellen DeGeneres Show to apologize to the journalists he had thwarted over the past few months. Apology reluctantly accepted.
Corbett talked about subjects other than the Sex and the City 2 movie when he spoke to Movieline recently though -- like being intimidated by Diablo Cody on the set of United States of Tara, his behind-the-scenes pet peeve and that Sex and the City whiskey buddy of his.
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The NCAA basketball tourney may have preempted CBS's late-night programming, but there were plenty of other uncomfortable after hours moments to go around. George Lopez rented a long-haired bovine named Junior for Johnny Weir, the Marriage Ref gave Miley Cyrus some relationship advice and Hot Tub Time Machine's Craig Robinson revealed that he once taught Beethoven to kids who ripped the heads off birds. That clip, and the other highlights you missed last night while trying to figure out why South Park killed you off after calling you a transvestite donkey witch on Wednesday, after the jump.
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· The Syfy network is finally making that jump into live-action comedy with a single-camera project Saved by Zeroes from Smallville star Michael Rosenbaum, Sony and Happy Madison. Rosenbaum created the show based on his own experiences and will co-star with Jonathan Silverman as two former actors on a science fiction show who have hit rock bottom and must work together to get their lives back on track. Zeroes is being described as Galaxy Quest meets Eastbound & Down. In case that isn't enough motivation to watch, Rosenbaum has stated that the characters dwindled their paychecks on "drugs and drinking" and are business outsiders -- "it's the Non-tourage!" [THR]
Don Johnson ponders Southern Discomfort, AMC finds a Ghost Writer for its Walking Dead project, and more TV Bites after the jump.
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This morning, Movieline regretfully reported that after The Hills' upcoming sixth season, the MTV standby will join a pantheon of television shows canceled long before their time like Sports Night, Arrested Development and Guiding Light. But instead of thinking about the fauxality-free nights in our future, Movieline pays homage to The Hills cast members who have given us some of the best nights of carefully-staged MTV drama of our lives and the sleazy men who have earned each of our heroines' digitally inserted tears.
After the jump, Movieline time travels back to 2006, when a pre-op Heidi used something called "free will" to navigate a Spencer-less Hills and Lauren taught impressionable teenage girls that it's alright to sacrifice your career for boys with drunk-driving records.
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The writing was on the wall, and now it's in print: Discovery Communications -- in particular, TLC -- has acquired worldwide rights to the eight-hour docuseries Sarah Palin's Alaska, which will cost more than $1 million an episode as it explores the 49th state. That's over twice the cost of most other TLC series episodes, which range from $200,000 to $400,000. A&E, the other interested network, dropped out days ago. Catch your breath and ready yourself for the nauseating quote from producer Mark Burnett.
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At the Movies may have spewed its last appraisals, but our careers in revisiting its reviews on YouTube has just begun. The Firefox vistas remain bright! Categorized by the films discussed in each clip, here are five dialogues from various At the Movies's eras, with appearances from Gene Siskel, Roger Ebert, Richard Roeper, the two Bens (in a very brief cameo), Michael Phillips and A.O. Scott.
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In its continuing effort to rebrand itself as an actual channel (as opposed to a televised programming schedule) the TV Guide Network has picked up broadcasting rights to Showtime's Weeds. Beginning in September, non-premium cable subscribers can watch a censored version of the series starring Mary-Louise Parker as a suburban pot-dealer. The network has also picked up right to air Curb Your Enthusiasm and Ugly Betty. [TV Guide]
After employing inscrutable episode titles throughout the show's run ("Ab Aeterno" is only the latest example), the producers of Lost have finally revealed the series finale's title in this week's Lost podcast. Are you ready for this? It's called "The End." OK...that's referencing on some ancient Sumerian god-myth or something, right? [TV Guide]
Last week on South Park, Cartman and the gang explored the mythology of sex addiction while wiping out over a dozen wealthy philanders along the way. Last night, however, the boys expanded their scope a bit, ridiculing literary censorship and the intrigue that surrounds it with an epic episode entitled The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs. After the jump, Movieline assesses this week's carnage at the hands of Trey Parker and Matt Stone -- and let's just say, it doesn't end well for Sarah Jessica Parker.
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Sometimes, you know when an animal is about to die because it withdraws from you out of shame, finding an ignoble, lonely place to pass away. The Hills has kind of done that, too, skulking off to a lower-rated corner of MTV even as it gradually lost its heroine, its blank-eyed Girl Friday, and its certifiably insane, villainous snowman. Now, Animal Control has officially been called, and The Hills has been put down.
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