Are you in need of a third-generation intuitive healer to manage your career? Aiden Chase, the Beverly Hils-based psychic Heidi Montag hired last week to guide her acting path, has already been fired after allegedly "demanding a significant portion of [Montag's] Hills money," claims Us. Sorry Heidi, but Movieline is siding with Team Chase on this one -- any man who can summon entertainment advice from the graves of Gene Kelly and Brandon Tartikoff is not cheap. [Us]
EW.com is reporting that the cast of Glee will appear on the April 7th Oprah, in a Glee-themed episode gleefully overstuffed with interviews, never-before-seen footage, and a live Glee performance. It airs the day after the Glee crew perform at the White House for the gleeriffic annual Easter egg roll! Can I stop saying Glee now? Thanks! [EW]
It's Thursday again which means that you're going to have to find something to watch instead of Jerry Seinfeld's disappointing foray into televised marriage counseling. (We doubt that tonight's panel -- Cedric the Entertainer, Martha Stewart and Jason Alexander -- will muster enough courage to rise up against Tom Papa like Larry David did brilliantly last week). No worries though, because Movieline has some suggestions on how to ease past NBC's latest letdown.
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Sometimes you're interviewing a comedy legend whose impressive career has spanned over sixty years, five Emmys and the respect of every person in Hollywood -- and all you can think is, "I've gotta know. Does this chick put out?" Most interviewers would dismiss the illicit thought and skip to the next question but if you're Larry King, you toss out the questions you weren't using anyway and just ask.
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While 2009 and 2010 both may be considered Year of the Schnickers, 2004 and 2005 certainly weren't for Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi of MTV's Jersey Shore. In high school, Polizzi, along with two others, was charged with Prohibited Sale of Alcoholic Beverages after a several-month investigation found that her classmate was killed in a drunk driving accident after buying and consuming booze at her house party. Michael Truncali left Polizzi's residence with a blood alcohol level of .18 and died after rolling his vehicle on Thanksgiving morning in 2004. In a new interview, Truncali's parents say they don't blame Polizzi for the death of their son, but they intend to speak out to promote a message.
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As we've learned over the past 13 seasons of South Park, some episodes brilliantly satirize news stories while other installments belabor a single point so much that the entire episode collapses under the heavy hands of Matt Stone and Trey Parker. Last night's 14th season premiere, 'Sexual Healing,' leaned more towards the latter side of the South Park spectrum, taking the ridiculousness of sexual addiction so far that Cartman, Butters and Kenny disappeared in the shuffle -- or for one character, after the odd, Batman-costumed autoerotic mishap.
Rather than harp on the inconsistencies though, Movieline would like to pause each week to reflect on the one constant in the Comedy Central series: the continual victimization of pop culture figures with a new feature -- The South Park Casualty Count.
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Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt are experts at the art of the publicity stunt. In the past year alone, the pair has finagled more tabloid covers than any of their Hills co-stars, quit I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here twice and survived a 24-hour plastic surgery decathlon that transformed Montag into an almost-unrecognizable tabloid star. So when Montag announced last week that she was dumping her manager husband in lieu of psychic Aiden Chase, Movieline, like the rest of the Hills-watching nation, was suspicious.
Movieline tracked down Montag's new manager, Aiden Chase, a third-generation intuitive based in Beverly Hills, who explained his relationship with Montag, revealed which dead celebrities are rooting for the reality star and addressed the rumor that Spencer was banned from The Hills.
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We are gathered here today to remember the first vanquished contestant in American Idol's Top 12. Veils down! Mascara running! Kara DioGuardi weeping into Simon Cowell's chest before motorboating it! The voting public picked the wrong chirper, but contracts state that Randy Jackson must shoot somebody in the throat, and America voted for the following (wrong) victim. Spoiler ahead!
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While you were face down in a puddle of green beer last night, the late-night hosts donned their best St. Patty's gear and celebrated the holiday in their own special ways. Jimmy Fallon sang an Irish folk song in a funny green hat, Jay Leno hit the streets for a St. Patrick's Day-themed edition of Jaywalking, Comedy Central honored the greenest drug of all and David Letterman -- well -- he was still trying to figure out "that Twitter machine." Click through for the holiday-themed segments, ranked from worst (Blimey!) to best.
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· Conan O'Brien has been so busy planning his 30-city Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour and a possible documentary that he and Fox, the network long considered to be his next home, have not spoken in two weeks. Sources close to Fox say that the network is still optimistic about the prospect of working with Coco, but would have to clear the show with all of Fox's station and slash the show's production costs. While the network continues to figure out if a late-night program could be profitable, Conan is said to be considering five or six other offers for a daily television show. [THR]
Howard Gordon plans for life after 24, a Nickelodeon star earns a seven-figure deal, and more TV Bites after the jump.
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Times are tough for a lot of American families out there, which is why NBC probably adapted Parenthood, the '89 Ron Howard film about worst-case childrearing experiences (for middle-class, white, suburban families) into a primetime series. Like Modern Family, NBC's Tuesday night drama deals with three generations of a sprawling clan. Only instead of jokes about adoption and homosexuals, Parenthood tackles more hard-hitting issues like that bag of weed you found hidden in your backyard that you know must belong to one of your brooding teens. Beginning with last night's episode, "The Deep End of the Pool," Movieline will provide a weekly forum to discuss the Bravermans' edgiest predicaments.
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Steven Spielberg may never get around to making that Abraham Lincoln biopic, but now he's touting another presidential assassination script. The mega-director is on board to produce Noah Oppenheim's script Jackie, which examines the days following the assassination of John F. Kennedy from Jackie Kennedy's perspective. The LAT theorizes that the project may end up at HBO, where Jeanne Tripplehorn (who perfectly played an older Jackie in last year's Grey Gardens) is no doubt looking into age-defying camera lenses. [LAT]
Graduates of Bravo's reality competitions have ventured to other networks in the past -- with mixed results. Project Runway's Santino Rice took a panelist gig on Logo's exceptional RuPaul's Drag Race while Jay McCarroll jogged laps alongside Bobby Brown on VH1's Celebrity Fit Club. The newest addition to that list is somehow the most questionable: Marcel Vigneron, the cocky Top Chef runner-up with the Ludwig von Koopa hair and firebreathing capacity, will front a new Syfy series devoted to... well, something related to sci-fi, right? Not quite.
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Audiences may not have known what to expect when TV Land announced its first original sitcom, Hot in Cleveland -- after all, this is the network that built its brand on vintage Alka-Selter commercials aired during stale episodes of Designing Women. But after seeing the first clip from Cleveland, Movieline is ready to make a bold prediction about the fate of the show and its Golden star.
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Previously on Lost: Sawyer's girlfriend falls down a pit with an atomic bomb, but doesn't die. Then she hits the bomb with a rock. It explodes. She dies! (We think?) The world is split into two timelines. (We think? It could secretly be just one.) Sawyer is sad because his ladyfriend is dead. He buys her an engagement ring, then throws it in the ocean because he's still sad about her being dead. Sawyer listens to Iggy Pop records. A Smoke Monster who looks a lot like John Locke kills everybody at the Temple. Kate runs from people who are trying to arrest her. Charlie tries to kill himself in an airplane bathroom. Hurley says, "Dude," meaningfully. And then says it again, with an entirely different, and even more meaningful, inflection. An unnerving horn noise blares before a cut to black.
Climb into our submarine and get ready to surface on the beach of television's most baffling island, where we'll disembark, armed with machine guns loaded with Answers, ready to slaughter all the unlucky Questions we come upon in this week's episode.
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