Rozlyn Papa, the Bachelor contestant who reduced host Chris Harrison to TEARS when it came out she was having an "inappropriate relationship" with defiantly man-kimono'd Bachelor producer Ryan Callahan, returned to the viper's nest for last night's Women Tell All reunion. It made for sublime television, as a jury of angry former McMansionmates tried and convicted the gorgeous model and makeup entrepreneur on national TV. Witness One saw her and Callahan "making out in the hallway," Witness Two saw her "stick her ass in the air on the couch," Witness Three saw some "thigh-stroking," and Witness Four, her roommate, "looked all over for her one night and couldn't find her." Rozlyn denied it all, insisting to the end that she and Callahan were only friends.
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Fans of Jennifer Lopez's ass-debilitating single "Louboutins" will not get to buy a full album in the near future, as the onetime Mrs. Cris Judd was dropped from her label. This news wouldn't normally belong in Movieline's wheelhouse, except that Lopez is set to host SNL in four days, and we're protective over The 8H That Lorne Built. With her new movie The Back-Up Plan not out until April, it seems that Lopez has no choice but to reference her last SNL hosting gig in 2001. We all know what that means: the belly-shirted Chris Kattan comeback.
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Several of the major networks have already forfeited to NBC's record-breaking Olympic coverage by scheduling a dark week, but Stephen Colbert kicked off his Vancouver reporting last night with special guests Shaun White and another, surprise Colbert. (The rest of the week, Colbert will be the only non-NBC personality to interview Olympic players, with his line-up including Lindsey Vonn, Bob Costas, Scott Hamilton and Seth Wescott.). Comedy Central's fresh take on the Vancouver Games, as well as the other highlights you missed last night while unwinding from that tense Bachelor Women Tell All special, after the jump.
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· Casting news abounds this Tuesday morning. And leading the pack is Jim Belushi, who will return to television for the hourlong CBS drama pilot Defenders. Instead of playing a blue-collar family man, the According to Jim star will channel his inner fiery Las Vegas defense attorney for the show, which will be executive produced by CSI's Carol Mendelsohn. Belushi will play Nick, a charismatic defender with marital problems and a drinking problem. Who is ready for some laughs? [Reuters]
Jane Kaczmarek rejoins the ranks of sitcom mothers, Leah Remini recruits a village, and more TV Bites after the jump.
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After 25 years of broadcasting, Oprah Winfrey has amassed quite a stockpile of show ideas, and the race is apparently on to cover as many of them as she can before she closes shop. Today's episode, for example, addressed topics as numerous and disparate as Our First Ever All-Chocolate Set, the Fastest Violinist in the World, Daredevil Birdmen, a Really Tall Dog and Girl, the "Michelangelo of Etch-A-Sketch," and a Speed Painter.
So what else can we look forward to this season? We're glad you asked.
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With only a month and a half before Easter, Entertainment Weekly has confirmed that the cast of Glee will follow in the footsteps of musical luminaries like Fergie and the Jonas Brother by performing at this year's White House Easter Egg Roll. The Fox breakout hit, a favorite of the First Lady and her daughters, reworked its production schedule to accommodate the April 5 event. And while the cast searches their wardrobe closet for matching yellow cardigans and white glove sets, Movieline lends a hand in suggesting seven numbers that would be holiday appropriate, easy to choreograph and fit this year's childhood obesity-opposed theme, "Ready, Set, Go!"
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Weeds creator Jenji Kohan gives up her bud for Lionsgate TV, and couldn't be more thrilled: "Having gotten to second base with Lionsgate in my former 'under the shirt but over the bra' deal, it's a thrill to now be in bed with them and going all the way. Let us hope our creative offspring make us both proud and happy for years to come. And when I say 'come', don't read into it. It's a business deal. Get your minds out of the gutter." [Live Feed]
NBC has released the lineup of guests for Jay Leno's sulfurous return to The Tonight Show. Jamie Foxx, Olympian Lindsey Vonn, and musical guest Brad Paisley will inaugurate Leno's run, with decidedly un-Coco guests like Sarah Palin, Simon Cowell, and the underexposed cast of Jersey Shore in the days to follow. Get excited, everyone! [EW]
Lorne Michaels is finally in negotiations with Betty White to to appear on his sketch comedy show. According to Entertainment Weekly, Michaels is planning a Saturday Night Live: Women in Comedy Special that would feature White co-hosting with several of her contemporaries, including possibly Molly Shannon, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. The special would get White inside studio 8H without depending on the octogenarian to shoulder the entire 90-minute program. But there would still be room for one condoms sketch, right? [EW]
· Congratulations to Rachael Leigh Cook who has landed a leading role in Fox's comedy pilot Nirvana. In the potential series, the She's All That actress plays the white girlfriend of an Indian-American. The show follows two Indian-American brothers who have a disagreement with their immigrant parents as they adjust to American culture. Canadian-born Indian-American Ajay Sahgal is producing and directing the project, which is largely based on Sahgal's own experience adjusting to an American lifestyle and marrying a white woman (Lie to Me's Kelli Williams). NBC tinkered with the series, then called Nevermind Nirvana in 2004. [THR]
Fox inches towards a small-scale Arrested Development reunion, Nicollette Sheridan finds her inner stage mom, and more TV Bites after the jump.
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The new HBO series The Ricky Gervais Show is an animated retelling of the Office/Extras creator and star's celebrated podcasts with creative partner Steven Merchant and radio producer Karl Pilkington. Their stories are familiar to fans, but the cartoon renderings of the trio and their jokes add whimsy to their dry, delirious repartee. The question is whether that whimsy is substantial, or just a gimmick that does more to hinder the group's wit than enhance it.
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Project Runway's newly eliminated contestant has a lot to say about failure. For one, our subject believes he/she failed, and hard. Secondly, the experience of Project Runway was so disorienting that he/she claims to need "six months to a year" to recover. The Disappointed Head-Tilt of Klum knows no mercy. Click ahead for our full interview with the exposed loser.
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In between growing out his unemployment beard and kissing every Bottlenose dolphin in Hawaii this week, Conan O'Brien has been planning his comeback. According to The Wrap, Coco and his representatives at William Morris Endeavor have worked out a clever plan that skirts the clause in NBC's exit deal prohibiting O'Brien to appear on television before September, and could put Conan in your hometown within a matter of weeks. Click through for the exciting details.
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Do you ever walk into a Kids 'R Us -- pie-eyed and a little light-headed -- and say, "I wish I had created everything here"? And in your mind you're talking to someone, like Hobbes the tiger or Eleanor Roosevelt? Because you're 90, maybe? Project Runway was for you last night, I think. It wasn't for me. There was too little of Anthony hollering Sugarbaker catchphrases, too many of Janeane's Three Faces of Eve schisms between confidence and neurosis, and a total dearth of Michael Kors's rap-battle put-downs. But there were kiddies who wore frilly dresses, and sometimes (like in real life) that produced bitchy results.
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There used to be a time when television audiences could look to on-screen pets for crucial plot turns -- like when Lassie saved Timmy from an abandoned mine, Santa's Little Helper enrolled in the Police Dog Academy or the army drafted Arnold Ziffel. Even as those meaty plot lines depleted, animals were still thrown an occasional bone for easy laughs ("Comet ate the rump roast!"). But as reality and workplace shows replace standard family-centered fare, the number of roles written for pets dwindles. Unfortunately for animal actors, pet wranglers are expensive, dogs have no business in hospitals and even sadder, pigs cannot improvise. With this sad trend in mind, Moveline looks back on 65 years of television's furry (and scaly) companions and their most memorable storylines. Enjoy and please contribute your own memories in the comments section below.
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