You knew it was only a matter of time before Andy Cohen stretched his Real Housewives franchise across the Atlantic, and surprise, the Bravo exec has already found his first batch of wealthy, out-out-of-touch women to shamelessly chronicle in one of the world's oldest cities. Can you guess which one?
He's only appeared in two episodes so far, but as the werewolf Alcide, Joe Manganiello has made quite an impression on True Blood this season -- and it isn't just because at 6'5", he towers over costar Anna Paquin. As he told Movieline last week, sometimes even that positively dashing height can be a drawback.
Criminal Minds viewers may get a second helping of spunky computer tech Penelope Garcia, played by Kirsten Vangsness, next year if CBS gets its way. The network has reportedly asked Vangsness to also appear on her series' spinoff Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior when it premieres in 2011. The offshoot already stars Forest Whitaker and Janeane Garofalo. Developing... [Deadline]
If you were praying for the day when Jay Leno would recount his childhood compost memories, you are in luck! Inception star Ellen Page jogged the Tonight Show host's memory last night by discussing the "beauty" of compost... a conversation that quickly went downhill when Jay suggested the pair relieve themselves together. Meanwhile, Kyra Sedgwick warned viewers of Tom Cruise's "secret button," Nicolas Cage talked acid and vampire dogs, and Bret Michaels explained his emergency brain surgery to David Letterman.
Go ahead and send out those Evites for the Mad Men premiere party you've been planning all year: AT&T has reached a carriage fee agreement with Rainbow Media after threatening to yank the company's cable networks (AMC, IFC and WEtv) off the air. Maybe, the President got involved? Season four premieres Sunday, July 25. [Reuters]
Also in this morning's TV Bites: Jersey Shore loses a cast member... CBS kills Valerie Bertinelli's talk show ambitions... and Movieline introduces you to the creepiest new cable show.
In today's installment of our Emmy size-ups, Movieline inspects the heated and varied competition in the Best Actress in a Comedy Series category. Toni Collette may play Tara Gregson's disassociating psyche with all the right blasts of exasperation and id, but can she outmatch the hungry Lea Michele, Edie Falco, and Amy Poehler? Time to rack up the odds.
In addition to capturing Michael Cera's most facetious interview ever, this August's Playboy is traveling back to a time when the publication was still relevant: the '60s. Mad Men actress Crista Flanagan appears on two different covers of next month's issue, proving that good things do come to switchboard operators who chop off men's feet with lawnmowers.
Tension and conflict as far as the eye can see, in reality but also in the week's crop of on-demand titles, from four continents and every era...
Even though Knight served himself a victory slice of Jemmye last night, The Real World felt surprisingly sedate last night. We can attribute this fact to Ryan, our grand duchess of drama, who just wasn't featured much. While that makes it difficult to name another 25 problems I have with his existence, I can still tack on another five that make me want to call up Bunim-Murray Productions and curse like a backwoods Howard Stern listener. Let's count 'em off!
From a jail cell somewhere in the New York tri-state area, Robert "Joe" Halderman is celebrating a News and Documentary Emmy nomination. The CBS News producer, who attempted to shake David Letterman down for $2 million last October, earned a nod for his 48 Hours Mystery segment about Amanda Knox (in fact, it's not even Halderman's first Emmy nomination). Congratulations, Joe! We're sure the taste of victory is better than the taste of prison meatloaf. [Deadline]
Last night's Big Brother shocked the Movieline repulsion index, thanks to a PoV challenge that involved smashing pinatas full of spoiled mayonnaise over each attention-starved housemate. Let's find out which contestants crawled back into the house smelling the most repellent.
To paraphrase Judge Smails in Caddyshack: CBS, we're waiting. Following in the footsteps of The CW, ABC and Fox, NBC announced their fall premiere schedule today, leaving CBS the last network standing. After the jump, the complete schedule.
More like So You Think You're Not Crippled, Hotshot? Except think of the TV Guide blurbs: too long! Last night, Cat Deeley somberly announced that contestant Ashley, who is a woman and therefore not a good dancer this season, had injured a rib and couldn't perform in the show. We're still dry heaving after Alex Wong's departure, and now the heartache thuds on. Join us for quick appraisals of the seven surviving contestants' routines.
If you missed the 2010 ESPY Awards last night, then you also missed Will Ferrell's impression of a Vuvuzela (actually more annoying than the torture instrument used at the World Cup), Tracy Morgan's send-up of Nelson Mandela, and a parody of LeBron James: The Decision, courtesy of Steve Carell and Paul Rudd.
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