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Trade Roundup: David Spade Has Torn Hollywood Its Last New One

5:30AM Defamer Hollywood | Comedy Central decides not to renew The Showbiz Show for a fourth season, officially freeing David Spade from the conflict-inviting hosting duties that sometimes put him in the uncomfortable position of having to use puppets to explain how Heather Locklear’s marriage was already over by the time he was banging her. [Variety] Ehren Kruger joins Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci in writing the screenplay that director Michael Bay will use as a rough guide for where to place his giant fucking robots on Transformers 2. [THR] DreamWorks is wisely trying to keep their Norbit dream team of Eddie Murphy and critic-proof producer Brain Robbins intact, entering final negotiations to reunite them for the comedy A Thousand Words, the story of a guy who “only has 1,000 words left to speak before he dies.” [Variety] More »

Trade Roundup: Jailhouse Karaoke, Counting Celebrities, And Blood-Soaked Wedding Gowns

6:30AM Defamer Hollywood | · Critic-proof director/producer Brian Robbins takes on Jailhouse Rock, a film based on the real-life story of an American Idol-like signing competition (the “Inmate Idle Singing Con-Test”) that took place in an Arizona jail, for Disney. While it’s probably too soon to think about casting, it’s hard not to imagine Robbins throwing some orange jumpsuits on his Wild Hogs dream team and letting them loose on renditions of “Summer Lovin’” and “Paradise by the Dashboard Lights.” Projected opening weekend gross: $US42 million. [Variety] · Ben Stiller, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Hudson, Paulie Walnuts, Bobby Baccala, Alicia Keys,and Sheryl Crow are among those who’ve signed up for Elmo’s Christmas Countdown, a one-hour Muppets holiday special in which the famous will help the ticklish star count down the days to Jesus’s birth. [THR] · HBO renews Big Love for a third, 12-episode season, which should be completed well in advance of a possible strike. In other HBO news, John from Cincinnati still makes no fucking sense. [Variety] · Fox wins another uneventful, creatively barren, rerun-heavy summer Monday night behind Hell’s Kitchen and Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? [THR] · ABC greenlights Here Come the Newlyweds, a reality competition series in which six newly married couples fight to the death (or at least to the divorce) over a steadily increasing cash prize. [Variety] More »