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Which Seven Characters Should Die In This Year’s Season Finales?
5:24AM Richard Lawson | EW.com has some cryptic information about many TV season finales, the most intriguing detail being that seven, count ‘em 7, deaths will occur. So who will die? More importantly, who should die? More »
Heidi, Spencer, and Kim Kardashian To Guest Star On ‘How I Met Your Famewhore’
7:34AM Seth | As Fox Studios throws its enthusiastic support behind How I Met Your Mother by tripling its stars’ salaries, the laugh track-enhanced CBS sitcom returns to the tabloid slophouse for some ratings-goosing stunt-casting. More »
Neil Patrick Harris Comes Up With Foolproof Plan to Win Anderson Cooper
7:30AM Kyle Buchanan | Neil Patrick Harris has long confessed to finding Anderson Cooper “dreamy,” and it looks like Harris has finally devised a clever ruse to lure him: disguising himself as the newsman’s objet d’amour, Michael Phelps! More »
Bruce Willis to Put Shyamalan Lessons To Use in Directorial Debut
4:05AM STV | Returning to his Blind Date/Hudson Hawk roots as a sensitive, almost Bergmanesque observer of angst and insecurity, Bruce Willis will make his directorial debut and star in the “indie psychological drama” Three Stories About Joan. And if you still harbor doubt about the film’s chamber-drama cred, 10,000 B.C. star Camilla Belle is attached to star. [Variety] Lifetime outbid six other networks for the rerun rights to How I Met Your Mother, which execs are reportedly considering spinning off with the Lifetime original series How I Survived Your Father Knocking Me Up at 15. [THR] After the jump: Ben Affleck loses his job, Billy Crystal reclaims his own, and the world contemplates another Star Wars movie. More »
Hollywood Execs Spotted Jumping Out Of Second-Floor Windows Following Stock Plummet
6:45AM Seth | Wondering how the dire-sounding Wall St. readjustment will affect Hollywood? The entire industry will instantly grind to a halt, says Nikki Finke sunnily, as “showbiz bigwigs will be huddling with their business managers and brokers and bankers to figure out what to do with their personal portfolios.” On the upside, at least you now have now something substantial to blame for your inability to get anyone of importance to take your calls. [DHD] A bidding war for syndicated rights to How I Met Your Mother could earn in the neighbourhood of $350 million for Twentieth Television, turning it into a “potential nonstop revenue machine,” and effectively giving Neil Patrick Harris the ability to bend time and space by furrowing his giant forehead. [Variety] E! is launching Sports Soup, a sports-themed spinoff of The Soup sure to appeal to that network’s eleven heterosexual male viewers. [Variety] As Nip/Tuck readies itself for its final season, reps for that series’s stars are “deep in salary negotiations,” with Julian McMahon’s agent overheard bellowing, “YOU CALL THAT FUCKING-ROSIE-O’DONNELL MONEY? SUCK MY DONG!” down the corridors of his place of business. [THR] In a direct-to-video first, Paramount Home Entertainment is bundling its upcoming home video release of Kung Fu Panda with home-video-sequel Secrets of the Furious Five, and calling the package the Pandamonium Double Pack—thereby doubling the amount of time you can avoid your children. It’s a mid-autumn miracle! [THR] More »
Steve Martin And Diane Keaton To Bicker At A Cineplex Near You
5:30AM Seth | Paramount bought Steve Martin’s pitch From Zero to Sixty, which legend has it he apparently sold with three words: “Steve. Diane. Lamborghinis.”[Variety] Will & Grace star Megan Mullally returns to sitcomdom playing opposite Alicia Silverstone in ABC sitcom pilot Bad Mother’s Handbook. [Variety] American Gladiators tanked in the ratings, leading the order, “Skimpier costumes! NOW!” to reverberate out of Ben Silverman’s office. [THR] CBS gives that show with Christine in the title and How I Met Your Mother full-season pickups. [THR] ABC is only ordering two new series, including a final, 13-episode order for Boston Legal. More »
So What’s On Neil Patrick Harris’ Mind Grapes? Crack Cocaine, Boobs And Shrooms
5:30AM Molly Friedman | “What Would NPH Do?” If we have asked ourselves that question once while staring deeply into the eyes of Neil Patrick Harris straddling a unicorn, we have asked it a thousand times. But now, the Shoe Fairy himself has agreed to provide his fans with the answer to that timeless question. Only problem is, he’s not quite sure. “I can’t decide between crack cocaine and Paris Hilton,” he tells Time Out New York. Which is very winky and cute, but Neil shares more than second-rate stand-up bits in this piece. More on his very detailed description of “cans” (that’s “boobies” in NPH-speak) and how he feels about jump-starting his comeback by snorting drugs off a strippers arse, after the jump: More »
Britney Spears Credits A Steady Diet Of Marlboro Reds For Helping Her Drop Twenty Pounds
9:00AM Molly Friedman | We’re beginning to think that Larry Rudolph may truly be the master of spinning scandals into gold. Ever since reuniting with her former stardom wizard, Britney Spears has gone from umbrella-swinging, gurney-riding American Tragedy to a slimmed down working girl with vastly improved extensions to boot. Rudolph’s latest strategy has been sending Spears to the gym to shed any leftover pounds from her previous diet of lollipops and Cheetos, in addition to making damn well sure she treks to the recording studio. But the news isn’t all sunshine and rainbows: it seems tension between Spears and unicorn-rider Neil Patrick Harris, coupled with a return to some bad habits, are threatening the comeback we’ve been patiently waiting for. More »
Britney Spears In ‘How I Returned To Save The Struggling Sitcom You Can’t Seem To Save Yourselves’
8:20AM Seth | Over the protests of How I Met Your Mother’s Neil Patrick Harris—who in the wake of Britney Spears’s recent guest appearance openly bemoaned the slippery stunt-casting slope that threatened to compromise the integrity of his politely tolerated CBS sitcom—the singer has been reportedly asked by producers to return for another ratings-goosing helping of her comic chops. People reports: “The show is ecstatic and so is Britney,” a source said. “She had so much fun the first time around she really wanted to come back. It was a mutual decision to work together more.”
