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Own A Hot Piece Of ‘Lipstick Jungle’
5:14AM Seth | With the fate of NBC’s uncanceled Lipstick Jungle a primetime uncertainty, one staffer took no chances with his fallback plans: He swiped $US30,000 in fashions from the show and put them on eBay. More »
Ben Silverman Searches for Subordinate to Drag Brooke Shields Off NBC Lot
8:13AM Kyle Buchanan | Few were surprised when NBC axed Lipstick Jungle, figuring that if a brutal, Project Runway-assisted title indoctrination couldn’t help it gain a ratings foothold, nothing could. But wait! insists star Brooke Shields to Us. “It’s not true,” she said. “Our bosses are saying, ‘You’re not canceled, don’t worry. We’re just trying to figure out how to make this make sense.’” Yes, if only a major media conglomerate like NBC could get the word out somehow! Still, James Hibberd writes that even though there’s been a fan outcry (really?), there are other factors at play that may doom a new application of Lipstick: More »
Cancel-Happy Ben Silverman Uses Pope As Human Shield
5:10AM Kyle Buchanan | Before the premiere of this fall season, NBC head Ben Silverman liked to brag about the extensive movie star outreach he’d done to populate his shows: Selma Blair in Kath & Kim! Christian Slater in My Own Worst Enemy! Sadly, Kath was poorly received, Enemy has just been axed (alongside another show called something like Project Lipstick, we think?), and the rest of the fall lineup is skidding out like Silverman’s Knight Rider retread. You might imagine, with all this broadcast carnage, that some of it might be Silverman’s fault. Nuh-unh! protests Page Six: More »
NBC Takes Sickly Peacocks ‘Enemy,’ ‘Jungle’ Out Behind Shed In Time For Thanksgiving
1:20AM Seth | THR reports US network NBC has canceled both Christian Slater amnesiac secret agent show My Own Worst Enemy, as well as Lipstick Jungle, in which Brooke Shields leads a troop of cosmetic assassins down the Nung River to assassinate the AWOL and believed insane Colonel Mary Kay: More »
7:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Going for the Bronze: Though NBC’s Olympic coverage provided the network with television’s most watched event anywhere, ever, in the history of the universe, that massive audience hasn’t translated into major spikes of interest for NBC’s fall shows like Kath & Kim and My Own Worst Enemy. The network spent 65% of its promo time on returning shows (like Lipstick Jungle Lipstick Jungle Lipstick Jungle) but failed to perk awareness for anything but the 80’s retread Knight Rider. Still, before NBC shoehorns Michael Phelps into Selma Blair’s thong, they’ve got this bit of recent history to add perspective: the Athens Olympics were used to tout quickly flushed shows like Joey and LAX. Perhaps Kath & Kim will stand on its own merits — that is, as long as they didn’t advertise it during the rebellion-inducing beach volleyball marathon. [Variety] More »
Did ‘Project Runway’ Apply Too Much ‘Lipstick’ Last Night?
4:35AM Defamer Hollywood | Perhaps cognisant of the fact that this is their last season to milk Project Runway for all it’s worth, Bravo parent company NBC Universal has been cramming the show with so much obvious corporate synergy that you can practically hear Tim Gunn muttering, “This concerns me.” Still, last week’s challenge to create an outfit for the Olympics (currently being broadcast on NBC and NBC-owned channels!) was just a drop in the fierce, organza-draped bucket compared to the corporate chutzpah on display during last night’s episode. With guest judge Brooke Shields in the house, the designers were challenged to create a look for her character on season two of the barely-renewed NBC drama Lipstick Jungle. Thanks to Molly McAleer, we’ve assembled a video of all the times the show’s title was uttered last night — even when it sounded suspiciously ADR’d in! Who could have known that “Lipstick Jungle” would surpass “licious” and “Holla at your boy!” to become this season’s biggest catchphrase? [Bravo] More »
What Bitch On Wheels Publicist Is Rosie Perez Affecting On ‘Lipstick Jungle?’
5:01AM Seth | We know we gave Rosie Perez a hard time for her little Seth Rogaine gaffe on the Late Show the other week, but we kid because we love—and have since we first glimpsed her beating the shit out of the Do The Right Thing credits to “Fight the Power.” On The Tonight Show last night, Jay Leno inquired as to the inspiration for her bitch-on-wheels flack character on Lipstick Jungle. As it turns out, the creation is based on a very real woman who wouldn’t hesitate to plunge a pen in an eye and let the chain-attached clipboard dangle from the hollowed socket if it meant keeping a pushy gatecrasher out of an A-list-only event. Any guesses as to the Satanic flack’s identity? [The Tonight Show] More »
Will ‘Cashmere Mafia’ Soon Be Sleeping With The Fishes?
4:42AM Molly Friedman | As soon as deals were signed, sealed and delivered for SATC brainchildren Candace Bushnell and Darren Star to helm their own interchangeable shows on rival networks, the claws were out. Rumors of fights between the former successful partners, publicly voiced dismissals of the others’ futures in primetime, and an overall tension among loyal SATC viewers concerned about their iconic creators’ feud led to a predictable race-to-the-finish come winter pilot season. And now, according to the NY Daily News, we may have a winner. Today’s rumor on which Menopause And The City spinoff is most likely to bite the dust first, after the jump… More »
