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Tinsley Mortimer Finally Gets In Touch With Reality TV
3:02AM Brian Moylan | Can you believe that it’s taken Tinsley Mortimer this long to get a reality TV show? Well, the rumours are true, and she’s headed to the home of all things glorious and sophisticated: The CW. More »
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Spinning Off Into Nothing
4:07AM Richard Lawson | Dead man walking. Rather, Dead 80’s Blonde Spinoff Girl walking. Tonight’s Gossip Girl features a look back at the youth of Lily van der Woodsen, and sets up a new spinoff. Except, show’s not happening. More »
The CW Admits They Should Probably Make Their Own Shows
4:34AM Seth | The CW dumped its Sunday night Media Rights Capital time buy, an experiment in third-party programming gone awry. From now on, all their schedule outsourcing will go to tween drama factories in India, with Rumor-Mongering Child Goddess and Maa Tujhhe Salaam 813223 set to premiere mid-January. [Variety] SAG and the studios will meet in a marathon negotiation session—their first in four months—which should give them plenty of time to quibble over Hulu residuals as workmen repossess the desks, chairs, and office supplies around them. [Variety] Universal inks a deal with the estate of Robert Ludlum that would give them exclusive rights to any more Bourne books coming down the pipeline, including but not limited to The Bourne Code, The Bourne Diet, and The Bourne’s Just Not That Into You. [Variety] After the jump: Which former SNL shlub is now channeling some Justin Therouxesque, bespectacled sex appeal? More »
Throat-Eating Killer Bacteria Nearly Claims Life Of ‘Gossip Girl’s Taylor Momsen!
7:21AM Seth | We bring now distressing news from the set of Gossip Girl, where 15-year-old Taylor Momsen—who plays Jennie, the fashion-designing little sister eager to break free from her humble roots living in a finished loft in Brooklyn with her dad from Everclear—has survived a brush with a “potentially life-threatening” (italics, underline, and bold ours) throat infection. Her doctor wisely chose Us to offer his exclusive prognosis: More »
‘Iron Man 2′: Howard Out, Cheadle In
6:20AM Seth | Don Cheadle will replace Terrence Howard in Iron Man 2, whose deal with Marvel fell through over “financial differences.” Perhaps it came down to salary, but we’re pretty sure Marvel wasn’t so hot on the stipulation that Howard’s Seal/Heidi Klum song become the sequel’s “official love theme.” [THR] The Daily Show’s married correspondents Jason Jones and Samantha Bee are creating a CBS sitcom for themselves about “a celebrity chef (played by Jones) and the two women who run his cooking empire (one of whom will be played by Bee).” [Variety] After the jump: Which two new The CW series are circling the toilet? More »
‘90210′: The Father of Kelly’s ‘Splash-Off’ Revealed!
3:40AM Kyle Buchanan | It was the question that had all of America’s small, CW-watching audience in its thrall for about a week, tops: who is the father of Kelly’s baby on 90210? Sure, Canada took great pains to give away the show’s secret, but for spoiler-avoiding true patriots, last night’s episode finally revealed the babydaddy behind Beverly Hills’s most famous “splash-off”. More »
5:50AM Kyle Buchanan | Though rumours continue that the CW may not outlive May sweeps, last night’s ratings provided a bit of good news for the network: Gossip Girl, which has never managed to translate its huge New York media buzz into actual nationwide ratings, earned its highest numbers ever (3.7 million viewers), and along with One Tree Hill, contributed to the best Monday night in CW history. Does the 11% boost in viewers from Gossip’s past two episodes bode well for a possible 90210 resurgence tonight, since the latter drama saw its numbers fall in its second outing? We’ll know tomorrow whether all the babydaddy drama has paid off, or if the show’s continued slide in the ratings will presage an emergency rescue from one very hirsute West Bev alum. [THR] More »
Who Needs ‘90210′ With This Lucrative Gig Impersonating Zach Galifianakis?
4:20AM Defamer Hollywood | While the record-breaking premiere of 90210 has left certain stars smiling (and smiling, and smiling), some of the franchise’s original cast members have better things to do than stand around and flash those pearly whites for a measly 12 share. Take Jason Priestley, for example, who showed up to Nike’s 10k Global Human Race in Los Angeles this week with his teen-dream sideburns upstaged by a massive, world-beating beard. Looking less like Brandon Walsh and more like the homeless man Brandon Walsh invited to Thanksgiving, Priestly was also kind enough to share his curt thoughts on the CW re-do: More »
‘90210′ Stars Jennie and Shannen: Ladies Don’t Punch, They Scratch
8:15AM Defamer Hollywood | Despite the fact that Jennie Garth is still taunting Shannen Doherty with expertly crafted put-downs, EW was able to wrangle the two 90210 stars for an arm-in-arm photo shoot and revealing Q&A. In it, Doherty reveals that she never really liked Brenda Walsh (”They just took her in a really odd direction that I didn’t necessarily agree with at the time”) and that she still harbors insecurities begun by the seminal “I Hate Brenda” newsletter. All well and good, but what about the matter everyone still cares about: the long-rumoured Doherty/Garth catfights? More »
