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Another High School Musical Star Strips Down

Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Drama, Prime Time, The CW, Gossip

Corbin Bleu

This time, the star appearing in the buff has proper airbrushing and the esteem of a promotional campaign behind him - no grainy Webcam pics for HSM’s Corbin Bleu.

He’s one of four celebs posing, almost-nude, in new pics for , and he’s looking quite grown up. Ben Hollingsworth, Sara Paxton and Ashley Madekwe also appear in their own pictures for the campaign, but Mischa Barton is curiously absent.

The new CW series will premiere on September 16.

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Review: Hitched or Ditched

Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Prime Time, Reality, The CW, Gossip

Hitched or Ditched

In the midst of between-season re-runs and in place of 90210, The CW managed to sneak in a new reality show. And thus, premiered last night with its pilot, “Bastards Out of Carolina.” Relationships, the possibility of marriage (or a public dumping), family drama and episode titles this titillating? Yeah, it was pretty much a given that this one was going to be good.

In this starter episode, viewers were introduced to the first in a season-long line of couples. For this showing, Hitched or Ditched presented us with CeLisa and Travis. She’s a 26 year old nanny, he’s a 32 year old building contractor. At the top of the episode, they were presented as a couple that’s very much in love…but. She thinks he’s got commitment and jealousy issues; he thinks she’s too much of a wild child and can’t seem to fully trust her. When CeLisa told the cameras that she feels her biological clock “ticking, ticking, ticking,” I felt a shiver of dread.

Like, no wonder the dude’s afraid of marriage.

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Reviewing FOX’s Fall: A Glee-ful Premiere?

Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Comedy, Music, Prime Time, FOX, Gossip, Video


will feature rather prominently on FOX’s fall schedule, appearing in the coveted spot right behind the So You Think You Can Dance results show. The network is throwing every promotional trick they can muster at the series, with the early post-Idol premiere serving as the biggest treat in the campaign.

So, was it worth the hour of programming?

The opening was promising enough: fast-paced, flashing scenes at a sunny high school. An energetic, cheerleader-heavy intro ended with the coach’s angry face and witty one-liner - perfectly setting the tone for the rest of the episode.

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FOX Won’t Stop Believing in an After-Idol Smash

Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Comedy, Music, FOX, American Idol, Gossip, Video


If you’ve paid any attention to FOX’s summer seasons, you know the network has had a fair bit of trouble finding a hit to put in place for Idol’s off season. was a rare win for the network, which has been looking for a similar summer reality hit for their mid-week lineup for several years.

And now, they’ve finally wised up and turned to a scripted series. In-between intense moments on , FOX has been running increasingly intriguing trailers for their musically-toned Glee. The first time I read a press release about this series, I sneered. Somewhere around the thirty-eighth promo, I started to smile. And now…I feel kinda gleeful about the premiere of Glee.

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Ryan Seacrest Now Employed by ABC, Too

Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Prime Time, Reality, ABC, American Idol, Gossip

Description , longtime host of American Idol, radio personality, producer and front man for E!, is actually taking on yet another project.

In his new reality series, British chef Jamie Oliver will visit “unhealthy” towns and cities in the U.S., improving their eating habits and offering food “makeovers.” Six hours of the series, which is offered by Ryan Seacrest Productions, have been ordered by ABC. I think it sounds like a horrible failure - and I give it 3 episodes at max.

“I’m a firm believer that the fuel we put into our body results in a healthy lifestyle,” said Seacrest of the series, which will air sometime in 2010.

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Arr, Matey: Spike TV Docudrama Details Pirate Pursuits

Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Drama, Reality, Cable, Gossip

Description is all set to present Pirate Hunters: USN, which comes just on the wake of national news involving Somali pirates. The series showcases the U.S. Navy’s pursuit of pirates and piracy in the Gulf of Aden.

Though the series is in the same locale where piracy made recent headlines, the deal has already been in the works for months. The Navy has allowed cameras aboard the USS San Antonio and the USS Boxer, the latter of which was part of the recent rescue effort.

A Pirate Hunters pilot is in the works, but there’s no word on when it will air.

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Amanda Bynes Goes to Work for ABC

Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Comedy, ABC, Gossip

Amanda BynesWhat I Like About You star will soon make her return to TV via ABC. Bynes will play a young, Midwestern girl in the new comedy Canned.

The pilot features a group of friends working in the same corporation, all of whom get fired on the very same day. It’s a plot that could be very familiar to home viewers, and Bynes has no shortage of comedic chops to bring to the series.

Bynes will play workaholic Sarabeth on the show. David Rosenthal will serve as executive producer.

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Ashlee Simpson Moving to Melrose Place

Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Drama, Prime Time, The CW, Gossip, Rumors

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Sources say that Ashlee Simpson-Wentz will soon be joining the cast of on the CW. She’s the first big name to become a confirmed cast member and a decent coup for the network, which already made waves by bringing us the refreshed 90210.

will play Violet, a character from a small town who seems very sweet and naïve…but she’s really clever, cunning and catty. Sounds perfect. The singer previously worked as a regular cast member on the squeaky-clean 7th Heaven.

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Is 90s TV the Next Big Fad?

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Melrose Place 

A few months ago, it became very “in” for Hollywood to start creating sequels for 80s- ad 90s-era movie series we believed to be long dead. Now, television seems be on the brink of a new trend: 90s TV, revisited. The CW seems to be following one basic theory: hey, it’s working for .

Now, the minds at the network are brewing up another remake/continuation that Aaron Spelling fans are sure to enjoy: Melrose Place, the second time around. Details are sketchy, but a rep for the station has confirmed something is brewing to bring this prime-time drama back to life.

The series, which cropped up during fame, ran on FOX from 1992 to 1999.

 

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NBC Tries to Remake Aussie Hit

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Kath & KimNBC’s will premiere tonight at 8:30 pm EST. And though the new series featuring Selma Blair and Molly Shannon (a comedy duo who should be perfect together) is being touted as a “sitcom following a dysfunctional mother-daughter duo and their adventures in middle-class suburbia,” the reviewers are taking a decidedly less lighthearted stance. The Boston Herald called the series a “problem child,” while zap2it said the first two episodes were “pretty laugh-free.” This is not the sort of response a comedy featuring two such gifted actresses should receive.

The series was a huge hit in Australia, which pretty well guaranteed it would find a home on American shores eventually. NBC picked up the remake baton and cast Blair as Shannon’s spoiled, thick-as-a-brick daughter (though the two are actually separated by only eight years in age). plays Kath, spandex-wearing and man-hunting, to Blair’s Kim, a celebrity-obsessed, would-be trophy wife.

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