Mar 12 2010
A muscular teddy bear from Queens and an ador able Connecticut teen made the final 12 of "American Idol" last night.
Michael "Big Mike" Lynche, a 26-year-old former college football player and personal trainer from Astoria, was considered a shoo-in even before four of his 15 competitors were booted from...
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Mar 12 2010
The soap opera "One Life to Live" is "Kishing" its gay couple goodbye.
Brett Claywell and Scott Evans -- who play gay couple Kyle and Fish, whom fans call "Kish" --are being written off the show, according to reports.
Seems the soap's producers had hoped the gay romance and...
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Mar 12 2010
What's 150 million years old, has skin like a brontosaurus and loves to gobble up girls in bikinis?
If you guessed Hugh Hefner you get a double "D." But if you guessed "Dinoshark," you get a solid "B" -- as in movie.
Tomorrow night, Roger Corman, the man responsible...
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Mar 12 2010
There's been lots of ink spilled, and justifiably so, over ABC's freshman sitcom "Modern Family" (a smart, funny, well-acted show). But unlike some other "water cooler" shows ("Mad Men," anyone?), "Modern Family's" ratings success has equaled its buzz factor. Wednesday's episode, for instance, aver aged 9...
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Mar 12 2010
Barbara Corcoran is turning the tables on "Shark Tank."
Instead of listening to entrepreneurs' pitches, the real estate mogul is making her case to ABC executives in an effort to get a second season order for the Mark Burnett reality series.
During its 14-episode run, viewership hovered at a mediocre...
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Mar 11 2010
SALT LAKE CITY -- Merlin Olsen, a Hall of Fame defensive lineman and member of the Los Angeles Rams’ “Fearsome Foursome” who followed up football with a successful television career in “Little House on the Prairie,” NFL broadcasts and commercials, has died. He was 69.
Utah State, Olsen’s alma...
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Mar 11 2010
Axed talk show host Conan O’Brien announced Thursday he is kicking off a comeback with a 30-city tour of the U.S. and Canada.
“I'm headed to your town on a half-assed comedy & music tour,” O’Brien wrote in a Twitter message. “I repeat: It's half-assed.”
The...
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Mar 11 2010
I spend my days with self-absorbed morons who parade their stupidity across the TV screen and call it “reality.”
So take it from me, it will make you proud again to be American if you take the time to watch HBO’s brilliant, 10-part miniseries, “The Pacific.”
No, this isn...
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Mar 11 2010
Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich paid a return visit to David Letterman to field jokes — mostly about his hair.
Blagojevich, who is scheduled for a federal corruption trial this summer, will be appearing Sunday as one of the contestants in the season debut of Donald Trump’s reality show, “Celebrity...
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Mar 11 2010
"Jersey Shore" is heading to South Beach.
Over the objections of locals, the controversial cast of MTV's latest hit reality series is said to be gearing up to bring their Cheetos tans and fist-bumping guido 'tude to Miami, reports the Miami Herald.
Shooting on the second season of the...
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