day 4.47

what i love (this week)


the song

late to the party, but happy to be here.

the show

download this pilot on itunes now. phenomenal.

the movie

everything i expect from a lifetime movie and more.

the look

this couple. and george. 

day 155

grace heads back to tv sans will

with the buzz surrounding this show, i can only assume it's really really good. or at least promising.  debra messing is set to star in a new single-camera comedy for nbc.  abc allegedly lost out on the series after an intense bidding war amongst the two networks.  this will be debra's third series for nbc/universal, starting with will and grace and the short-lived usa mini-series/series the starter wife.  the new show, which is without a title and by the same team as wife, will follow deb as a recently laid off ceo who has never quite gotten the hand of being a wife and mother.  we'll get to see her struggles as her husband becomes the main breadwinner for the family and she takes over the stay-at-home parenting duties.  sounds good to me, though the whole one-camera thing scares me.  i hope this isn't another office/parks and recreation...nbc needs to find a new schtick. the peacock net seems committed to pick up the show before the pilot is even shot as they have script commitment and an episode guarantee from messing.  that bodes even better for the series.  expect to see the show as the new cornerstone for one of nbc's nights - probably tuesday or wednesday.  the network will have to spread its shows around more now that they're adopting the fox schedule of only 2 prime time hours; remember that the 10/9c hour will be occupied by jay leno's new-old show.  

the tiz is back

ashley tisdale has said bye-bye to her disney days (minus her lucrative production deal with the network) and is taking a second shot at the music world.  tisdale's second album on hollywood records (another disney entity) is a little more grown up and a little more edgy.  i mean, obviously...she has brown hair now.  nothing means serious pop-rocker more than brown hair.  the song's called "it's alright, it's ok" and the video is mtv-worthy.  too bad mtv doesn't have a show to feature music videos anymore.  sadly, ash released the vid exclusively to myspace.com. yes, people still use myspace.  the song is a good start for the tiz, but i don't know if she'll get radio play outside of radio disney.  the video features 90210 star(ish) adam gregory and is all about ashley being an independent woman.  yeah. 

tv newseses

yes, i made up the word (?) newseses, but i wasn't very creative. here's a bunch of scooplets over some of your favorite shows. first up, the gossip girl spin-off/backdoor pilot has an air date (and a name). the episode will air may 11 and will be called valley girls - a much better name than the previously reported lily. the promo poster is to the left ... is paula abdul done with idol? after a recent larry king interview, that looks to be the truth. paula's contract is up after this season and the "straight up" singer addressed kara dio guardi's presence at the judging table as a way for the show to move on, not replace paula. hmm ... don't expect michelle trachtenberg back on gossip girl after her 4 episode arc this season. that is, of course, if her show doesn't get canceled. the 17 again actress is set to star in mercy for nbc, about a group of young nurses. sounds like nbc's attempt to fill er's shoes to me. i wonder how the peacock net is going to fit in all these new shows. i'll be interested to see which they lose and which they keep come may when they announce next fall's lineup ... and, finally, some news for pushing daisies fans. the gone before its time series will live on as a dc comic book series that will wrap up all lose ends and possible lead to a big screen adaption. yay!

day 7

magazine mania

it seems like today was the day to release the all important winter issue magazine covers.  here are a few of my faves from today:

rolling stone nabbed the pop princess for their new issue and usa today got the inside scoop on the issue. it looks like brit's interview was highly supervised, with all questions having to be submitted before hand and the pop tart never being allowed alone in the room with any interviewer.  at this point in time, brit's image is super sensitive and has to be groomed, similar to how angelina jolie has 

restricted her portrayal in the media as of late; news recently broke that the female half of brangelina has tight restrictions on all her magazine articles. ange, like britney, has full control over what questions she's asked, what questions she answers, and what's said about her in the articles.  the rs cover is just one step in the promotional campaign surrounding circus. 

looks like the shape creative directors are not very creative, as they've recreated a cover from just last month...the star

ter wife and former will and grace star debra messing graces (i know, i'm punny) the new cover of shape, looking quite similar to last month's cover girl faith hill.  the hot mom talks about her love life (her husband is a producer on fx's damages) and about her new film nothing like the holidays, in which she plays john leguizamo's out of place wife at his family's holiday gathering.  check out debra in the latest episode of the starter wife over at hulu and see her erie similarity to mrs. tim mcgraw's cover here. 

today's biggest news came courtesy of the hill's resident villian couple speidi: spencer pratt and heidi montag.  the couple eloped in mexico earl

ier today, giving no advanced warning to neither family nor friends.  i guess when you don't have a real job, its easy to just skip over to mexico and get married.  the surprise nuptials go against the expected; heidi and spencer were expected to get married on camera in front of the audience that made them into who they were on mtv.  there's no word on whether or not mtv cameras were in cabo with the couple, but us weekly was there to cover it all.  maybe this is the couple's attempt to get their own newlyweds style reality show on the former music net?

a city girl hits the web

speaking of the hills, former costar whitney port launched her very own website today, officialwhitneyport.com.  with her own series (the city) coming to the airwaves in late december, whitney will be able to keep up-to-date with her fans online and show off and push her clothing lines, eva and a and whitney eve.  looks like someone is taking pages out of the lauren conrad guide to fame.  is a book deal in port's future, too? stay tuned. 

gossip gets digital

e! online is reporting that a series of webisodes are in the work to give background on how the rufus/lily love story began on gossip girl.  it looks like the story focuses on lily's time in the sanatorium (not for mental disorders but one of the eating variety) and would explain how the should-they-or-shouldn't-they couple came to be.  this news comes at the same time a big death is coming to the small screen on the cw show; the development points all signs to the death of bart bass, as his character's brother has recently been on set.