day 2.260

is the office closing?

if a recent radio with bbc is to be taken seriously (which it should be), nbc's the office only has one season left in its run. steve carell told the bbc that his contract with the network is up after next year and that he doesn't plan to sign on for more. click here to hear steve's quick interview with the station for yourself. if steve isn't just trying to get more money from the peacock by saying he'll be pulling out, the office will end in the spring of 2011 with seven seasons. that's six more seasons than its british counterpart had back in 2001 - the ricky gervais version was only one season long with a couple of specials aired here and there. i actually think this is the right move for nbc. while the office is popular amongst the college set, it doesn't have legs with the people who watch tv when it's actually on and have the money to spend on what advertisers want to sell - that would be the 30+ set. nbc used to be the comedy leader, with hits like friends and will & grace pulling in 20+ million viewers every thursday. it's current comedy block is lucky to reach 9 million. it's time to move away from the hand-held mockumentary style sitcom and get back to the basics of a live audience and three cameras. i know people say that format is outdated, but cbs gets mega-ratings every monday for their two hour block of comedies that's shot that way. plus, nbc is just wasting amy poehler on parks and rec (i don't care what anyone says about it getting better since season one, she's being wasted). hopefully the peacock net will take carell's departure as a sign to move on to bigger and better things. literally.

day 31

high school musical, the tv show

fox, the network formerly known for its rip offs, has ordered 13 episodes of the new hour-long musical comedy glee.  starring matthew morrison, how originated the role of link larkin in broadway's hairspray, is set to play a high school spanish teacher in suburba

n ohio who overtakes the school's glee club, which has become a haven for the outcasts of the school.  the show comes from nip/tuck creator ryan murphy, so it's sure to be a bit wacky and crazy.  the show will feature at least 3 full musical numbers per episode and seems to have stolen from the high school musical character department - in the script, there is a "diva in training" (sharpay), a jock who likes to sing (troy), and a nerdy soprano (gabriella).  it will be very interesting to see how this show does on tv - will kids turn in to watch? adults? both? we'll get to see when the show hits the tube at midseason, most likely behind american idol.  

office devil romance confirmed. wedding imminent. 

 emily blunt and john krasinski stepped out in la last night, confirming their relationship.  the couple have been together for about a month, after blunt's breakup with michael buble and kasinski's with office costar rashida jones.  with this real life romance comes some relationship news in the fake world, too.  john's character jim and his on screen love pam look like they'll be heading down the aisle soon.  casting is underway for a character named "pam's relative," speculated to be her father for the description on the casting page. it would make sense for the jam wedding to take place sometime before the season's end, most likely as the finale.  

rihanna to the rescue

barbados beauty rihanna, who has recently been spotted galavanting all over the hawaiian islands with boytoy chris brown, has been called in to save the sinking ship that is kanye west.  west's latest effort, 808s and heartbreaks, has not exactly been flying off the shelves.  the album is quite experimental for the rapper as it is a complete cd of him singing.  in order to reinvigorate sales and interest in the artist, kanye's label has called in the radio princess to add some vocals to the next single, "paranoid.  click here to listen to the original version.  the single is set to drop sometime in january and is sure to get radio play with rihanna on board.  

day 29

gayken, two time baby daddy?

clay aiken and mother of his baby jaymes foster are apparently gearing up for a second baby.  jaymes has started taking prenatal vitamins and is preparing to get turkey basted with clay's sperm. why, you ask? i don't know. these kids are going to have one effed up childhood - mommy and daddy were never married, raise you in separate homes, and never had sex.  could you imagine having the "where do babies come from" convo with these kids? jaymes is set to get sperminated sometime in january...

j lo gets back to her romcom roots

jennifer lopez is set to head back to work on romantic comedy (thank baby jesus that she's done with the dramas!) called plan b.  the film is about a single woman who gets artificially inseminated (jaymes foster?) the same day she meets her perfect man.  no director has been named, but should be attached sometime in january, with shooting beginning in april or may.  that means the movie should hit theaters sometime in early 2010.  hopefully this will get j lo back to her heydey, when both the wedding planner and her cd were number 1. 

ashlee simpson is probs real mad

pete wentz went on howard stern and spilt a lot of secrets about his and wife ashlee simpson's sex life.  apparently ashlee and pete get quite freaky in the sheets, with ashlee letting pete go in the back door.  wentz also spilled the deets on the couple's first time, which involved a mirror.  wentz also talked about former flames michelle trachtenberg and lindsay lohan, but wouldn't rate them because he was afraid ashlee might get mad.  

the office, post super bowl

nbc is set to air a special episode of the office after the 2009 super bowl.  the episode will feature the cast trying to watch a bootleg copy of a new movie release at work...and the producers have nabbed some pretty big guest stars for the episode. both jack black and jessica alba have been tapped to star in the bootleg movie. the episode is called "stress relief" and will air directly after the american tradition, february 1st at 10:30/9:30 central on the peacock net.