Beauty and the GeekSo Round 2 of Ashton Kutcher's "social experiment" has finally begun, and let me tell you, what an experiment! Teaming up a beauty with a geek to compete in social and intellectual situations can only mean one thing: a solid hour of pure entertainment. So here we have a new set of eight stunning yet not so bright (as evidenced by Brittany's "I like books that have pictures") ladies matched with their total opposites, eight brainy and, shall we say, not so aesthetically pleasing, gentlemen. I'm not sure for whom I feel more sorry: Chris, whose claim to geekdom was "has kissed only one girl," or Danielle, who thought the Red Sox were a California team. Did
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Knowing when to leave, and then executing that exit strategy with dignity and creative energy intact, is possibly the toughest task in all of TV. (Everybody Loves Raymond pulled it off better than most.) In the year ahead, quite a few longtime faves are heading toward the finish line, even if some — like the fading West Wing — have yet to make it official. Here's my take on how these swan songs are playing out. While watching them, I also started wondering which ones are most likely to live on in spin-offs and which are best suited for nostalgic reunions somewhere down the road.
The West Wing Sundays, 8 pm/ET, NBCSeason: 7Showing its age? By definition, a lame duck is no spring chicken. Moving this once-majestic show to Sund
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Question: Please, tell me that the rumors I am hearing are true. Are Topher Grace (Eric Forman) and Ashton Kutcher (Michael Kelso) coming back to That '70s Show? The show really sucks big time without them.
Answer: Last I checked, the producers were talking to the actors' peeps about a possible return for what I can only presume, and hope, would be the series finale. But no actual word yet. I do, however, agree about the overall suckage. '70s is so '90s. Let it go ...
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Former Commander in Chief show-runner Rod Lurie is developing for ABC the drama pilot Triumph, about an 18-year-old youth who is named mayor of a small town — a concept that has been in the works "for a long time," says Lurie, deflecting talk that it was inspired by the recent election of teenage Linesville, Pa., mayor Chris Seeley.... Also per Variety: Ashton Kutcher is producing NBC's For Pete's Sake, a sitcom about five people who repeatedly die but fail to get into heaven, thus sending them back to Earth for another try.
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Ashton Kutcher is developing a sitcom pilot for Fox about a man who marries an older woman, Variety reports. Tentatively titled 30-Year-Old Grandpa, the series is obviously based on the real-life May-December romance of Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz.
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Ashton Kutcher and Bruce Willis
Demi Moore flames past and present — Bruce Willis and Ashton Kutcher — will collide this November on That '70s Show. A Fox rep confirms that Willis will play the head of security at Chicago's Playboy Club, where Kutcher's Kelso is interviewing for a job. There's no word if Moore's future boyfriend, Haley Joel Osment, will appear as well.
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Richard and Mindi
In Wednesday night's Beauty and the Geek: The Aftermath reunion special, Richard Rubin received kisses from three of his beautiful costars — and his fellow runner-up, Mindi Emanuel, even slipped him a little tongue! At the very least, Ashton Kutcher's WB social experiment changed this hyperactive 21-year-old college grad's "never kissed a girl" status. Meanwhile, judging by how sorority girl Mindi (also 21) carried the team in all their elimination rounds, she must have absorbed a lot from their many geeky tasks. TVGuide.com rang them up for a thorough grilling on what they learned.
TVGuide.com: You two seemed to get along the best. What was the key to working well as a team?Richard Rubin: Mindi and I had a good, solid business relationship. It was like we were a married couple for 50 years. Mindi Emanuel: I would say it was very much like that. There was a lot of patience on my part, and I'm sure there was a lot on Richard
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Who wasn't sad to see Bill Lambing and Lauren Bergfeld booted off Beauty and the Geek last week? "Lingerie model" Lauren's running commentary was always good for laughs. And Bill, who's vice president of a Dukes of Hazzard fan club, made the most impressive transformation after his makeover. When TVGuide.com reached them on the phone, she was becoming blonder at a Beverly Hills salon, while he was fulfilling his official Dukes duties at an Atlanta Hooters restaurant. Thankfully, it seems life on Ashton Kutcher's WB show — airing tonight at 8 pm/ET — hasn't changed them a bit.
TVGuide.com: You both had pretty interesting titles on the show. What are your real occupations?Lauren Bergfeld: I am definitely not a lingerie model! I did play in the Lingerie Bowl last year. I'm like 5-foot-3 — the most girl-next-door girl you'll ever see — no boobs. I do acting and hosting. I want to get into some type o
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The whole premise of Ashton Kutcher's Wednesday night "social experiment," Beauty and the Geek, was that awkward nerds would learn how to mingle with the gorgeous airheads who once shunned them. And the gorgeous ladies would, well, learn. So where did that leave a looker like Brad Hooker, the Mensa member from Mississippi who sneakily hooked up with Barbie model Erika? And is his Beauty partner Krystal Tini — who once thought North Carolina was north of South Dakota — just a shallow Philadelphia Sixers dancer? Before another duo is booted tonight (9 pm/ET on WB), TVGuide.com rang up Brad and Krystal for some Geeky gossip.
TVGuide.com: What did you expect when you signed up for this?Krystal Tini: I really didn't know what it was about.Brad Hooker: My mom, my sister and my friends were determined that I was going to do it because they wanted to see me on TV. [The casting people] told me it was going
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After just two episodes of Beauty and the Geek, the ladies of TVGuide.com developed a crush on Joe Hanson, the virginal 21-year-old "geek" from Chicago. Watching Joe's partner, Erika Rumsey — she's the 22-year-old "life-size Barbie model" — fall for computer whiz Brad made us believe Ashton Kutcher's so-called social experiment was actually working. Alas, after Joe was stumped on the subjects of loofahs and reflexology in last week's massage-themed elimination quiz, the two blond cuties were sent packing. Before another duo is axed in tonight's episode (8 pm/ET on WB), we connect with Joe and Erika for a post-Geek debriefing.
TVGuide.com: What did you expect when you signed up for this show?Erika Rumsey: I thought that we were going to get hooked up with some hot guys. All of the girls were told that it was a dating thing.Joe Hanson: I thought it was going to be a dating show. On campus at the Univer
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