King of the Hill courtesy Fox
Hank Hill will be king for at least one more season. Fox has ordered a 13th season of King of the Hill (Sunday at 8:30 pm/ET, Fox), making the animated show one of the longest-running comedies currently in prime time.Mike Judge stars as the voice of Hank, who, along with his wife, Peggy (Kathy Najimy), live in the fictional town of Arlen, Texas, with their son Bobby (Pamela Adlon) and newly married niece Luanne (Brittany Murphy.) — J.R. Whalen
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Brittany Murphy by Joe Kohen/WireImage.com and Lindsay Lohan by Steve Granitz/WireImage.com
Brittany Murphy is in talks to replace Lindsay Lohan in Poor Things, the film Lohan dropped out of to enter rehab in May. The film, about two con women who kill homeless men for their insurance policies, costars Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis, Channing Tatum and Rosario Dawson.... Kate Hudson has Big Eyes, fronting a biopic of mass-market artist Margaret Keane.... Casey Affleck, a supporting-actor Oscar nominee for The Assassination of Jesse James by (spoiler alert!) the Coward Robert Ford, gets his shot at a leading role in The Kind One, a period noir about an amnesiac who goes to work for a gangster. — Mickey O'Connor
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Josh Flitter in Nancy Drew courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures
Per Variety, Nancy Drew's Josh Flitter has been tapped to star in Ace Ventura 3, playing (an assuredly off-camera) Jim Carrey's son, who fancies himself a pet detective for the 7th-grade set.... Brittany Murphy, Jason Lee, Giovanni Ribisi, Jim Broadbent — pausing for a breather amidst indie overload... OK — Tim Roth, and Lili Taylor are signed on for The Other Side, a comedy in which a grad student toiling for a scientific institute on a remote island discovers a community of people who are hiding a secret about a tragedy that took place years before. Sure the title isn't "The Others Side"?.... All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, which was set to spook moviegoers this Friday, has had its release pushed to early 2008 — ostensibly to get a wider run.
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An out-of-wedlock baby, Tootie? Did Mrs. Garrett teach you nothing? Facts of Life alumna Kim Fields on Friday gave birth to her and Broadway-actor boyfriend Christopher Morgan's first child, a son named Sebastian, says People.... Kevin Costner and his wife Christine on Sunday welcomed their first child together (and Kev's fifth overall), a son named Cayden Wyatt. (Better than Crash or Postman, I 'spose.).... Brittany Murphy has secretly married screenwriter Simon Monjack, Us has learned. The giveaway? Someone stumbled across a Bloomingdale's registry for "That 'I'll Never Tell-l-l-l' Chick and The Writer Dude.'"
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In his most commercial directorial effort to date, George Clooney will helm and star in Leatherheads, a romantic comedy set against the backdrop of pro football's formation in the 1920s. Renée Zellweger is in talks to costar.... Also per Variety: Brittany Murphy is The Ramen Girl in a romantic comedy about an American woman, stranded in Tokyo, who trains under a master noodle chef.... Per the Hollywood Reporter, Ghost Whisperer's Aisha Tyler will play a homicide detective in Death Sentence, a vigilante drama starring Kevin Bacon.
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Taryn Manning, Banshee
With her modest but pivotal role as Nola, pimp Terrence Howard's cornrowed pro in Hustle & Flow, Taryn Manning made folks sit up and notice. Now she's front and center in Oxygen's Banshee (premiering Saturday at 9:45 pm/ET), playing a tough-talkin' babe who steals cars with the greatest of ease. Alas, on one fateful night, she boosts the wrong ride, shifting into gear a deadly tale of revenge. TVGuide.com gave Manning a call — and caught this "tough gal" just as she was hollering down the hall to Mom.
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Question: Can you remember the name of a TV show from the early to mid-'90s that featured a Southern family — a single mother and her children? I believe the name of the show was the characters' last name. The oldest daughter used to sit by her bedroom window and talk to the "man in the moon." The mother was played by an actress who reminds me a lot of Park Overall.
Answer: That I can, Carrie. You're thinking of The Torkelsons, which debuted on NBC in September 1991 and became Almost Home before it left the air in July 1993.
Set in Pyramid Corners, Okla., the series focused on young Dorothy Jane Torkelson (Olivia Burnette) and her family, who were a blue-collar clan and forever cash-strapped because the man of the house had bailed on them. Connie Ray played mama Millicent, and Aaron Metchik, Anna Slotky, Lee Norris
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