Funnylady Jane Lynch (of The 40 Year Old Virgin and Christopher Guest-movies fame) will play mom to Christine Taylor's small-town-girl-turned-Hollywood-superstar in CBS' untitled comedy pilot being exec-produced and directed by Taylor's husband, Ben Stiller. (It just hit me: Lovespring International's riotous Jennifer Elise Cox included, Lynch will have worked with both "Jan" and "Marcia Brady").... Sara Paxton (Aquamarine) will star in The Party Never Stops: Diary of a Binge Drinker, a (as if it needs to be said) Lifetime movie about a smart and ambitious college freshman who... turns into a typical college freshman. Nancy Travis plays Paxton's mom.
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When Lauren Conrad, star of MTV's Laguna Beach spin-off The Hills (Wednesdays at 10 pm/ET), dropped by the TV Guide offices on Monday, the questions came fast and plenty, as staffers sought out the scoop on her reality series. What's the deal with Heidi? What's happening with Jason? And what's the 411 on the LC-Kristin rivalry? Although Lauren seemed to have heard this particular reporter's comment on her resemblance to big-screen funny girl
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Per the Hollywood Reporter, Madeleine Stowe has scored the lead in the Fox drama Southern Comfort, playing a woman who takes over her mobster husband's biz when he gets sent to prison.... Jonathan Silverman has joined the ABC comedy In Case of Emergency.... Christine Taylor has been cast in the ABC comedy 52 Fights.... Adam Baldwin is joining Taye Diggs in ABC's Day Break.... Regina King is in talks to join Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon and Kelli Williams in ABC's legal comedy Women in Law.... Tia Mowry has replaced Cynthia Addai-Robinson in CW's Girlfriends spin-off, The Game.... and speaking of the new network, CW has given its first pilot order to Runaway, a drama from Sex and the City creator Darren Star.
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My Name Is EarlI've liked Christine Taylor ever since the summer my sister and I watched Nickelodeon's dude-ranch comedy Hey Dude every afternoon and we really wanted her to hook up with the goofy blond guy who went on to become the boyfriend on Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. She's quite a one-note actress, always playing the perky, smart girl with a soft spot for the underdog, but what's not to like about that? Tonight she was the perky, smart college professor with a fascinating fish-tank screensaver and a soft spot for Earl's down-home Buddhist philosophy. And that combination is what it finally took to get Earl to even consider sacrificing his list long enough to have a life. "It wasn't the first time a woman kicked me in the cherries and called me a rat
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Tonight, Earl Hickey claims that which is rightly his: a berth on NBC's Must-See TV slate, as the freshman hit My Name Is Earl relocates from Tuesday to Thursday at 9 pm/ET, where it will be followed by the equally worthy tagalong The Office. The shake-up also shuffles Will & Grace to the 8 o'clock slot, begging the question — and TVGuide.com wasn't afraid to ask it — of whether Earl will be adding "aided and abetted the bumping of Joey from NBC's lineup" to his famous list of wrongdoings.
Earl creator Greg Garcia a
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