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Craig Ferguson to Open up on Past Addiction, Depression and More | Today's News: Our Take | 5/9/2008
CBS' Late Late Show host Craig Ferguson is writing a tell-all memoir which will reveal difficult aspects of his past, as well as his road to fame from a small town in Scotland to the United States.The upcoming book will detail, among other things, Ferguson's past addictions to drugs and alcohol and a failed suicide attempt during a period of depression. The newly minted American citizen will publish the book, America on Purpose, next year through HarperCollins.Before his comedy career, the... read more
Craig Trumps Conan Head-to-head for First Time | Today's News: Our Take | 2/15/2008
For the first time ever, CBS' The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson edged out Late Night with Conan O'Brien in a week of head-to-head competition, according to Nielsen numbers for the week ending Feb. 8. Ferguson's late-night fare averaged 1.85 million viewers, versus O'Brien's 1.82 mil for the week. The two shows tied for adults ages 25-54. How their ratings will impact Scotch-Irish relations has yet to be seen.For more on this week's ratings, check out Thursday's numbers, by the hour. —... read more
Craig Ferguson Books a Dinner with the President | Today's News: Our Take | 2/5/2008
Hey, Craig Ferguson, you've just become a U.S. citizen! Now what are you going to do? "As soon as I became an American, I thought, 'You know what is going to happen,'" Ferguson told his Late Late Show audience Monday night. "'I am going to get jury duty, or the CIA is going to get in touch and get me to assassinate a foreign [head of] state or something like that.' Something boring."Well, not quite. Ferguson, who became a citizen last Friday, on April 26 will be performing at the White House... read more
Old Men, Lesbian Women and More News Briefs | Today's News: Our Take | 1/29/2008
No Country for Old Men arrives on DVD March 11, albeit not in time for a pre-Oscars living-room viewing.... Showtime will sneak-peek the Feb. 24 episode of The L Word on Feb. 18, at OurChart.com.... Scottish-born Craig Ferguson has passed his U.S. citizenship test, he announced on Monday's Late Late Show. "All of you people born here, if you had to take that test... well, Canada would be building a fence right now," he quipped. (Someone help me out here — I don't get it.) read more
Happy New Year for Late-night TV | Roush Dispatch | 1/3/2008
Did absence make our hearts grow fonder of late-night TV's hosts, missing in action for the last two months? I suppose it's possible, though I doubt anyone's preferences were changed by what they saw Wednesday night, when all of the network hosts finally returned to work, all but David Letterman and Craig Ferguson without writers. (If anything grew, it was facial hair, at least on Dave and Conan.)If you're the sort who for whatever reason prefers affable Jay Leno over cranky Dave, or chooses to... read more
Great Scot! It's a Craig Ferguson Q&A! | TV Guide Interviews & Features | 8/1/2007
With a comedic campaign for honorary U.S. citizenship and his increasingly inspired monologue, CBS' The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (weeknights at 12:35 am/ET) has really hit its stride. We spoke to the show's Glasgow-born host about what it's like working the night shift. TV Guide: At nearly 15 minutes, your monologue is practically a stand-up gig.Craig Ferguson: That's what we do ? 10, 15 minutes of new stand-up every show. I have eight or nine writers, and we decide what subject ... read more
Craig Ferguson Monologue Interrupted by Bad Break | Today's News: Our Take | 7/12/2007
Late Late Show viewers wondering why Craig Ferguson's opening monologue is now interrupted by an early commercial break need be perplexed no longer. A CBS rep tells the New York Post the change is "a proactive response to an upcoming ratings system" that, come the new TV season, will measure how many people are actually watching commercials. Ferguson, who on Tuesday's show referred to it as an "experiment," has been "extremely agreeable" to the move, says CBS. Uh-huh.The thinking is that Late... read more
Short Cuts: Craig Ferguson, Norbit and More | Today's News: Our Take | 6/14/2007
On Wednesday's The Late Late Show, Scotsman Craig Ferguson, fueled by his longing to become a U.S citizen, launched a campaign to become an honorary citizen of cities across America, starting with Ozark, Arkansas. Later today, info will be posted at CBS.com on how fans can support his campaign.... Norbit (somehow) topped the DVD sales and rental charts last week. The Messengers came in at No. 2.... Pirates of the Caribbean 3 has passed the $500 million mark globally, and in just 20 days.... Why... read more
In the Works: Craig Ferguson Is... "The Wizard"? | Today's News: Our Take | 4/16/2007
CBS has greenlit Life as a Song, in which regular folk who have something to announce are given the opportunity and trained to deliver the news in song/dance (I'm grimacing just typing that), as well as The Wizard, a game-show/improv/sketch-comedy hybrid fronted by Late Late Show's Craig Ferguson.... Also per Variety, CBS has tapped Drew Carey to host the Family Feud-esque quiz show Power of 10.... Fox has greenlit a pilot for Off the Charts, in which contestants must "sing in the blanks" of a... read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 3/15/2007
In an unbridled side-by-side Q&A, Andy Barker, P.I. star Andy Richter and series cocreator Conan O'Brien riff on their n read more
Short Cuts: Tiger Woods, Queer of the Year and More! | Today's News: Our Take | 12/12/2006
The Biography Channel hails Tiger Woods in its Biography of the Year special, premiering Thursday, Dec. 21, at 9pm/ET.... FX has ordered a third, six-episode season of Morgan Spurlock's 30 Days, to begin shooting in the spring.... Per Variety, Late Late Show host Craig Ferguson has inked a two-year deal to develop prime-time programming for CBS Paramount Network Television.... WGAY-TV, which touts itself as "the first, free gay TV station," wants your votes for Queer of the Year at WGAY.tv....... read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 12/8/2006
1. The Amazing Race has officially gone global. Many foreign networks broadcast the CBS hit. But so far only the Singapo read more
Episode 9: The Convict | Kate's Office Blog | 11/29/2006
Hi, it's me, Kate Flannery from The Office [Thursdays at 8:30 pm/ET, on NBC]. This week's episode was a lot of fun to shoot. I must admit, in the past few weeks I was hesitant to mention some of my scenes because they didn't make it on the air. But NBC.com has been showing so many of my deleted scenes that I now feel comfortable bringing them up, as long as you keep in mind that you may have to watch them later on the Web (or on the Season 3 DVD extras). OK? That being said, "The Convict" was... read more
Ask Matt | 1/20/2006
Instead of the usual TV show questions I'm sure you get often, how about an awards-show question? We recently had Den read more
Today's News: My Take | 8/17/2005
Hey, Brett Butler has landed a new TV gig ? and it's not The Surreal Life. The MIA sitcom read more
Today's News: My Take | 1/5/2005
Craig Ferguson got off to a decent start as the new host of CBS's Late Late Show Monday, improving on the show's season- read more
Today's News: My Take | 1/3/2005
Former X-Files star David Duchovny will serve as Craig Ferguson's inaugural guest on Monday's Late Late Show. Other firs read more
Late Late Show Swaps Craigs | TV Guide Interviews & Features | 12/10/2004
Craig Ferguson is in the driver's seat. The Scotland native ? best known as Mr. Wick on The Drew Carey Show ? has just been named the new host of CBS's Late Late Show, but when we caught up with him via cell phone, he had literally been driving for the last 10 hours. "I have to be honest. My ass is a little sore," says the 42-year-old actor, who beat out comedian D.L. Hughley, former Ed costar Michael Ian Black and TRL's Damien Fahey for Craig Kilborn's old job. His aching backside aside, ... read more
Today's News: My Take | 12/7/2004
CBS has tapped former Drew Carey costar Craig Ferguson as Craig Kilborn's successor on The Late Late Show, per The Holly read more
Today's News: My Take | 11/3/2004
The search for Craig Kilborn's replacement is narrowing — and it would seem I'm out of the running. (The key word he read more
Today's News: My Take | 7/5/2002
Teen opera sensation Charlotte Church will make her acting debut in the big-screen musical comedy I'll Be There. She'll read more
Today's News: My Take | 7/3/2002
Teen opera sensation Charlotte Church will make her acting debut in the big-screen musical comedy I'll Be There. She'll read more