NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution has renewed The Martha Stewart Show for a third season, Variety reports.... Gabrielle Union, last seen on TV in Night Stalker and soon to be in theaters in Running with Scissors, has inked a six-figure deal to star in a new ABC/Touchstone series.
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Gabrielle Union's publicist is calling for a celeb boycott of the L.A. club Mood after the hotspot backed out of hosting the Night Stalker star's birthday party, allegedly because she is black. According to Union's rep, Mood's owner (who denies the allegations) mistook the actress for white volleyball star Gabrielle Reece when accepting the booking. Similarly, '70s TV pitchkid Mason Reese also got screwed out of a birthday party venue.
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McGavin (inset) "appeared" on Townsend and Union's show.
I was watching last Thursday night, as I know a lot of you were. In what is arguably the toughest time slot in prime time, Night Stalker [airing at 9 pm/ET] had a strong premiere, drawing 7.1 million viewers and giving ABC its best numbers at that hour in more than five years. That, along with great reviews from some major newspapers like the New York Times and New York Post, made for a very encouraging start.
For me, it was also the climax to a long journey. If you read the article in TV Guide (and TVGuide.com) a few weeks back, you know that this project began for me in the summer of 2004, when Touchstone Television called to ask if I'd be interested in developing a new series based on the original The Night Stalker TV-movie from 1972.
To my mind, that was
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In bringing The Honeymooners to the big screen, costars Gabrielle Union and Regina Hall faced considerable challenges.
The two actresses had to elude the shadows of
classic TV icons
Audrey Meadows and
Joyce Randolph, who played Alice and Trixie. They also had to turn two white '50s housewives into modern, independent black women. What's more, the Gabrielle Union of take-no-bull,
Deliver Us from Eva fame — who married NFL player
Chris Howard in 2001 — definitely had to forget her own marital habits to play Alice.
"[Alice] is so different from me as a wife," Union explains. "I'm not as forgiving. I tend to speak and then I think about what I just said, whereas this role took me back to the advice my mom gave me before I got married. She was like, 'You're in for a rude awakening; you're going to
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