Buffy/Angel alum (and soon-to-be Big Shots babe) Charisma Carpenter has called it quits with husband Damian Hardy, People says.... Michelle Williams' ex, Heath Ledger, certainly seems to be enjoying singlehood. Not only is he chasing Gemma Ward, per the New York Post he got Heather Graham's digits over Thanksgiving — while dressed like a hobo, no less! Now that's skills.... R&B sex symbol Usher and wife Tameka Foster ushered in a baby boy on Monday, People reports.
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Or Christina Aguilera. Those two lookers, with Rachel McAdams and Heather Graham, represent Jenna Jameson's wish list to portray the on-camera undulator in a film based on her autobiography How to Make Love Like a Porn Star. "This is a role that every girl in Hollywood is going to want to play," Jameson tells the Adult Video News website (which I, um, found under my dad's bed). "It's dramatic and comedic.... It's got all the ingredients of something worthy of Oscar contention." (Or at least a con named Oscar's attention.) Scarlett Johansson's resume, it should be noted, now includes being named Sexiest Woman of the Year by the brand-new issue of Playboy.A producer on the biopic, Jameson says, "I'm really excited," adding, "This is the biggest thing I've ever done" — which, when you think about it, is saying something.
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Per Variety, Fox Animation is bringing Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr. Fox to the big screen, using several forms of animation, primarily stop-motion. Wes Anderson will direct.... Charlize Theron will join Woody Harrelson, Nick Stahl and Dennis Hopper on Ferris Wheel, an indie drama about an 11-year-old girl abandoned by her mother.... Night at the Museum, starring Ben Stiller and Robin Williams, will simultaneously be released in conventional and IMAX theaters on Dec. 22.... Per the Hollywood Reporter, Heather Graham and Dylan McDermott are a beatnik couple in the indie drama A West Texas Children's Story.... Mystic River's Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden are in talks to reunite for Rails and Ties, the directorial debut of Alison Eastwood, daughter of Clint.
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Jeremy Sisto, Nightmares & Dreamscapes
Jeremy Sisto is on a hunt in each of his two latest TV roles. In the Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King episode "The Fifth Quarter," (premiering tonight at 10 pm/ET on TNT), he's an ex-con laboring to stay clean while on a quest to uncover millions in buried bucks. And this fall he's in Kidnapped, an NBC drama about an abducted kid and the unorthodox, don't-involve-the-Feds tracker (Sisto) enlisted to find him. TVGuide.com chatted up the actor about tackling such nightmare scenarios.
TVGuide.com: In reviewing your résumé, I don't really see much that is inherently uninteresting. A lot of your projects seem to have an edg
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Reunion, Love Monkey and Commander in Chief
Reunion. Threshold. E-Ring. Invasion. Emily's Reasons Why Not. Love Monkey. Commander in Chief. Heist.
What do these shows have in common? They all debuted at some point during this soon-to-wrap TV season, yet each saw their run either cut surprisingly short or handicapped by irregular scheduling. Was 2005-06 the worst year ever to sample a new show? Were the networks especially hasty in deciding the fate of freshman series? TVGuide.com consulted a panel of experts with unique points of view to examine this strange little season gone by.
Are New Shows Getting Short Shrift?Jeff Bader, executive vice president of ABC entertainment programming and scheduling, dismisses the suggestion that prime time is a crueler-than-ever proving ground for new series. "
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Josh Randall, Courting Alex
It was a tall order — literally — finding the right man to play opposite statuesque Jenna Elfman on CBS' Courting Alex, which makes its Wednesday-time-slot debut tonight at 8:30 pm/ET. In the end the sitcom opted to pair Josh Randall, the man formerly known as Ed's Dr. Mike, with the woman formerly known as Dharma. Here, Randall speaks with TVGuide.com about his alter ego's certain swagger and weighs in on how Alex avoided the grim fates suffered by Emily, Jake and that familiar Monkey.
TVGuide.com: Jenna is 5'10" and you're over 6 feet tall. I have to think that Courting Alex's casting office looked like basketball tryouts.Josh Randall: [Laughs] You know, I happened to come in at a
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ScrubsElliot's sexual fantasies have always been ripped from romance novels, so it is no surprise that she's got her new boy toy playing Mexican apple thief and orchard owner. It is, however, a little weird that roomie JD is in on the foreplay action as the sombrero-donning Paco. That's a little less Three's Company and a little more Too Close for Comfort. Loved Dave Foley as a grief counselor, especially when he deadpans the line "You just have that look of someone who is going to die young," to JD. And the writers deserve some extra credit for timing Dr. Cox's stages of grief so well with the loss of a patient. Very clever. I liked anger the best. You can't beat a frustrated Perry, who grunted, "If he keeps ignoring my threats... I'm gonna
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Jenna Elfman, Courting Alex
For its premiere last week, CBS' Courting Alex (Mondays at 9:30 pm/ET) drew 14.9 million samplers. It also saw seemingly just as many TV critics contend that the premise — Jenna Elfman's uptight lawyer finds unlikely sparks with Josh Randall's laid-back bar owner — is but a flipped version of Dharma & Greg, the statuesque comedienne's previous sitcom foray. Elfman, though, pooh-poohs such pigeonholing.
"I was doing a phone interview where they mentioned that, and I hadn't even thought about it, actually," the actress shares. "I hadn't thought this is anywhere near or opposite Dharma." Denoting several differences, she says, "Greg wasn't a workaholic [like Alex]. He wasn't a con
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Why was ABC so quick to say "not" to Emily's Reasons Why Not, the heavily hyped and Heather Graham-fronted comedy that it pulled after only a single low-rated airing? Network entertainment president Stephen McPherson explained to reporters on Saturday: "Once we saw it was not launching, we felt like unfortunately it was not going to get better and we had to make a change." Still, you don't diss Rollergirl like that. You just don't.
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Question: First of all, I wanted to say that I enjoy your column. My reason for writing is that I saw Emily's Reasons Why Not and I liked it right away (which doesn't happen often). It was really cute and funny. But then I just read in the Entertainment News that it's been canceled after only one episode! Why do networks do this? You can't expect instant success. A show needs time to gain a following. It's unrealistic to expect that to happen right away. I think it would've been great with a little more time.
Answer: I didn't do cartwheels over Emily, although I did think Heather Graham was, as you say, "cute and funny," but I thought it deserved more of a chance than one airing against CBS' dominant comedy lineup. (Always risky to program a new comedy against a hit comedy, and ABC has traditionally struggled to fill Mondays after football.) Given that production shut down after only six episodes, there probably isn't much incentive for ABC to burn off this series — and while we're on
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