Around the World in 80 Plates
Those Magical Elves have done it again. The producers who helped put Bravo on the map with the original Project Runway and Top Chef have revitalized the seemingly exhausted cooking-competition format with a new winner that smartly combines elements of The Amazing Race and even Survivor. Though not initially quite as exotic as BBC America's new No Kitchen Required, the kitchen culture-clash possibilities appear endless in Bravo's instantly addictive Around the World in 80 Plates (10/9c).
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Beth Behrs
Beth Behrs has a secret. Up until a few weeks ago, she'd never baked a single cupcake. "I'm not very savvy in the kitchen," she reveals coyly. "We're around them all day, everyday [on set] and one Sunday I was learning lines for a cupcake-heavy episode and thought, 'I'm going to bake cupcakes.' But I have to admit, it was a Betty Crocker mix."
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Martha Stewart, Kat Dennings and Beth Behrs
Will she get down 'n' dirty and talk about her lady parts? Martha Stewart hints that viewers "might be shocked" when she appears as herself on the May 7 finale of CBS' raunchy 2 Broke Girls. Cupcake entrepreneurs "Max and Caroline want my seal of approval, so they come to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and crash the great costume ball," Stewart says. "They have a cupcake for me to taste — maple and bacon, my favorite combination."
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Private Practice, Mad Men, Glee
Every week, editors Adam Bryant and Natalie Abrams satisfy your need for TV scoop. Please send all questions to mega_scoop@tvguide.com.
Every week I ask for Private Practice news and will keep asking till I get some. Please, I'm desperate! Any CharCoop news? —Kriti
NATALIE: Erica's inevitable demise will be the first parenting challenge for Charlotte and Cooper. "Their principal concern is Mason's psychological well-being in dealing with her [death]," Paul Adelstein says. "He said goodbye to her, but she's still alive and he knows she's still alive, so as much resolution as there was, that actually causes some problems. Then they're going to have a grieving child, and they're going to be grieving themselves, so it's a big challenge for them."
It's odd, but I missed Betty in the Mad Men premiere. When will be seeing her? — Ashley
ADAM: Don't worry, Ashley, Betty is in Sunday's episode. And...
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Bully
Bully will no longer be bullied.
Following a celebrity-backed campaign and a petition signed by nearly 500,000 bullied students, the award-winning documentary Bully will be released on March 30 as an "unrated" film; MPAA initial stuck the movie with an R rating.
The documentary directed by Lee Hirsch shines a light on America's bullying crisis by following five of the 13 million American children affected by it each year.
Attorneys David Boies and Ted Olsen suggested a lawsuit against the MPAA after learning of the Change.org petition started three weeks ago by Katy Butler, a 17-year-old openly lesbian high school student. The campaign...
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Ellen DeGeneres
An all-star legal team is taking on the MPAA in an attempt to overturn the R rating assigned to the documentary Bully.
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Martha Stewart
Martha Stewart is going from the kitchen to the classroom in an upcoming episode of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.
Stewart will play a private school headmaster in an episode titled "Learning Curve," scheduled to air in April.
Also appearing in the episode is Arrested Development alum Tony Hale and Hung's Jane Adams. Hale will play Rick Simms, a teacher who is fired from his job after being accused of inappropriate behavior with a student. Adams will play Simm' former supervisor.
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Martha Stewart
Martha Stewart is set to appear as herself in an upcoming episode of 2 Broke Girls, CBS announced Friday.
Which of your favorite shows are returning and which aren't?
The Emmy-winning TV host will appear in the May 7 episode, in which...
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Ricky Gervais, The 2012 Golden Globe Awards
Was Ricky Gervais holding back this year? Hosting the Golden Globes for the third time, the comedian opened Sunday's awards show by ribbing Eddie Murphy for pulling out as Oscar host ("When the man who said yes to Norbit says no to you, you know you're in trouble") and NBC for being America's third-place network (oh, actually, fourth).
He did get in a few zingers. His five best jabs were aimed at:
His own manhood -- "No profanity: That's fine, I've got a huge vocabulary. No nudity: See that's a shame because I've got a huge [pause] vocabulary. But a...
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Martha Stewart
Hallmark Channel has canceled The Martha Stewart Show after two seasons, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The daytime show will wrap in May and continue to re-run throughout the summer, but Hallmark opted not to bring the series back because of its high production costs. Lisa Gersh, the president and COO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, said at a conference in December that...
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