She was so cute as Donna Martin, you could at least pretend to still care. In conjunction with the 90210 grad and hubby du jour Dean McDermott's upcoming Oxygen reality series, Tori & Dean: Inn Love — in which they go all Newhart and open an inn — the cabler is offering up some glitzy prizes to the winner of a name-their-B&B contest at Oxygen.com. Don't bother submitting "Starved for Attention" or "Strapped for Cash"; natch, I beat you to 'em. In other reality-TV news, weather-beaten Poison lead singer Bret Michaels will try to land a date à la Flavor of Love in a new VH1 series, Rock of Love with Bret Michaels. Wait, Bret Michaels gets televised assistance in scoring, yet poor Paula Abdul still has a profile languishing on Match.com?!
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Question: I saw in the Biz column that NBC has not yet decided if they will renew Scrubs. So this leads to a series of questions: Why would a network that has a limited number of quality shows even think about letting one of them go off the air? If the show is struggling, why does NBC refuse to put it on Thursday, where it could become part of a great comedy lineup? Finally, if it isn't renewed by NBC, could it be picked up by ABC? I think I read that someone at ABC was part of the team that developed it for NBC. I really do hope it survives, because it is a shame to see shows go off the air that have some sense of originality and can actually make you laugh. Thanks for the time.
Answer: All are legitimate questions, and most have been asked repeatedly during a season when NBC often treated Scrubs, despite its Emmy nominations and general acclaim, as if it were toxic and contagious. We've speculated before that if NBC dropped Scrubs at this point, ABC might jump at it, given that the
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Surreal LifeAh, chemistry. I hated it in high school but I love it on The Surreal Life. Not every cast has worked. But if the first episode of the new season is a harbinger of drama to come, this may be the most addictive edition yet. As observed by Florence Henderson, aka Mrs. Brady, aka Dr. Flo, the cast's on-call guidance counselor (she's a real-life hypnotherapist), the house is filled with some strong personalities: Poison guitarist C.C. DeVille, who sounds like a cross between Bob Goldthwait and my super-Jewish Long Island aunt (come to think of it, he used to look like her, too, when he wore makeup back in the '80s); Playboy hottie Andrea Lowell, who insists she's not a bimbo (even though she uses made-up words like "ominent"); Tawny Kitaen,
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