Katherine Heigl (Grey's Anatomy), Marcia Cross (Housewives) and David Caruso (CSI: Miami)
Every week, senior editors Matt Webb Mitovich, Mickey O'Connor and Tim Molloy satisfy your need for TV scoop. Please send all questions to mega_scoop@tvguide.com.
Color me shocked that Katherine Heigl isn't leaving Grey's Anatomy. Is it possible we're being duped in some way? — Krista
MATT: I must say that the lack of fanfare surrounding ABC's confirmation of Heigl's status — especially when juxtaposed with the flurry of official statements regarding T.R. Knight's departure — made me raise one of my overgrown eyebrows. "Sure, she's staying... for just one more episode," I cynically hypothesized. But one of my best sources insists that this is not a case of clever semantics, and that Heigl's Izzie will have a significant presence in the fall.
Please give me some scoop on what's next for Desperate Housewives' Bree. — Fernando R.
MICKEY: Bree may come off like a brittle maneater, but at heart she's a real softy, which is why juggling an angry Orson and a horny Karl will really ...
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Shane West by Barry King/ WireImage.com
Former ER star Shane West is ready to ignite the big screen in Kerosene CowboysThe actor is in talks to star in the action thriller along with one-time OC-er Cam Gigandet and Rachael Leigh Cook The Hollywood Reporter reportsBased on a Randy Arrington novel the film will follow the hard-knock lives of no not cowboys but Navy pilots Gigandet will play a hot-shot pilot while West will play his BFF-turned-enemy and Cook will be a journalist and Gigandets love interestSoap star Mario van Peebles will direct and Adam Prince will write the screenplay Joyce EngRelive Wests run on ER in our Online Video Guide
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James Roday by Alan Zenuk/USA Network Photo, Rachael Leigh Cook by Rebecca Sapp/WireImage.com
I've seen Shawn Spencer's future, and it looks crowded. Not only is James Roday's faux soothsayer getting a visit from his shrinky-dink mama on Psych this season, but one of his exes is coming out of the woodwork, too.Sources confirm to me exclusively that ex-Pussycat Rachael Leigh Cook has signed on to play a high school crush of Shawn's in at least one episode. The two reconnect at their 13-year class reunion and, well, even a pretend seer can predict what happens next.Cook's scheduled to appear in the second episode of the upcoming third season, which kicks off on July 18 (aka not soon enough)!Related:• Psych Finds Shawn's Mother... and It's Cybill Shepherd!
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Zach Braff (reprising his animated big-screen alter ego, Chicken Little), James Woods (as Hades), Mena Suvari (as Final Fantasy VII's Aerith), Rachael Leigh Cook, Brittany Snow, Jesse McCartney and General Hospital's Steve Burton are some of the many stars lending their voices to the video game Disney's Kingdom Hearts II, in stores March 30.
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Zach Braff, Scrubs
Arrested Development Blame vacation hangover, but I'm betting I missed about half of the references to AD's imminent cancellation or (please!) move to another network, and the not-desperate ratings stunts they cribbed from other shows. Of course, I don't even have to say this, but please write in with what I've left out. There was the promise before the credits that someone would die and that the show would be live, the 3-D tomato toss and the flashing SaveOurBluths.org. So as not to break the third wall, that thinly veiled plot about raising money for a new attorney opened the door for the Bluths to beg for their survival, and to discuss whether they'd received help from the Home Builders' Organization (HBO, for those of you not yet over those hangovers) or if they'd have to
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Zach Braff, Scrubs
Arrested Development Blame vacation hangover, but I'm betting I missed about half of the references to AD's imminent cancellation or (please!) move to another network, and the not-desperate ratings stunts they cribbed from other shows. Of course, I don't even have to say this, but please write in with what I've left out. There was the promise before the credits that someone would die and that the show would be live, the 3-D tomato toss and the flashing SaveOurBluths.org. So as not to break the third wall, that thinly veiled plot about raising money for a new attorney opened the door for the Bluths to beg for their survival, and to discuss whether they'd received help from the Home Builders' Organization (HBO, for those of you not yet over those hangovers) or if they'd have to
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Go into the light, Danny. All are welcome! All are welcome! Yup, Poltergeist's Jobeth Williams played the mysterious lady friend of Danny's late father. In a turn of events that shocked absolutely no one, she and Rachael Leigh Cook ended up being mother-daughter grifters, trying to trick our man out of 100,000 bucks. Even though on the surface Danny seems hot and clueless, that's all an act (well, except the hot part). He caught the thieves before they could hightail it out of town. Then we were treated to one of those awkward scenes where Penny Posin was like (I'm paraphrasing here), "I really, really like you. It just started out as a scheme but once I really, really saw you and once I really, really slept with you, I changed my mind. I realized that the money meant nothing because I was like really, really into you. Seriously. It was better than Cats. Forgive me." And then Cook made her grand exit. It was a touching scene. I almost cried. That is, un
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You know how last week NBC forced a Crossing Jordan-Las Vegas crossover episode on us? Too. Early. This week the show redeemed itself in my eyes. The Wedding Singer old lady made me laugh and scared me at the same time (it's those eyes). And that's after Monica had Danny shake what his mama gave him to get said old lady to vacate her house that was uglying up the Montecito grounds. Turns out she shot a mean old mobster 60 years earlier and buried him underneath her house. Trust me, this was funny.
Remember when I said Lara Flynn Boyle's character was obnoxious? Well, I still think so. But now I think she's good obnoxious. Monica got hers at the end, though, when Mike and Danny found her stuck in her hotel-room shower (that she designed!). Loved the two pals doing the whole Rock, Scissors, Paper bit to see who would save her nekkid self. Survivor alum Colby Donaldson popped in; he played one of Sam's whales that she had a ser
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If you love topless women with ample assets, Ed, Mike and Danny solving a couple capers and yes, more guest stars than you can shake a stick at, then you've come to the right casino. Counterfeit chips keep Ed and Mike busy. No less than Richard Lewis, Paul Anka and Dennis Rodman ante up for a pseudo celebrity-poker showdown with Danny. At this point, I really was hoping Phil Gordon and Dave Foley would make a surprise appearance. Instead we get to hear Rodman ask when the Pussycat Dolls go on. Las Vegas, you slay me. At least you have the good sense to bring Mitch back into the security fold. Welcome back, Mitch Longley!
One of my favorite over-the-top moments (out of so many) is when Ed is interrogating some Barbie doll who seems to be bestest buds with the word "like." She like, talks like this but can't really like, tell her story in a way like, anyone would understand. OK? Like, totally! As for Lara Flynn Boyle, her
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Josh Duhamel
Just as a hung-over couple wonders what the fallout will be from their drunken vow-exchange at the Viva Las Vegas Wedding Chapel, the cast and crew of NBC's Las Vegas have to wonder what sort of impact several cast additions and subtractions, as well as glitzy new set-piece attractions, will have on the series' future. On board for Season 3 (premiering tonight at 9 pm/ET): The Practice's Lara Flynn Boyle as Monica Mancuso, the newly renovated Montecito's savvy, sexy new owner; Rachael Leigh Cook (She's All That) as Penny Posin, a potential new love interest for Josh Duhamel's Danny McCoy; and a massive (40,000 square-foot) new casino set as, well, a massive casino. Now missing from the action: original cast member
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