Lee Pace, Pushing Daisies
Recapping some recent ratings highlights:
• On Saturday night, NBC's Kings returned to an audience of 1.59 million total viewers, CBS' Harper's Island (3.17 mil) dropped 12 percent, and the series finale of ABC's Pushing Daisies delivered 2.24 mil. Coming this Saturday: The first of the last Eli Stone episodes!
• ABC's coverage of Sunday's NBA Finals drew 10.12 million viewers, the biggest audience for a Game 5 since 2004. On average, this year's Magic-Lakers series retained 95 percent of 2008's Celtics-Lakers finals.
• The CW's timely broadcast of the original The Taking of Pelham One Two Three scored 2.15 mil.
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Susan Boyle
Susan Boyle will rejoin the Britain's Got Talent tour on Monday after canceling two performances on Sunday to rest.
"She had one rest day, but she will be back on stage tonight," Boyle's spokeswoman told the Associated Press.
Boyle was hospitalized two weeks ago for exhaustion after ...
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Kate Gosselin
There were only nine Gosselins to be seen on Jon and Kate Gosselin's 10th anniversary.
The couple marked their 10th wedding anniversary on Friday, but Jon, almost predictably, was MIA at the Gosselins' Wernersville, Pa., home. Kate was photographed setting up ...
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Hugh Laurie, Cat Deeley, Matthew Morrison
Fox has announced the fall premiere dates for its new and returning shows, and the network is looking to kick the whole thing off with a little song and <i>Dance</i>/
Leading the prime-time pack in September will be a combo So You Think You Can Dance's first-ever fall debut and the "premiere" of the musical comedy Glee, airing Wednesday, Sept. 16. Viewers got their first sample of Glee last month, following American Idol's final performance show.
Fox is also playing to its strengths by giving the sixth season of House a two-hour launch, on Sept. 21.
See how the full schedule shakes out after the jump.
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Thomas Dekker
James Middleton, an executive producer on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, has shed light on where the Fox series was heading, had it not been terminated.
In what would be the series' last moments, John Connor (played by Thomas Dekker) had traveled with Catherine Weaver to a time when the war against the machines was in full tilt. There, the lad came face to face with Brian Austin Green's Derek Reese, who surprisingly failed to recognize humankind's "savior" ...
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Myleene Klass
There's a romance blooming in the jungle and Myleene Klass wants to sit back and watch. The I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! co-host says she's as smitten by the budding relationship between contestants Sanjaya Malakar and Holly Montag as they seem to be with each other.
"Oh my goodness! There's something happening! [On Thursday,] by no exaggeration, there was about 50 staff, all of us gathered around a tiny TV watching a live feed from ...
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Heidi and Spencer Pratt
Heidi Pratt says she was in tears after an uncomfortable interview with Today's Al Roker about her and Spencer Pratt's appearance on I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here.
The newlyweds appeared on the show Monday to discuss their experience on the show, which they quit last week after Heidi fell ill.
"I'm still trying to figure out, was the weatherman asking us questions? I thought we were getting interviewed by some guy, Matt Lauer or something," Spencer Pratt said to Ryan Seacrest on his radio show. "So we were thrown off that that the weatherman was even trying to talk to Speidi." ...
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Paola Turbay on The Closer
This week on TNT's The Closer (Mondays, 9 pm), Detective Mikki Mendoza makes a lasting first impression as a Special Investigation Section officer who can kick butt with the best of them. That trait, among other things, draws the interest of Sanchez, who's overdue for some happiness. But is the match not meant to be? Guest star Paola Turbay told us about a roadblock to romance and her other summer gigs — as a nurse facing down Armageddon and an American Teenager's mom.
TVGuide.com: You've got a busy summer coming up.
Paola Turbay: Yeah, in fact last night I was on TVGuide.com and I saw that I'm on a whole bunch of things this month.
TVGuide.com: Starting with The Closer, how do we meet Detective Mikki Mendoza?
Turbay: She appears in this week's episode, as the director of the SIS, a part of the LAPD that supports Brenda's squad when it's time to catch the bad guys. She does car-crashing, door-kicking, punching... all the tough stuff. And what has caught many people's interest is the fact that she is a ...
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Ed Helms
Moviegoers are still feeling The Hangover: The bawdy comedy reeled in $33.4 million to retain the box-office crown for the second week in a row. It is also the first summer movie to hold the No. 1 spot for two consecutive weeks. The Hangover has now grossed $105.3 million in 10 days.
Coming in second was Up, with $30.5 million. The animated film's cumulative total now stands at $187.2 million, making it summer's second ...
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Nia Vardalos
A slimmed-down Nia Vardalos says there's a big, fat and sexist double-standard in the entertainment industry.
The actress, who lost 40 pounds to combat a blood sugar problem, writes on Anderson Cooper's 360 blog that she's tired of seeing older, heavier, or less attractive men paired with younger, slender, sexy women on-screen, but rarely seeing the opposite dynamic. Vardalos — who describes her looks as "er, below-average" — says she is often pressed about her celluloid romances with "hottie" John Corbett in My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Alexis Georgoulis in My Life in Ruins, which is currently in theaters.
"It's been years, and I have sat through many a movie like Sideways, where nobody blinks an eye when Paul Giamatti gets together with ...
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