The four surviving members of the Grateful Dead have decided to rename themselves the Dead. Good, because the Other Ones just wasn't doing it for me... CNN anchor Willow Bay is bolting the cable network because it can't accommodate her desire to work in Los Angeles... Former Ally McBeal star Josh Hopkins has landed the lead role on Fox's Steven Bochco-produced futuristic cop pilot NYPD 2069.
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"Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake... the guy who played Steve Urkel [Family Matters co-star Jaleel White], Stevie Wonder and Tom Cruise. Yeah, I'd watch that!" — Celebrity Mole: Hawaii finalist Erik von Detten (The Princess Diaries) on the performers ABC ought to recruit for its next all-star installment
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Did you feel duped by Monday's misleading Joe Millionaire? You're not alone. Fox is taking heat from angry viewers who were under the impression that Evan Marriott would choose between his two remaining bachelorettes — Sarah and Zora — at the end of the episode. Instead, Joe fans had to sit through a lame 60-minute clip/recap show only to discover that Evan wouldn't make his decision until next week's two-hour finale! "Perhaps we took too much dramatic license with what information would be revealed," a Fox rep tells USA Today. "We apologize if anyone's dissatisfied." In the end, Fox's scheme worked: Monday's episode attracted 24 million viewers — the show's largest audience to date.
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More evidence that this will be the last season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Execs at UPN and the WB have apparently put their stakes down long enough to allow The Chosen One (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and her soulless mate Angel (David Boreanaz) to partake in a farewell crossover. Sources confirm for TV Guide Online that Boreanaz will appear in what will likely be the series finale of Buffy in May.
Although Boreanaz — whose WB spinoff series Angel is also bouncing on the renewal bubble — wouldn't confirm that he's headed back to Sunnydale, he did concede in a recent interview with TV Guide Online that "fans would enjoy that. It would be really nice for them." UPN's response?
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The major broadcast networks are in no mood for sex. ABC, NBC and Fox have rejected HBO's proposal to air sanitized reruns of Sex and the City for $3 million an episode. And word has it that CBS will pass on the offer as well. According to Variety, the networks balked at the price.
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Dell computer pitchman Ben Curtis, arrested Sunday night in Manhattan on a marijuana possession charge, is one lucky dude. At Monday's arraignment, the judge said the case would be dismissed if Curtis stays out of trouble for a year. He could have faced three months in jail.
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It's always the quiet ones. Softspoken Celebrity Mole: Hawaii contestant Erik von Detten swears to TV Guide Online that viewers will be "110 percent positively" surprised when the saboteur is unmasked on tomorrow night's finale (at 10 ET on ABC). But us? Eh, not so much. Although the Dinotopia star refuses to spill the beans, our money's still 110 percent positively on him!
From the beginning, von Detten's reserved personality made him our primary suspect. However, he argues that next to boisterous competitors like Stephen Baldwin and Corbin Bernsen, Roseanne would've come off
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