Diana Ross's most hotly anticipated on-camera performance in decades debuts this Friday. Despite protests from Ross's attorneys, a judge on Tuesday ordered the release of a police videotape shot during the 58-year-old singer's Dec. 30 DUI arrest. However, when the tape comes out Friday, it will be sans audio. The video was shot while police questioned Ross and gave her a field sobriety test.
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Attention husband hunters! ABC's third Bachelor installment kicks off March 26 — and the show's latest lady-killer will be "the son of one of America's most affluent and prominent families." (Hopefully, he's an actual catch, not just another Joe Millionaire dude.) Meanwhile, on the blue-collar front, look for Tim Allen Presents a User's Guide to Home Improvement sometime this Spring. Basically, Tim Allen shows fave clips and bloopers from his 1991-1999 hit, then does Q&A with a live audience.
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The partner of opera star Luciano Pavarotti, who was expecting twins, gave birth to a daughter Monday in Rome. Sadly, the second baby — a boy — died. This was the first child for Nicoletta Mantovani, 33, but the fourth for 67-year-old Pavarotti, who has three children from a previous marriage.
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Reality may have taken a bite out of The West Wing's ratings this season, but NBC still has faith in the Emmy-winning White House drama. The Peacock network is thisclose to securing a three-year deal to renew the show, a pact that would keep Martin Sheen in office until 2006. According to USA Today, the new deal would call for NBC to shell out about $6 million an episode — triple what the Peacock pays now. However, Variety estimates the new fee to be $4 million to $5 million an episode.
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Diana Ross's most hotly anticipated on-camera performance in decades debuts this Friday. Despite protests from Ross's attorneys, a judge today ordered the release of a police videotape shot during the 58-year-old singer's Dec. 30 DUI arrest. However, when the tape comes out Friday, it will be sans audio. The video was shot while police questioned Ross and gave her a field sobriety test.
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Looks like the next Peloponesian War is to be waged on American TV! The tube version of My Big Fat Greek Wedding — which has grossed over $228 million domestically — debuts Feb. 24 on CBS. Star Nia Vardalos has tweaked the title to My Big Fat Greek Life, and that's not the only change she and executive producer Rita Wilson are making. Still, the indie movie's feisty family feuding remains the same. "I really do have 27 first cousins and a loud, always-eating Greek family that loved me to the point of suffocation," Vardalos joked to reporters at the Television Critics Press Tour in Hollywood. "On a scale of one to 10, let's say I just kind of turn it up to 11." Here's the rest of the scoop on these souvlaki servers ...
First off, Nia Vardalo
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Good news, guys — we're finally being guaranteed some action! (Sorry, not that kind.) Starting Saturday with Control Factor, a brain-scrambling government-conspiracy thriller starring Firefly roughneck Adam Baldwin and Elizabeth Berkley, the Sci Fi Channel will premiere two high-octane, low-budget original pictures per month on Saturdays at 9 pm/ET.
"Sci Fi has always done what we refer to as 'mayhem every seven minutes' — very fast-moving flicks that have aliens, creatures, monsters... any form of threat," network president Bonnie Hammer explains to TV Guide Online. "The movies generally have some moral dilemma involved, but the truth is, they [exist] purely for the sake of the chaos. And we've done extraordinarily well with them."
How extraordi
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"I have never been so excited to have people walk all over me for the rest of my life." — Hours star Nicole Kidman on receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Monday.
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