Dr. Drew Pinsky is heading to daytime TV with a new daily, half-hour CW show titled Dr. Drew's Lifechangers, reports Broadcasting & Cable.
The program — slated to air next fall — will focus on people dealing with conflicts in their lives, including relationship and addiction issues. Pinsky and a panel of experts — ranging from celebrities to people in the medical field — will attempt to ...
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They may be Hollywood actresses, but this drama was definitely not an act! While being interviewed by Extra's Terri Seymour in Malibou Lake, Calif., on June 8, Grown Ups stars Salma Hayek, Maya Rudolph and Maria Bello were interrupted by a four-foot long garter snake!
"It was complete and utter chaos!" Seymour tells TV Guide Magazine. "Salma just started screaming — she has a real snake phobia — and jumps onto the arm of ...
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TV Guide Network today announced plans to launch Hollywood 411, a daily one-hour entertainment newsmagazine show, which is slated to premiere in January 2008.Hollywood 411 will focus on the day’s top entertainment news stories and will offer on-scene interviews with big-name TV, film and music celebrities. TV Guide Network host Madison Michele will anchor the broadcast. "Hollywood 411’s hour-long format will leverage our network’s strengths in covering entertainment and celebrity news in-depth," says Matthew Singerman, TV Guide Network’s senior vice president of programming and production. "It will distinguish the program from some of the other entertainment offerings currently available on TV."Veteran news and entertainment producer Jerry Burke will serve as 411’s senior executive producer. Burke comes to the network from the Fox News Channel, where he increased ratings 300 percent as executive producer of daytime programming. He has also worked as bureau c...
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Warner Bros. syndicated division has cleared a fall 2008 daytime talker to be hosted by actress-comedian Bonnie Hunt. The Reporter also reports deal extensions for Ellen (through 2011) and Extra (through 2012).... Sci Fi Channel has ordered a third season of Eureka, to launch in summer '08, and a second round of Destination Truth.... Showtime has erected or modified fountains in 14 U.S cities, including in Times Square and Hollywood & Highland, to flow red, promoting the Season 2 premiere of Dexter. The cabler, though, insists the color choice is to match its logo, not to symbolize blood. Uh-huh. Tell it to Doakes.
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As part of an interview airing on Monday's Extra, Chad Lowe admits, "It has been a tough year, and not something I expected," referring, of course, to his split from Hilary Swank, who famously "outed" her husband's substance abuse problem in a Vanity Fair profile. "I was disappointed that the details of our relationship became public," he says, "[But] they were absolutely true, absolutely true. I am so grateful to Hilary for her support of me in a very difficult time in my life, three-and-a-half years ago. What hurt me more than anything is that people would think that she wasn’t there for me, and she was. I will always love her."Also during Extra's Monday Lowe-down: a preview of his role on the new season of 24.
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