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Top Moments: Letterman and Federer Slam as Conan Scores

• Jun 12, 2009 01:01 PM ET
• by TV Guide News
• 33 Comments

Super Mario, Sarah Palin, Mark-Paul Gosselaar

With summer a week away, it's time for play. This week some Top Chefs had a collegial competition, Roger Federer hit a career milestone and a super plumber showed how deep he's plunged into our psyches. The week's biggest milestone was the playful return of one of our best Friends Forever. read more

Gosselaar Shares the Secrets Behind His Late Night "Zack Attack"

• Jun 9, 2009 10:18 AM ET
• by Matt Mitovich
• 27 Comments

"Zack Morris" befuddles Jimmy Fallon.

Jimmy Fallon has yet to pull off his full reunion of the Saved By the Bell cast, but on Monday night's show he offered a treat to the show's fans.

That is, Zack Morris offered the treat, dropping by the late-night talker to claim that he is in fact a real dude, and that "Mark-Paul Gosselaar" is simply the stage name he adopted upon graduating from Bayside High and eventually becoming an actor.

Gosselaar shares with TVGuide.com the full story on how the spoof came to be, after the jump. read more

VIDEO: Mark-Paul Spills Saved By the Bell Secrets

• Sep 1, 2008 01:30 PM ET
• by Matt Mitovich

Can Steven Bochco deliver a new spin on the legal drama? In this video Q&A, Mark-Paul Gosselaar previews his role in Raising the Bar, premiering tonight at 10 pm/ET, on TNT, and reveals what it's like to butt heads with Malcolm in the Middle's Jane Kaczmarek.Speaking of butts... Mark-Paul also shares his take on the "ridiculous" uproar caused by a nude scene from his NYPD Blue days (at the 2:00 mark). The talk then turns to Saved By the Bell, and how that cast of child stars (for the most part) turned out OK. "We didn't have the pressure [that young stars today face]," he notes. "We were allowed to be kids." That said, there may be some "wild" tales to tell. Or at least Dustin Diamond thinks so. Gosselaar, being facetious about Screech's plan for a "tell-all," says, "I'm happy to have someone finally write a book to piece together those years I've been [blanking out on]." Listen to a lot more on that at the 3:50 mark. The chat wraps with Gosselaar copping to dating several Bell ... read more

Screech Tattles on Fellow Saved by the Bell Stars

• Jul 25, 2008 01:13 PM ET
• by TV Guide News

Dustin Diamond by Barry Brecheisen/ WireImage.com

Dustin Diamond, who played perma-teen Screech on Saved by the Bell and its spin-offs until he was in his mid-twenties, is writing a tell-all tattler about the show.Called Behind the Bell, Diamond's ghost-written tome will reveal behind-the-scenes tidbits about his fellow Bellers, including "sexual escapades among cast members, drug use and hardcore partying," according to an article in New York magazine.What say you — are you psyched to read about Bell stars Elizabeth Berkley and Mario Lopez back in their formative years? Do you not care? Or are you just plain over Dustin Diamond? — Nina Hämmerling Smith read more

Dancing Alum Joins Broadway's Chorus Line

• Mar 5, 2008 02:45 PM ET
• by danceteam

Mario Lopez by Jordan Strauss/ WireImage.com

Saved by the Bell's Slater is now Zach. Mario Lopez, who a short while back learned a thing or two on Dancing with the Stars, will be calling the shots as choreographer Zach when he joins A Chorus Line on April 15. "Every actor dreams about appearing on a Broadway stage," the New York Daily News quotes Lopez as saying. "I have as well, and have been searching for the right time and opportunity." Lopez is booked for a five-month run. — Matt Mitovich read more

Jeers: CSI: Miami's New Showgirl

• Jan 15, 2008 07:22 AM ET
• by Bruce Fretts

Elizabeth Berkley and David Caruso by Ron P. Jaffe/CBS

Jeers to CSI: Miami for ludicrously miscasting Elizabeth Berkley as the mother of Horatio Caine's creepy teenage doppelgänger. Just when she'd finally put the twin ignominies of Saved by the Bell and Showgirls behind her, the glassy-eyed actress delivered a performance so stiff and artificial, she made David Caruso (who's rapidly turning into the new Hasselhoff) seem like Daniel Day-Lewis. Speaking of surrealism, what was with the visual gimmick that made the entire episode look like it was shot inside a beehive? This show gets weirder every week. It used to be watchable; now it's the TV equivalent of the Miami Dolphins.• Read and react to Bruce's opinions on The Wire, CSI and more!• Share your own raves and rants about other shows on the Reader Cheers & Jeers discussion board.• We may feature your Cheer or Jeer on TVGuide.com or in TV Guide magazine! read more

Saved by the Belle: Tiffani Thiessen Sexes Up ABC's Brian

• Feb 19, 2007 03:00 AM ET
• by Megan Cherkezian

Tiffani Thiessen, What About Brian

Zack Morris, eat your heart out. Kelly Kapowski's lengthy tresses and spandex minis have nothing on the sexy, manipulative roles Tiffani Thiessen has filled since leaving Saved by the Bell's Bayside High. Having actually shed her on-screen sweetheart persona long ago — her most memorable post-Bell gig was as Beverly Hills, 90210 troublemaker Valerie Malone — Thiessen continues to shake things up, this time with a saucy turn on ABC's What About Brian (starting tonight at 10 pm/ET). Via e-mail, Thiessen shared with TVGuide.com her thoughts on "appealing" to her audience, vying for an Ugly role and supporting her former costars. TVGui read more

November 21, 2006: Blasters

• Nov 22, 2006 03:47 AM ET
• by Todd Thatcher

After the season’s best episode so far, last week’s subtly moving “The War at Home,” this one about fallen child TV stars and the Albanian mafia was bound to be a bit of a letdown and — big surprise — it was.I know I’m not the only one who’s becoming uncomfortable with the Law & Order franchise’s growing dependence on “current events” (read: E!News fodder) for plotlines. This episode’s basis in the lives of ex-Saved by the Bell cast members was so thinly veiled, if Dustin Diamond weren’t so desperate for publicity that he’d peddle his own sex tape, I’m sure Screech would be making a slander case.Instead, it might be Dancing with the Stars loser Mario Lopez (aka A.C. Slater) calling up his lawyer — and maybe even winning the suit. Can’t you just hear the Criminal Intent writers’ defense: “You see, their character was named Slater, but our character was named Skater.” Come on, Skat... read more

"Oh, Mr. Belding! Screech Did a Sex Tape!"

• Sep 27, 2006 02:29 PM ET
• by Matt Mitovich

The first Saved by the Bell vet to star in a sex tape ? Showgirls excluded ? is neither cutie "Zach" nor beefy "Slater," but Dustin "Screech" Diamond. According to the New York Daily News, the now 29-year-old actor/punch line engages in a kinky three-way with two women in a 40-minute vid tentatively titled (avert your eyes now) "Saved by the Smell" and being shopped around by celebrity-skin kingpin David Hans Schmidt. Diamond's manager, who has yet to see the actual tape, tells the News, "He has been trying to escape the Screech typecast, so this may help me get more bookings." Sure, but on what? read more

Sarah Lancaster Knows All About Brian

• Apr 14, 2006 04:00 AM ET
• by Anthony Layser

Sarah Lancaster, What About Brian

Sarah Lancaster recently turned 26, but she's already racked up more TV credits than most actors claim in a lifetime. Her first role was as Rachel on Saved by the Bell: The New Class. Since then she's appeared on Dawson's Creek, Boston Public, That ‘70s Show, Scrubs, 7th Heaven, Six Feet Under and Everwood, to name a few. Now, the sultry beauty is the female lead in What About Brian, a new ABC series (sneak previewing Sunday at 10 pm/ET, then airing Mondays at 10) from executive producer J.J. Abrams (Lost). TVGuide.com caught up with the grizzled TV vet to find out what Brian's all about. TVGuide.com: How would you describe What read more