Grey's Anatomy star Katherine Heigl and singer-beau Josh Kelley are planning a Christmas Eve wedding, says the New York Daily News.... As first speculated in May, Weeds lead Mary-Louise Parker and Grey's Anatomy stiff Jeffrey Dean Morgan are no longer a couple. As "Denny" tells People, "It just didn't work out. Wrong time in both our lives".... Andria "Dreamz" Herd, notorious for reneging on an immunity deal on Survivor: Fiji, is being sued by a woman who claims he's her baby's deadbeat dad. And no, the woman's name is not Scary Spice.
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Question: I'm kind of glad to hear that The Amazing Race won't be back until mid-season, as much as I love it. I hope that means they can spend more time casting quality, dynamic, interesting teams. My thought, however, is that they should do the same with Survivor, which is getting stale in its old age. (I have my own ideas on how to spice up the show, but that's not for this column.) What's keeping CBS from rotating the two on Thursday nights — Race's smaller audience?
Answer: You answered your own question. While Survivor isn't quite the powerhouse it used to be, with its novelty fading by the cycle, it is still a big audience draw, bigger than Race for sure. And the stakes are so high on Thursdays (witness CBS returning Without a Trace to finish out the night) that CBS isn't going to mess with the current formula until it is forced to. For now, Survivor is still giving CBS a powerful start to Thursdays. When something comes along to upstage it, CBS will have to start scrambling ...
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In what just so happened to be the series' 200th episode, CBS' Survivor: Fiji wrapped up its season with a unanimous vote for Earl Cole. While the "haves" versus the "have-nots" theme kept the first half of the season rolling along at a predictable pace, Fiji eventually turned out to be must-see television, as its cast of characters demonstrated how (and how not) to play the game. TV Guide.com spoke with Cole, fresh off his win, about his time on the island, his nearly perfect game play and a secret they didn't show us.
TVGuide.com: I believe you're the first African-American male to win the show. How does it feel?Earl Cole: I feel good about that and I'm happy that I played a good game, a smart game. I'm glad to know that you can be a role model to somebody and that you can show them that
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By a unanimous vote, Earl Cole — the thoughtful, soft-spoken advertising executive from Kansas City, Missouri — on Sunday night became the newest member of the Survivor millionaire club. But as so often has been the case this season, the talk was all about Andria "Dreamz" Herd, whose final flip-flop may go down as the biggest betrayal ever in Survivor history."I'm sorry, Yau-Man." Those three little words had huge implications in a season that had seen its share of tricks — most of them pulled by Yau-Man Chan. Early on, Chan showed himself to be a wily castaway quick to improvise in situations that could lend him an advantage. Chan, who once used a welcome-back-to-camp hug as cover to inspect a competitor's bag, later swapped an immunity idol with a fake to throw off its other seekers. Unfortunately for Chan, his riskiest move of giving a Ford truck (won as a reward) to Dreamz in exchange for final-four immunity cost Chan the game, when Dreamz reneged on his promise. ...
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This Sunday's ratings in a nutshell:8 pm/ETOpposite the first half of the Survivor: Fiji finale (which averaged 13.54 million total viewers across its two-hour run; see related TV Guide News Report), Ty Pennington's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (10.22 mil) dropped 1.4 mil week-to-week. The CW's 7th Heaven (3.37 mil) surged 570 thou to say goodbye to its biggest audience since February 18.9 pmDespite slipping 1.1 mil to a new series low, Desperate Housewives (15.75 mil) bested the back half of Survivor.10 pmBrothers & Sisters (11.93 mil) was up 700,000 and won in the key demos, yet fell shy of Survivor's reunion special (12.06 mil) in total viewers.
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