Jon Hamm Signs On for Three More Years of Mad Men
Ryan Seacrest, Andy Cohen Among Rumored Regis Philbin Replacements --- Who Would You Pick?
Ryan Seacrest, Andy Cohen and Mark Consuelos are among the candidates to replace Regis Philbin on Live with Regis and Kelly, The Wall Street Journal reports. Philbin,79, announced his plan to retire back in January. He was originally set to step down in June, but extended his final season until...
White Collar Exclusive: Beau Bridges Cast as Peter's Mentor
Beau Bridges will appear on an upcoming episode of White Collar as Peter's mentor, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively. Bridges, 69, will play Agent Kramer, a well-decorated federal officer and art expert who instructed Peter (Tim DeKay) when he trained at Quantico. Kramer has been Peter's mentor ever since, and...
Green Lantern Fails to Light Up Box Office
Green Lantern debuted atop the box office, though it failed to live up to some of its comic book-based predecessors, Box Office Mojo reports. The action movie, starring Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively, grossed an estimated $52.7 million in its first weekend of release. The figure was higher than The Green Hornet's $33.5 million take in January, but lower than the opening numbers for...
Clarence Clemons, Sax Player for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Dies at 69
Clarence Clemons, the longtime saxophone player for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, has died. He was 69. Clemons — also known as the "Big Man" — died Saturday from complications of a stroke he suffered a week earlier at his home in Singer Island, Fla. He had been in serious but stable condition and underwent two surgeries. "Clarence lived a wonderful life. He carried within him a love of people that made them love him. He created a wondrous and extended family. He loved the saxophone, loved our fans and gave everything he had every night he stepped on stage," Springsteen said in a statement posted on his website. "His loss is...
Exclusive First Look: Punk Rocker Patti Smith Makes Her Acting Debut on Law & Order: CI
She's a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and an award-winning author, but "Godmother of Punk" Patti Smith says picking up acting wasn't so easy. "I've never really acted, but I highly respect the craft," she says of her upcoming role on Law & Order: Criminal Intent. "I knew that it wasn't going to be simple, but it was a little more daunting...
Glee Adds Buffy, Chuck Scribes to Writing Staff
Glee's writing staff is tripling in size just in time for Season 3, Deadline reports. The six writers joining the team are Allison Adler, Marti Noxon, Michael Hitchcock, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Matt Hodgson and Ross Maxwell. They, along with Glee executive producers Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan, will begin crafting...
Prison Inmate Confesses to Involvement in 1994 Tupac Shakur Shooting
A man in prison says he was involved in the November 1994 robbery and shooting of Tupac Shakur, AllHipHop.com reports. Dexter Isaac, an inmate currently serving life in prison for murder, robbery and other offenses, came forward with his confession on Wednesday — the day before what would have been Shakur's 40th birthday. Remember the late Tupac Shakur Isaac said he was paid $2,500 by James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond, an entertainment mogul, for the robbery and shooting. Isaac said he confessed...
Wipeout Renewed for Season 5; Vanessa Minnillo Named Co-Host
Wipeout is coming back for Season 5 with a new team member in tow, Entertainment Weekly reports. Vanessa Minnillo has signed on as the new co-host, replacing Jill Wagner, who announced her exit last month. Jill Wagner wipes out of ABC's Wipeout "We will miss Jill, but...
Dexter Season 6 Preview: "I'm Feeling Like My Old Self Again"
It looks like Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall) is finally moving past his grieving period. Battlestar Galactica's Edward James Olmos joins Dexter After struggling with his inner "Dark Passenger" last season following the gruesome murder of...
True Blood's James Frain Bites Into Burn Notice
Burn Notice has sucked in True Blood's James Frain to guest-star on an upcoming episode, Entertainment Weekly reports. Frain, 43, will play the powerful owner of a pharmaceutical company behind several medical breakthroughs, who is willing to go to great extremes to protect its...
Bethenny Frankel Taping Talk Show Pilot With Ellen DeGeneres' Involvement
Bethenny Frankel is moving forward with her own talk show, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Taping on the advice-based talk show pilot started earlier this month. Telepictures, the production company behind Ellen DeGeneres' show and Anderson Cooper's upcoming daytime series, is behind the pilot. DeGeneres is also involved with...
Raven-Symoné on Her New Slim Figure: "I Was Beautiful Before I Lost Weight"
Raven-Symoné knows she's turning heads following her dramatic weight loss earlier this year, but it seems she didn't need the extra confidence boost. "I find it funny that people now come up to me and say, 'Wow, you are absolutely gorgeous,'" the 25-year-old actress tells Vibe Magazine. "I'm like, 'I was beautiful before I lost weight. Egotistically...
Goldie Hawn Eyes Return to Television With HBO's Viagra Diaries
HBO is developing a new comedy series from Sex and the City creator Darren Star that would star Goldie Hawn, Deadline reports. The project, based on the book The Viagra Diaries, would be Hawn's first acting role since The Banger Sisters almost ten years...
Joshua Jackson, Melissa McCarthy to Announce Emmy Nominations
Joshua Jackson and Melissa McCarthy are going to have an early wake-up call on July 14. The Fringe and Mike & Molly stars have been tapped to announce the nominations for the 63rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards. They will join Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Chairman John Shaffner to make the big announcement at...
Why Crystal Harris Called Off Wedding to Hugh Hefner: "This Isn't the Lifestyle for Me"
Crystal Harris called off her wedding to Hugh Hefner just days before because she realized she would never be able to adjust his unique lifestyle. "I called it off because I didn't think it was the right thing for me to do," she told "On-Air with Ryan Seacrest" Wednesday morning. "Hef's lifestyle isn't the most normal lifestyle. This isn't the lifestyle for me, multiple girls all around. It's not the lifestyle I wanted." Crystal Harris calls off wedding to Hugh Hefner Harris, 25, and Hefner, 85, announced Tuesday that their...
America's Next Great Restaurant Winner Soul Daddy Shuts Down Two Locations
America's Next Great Restaurant? Not so great just yet. Soul Daddy, the winning restaurant from the NBC reality show, has shuttered two of its three locations in New York and Los Angeles, Eater reports. From creator Jamawn Woods, Soul Daddy opened three restaurants in New York, Los Angeles and Minneapolis on May 2 with investors (and series judges) Bobby Flay, Curtis Stone, Lorena Garcia and Chipotle founder Steve Ells. Woods' healthy soul food cuisine beat out...
Charlie Sheen's Lawsuit Over Men Firing Will Not Go to Trial
Charlie Sheen's $100 million lawsuit against Warner Bros. Television and Two and a Half Men co-creator Chuck Lorre will not go to trial, Deadline reports. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Alan Goodman ruled Wednesday that the suit will have to be settled in arbitration. Charlie Sheen sues Warner Bros., Chuck Lorre for $100 million Sheen's attorney, Marty Singer, had pushed...
Natalie Portman Welcomes a Son
It's a boy for Natalie Portman and fiancé Benjamin Millepied,People reports. In December, the Oscar winner, 30, announced she was...
Bachelorette Ali Fedotowsky Fractures Femur
Hopefully a recent injury doesn't mean Ali Fedotowsky will be limping down the aisle. The former Bachelorette star fractured her femur while kickboxing two months ago, People reports. At first Fedotowsky, 26, thought she had torn the ACL in her knee. However, an MRI revealed she had suffered a fracture as a result of a defect in the cartilage of her leg. Fedotowsky is currently using...
White Collar: Is a Musical Episode in the Works?
"Baby, lock them doors and turn the lights down low." Surprisingly, those lyrics were not coming from the lips of American Idol winner Scotty McCreery, but from White Collar star Matt Bomer. At a White Collar screening and Q&A held Monday at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, he and fellow cast members Tim DeKay and Willie Garson sang, revealed what they're hiding underneath those sharp suits (Spanx for Garson, he joked) and gave plenty of juicy intel for what's coming up on the crime series' third season. 5 reasons we're already hooked on the new season of White Collar Is a musical episode on the way? The White Collar cast is known to break out into "song bombs" on the set (favorite tunes include "Purple Rain," "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and the Folgers coffee jingle), so does that mean a musical episode...
Super 8 Grabs Top Spot at Box Office
Super 8 nabbed the No. 1 spot at the box office in its first weekend, grossing $37 million, Box Office Mojo reports. The sci-film from J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg outpaced last week's top film, X-Men: First Class, which ranked second with $25 million. The Hangover Part II came in at...
