Mad Men won the Writers Guild award for best dramatic TV series, and Modern Family for best TV comedy series. Mad Men also took the prize for dramatic episode ("The Chrysanthemum and the Sword") while 30 Rock took best TV comedy episode honors ("When It Rains, It Pours") at the 2011 Writers Guild of America awards, held Saturday night in New York and Los Angeles. HBO snagged three awards. The TV movie The Special Relationship was named the...
For Dana Carvey's fourth return trip to host Saturday Night Live, there were a couple old, familiar faces from Carvey's era — and Justin Bieber. The 16-year-old pop singer brought his million-dollar smile and "angel's voice" to two sketches, turning both Carvey and Andy Samberg into obsessed fans. In the digital short The Roomate, Minka Kelly and Leighton Meester were replaced with Bieber and his new bunkmate Decklin (played by Samberg as...
An Australian woman is claiming Ocean's Eleven director Steven Soderbergh is the father of her baby daughter and is suing him for child support, according to The Associated Press. The paternity suit filed by Frances Lawrencina Anderson alleges that Soderbergh, 48, helped pay for her medical expenses during her pregnancy, and that a DNA test showed he was...
NBC is putting Chase on hiatus, a network rep confirms. Beginning Wednesday, NBC will replace the freshman drama with a second hour of Minute to Win It. The move comes a day after the game show posted series-high ratings — 9.5 million viewers and a 3.0 rating in the adults 18-49 demo — in Chase's normal 9/8c timeslot. The most recent new episode of Chase drew 4.17 million viewers and a 1.2 rating. NBC cuts episodes from Chase order Chase received a full...
Director Peter Jackson has been released from a New Zealand hospital after undergoing surgery for a perforated ulcer, Entertainment Weekly reports. Peter Jackson undergoes surgery; production on The Hobbit delayed Jackson, 49, underwent the procedure on...
Bravo has picked up a second season of Top Chef spinoff Just Desserts. The network announced the renewal Thursday, along with a nationwide casting call for both...
Colin Hanks and wife Samantha Bryant welcomed a baby girl Tuesday, People reports. Catch up on today's latest news Olivia Jane Hanks was born on Feb. 1 in Los Angeles. This is the couple's first child and the first grandchild for...
Terrence Howard and wife Michelle Ghent are divorcing after one year of marriage, People reports. Ghent filed divorce papers on Jan. 27 in Los Angeles Superior Court citing "irreconcilable differences." Catch up on today's latest news Howard, 41, and Ghent have no children together, and she is seeking spousal support. They wed in...
Blue wigs, BMX bike stunts and flaming bras — that's the Glee we know and love! Glee is taking on Katy Perry again for Sunday's Super Bowl episode, but this time Coach Sue's Cheerios will do the performing. Will the flaming batons and hula hoops really lead the Cheerios to another national championship? If their Celine Dion-infused routine (thanks, Kurt) took home the gold last season, why ...
NBC has pushed back the return date for The Event another week, a network rep confirms. The serialized drama, originally scheduled to resume Feb. 28, will now offer a two-hour episode on Monday, March 7 at 8/7c. After that, the network has nine episodes left to complete Season 1, and the series will retake its original Monday at...
For Law & Order: Special Victims Unit guest star Colm Feore, playing a wealthy sexual predator had its obvious upsides and downsides. Feore plays a man who, despite leading a privileged existence, becomes involved in a sexual abuse case involving a teenage girl who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. "I live in a kind of museum-like world. I just imagined that I've taken home the front few galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art ... that part was easy enough," Feore says of his character. "Harder is the psychology of a guy who gets his kicks from taking advantage of...
After hearing more than enough of the great Camille Grammer-Kyle Richards debate last week, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills fans finally got answers to some of their biggest burning questions in part two of the salacious reunion. What was the story behind the falling out between Lisa Vanderpump and her houseguest Cedric? How is Taylor Armstrong's marriage doing? And what is the state of Kyle's relationship with her sister, Kim Richards, after their shocking season finale limo blowout? Find out the biggest revelations from the housewives of 90210.
Is another Gossip Girl cast member ready to fly the coup? "It's all about the work, you know. The feeling you get when you connect to the work," Ed Westwick, 23, told U.K. magazine Tatler. "And that's what I had with Chuck Bass in the beginning — I was fascinated by him. But now, to be completely honest, I'm ready to do something else. Really ready to...
From the moment he burned Jaison Robinson's socks on Survivor: Samoa in the fall of 2009, Russell Hantz made it clear he couldn't be trusted during the game. It turns out he can't be trusted anywhere. Jim Ealy, a Survivor message board commentator, told The Daily Beast that Hantz, 38, is guilty of leaking spoilers and other secret information. Russell Hantz and "Boston" Rob Mariano join Survivor: Redemption Island Ealy says he was sued by CBS and Survivor producers in December for prematurely publishing the names of...
NBC picked up two comedy pilots Tuesday, including one from Saturday Night Live executive producer Lorne Michaels. Michaels' as-yet untitled series project is an irreverent look at parenthood from the perspectives of an acerbic working mother, her stay-at-home husband and her outspoken parents. The pilot was written by...
The Good Wife fans have seen various sides of smooth-talking young lawyer Cary Agos (Matt Czuchry). They've even seen him high on mushrooms. Viewers will get to see yet another side Tuesday when the legal drama goes behind enemy lines and shows the inner workings of the state's attorney's office. "We wanted to show that there are no true heroes and no true villains in our universe and they are working for what they believe is right just as much as Lockhart-Gardner is," co-creator and executive producer Michelle King tells TVGuide.com. The Good Wife: Michael J. Fox books third episode, Kalinda and Blake's "battle royale" Tuesday's case of the week — when Alicia's client confesses under duress to murdering a fellow prison inmate — will show the legal fight from Cary's and the prosecution's point of view. "Everybody has their own struggles with the moral questions that they face...
ABC Family picked up three new series Monday, including a comedy starring longtime Disney star Raven-Symoné. The Great State of Georgia is a half-hour comedy centered on an aspiring actress with a big personality named Georgia (Symoné), trying to make headway in New York with her science geek best friend. Roswell's Majandra Delfino will also star. The show is executive-produced by Kirk J. Rudell (Will & Grace) and best-selling author Jennifer Weiner (Good in Bed, In Her Shoes). Catch up on today's latest news The drama Switched at Birth follows...
After nine years of invading strangers' personal space on Clean House, the cameras are about to turn on Niecy Nash. The actress, comedian and former Clean House host will document her May wedding to fiancé Jay Tucker for a new TLC special announced Monday. "I am not used to having the tables turned on me, in terms of my private life. I am not excited about...
Regis Philbin will receive the Legend Award at this year's TV Land Awards, the cable network announced Monday. The Legend Award is given to an entertainer or TV show that has stood the test of time and ranks among the most celebrated in entertainment history. Previous winners include Garry Marshall, Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner and Don Rickles. "Hey, it's about time...
Jimmy Fallon's popular thank-you notes will be published in two new books, NBC Universal and Grand Central Publishing announced Monday. The two books, both titled Thank You Notes, will pull from Fallon's Late Night segment of the same name, which airs every Friday. The books will feature more than 150 of Fallon's notes, giving gratitude to everybody and everything from his dad to sweater vests. The books will also include a special...
Derek Hough is hanging up his dancing shoes — for one season. The three-time mirrorball champ is taking Season 12 off from Dancing with Stars to film a movie, his rep confirms. "We wish Derek the best as he takes time off from Dancing with the Stars to pursue his film career," Conrad Green, the TV show's executive producer, said in a statement, "and look forward to having him...
The King's Speech reigned supreme at the Directors Guild Awards. The movie's first-time director, Tom Hooper, won the honor for directing a feature film at the awards held Saturday in Los Angeles, beating out longtime auteurs including...
