Fox stands alone as the only Big 4 network that will not rejigger its May sweeps programming to accommodate President Obama's Wednesday-night news conference — his fourth prime-time appearance since taking office, and this time pegged to his 100th day as POTUS. "The Fox Broadcasting Company will not air the Presidential News Conference on Wednesday, April 29 at 8 pm/ET," Fox says in a statement to TVGuide.com. Fox instead will ...
A website celebrating the fast-approaching wedding between Meredith Grey and Derek Shepherd drew 42,000 unique visitors and collected 1,400 comments on its "guest book" in its first 24 hours. The idea for the site, hosted by real-life wedding hub TheKnot.com and ostensibly managed by the show's Izzie character, came to Grey's creator Shonda Rhimes as the show filmed its April 23 episode, in which Izzie snapped photos of her gal-pal begrudgingly test-driving dresses. Rhimes — whose sister happens to be a wedding planner — asked for something that would ...
Jodi Lyn O'Keefe is going from Prison Break bad girl to sitcom working girl, with a guest-starring turn on this Monday's The Big Bang Theory (8 pm/ET, CBS). O'Keefe gave us a look at exactly who of the Big Bangers she'll "do business" with, as well as shared a glimpse at her return to prison. TVGuide.com: Had you seen The Big Bang Theory before?Jodi Lyn O'Keefe: Oh yes. I'm [series creator] Chuck Lorre's biggest fan, and have been working with him my whole life. He usually brings me on to the shows that he's doing to either guest-star or recur. I couldn't be happier. TVGuide.com: Right, you've been on Two and a Half Men...O'Keefe: Twice, and I recurred on Dharma & Greg.... I adore Chuck — he is one of the funniest men in Hollywood. He really knows how to write. TVGuide.com: Let's talk about Big Bang Theory's Mikayla.O'Keefe: I'm a hooker ...
Casey Aldridge, the father of former Zoey 101 star Jamie Lynn Spears' 8-month-old daughter, has been charged with misdemeanor careless operation of a vehicle after crashing and flipping his Ford F150 early Sunday morning, the Associated Press reports. Aldridge, 19, was taken to a Ferriday, Louisiana, hospital with non-life threatening injuries — including, says TMZ.com, a skull fracture around his hairline. Though no surgery is required, he is currently being held for observation at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. According to multiple accounts, Spears is at his side. Three of the four passengers in Aldridge's truck were reportedly ejected from the vehicle ...
Beatrice Arthur, the star of the hit shows Maude and The Golden Girls, died Saturday at age 86. Arthur died peacefully at her Los Angeles home early Saturday with her family at her side, a family spokesperson tells the Associated Press. The actress, who had cancer, would have turned 87 on May 13. Arthur first portrayed the outspoken and liberal Maude Finley in the Norman Lear comedy series All in the Family. So much did she impress CBS executives that ...
A woman who claims she was harassed by a Lost cast member and subsequently fired from the production crew of the ABC series has named the actor and the network in a lawsuit. According to the Associated Press, a lawsuit filed Friday in Los Angeles alleges that Henry Ian Cusick (who plays Desmond Hume) fondled the plaintiff's buttocks and breasts and kissed her ...
Visiting with TV Guide Network's Hollywood 411, Prison Break original cast member Robert Knepper reflected on his run as Theodore "T-Bag" Boswell. "He started out as just the bad, bad boy," says the actor, only to evolve into "an in-depth kind of guy." Fox's Prison Break (now airing Fridays at 8 pm/ET) concludes its four-year run on May 15, with a two-hour episode that ...
Earmuff your horses. Cloris Leachman is checking into the hospital at the heart of HawthoRNe, TNT's new medical drama premiering Tuesday, June 16, and starring Jada Pinkett Smith and Michael Vartan. Apparently still enjoying some heat from her recent Dancing with the Stars run, Leachman will play Mrs. Lachman (heh), a cantankerous patient who terrorizes the nurses — Pinkett Smith's Chief Nurse Christina Hawthorne included — by, for example, throwing perfectly good Jell-O at them. Speaking of Jell-O ... former Cosby kid ...
This Thursday, every single network show — save for one! — dropped (if not plunged) from its previous outing. Here's how the breakdown breaks down: 8 pm/ETSurvivor topped the hour with an audience of 11.38 million total viewers, down 240K week-to-week. Bones sewed up second with 8.22 mil, down 500 thou. My Name Is Earl was the night's lone gainer, inching up 200K to 5.5 mil. Lead-out Parks and Recreation, however, dropped 11 percent, to 5.24 mil. Smallville barely managed 3 mil, plunging 19 percent from its last fresh outing. 9 pmCSI (14.45 mil, -970K) drew the biggest audience, while Grey's Anatomy (13.2 mil, down 16 percent) topped the demos. Both The Office (7.21 mil) and 30 Rock (6.35 mil) slipped 12 percent. Supernatural sank 16 percent, delivering 2.76 mil. 10 pmPrivate Practice took No. 1 with 9.23 million viewers, down 12 percent. Southland scored second, freefalling 16 percent to 8 mil, while Harper's Island (7.48 mil) saw another 690 thou get snuffed.
Those who tune in for Lost's 100th episode — and do not zap through the commercial pods — will spy teasers for Flash Forward, an ABC pilot which is envisioned as a possible companion series to the adventures of Jack, Sawyer et al. Sources tell TVGuide.com that during commercial breaks for the Lost episode airing April 29 ...
Every year at this time, your favorite shows pull out all the stops to wrap up some big stories, steer others in new directions, and launch brand-new sagas to unspool come fall. Which Hero will power down, and for good? Who on Lost will lose their life? What unexpected news awaits a Desperate Housewife? We've got your guide to those season-ending twists and many, many more after the jump.
When Nickelodeon's Emmy-winning The Wonder Pets! series kicks off its third season on May 18, Eartha Kitt will be among the guest stars, voicing a Cool Cat who wants to scat. Kitt's voice work for the animated series marks one of her final performances before succumbing to colon cancer last Christmas Day. Playing Hip Hippo to Kitt's Cool Cat in the season opener is ...
As Lost's Season 5 heads into its final three weeks, TVGuide.com's Getting Lost video series counts down the season-to-date's most resonant episode-ending "thump" moments, as voted on by readers. Among the Top 5 is, of course, the capper to "He's Our You," in which Sayid guns down a young Ben. Michael Emerson emailed us the morning after that jaw-dropper aired, saying, "When Sayid shot Young Ben, I looked at my wife, Carrie [Preston] — who was in a state of shock — and said, 'Yikes. That's more than a flesh-wound.' "If it's as bad as it looks, what happens now?" Emerson mulled. "Do three seasons of Lost DVDs suddenly erase themselves?! And what will I play in Season 6 — Might-Have-Ben?" As if he didn't know that Ben didn't die on the spot. Also in this installment, I reveal the dominant theory coming out of last week's Burning Question, which asked about Faraday's recent whereabouts. I then send a new puzzle your way, this one regarding the last unsolved mystery regarding Flight 316. Watch and discuss the video after the jump.
This week on CBS' Numbers (Fridays, 10 pm/ET), Rob Morrow's wife of 11 years, actress Debbon Ayer, guest-stars as a woman who may not be what she seems. She also is on hand for a dramatic twist which places her husband's character, Don, on death's doorstep. Morrow shared a glimpse at what's ahead. TVGuide.com: So, it seems you brought your home to work with you for this week's episode.Rob Morrow: That's right. I've got the beautiful Debbon Ayer playing a damsel in distress — or at least someone who ...
Consider him saved by the barber. When TNT premieres the second season of its legal drama Raising the Bar in June, Mark-Paul Gosselaar's Jerry will make an appointment to get his unwieldy mane (revisit it here, if you must) managed. Jerry's decision to brave the buzzer comes as he reaches another birthday, and is part of a bid to present a more professional appearance to his clients. As would be the case in real life, the public defender's makeover does not go without mention. For example ...
ABC has announced a dozen early pick-ups for the 2009-10 TV season. The renewed scripted series are Brothers & Sisters, Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice, Lost (whew, that was a nailbiter!) and Ugly Betty. On the reality front, Dancing with the Stars, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Supernanny, Wife Swap, The Bachelor and, yes, America's Funniest Home Videos are all officially coming back. The biggest "news" here is perhaps that ...
Wednesday's ratings rundown: 8 pm/ETWhat a feeling! Lie to Me led the pack with 7.88 million total viewers, dipping 6 percent from its last outing. It was followed by a Law & Order repeat and CBS laffer leftovers. ABC's Scrubs (4.66 mil) and Better Off Ted (4.2 mil) both dropped 12 percent week-to-week. In fact, Ted got bested in its half hour — in total viewers and demos — by Top Model, which inched up 200K to flirt with 4 mil. 9 pmAmerican Idol's double-elimination delivered 23.3 million viewers, slipping just a hair from last week's results show. (Side note: Did anyone else get the feeling KC hasn't sung that song since, I dunno, Dec. 31, 1979?) A Criminal Minds repeat claimed second with 9.75 mil, followed by Lost's clip show (6.64 mil) and an SVU rerun. 10 pmIt was BAU — yet not — for Criminal Minds, which bested all comers in a later time slot, drawing 13.55 mil. Lagging behind a(nother) Law & Order repeat, ABC's The Unusuals copped 4.97 mil, down about 20 percent from the freshman dramedy's average-to-date.
Life is twice as nice for fans of Jim Beaver starting this Thursday, when at 9 pm/ET they can find him playing Bobby in fresh episodes of the CW's Supernatural, then at 10 watch him play sheriff on CBS' Harper's Island.That, however, is far from all Beaver has going on. He has also just released Life's That Way, a novel chronicling his wife's battle with cancer — an ordeal which happened to coincide with their daughter's autism diagnosis. Beaver found time to talk to TVGuide.com about his labors of the small-screen and of the heart. Read the full Q&A after the jump.
This week on the CW's Smallville (Thursdays, 8 pm/ET), the increasingly intrepid reporter Lois Lane decides that to "catch" a superhero, one must become one. Literally. In Part 1 of our Q&A with Erica Durance, the actress discusses Lois' wild plan, shares the secrets behind her skintight outfit, and previews Smallville's next step toward the Superman mythology's famous love "triangle." TVGuide.com: Let's talk about this week's episode, "Stiletto": What is Lois up to?Erica Durance: [Laughs] When I got this script I had such a good laugh, and I was so excited. Just the whole aspect that Lois gets this bright idea of, "What other way to get a story than be the story?" Once again, she gets into a fight and has to ...
In part 2 of our video Q&A with Kevin McKidd, the Grey's Anatomy star weighs in on the last episode, in which Owen and Cristina finally hit the sheets. Why the wait? "They both know deep down that this isn't just a quickie in the on-call room," he says. "There's really something going on [between them]." McKidd also shares his thoughts on who will and won't be getting married in the May 7 episode, then gets a good laugh from our question about the "going away party" for T.R. Knight and Katherine Heigl. Lastly, the Scotsman previews how Owen will set out to mentor Alex, only to see great potential in another aspiring surgeon — George — as the Seattle Grace staff contends with a war zone-like multiple traumas situation.Watch and discuss McKidd's video after the jump.
This Thursday at 10 pm/ET, ABC's Private Practice returns with the penultimate episode of its second season. Will Addison act on her urges with the married Noah? As his wife endures a difficult pregnancy? Josh Hopkins shared a look at the torrid twists ahead. Plus: What does he not miss about his Swingtown days? TVGuide.com: Call me old fashioned, but I'm not really feeling the romance here in the Addison-Noah story. So sell me on it. Should I be rooting for this illicit hook-up?Josh Hopkins: I don't know that you should be rooting for it or not, but it makes for interesting TV. It's just such a real-life situation where someone has the very best intentions, but ...
Tuesday's tallies: 8 pm/ETAmerican Idol's Disco Night hustled 23.24 million total viewers, matching the audience of last week's sing-off. The Biggest Loser followed with 9.3 mil, its largest audience in six weeks and its best demo delivery since Feb. 3. A pair of According to Jims trailed CBS sitcom repeats, averaging 3.7 mil (down 17 percent week-to-week). Reaper reaped a 19-percent gain, hitting 2.45 mil. 9 pmDancing with the Stars' results show drew 14.47 mil, dipping 300 thou. It was followed by an NCIS repeat (12.34 mil). Fringe scared up 10.52 mil, dropping 9 percent. 90210 inched up to 2.23 mil. 10 pmA Mentalist repeat won the hour with 12.32 mil, followed by a not-new SVU (7.13 mil). A special Tuesday try-out for ABC's The Unusuals attracted 6.3 mil, which is on par with its last Wednesday outing.
