Apartments are filling up fast at the CW's new Melrose Place, so get your first month's rent (plus security deposit) to Amanda Woodward (or her current stand-in) pronto! Stephanie Jacobsen, who this season has been appearing on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, has joined the soapy pilot in the role of Lauren, a med student by day, high-end call girl by night. (You can't ...
This week, fans of A.J. Buckley are due for double their pleasure. In addition to catching the actor on CBS' CSI: NY (where he plays lab tech Adam Ross), Buckley will reprise his role as one of Supernatural's "Ghostfacers," the CW series' version of Ghost Hunters. We invited Buckley to tease what's ahead for each of his very different alter egos. TVGuide.com: Thank goodness for Adam Ross' street hockey hobby. It sure put him in the right place at the right time a few weeks ago.A.J. Buckley: Isn't it crazy how that happens? It felt great just to get out of the lab, but then to also get such great material to work with, and the explosion, and doing my own stunt.... I've really been excited with where they've taken Adam this year. They're sort of peeling the layers back. TVGuide.com: Will we learn more about Adam this season?Buckley: Honestly, every time I read a script, he gets a bit more defined. He's coming into his own. He's going from being that nervous, wide-eyed guy to ...
Every week, senior editors Matt Mitovich, Mickey O'Connor and Tim Molloy satisfy your need for TV scoop. Send all questions to megascoop@tvguide.com. I miss seeing Jack and Juliet together on Lost. Is there anything to look forward to? — MariaMATT: It's a good thing spring has sprung, because, I am sad to say, it looks like you won't have any "Jacket" to keep you warm. When I asked Elizabeth Mitchell about what's ahead for Juliet and Jack, she said, "We very rarely have anything to do together anymore, but we do have a few moments, and they are very rich and full." So get while the getting is good, 'shippers. Are CSI's Wendy and Hodges ever going to get more face time? Together? — AngelicTIM: They will indeed. In a Battlestar-studded April episode, as they investigate a murder at a sci-fi convention, Wendy and Hodges discover their mutual love ...
Monday's ratings recap: 8 pm/ETDancing with the Stars averaged 20.16 million total viewers over its two-hour run, dipping just 4 percent week-to-week. Trailing a House repeat, How I Met Your Mother (7.4 mil) didn't deliver a very big bang in Sheldon and Leonard's time slot, dropping 20 percent from its last regularly-scheduled episode. Chuck came in fourth with 6.05 mil (up 6 percent), followed by Gossip Girl (dipping to 2.2 mil). 9 pmWeakened by a Two and a Half Men repeat, Rules of Engagement plunged 17 percent, to 9.43 mil. 24 hit its first skid in a while, slipping 9 percent, while Heroes (6.48 mil) sank to a new series low. One Tree Hill held steady at 2.26 mil. 10 pmCSI: Miami topped the hour with 13.46 million viewers, followed by Castle, which at 9.8 mil crumbled some 15 percent. Medium (6.56 mil), like its lead-in, hit an all-time low.
Fresh off her six-season run as The L Word's Bette, Jennifer Beals has signed on for a short-term role on Fox's freshman hit Lie to Me. Beals will guest-star as ...
Peter Krause's latest role is neither dirty nor inherently sexy. Instead, he has been cast as Adam Braverman — aka what we are calling "the Steve Martin role" — in NBC's Parenthood pilot based on the 1989 movie. Sarah Ramos (American Dreams) will play Krause's TV daughter, who actually was a son on the big screen. Yeah, this project is sounding more and more like "inspired by" than "based on." Also on board for Friday Night Lights creator Jason Katims' adaptation of the film is ER fave Maura Tierney ...
Now playing in this week's Mitovich Mega Minute: • The Unit gets hit with a bombshell (... or two)! • Who's returning for Prison Break's big finale ... and who isn't? • Already I have told you about soap opera superstar Rebecca Budig's visit to How I Met Your Mother. Now get a heads-up on the clue that will be dropped at the very end of her episode.Watch and discuss the new MMM after the jump.
John C. McGinley will not only turn in his scrubs but also take a walk on the dramatic side for his next role, in the CBS pilot Back. Back revolves around Skeet Ulrich's character, who returns home to mysteriously discover that he was reported missing eight years earlier. Sherry Stringfield (ER) plays Ulrich's wife and the mother of their two kids. The thing is, she has since moved on ...
This week on the CW's Smallville, the DC Comics spellcaster known as Zatanna (guest star Serinda Swan) works her magic at Chloe's birthday party, granting the guest of honor a most special wish. As a result, Chloe is planted into her cousin Lois' body, and that switcheroo makes for one freaky Thursday. In this exclusive clip, watch as "Chlois" — aka Erica Durance channeling Allison Mack, nervous lower-lip bites and all — beseeches Zatanna to use her "hex appeal" to undo what's been done. Plus: Does Clark have a wish of his own to make?Watch and discuss this preview clip, after the jump.
Sunday's ratings summary minus specifics for CBS (which, due to NCAA tourney coverage, experienced overruns and overlaps that frankly make my number-crunching head hurt): 8 pm/ETExtreme Makeover placed second behind CBS with 9.77 million total viewers, a week-to-week-gain of 290K. Fox's The Simpsons (6.15 mil) and King of the Hill (5.49 mil) combined for third, each inching up a bit. NBC's Kings got crowned in its second week, dropping 24 percent to 4.58 mil. 9 pmHousewives topped the hour with 14.66 million viewers, up 230K. Fox's Family Guy (7.45 mil) was up a hair, but American Dad (5.85 mil) was flat. Celebrity Apprentice saw 7.3 mil (up 600K) tune in for Dennis Rodman's meltdown. 10 pmBrothers & Sisters placed second behind CBS with 10.4 mil, dipping 180 thou.
Jake who? In what I like to imagine is a calculated move to take himself off the "Melrose Place reboot" market, Grant Show has signed on to play the boss of Jenna Elfman's unexpectedly pregnant film critic in the CBS comedy pilot Accidentally on Purpose. Since CBS' Swingtown got its groove off, Show has ...
Fresh off her second stint as All My Children's "real Greenlee," Rebecca Budig has grabbed a guest-starring gig on CBS' How I Met Your Mother. In one of this season's final episodes, Budig will play Holly, a new girlfriend of Ted's, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively. The casting of Budig is perhaps 17 percent extra-interesting to longtime AMC viewers who know that Abigail Spencer (who played Pine Valley's virginal Becca Tyree) also has "dated" Ted. Spencer played "Blah Blah," a Season 3 girlfriend whose name Ted could never remember. The same two actresses sharing a Josh (Radnor vs. Duhamel)... . I could go on for days with the coinky-dinks. But of greater/actual concern to the HIMYM fan is the fact that ...
If you're a Tim Daly fan, or if you love Leverage in part because it seems vaguely familiar, there are good times ahead. DirecTV has inked a deal to broadcast the short-lived TV series Eyes, Smith and The Nine — unaired episodes and all. A Ray Liotta-fronted drama about an all-star ensemble of master thieves, Smith served up just three episodes during its original CBS run. But starting April 8, DirecTV's 101 Network will unspool all seven produced episodes, airing ...
The CW's Body Politic is shaping up very nicely, with the addition of Brian Austin Green, Gabrielle Union and others to the Washington, D.C.-centric pilot's growing ensemble. Should Body Politic get ordered to series and Fox's Terminator is unplugged, Green will play ...
Steve Kroft boiled a 90-minute sit-down with Barack Obama into a 60 Minutes profile of the sitting President of the United States. Among the topics covered were the economy (well, yeah), the bonus tax, healthcare, automakers' bailouts, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Kroft at one point asked Obama to address a jab thrown last week by former vice president Dick Cheney, who had said that ...
John McClane sees Indiana Jones' announced engagement and raises him an actual ceremony. On the heels of the news that fellow movie star Harrison Ford popped the question to his own (younger) paramour, Calista Flockhart, Bruce Willis said "I do" to model Emma Heming, in a small Saturday ceremony. Among the select few on hand for the union, which was held at Willis' home in Parrot Cay, Turks & Caicos, were ex-wife Demi Moore ...
Natasha Bedingfield married businessman Matthew Robinson on Saturday afternoon, in an outdoor ceremony held at the Church Estates Vineyards in Malibu - the same venue where Fergie and Josh Duhamel tied the knot earlier this year. "Our wedding day was everything we'd hope it would be," Bedingfield told UsMagazine.com in a statement. "It was simple, beautiful and ...
Movie star Harrison Ford and Brothers & Sisters cast member Calista Flockhart are engaged to be married. Ford popped the question over Valentine's Day weekend, while the couple was ...
How Friday's fare fared: 8 pm/ETCBS' NCAA tourney coverage averaged 8.36 million viewers across prime-time, which was good enough to top each hour yet off 18 percent from the Eye's usual scripted line-up. Wife Swap placed second at 8 pm with 4.85 mil, followed by Howie Do It (3.89 mil). Terminator targeted a 3 percent uptick, hitting 3.65 mil. 9 pmSupernanny secured second with 5.38 million viewers, up 13 percent week-to-week. Dollhouse dipped a bit — though not as much as many predicted, given the "other" sci-fi fare over on SyFy Sci Fi — and in fact rose to third place this week with 4.13 mil. Friday Night Lights thus fell to fourth, scoring 3.84 mil (down 13 percent). Battlestar Galactica's big goodbye, according to early returns, was watched by 2.4 million people — a 56 percent surge from the Season 3 ender and the series' best numbers since the Season 2.5 premiere (Jan. 6, 2006). Of note, BSG typically tacks on 700K through DVR+7. Be sure to check out Erin Fox's recap and Ronald D. Moore's illuminating post-mortem. 10 pmBasketball, 20/20 (6.63 mil), Dateline (6.07 mil).
In case you haven't given our video Q&A with Kate Vernon a watch already, here it is again, timed to this week's series finale of Sci Fi Channel's Battlestar Galactica. After recapping for us how she came to learn that Ellen Tigh is the fifth Cylon, Vernon weighs in on the impact of that choice. Compared to making Gaeta or Dualla the missing link, she says the Ellen reveal "gave them a lot to play with." Vernon goes on to tease the big finale, saying, "I wouldn't have thought of this ending in any lifetime. ... It will forever leave fans, in their imagination, spinning their own stories."Watch and discuss her interview after the jump.
Thursday's ratings rundown: 8 pm/ETWith Survivor benched by basketball, Bones topped the hour with 10.2 million total viewers, a week-to-week gain of 650K. CBS' NCAA tourney coverage followed, averaging 9.42 mil across the night. In third, Ugly Betty inched up 360 thou, to deliver 7.56 mil. Trailing NBC's Earl (6.42 mil)/rehashed Office combo, Smallville hit some "Turbulence," dropping 12 percent to 3.29 mil. Next week: Zatanna hits town, played by my new BFF, Serinda Swan (Q&A to come). 9 pmWith CSI riding the pine, Grey's Anatomy rebounded from last week's so-so numbers to deliver 14.36 million viewers, up 810K. NBC's The Office (7.95 mil, +450K) and 30 Rock (7.02 mil, +620K) both enjoyed gains, as did Supernatural, which at 3.15 mil scared up 11 percent more viewers. 10 pmPrivate Practice capitalized on Eleventh Hour's time-out to secure first with 10.03 million viewers, up 11 percent week-to-week. ER understandably slipped 12 percent from Clooney's visit, yet still bested basketball to place No. 2 with 9.46 mil.
Who better to lord over Mischa Barton and a gaggle of other wannabe supermodels than one of the beauty biz's premiere mannequins? Elle Macpherson, whose acting career to date is perhaps best summed up with Batman & Robin (though Sirens did have its certain charms...), has landed a recurring role in A Beautiful Life, the CW's Ashton Kutcher-produced pilot about models cohabitating in a co-ed Big Apple residence.Macpherson will play ...
