Pilot News: Mr. Dimples Goes to Washington, Polo Plays His Wife
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Lost Preview: Who's the New Woman in Sawyer's Life?
This Wednesday on Lost (9 pm/ET, ABC), Sawyer, Juliet and the other time-trippers cross paths with, among other people, a woman named Amy — and boy, is she about to make a special delivery. 24 alumna Reiko Aylesworth gave us a tease-filled look at her multi-episode turn.
Mega Buzz on NCIS, CSI: NY, Fringe, Bones, ER and More!
Senior editors Matt Mitovich, Mickey O'Connor and Tim Molloy answer your questions. Drop us a line at megascoop@tvguide.com. Give us something good about NCIS, pretty please? — GinaMATT: Remember how last week's Mega Minute scooped the imminent return of Trent Kort, the spook to whom Gibbs owes a solid? That same episode will guest-star Christian Clemenson (of Boston Legal fame) as the accountant for a criminal the team is chasing. Also on the horizon: vampire bites! (I thought Alex O. was doing Criminal Minds?) Everybody is talking about CSI: NY's Lindsay/Danny, but is there any thing about Stella/Mac? — Hilla TIM: I'm going to pass this off to executive producer Peter Lenkov, who says the last four episodes of the season are ...
Mega Minute: Scoop on a Tree Hill Twist, 24 and Chuck
Now playing in this week's Mitovich Mega Minute:• Will any happy be couple be left in town when One Tree Hill kicks off its seventh season? Get the scoop on a dilemma being thrown one couple's way.• Find out what's next for a big 24 rivalry.• Allow me to tease you about Chuck's exciting season-finale twist!Watch and discuss the new MMM after the jump.
Hot Numbers! Terminator and Dollhouse Get Big Boosts from DVR
Summer Glau and Eliza Dushku are turning a lot more heads than evidenced by the next-day Nielsens. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, in fact, is currently enjoying the biggest boost of any network show — a 36 percent jump in adult demos — from Live+7 DVR data, which factors in playback within the first week after a program airs. Similarly, Dollhouse gains 30 percent from time-shifted viewing. The moral here: Never underestimate the power of freeze-frame. The performance of both shows has been under scrutiny recent weeks, as Fox's plan to resurrect "Sci-Fi Friday" appeared to ...
Ratings: Luckily, Bachelor Viewers Are Not Quite So Fickle
Monday's ratings round-up: 8 pm/ETThe two-hour season finale of The Bachelor: Flip-Flop Edition was the night's most watched program, averaging 15.45 million total viewers — the series' best audience since Bob chose Estella in November 2003. CBS' sitcombo secured second, with Big Bang Theory holding steady at 10.94 mil and How I Met Your Mother delivering 11.08 mil. 24's White House siege averaged 11.1 mil over its two-hour run, and gained viewers each half hour. Chuck (6.6 mil) inched up a bit from last week's all-time low. 9 pmTwo and a Half Men trailed The Bachelor with 15.42 million viewers (up 500K from its last fresh outing), while lead-out Rules of Engagement returned to 11.86 mil, which was good for third in its time slot. Heroes matched last week's 7 mil. 10 pmProving that car-crash television can work, The Bachelor: After the Rose drew its largest audience ever — 17.5 million viewers. CSI: Miami settled for second with 13.3 mil, down 400 thou. Medium took a big hit, slipping 14 percent to 7.28 mil. Late NightThe premiere of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon gave NBC its highest-rated Monday Late Night in more than three years (since Jan. 16, 2006). It also bested CBS' Late Late Show and ABC's Jimmy Kimmel by margins of 35 percent and 17 percent, respectively.
Pilot News: Wolf Bites into V, Bowen Joins Family, and More
From Party of Five to party of V... ? Scott Wolf has been cast on ABC's reboot of the aliens-among-us V, playing an ambitious TV newscaster who becomes a mouthpiece for the visiting ETs' agenda. In other ABC pilot castings, Julie Bowen (you say Boston Legal or Ed, I say Lost) has landed a lead role in ...
24 Preview: Will President Taylor Make the Ultimate Sacrifice?
This Monday, Fox's 24 delivers double the Bauer with a two-hour event kicking off at 8 pm/ET. The occasion? None other than the disgruntled General Juma's extremely bold attack on a Washington, D.C., landmark. Indeed, just when you thought 24 had attempted it all, the writers push that envelope just a bit more. And further ratcheting the tension? Savior-by-trade Jack Bauer is thrown behind bars at a critical juncture. "We're so proud of these [episodes]," executive producer Howard Gordon shares with TVGuide.com. "We've been looking forward to this week." Gordon says the two-hour outing serves a specific purpose, in that it ...
Ratings: Tom Selleck's Jesse Stone Ices the Competition
Sunday's ratings summary: 7 pm/ET 60 Minutes topped the hour with 14.12 million total viewers, besting the conclusion of Fox's NASCAR coverage (10.52 mil, No. 1 in demos). SNL: The Best of Tracy Morgan placed fourth (behind ABC's videos show), with three mil. 8 pm Extreme Makeover (10.96 million viewers) just barely edged out The Amazing Race (10.75 mil). SNL: The Best of Will Ferrell improved on Tracy's highlights reel, delivering 5.63 mil. 9 pm In the three-way competition between two-hour "events," CBS' Jesse Stone: Thin Ice placed first - and was the night's most watched program - with 15.13 million viewers. That marks a 16 percent increase over the mystery series' previous installment. Brothers & Sisters (ahem) "came to life" with nearly 12 million viewers, a 27 percent surge over its last outing. The second cycle of Celebrity Apprentice premiered to 8.8 mil, an 18 percent plunge from the first season's opener. Maybe next time, the Donald should promise a "shocking death"?
Pilot News: Damages Star Feels Trauma, Pope's Still Popular
We said, "Give this star a show," and they gave her one. Anastasia Griffith (aka Ellen's sis-in-law on Damages) has scored a gig on Trauma, NBC's drama pilot about first-response paramedics. Griffith will play ...
Pilot News: CBS Eyes Melissa George and Cole Hauser
Abruptly exiting Grey's Anatomy didn't leave Melissa George out of work for long. The Aussie beauty has in short order joined the ensemble cast of CBS' as-yet-untitled legal drama about federal prosecutors based out of Manhattan. George, says the Reporter, will play a Los Angeles Assistant District Attorney who ...
Pilot News: Raver Goes Inside the Box; Mom's the Word for Milano
Lipstick would seem to be running out. That is, Lipstick Jungle's chances of a pick-up by NBC. On the heels of Lindsay Price being cast in the ABC pilot Eastwick, Kim Raver has landed a female lead in Inside the Box, the new drama being exec-produced by Grey's Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes and set at a Washington network news bureau. Raver will play Samantha ...
Holly Hunter: Is Grace on a Mission to Save Another?
This Monday at 9 pm/ET, TNT's Saving Grace resumes its second season, but since we last left off, so much has changed. Namely, Grace has a new partner — Abby Charles, played by guest-star Christina Ricci — while Butch is now paired with Ham, now that Bobby is undercover. Plus, Earl has new business for Grace to tend to, involving death row inmate Leon Cooley. (Oh, and a serial killer is on the loose, too.) Holly Hunter shared a look at the next batch of episodes. TVGuide.com: There's a fair amount of upheaval being worked through in the squad room when the season resumes. Would you say that "change" is a big theme for what's ahead?Holly Hunter: I would say that the theme of the entire series is Grace dealing with change. It's hard to ever nail it down to any one thing that she's dealing with. But these days, one thing she's dealing with is forgiveness. She's trying to come around to forgiving herself for things that she's done, for things that have happened in her life that she has blamed herself for. TVGuide.com: I wasn't too impressed with her new partner, Abby Charles, at first — and neither is Grace. But I assume that changes soon enough?Hunter: Oh, just wait and see ...
ER Finale Admits Gilmore Girl Alexis Bledel
TV's former Gilmore girl, Alexis Bledel, will return to the smaller screen as a guest star in the two-hour ER series finale, airing April 2 Bledel will trade in her Traveling Pants for scrubs, playing ...
Radio Broadcasting Pioneer Paul Harvey Dies at 90
Paul Harvey, the distinctly voiced news commentator whose radio career spanned nearly 60 years, died on Saturday in Arizona, a spokesman for ABC Radio Networks tells the Associated Press. He was 90. A cause of death was not immediately available. Harvey's passing comes less than a year after that of his wife and longtime producer, Lynne. "My father and mother created from thin air what one day became radio and television news," Paul Harvey Jr. said in a statement. "So in the past year, an industry has lost its godparents and ... millions have lost a friend." Known for his staccato voice and trademark delivery of "The Rest of the Story" (a feature through which he anecdotally recalled the lives of famous folk), Harvey's career ...
Pilot News: Cassidy Hits Melrose, McQueen Bites into Vampire
Supernatural alumna and daughter-of-David Katie Cassidy is packing her bags for Melrose Place, the CW's pilot reboot of the frothy Fox series. Cassidy, says Variety, will fill the role of Ella, a stylish up-and-coming publicist. Although Cassidy has the female lead (as the would-be bride) in CBS' Harper's Island, premiering April 9, Melrose will ...
Ratings: Ghost Story Draws Best Audience Since Nov. 15
How Friday's fare fared: 8 pm/ETGhost Whisperer was the night's most watched program, scaring up 11.56 million total viewers - a 12 percent surge from its last fresh outing and the series' best numbers since Nov. 15 (when Jim fully inhabited Sam's body for the first time). Terminator dipped 10 percent (3.42 mil) to place fourth behind Wife Swap (4.6 mil) and Howie Do It (4.25 mil). 9 pmFlashpoint inched up 300K from its last new episode to win the hour with 9.17 million viewers. Trailing Supernanny, Friday Night Lights tackled third place with an audience of 4.23 mil (up 240K). Dollhouse dipped a smidgen to 4.13 mil. (For what it's worth, here's an interesting article where Eliza Dushku stresses that Episode 6, penned by Joss Whedon, is where the show starts to hit its true stride.)10 pmNumbers netted 9.6 million viewers, a gain of 600K. It was followed by 20/20 (7.1 mil) and Dateline (5.78 mil).
Are Rihanna and Chris Brown Back Together?
Could Rihanna and on-again/off-again beau Chris Brown really be spending time together just three weeks after his arrest? People reports the singers are at one of Sean "Diddy" Combs' homes on Miami Beach's Star Island. "They care for each other," a source tells the magazine. "While Chris is reflective and saddened ...
VIDEO: Tom Selleck Reveals Why Jesse Stone Is on Thin Ice
The police chief of Paradise, Mass. is back on duty Sunday, March 1, at 9 pm/ET, in Jesse Stone: Thin Ice, the fifth entry in CBS' TV-movie series based on the Robert B. Parker novels. Tom Selleck stopped by the TVGuide.com offices to talk up his latest turn as the small-town cop, who this go-around finds his actions called into question by the Boston Police Department's Internal Affairs division. Selleck also reveals why the series that made him famous, Magnum, P.I., has yet to get the reunion movie it deserves — and why it should not be lampooned on the big screen.Watch and discuss this interview after the jump.
24 Scoop: Jack Will Find Time for New Romance
The following scoop will take place between January 2010 and May 2010. All forthcoming spoilers will occur in real time. Could it be that Jack Bauer is clock-blocked no more and will finally find time for a new romance? 24 executive producer Howard Gordon says that the increasingly intense moments between the disgraced CTU agent and his Season 7 sidekick, FBI agent Renee Walker, are leading to some good — if complicated — loving. "They have established the emotional framework for a relationship that I think we're going to see manifested ...
One Tree Hill Minus Two? Burton's Emotional Message to Fans
It looks like Chad Michael Murray might not be the only longtimer bidding adieu to One Tree Hill come Season 7. Not long after the CW announced another pick-up for the serial, The Chad's leading lady, Hilarie Burton, issued what for all intents and purposes is a goodbye message to her fans. All but confirming an online report that she, like Murray, won't be continuing her run, Burton says ...
Pilot News: LL Cool J, O'Donnell Say Y-E-S to NCIS Spinoff
The deals are now done, and Chris O'Donnell and recording artist LL Cool J are on board for CBS" much-ballyhooed NCIS spinoff. O'Donnell will play Callen, a chameleon-like lead agent, while LL's character, a former Navy SEAL, is described as hard on the outside but "thoughtful, eloquent and disarmingly charming" under the surface.Previously announced castings include CSI alumna ...
