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24's New Day: Watch the Trailer, Talk About It Here!

Is you-know-who really back? Is this season's big baddie really so-and-so?How does what's-his-name look with a shaved head?When did we last see Jack Bauer in a suit and tie? (OK, that joke is kind of lame; he donned one to visit the consulate last season. But you catch my drift.)The 24: Season 7 trailer is now online and playing (among other places) here at TVGuide.com. Check. It. Out.Related: Mary Lynn Rajskub reveals what Chloe is up to during this new day.

Thu, Oct 25, 2007

Not Smooth, Jin: Lost Star Nabbed for DUI

Don't pick any green bananas, Jin. Original Lost cast member Daniel Dae Kim on early Thursday morning was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving, the Honolulu Advertiser reports. Details of Kim's DUI arrest haven't been released, but police said he was flagged down around 3 am, booked at the downtown Honolulu police station and then released at 5:05. A silent Kim was escorted by two officers to an SUV that was waiting for him just outside the swan police station's receiving area. (Watch video of his release here.) With Cynthia Watros and Michelle Rodriguez, Kim is the third Lostie to get slapped with a DUI charge.

Thu, Oct 25, 2007

Not Smooth, Jin: Lost Star Nabbed for DUI

Ratings: World Series Sox It to 'Em

This Wednesday, as the launch of Fox's World Series coverage averaged 16.67 million total viewers, the best Game 1 tally in three years (since Cards/Red Sox):8 pm/ETPushing Daisies placed second with 9.46 mil, down 300K week-to-week and 26 percent from its debut. NBC's Phenomenon conjured up 8.43 mil, topping Kid Nation (8.03 mil, up 130 thou). Top Model (4.72 mil) slipped a quarter mil.9 pmIt was business as usual for Criminal Minds (14.93 mil) and Private Practice (11.77 mil, No. 1 in demos). Bionic Woman slowed down by another 740 thou, and is now off 43 percent from its premiere. (That said, NBC points out that despite the baseball coverage, Jaime maintained her grip on key demos.) Gossip Girl (2.55 mil) gained 130K.10 pmCSI: NY this week won the hour with 13.64 mil, down 210K. Likewise, Dirty Sexy Money (8.56 mil, -270K) and Life (6.85 mil, -800 thou) also took hits.

Thu, Oct 25, 2007

Maria Shriver to NBC News: I'll (Not) Be Back

Maria Shriver, who in 2003 took an extended leave from NBC News when hubby Arnold Schwarzenegger ran for governor of Cali and since then has twice anchored Dateline, says the media's sensationalized coverage of Anna Nicole Smith's death has soured her on ever resuming her newsgathering career. "It was then that I knew that the TV-news business had changed, and so had I," Shriver said Tuesday at the annual California Governor and First Lady's Conference on Women. "I called NBC News and told them I'm not coming back." She then got behind the wheel of a pickup truck and did not drive through the front door of the Peacock's front offices.

Thu, Oct 25, 2007

New Da Vinci Code Sets Start Date, More Movie News

With an eye on the possible writers' strike and a Christmas 2008 release, Columbia is fast-tracking Angels & Demons, the Ron Howard-directed follow-up to The Da Vinci Code, for a February production start.... Also per Variety, Dakota and Elle Fanning will star with Cameron Diaz in an adaptation of the Jodi Picoult novel My Sister's Keeper.... Michael Mann is developing the mob drama Frankie Machine as a star vehicle for Robert De Niro.... According to the Reporter, Woody Harrelson will join Bruce Willis and Channing Tatum in Oliver Stone's new Vietnam drama Pinkville.... Jamie Foxx is a detective investigating race-related slayings in The Zebra Murders.

Thu, Oct 25, 2007

Katie Holmes Returns, Celeb DUI and More Short Cuts

Entertainment Tonight will premiere the trailer for Mad Money, Katie Holmes' first film role since marrying Tom Cruise, says the New York Post.... Veteran TV host Gary Collins on Tuesday was arrested for DUI after being involved in a crash actually caused by the other driver. He was released on a $40,000 bond.... HGTV has ordered additional episodes of House Hunters, Hidden Potential and My First Place, says TV Week.... The Dr. Phil spin-off The Doctors has been cleared in half the country for a fall 2008 launch into syndication.

Thu, Oct 25, 2007

Katie Holmes Returns, Celeb DUI and More Short Cuts

Transplanted Trees and More ABC Schedule Notes

Perhaps looking to break the time-slot change record set by Bernie Mac, Men in Trees is again being uprooted. The wonderful, deserving-of-a-better-audience series will air two hours earlier, Fridays at 8, starting Nov. 2. (In turn, 20/20 reclaims its 10 pm berth.)Elsewhere on ABC, Samantha Who? will move up to 9 pm Monday starting Nov. 26  the night of DWTS' final performance show  where its lead-out will be Notes from the Underbelly. And as scooped by Ausiello, October Road returns Nov. 22 with a special post-Grey's outing before settling into its Mondays-at-10 home a few nights later.Related: ABC Says: Play It Again, Sam... antha

Thu, Oct 25, 2007

Transplanted Trees and More ABC Schedule Notes

Back to You Moves Forward with Full Season

Fox has given a full-season pickup to the sitcom Back to You, the first of its scripted freshman series to rate such an honor.Thus far this fall, Fox has renewed Kitchen Nightmares for a second run, ordered additional scripts for K-Ville and put the docusoap Nashville on, um, "hiatus." The Next Great American Band, meanwhile, last Friday debuted to dismal numbers.

Thu, Oct 25, 2007

Back to You Moves Forward with Full Season

Tree Hill Starlet Tackles NFL QB, More Love Notes

It would appear that someone's pass was well received. One Tree Hill's Sophia Bush (aka Chad's former missus) is being squired these days by Cowboys QB Tony Romo, says People. As for Romo's previous celeb hookup? American Idol Carrie Underwood's romance with Gossip Girl cutie Chace Crawford is going strong, with the pair most recently spied at Justin Timberlake's Southern Hospitality NYC hot spot.... Is Christina Aguilera singing for three? Sources tell the New York Daily News that the "presumably" pregnant pop star is expecting twins.

Thu, Oct 25, 2007

Tree Hill Starlet Tackles NFL QB, More Love Notes

Bionic Woman Undergoes Another Tune-up

The production staff of Bionic Woman now officially has more Jasons than the entire Friday the 13th franchise. Jason Cahill, who won a Writers Guild award for his work on The Sopranos, has grabbed a wrench, pliers and duct tape and come on board the waning NBC series as show-runner, sources tell the Reporter. His mission: to make the show stronger and faster, or at least teach Jaime how to make a savory puttanesca sauce.Cahill joins executive producers Jason Smilovic and David Eick, while Jason Katims  who has been pulling double duty while "on loan" from Friday Night Lights  has been pitching in for the past month as a consultant.POLL: Can Bionic Woman be saved? Vote here.

Thu, Oct 25, 2007

Casting News: Dermot Mulroney Delivers, and More

Per Variety, Lifetime has tapped Dermot Mulroney and Emily Watson to star in a TV-movie adaptation of the best-selling Kim Edwards novel The Memory Keeper's Daughter (shop Amazon). Set in 1964, the story concerns a doctor who delivers twin babies, but to spare the mother heartache, lies that the one born with Down syndrome didn't survive. Secretly, his nurse raises the child on her own.... Brendan Fehr (Roswell) and Kenneth Choi have joined the ABC Family drama pilot Samurai Girl, the Reporter reports.

Wed, Oct 24, 2007

Casting News: Dermot Mulroney Delivers, and More

Prince's Purple Reigns as Best Soundtrack Ever

Described by Vanity Fair as "perhaps the best badly acted film ever," Purple Rain nonetheless topped the mag's list of the 50 greatest soundtracks. VF hails the chart-topper for its combination of "funk, R&B, pop, metal and even psychedelia into a sound that defined the '80s."The Beatles' A Hard Day's Night placed No. 2 on the list, followed by The Harder They Come, Pulp Fiction and The Graduate.Rounding out the top 10 are Superfly, Trainspotting, Saturday Night Fever, American Graffiti and The Big Chill.

Wed, Oct 24, 2007

Prince's Purple Reigns as Best Soundtrack Ever

Stargate Atlantis Keeps Flying for a Fifth Season

Sci Fi Channel has greenlit a fifth, 20-episode season of Stargate Atlantis, it was announced late Tuesday. The series, which has been averaging 1.8 million total viewers this season (versus the cabler's typical audience of 1.3 mil), "truly came out from under the shadow of its sister series [Stargate SG-1] this year and proved that it's a hit in its own right," says Sci Fi exec VP Mark Stern.

Wed, Oct 24, 2007

Stargate Atlantis Keeps Flying for a Fifth Season

In the Works: Sharapova Seeks Match with the CW, More

Maria Sharapova, currently ranked No. 5 among female tennis players, is partnering with scribe Jacob Epstein (Shark, Without a Trace) on a sports-themed drama for the CW that's set inside the world of professional tennis, says Variety.... Veteran game-show producers Burt Wheeler and Sharon Sussman are developing a syndicated adaptation of Trivial Pursuit, just in time for the board game's 25th anniversary as well as the arrival of Viva Laughlin as an answer.... CMT offers beleaguered truck drivers a lifestyle overhaul with Trick My Trucker, premiering Nov. 10.

Wed, Oct 24, 2007

In the Works: Sharapova Seeks Match with the CW, More

Zac Efron Takes a Wife, and More Movie News

Leslie Mann (Knocked Up, 40-Year-Old Virgin) will play the wife of High School Musical heartthrob Zac Efron in 17, a comedy about a grown man who finds himself back in high school.... More Disney-HSM goodness from the Reporter: Billy Ray Cyrus is pop to Olesya Rulin in Flying By, an indie about a businessman who pursues his dream of being in a rock band.... Jessica Biel will produce and star as a mysterious woman in the crime thriller Die a Little.... Kevin Costner is a dad disturbed by the increasingly ominous behavior of his munchkin (Pan's Labyrinth's Ivana Baquero) in The New Daughter.

Wed, Oct 24, 2007

Zac Efron Takes a Wife, and More Movie News

Boston Legal, Spider-Man 3 and More Short Cuts

This week's episode of ABC punching bag Boston Legal, preempted by a 20/20 special about the California wildfires, will air next Tuesday.... On Monday in Times Square, Papa John's, Spider-Man 3 director Sam Raimi and "Spidey" himself will announce a "Hometown Super-Heroes" campaign honoring police, fire and rescue workers. The rest of you can enjoy a Super-Hero XL3 pizza for $12.99.... Gretchen Mol and hubby Tod Williams welcomed a son back on Sept. 10, says People.... Heads up, Demi and Cameron: E! counts down the 25 Hottest Hollywood Cougar Tales on Saturday at 5 pm/ET.

Wed, Oct 24, 2007

Prison Break Spin-off Puts a Babe Behind Bars

Paris Hilton, call your agent. Fox has ordered a script for a distaff Prison Break called Prison Break: Cherry Hill (yes, really). Penned by PB exec producers Matt Olmstead and Zac Estrin, the spin-off would focus on Molly, an as-yet-uncast character to be introduced this season on the mother ship. According to the Reporter, having suffered a family tragedy at the hands of The Company, upper-middle-class housewife Molly will seek out Michael at Sona for tips on exacting revenge. Ultimately, Molly is locked up for a life sentence only to learn that her "dead" loved ones are in fact alive. Cue escape plan. (The truly scary thing? One of her cell mates is nicknamed T-Bag.)If Cherry Hill doesn't gain any traction, Molly would continue on as a Prison Break character, perhaps as a love interest for Michael (meaning, she shouldn't invest in any necklaces).POLL: Is this a good idea or... not? Vote here.

Wed, Oct 24, 2007

Prison Break Spin-off Puts a Babe Behind Bars

In the Works: Steven Weber Zips Up, and More

Steven Weber, who has a recurring gig coming up on Brothers & Sisters, will star in Zip, a half-hour comedy pilot for NBC. Weber will play a Beverly Hills hanger-on who, with a colorful cast of accomplices, concocts one scheme after another to "make it big" and provide for his three kids.... Also from the Reporter, Starsky & Hutch film director Todd Phillips will make his TV debut with The More Things Change, an ABC comedy pilot about four guy friends.... MTV is developing a new take  three, actually  on Name That Tune, each of which will be customized for play on MTV, VH1 and CMT.

Tue, Oct 23, 2007

In the Works: Steven Weber Zips Up, and More

Trump Eyes Hugest Daytime Series in TV History

Someone give this guy a business empire to spend his time overseeing. And fast. Twentieth Television is expected to announce a deal to produce a syndicated daytime series presenting Donald Trump as a financial guru to the non-stars. Described in the Reporter as "Dr. Phil meets Judge Judy," the untitled half-hour show would find the Donald mediating monetary disputes between husbands and wives, parents and kids and the like. Targeted for fall 2008, the series would be shot at Trump's offices in New York City.

Tue, Oct 23, 2007

Trump Eyes Hugest Daytime Series in TV History

Supermodels Make for Model Supermodel Hosts

Bravo has announced that Niki Taylor and Tyson Beckford will host its new competitive reality series Make Me a Supermodel. Based (of course) on a successful U.K. series and set to premiere in 1Q 2008, Supermodel makes aspiring clotheshangers cohabitate in a New York City loft and then pits them in challenges designed to determine their worthiness. Each week, viewers vote to decide who stays and who goes. The winning catwalker gets $100,000 and the illusion of launching a pro-circuit modeling career.

Tue, Oct 23, 2007

Supermodels Make for Model Supermodel Hosts

Megan Fox's Supernatural Body and More Movie News

Transformers' Megan Fox is a cheerleader with a perfect life who becomes possessed and begins killing local lads in Jennifer's Body, a thriller fancied as Heathers meets Beetlejuice.... Also per the Reporter, Hidden Palms' Amber Heard is a sexually promiscuous woman in 1980s L.A. in The Informers, based on the Bret Easton Ellis novel.... Julia Stiles stars opposite Paddy Considine and Scott Speedman in the thriller Cry of the Owl..... Per Variety, Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio will reteam next year for Shutter Island, an adaptation of the Denis Lehane novel about a U.S. Marshal investigating an heiress' vanishing.... Toby Wilkins (Splinter) will direct The Grudge 3.

Tue, Oct 23, 2007

Megan Fox's Supernatural Body and More Movie News

Bones, Looney Tunes and More Short Cuts

Bones creator Hart Hanson has inked a new eight-figure, three-year deal with 20th Century Fox Television to continue as executive producer as well as develop new projects.... Microsoft's Xbox Live service today makes available 50 hi-def Looney Tunes episodes featuring Bugs, Daffy and the gang.... It is now appropriate to ooh and ahh over Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon's twins: the NYPD Blue alumna on Oct. 18 gave birth to two boys, Jax and Jaid, says People.... Tied to the Dec. 8 premiere of Genie Francis' The Note, Hallmark Channel has launched WhatWouldYouWrite.com, where you can reach out to those who have impacted your life.

Tue, Oct 23, 2007