Andy Richter Tells All To Kelly Ripa (Reege is on Vacation)
No one closely involved in the Conan O'Brien/NBC chaos has spoken out on the matter, at least anyone close to Conan's side. Jeff Zucker did give an interview to Charlie Rose and Jay Leno sat down with Oprah, but Conan hasn't given an interview (he's
NBC Ratings Still Good After Olympics
Sure the wall-to-wall Winter Olympics left a lot of people wondering why they should give half-a-crap about ice dancing, but NBC has bounced back with its post-Olympic lineup. NBC's two new prime time series, 'Parenthood' and 'The Marriage Ref,' won
Oscars Score Ratings Gold
Last night's Oscars may have been a comedy of technical errors, but the returns are nothing to laugh at. The broadcast of the 82nd Annual Academy Awards scored over 41.3 million sets of eyeballs Sunday night, the highest audience for an Oscar ceremo
CBS Locks Up CEO Les Moonves Through 2015
If Les Moonves were a playing craps at a Las Vegas casino, he'd be the guy with the dice on a hot streak. You would put your chips down to let it ride and that's exactly what the CBS Corporation did. CBS has given president and CEO Leslie Moonves a n
Changes Coming For Oscar's Best Song Nominees
In recent years, the songs nominated at the Oscars have not been particularly memorable or worth the time during the broadcast to waste on music that nobody remembers after walking out of the multiplex. This year, ironically, there is at least one ve
What You Missed Last Night: Jeff Zucker on Charlie Rose
We've heard from Jay Leno, we've heard from Conan O'Brien, we've heard from Dick Ebersol, and we've even heard from Southland's Ben McKenzie. But what about the guy who started all this, Jeff Zucker? He gave an interview to Charlie Rose last night an
The real reason The Jeff Dunham Show went off the air
How is it possible for a show to go from drawing the biggest opening ratings ever for a network to cancellation in one season? That's easy: a breakdown in creative differences between the host and his cast. Unfortunately for Jeff Dunham, his cast is
250 cast members of Survivor to reunite this weekend
Jeff Probst is on Twitter now, and today he had some breaking news. 250 cast members from all of Survivor's many seasons will reunite this Saturday at the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena. This includes the final four contestants
Why did Comedy Central cancel The Jeff Dunham Show?
You don't usually see the #1 cable debut get canceled in its first season, but that's what has happened to The Jeff Dunham Show. Comedy Central says that they have decided not to renew the comedy show featuring puppets. The comic will, however, still
New Images: Tony Stark, Whiplash and Black Widow in Iron Man 2
Hot on the heels of the new poster and those comments from Jeff Bridges about the first Iron Man, Paramount has dropped four new images from Iron Man 2. (I didn't intend to do two Iron Man posts in a row, I swear.) These aren't earth-shaking; we see
Jeff Bridges on Iron Man: “They Had No Script, Man”
Can't you just hear the headline quote above intoned in The Dude's spacey tones? You may have heard about the fact that Iron Man came together more or less without a solid script, but according to Jeff Bridges it was definitely 'less.' Read his take
Crazy Heart Poster, The Oscar Contender Earning Comparisons to The Wrestler
When I reported on Crazy Heart in 2008, the film was affiliated with the CMT network, yet drew my interest with a cast that included Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Robert Duval. All of these actors excel in roles steeped in the weathering of li
Leno Weekly: Bill Cosby, Jeff Dunham, Dana Carvey and more!
Thursday's return of 30 Rock afforded a pretty fun segue into The Jay Leno Show. 30 Rock has always been a little self-aware, and here they took that to the next level. During the closing credits, Jack (Alec Baldwin) said to Liz (Tina Fey), "Step int
D'Onfrio and Erbe out at Law and Order: CI?
Last week we told you that Julianne Nicholson had decided not to come back to Law and Order: CI after having a baby, and in the same post we hinted that other changes might be coming to the USA show too. This could be those changes.The Hollywood Repo
VOTD: Stephen Colbert and Jeff Goldblum Play Out Battleship: The Movie
The peg will be played by Keanu Reeves. Hollywood's looming shit squall of "movies" based on board games finally received an irksome hat tip from Stephen Colbert and the top shelf writers at The Colbert Report. It didn't disappoint. After mentioning
