Friday, January 7, 2011

'Wonder Woman': No takers

'Wonder Woman': No takers

'Wonder Woman': No takers

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 09:00 PM PST

Sources tell EW buzzed-about bid to bring her back to TV ends as final potential home for project passes


'Star Wars' goes massively multiplayer

Posted: 07 Jan 2011 07:25 PM PST

The latest "Star Wars" massively multiplayer online role-playing game, "The Old Republic," allows you to play as a Sith and travel to Hoth in your own spaceship. AP's weekly Video Game Video offers a preview of the game, due later this year. (Jan. 7)


James Gandolfini: Real Housewives is "Extraordinary," Jersey Shore? Not So Much

Posted: 07 Jan 2011 07:04 PM PST

James Gandolfini is willing to admit he's seen some reality television.

"I have watched Real Housewives of Atlanta. That was extraordinary," the three-time Emmy-winner said Friday at the Television Critics Association's winter preview sessions. Asked about Jersey Shore, the actor said, "No, no, no."

In HBO's upcoming original movie Cinema Verite, Gandolfini will play reality TV pioneer...

Murder trial of Amanda Knox featured in TV movie - The Associated Press

Posted: 07 Jan 2011 08:20 PM PST


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Murder trial of Amanda Knox featured in TV movie
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PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — The murder trial of American college student Amanda Knox is recreated in a television movie that had the actors debating her innocence or guilt. "It's one of those really riveting stories where you just don't know," Hayden ...
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Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ‘Predator’: PopWatch Rewind gets stalked in the jungle

Posted: 07 Jan 2011 07:45 PM PST

Conan the Barbarian is a film about the birth of an ancient legend, but the film created its own modern legend: Arnold Schwarzenegger, the impossibly muscular, unbeatable, barely understandable, curiously noble badass. In turn, Commando is a film about a legend (super-soldier John Matrix) at the peak of his form. Coming right after Schwarzenegger's breakout


Wonder Woman TV show ‘not moving forward’

Posted: 07 Jan 2011 07:30 PM PST

Wonder Woman wasn't able to lasso a new home. Sources tell EW that all the major broadcasters have passed on the much-buzzed about project. Late Friday, NBC was the final network that declined to bring back the superhero. Warner Bros. TV was actively shopping a script from David E. Kelley that updated the period tale about an Amazon princess


Murder trial of Amanda Knox featured in TV movie (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2011 08:09 PM PST

Hayden Panetierre, left, and Marcia Gay Harden, co-stars of the Lifetime Television movie 'The Amanda Knox Story,' take part in a panel discussion during the A&E Networks Television Critics Association winter press tour in Pasadena, Calif., Friday, Jan. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)AP - The murder trial of American college student Amanda Knox is recreated in a television movie that had the actors debating her innocence or guilt.

'Jersey Shore' premiere highest rated for MTV (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2011 08:11 PM PST

From left, cast members Ronnie Ortiz-Magro, Sammi Giancola, Paul DelVecchio, Jenni Farley, Nicole Polizzi, and Vinny Guadagnino, from the television show 'Jersey Shore', pose for a portrait in Los Angeles on Sept. 13, 2010. More than 8 million viewers watched Snooki and company return to 'Jersey Shore.' The third season premiere of the MTV reality TV series was the most watched series telecast in the cable network's history, MTV announced Friday. The network said 8.45 million total viewers tuned in to the show, which chronicles the carryings-on of a group of hard-partying, 20- and 30-somethings at a beach house on the Seaside Heights, N.J., boardwalk. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)AP - More than 8 million viewers watched Snooki and company return to "Jersey Shore."

Justin Bieber Takes Note of Raven-Symone's New Slim Figure

Posted: 07 Jan 2011 06:44 PM PST

Looks like Raven-Symone's dramatic weight-loss has caught the eye of the most sought-after teenage boy in the country: Justin Bieber.

After Symone stunned the crowd with her newly slimmed down body Wednesday on the red carpet of the People Choice Awards, Bieber posted what appeared to be a smitten tweet ...

Paul Reubens on Pee-Wee's Comeback: I Plan on Doing It 30 Years from Now

Posted: 07 Jan 2011 06:24 PM PST

The iconic grey suit and red bowtie have returned: Pee-wee Herman is back and heading to HBO for a special filmed presentation of his Broadway show, The Pee-wee Herman Show on Broadway.

The 90-minute comedy show is not unlike an extended version of his Emmy-winning Pee-wee's Playhouse series, which ran for four years on CBS. Pee-wee ran in Los Angeles a year ago and is currently playing in New York's Stephen Sondheim Theatre, where it has been met with favorable reviews.

"It's cyclical," Reubens said at Friday's Television Critics Association's winter preview sessions. Reubens appeared via satellite from New York in full Pee-wee attire. "If you wait long enough...

Kate Winslet on Making Her TV Debut: "Film, Schmilm"

Posted: 07 Jan 2011 06:19 PM PST

She's won an Oscar. She's starred in one of the most successful movies of all time. Now, Kate Winslet is about to conquer another first: television.

"It never occurred to me, beyond the moment of reading those scripts, 'Wow, this is television, therefore it's going to be different somehow,'" Winslet said Friday at the Television Critics Association's winter preview sessions. The actress is starring in HBO's 5-part adaptation of Mildred Pierce. "Sure we have more to shoot ... but the level of determination and level of focus was so much more intense than certainly any...

Happy Birthday to...

Posted: 07 Jan 2011 06:00 PM PST

See which stars blow out candles from January 8-14.


Evan Rachel Wood: Winter TCA Tour Hottie - The Gossip Girls

Posted: 07 Jan 2011 05:31 PM PST


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Evan Rachel Wood: Winter TCA Tour Hottie
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History Channel cancels ‘The Kennedys’ miniseries

Posted: 07 Jan 2011 06:45 PM PST

The History Channel announced that it would not broadcast the eight-part miniseries The Kennedys. "While the film is produced and acted with the highest quality," said a network rep in a statement, "after viewing the final product in its totality, we have concluded this dramatic interpretation is not a fit for the History brand. We


History network pulls plug on Kennedy project (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2011 08:23 PM PST

AP - The History Channel will not air a controversial miniseries it produced about the Kennedy family, saying the multimillion project that had become the network's most expensive on record did not fit the "History brand."


Before It Airs, History Channel Cancels The Kennedys

Posted: 07 Jan 2011 06:14 PM PST

A&E Television Networks' The History Channel has canceled plans to air The Kennedys, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The eight-part miniseries, starring Greg Kinnear and Katie Holmes as John F. Kennedy and wife Jackie Kennedy, was slated to air this spring. A multi-million dollar project developed by 24 co-creator Joel Surnow, The Kennedys sparked controversy among ...

Access Star Sightings: Dec. 31, 2010 - Jan. 6, 2011

Posted: 07 Jan 2011 06:02 PM PST

LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- Las Vegas was the place to be for New Year's Eve! Which celebs rang in the New Year in Sin City? Find out after the jump

Attorneys for Jackson doctor hint at a defense

Posted: 07 Jan 2011 06:33 PM PST

Reuters - An attorney for Michael Jackson's doctor on Friday hinted that the pop star may have killed himself with the drug propofol, even as prosecutors tried to bolster their claim the singer's physician committed manslaughter.


James Gandolfini Calls 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta 'Extraordinary'

Posted: 07 Jan 2011 05:58 PM PST

PASADENA, Calif. -- "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" is one of the Bravo reality TV franchise's most dramatic installments and it appears they have one very famous fan - James Gandolfini... sort of.

Evan Rachel Wood On Queen Sophie Anne's 'True Blood' Future: 'I Think She'll Get What She Deserves'

Posted: 07 Jan 2011 05:49 PM PST

PASADENA, Calif. -- Evan Rachel Wood has said "True Blood" fans can expect an "epic" fight between her character, Queen Sophie Anne of Louisiana, and Stephen Moyer's Bill Compton, when the show returns this summer.

"Of course there will be a resolution. And we'll just have to wait and see what happens, but it will be epic," Evan said of the fight scene between the two vampires that began just as Season 3 of the Alan Ball series wrapped up last fall, when asked by reporters following her 2011 Winter TCA panel for her HBO miniseries "Mildred Pierce."
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