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Is This the Year for a Giant Shift in Emmy’s Reality Categories?

Over the years, the Emmys have championed several underdogs who truly deserved the hardware — The Wonder Years , Arrested Development , Andre Braugher, Bryan Cranston, Kristin Chenoweth, and my eternal girl Jackee Harry all come to mind — but when it comes to reality television, the committee is stubborn in its devotion to the same staid programming. Even casual statisticians know that the Reality Competition Emmy has gone to The Amazing Race since the award’s inception in 2002, but there’s a point when a winning streak becomes a regime, and Phil Keoghan’s juggernaut surely qualifies by now. Still, a big change may come tomorrow morning with the 2010 Emmy nominees: a shake-up for reality TV and the people who appreciate it.

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Adjustment Bureau Lives Up to its Name, Moves Again to March 2011

Universal this afternoon passed along a new batch of release dates for its 2010-11 slate, and it looks… unfortunate. Not to be the eternal skeptic or anything, but how else should one respond to The Adjustment Bureau getting moved a second time in three months — and this time all the way to next March? Will this be 2011’s surprise off-season blockbuster, a la Shutter Island ? Or will it be its bloated, mistimed flop The Wolfman ?

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Richard Dreyfuss Heads to Weeds

If you were wondering which of the 5 Movieline-approved stars would be the first to pull ahead in the race to be the next Betty White, here’s your answer: Richard Dreyfuss. The veteran actor has signed on for four episodes of Weeds to play an “unexpected character” from Nancy Botwin’s (Mary Louise-Parker) past. So, her father. Also guest starring on the Showtime series this season: Mark Paul-Gosselaar, Alanis Morissette, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Peter Stormare and Linda Hamilton. Talk about a motley crew. [ TV by the Numbers ]

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Here’s the Movie that Beat Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald to Their ‘Historic’ User-Generated Doc

So everyone’s gotten over yesterday’s Inception hype and has apparently moved on to something smaller called Life in a Day — a collaboration between directors Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald that will comprise a bundle of user-generated clips shot and uploaded to YouTube on July 24. The finished product will premiere next January at the Sundance Film Festival. Today’s PR blitz calls Life the “first user-generated feature-length documentary film shot on a single day” and a “historic global film experiment.” Which wouldn’t be so off-base — if it were true.

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Will AMC’s The Walking Dead Be the Grossest TV Show Ever?

AMC is well-known for its cerebral dramas like Mad Men and Breaking Bad , but with the upcoming zombie serial The Walking Dead , the brainsss over at the channel intend to do something different: make you throw up. “The stuff that AMC is going to put on air is crazy,” says Robert Kirkman , who created the comic the show is based on (Frank Darabont is directing). “They keep showing me things and I’m like, you’re not doing that.” What kind of things? Read on, but put down that pastrami sandwich first!

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All About Evil Trailer Adds Goth Fluff to Snuff Films

New On DVD: Is Hannie Caulder the Original Rape-Revenge Pulp Flick?

By now the rape-revenge pulp movie is a staple, but in 1971, when Burt Kennedy’s Hannie Caulder leapt upon the anti-western bandwagon, they were brand-new. It was still five years before Lipstick (1976) and six until I Spit on Your Grave (1977) –incidentally two of the most reviled movies of that decade (and bombs to boot) — and Charles Bronson’s Death Wish (1974) was still a few years away, which in any case gave the gun to Bronson, not the woman in question. Did it all start with Burt Kennedy’s modest, Spain-shot paella western?

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Martin Scorsese Has Never Seen Harry Potter

Did you have visions of a mohawked Ron Weasley killing pimps and johns while protecting an underage Selena Gomez in Taxi Driver 2: Get Organizized ? Then here’s some bad news to report: Despite an actual quote from Martin Scorsese in the British tabloid The Sun , the director has no plans to make Harry Potter star Rupert Grint into his next muse. How very Draco Malfoy of him!

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This Was Inevitable: The Reno 911 Guys Review Their Own Porn Parody

Our lusty friends over at New Sensations have been dutifully cranking out porn parodies of TV show after TV show , but with a few exceptions (Tina Fey’s glancing meta-reference of the 30 Rock porno comes to mind), the properties covered tend to ignore the Sensations crew’s (ahem) hard work. Leave it to Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant from Reno 911 to fix that.

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A Party Down Movie?

The Veronica Mars feature may have never gotten off the ground but Lizzy Caplan is hoping that she and the Party Down crew can continue their catering careers for the big screen (even if that means that they’ll literally have to cater their own movie). “We want it so bad,” she told Hitfix last week about the latest Rob Thomas series to be killed before its time . “We could do it for no money, no time. We would do it for free. I just don’t know if we’re legally allowed to do it.” Chris Albrecht, do you have a problem with that? [ Hitfix ]

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