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5 Potential Challenges for Michael Bay’s New Action-Adventure Reality Show

Our new cousin Nellie Andreeva at Deadline reports that pyrotechnically-inclined auteur Michael Bay is shopping around a reality series entitled One Way Out , a lawless game in the mold of Survivor, The Mole and The Amazing Race that “pits ordinary people from all walks of life against each other.” Just what surprises will the Transformers director have up his short sleeve for this one? We’re not sure, so we’ve taken the liberty of suggesting 5 challenges that would perfectly suit a Bay-branded show. (We even wrote him some hosting patter!)

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5 Potential Challenges for Michael Bay’s New Action-Adventure Reality Show

What’s On: Idol All Shook Up?

A certain American Idol vet returns to the show and gives an impassioned performance of his new single. Nope, it’s not Jorge Nunez. It’s the American Music Awards bandit who gives mad-hot Butch Patrick/Jo Anne Worley realness on that stage. It’s… well, just follow us through the break.

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What’s On: Idol All Shook Up?

The Tonight Show Hires a New Bandleader (and It’s Not Max Weinberg)

That was fast. Less than 24 hours after the Tonight Show bandleader Kevin Eubanks announced that he would officially be leaving Jay Leno’s side after 18 glorious, “Headlines”-filled years, NBC has allegedly hired his replacement. One quick word on who it isn’t : Max Weinberg, who had been angling for the position to the chagrin of Team Coco.

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The Tonight Show Hires a New Bandleader (and It’s Not Max Weinberg)

Syfy Acquires WWE SmackDown — Really

When you think of the Syfy network, you think of sweaty, steroid-fueled men (and women) issuing choreographed moves like the shining wizard , the Mongolian chop and the Bionic elbow for your guilty pleasure, right? Well, that is what the “Imagine Greater” network is hoping for when it premieres WWE Friday Night Smackdowns on Oct. 1. Syfy president Dave Howe rationalized that the partnership is perfect because “WWE is the ultimate in imagination-based sports entertainment.” Standing moonsault ! [ TVbytheNumbers ]

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What’s On: Glee Rents a Superstar

Glee returns tonight, but cone bras haven’t entered the immediate periphery yet. So what does the new episode bring that can edify our need for the pseudo-presence of a musical superstar? They’re giving us the actual presence of the woman who first strutted a little number called “The Tango Maureen.” It’s a whole new season of love.

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What’s On: Glee Rents a Superstar

TV Bites: Diane Keaton Finds Her Inner Blogger

The Gossip Girl Pun Index: Wedding Bell Blues

Since the kids on Gossip Girl are too young to get married — but not too young to own hotels or work in the fashion industry — the traditional wedding episode that you’d expect to see in the third season of a series fell to the likes of Dorota the maid and her boyfriend, Vanya the doorman. And while their “bedding” — as Vanya called it in his best John Malkovich-in- Rounders accent — was adorable, it was like a daisy growing out of a garbage heap. For the rest of the characters, last night’s Gossip Girl , “The Unblairable Lightness of Being,” offered the usual array of lying, cheating, back-stabbing and even a little heartbreak (say it ain’t so, Blair and Chuck!). Oh, and puns. Lots of patented, Gossip Girl-voiced, puns. How did they all rank? To the list!

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The Gossip Girl Pun Index: Wedding Bell Blues

Kevin Eubanks Officially Breaks Up with Jay Leno

Mark April 12, 2010 down as one of the most bizarre days for late night announcements in history. First, Conan O’B rien psyched out industry insiders by inking a five-year deal with TBS instead of Fox. And now, Kevin Eubanks has officially announced that he is departing The Tonight Show after 18 glorious years with Jay Leno. To make things weirder, Jay Leno responded to the news by saying that he would miss their date nights.

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Kevin Eubanks Officially Breaks Up with Jay Leno

How to Make Law & Order: Los Angeles Relevant: A TVLine IM Discussion

Only a couple weeks after S. Epatha Merkerson announced her departure from the pretty-much-deflated Law & Order , producer Dick Wolf appears to have a new L&O iteration for us. According to Deadline , NBC has picked up Law and Order: Los Angeles (aka LOLA ) for a 13-episode order this fall. After a generation of arrest and prosecution, can we really handle another version of L&O , let alone one without the oaken timbre of Sam Waterston’s voice? TVL ine’s instant-messaging monarchs are raring to prove we can — in just a few steps:

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How to Make Law & Order: Los Angeles Relevant: A TVLine IM Discussion

Details of Conan’s Shocking TBS Deal Revealed

Your head is probably still spinning from today’s announcement that Conan O’B rien will topline a late night talk show on TBS in November, which is shocking because a) Conan and Fox had been dancing the negotiation tango for months and b) Conan O’B rien, former Tonight Show host, is going to TBS . The Time Warner-owned cable channel gave Conan an 11:00 PM position in front of Lopez Tonight (George Lopez has already dubbed the power comedy block “LO-CO”), but what was in the package deal that made it an offer he could not refuse? The LAT provides context :

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Details of Conan’s Shocking TBS Deal Revealed