Jon Stewart Nixes Notion of Presidential Bid in 2008
Posted by Wendy Michaels Categories: Comedy, Talk Shows, Cable, Daily Show, The, Cable/Satellite, News,
While most of us rooted in reality can pretty much identify that an entertainer like Jon Stewart would never run for president, there are some optimists out there who love the idea. Case in point: the T-shirts reading “Stewart/Colbert ‘08.” Call me a naysayer—for while Stewart is smart, funny, entertaining and devilishly handsome, the prospects of his presidential run will never see the light of day. Stewart recently commented on the shirts at the New Yorker Festival, saying, “Nothing says ‘I am ashamed of you my government’ more than ‘Stewart/Colbert ‘08.”
Stewart is, however, doing his part by making politics interesting and entertaining—including having guests such as Bill Clinton and Pakistan’s president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, on The Daily Show. He also has high hopes of getting the Bush administration to appear as well. Well, that’s probably about as likely as Jon Stewart running for president.
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Will Ferrell Developing a Comedy for Fox
Posted by Wendy Michaels Categories: Comedy, Prime Time, FOX,
Wow, this is kinda like deja vu. We reported earlier that Will Ferrell was developing a show for HBO. Well, now he’s developing a show for Fox. Church of Steve is about a man from New Jersey who discovers he is a descendant of Jesus. The half-hour show is coming from Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s production company. So far, the pilot for the project has been approved—no official date on when the show is expected to air. The pilot episode sets the scene with a biblical Italian scholar who discovers that Steve is a descendant of Jesus. Also, no casting announcements have yet to be made.
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The Knights of Postponement
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Prime Time, Reality, ABC, Dancing With The Stars,
What’s worse—being postponed or put on hiatus? Hoping to prevent the latter, ABC has already decided to delay the debut of their new comedy, The Knights of Prosperity. The comedy, about a working-class group trying to rob Mick Jagger, was originally slated to start on Tuesday, Oct. 17th. ABC hopes that by rescheduling, they will be able to give it the proper promotional attention it deserves.
The sitcom, starring Donal Logue, will initially be replaced by an extended version of Dancing With the Stars. Starting Nov. 28th, the 9pm time slot will then be occupied by Big Day—a romantic comedy about the adventures leading up to a wedding. Day will star Marla Sokoloff, formerly of ABC’s The Practice. No word yet when Knights will be put back into the network’s rotation.
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The New Adventures of Old Christine Given Full Season
Posted by Wendy Michaels Categories: Comedy, Prime Time, CBS, Saturday Night Live, Ratings, Renewals,
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is sittin’ pretty now that her Emmy-winning show The New Adventures of Old Christine has been ordered for a full season. Originally, CBS ordered 13 episodes for the second season, but with ratings on the upswing, the order was increased to 22 episodes. Christine was a mid-season sitcom last year—and many wondered if Louis-Dreyfus could shake the “Seinfeld Curse.” The last episode averaged 13.6 million viewers, which was an increase from the average of the first season, at 12.5 million. While I’m not a regular watcher, I do stumble across it from time to time—Louis-Dreyfus does a great job; I’ve been a fan of hers since her Saturday Night Live days.
In other CBS news, The Class and How I Met Your Mother will swap time slots, with How I Met Your Mother now taking on the 8:00 slot and The Class moving to 8:30. The Class could apparently use the bump from the popular How I Met Your Mother as a lead-in.
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Sorry Ladies—Bradley Cooper is Engaged!
Posted by Wendy Michaels Categories: Action, Comedy, Drama, Prime Time, FOX, WB, Alias, News,
People magazine is reporting that Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Esposito are engaged. The two sweethearts have been an item for some time, but have managed to keep out of the spotlight. Caught smooching briefly in January at an InStyle Golden Globes party, Esposito said of the kiss—“I’m not answering that.” Esposito most recently enjoyed the success that the film Crash garnered, winning the Screen Actors Guild Award for best cast. She was also on the WB series Related and I’m sure many of you remember her from her time on Spin City.
Cooper hit Hollywood hottie status when he was on Alias, then starred in the Fox sitcom Kitchen Confidential in 2005. I was bummed when that got canceled because it had some potential… and Cooper’s fantastic eyes (sigh). His other high-profile gigs include Wedding Crashers and a stint on Broadway opposite Julia Roberts in Three Days of Rain.
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Nick Cannon Sketch Show Coming to MTV
Posted by Wendy Michaels Categories: Comedy, Music, Prime Time, Cable, Cable/Satellite,
If you’re a fan of Nick Cannon’s MTV improv show Nick Cannon Presents Wild N’ Out, be on the lookout for the next Cannon endeavor: Nick Cannon Presents: Short Circuitz. Circuitz has been green-lit for eight episodes on MTV, beginning in early 2007 in the “10 Spot.” The show is a sketch comedy format, a la Saturday Night Live, featuring Cannon (who also created the series and exec produces). Joining him are Affion Crockett, Eliza Coupe, Leonard Robinson, Taran Killam and Katt Williams. His Wild N’Out series is currently in its third season. MTV signed Cannon for a production deal during the summer—Cannon remarked, “It is an honor that MTV and its executives have given me another opportunity to express my creativity.” If you haven’t seen his MTV show, you may have seen him in the 2002 film Drumline or heard him in the animated film Monster House.
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David Spade Gets Another Season of ‘Showbiz Show’
Posted by Wendy Michaels Categories: Comedy, Talk Shows, Cable, Cable/Satellite, Renewals,
The Showbiz Show With David Spade has been given the go-ahead by Comedy Central for a third season. Spade’s look at entertainment news is always a good bet for a few laughs. There are always some duds, but overall Spade pulls out some good snarky stuff. Comedy Central will air 13 new episodes of the half-hour show, beginning in February. Given the entertainment news format, you would think this type of show would not so much have “13 episode seasons,” but continue to be an on-going show. I mean, entertainment news is happening every day, why limit this type of show to just 13 episodes? Spade commented, saying “I want to get back on the air as quickly as possible so that we don’t miss out. There is too much good stuff going on right now in Hollywood. We have to catch up.”
In other Spade news, he will be appearing in the mid-season replacement comedy Rules of Engagement. The comedy will look at an engaged couple, a married couple, and a single guy, with Spade playing the engaged man’s best friend.
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Wow, this news came as a surprise to me—Charlie Sheen is about to become the highest paid comedy star on TV. Does that surprise you too? Maybe most surprising because I don’t like Two and a Half Men, but I’m probably in the minority there. I don’t find anything exceptionally funny about the show, nor do I find anything exceptional about Charlie Sheen. Perhaps I’m still holding a grudge about him replacing Michael J. Fox on Spin City. Anyhoo, Sheen is in negotiations with Warner Bros. TV right now to to earn about $350,000 per episode this season. This makes him a high roller among sitcom stars on the tube now, although it’s just a drop in the bucket to the $2 mil per episode that Ray Ramano received. Two and a Half Men is apparently no slouch—averaging more than 15 million viewers and “making it TV’s most watched straight-forward comedy.” I also didn’t realize that Sheen has been nominated for an Emmy, two Golden Globes, and a Screen Actors Guild award. He must be doing something right… but he’s not getting any laughs out of me.
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Dustin Diamond (a.k.a. “Screech”) Sex Tape Discovered
Posted by Wendy Michaels Categories: Comedy, Syndication, News, Rumors,
File this under ewww… former Saved by the Bell dweeb, Screech, has a new video. And it ain’t pretty. Dustin Diamond, who played the pint size goofy kid on the ‘80s series, was in a sex tape featuring Diamond in a threesome with two women. David Hans Schmidt, an entertainment agent, has acquired the rights to the video, saying “Just when you think you have seen everything in this business, mankind has raised the bar another notch. Or lowered it.” The video, tentatively titled (I can’t believe I’m typing this) “Saved by the Smell,” is being shopped around to adult video distributors. Diamond’s manager, Roger Paul, commented that he hadn’t seen the tape, but he had “heard rumors… Dustin has been trying to escape the Screech typecast. So this may help me get more bookings.” Not sure what kind of “bookings” this will lead to, but I suppose it keeps Diamond in the public eye just a little bit longer. Diamond recently popped back into the news when he was going to lose his home and sold t-shirts to raise funds. He is also scheduled to appear on the ABC sitcom The Knights of Prosperity.
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Amy Poehler, Tina Fey Hit the Big Screen
Posted by Wendy Michaels Categories: Comedy, Late Night, NBC, Saturday Night Live,
The pairing of Amy Poehler and Tina Fey may be over at the Weekend Update desk at Saturday Night Live, but they will be starring in a comedy film together. The film Baby Mama is about a single woman who wants to have a child, but is too committed to her professional life to give it up for pregancy. She turns to a surrogate, and the laughs ensue. There are no specifics about which funny lady will play which role, but the film does come from the co-writer of the Austin Power sequels. Production will not begin until next summer, after Poehler is done with SNL and Fey with her new series, 30 Rock. Look for Poehler in the upcoming movies Spring Breakdown, Southland Tales, Tenacious D in ‘The Pick of Destiny’ and Blades of Glory.
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