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“Next week, a game between the San Diego Chargers and the Oakland Raiders will be broadcast live in 3-D to theaters in Los Angeles, New York and Boston. It is a preliminary step on what is likely a long road to any regular 3-D broadcasts of football games. The idea is a ‘proof of concept,’ says Howard Katz, NFL senior vice president of broadcasting and media operations. ‘We want to demonstrate this and let people get excited about it and see what the future holds.’” [Link]
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“In a new installment of A Shot at Love, debuting Dec. 9 on MTV, a daring duo will replace Tila: bisexual twin sisters Rikki and Vikki, a.k.a. the ‘Ikki Twins,’ models who’ve been posed for billboards, calendars, print ads and car magazines. The identical twins will have their pick from twelve straight men and twelve lesbians, who will live under one roof and compete in challenges to win the hearts of their sexy hosts.” [Link]
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“NBC confirms that there was a car crash Wednesday night on the set of 30 Rock that sent a few actors to the hospital. ‘An automobile accident occurred Wednesday night while filming a scene in Long Island City,’ NBC tells us. ‘Some actors were grazed by one of the cars involved. They were examined at a local hospital and released.’” [Link]
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“Rashida Jones has joined the cast of the new sitcom from ‘The Office’ writer-producers Greg Daniels and Mike Schur, but she won’t be playing Jim Halpert ex Karen Filippelli. Jones will play nurse Ann Logan opposite Amy Poehler (‘Saturday Night Live’) and Aziz Ansari (‘Human Giant’).” [Link]
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“While promoting her movie Bolt Sunday, the Hannah Montana star told E! News that she’d like to try reality television. ‘I would want to be on a reality show like The Real World because I think that’s crazy,’ said Cyrus. ‘Anyone who would do that has some serious guts.’ With the hectic lifestyle that she lives, the pop princess said it would be nice to just chill out. ‘I just want to be in a really nice house with cameras following me around,’ said Cyrus. ‘I can just sit there, eat Cheetos, read my book, hang out all day.’” [Link]
“Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is becoming a prosecutor — at least on television. CBS says the rapper has agreed to a two-episode appearance on ‘CSI: Miami.’ The network says Combs will portray a prosecutor who doesn’t get along with police Lt. Horatio Caine, played by David Caruso.” [Link]
“ABC says Ashley Alexandra Dupre sat down with Diane Sawyer on the program ‘20/20.’ Dupre reveals how an ‘upper middle-class, girl next door got into the profession and the psychological journey she continues to experience.’” [Link]
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“Duff, now 21, has signed a one-year development deal with NBC that sees the former teen favorite star getting her own series and appear in other NBC network television shows. Details of the deal have yet to be worked out for Duff, who launched a movie and singing career on the back of her success as bubbly middle-schooler Lizzie McGuire in the international hit TV show between 2001 and 2004.” [Link]
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“Kim Kardashian joining other reality stars duo Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt to guest star on the CBS sitcom ‘How I Met Your Mother,’ the network announces. The ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians’ star, along with ‘The Hills’ personalities, will be playing magazine cover versions of themselves in an episode, a network rep tells People magazine.” [Link]
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“USA Network announced the casting of Tiffani Thiessen in the newly greenlit pilot ‘White Collar.’ Also starring Matthew Bomer and Tim DeKay, Thiessen will play Elizabeth, a very grounded, intelligent accountant, who also happens to be the wife of FBI Agent Peter Stokes (DeKay). ” [Link]
“Sexual content on television is strongly associated with teen pregnancy, a new study from the RAND Corporation shows. Researchers at the nonprofit organization found that adolescents with a high level of exposure to television shows with sexual content are twice as likely to get pregnant or impregnate someone as those who saw fewer programs of this kind over a period of three years. It is the first study to demonstrate this association, RAND said.” [Link]
“McCain opened the show alongside actress and comedian Tina Fey as McCain’s running mate Sarah Palin. The pair began with a joke about competitor Barack Obama’s 30-minute informercial that aired last Wednesday, saying that all the GOP ticket could afford was a spot on a fake QVC show. Fey, who looks like Palin with her brown hair and spectacles, said, ‘These campaigns are expensive,’ as she subtly striked her clothes–a joke on the reported $150,000 wardrobe purchased for Palin. ” [Link]
“The actress and her professional partner, Corky Ballas, were eliminated Tuesday from ABC’s popular dancing competition. The pair received the judges’ lowest score — 15 out of 30 — for their cha-cha routine Monday. Viewer votes and the judges’ scores were combined, sending the outspoken performer out of the ballroom.” [Link]
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“The Georgia Rule star has been accused of disrupting filming with her diva antics and of feuding with her co-star America Ferrera. A source tells New York Post gossip column PageSix, ‘It was a mess. Lindsay would show up every day with an entourage of people. She smoked 24/7, and after she left, they had to repaint her dressing room it was such a mess. ‘(And she) refused to go on set until America was there - it was a power play.’” [Link]
“Samsung Electronics Co. is equipping Blu-ray DVD players so they can retrieve movies and TV shows from Netflix Inc.’s Internet streaming service, accelerating Netflix’s push to develop more delivery methods beyond the mail. The deal, to be announced Thursday, could set the stage for Netflix to embed software connecting to its streaming service directly into television sets made by Samsung.” [Link]
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“Skylar Deleon — a child star on TV’s Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers — has been found guilty of murdering three people, including a couple who were tied to an anchor and thrown off their yacht off the California coast. According to The Associated Press, Deleon, 29, was convicted Monday in the deaths of Tom Hawks, 57, and his wife Jackie, 47, who were thrown from their yacht in 2004 during a cruise” [Link]
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“‘The Rachel Maddow Show,’ her left-leaning news and commentary program, has averaged a higher rating among 25- to 54-year-olds than ‘Larry King Live’ on CNN for 13 of the 25 nights she has been host. While the average total audience of her program remains slightly smaller than that of Mr. King’s, Ms. Maddow, 35, has made MSNBC competitive in that time slot for the first time in a decade. The channel at that hour has an average viewership of 1.7 million since she started on Sept. 8, compared with 800,000 before.” [Link]
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“KATV anchor Anne Pressly, 26, was found about 4:30 a.m. Monday by her mother, who went to the house when her daughter didn’t answer a wake-up call, Little Rock police spokesman Cassandra Davis said. Davis said investigators are talking to Pressly’s co-workers to determine whether she ‘has had any problems.’” [Link]
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“Last Thursday’s episode averaged only 14.5 million viewers, a far cry from its average last season (roughly 18 million viewers), and was steam rolled, again, by ‘CSI’ (19.2 million viewers). While ‘Grey’s’ did win the night in adults 18-49, adults 18-34 and all key demos, ABC brass has got to be alarmed at the drop in viewership.” [Link]
“Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. analyst Craig Moffett tells the The Wall Street Journal that amidst economic turmoil, sales of HDTVs seems to be suffering. While there are no specific stats for HDTVs, Moffett points out overall sales in electronics were down 14 percent year-over-year in September. Best Buy revealed a 2 percent drop in same-store sales in September, after it had been predicting 4 percent growth during that period.” [Link]
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“She says, ‘Hopefully I’m going to go into season four, but we’re not sure so right now we’re just getting through season three.’ Cyrus has also filmed ‘Hannah Montana: The Movie,’ which is slated for release next year. ” [Link]
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“Daisy is getting back in the game on a new VH1 show called Daisy of Love, premiering spring 2009. She is ‘determined to find her one man who will rock her world,’ a press release from VH1 reads. ‘Daisy is on a quest for true love and this time she is giving her fans the chance to vie for her love and vote to help determine which contestant makes the cut.’” [Link]
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Salma Hayek is slated to do a guest appearance on NBC’s “30 Rock” with Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin.
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“Levi Kereama, who went on to perform with his brothers in R&B group Lethbridge, plunged to his death from a Brisbane hotel on Saturday night. Just hours earlier the 27-year-old had played at the Parklife Festival in Brisbane’s Botanic Gardens and Riverstage.” [Link]
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“Kim Kardashian (star of E!’s Keeping Up with the Kardashians) got the boot tonight in what can only be called a surprising twist, given that all signs were pointing toward the dismissal of Cloris—who received last night’s lowest score of 15.” [Link]
“Set 25 to 40 years in the future, when the precipitous decline of the U.S. leads to a mass exodus of its citizens, ‘Americatown’ centers on a cluster of newly arrived American immigrants in a big foreign city. ‘By presenting Americans as immigrants in the near future, as both underdog and hero in the drama of global dislocation, we substitute a mirror for the rancor that informs much of the partisan debates on immigration,’ Winters said.” [Link]
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Yvonne Strahovski of Chuck premieres the 2008 season @ Pure Nightclub in Las Vegas
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Traci Bingham of Baywatch appears on the red carpet of the 2008 Fox Reality Channel Awards
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Kim Kardashian dances on Dancing With The Stars
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“The young stars of ‘90210′ are now defending themselves, standing up to the headlines and not letting it get to them or interfere with their work. Shenae said, ‘We’re on set every day, and it’s going well,’ and that they ‘just shake it off.’” [Link]
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“One unlucky contestant had to go home. That turned out to be comedian Jeffrey Ross and partner Edyta Sliwinska. When asked by host Tom Bergeron how he’d sum up his very short time on DWTS, Ross deadpanned: ‘What a nightmare!’ Then poking fun of the eye injury he sustained from his partner, Ross quipped, ‘They told me Edyta was going to be on the eyes.’” [Link]
“America’s Cartoon Network has revealed at Georgia’s Anime Weekend Atlanta convention this morning that it will end its Toonami programming block tonight after 11 years. The official announcement will be made during tonight’s final run, with an ‘important message’ during the 10:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. ET/PT timeslot.” [Link]
“According to Nielsen’s estimates, the two-hour premiere garnered 21.1 million viewers from 8 to 10 p.m., on par with the show’s last two premieres in the fall and spring and enough to easily vault ABC to No. 1 for the night.” [Link]
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“Former UFC Octagon Girl and current UFC TV talking head Rachelle Leah has announced that she is the next lady we’ll be waiting in line to see naked in a edition of Playboy.” [Link]
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Tricia Helfer of Sci-Fi’s Battlestar Galactica at Entertainment Tonight’s Emmy 2008 party
“According to Nielsen’s preliminary estimates, NBC’s ‘Sunday Night Football’ coverage averaged about 19 million viewers during prime time, almost 7 million more than the 12.2 million viewers who watched the Emmy’s from 8 to 11 p.m.” [Link]
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Heroes star Dania Ramirez at Entertainment Weekly Emmy 2008 Party
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“‘My husband and I are now shooting our reality show, which is going to be really fun,’ Sweetin, 26, told PEOPLE at Saturday’s L.A. Confidential pre-Emmy party. ‘It’s following us and our new baby.’ ” [Link]
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Olivia Wilde on the red carpet of the 2008 Emmy Awards
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Mariska Hargitay of Law & Order SVU on the red carpet of the 2008 Emmy Awards
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Jennifer Love Hewitt on the red carpet of the 2008 Emmys
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Evangeline Lilly of Lost on the red carpet of the 2008 Emmy awards
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Eva Longoria on the red carpet of the 2008 Emmys
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Hayden Panettiere at the 2008 Emmy Awards
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“According to a National Enquirer source, ‘Elisabeth feels she can’t win at The View, but she’s been told by friends at Fox News that they’d find a spot for her without hesitation.’The insider adds that the mom of two feels like she can’t win. ‘Elisabeth is just as tired of the ladies at The View as they are of her! She feels she constantly has to defend herself.’” [Link]