WEEKLY BUZZ
Latest Pop Culture News
-Lifetime has set Aug. 20 for the debut of Project Runway’s sixth season. It will be shot in Los Angeles - a show’s first. One of the guest judges will be Lindsay Lohan. It airs at 10 p.m. Thursdays.
-Regis will return to “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” He’ll be back on prime-time for a special event marking the 10 anniversary of the ABC show. It premieres at 8 p.m. Aug. 9 and will air for 11 nights.
-There will be less “Heroes” next season. NBC is trimming down episodes from 25 to 18 to 20. The network is hoping the new format will save the show, which attracts an average of 7.7 million viewers - down from 11.6 million prior to the writer’s strike.
-A live Nirvana DVD will be released in November (yeah!). The DVD will feature their performance at England’s Reading Festival on Aug. 30, 1992, which is…wait for it…legendary!!! It was a time when illness rumors were swirling about Kurt Cobain, so he entered the stage in a wheelchair and hospital gown. He then jumps up and tears up the stage. The DVD also features never-before-seen footage.
-In Saturday Night Live news, Justin Timberlake will host May 9 with musical guest Ciara. On May 16, Will Ferrell will host with musical guest Green Day.
-Angelina Jolie will play Patricia Cornwell’s Dr. Kay Scarpetta in a series of suspense thriller movies. Cornwell’s best-selling book series (16 total) is about Dr. Scarpetta, a medical examiner.
-Demetri Martin will star alongside Brad Pitt in “Moneyball,” the adaptation of the Michael Lewis book about ballplayer turned Oakland Athletics GM Billy Beane and his attempt to field a competitive team on a slim payroll. Pitt will play Beane.
-Look for the Ninja Turtles on the big screen in 2011. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will be a live-action film focusing on the origins of the crime fighters.
-The fourth season of “Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood” will premiere at 10 p.m. May 26 on Oxygen with 10 one-hour episodes.
-The third season of “Army Wives” returns June 7 on Lifetime.
-Brian Boitano, the gold-medal-winning Olympian, landed a Food Network show called “What Would Brian Boitano Make?” It airs in August.
TV PREMIERES
Friday - Wild Weddings (TLC)
Saturday - I Want to Save Your Life (WE)
Sunday - Food Network Challenge (Food); Leader of the Pack (HGTV); Daisy of Love (VH1)
Monday - Pros vs. Joes (Spike TV)
TV FINALES
Tonight - The Beast (A&E)
Saturday - Cribs (MTV); Ashes to Ashes (BBCA); My Big Redneck Wedding (CMT); Trick my Truck (CMT)
Monday - Chuck (NBC); Heroes (NBC)
Tuesday - Last Restaurant Standing (BBCA)
Wednesday - Better Off Ted (ABC); Ghost Hunters (Sci Fi); The Exterminators (A&E)
MOVIES arriving Friday, April 24
-Fighting
-Obsessed
-The Soloist
limited: Baby on Board
DVDs arriving Tuesday, April 28
-The Uninvited
-Bride Wars
-What Doesn’t Kill You
-Nothing But the Truth
-Never Surrender
-S. Darko: A Donnie Darko Tale
-Legally Blondes
-JCVD
-Jetsons: The Movie
-American Dad: Voume 4
-Mission: Impossible - Sixth TV Season
-Sex and Lies in Sin City
-Marvel X-Men: Volumes1 and 2
-Spin City: Second Season
ALBUMS arriving Tuesday, April 28
-Bob Dylan, “Together Through Life”
-Ben Folds, “University of Capella”
-Sarah Marshall, “Little Red”
-Various Artists, “Playing for a Change”
-Melody Gardot, “My One and Only Thrill”
-Ben Lee, “The Rebirth of Venus”
-Jason Michael Carroll, “Growing Up is Getting Old”
-Julian Marley, “Awake”
-Melissa Morgan, “Until I Met You”
-Spyro Gyra, “Down the Wire”
-Halestorm, “Halestorm”
-Collin Raye, “Never Going Back”
-Urban Mystic, “GRIII: Old School 2 Nu Skool”
-A Camp, “Colonia”
-Great Northern, ,”Remind Me Where the Light Is”
-Various Artists, “Playing for Change: Songs Around the World”