WEEKLY BUZZ
Happy Thursday, everyone! Enjoy the latest segment of the Weekly Buzz!
Latest Pop Culture News
-The band “No Doubt” will appear in the May 11 episode of Gossip Girl. They won’t be playing themselves, rather, members of the band will play a fictional 1980s band called Snowed OUt in a flashback segment.
-”Creed” is reuniting after a six-year hiatus. The band is currently recording a new album.
-Oliver Stone is making a sequel to “Wall Street.” Michael Douglas is returning to reprise his role in the 1987 hit.
-Sarah Palin will be on tonight’s episode of TLC’s “American Chopper.” The crew from Orange County Choppers hangs out with the Alaskan governor since they were in Anchorage researching ways to build a bike to honor Alaska’s 50-year anniversary of being a state. It airs at 9 p.m. tonight on TLC.
-The WE television station is honoring the late Bea Arthur with marathon episodes of the “Golden Girls.” Look for it tonight.
-CBS is pulling “Harper’s Island” from its Thursday home to 9 p.m. Saturdays, effective immediately. The 13-episode murder-mystery series has steadily declined in its three weeks on air to a series-low 7 million viewers last week. Bummer — I actually like this show!
-Ricky Gervais’ children’s book, “Flanimals,” is being made into a movie. It will be a 3-D feature with Gervais voicing the lead character.
-NBC moved the low-rated “Kings” to this summer.
-The Jonas Brothers will host this year’s Teen Choice Awards, to air at 8 p.m. Aug. 10 on Fox.
TV PREMIERES
Sunday - Hidden Potential (HGTV); The IFC Project (IFC)
Monday - New York Goes to Work (VH1); Gotti’s Way (VH1)
TV FINALES
Tonight - Samantha Who? (ABC); Private Practice (ABC); In the Motherhood (ABC); Chris Isaak Hour (BIO)
Friday - Supernanny (ABC); Wife Swap (ABC)
Sunday - Tough Love (VH1); Candy Girls (E!)
Monday - I Love Money (VH1)
Wednesday - Scrubs (ABC)
MOVIES coming to theaters on Friday, May 1
-X-Men Origins: Wolverine
-Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
-Battle for Terra
Limited: Home; Limits of Control; Merry Gentleman; The Skeptic; Naked Ambition, An R-Rated Look at An X-Rated Industry
DVDs to be relased on Tuesday, May 5
-Curious Case of Benjamin Button
-Smother
-Wendy and Lucy
-Frankenhood
-Last Chance Harvey
-Boston Legal: Season Five
-Jake and the Fatman: Second Season
-Lipstick Jungle: Season Two
-October Road: Second Season
*TCM Greatest Classis Films Collection is offering DVDs of the following genres: American musicals, Broadway musicals, John Wayne westerns, Western adventures, World War II - Battlefront Asia, and World War II - Battlefront Europe.
ALBUMS arriving Tuesday, May 5
-Ciara, “Fantasy Ride”
-Ben Harper & Relentless 7, “White Lies for Dark Times”
-Cracker, “Sunrise in the Land of Milk and Honey”
-Jewel, “Lullaby”
-Ziggy Marley, “Family Time”
-Newsboys, “In the Hands of God”
-Elliott Yamin, ‘Fight for Love”
-Rusted Root, “Stereo Rodeo”
-Cat Stevens, “Roadsinger (To Warm You Through the Night)
-The Smithereens, “The Smithereens Play Tommy”