We are one day away from Memorial Day Weekend — Yeah! In the meantime, enjoy your weekly dose of the Buzz.
Latest Pop Culture News
-NBC has canceled “My Name is Earl.” They keep Parks and Recreation but get rid of a show that’s actually funny? There might be hope — CBS and Fox are interested in picking it up. Let’s hope so!!
-Other TV casualties include: The Unit; Without A Trace; Samantha Who?; Medium; The Unusuals; Cupid; Privileged; Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles, and Sit Down, Shut Up.
-NBC’s fall schedule will include two new dramas and a sitcom along with the Jay Leno Show. Also, Heroes moves an hour earlier to 8 p.m.; Law & Order: SVU moves to Wednesdays and Law & Order and Southland move to Fridays.
-CBS is moving Big Bang Theory and The Mentalist to later timeslots and also picked up Medium from NBC.
-Fox has renewed “Dollhouse.”
-It looks like CW is moving “Smallville” to 8 p.m. Fridays for its ninth (and perhaps final) season. It clears the way for the new “Vampire Diaries” to lead into “Supernatural” on Thursdays. This isn’t good news for Smallville fans – Friday timeslots are usually the kiss of death for shows. What a bummer!!
-Radiohead is recording a new album.
-Gossip Girl’s Chace Crawford will star in the remake of “Footloose.” He’ll play Kevin Bacon’s character Ren McCormack in the 1984 original. Rumors are that Miley Cyrus is up for the leading lady role.
-Jennifer Lopez is filming a romantic comedy “The Back-Up Plan” in L.A. She plays a fed up wannabe mother who meets a promising romantic prospect the same day she receives artificial insemination. The film opens in theaters in 2010.
-Michael Strahan, former NFL star, will star in a Fox sitcom called “Brothers.” Here’s a big stretch: Strahan will play a former NFL player. (I give it 3 episodes before it’s pulled).
-SNL announcer Don Pardo has retired. Cast member Darrell Hammond also said goodbye after last weekend’s finale.
-NBC has renewed “Chuck” for 13 episodes.
-ABC plans on new comedies starring Kelsey Grammer, Courteney Cox and Patricia Heaton this fall, along with remakes of 1980s Sci-Fi series “V” and John Updike’s “The Witches of Eastwick.” It also renewed “Castle” for a second season; Scrubs and Better Off Ted.
-This is weird: Jamie Foxx is the frontrunner to play Frank Sinatra in Martin Scorsese’s biopic “Sinatra.” What?!? Reports say he’s leading the pack that includes George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio and Justin Timberlake.
TV PREMIERES
Tonight – So You Think You Can Dance? (Fox)
Sunday – Million Dollar Password on CBS (returns from hiatus)
Monday – Intervention (A&E); Jon & Kate Plus 8 (TLC); Here Come the Newlyweds (ABC)
Tuesday – Mental (Fox); The Little Couple (TLC); Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood (Oxygen)
Wednesday – Wipeout (ABC); The Goode Family (ABC); Tattoo Highway (A&E); Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns (TBS)
TV FINALES
Tonight – Ugly Betty (ABC); Southland (NBC)
Friday – Head Case (Starz); Party Down (Starz)
Sunday – The Tudors (Showtime)
Monday – In Treatment (HBO)
Tuesday – Reaper (CW); Carbon Cops (Sundance); The Phone (MTV); My Boys (TBS)
MOVIES arriving this weekend
On Thursday, May 21
-Terminator Salvation
On Friday, May 22
-Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
-Dance Flick
Limited releases: Easy Virtue; O’Horten
DVDs arriving Tuesday, May 26
-New in Town
-The Devil’s Tomb
-M. Butterfly
-Beyond Rangoon
-Carnivorous
-Powder Blue
-Revolution Revisited (Director’s Cut)
-Falling Down (Deluxe Edition)
-The Sky Crawlers
-Lookin’ to Get Out (Director’s Cut)
-Land of the Lost: The Complete Series
ALBUMS hitting stores Tuesday, May 26
-Marilyn Manson, “The High End of Low”
-Mandy Moore, “Amanda Leigh”
-Nina Simone, “Berkelely Concert”
-Varsity Fanclub, “Varsity Fanclub”
-Grizzly Bear, “Veckatimest”
-Phoenix, “Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix”
-Julian Marley, “Awake”
-Herb Alpert & Lani Hall, “Anything Goes”
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