Latest Pop Culture News
-The Sci Fi Channel is airing a “Land of the Lost” marathon today.
-A&E canceled “The Beast,” starring Patrick Swayze.
-Winona Ryder and Christian Slater are planning a sequel to the 1988 cult film “Heathers.” The movie helped both actors launch their careers. Details of the new film have not been released.
-Prison Break’s Robert Knepper will be the new lead villain on “Heroes” next season.
-Whitney Houston’s new album will be released on Sept. 1.
-Some details of “The Beatles: Rock Band” video game have been revealed. Some of the 45 songs will be “I Saw Her Standing There,” “I Am the Walrus,” and “Day Tripper.” Also, the entire ”Abbey Road” album will be available for purchase and downloads as will other tracks from the band’s catalog, after the game’s release on Sept. 9.
-Where’s Waldo? Apparently, he’ll be found on the big screen. A “Where’s Waldo?” live-action family movie is in the works.
-Chevy Chase will star, with John Cusack and Rob Corddry, in a comedy called “Hot Tub Time Machine.” It follows a bunch of unsatisfied guys who get thrown back to their younger days in 1987 via their Jacuzzi.
-Barbra Streisand is writing a book, not a memoir, called “A Passion for Design” about her Malibu dream house. The illustrated book will be released in fall, 2010.
-ABC is bringing back “Better Off Ted” for six episodes this summer. They will air at 9 p.m. Tuesdays beginning June 23.
-Zac Efron will be a guest star on an episode of “Entourage.” The Season Six premiere will be at 10:30 p.m. July 12 on HBO. Other celebrity guests appearing as themselves this season include Tom Brady, LeBron James and Lil Wayne.
-A remake of “Total Recall” is in the works (why mess with a good thing?). Anyway, Columbia secured the remake rights to do the remake of the 1990 Sci-Fi flick that starred Arnold Schwarzenegger.
-NBC will debut the “Jay Leno Show” at 10 p.m. Sept. 14, and will air Monday through Friday. To make room, several shows had to change their usual time slots. For example, Law & Order (normally 10 p.m. Wednesdays) will move to 8 p.m. Fridays, and Law & Order: SVU will move to 9 p.m. Wednesdays.
TV PREMIERES
Tonight – Burn Notice (USA); The Listener (NBC); Royal Pains (USA); Tosh.0 (Comedy)
Friday – Ghost Adventures (Travel); Whale Wars (Animal Planet)
Sunday – Army Wives (Lifetime); Bridezillas (WE); Gene Simmons Family Jewels (A&E); The Next Food Network Star (Food Network); Brooke Knows Best (VH1); Kendra (E!); Z Rock (IFC); Denise Richards: It’s Complicated (E!); Ideal (IFC)
Monday – The Closer (TNT); Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List (Bravo); Raising the Bar (TNT); Weeds (Showtime); Nurse Jackie (Showtime)
Tuesday – Food Party (IFC); Wrong Door (IFC)
Wednesday – Top Chef Masters (Bravo)
TV FINALES
Friday – Escape to Chimp Eden (Animal Planet)
Saturday – Nanny 911 (CMT); World’s Strictest Parents (CMT); I Want to Save Your Life (WE)
Sunday – Amazing Wedding Cakes (CMT)
Tuesday – Eco Trip (Sundance)
Wednesday – Mythbusters (Discovery); Night (Animal Planet)
MOVIES arriving Friday, June 5
-The Hangover
-Land of the Lost
-My Life in Ruins
DVDs to be released Tuesday, June 9
-Gran Torino
-Fired Up!
-The International
-Crossing Over
-Nobel Son
-Ghosts of Goldfield
-Shaun of the Sheep: Sheep on the Loose
-Reaper: Season Two
-Jack Lemmon Film Collection
-The Sheild: Season 7
-Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music (Director’s Cut)
ALBUMS to be released Tuesday, June 9
-Black Eyed Peas, “The E.N.D.”
-Mos Def, “The Ecstatic
-Sonic Youth, ”The Eternal
-Chickenfoot, “Chickenfoot”
-Placebo, “Battle for the Sun”
-LMFAO, ”Party Rock”
-Yung L.A., “Futuristic Leland”
-Aventura, “The Last”
