Latest Pop Culture News
-Good news, Nathan Fillion fans: ABC has picked up “Castle” for a full season.
-Comedy Central will begin airing re-runs of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” next summer. Currently, FX is airing new episodes of the Comedy’s fifth season on Thursdays. FX already ordered sixth and seventh seasons of the show to air through 2011. If you haven’t seen the show, start now. It’s hilarious!
-Spoiler Alert for Desperate Housewives: A plane crash on Wisteria Lane will kill off several characters on the show. But which ones will die?
-Bravo has renewed “Top Chef Masters” for another season. Expect new episodes in 2010.
-ABC is developing a new comedy called “I’m With Stupid” starring Judy Greer. It’s based on Elaine Szewcyk’s novel “Stupid.”
-The CW picked u a full season of “Vampire Diaries” and “Melrose Place.”
-Vote now for the People’s Choice Awards.
-Will Ferrell will star in “Everything Must Go,” an independent film that costs under $10 million. Ferrell will play a guy who loses his job and gets kicked out of the house by his wife. She puts all his belongings in the front yard and spends the next four days trying to sell his possessions.
-Lady Gaga’s “The Monster Ball” tour will make a stop Jan. 12 at the Fox Theatre in Detroit. Get your tickets now!
-The Beatles can’t even help the economy. “The Beatles: Rock Band,” released Sept. 9, has sold about 595,000 copies last month. Analysts expected the game to sell at least 1 million copies. The top seller was “Halo 3: ODST” for Xbox 360 with more than 1.5 million copies.
-Kelly Ripa and hubby Mark Consuelos will go back to “All My Children” for thw show’s 40th anniversary episode. The speical episodes will air Jan. 4 and Jan. 5.
-The Flaming Lips is planning an album redo of Pink Floyd’s 1973 classic “Dark Side of the Moon.” The Lips version is a collaboration with the band Stardeath and White Dwarfs and features guest spots from Henry Rollins and Peaches.
-Seinfeld fans should check out this video. It’s a montage of every Kramer entrance on Seinfeld.
TV PREMIERES
Tonight – American Chopper (TLC); The Jeff Dunham Show (Comedy); It Only Hurts When I Laugh (TruTV); Ultimate Parkour Challenge (MTV)
Friday – Supernanny (ABC); White Collar (USA)
Saturday – The Academy (FRC); 24/7 (HBO)
Sunday – Nature (PBS)
Monday – Cake Boss (TLC)
Tuesday – The Little Couple (TLC); Monica (BET)
Wednesday – Friday Night Lights (DirecTV)
TV FINALES
Tonight – Rob Drydek’s Fantasy Factory (MTV); Real Housewives of Atlanta (Bravo)
Sunday – My Antonio (VH1); P. Diddy’s Starmaker (MTV)
Monday – Real Chance of Love (VH1); Forensics: You Decide (ID)
Tuesday – Rising Icons (BET)
Wednesday – Art in the Twenty-First Century (PBS)
MOVIES arriving Friday, Oct. 23
-Saw VI
-Amelia
-Astro Boy
-Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant
-Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas 3D (re-release)
*Oct. 28 release: Michael Jackson’s This Is It (conventional and Digital IMAX theathers)
DVDs arriving Tuesday, Oct. 27
-Pandemic
-Orphan
-Whatever Works
-Stan Helsing
-Z
-Afterwards
-The Maiden Heist
-The Asphyx
-Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
-Battlestar Galactica: The Plan
-Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer’s Cut)
-Night of Death
-Night of the Creeps (Director’s Cut)
-National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (Ultimate Collector’s Edition)
-The Sam Fuller Film Collection
-Stargate (Ultimate Edition)
-The Fugitive: Season Three, Volume One
-The Guardian: First Season
-The Mannix: Third Season
ALBUMS arriving Tuesday, Oct. 27
-Michael Jackson, “This Is It”
-Creed, “Full Circle”
-Rod Stewart, “The Great American Soulbook”
-Train, “Save Me San Francisco”
-Brian McKnight, “Evolution of a Man”
-B. B. King, “The Four Kings of Blues Guitar”
-Sting, “If On A Winter’s Night…”
-Sean Lennon, “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Undead”
-Trans-Siberian Orchestra, “Night Castle”
-Stephen Stills, “Live At Shepherd’s Bush (CD/DVD)
-R.E.M., “Live At The Olympia (2 CDs)
-Soundtrack, “Twelfth Night”
-Soundtrack, “Cold Souls”