Latest Pop Culture News
-NBC has picked up Community, Parks and Recreation and Mercy for full seasons.
-Desperate Housewives creator, Marc Cherry, signed a new deal that will keep the show on the air through 2013.
-The debut trailer for the new season of “24″ is now online. The show, and Kiefer, looks awesome!
-TVGuide.com lists TV shows on the bubble and which ones have been picked up for full seasons. Surprisingly, “Gossip Girl” is on the bubble…my friend Amy is now having a heart attack!
-Angelina Jolie has signed on to star in a thriller called “The Tourist.” Production begins in February.
-Jessica Biel will star in “F***ing Engaged,” a raunchy comedy about a couple who make a deal to have sex every day leading to their wedding so they don’t turn into their crusty old parents.
-Benjamin Bratt will make a special return appearance in an upcoming episode of “Law & Order.”
-Great news: Soap legend Eric Braeden is returning to Young & The Restless after he recently quit over ugly contract negotiations. He signed a 3-year deal. Now I can keep watching!
-Ricky Gervais will host the Golden Globes next year. The awards show will air Jan. 17.
-TNT has given the okay for “Delta Blues,” a drama pilot being produced by George Clooney. It’s about an unusual Memphis cop who moonlights as an Elvis impersonator and lives with his mother.
-Now that Oasis has split up, Liam Gallagher announced he will start a new band early next year.
-HBO renewed “In Treatment.” The third season will air in late 2010.
-Carnie Wilson will try to lose weight on a new reality show called “Carnie Wilson: Unstapled” to air on GSN.
-Katee Sackhoff, the former Kara “Starbuck” Thrace on Battlestar Galactica, will make a guest appearance on the Nov. 23 episode of The Big Bang Theory on CBS. She will play herself in a cameo.
-NBC signed Adam Carolla for a comedy show. It will feature the comedian as a contractor and father whose life is turned upside down when his wife leaves him.
-Sub Pop will re-issue Nirvana’s 1989 debut of “Bleach” on Tuesday. The 20th anniversary deluxe edition will be available on CD and 180 gram white vinyl and include a complete live recording of a 1990 show at Portland’s Pine Street Theater.
-Comedy Central picked up repeats of canceled ABC cartoon “The Goode Family” by Mike Judge. All 13 episodes will air in January.
TV PREMIERES
Tonight – The League (FX)
Monday – I Want to Work for Diddy (VH1)
Tuesday – V (ABC); Tabatha’s Salon Takeover (Bravo)
TV FINALES
Tonight – Ace of Cakes (Food)
Friday – Bang for your Buck (HGTV); The Othersiders (Cartoon)
Saturday – The Locator (WE)
MOVIES to be released this weekend
-Michael Jackson’s “This Is It” (conventional and Digital IMAX theaters)
DVDs arriving Tuesday, Nov. 3
-The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
-G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
-I Love You, Beth Cooper
-Aliens in the Attic
-Night Watcher
-Will Ferrell: You’re Welcome America – A Final Night with George W. Bush
-All About My Mother
-The Dead
-Food, Inc.
-Matador
-Law of Desire
-Hardwired
-The Narrows
-Gravestoned
-Mutants
-Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live
-Fraggle Rock: The Final Season
-Fraggle Rock: A Merry Fraggle Holiday
-The Shield: Complete Series
-Mission Impossible – 7 The Final Season
-Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut
-Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
-Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Complete Season One
-Terminator Salvation: The Machinima Series
-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Complete Season 7 Set
-Six Feet Under: The Complete Series
ALBUMS arriving on Tuesday, Nov. 3
-Nirvana, “Bleach” (20th anniversary re-issue)
-Weezer, “Raditude”
-Carrie Underwood, “Play On”
-Foo Fighters, “Greatest Hits” (CD/DVD)
-Soundtrack, “Glee: The Music, Volume 1″
-Slayer, “World Painted Blood” (CD/DVD)
-The Rolling Stones, “Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out! The Rolling Stones In Concert” (4 CD Box Set)
-Frank Sinatra, “New York” (4 CD/1 DVD Box Set)
-Soundtrack, “A Christmas Story”
-Soundtrack, “Fantastic Mr. Fox”
-Andrea Bocelli, “My Christmas”
-Vera Lynn, “We’ll Meet Again: Very Best of Vera Lynn”