Filed under: Late Night, TV Royalty, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show

Here’s who’s on the late night shows tonight.

• Charlie Rose: Dr. Patrick Walsh and John Snow
• The Daily Show: Senator Chuck Hagel
• The Colbert Report: Eric Alterman and Michael Reynolds
• The Late Show with David Letterman: Helen Mirren and Jose Canseco
• Jay Leno: Jodie Foster, Cedric the Entertainer, and Lili Haydn
• Jimmy Kimmel Live: Naomi Watts, James Blake, and Cobra Starship (repeat)
• Tavis Smiley: Rev. Al Sharpton and Beverly Robertson
• Late Night with Conan O’Brien: Bob Costas, Marc Maron, and Moby
• The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson: Aisha Tyler and Richard Branson
• Last Call with Carson Daly: Andrew Dice Clay and Shooter Jennings (repeat)

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Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Celebrities

I’m not a big fan of reality shows, but I really did enjoy The Mole. It lasted two seasons on ABC (not counting the truly stupid Celebrity Mole that came later) and was hosted by Anderson Cooper. Cooper, as you know, is busy over on CNN with his own nightly show, Anderson Cooper 360, so ABC needed a new host for the revival that’s coming up later in May. And now they’ve named him.

Jon Kelley will be the new host of The Mole, the man in charge of guiding contestants (and one spy) through an international game of searches, stunts, and elimination. Kelley used to be an anchor for the syndicated celebrity news show Extra and an anchor for Fox Sports Network.

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Filed under: Daytime, Celebrities, Talk Show

Three weeks ago it was a hot rumor. Now it’s a fact. NBC announced that Kathie Lee Gifford will co-host the fourth hour of Today beginning Monday, April 7th. She’ll be teaming up with Hoda Kotb for an hour of chit-chat, info, interviews and what have you. I doubt she’ll be singing, but then again, if Kathie Lee can cajole them into rolling a piano onto the set, watch out.

“I am truly honored to join the Today show family, many of whom have been friends and colleagues of mine for years,” said Kathie Lee via release. “And I’m especially looking forward to working with Hoda, a bright and beautiful woman I admire very much. Together I hope we will bring a fresh and fun perspective to the topics that affect all of our daily lives.”

Continue reading It’s official: Kathie Lee joins Today

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Filed under: Horror, Casting, Newsstand

We’ve known about Wes Craven’s 25/8 — which will mark the first time he’s written and directed a film since 1994’s New Nightmare — for a couple of months now. The horror film will follow seven fifteen-year olds who are haunted by a serial killer who supposedly died on the day they were born. (As Scott pointed out when the project was announced, this sounds a little familiar.) Now, the Hollywood Reporter tells us who’ll be playing some of the teenagers: Denzel Whitaker (The Great Debaters), Shareeka Epps (Half Nelson), Emily Meade (the upcoming Assassination of a High School President) and, maybe most interestingly, Henry Lee “Little Dennis” Hopper, making his acting debut.

The Hollywood Reporter article actually has a neat little profile of Dennis Hopper’s son, whom Craven met at a party and invited to audition for the film. It makes a point of emphasizing how surprisingly not-screwed-up Henry Lee has turned out to be, despite growing up with one of Hollywood’s craziest personalities. The elder Hopper’s career is hard to top for sheer weirdness, but a Wes Craven movie is probably a good place to start.

Continue reading Cast Fills Out for Craven’s ‘25/8′

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Filed under: OpEd, Celebrities

The Donald is producing a new “My Fair Lady” style reality show involving party girls attending a private boarding school, and he wants Dupré to be one of the participants. Her history must make her an ideal candidate for this show.

The show is based on a British show called Ladette to Lady, which sounds a lot like Charm School from VH1. I guess Donald wants his hard-partying girls to have class.

The show has not heard back from Dupré. Perhaps she’s holding off for more cash. Maybe she’s putting this in the same category as her offers from Larry Flynt and Joe Francis.

Continue reading Ashley Dupré to get some class?

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Filed under: Late Night, Lost, Video, Celebrities

There are many ways to get through a Lost hiatus: watch the DVDs, check out Lost fan blogs, or perfect your complicated time loop theories. Jimmy Kimmel decided to pass the time by poking fun at the show’s underwhelming enhanced episodes. Kimmel rewrote one of the enhanced scenes from “The Beginning of the End,” in which Hurley and Jack play Horse. His on-screen facts were only slightly more dumbed down than the original text, but were much funnier.

Continue reading Jimmy Kimmel’s take on Lost’s enhanced episodes - VIDEO

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Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Industry, Celebrities

Hollywood people are strange folk. In the normal world people who are sacked by the company they worked for wouldn’t normally return to it in another capacity, especially if they were treated poorly during their employment. Yet, for some reason, when actors are let go from a network because of a show cancellation they tend to go back for more punishment.

Take Jason Bateman as an example. After his critically-acclaimed and fan-favorite comedy Arrested Development was unceremoniously canceled by FOX in 2006 you would think that he wouldn’t step anywhere near the network. In fact, you would think that he would jump to another network and make it big just to rub it in FOX’s face. Yet, there is news that he is directing a comedy pilot for them. Go figure.

Continue reading Jason Bateman to direct pilot for FOX

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Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thrillers, Casting, Disney

According to Coming Soon, Radha Mitchell has joined the cast of Jonathan Mostow’s sci-fi thriller, The Surrogates. The movie is based on the graphic novel from Robert Venditti and was adapted by the screenwriting duo of Michael Ferris and John D. Brancato. The bad news is that these guys have written some pretty crappy movies in the past. Hopefully, these two are better at adaptations than they are at original ideas.

In The Surrogates, Bruce Willis stars as a cop in a futuristic world where all human interaction is performed by look-alike robots called Surrogates. Not only do the robots do all the talking for us, but they’re even better looking too (when it comes to Mitchell, though, the original is none too shabby … so I can’t imagine what they would do to make her even better looking). When someone begins murdering ’surrogates’ right and left, Willis is forced to venture into the outside world for the first time to track down the killer.

Continue reading Radha Mitchell Joins Bruce Willis in ‘The Surrogates’

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Filed under: Drama, Casting, Games and Game Movies

Time really does fly. It has been thirteen years since Kevin Kline wooed Meg Ryan in French Kiss, where he got to play a theiving French man who could teach someone to pull out the complex flavors in wine in seconds. It’s not Shakespeare, or storms of ice, but it has its moments. And now, he gets to play a French man for real — in French! The Hollywood Reporter posts that Kline has signed on for his first French speaking role in Caroline Bottaro’s drama Queen to Play (Joueuse).

This is the chess film I blogged about back in November, which focuses on “a hotel chambermaid who develops an obsession for chess.” Bruno Ganz was attached, but now it looks like he is out. Instead, Klein will be rejoined by his Anniversary Party co-star Jennifer Beals, plus Sandrine Bonnaire and Francis Renaud. Bonnaire will play the chambermaid who is “captivated by a romantic couple (Beals and Renaud) playing chess while staying at the Mediterranean island hotel where she works. The doctor (Kline) whose house she cleans reluctantly becomes her mentor in the game, leading her to a chess tournament and initiating major transformations in her life.”

Continue reading Kevin Kline Turns French… For Real This Time

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Filed under: Industry, Programming, Web, Celebrities

What’s happening on other blogs via the interweb.

• Henry Rollins wants to know what’s up with Carrot Top.
• Ben Stein loves the women of the FBN.
• Time.com’s James Poniewozik has some questions about Lost while we wait for new episodes.
• Speaking of Lost, check out this funny postcard (and the one that features Giles from Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
• Simon Baker (The Guardian/Smith) is returning to CBS as The Mentalist.
• I’m so glad I don’t watch Celebrity Fit Club.
• Ken Jennings interviews a former Jeopardy writer.
• What if everyone died in the finale of Battlestar Galactica?

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