Filed under: TV Royalty, Programming, Music and Variety, Celebrities, Talk Show, Reality-Free

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

• Charlie Rose: chef David Chang
• The Daily Show: Will Ferrell
• The Colbert Report: Margaret Spellings
• The Late Show with David Letterman: Amanda Peet, Jon Hamm, and Augustana
• Jay Leno: Gillian Anderson, Dave Atell, and The Duke Spirit
• Jimmy Kimmel Live: George Foreman and Alanis Morissette
• Tavis Smiley: Debbie Allen and Anne Lamott (repeat)
• Late Night with Conan O’Brien: Jason Lee, Eva Amurri, and Galactic (repeat)
• The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson: Julie Chen, Adam Scott, and Ricky Skaggs
• Last Call with Carson Daly: Bear Grylls (repeat)

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CBS and Condé Nast Media Group announced some heavy hitters for Fashion Rocks. The show, which coincides with New York’s Fashion Week, will now include A-listers like Beyoncé, Justin Timberlake, Fergie, Mariah, Carey, Rihanna, Chris Brown, Duffy, Keith Urban, Kid Rock and Lil Wayne.

Okay, maybe they’re not all A-listers. But all of them are performing.

Continue reading CBS announces big line-up for Fashion Rocks

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Liquid Generation has put together the 10 Most Racist Moments in TV. While the moments were extremely racist, I was expecting some more clips from primetime television, cartoons, and soaps. Most of the moments were just evidence of how some people are idiots (idiotic to think the way they do and idiotic to think that they should say something like that on television). I had other choice words in place of “idiot,” but it will have to suffice — trying to keep it clean.

My favorite moment from the video is from Jeopardy. Alex Trebek tells the Indian-American contestant, “Yeah, it hurts to miss that one” after he missed New Dehli as an answer. Got to love the Trebek.

Check out the video below and let me know what you think. Also, they play M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes” throughout the video which is a little distracting. I’d rather just hear audio from the clips.

[via Digg]

Continue reading Shockingly racist moments of TV - VIDEO

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One of the Golden Girls has died.

Estelle Getty, who played Bea Arthur’s mother (even though Arthur was a year older in real life) on the NBC hit comedy Golden Girls (which also starred Betty White and Rue McClanahan), passed away this morning in Los Angeles. Getty was 84 years old and had been suffering from a disease known as Lewy Body Dementia for a number of years.

Getty appeared in several other TV shows over the years, including the Golden Girls spinoff The Golden Palace (which also starred a young Don Cheadle), Empty Nest, Nurses, Brotherly Love, Mad About You, Touched By An Angel, Blossom, Newhart, Hotel, and many others. She also appeared in the movies Tootsie, Mask, Mannequin, and Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot!

Interesting trivia: Getty played her Sophia Petrillo character in no less than five different shows: Golden Girls, Empty Nest, The Golden Palace, Nurses, and Blossom. That’s gotta be some sort of record. She also played a character named Sophia in an episode of Ladies Man in 2000, though the character had a different last name.

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Filed under: News, TV Royalty, Celebrities, Reality-Free

The name might not immediately ring a bell, but you know who he is. Jay Barbree is the guy who reports for NBC/MSNBC whenever there is space news or a shuttle launch. It seems like he’s had the job forever, and actually, he has. Yesterday Barbree celebrated 50 years of reporting on the space program for the network. In fact, Barbree is the only journalist to cover every single manned mission that the U.S. space program has had, starting in the early 60s. When NASA started the “teacher in space” program in the 1980s, they also started a “journalist in space” program, and Barbree was one of the 40 finalists (both were shut down after the Challenger explosion).

One thing I didn’t know was that Barbree also wrote the novel Pilot Error, which was based on an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man. He also wrote the book Moon Shot, which was made into a TV documentary in 1994. Happy 50 years, Jay.

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Filed under: Other Reality Shows, The Amazing Race, Survivor, Celebrities, Project Runway, Dancing With The Stars, Hell’s Kitchen

Everybody who watches reality shows, especially reality competition shows, does it: you wonder how well you would fare if put in the same situation. I really don’t have the talent to be on a Project Runway-type show, or the ability to eat gross crap that you need to make it on Survivor, but I think I could hang on The Amazing Race for a while. I don’t think I’d win or anything, because I would definitely be the one who constantly has meltdowns over obstinate camels and whatnot, but I don’t think I’d be eliminated first, either. I can’t cook much more than pasta, but I’m also pretty sure that if I were on Hell’s Kitchen, at the very least, I wouldn’t make Gordon Ramsay vomit like Matt did.

AOL asked a bunch of celebrities what reality shows they would tackle if given the chance. While most of the answers sounded more like desperate pleas for a job, others were annoying and some were just kind of hilariously misguided. Check out some of the answers after the jump.

Continue reading Which star wants to be the next Survivor?

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Allison told you yesterday that both Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper were leaving their film review show, At The Movies. Ebert has been off the show since 2006 because of health problems and Roeper couldn’t come to terms on a new contract. They both explained that Buena Vista wants to take the show in a new direction and that they wouldn’t be a part of it. Here is that new direction.

The new hosts of At The Movies are Ben Mankiewicz, a host on TCM, and Ben Lyons, from E!. Not sure how these two got to be the new hosts, other than the fact that they’re both named Ben and I’m sure we’ll see some cute reference to that, maybe even in the ads or the intro. I like the fact that Mankiewicz is from TCM; makes it sound like he knows what he’s talking about (he’s also the son of Frank Mankiewicz and the grandson of the guy who wrote Citizen Kane). But Lyons looks about 14 years-old and comes from a network with celeb gossip and reality shows, so that has me a little worried.

Then again, he’s the son of film critic Jeffrey Lyons (the host of his own movie review show, Reel Talk), so maybe it’s in his blood. But the article above says he called I Am Legend one of the greatest films ever made? Yikes.

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Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, Interviews, Celebrities, Documentary

Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing Andy DeHart, a shark expert who currently works at the National Aquarium in Washington, D.C. Dehart talked to me about his first experience with sharks (when he was five!), about his interest in conservation of the species, and about Shark Week, Discovery’s annual documentary series (in its 21st year this summer). Other than Big Brother, Shark Week is the only reason I turn on the TV in the summer. I was pretty excited to talk to him about this year’s event.

Continue reading Andy DeHart, Shark Week expert: The TV Squad Interview

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Last season’s Project Runway winner, Christian Siriano, has snagged himself a Hollywood job. The 22-year-old designer who has the dubious distinction of introducing the phrase “hot tranny mess” into the popular lexicon, is designing a collection that will be showcased in the upcoming film, Eloise in Paris.

Siriano is excited to be featured in the movie, saying, “It is a dream to work with legends such as [director] Charles Shyer, Uma Thurman and [costume designer] Milena Canonero on a wonderful story filled with creative inspirations.” One of the film’s major scenes takes place at Paris Fashion week, and it will be Siriano’s creations that the models will be wearing as they strut down the catwalk.

While having a collection in a movie-version of Paris fashion week isn’t quite as prestigious as having a collection in real Paris fashion week, the young Siriano is off to a good start. After all, he could have been designing clothes for the Bratz movie, like a certain other Runway winner.

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Eva Longoria Parker and Cristiàn de la Fuente were on hand on Monday to announce the 2008 ALMA Award nominations. The National Council of La Raza presents the award annually to Latino entertainers in film and television. Longoria Parker is hosting and producing the ceremony again this year. This year’s group of celebrated actors, writers, and directors will receive their awards on August 17. ABC is broadcasting the awards show on September 12.

Surprisingly, Eva Longoria Parker didn’t get a nomination for her Desperate Housewives role, but her on-screen husband, Ricardo Chavira, did. Other notable names missing from the list of nominees are America Ferrera and Ana Ortiz from Ugly Betty, who won awards last year.

Continue reading ALMA award nominations announced

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