Larry Birkhead Already Profiting From Being a Daddy, Lands Six-Figure Deal with NBC
It’s only been a few days since Larry Birkhead won the epic paternity battle over Anna Nicole Smith’s daughter, Dannielynn, and he’s already reaping the rewards of fatherhood. NBC has reportedly bought the rights to Birkhead’s story in a high six-figure deal. It seems that Howard K. Stern won’t be the only one cashing in on Smith’s tragic death.
The Bachelor: Officer and a Gentleman -- Interview with Booted Beauty Alexis
Alexis Young, an attorney from Southlake, Texas, made no apologies about her conservative good girl ways this week on The Bachelor: Officer and a Gentleman. But is she really all sweetness and light, or does she resent the way she was portrayed?
MeeVee got the straight dish on Alexis's motivations, and her true feelings about this once-in-a-lifetime experience.
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MeeVee Exclusive! Interview with Kristanna Loken, Star of Painkiller Jane
She’s played an evil Terminatrix, a single bisexual mother, and a Dhampir (half-human/half-vampire). Now Kristanna Loken is taking on the role of Painkiller Jane in the SciFi Channel series based on Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti's comic book of the same name. Jane is an ex-DEA agent who, after a serious injury, discovers that she possesses serious regenerative powers, making her virtually unkillable.
A former model and kickass leading lady, Loken is a natural for the role, both in front of and behind the camera (she’s the show’s creative producer as well). We spoke with her live via teleconference call.
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Survivor: Fiji -- Nobody Saw This Comin'!
Survivor: Fiji
Title: "Are We Gonna Live on Exile Island?"
First Aired: 4/12/07
Oh, you sneaky Survivor producers -- I suppose you’re proud of yourselves this week! After a half-season of predictable winners and losers with the horrendous haves vs. have-nots scenario, things are finally getting more than a little shocking. Now this is the Survivor we know and love!
Everyone predicted a merge -- and a merge transpired, but not as predicted. I doubt that anyone foresaw an unscripted immunity challenge involving teams (which did not negate the merge), or a spontaneous, no-scheming-allowed tribal council either.
Poor Michelle Yi! She had been skating along under the radar, wisely aligned with Earl and Yau-Man. But she became a target by default, and is the latest Survivor casualty.
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MeeVee Exclusive! Interview with Drive Star Nathan Fillion
Canadian-born actor Nathan Fillion is a familiar face on American television. During the past decade, he's been a regular on One Life to Live and Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place. Nathan gained critical acclaim and a large cult of fans in 2002 when he starred as Captain Malcolm Reynolds on the Joss Whedon TV series Firefly. Whedon also gave Nathan a chance to display his range as the twisted preacher Caleb in the final season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
When Firefly was prematurely canceled, the show's cast, crew, and many fans were devastated. Whedon vowed to resurrect the series in some way, and Nathan returned as Captain Reynolds in the feature film Serenity. Since then, he's has had notable guest appearances on Lost and Miss Match, and some fun on the big screen in the horror-comedy Slither and the paranormal thriller White Noise 2: The Light.
Nathan returns to television to star in the FOX action series Drive, a drama about various individuals competing in an illegal cross-country road race. MeeVee’s Steve Czarnecki recently caught up with Nathan just long enough to get the answers to three burning questions.
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Weekend Picks: April 13-15
Painkiller Jane -- Series Premiere
Kristanna Loken plays unbreakable ex-DEA agent Painkiller Jane in this SciFi Channel series, loosely based on Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti's comic book. First up: A probe into designer drugs exposes a shadowy government organization, and its hunt for genetically enhanced individuals called Neuros.
Thank God You're Here
Spontaneously erupt with this fully unscripted comedic gem. Guest improv performers for this episode are Seinfeld's Jason Alexander, Brian Posehn, Jane Lynch, and Harland Williams. David Alan Grier hosts; Dave Foley serves as the judge.
Drive -- Series Premiere
A brand new high-speed show on the FOX network -- sweet! A seemingly random group of citizens is chosen to participate in an underground, cross-country road race. In the opener, the first leg begins after a meeting in Florida, where the drivers start to size up the competition. Gentlemen (and ladies), start your engines!
Flavor of Love Girls: Charm School -- Series Premiere
The oh-so-demure Flavor of Love girls are back, ready to ditch their diva ways for a more polished style. Impossible dream? We shall see. Thirteen former Flavor of Love contestants gear up to receive etiquette lessons and training to become more ladylike. First up: Host Mo'Nique takes the women on a wilderness excursion to break them down and build them back up.
The Sopranos -- Stage 5
The last episodes continue as the premiere of "Cleaver" gets Tony thinking about his relationship with nephew Christopher. Poor Johnny Sack absorbs more bad news in prison, and Phil analyzes his family history.
Totally Frakked: Whedon Brings Angel Back On The Printed Page
Rumors coming out of Wizard World L.A. say that the captain of the Buffyverse, Joss Whedon, has signed on with IDW Publishing to create a graphic novel series that will pick up where Angel left off. The new comic will be a companion piece to the Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8 series, already being published by Dark Horse Comics.
The word from IDW is that Brian Lynch, currently working on the Spike: Shadow Puppets series, will cowrite the new Angel book with Whedon. An artistic team has not yet been selected.
Looks like we'll finally get to see what happened in the moments after the credits ran on Angel's tantalizingly cliffhanger-y series finale. Who lived? Who died? Will thousands of rabid fangirls (and boys) get that steamy Spike/Angel love scene they've always wanted? Okay, probably not.
MSNBC Drops Don Imus for Boneheaded Racist Comment
Shock jock Don Imus continues to pay for his on-air characterization of the Rutgers women’s basketball team as “nappy-headed hos.” MSNBC has pulled the plug on their television simulcast of Imus’s popular radio show. Imus has already been suspended for two weeks from his CBS Radio gig, and many people, including a CBS Radio board member, are calling for his firing.
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Totally Frakked: Painkiller Jane -- Bring the Pain!
Painkiller Jane
Title: "Pilot"
Premieres Friday, April 13, on Sci Fi Channel
If you're an executive at Sci Fi Channel, you've got to be sweating a little. The Dresden Files is dead in the water, and Battlestar Galactica's men and women in uniform won't be back on the air until 2008. It's time for new programming, and fast.
The newest original series from Sci Fi, Painkiller Jane, took a circuitous route to the small screen. Originally a comic book, then adapted by Sci Fi for a 2005 TV movie, and now revived and rebooted as a weekly series with a brand-new cast. While Painkiller Jane's hardly a new idea, it seems like the show-runners are trying their hardest to make it fly on a weekly basis.
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PBS to Debut Series of Films About Post-9/11 Life
We’ve all heard the expression, “Everything changed after 9/11.” This is, of course, a harsh reality. PBS is exploring how the events of 9/11 altered perspectives and opened eyes with a series of documentary films called America at a Crossroads.
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Lost: Now with 50% More Staring!
Lost
Title: "One of Us"
First Aired: 4/11/07
This week's episode of Lost keeps us wandering blind in traditional Lost style, but it doles out enough tidbits and surprises to have us begging for more. It's just good enough to make me yearn for the "Oh My God" moments of Season One.
"One of Us" is a flashback episode, so we get to spend a lot of time with Juliet, her sick sister (and her costar, the incredibly ugly scarf she constantly wears), and her pouty staring. Juliet's flashbacks give us more background on her and the rest of the Others. We see Juliet as a somewhat reluctant participant in Ben's Mengelesque medical experiments, and talking about how much she just wants to get back to her poor sister (presumably to get her a new head scarf). There's practically an avalanche of information (at least, in Lost terms) about the Others' experiments on pregnant women and how the heck Juliet wound up on the island in the first place.
Jericho: Who Are You, and Who Do You Work For?
Jericho
Title: “A.K.A.”
First Aired: 4/11/07
One and a half seasons into Jericho, and we had no idea exactly who Robert Hawkins was. Terrorist? FBI agent? Some bizarre hybrid? All that changed with the latest edge-of-the-seat episode -- by far, the best in the show’s history. Jericho can often feel trite, forced, and shamefully predictable, but this episode oozed high class drama, intrigue, and decent acting. Well played, Jericho -- but who the heck is this Hawkins fellow?
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America's Next Top Model: You Can Act, Kid, But You Can't Take a Pretty Picture
America's Next Top Model
Title: “The Girl Who Impresses Pedro”
First Aired: 4/11/07
At the beginning of this season’s America’s Next Top Model, the size 10 babes among us held hope that maybe -- just maybe -- Hollywood could acknowledge the mega-hotness of curvy women. Then, a couple of weeks back, Diana got the boot, and we all held our breath for Whitney, the last remaining girl who didn’t look terrified of a good meal now and again.
Alas, we can stop wishing -- Whitney is no more. But it’s her fault for sucking at that modeling thing.
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MeeVee Exclusive! Interview with Drive's Taryn Manning
If you didn’t know Taryn Manning was an actress and singer, you'd mistake her for just another pretty face. Behind her cute, girlish East Coast looks, however, lies a rising star who never ceases to challenge herself. Taryn began acting in the late 1990s, appearing in such shows as The Practice and NYPD Blue. Her first role in a major motion picture was in the Kirsten Dunst/Jay Hernandez romantic comedy Crazy/Beautiful, followed by prominent roles in Crossroads, 8 Mile, and Hustle & Flow.
In 2003, Taryn and her brother formed the band Boomkat. Their debut album, Boomkatalog.One, was released in March of that year. Taryn sang a rendition of "I'll Take You There" with Tweet in a Gap commercial, and a Boomkat song was included on the 8 Mile soundtrack.
The former Stuff magazine pin-up girl now takes one of many drivers' seats in the much-anticipated FOX action-drama series, Drive. Our own former Stuff magazine pin-up model Steve Czarnecki caught Taryn between sips of a tall iced vanilla soy latte, and found out more about her role in this new show.
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Tonight's Picks: Thursday, April 12
Notes from the Underbelly -- Series Premiere
Think pregnancy isn't funny? Think again! Tune in to this brand-new relationship comedy about a young expectant couple and their friends. In the opener, Lauren and Andrew debate the pros and cons of having a baby, and decide to give it a go. Brave souls, indeed.
30 Rock -- Corporate Crush
Destiny smiles on Liz, who is completely smitten with her new beau Floyd (Jason Sudeikis). Destiny decides to frown on Jack, however, as network honcho Don Geiss (Rip Torn) scrutinizes his performance, putting Jack's job in serious jeopardy.
Survivor: Fiji -- Are We Gonna Live on Exile Island?
Merge, baby, merge! Two tribes become one, with much hullaballoo on both sides. With the game dynamics completely in flux, it's hard to predict which castaway will be ousted next.
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