Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Social Power Rankings: Should Lowe's Have Pulled Commercials From All-American Muslim?
Lowe's TLC's All-American Muslim may have premiered in October, but the show is buzzing with TVGuide.com readers now more than ever, after home-improvement chain Lowe's decided to pull their commercials from the series. After an outpouring of comments, tweets, and Facebook posts, the show is officially No. 1 in our Social Power Rankings, but not because you all agree on the subject."Lowe's, just like any other business, has the right to advertise where they see fit. It is still a FREE country!" tweeted @LizHeartsBama. TVGuide.com user NMurphy02 disagrees. "I'm so embarrassed that Lowe's would do something this stupid. What a bad move on their part. Geeze." Facebook user Michelle Knoetgen Taylor takes a more zen-like stance on the matter. "You can please some of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time."What do you think?Here's what else has you talking: our exclusive interview with Two and a Half Men's Chuck Lorre, in which he reveals, for the first time, that he offered to quit the show to resolve the Charlie Sheen drama.Check back anytime to see the latest Social Power Rankings, which are updated in real time throughout the week.
Fantasia Welcomes Selecting
First Launched: December 14, 2011 10:43 AM EST Credit: Getty Premium Caption Fantasia works within the 2011 Essence Music Festival within the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans about this summer time 1, 2011LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Fantasia Barrino features a new bundle of enjoyment! The The The American Idol Show Show Season 3 champion shipped her second child on Tuesday in New You are able to, her repetition told People. The singer welcomed selecting Dallas, who considered in at 7 pounds., 9 oz. and measured 21 inches extended. I'm so fortunate that my boy Dallas Xavier was produced healthy, and is a superb new accessory for all of us, the 27-year-old told the mag. Adding, I thank my fans for well wishes and continuing support. Baby Dallas joins large sister Zion, 10, who Fantasia has in the previous relationship. Within This summer time, the singer introduced she was expecting within a concert in within the town of the city of jacksonville, Fla. You are the very first persons that we share good news with, she told everybody else in those days. Which I share this together with you because I am in a position to interact with you. As well as for a while I walked around, identifying what is going to it is said and what is going to they consider me. However, I only say for you, I dont live my existence for folk And this child that we carry, God has given me this child which i don't have to pay for it from none of yall. Fantasia has ongoing to become mother on who the dad of Dallas is, but she has been romantically connected with Antwaun Prepare since summer season 2010. Antwaun looks like it's during the time of the divorce from his estranged wife, Paula. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Monday, December 12, 2011
Brad Garrett In Talks to Join Steve Carell in 'Burt Wonderstone' (Exclusive)
Getty ImagesMark Moses Mark Moses is going from Wisteria Lane to searching for who killed Rosie Larsen. The Desperate Housewives star has booked a major arc for Season 2 of AMC's The Killing, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively. Moses will play Lt. Carlson, a new detective who joins the Seattle police department and the investigation into Rosie's death. He will appear in at least eight episodes of the nuanced drama. The drama's controversial first season ended with Linden (Mireille Enos) boarding a plane to California join her fiancé in California only to learn that her partner, Holder (Joel Kinnaman), fabricated evidence involving their prime suspect in the case. STORY: Season 2 of 'The Killing' Will Reveal Rosie Larsen's Killer, Says AMC Exec Moses is currently reprising his role as Paul Young on the final season of ABC's Desperate Housewives. The Killing role reunites Moses with AMC, where he played Herman "Duck" Phillips on the network's Mad Men from 2007-10. Repped by Innovative Artists and the Coronel Group, Moses' credits also include stints on Criminal Minds, Covert Affairs, Castle and Drop Dead Diva. The Killing returns in the spring. Email: Lesley.Goldberg@thr.com; Twitter: @Snoodit Desperate Housewives The Killing
Friday, December 9, 2011
Exclusive: Dreams Of A Life Clip
Glimpse at Carol Morley's docudramaIt may not sound like the most Christmasy of tales, but there's something so profoundly moving about Dreams Of A Life that we had to share a clip from the docudrama/drama-documentary with you this frosty e'en.Carol Morley's film played to rapt audiences at the LondonFilm Festival earlier in the year and it's continuing to build buzz. It tells the story of Joyce Vincent, a vivacious wannabe singer who died in her bedsit in North London in 2003. Tragic but not unusual, you might think, except for the fact that no-one noticed. For three years.Morley's film seeks the get to the bottom of the story, mixing reconstructions of Vincent's life and talking-head interviews with her nearest and dearest. Well, relatively nearest and dearest.Popping up in this clip are her ex-boyfriend Martin Lister and Lynne Featherstone, MP for Hornsey and Wood Green, who also tried to get to the bottom of the story only to be rebuffed by everyone from the police to the utilities companies who continued to supply Joyce's flat during that time. {Dreams Of A Life Poster}Playing Vincent is Zawe Ashton, aka the awesomely foul-mouthed Vod in Fresh Meat. Catch her heralded performance when Dreams Of A Life comes out on December 16.
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Tyldum Asks What Happened To Monday?
Hollywood debut for Headhunters directorThe first day of the working week looks set to take something of a kicking in the cinema of the near future. We learned not long ago that producer Daniel Grodnik was heading for a Bad Monday, and now here comes Whatever Happened To Monday?, the English-language debut of Norwegian director Morten Tyldum.Tyldum broke box office records in his homeland this year, with his adaptation of the Jo Nesbo crime thriller Headhunters. It's Norway's most successful film of all time - before it's even played internationally - so it's no surprise that Hollywood should have picked up the phone.Whatever Happened To Monday? is a high-concept dystopian yarn about septuplet brothers on the run and trying to stay below the radar, in an overpopulated society where having more than one child is illegal. You'd think there might be some sort of legal clause which would make exception for acts of nature like multiple conceptions in a single pregnancy, but we're guessing the government in question likes to rigidly enforce its draconian laws. Zero tolerance! No excuses!We're also going to infer that the brothers are named after the days of the week. Hence, something bad happens to Monday, starting the plot engine. According to the Mother Goose rhyme, it'll be Wednesday that's most upset about this.The screenplay, deemed hot enough to make the Black List, is by Max Botkin, who previously wrote the Pauly Shore vehicle Opposite Day, and the RoboSapien movie that's currently in post-production. Raffaella De Laurentiis is producing, through her Raffaella Productions.Headhunters gets a UK release next April.
Monday, November 28, 2011
TV Ratings: 'Once Upon a Time' Finally Takes a Small Hit, Football Dominates for NBC and CBS
ABC The long Thanksgiving weekend ended on a solid note for NBC, which saw the Sunday Night Football match-up between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Kansas City Chiefs bring a victory in viewers and adults 18-49. The game pushed the network to a 5.4 rating in the demo for the night, with preliminary numbers giving the game a 6.7 rating on its own and an average audience of 16.6 million throughout its broadcast. On CBS, overtime from the Denver Broncos/San Diego Chargers game boosted the 7:00 p.m. hour, bringing the net to a 3.6 rating in adults 18-49 for the night. An original episode of The Amazing Race, also skewed by the NFL overage, earned a 3.6 rating for the night. It was followed by back-to-back repeats of freshman drama Person of Interest, which earned a 2.4 and a 1.5 at 9:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m., respectively. ABC's new episode of Once Upon a Time dipped 11 percent from its last original outing two weeks ago. It still managed a 3.4 in adults 18-49, however, and an average audience of 10.7 million for the hour. The net's other original programming was sidelined for the TV movie Mitch Albom's Have a Little Faith, which averaged a meager 1.1 in the demo, with an audience of 6.4 million. On Fox, the animation block brought in a 2.4 rating in 18-49s for the night. Allen Gregory continued to slip, however, reaching a new series low in the demo with a 1.5. Sunday, Nov. 27, Overnight Ratings: 7 p.m. CBS: NFL overrun (22.9 million viewers, 7.0 rating among adults 18-49) Fox: NFL overrun/The Cleveland Show (R) (8.8 million, 3.3) NBC: Football Night in America (6.9 million, 2.3) ABC: America's Funniest Home Videos (7.6 million, 1.8) 7:30 p.m. Fox: The Cleveland Show (4.0 million, 1.9) 8 p.m. NBC: Football Night in America (13.4 million, 4.7) CBS: The Amazing Race (15.4 million, 3.6) ABC: Once Upon a Time (10.7 million, 3.4) Fox: The Simpsons (5.6 million, 2.6) 8:30 p.m. NBC: Sunday Night Football - Steelers at Chiefs (17.1 million, 6.4) Fox: Allen Gregory (3.1 million, 1.5) 9 p.m. NBC: Sunday Night Football - Steelers at Chiefs (18.1 million, 6.8) Fox: Family Guy (5.5 million, 2.8) CBS: Person of Interest (R) (8.97 million, 2.4) ABC: Mitch Albom's Have a Little Faith (6.4 million, 1.1) 9:30 p.m. Fox: American Dad (4.5 million, 2.2) 10 p.m. NBC: Sunday Night Football - Steelers at Chiefs (16.4 million, 6.8) CBS: Person of Interest (R) (6.8 million, 1.5) ABC: Mitch Albom's Have a Little Faith (6.6 million, 1.0) TV Ratings
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Endemol nabs 'Canada Sings' format
LONDON -- Endemol has nabbed worldwide format privileges to Shaw Media's talent show "Canada Sings." The offer requires the entertainment giant selling the format worldwide and creating local versions from the show via its regional production modems. "Canada Sings" was initially created for Shaw Media network Global Television by Insight Production Company, which produced and is the owner of the format. Once the skein bowed in Canada last summer time it had been viewed by 6.5 million audiences, based on Endemol. Shaw Media a week ago greenlit another season of "Canada Sings," that takes regular folk from places of work nationwide and challenges these to form glee clubs with co-employees. The teams, trained by professionals, compete inside a countrywide talent contest using the champion giving the prize money to some nominated charitable organisation. Global mind of format purchases at Endemol Grant Ross stated: "It is really an unabashed feel great format full of adrenalin, bravado, working together, courage and risk. "The show's performance in Canada talks by itself and also the elements which have driven that success could be converted in a territory." Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com
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