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Things Could Get Extra Messy on ‘Celebrity Rehab 3′

Posted December 23rd, 2009 by Kim

Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew, season three, has been scheduled for a Jan. 7 premiere on VH1, and the cast includes former couple Tom Sizemore and Heidi Fleiss, which should prove to be weird and creepy since their tumultuous relationship included his 2003 conviction for assault and battery against her. That can’t be a good idea, or even one that would be permitted in non-celebreality rehab, right?

VH1 has released a “supertrailer” for the new season (watch below), which finds one of the celebs having a seizure and definitely crosses over into that really uncomfortable genre of reality TV that makes you think millions of TV viewers just shouldn’t be privy to this particular moment in anyone’s life.

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PS – If you caught the recently-concluded Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew on VH1, you might want to check out a column written by Sex Rehab participant Duncan Roy, who has some very interesting, and not flattering, things to say about Dr. Drew Pinsky.

What’s your take on Dr. Drew and the various Celeb Rehab series? Is it possible that they provide any sort of public service to anyone, or are they just exploitative?

The Donald Announces ‘Celebrity Apprentice 3′ Cast

Posted October 16th, 2009 by Kim

And it’s the best D-list round up ever. Celebrity Apprentice season three will be filming for the next month in New York City, reports The New York Post, and the cast includes:

- Rock of Love star and Poison rocker Bret Michaels

- America’s Got Talent judge and The Osbournes matriarch Sharon Osbourne

- Former New York Yankee and New York Met Darryl Strawberry

- Disgraced former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich

- Comedian Sinbad

- Pop star Cyndi Lauper (who, the Post reports, was filming the show when she found out about the death of her friend, pro wrestling legend Lou Albano)

- Australian chef Curtis Stone

- Pro wrestlers Bill Goldberg and Maria Kanellis

- Gold medal-winning Olympic swimmer Summer Sanders

- Comedienne/writer/inspiration for Seinfeld’s Elaine/former Jerry Seinfeld girlfriend Carol Leifer

- And actress Holly Robinson Peete

On the heels of Celebrity Apprentice 2 – won by comedienne Joan Rivers – the third celeb installment of Donald Trump’s reality series is scheduled to premiere on NBC in March 2010, after the Winter Olympics.

Channel Surfing – June 30

Posted June 30th, 2009 by Kim

All the tube news that’s fit to surf …

- The New York Post claims Simon Cowell has been offered around $144 million per season – more than triple his current salary – to return as an American Idol judge. Is he worth it? Is anyone worth that much money for any job? Still, I don’t think I could sit through the show every week if it were Simon-less.

- Discovery Channel will go ahead with its plans for a Pitchmen marathon on July 1 (beginning at 11AM ET), leading up to the show’s season finale at 10PM. The show, of course, stars the late Billy Mays and shines the light on how his $1 billion business, with partner and fellow pitchman Anthony Sullivan, works.

- Mays, by the way, apparently suffered a heart attack and died in his sleep.

- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit stars Mariska Hargitay and Chris Meloni, who had been in reportedly contentious salary negotiations, have both signed on to return to the NBC drama next season. Christine Lahti is also joining the show as an ADA for four episodes.

- Former Saturday Night Live star Chris Kattan has signed on to be a regular on the new ABC comedy The Middle, which stars Patricia Heaton and Scrubs‘ Neil Flynn.

- CBS will premiere its reality series There Goes the Neighborhood on Aug. 9. American Idol alum Matt Rogers will host the show, which finds eight families stuck behind a 20-foot wall in their ‘hood, without electronic communication or entertainment (No TV! No videogames! No Internet!). The fams have to work together and compete against the other fams to win the $250,000 grand prize.

- Among VH1’s upcoming series: Reality shows starring Chili from TLC, Pepa from Salt n’ Pepa and Frank “The Entertainer” Moresco, the I Love New York and I Love Money alum who currently lives with his parents. The Entertainer will find Moresco looking for love. Line up, ladies … it’s not every day you get the chance to hook up with a 32-year-old who lives in Mom and Dad’s basement. I hope it isn’t, anyway.

- It’s official: the sixth, and final, season of Lost will include 18 hours of island drama.

And tonight in primetime:
- Fox is showing Legally Blonde (8PM ET), one of my all-time fave chick flicks
- Stars Reflect on the Man in the Mirror (8PM, TV Guide Channel), features celebs talking about Michael Jackson’s impact on music and pop culture
- Catch Farrah Fawcett’s chilling, Emmy-nominated performance in the 1984 TV flick The Burning Bed on Encore Drama (9:35PM)
- There’s more bratty teen drama on Bravo’s “real-life Gossip Girl” docudrama NYC Prep (9PM)
- Sean gets a surprise visitor in the hospital on Rescue Me (10PM, FX)
- More early auditions on America’s Got Talent (9PM, NBC)
- Linda has to move into Ted’s office after some toxic substance runs amuck on Better Off Ted (9:30PM, ABC)
- The BET Awards repeat (6:30PM, BET) in case you missed all the Michael Jackson tributes
- William’s father/son bonding weekend is interrupted when a pair of alcoholics need William’s help on The Cleaner (10PM, A&E)
- One smokin’ dude gets a cigar lounge on a new ep of Man Caves (9PM, DIY)
- And Dr. Mike tests leech therapy in India on Bite Me with Dr. Mike (10PM, Travel Channel)

Channel Surfing – June 26

Posted June 26th, 2009 by Kim

All the tube news that’s fit to surf …

- Farrah Fawcett’s death has seemingly taken a backseat to Michael Jackson coverage in the media, but TV Land will air the first two episodes of the late Charlie’s Angels star’s 2005 celebreality series Chasing Farrah on June 27 at 9PM ET. NBC will re-air Farrah’s Story, the recent two-hour documentary that followed her battle against cancer, tonight at 9PM, while the Bio Channel will air Bio Remembers: Farrah Fawcett June 29 at 10PM.

- The deaths of Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson apparently sparked some Internet pranksters to start rumors about the deaths of Law & Order: Criminal Intent star Jeff Goldblum and Harrison Ford. Weird, random totally untrue.

- The Sarah Palin hubbub helped David Letterman best The Tonight Show in the ratings for the first time in more than three years.

- It’s a go: Noah Wyle will star in Steven Spielberg’s alien-invasion pilot for TNT.

- The Scientologists are taking to the airwaves again with a new series of TV commercials, including one that aired Wednesday night during 360 with Anderson Cooper on CNN.

- Privileged star Joanna Garcia will pop up on the new season of Gossip Girl as Bree Buckley, a nasty Southerner who’s rumored to have a little somethin’-somethin’ going with Chace Crawford’s Nate.

- NBC has announced its fall schedule premiere dates, including the premiere of The Jay Leno Show on Sept. 14 and the Sept. 17 premiere of Community, the best new sitcom to hit the tube since 30 Rock (which, by the way, returns to the network’s line-up on Oct. 15).

- If American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert doesn’t drop a great debut album, it won’t be because of a lack of talented collaborators. Among those writing and performing with Lambert on his disc are One Republic’s Ryan Tedder and Idol judge/songwriter Kara DioGuardi, but also musicians who’ve worked with Evanescence, David Archuleta, Kelly Clarkson, Katy Perry, Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Christina Aguilera, Jason Mraz and Britney Spears.

- Jeri Ryan will play a new con woman on TNT’s Leverage.

- The U.S Postal Service is releasing a new series of stamps that will honor classic TV stars and shows. The Aug. 11 release will find stamps featuring Groucho Marx, Rod Serling, Howdy Doody, Lassie, The Lone Ranger, The Honeymooners and I Love Lucy.

- And, a Fraggle Rock comic book?! Yep, it’s happening.

Channel Surfing – June 10

Posted June 10th, 2009 by Kim

All the tube news that’s fit to surf …

- Mad Men, season three, August 16 at 10PM ET on AMC. Be there, or be somewhere else, somewhere where people don’t knock back three vodka gimlets before lunch, aren’t nearly as dapperly-attired as Don Draper (Jon Hamm) and don’t have offices that are bigger than my entire New York City apartment. Yeah, not sounding nearly as much fun as Mad Men, right?

- Is designer Vera Wang going to be competing on the next season of Dancing With the Stars? And if so, does that mean we can count on less cheesy costumes?

- Plus-size model Emme has been hired to host Fox’s More to Love, the reality dating show that will feature “average-looking” people

- Discovery Channel’s 22nd annual Shark Week kicks off on August 2.

- Matt Mitovich at TVGuide.com says Rick Springfield will play, fittingly enough, Rick Springfield, when he guest stars on the new season of Californication, but he’ll be a naughty Rick Springfield, one whose sex play makes David Duchovny’s Hank “look like a Jonas brother.” Not that I’m buying that whole purity ring business about the Jonas Bros. …

- In celebration of its 15th anniversary, TCM has created its own social network site, TCM Classic Film Union, for movie buffs.

- Gordon Ramsay has apologized for, well, basically, for being a tool. You can watch the apology here.

- I reeeally want to like Dr. Drew and trust his motives, but a real doctor prolly should offer to help Lindsay Lohan, or a less-famous addict, whether or not she accepts a reported six-figure offer to appear on his reality show, Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, right? Of course, the story seems to be originating with Lohan’s dad, so, grain – no, make that rock, huge, ginormous rock – of salt on the whole thing.

- The Shield creator Shawn Ryan is going back to FX with a comedy about private detectives, called Terriers.

- Futurama’s back! With 26 new episodes in 2010!

- Good news for David Letterman: He, with guest Julia Roberts, beat Conan O’Brien’s Tonight Show on Tuesday. Worse news for Conan: His ratings keep dropping. Don’t count him out tho; remember his first years as Late Night host?

- More ratings wars news: Judge Judy beat Oprah. Whoa.

- ABC’s getting a jump on the competition by announcing its fall premiere dates.

- The ratings for the Nurse Jackie series premiere were so good, Showtime’s already greenlighting a second season, so go ahead and get hooked.

- Heidi Pratt’s launching her own line of dry shampoo, after her shampoo shenanigans on I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here. I’m sure Oscar Blandi is shaking in his celebrity hair-cutting boots.

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