All the tube news that’s fit to surf …
– Moose must age well, because Bullwinkle looks pretty darn good for 50.
– When Harry Met Lisa: Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe will guest star on The Simpsons next season, playing a vampire in the show’s Twilight spoof in the annual “Treehouse of Horror” Halloween episode.
– A Connecticut woman has won the contest to create a new Simpsons character. Peggy Black‘s Ricardo Bomba, a South American lothario who works at the Springfield Power Plant that also employs Homer, will debut in the show’s Jan. 31 episode.
– If even Heather Locklear can’t draw viewers into the new Melrose Place, it may be time to pull the plug.
– NBC is cooking up a new reality competition series that sounds like a combination of Top Chef and Shark Tank: The United Plates of America will reward its winner with a chain of four restaurants.
– A perfectly great way to spend 10 minutes of your day: A video of the 100 best quotes from The Wire. And yes, they’re all gems.
– The West Wing and Sports Night creator Aaron Sorkin is drumming up a new series.
– Project Runway wraps tonight, and The Daily Beast runs down the reasons why the show wasn’t itself this season.
– My fellow Lifetime movie fans will surely agree that A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story is one of the network’s all-time classics, and Los Angeles magazine has an update on the real-life, ex-husband-murdering Broderick.
– Malcolm Winters is headed back to Genoa City on The Young and the Restless, but he’s going to look a lot like Urkel’s next-door-neighbor, Eddie Winslow. Because he is.
– Guess Earl’s karma wasn’t so bad, after all. My Name Is Earl star Jason Lee has landed the lead in the George Clooney-produced TNT drama Delta Blues, about a Memphis policeman who lives with his mama and moonlights as an Elvis impersonator. Just like Bobby Elvis, right Sons of Anarchy fans?
– Warm up the Family Truckster: Community star Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo are playing The Griswolds, their Vacation move series roles, in a new Super Bowl 2010 commercial.
– Speaking of Super Bowl ads, CBS has sold almost 90 percent of the ad time for the Feb. 7 Super Bowl telecast in Miami.
– Funny guy Fred Willard will play Phil’s (Ty Burrell) dad in a Modern Family guest gig, while Brooke Shields will play the nemesis of Patricia Heaton‘s harried mom on The Middle.
– Has NBC’s Trauma, thought to be dead, been resuscitated? Deadline Hollywood‘s Nikki Finke says yes.
– And tonight in primetime: The great Robert Wagner and his wife Jill St. John host The World Magic Awards on MyNetworkTV (8PM); Jeff becomes pals with Chang on Community (8PM, NBC); The Waltons dad Ralph Waite plays Booth’s grandpa on Bones (8PM, Fox); Jim confronts Ryan about his bad attitude on The Office (9PM, NBC); Meredith defends the chief against her dad on Grey’s Anatomy (9PM, ABC); Sam and Dean get help in their hunt for Lucifer on Supernatural (9PM, The CW); A winner is announced for Project Runway (10PM, Lifetime); Dennis shares his secrets to wooing the ladies on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (10PM, FX); Jeana bows out on The Real Housewives of Orange County (10PM, Bravo); The Mentalist team is wigged out by a violent crime that happens in their office (10PM, CBS); and Models of the Runway wraps its first season at 11PM (Lifetime).
Charlie Sheen, Russell Brand and Louis C.K. are getting most of the attention, but I’m most excited that one of the best new shows of last TV season — Wilfred — returns for its second season on FX tonight (10PM ET). Season one of the series ended with a cliffhanger — had Ryan (Elijah Wood) […]
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