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Minogue 'hoping for Housewives role'

17 July 2009 8:45 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

X Factor judge Dannii Minogue is hoping to land roles in Desperate Housewives and Ugly Betty, it has been claimed. The Aussie singer recently flew out to Los Angeles for a week of talks with "the best from TV and film", reports suggest. A source has now told the Daily Star: "She's very excited about breaking America. Dannii would love to get a role in one of their top shows, especially Desperate Housewives or even Ugly Betty. "Agents know she is a popstar but thanks to YouTube, (more)

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2009 Emmy Nominees

17 July 2009 8:40 AM, PDT | From ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news

The Emmys are once again approaching, meaning it’s time to highlight those shows that made the often-unbearable experience of TV watching worth your while, if only for a short while.

Take a look over the list of this year’s Emmy Nominees then head on down to the comment section to give your two cents.

 

The 2009 Emmy Nominees (Abridged Version):

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Drama Series:

“Big Love,” HBO

“Breaking Bad,” AMC

“Damages,” FX

“Dexter,” Showtime

“House,” Fox

“Lost,” ABC

“Mad Men,” AMC

Comedy Series:

“Entourage,” HBO

“Family Guy,” Fox

“How I Met Your Mother,” CBS

“Flight of the Conchords,” HBO

“The Office,” NBC

“30 Rock,” NBC

“Weeds,” Showtime

Actor, Drama Series:

Simon Baker, “The Mentalist”

Gabriel Byrne, “In Treatment”

Bryan Cranston, “Breaking Bad”

Michael C. Hall, “Dexter”

Jon Hamm, “Mad Men”

Hugh Laurie, “House”

Actress, Drama Series:

Glenn Close, “Damages”

Sally Field, “Brothers and Sisters”

Mariska Hargitay, “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit”

Holly Hunter,

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Longoria Parker's Camping Trip

17 July 2009 5:16 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Eva Longoria Parker stunned locals on a trip to her husband Tony Parker's native France - by camping with holidaymakers.

The Desperate Housewives star and the basketball ace headed to Europe for a recent trip - and campers at a site in Normandy were stunned to see the Hollywood actress.

One onlooker says, "Sleeping under canvas obviously agreed with her. She looked gorgeous!"

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Emmy nominations: Who got skunked!

16 July 2009 2:12 PM, PDT | From Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news

Ah, the Emmy nominations that might have been! Below is a list of the programs and stars that got snubbed by the 14,000 voters in the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Here is a full list of nominees. * = Top 10 Semi-Finalist in 2008

** = Nominee in 2008 Not-so-best Drama Series

"Battlestar Galactica"

"Boston Legal" **

"ER"

"Friday Night Lights" *

"Grey's Anatomy" *

"In Treatment"

"The Mentalist"

"The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency"

"Rescue Me"

"The Shield"

"True Blood"

"The Tudors" *

"24" Not-so-best Comedy Series

"The Big Bang Theory"

"Californication"

"Desperate Housewives"

"Scrubs"

"Two and a Half Men" **

"Ugly Betty" *

"United States of Tara" Not-so-best Miniseries

"House of Saddam" (HBO)

"Maneater" (Lifetime) Not-so-best TV Movie

"Accidental Friendship"

"America"

"Front of the Class"

"Gifted Hands"

"God on Trial"

"Jesse Stone: Thin Ice"

"Living Proof"

"My Zinc Bed"

"Natalee Holloway"

"Sybil" Not-so-best Reality Program

"Celebrity Rehab"

"Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" **

"Man vs. Wild"

"Penn & Teller ... !" Not-so-best Reality-competition Program

"America's Next Top Model

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Emmy Nominations Reveal Few Surprises

16 July 2009 10:01 AM, PDT | From CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news

It's a good day for funny people, especially if your name is Tina Fey or Seth MacFarlane.

Fey's series, 30 Rock, was handed 22 Emmy nominations this morning, which stands as a record for a comedy series. She and Alec Baldwin were also nominated for acting awards. Plus, for the first time some of the other actors on NBC's laffer  were recognized. Jane Krakowski, Jack McBrayer and Tracy Morgan all picked up supporting nominations.

MacFarlane's Family Guy was also nominated for best comedy series, the first time an animated show has cracked that category since The Flintstones in 1961. Two years ago MacFarlane decided to pull his show from contention in the animated series category to have it considered for best comedy.

Mad Men, the drama about the advertising world in the sixties, picked up 16 nominations in the drama categories, including a best actor nod for Jon Hamm. Hamm is also nominated as

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Emmy 2009 Breakdown: Snubs! Surprises! Farrah!

16 July 2009 8:20 AM, PDT | From E! Online | See recent E! Online news

You know who was nominated in the top categories, but do you know who wasn't nominated? Do you know which notables scored notable, if more obscure nods? Now you do: • Twilight fever didn't help True Blood draw much blood. The on-the-rise vampire series scored three overall nods, but was ignored in the acting, writing and directing categories. • Saturday Night Live tunesmith Justin Timberlake scored more nominations (three) than Desperate Housewives (two). Yes, the entire series. • The late Farrah Fawcett, who never won an acting Emmy, has a shot at a posthumous trophy for helping produce Farrah's Story, her cancer documentary that's up for Outstanding Nonfiction...

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‘Flight of the Conchords,’ ‘Family Guy’ Lead Surprising 2009 Emmy Nominees

16 July 2009 6:58 AM, PDT | From HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news

Chicago – The 61st Annual Emmy Nominations were announced today and there were a few surprises, a few disappointments, and a variety of unusual choices. The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences displayed a desire to move forward with some first-time nominees, mostly ignoring some tired staples like “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Desperate Housewives,” but also missed some arguably deserving choices.

The Best Drama and Best Comedy categories expanded to seven nominees this year, which allowed for a wide variety of networks to claim a “Best” nominee.

Family Guy

Photo credit: Fox

The nominees for Best Drama are “Big Love,” “Breaking Bad,” “Damages,” “Dexter,” “House,” “Lost,” and “Mad Men”. The refusal to give in to pressure to nominate the last season of “ER” is nice and its hard to argue with too many of their actual choices, but HBO’s great “In Treatment” needed to be in that seven and “True

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The 61st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards Nominations

16 July 2009 6:30 AM, PDT | From MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news

The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced the nominations for The 61st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards this morning. NBC comedy series 30 Rock lead the way with 22 nominations with the HBO telefilm Grey Gardens with 17 nominations and last year's winner for Best Drama, Mad Men, with 16 nominations. Take a look at the complete list of the nominees below.

Outstanding Voice-Over Performance

American Masters - Jerome Robbins: Something To Dance About - PBS - Thirteen/Wnet American Masters - Ron Rifkin, Narrator

Family Guy - I Dream of Jesus - Fox - Fox Television Animation - Seth MacFarlane as Peter Griffin

Robot Chicken - Robot Chicken: Star Wars - Episode II - Cartoon Network - ShadowMachine - Seth Green as Robot Chicken Nerd, Bob Goldstein, Ponda Baba, Anakin Skywalker, Imperial Officer

The Simpsons - Eeny Teeny Maya Moe - Fox - Gracie Films in Association with 20th Century Fox Television

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Care to Make Any Emmy Predictions?

14 July 2009 9:51 PM, PDT | From FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news

If you're new here and click on the Emmy label below, you'll probably find a thesaurus worth of unpleasant adjectives about TV's own "Oscars". But to save you the trouble of clicking, it goes like this: I don't like them. There, that was short and sweet bitter.

Does another dark Emmy-less fate await Friday Night Lights?

What a great show. Why can't they see that?

The Academy Awards are often chastised for their obvious preferencing: Holocaust dramas, biopics, women who allow themselves to look frumpy ... but at least you can understand where they're coming from and why they go for those things even if you don't agree. Who can explain Emmy's deep love for Two and a Half Men?

When Oscar gets chastised for repeatedly ignoring a brilliant performer or filmmaker, they usually give in and do a kind of makeup 'yeah, we're sorry we ignored your brilliance!' nomination.

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'EastEnders' star auditions for 'Housewives'

14 July 2009 10:46 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Former EastEnders star Michelle Collins has revealed that she has auditioned for a role on ABC's Desperate Housewives. The actress, who played scheming Cindy Beale in the Walford soap, told BBC One's Breakfast that she may soon be heading to Los Angeles. "I've got an American visa now so I've spent quite a bit of time there," she admitted. "I went to a casting for Desperate Housewives, but I haven't got it yet. "As I've told people about it, they're amazed and have been telling me that someone like Cindy from EastEnders (more)

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Jeffrey Nordling Heads From '24' to 'Desperate Housewives'

13 July 2009 8:30 PM, PDT | From buddytv.com | See recent BuddyTV news

Looks like Larry Moss isn't really dead, after all.  He was just, I dunno, smothered to death before being flicked to life to a totally different setting: Wisteria Lane.

24's Jeffrey Nordling has joined the cast of ABC's Desperate Housewives, coming in as Drea DeMatteo joins the show as the newest housewife in town.  He is set to play DeMatteo's character's husband, a landscape designer from New York who moves in with his family.

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Firefly star Nathan Fillion in talks for DC Comics superhero role?

13 July 2009 8:30 AM, PDT | From The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news

Nathan Fillion has long been a fan favourite for the role of Green Lantern on the big screen.

There has even been a fan-made trailer splicing together pieces of different movies and TV shows to portray Fillion in the lead role of pilot Hal Jordan, who finds a powerful ring when a dying alien crash-lands on Earth.

But the 38-year-old was reportedly ruled out of playing the superhero on the grounds of his age and we've just heard that Ryan Reynolds has landed the role of the DC Comics character.

In an interesting new twist, MTV reports that, according to a Twitter message, Fillion has just been in talks at DC Comics, along with Rainn Wilson.

Fillion is probably best known for playing Captain Malcolm Reynolds in Joss Whedon's TV series Firefly and its film spin-off Serenity. He also had a recurring role in Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and appeared in Desperate Housewives.

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Eva Longoria Parker's kinky fetish

13 July 2009 2:43 AM, PDT | From Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news

Eva Longoria Parker likes being tied up during sex. The 'Desperate Housewives' actress - who is married to basketball star Tony Parker - has revealed her most satisfying lovemaking sessions involve her being restrained in the bedroom. She revealed: "I'm not averse to being tied up with silk scarves. I like a man to take charge. There's something very sexy about being submissive. Speaking as part of Comopolitan magazine's Best Ever Sex survey, 'Spider-Man' star Kirsten Dunst also revealed her favourite ever raunchy encounter, admitting she once had sex in a store changing room with actor Jake Gyllenhaal. Eva and Kirsten are not the only female stars to speak openly about their sex lives in recent months. Former Spice

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Eva Longoria Reveals Her Kinky Bedroom Desires

12 July 2009 11:11 PM, PDT | From Hollyscoop.com | See recent HollyScoop news

Eva Longoria has learned a thing or two from her character on Desperate Housewives, and is applying to her marriage off screen. Eva, who married basketball star Tony Parker back in 2007, admits she likes being tied up in the bedroom and is open to kinky sexual acts. She told Cosmopolitan magazine, “I’m not averse to being tied up with silk scarves. I like a man to take charge. There’s something very sexy about being submissive." Just the thought of Eva in some sexy lingerie tied up would be enough for most men. What a lucky man Tony...

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ABC’s ‘Desperate Housewives’ Casts Two New People

11 July 2009 7:09 PM, PDT | From OnTheFlix | See recent OnTheFlix news

ABC's hit show has cast new members to join new addition Drea DeMatteo. They will be her new family on the show. The two new additions are Jeffrey Nording and Beau Mirchoff. They will be season regulars along with DeMatteo. Jeffrey Nording will play DeMatteo's husband who is a New York landscape designer who has just move to Wisteria Lane. Beau Mirchoff will play their tightly wound,sexy,and intense son. Desperate housewives will be heading into its sixth season this fall.

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Longoria's Beer Deal

11 July 2009 7:41 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Eva Longoria Parker has signed on to be the new spokesmodel for Dutch beer giant Heineken.

The Desperate Housewives star appears in a new TV ad campaign for Heineken Light.

In the commercial, two fans are upgraded to courtside seats alongside Longoria at a basketball game.

The actress is an avid fan of the sport and married to San Antonio Spurs star Tony Parker.

Longoria Parker says of the commercial, "It's always nice to get upgraded. I hope sitting next to me is an upgrade!"

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Preview: Defying Gravity

10 July 2009 5:54 PM, PDT | From TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news

Fox TV Studios, Vancouver’s Omni Film Productions and the Canadian network CTV are teaming up to bring you the show that’s being dubbed “Grey’s Anatomy in space”.  Yeah, that’s a weird tagline, right?  Perhaps a longer explanation is in order.

Back in 2004 the BBC produced a series called Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets, which is the inspiration for Defying Gravity.  Space Odyssey was broadcasted as a docudrama about a group of astronauts traveling to different planets.  Defying Gravity has a similar premise: “[it's a] sexy, provocative relationship drama set in the very near future against the background of our solar system, in which eight astronauts from five countries (four women and four men) undertake a mysterious six-year international space mission covering eight billion miles. With the eyes of the world upon them – everything they do is monitored, and every emotion they feel, scrutinized – they soon discover that

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[TV] So "Virtuality" isn't Picked Up, But This is?

10 July 2009 1:25 PM, PDT | From JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news

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Depressing. The above is a trailer for ABC's new show Defying Gravity, about a group of international astronauts on an important six-year space mission, set in the near-future. Want to know why this has already been greenlit for 13 episodes? Because it was pitched as "Grey's Anatomy in space" and is described as "a sci-fi premise but being told in a female-friendly way." Huh? What do they mean female frie--Oooh, you mean crappy romance and plenty of sex. Right. Female.

Creator James Parriott (Grey's Anatomy, Ugly Betty) exec produces with Michael Edelstein (Desperate Housewives) to bring you this story of ex-lovers (played by Ron Livingston and Laura Harris) who are trapped together in this space mission as part of the ship's 8-person crew. 4 males, 4 females, gathered from 5 different countries. Everything they do is monitored and recorded on camera (Angst! Drama! Sexy passion!). Sounds like a dumber version of Virtuality?

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Longoria Parker Joins Beer Firm

9 July 2009 2:56 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Eva Longoria Parker is the new face of Dutch beer giants Heineken.

The Desperate Housewives star appears in a new TV ad campaign for the brewer's new brand Heineken Light.

In the commercial, two fans are upgraded to courtside seats alongside Longoria at a basketball game involving her husband Tony Parker's team the San Antonio Spurs.

Speaking to WENN at the ad's Texas shoot, Longoria Parker said, "It's always nice to get upgraded. I hope sitting next to me is an upgrade!"

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Weekly TV Wrap Up - July 9th, 2009

9 July 2009 11:03 AM, PDT | From ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news

Today’s Weekly TV Wrap Up covers information about ABC on Hulu, a new developing tidbit on Smallville, NCIS casting bits, CSI Miami does time travel and some Lie To Me & The Mentalist casting news.

We also have a trailer for season 2 of Sons Of Anarchy, a bit about David Tennant’s next acting role and some information on 2 new shows coming at us, The Forgotten and Gravity.

There’s also a bit of a change up to the Ratings table this week.  I apologize ahead of time.

 

ABC on Hulu

Now that Walt Disney has become an equity partner with Hulu.com, we are going to start to see ABC projects showing up on the online video site.

Grey’s Anatomy was the first and will be followed by Desperate Housewives, Scrubs, Ugly Betty, I Survived a Japanese Game Show and Superstars.

I thought I didn’t care about the first bunch,

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