Buzz News Roundup, 3/9


Updated 03/09/09 10:09 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 3 comments

Buzz News Roundup, 3/9

Chris Rock will join Martin Lawrence and Tracy Morgan for Neil LaBute's remake of the 2007 British film Death at a Funeral. — Zap2It Amy Winehouse is pulling out of the lineup for this year's Coachella festival. — Billboard Little People, Big World is getting a spinoff about a newly married couple. — Variety Julia Roberts will produce the comedy Jesus Henry Christ, which follows Henry Read more

What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday


Updated 06/17/08 4:14 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 3 comments

New on DVD, June 17, 2008

All of the new DVD releases hit stores (and Netflix) on Tuesdays. So each week in What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday, I sort through the best of the batch and tell you what to add to your queue. In addition to the titles below, you can also pick up Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson's romcom Fool's Gold and the complete Jericho series on DVD. Be Kind Rewind Director Michel Gondry is known for a Read more

Link Time! 6/12


Updated 06/14/08 12:08 AM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 3 comments

Link Time! 6/12

Check out the new image from the Where the Wild Things Are movie, courtesy of MTV Movies Blog. Top Chef fans, be sure to head to YumSugar for a recap of the finale and a test of how well you paid attention. Cinematical ponders the news that Hugh Hefner apparently wants Robert Downey Jr. to portray him in Hefner's biopic. TV with MeeVee doesn't know that someone will die on Battlestar Galactica, Read more

Link Time! 6/3


Updated 06/03/08 3:58 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 1 comment

Link Time! 6/3

Pop Candy reports that Jericho fans still aren't giving up on trying to get their show back on the air. According to CasaSugar, the cast of Gossip Girl and Jennifer Hudson have teamed up with Deeply Madly Living to benefit the V-Day Foundation and the Children’s Defense Fund. Give Me My Remote tracks down several Jenna Fischer pop culture appearances and realizes she'd really like to be Jenna Read more

TV Tonight: Jericho's Final Episode


Updated 03/25/08 1:28 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 15 comments

TV Tonight: Jericho's Final Episode

This time, it doesn't look like there will be any mass uprising to save Jericho. No rallying of the troops from sites like JerichoLives. No tons of peanuts. No, Jericho — the show that was resurrected by a serious fan mobilization last Spring, returned for seven episodes, and never got a foothold in the ratings — is going more quietly this time. "We have no regrets bringing the show back Read more

Buzz News Roundup, 3/21


Updated 03/21/08 8:30 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 5 comments

Buzz News Roundup, 3/21

Reuters reports that Ridley Scott and Leonardo DiCaprio will re-team for a thriller titled Low Dwellers. CBS has canceled Jericho — again, writes the Hollywood Reporter. Billboard writes that Queen + Paul Rodgers will go on a four-month European tour this fall in support of its new studio album, releasing in Britain in September. The CW and the producers of American Idol are teaming up for an Read more

TV Tonight: Jericho


Updated 02/12/08 4:30 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 7 comments

TV Tonight: Jericho

Considering all the talk of campaigns to save Friday Night Lights, it's especially fitting that Jericho, a show that benefited from exactly such a campaign, starts its second season tonight. The show was canceled after the end of its first season last May, but a large-scale outreach effort from fans (and more than 20 tons of peanuts) brought it back for seven episodes. The first of those Read more

Link Time! 2/7


Updated 02/07/08 5:39 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 1 comment

Link Time! 2/7

TV with MeeVee tracks down a bizarre animated CBS online-only show called Danny Bonaduce: Life Coach. Popwatch asks: What TV characters do you love that everyone else seems to loathe? Stereogum has found Snoop Dogg's new song, "Neva Hafta Wurry." TV Filter has a Jericho preview clip for those of you who can't wait till next week. Cinematical hated the new comedy Strange Wilderness so much it's Read more

Buzz News Roundup, 1/23


Updated 02/11/08 10:34 AM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 3 comments

Buzz News Roundup, 1/23

In an effort to strike a deal, the Writers Guild of America has dropped demands to unionize reality TV writers and animation writers, USA Today reports. Beyonce and Tina Turner will duet at the Grammys, according to People. Three series renewals this week: TV Week reports that Oxygen is in for a third season of Tori and Dean and Bravo has rewened Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, while Read more

Buzz News Roundup, 1/18


Updated 01/18/08 10:30 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 3 comments

Buzz News Roundup, 1/18

A 30-minute live acoustic set by John Legend — aboard a Delta flight — will be the prize of a Grammys sweepstakes, Billboard reports. Sci Fi Wire is reporting that Jericho has shot two endings this time, just in case it's canceled again. ComingSoon has news that Jennifer Hudson will join the cast of the drama Tyler Perry's the Family That Preys. NBC is auctioning off items from its shows to Read more