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First Look: Dane Cook, Kate Hudson in My Best Friend's Girl
Oh, wow, what have we here? Dane Cook playing a gross jerk again — only this time, he gets paid for it. And, in the end, it looks like he gets Kate Hudson.
Kate Hudson Cast in Bachelor No. 2
The facts:
Kate Hudson has been cast in the comedy Bachelor No. 2, a movie that "revolves around a man who is hired by men who have been dumped to take their ex-girlfriends out on nightmare dates, thereby convincing the women to return to their boyfriends. But trouble arises when [the man]'s character is hired to take out the ex-girlfriend of his best pal."
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Buzz News Roundup, 8/20
- Eleven extras were injured while on production in Germany filming Tom Cruise's WWII thriller Valkyrie, CNN reports. A police spokesperson kindly informed us that they "have no findings to suggest anyone famous was involved in the accident."
- Nelly Furtado, Gym Class Heroes and Common have joined the lineup for MTV's Video Music Awards, USA Today reports.
- According to Hollywood Reporter, Jason Biggs and Lizzy Caplan have joined the cast (Kate Hudson, Dane Cook) of Bachelor No. 2.
- ComingSoon reports that Ken Leung will star in "Lost" next season, appearing in the premiere episode as "a brilliant mathematician who is capable of great insights and has a tremendous knowledge across various scientific fields."
- Meanwhile, Tom Everett Scott will play Lucy Liu's fiance on the premiere of "Cashmere Mafia," says the Futon Critic.
- Ralph Fiennes and Nicole Kidman will star together in the romantic drama The Reader, Variety reports.
- NBC has bought a reality show called "Amne$ia," which will quiz people about the events of their lives, TV Week reports.
- NBC will premiere its fall pilots early via On Demand services, TV Guide says.
- Zac Efron will star in Seventeen, a Big-like comedy-drama in which a 36-year-old man "wakes up in the body of a studly high school senior," reports ComingSoon.
Number Crunching: This Week's TV Ratings
- Roses and ratings. The Bachelor's finale and post-finale specials dominated the early part of this week: On Monday, The Bachelor ended the season with its best ratings in a couple of years, drawing 15.5 million viewers. The After the Final Rose special, where most of the drama went down, was even bigger, with 17.5 million viewers.
What to TiVo: Monday
- Fox is new with 24
- NBC is new with Chuck, Heroes, and Medium
- CBS is new with The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, Two and a Half Men, and Rules of Engagement and has a repeat of CSI: Miami
- ABC is new with the season finale of The Bachelor followed by The Bachelor: After the Final Rose
- The CW has repeats of Gossip Girl and One Tree Hill
- TNT is new with Saving Grace
- MTV is new with The City
- VH1 has For the Love of Ray J
- ABC Family is new with The Secret Life of the American Teenager and Kyle XY
- Late-night highlights include Katie Couric and U2 on Late Show With David Letterman on CBS; Larry the Cable Guy, Malin Akerman, and the Fray on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on NBC; and Robert De Niro, Justin Timberlake, and Van Morrison on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on NBC
This Week in TV Blogs
I've already given you some of my highlights from the week, but today, I wanted to check in with some of the web's best TV bloggers to see what they were buzzing about. To see what was making headlines this week, just read more
What to TiVo: Tuesday
- Fox is new with American Idol
- NBC is new with Biggest Loser: Couples and has a repeat of Law and Order: SVU
- CBS has repeats of NCIS, The Mentalist, and Without a Trace
- ABC is new with Homeland Security USA, has repeats of Scrubs, and is new with The Bachelor: After the Final Rose
- The CW is new with the season premiere of Reaper and has a repeat of 90210
- Bravo is new with Real Housewives of New York
- MTV is new with Dogg After Dark
- TNT is new with Trust Me
- FX is new with Nip/Tuck
- Comedy Central is new with The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report
- Late-night highlights include on Bob Newhart, Rachel Maddow, and Bettye Lavette on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on NBC; Felicity Huffman, Artie Lange, and U2 on Late Show with David Letterman on CBS; and Tina Fey, Jon Bon Jovi, and Santigold on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on NBC
What to TiVo: Saturday
- Fox has NFL football coverage
- NBC is new with Crusoe and has repeats of Law & Order and Law & Order: SVU
- CBS is new with two episodes of Game Show in My Head, has a repeat of Criminal Minds, and is new with 48 Hours Mystery
- ABC has repeats of The Bachelor and True Beauty
- MTV has a repeat of Double Shot at Love
- VH1 has 40 Greatest Pranks 2
- Late-night highlights include a new Saturday Night Live with Neil Patrick Harris and Taylor Swift on NBC and repeats of MadTV and Talkshow on Fox
Buzz News Roundup, 7/14
- Army Wives will be back for a third season, with 18 episodes scheduled to air sometime in 2009, Zap2it reports.
- According to Hollywood Reporter, Bradley Cooper and Ed Helms will star together in a "bachelor-party comedy" titled Hangover.
- Jordana Brewster will guest-star on Chuck as Jill, the college girlfriend who legendarily broke Chuck's heart, reports Entertainment Weekly.
- The success of Wall-E has apparently sparked new talk of a Hello, Dolly stage revival, Variety reports.
- ABC and FX topped GLAAD's annual "responsibility index," Reuters reports, while NBC and Fox, among others, received failing grades.
- ComingSoon has the news that Jon Heder will star in another Napoleon Dynamite-type oddball comedy, titled Loudermilk.
- Gio wins? Ugly Betty's Christopher Gorham has been cast in the CBS midseason series Harper's Island — though ABC still insists we haven't seen the last of Henry, TV Guide reports.
- ComingSoon writes that Fox has acquired the screen rights to the recent NYT bestseller One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War.
Gossip Girl, Chris Brown Lead Teen Choice Nominations
Gossip Girl may not have great ratings, but it certainly has the eye of the teen demographic. The show and its stars scored a total 14 nominations for the 2008 Teen Choice Awards today, easily the most of any nominee.
In the music categories, Chris Brown was the clear leader with nine nominations.
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