Back when I first saw the pilot of The Ex List, which premieres tonight on CBS, I was cautiously optimistic. It wasn't a home run, but the show — which stars Elizabeth Reaser as a woman who learns she has a year to find her Mr. Right and he's someone she's already dated — had enough cute and funny things going for it that I was more than happy to give it time to grow. Once I met the Read more

30 Rock's newest high-profile guest star: Steve Martin! — New York Magazine Jack Osbourne is producing a documentary about his father, Ozzy Osbourne. — Variety Ex-Veronica Mars writer Diane Ruggiero has quit her job as showrunner of the CBS show The Ex List — and lashes out at CBS in the process. — The Star-Ledger Screen Gems is putting together a team for Operation Checkmate, a drama Read more

I don't crouch down on the ground to interview just anyone. But when Diane Ruggiero, the executive producer of the upcoming CBS series The Ex List, asked a group of reporters if it would be all right if she sat down while we talked to her, we all sat too — even though it meant getting cozy with the cold cement floor of a Hollywood night club. That's how much we wanted to talk to Ruggiero, who Read more

Wow, that was one whirlwind weekend here at the TCA press tour. CBS, Showtime, The CW, and NBC's cable networks have all been on stage, plus the Television Critics Association took a break from the panels to deliver some honors of its own. I've heard lots about the new 90210, been bowled over by the hilarity of The Ex List's showrunner, and heard references to The Wire and Arrested Development Read more