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Vanessa Hudgens will reportedly star in Beastly, a Manhattan-set, modern-day take on Beauty and the Beast, based on Alex Flinn's young-adult novel. — ComingSoon Christopher Gorham will return as Henry in the finale of Ugly Betty. — Entertainment Weekly Simon Cowell claims he'd leave American Idol if it stopped being the No. 1 show. — The Hollywood Reporter The 3-D "motion picture event," Read more
Once Pushing Daisies is done, the final episodes of Eli Stone and Dirty Sexy Money will also air Saturday nights on ABC this Summer. — Entertainment Weekly Borat director Larry Charles is in talks to direct the comedy Winter's Discontent about a "sexually frustrated widower" who moves into a retirement community. — ComingSoon NBC's Kings has been bumped from Sunday to Saturday. Read more
NBC's Kings, which premieres tonight, is a vastly ambitious series, set in an alternate universe at a time of war and based on the Biblical story of David and Goliath. It has a fantastic cast, including Ian McShane as the powerful King Silas and relative newcomer Christopher Egan as young David. And while it doesn't necessarily get everything right in tonight's two-hour premiere, I'm curious to Read more
This Spring is filled with lots of good, new, intriguing TV! Castle already got underway this week, and tons of other premieres are in the lineup for the coming weeks. So, what show are you making room for on your schedule? Castle, Cupid, The Unusuals, Better Off Ted, and In the Motherhood photos copyright 2009 ABC, Inc.; Parks and Recreation photo courtesy of Flynet; Kings photo courtesy of Read more
NBC's Kings had one of the more infamous panels at the TCA press tour last Summer, complete with star Ian McShane berating reporters. Lost in the drama, though, was the fact that the clips we saw of the show actually looked pretty great. Set to the regal sounds of Coldplay's "Vida la Vida," the show played out like a hypercolor modern version of the David and Goliath story, with McShane as the Read more
The Smurfs turned 50 this week! — The Independent Ben Stiller may now be the director of The Trial of the Chicago 7. — The Hollywood Reporter Macaulay Culkin has joined the cast of Kings on NBC. — Entertainment Weekly Cillian Murphy and Jim Broadbent have joined the cast of the comedy-thriller Perrier's Bounty. — Variety Crispin Glover is the latest actor to join Tim Burton's Alice in Read more
NBC started off this year's Upfronts more than a month early this afternoon, kicking off the frenzy of Fall TV announcements with its no-frills presentation (which took the form of either a PowerPoint presentation or a conference call, depending on where you were). While the format of the announcements wasn't thrilling, the content will give us much to speculate about over the next few months. Read more
Once, he played a cunning criminal. Now, he's ruling an ancient nation. Deadwood's Ian McShane has joined the cast of NBC's drama Kings, which is based on the life of the Biblical king of Israel. He will play King Silas, modeled on the Bible's King Saul, who welcomes David (Christopher Egan) into his court but ultimately becomes jealous and vengeful toward him. Kings hasn't shot a pilot yet, Read more
King of online retail, Amazon, is planning a brick-and-mortar store — Newser 5 ways to avoid Facebook fraud — Tecca Air traffic may finally switch to GPS technology — SlashGear The concept designs for a zero gravity rollercoaster includes vomit vacuums — Dvice Deleted Facebook photos still online three years later — Ars Technica Untouched for 15 million years, Russian scientists Read more
Sixty years ago today, Queen Elizabeth II started her reign. Each year, the queen quietly marks Accession Day, since it is the anniversary of the death of her father, King George VI, but today, the queen also made note of the celebrations that will come later this year: "I hope also that this Jubilee year will be a time to give thanks for the great advances that have been made since 1952 and to Read more
