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Link Time! 4/2
- Aww, a fond farewell to the Woz on Dancing With the Stars. — geeksugar
- Fifteen years after his death, former Sassy editor Christine Kelly opens up about the interview she did with Kurt Cobain for the April '92 issue. — I Heart Daily
- A video tribute to Barney and Robin's "BRo Love" on How I Met Your Mother.
Buzz News Roundup, 3/4
- Director Zack Snyder has tapped Amanda Seyfried to lead the all-female cast of his movie Sucker Punch. — Zap2It
- It's the neverending musical: High School Musical 4 will come to the Disney Channel in 2010. — Billboard
- Woody Allen's latest film, Whatever Works, starring Larry David and Evan Rachel Wood will kick off this year's Tribeca Film Festival in April.
Link Time! 2/26
- Is there gender inequality in Pixar films? — Cinematical
- The story behind United States of Tara's cool opening credits. — Pop Candy
- Stevie Wonder is the secret to the Obamas' marriage.
First Look: Life on Mars
So far, we haven't seen too much of ABCs remake of Life on Mars. The show, which will begin airing after Grey's Anatomy on Oct. 9, had a pretty tricky road to TV, with nearly every actor being recast except for leading man Jason O'Mara.
Buzz News Roundup, 8/1
- Lisa Bonet has joined the cast of Life on Mars as the main character's girlfriend, Entertainment Weekly reports.
- The Hollywood Reporter writes that Colin Firth is joining the next film version of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.
- ComingSoon reports that Mike Myers is writing the fourth Austin Powers movie.
- Billboard has details about the first album from The Verve in more than a decade.
- Law & Order creator Dick Wolf is working on another project about lawyers for NBC, Zap2it reports.
- The action-fantasy film Prince of Persia, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, has been pushed back a year and will now open Memorial Day weekend 2010, Variety writes.
- The Hollywood Reporter has the news that Nicolas Cage and director John Carpenter will team up for prison thriller Scared Straight.
- According to ComingSoon, the script for the dramedy Ivy Chronicles, starring Sarah Jessica Parker, is being written by Aline Brosh McKenna, who wrote the screenplay for The Devil Wears Prada.
Buzz News Roundup, 7/28
- Citing a lack of stories to tell in a second season, HBO won't be bringing back Tell Me You Love Me after all, Zap2it reports.
- According to Hollywood Reporter, Ridley Scott's Nottingham movie (starring Russell Crowe as Sheriff of Nottingham and Sienna Miller as Maid Marion) has been "indefinitely postponed."
- Alexis Bledel and Scott Porter are joining Julio DePietro's romantic comedy The Good Guy, ComingSoon reports.
- Harvey Keitel will play a detective in ABC's Life on Mars, marking the first time he's taken a regular TV role, the New York Times reports.
- Billboard has the news that Coldplay's album Viva la Vida climbed back to the top spot on the U.K. charts.
- Showtime is developing a drama about Studio 54 called Studio, writes Hollywood Reporter.
- Ellen Barkin, Ving Rhames and Rob Corddry will star in the indie comedy Rogues Gallery, Variety writes.
- Family Guy showrunner David A. Goodman will adapt Blatant Comics's Last Blood into a horror film, according to ComingSoon.
- Entertainment Weekly reports that Nelly will guest-star on CSI: NY as a club owner.
Buzz News Roundup, 7/2
- According to Variety, Josh Hartnett will be starring in a London stage production of the movie Rain Man, taking on the role originally played by Tom Cruise.
- Rapper Young Jeezy will join the cast of Ice Cube's comedy Janky Promoters, Billboard writes.
- Michael Imperioli will join the cast of ABC's Life on Mars, Variety reports.
- Four more actors have joined the cast of the Night at the Museum sequel, including Christopher Guest, ComingSoon reports.
- Entertainment Weekly reports that Criminal Minds looks like the next CBS show to get a spinoff.
- Billboard writes that at a private concert this week, Pearl Jam helped raise $3 million for the poverty-fighting charity the Robin Hood Foundation.
- TNT will remake the British series Cracker, about an abrasive and heavy-drinking detective, with Robert Duvall as an executive producer, Zap2it reports.
- A lost interview with the Beatles has been aired on BBC radio, the Associated Press reports.
Buzz News Roundup, 6/2
- According to ComingSoon, Dawson's Creek's Kerr Smith will join the cast of the 3-D remake of My Bloody Valentine.
- Rock legend Bo Diddley died today at the age of 79, writes Billboard.
- ABC's Life on Mars adaptation is looking pretty troubled already, according to the LA Times, though it's the network's only new drama for the Fall.
- The Hollywood Reporter announced that Bryce Dallas Howard will replace Charlotte Gainsbourg in the fourth Terminator installment.
- American Idol winner David Cook's recording deal is official, and he's still setting all kinds of iTunes records, USA Today reports.
- Variety reports that Family Guy will compete as a regular comedy at the Emmys — not just an animated one — for the first time.
- Katharine McPhee and Wes Bentley are set to star together in the indie psychological drama The Storyteller, reports ComingSoon.
ABC's Fall Schedule: My Take (With Video!)
I just finished watching ABC's upfront presentation to advertisers, where the network's executives went over the schedule that was announced this morning and showed clips of the new shows — including Life on Mars, pictured above. The presentation gave me some insight into what ABC's thinking with its schedule, which only includes two new shows for the Fall:
- Basically, Fall 2007 was so nice, ABC wants to do it twice. "By far, we had the best Fall in decades," entertainment president Stephen McPherson said, "and then came the lovely strike."
ABC's Fall Schedule: Like 2007 All Over Again
ABC revealed its Fall TV schedule at the 2008 upfronts this morning, and, well, it looks pretty familiar. The network is bringing back many of the new shows it introduced last Fall, plus renewing a large number of its other series.
Only two new shows will be on the schedule come Fall: The adaptation of British series Life on Mars and a reality show called Opportunity Knocks, a sort of mobile game show produced by Ashton Kutcher.
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