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Millionaire Might Be Revived on ABC: Would You Watch?
Soon after Slumdog Millionaire's success at this year's Golden Globes, ABC started toying with the idea of bringing Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? back to its primetime schedule this Summer. They even hope to get Regis himself back on the show, 10 years after Millionaire first aired.
Buzz News Roundup, 8/8
- The Hollywood Reporter has the news that Martin Scorsese is in talks with HBO to direct a dramatic pilot titled Boardwalk Empire. Scorsese is already a producer for the upcoming show about Atlantic City gamblers in the 1920s.
- According to Variety, Pineapple Express had the best Wednesday opening ever for August. The comedy took in $12.1 million.
- Regis Philbin is following in the footsteps of Britney Spears and is set to appear on the second episode of the upcoming season of How I Met Your Mother, Entertainment Weekly says.
- The reunited Police closed its tour, the last live show ever for the band, last night in New York, reports Billboard.
- The AP reports that Philip Seymour Hoffman is slated to direct a play in London later this year.
Ellen, Tyra, Rachael Ray Top Daytime Emmy Awards
Ellen DeGeneres, Rachael Ray, and Jeanne Cooper were among the big winners at the Daytime Emmy Awards on Friday night. DeGeneres took home the award for Outstanding Talk Show Host for the fourth year in a row — but her show, which had won the Outstanding Talk Show prize in each of the last four years, was upset by Rachael Ray in that category.
Meanwhile, Cooper won her first Emmy at age 79 for playing Katherine Chancellor on The Young and the Restless.
Buzz News Roundup, 10/12
- Regis Philbin will host "Million Dollar Password," a new CBS version of the classic game show, and The Futon Critic has the details.
- According to Hollywood Reporter, Fisher Stevens will join the cast of "Lost," putting a face to the voice of Minkowski, who spoke to Jack on the phone toward the end of the last season.
- Variety has news that 300 director Zack Snyder will helm The Last Photograph, a drama about "a photograph that becomes the catalyst for a journey two men undertake through war-torn Afghanistan."
- Billboard reports that Janet Jackson is having a busy fall, what with her new book, movie and album.
- The Will Smith movie Hitch could become a TV series with Big Boi from Outkast in the lead, writes the Hollywood Reporter.
- Fox has picked up a pilot for The Church of Reggie about a guy who inadvertently starts his own religion, cooked up by "Arrested Development"'s Ron Howard and Chuck Tatham, Variety reports.
- The "American Idol" tour has been accused of breaking child labor laws, the New York Daily News reports.
- Weird but true: The daughter of writer and scientist Isaac Asimov has raved about "The Big Bang Theory" to TV Guide.
Buzz News Roundup, 4/23
- TV Guide tells us that "Grey's Anatomy" star Sara Ramirez will record an album this summer, written by the folks from Spamalot, the musical that won her a Tony Award.
- This year's White House Correspondents Dinner was much tamer — and more boring — than last year's, Variety reports.
- David Letterman will be Regis Philbin's first guest when he returns to TV on Thursday after heart surgery, the Associated Press reports.
- The stars of the upcoming Get Smart are already gearing up for a direct-to-DVD sequel, says Reuters.
- Paul Simon will win the first Gershwin Prize for Popular Song from the Library of Congress, Billboard reports.
- America Ferrera is negotiating — reluctantly — to star in "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2," writes the Hollywood Reporter.
- It's TV Turnoff Week, reports the Washington Post. Don't worry, I won't be observing it.
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What to TiVo: Friday
- ABC is new with Supernanny, Ugly Betty, and 20/20
- CBS is new with Ghost Whisperer, Medium, and NUMB3RS
- FOX has a repeat of House
- NBC is new with Law & Order and Dateline NBC
- The CW is new with Smallville and has a repeat of America's Next Top Model
- AMC has Young Frankenstein
- MTV is new with MTV Ulalume: Howling at New Moon
- USA is new with Monk and White Collar
- E! is new with The Soup
- VH1 has The Jacksons: An American Dream
- Late-night highlights include Regis Philbin and Weezer on The Late Show With David Letterman on CBS; John Cusack on The Jay Leno Show on NBC; Alice in Chains on The Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien on NBC; Paris Hilton and Slipknot on Jimmy Kimmel Live on ABC; Lauren Graham on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson on CBS; Wanda Sykes and Andrew Bird on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon on NBC; and Masi Oka on Last Call With Carson Daly on NBC
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