Buzz News Roundup, 8/20

BuzzSugar — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:30:14 -0700

Sadly, Dave Matthews Band saxophonist LeRoi Moore died Tuesday at age 46 from injuries he sustained in an all-terrain vehicle accident in June. - AP
Universal wants to increase Labor Day weekend grosses for Mamma Mia! by presenting Mamma Mia! The Sing-Along Edition in select theaters. - Billboard
ABC is actually going to move forward this Fall with that male-oriented spinoff of Supernanny, titled Supermanny. - Hollywood Reporter
Peter Jackson will collaborate with director Guillermo del Toro to write The Hobbit and its sequel. - Variety
The Coen brothers have hired Michael Stuhlbarg and Richard Kind to star as brothers in their 1960s period black comedy, The Serious Man. - ComingSoon
Grey's Anatomy and ER are receiving criticism by a leading Italian medical group for "teaching viewers inaccurate views on medicine" and "spreading misinformation." - The Hollywood Reporter
Neil Young has nabbed Death Cab for Cutie and Wilco as the opening acts for his tour. - Reuters
There's going to be a remake of the 1982 horror movie Poltergeist. - ComingSoon

Family Guy Without Its Creator, and More Strike News

BuzzSugar — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:38:26 -0800

It's day 10 of the Hollywood writers' strike, and people - from Family Guy's creator to blogging writers from Late Show with David Letterman's staff - are starting to get punchy. Here are some of the recent developments:

Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane is not pleased that Fox is planning to complete written episodes of the show without his input, calling it "a colossal d*ck move" by the network. He admits, though, that Fox is within its legal rights to do so.
There's a report that Letterman will pay his staff out of his own pocket through the end of the year.
Ellen DeGeneres, who's been under fire for crossing picket lines, has canceled plans to tape her show in New York next week.
What we'll be watching if the strike continues: a whole lot of game shows and a Supernanny spinoff called Supermanny.
There's a small (so far) movement to send unsharpened pencils to the networks.
This new blog tracks strike-related job losses.
The studio executives have said they don't know how much money there is to be made online, but this video currently making the rounds would, um, strongly suggest otherwise.

Many TV and movie actors - including Ben Stiller, Lily Tomlin, Zach Braff, Lisa Kudrow, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus - visited the picket lines on Tuesday for a "Picketing with the Stars" event. To watch some clips and interviews, just read more

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