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TV’s favorite Type-A personality and mother of 8 children, Kate Gosselin, will officially be back to TV on Celebrity Wife Swap. The busy mother of 8 will switch places for one week with ex-playboy model, Kendra Wilkinson.
Kendra, the former Girls Next Door star is trading places with the single mother of twins and sextuplets, while Kate Gosselin will stay with Wilkinson’s husband, former NFL player Hank Baskett, and their 3-year-old son. | Full Story
Howie Mandel returns to America’s Got Talent for his fourth consecutive season as a judge, according to a brand new interview with Access Hollywood.
The Canadian TV host said, “I’m doing my fourth season of ‘America’s Got Talent,’” Howie told Access Hollywood’s Kit Hoover, in the interview on Tuesday morning in Burbank, California. “I’m going to re-judge for my fourth year,” he added, with a laugh.
Howie went on to repeat himself, saying, “I’m thrilled to be back. | Full Story
It’s pilot season! With Maggie Lawson joining a new untitled ABC comedy pilot, what does this mean for her current co-star role in the beloved dramedy, USA’s Psych?
The new, untitled pilot is from the writers of Las Vegas, Mark and Robb Cullen. Lawson will headline the single-camera comedy, opposite her co-star, James Caan (Elf).
Lawson will play the character of Terry, a recently divorced single mom who temporarily moves in with her estranged father (Caan), a beer-guzzling, former baseball player. | Full Story
Three people were killed early Sunday morning in a helicopter crash. The crash took place in a rural area of northern Los Angeles County, while in the midst of filming for a new reality TV show for the Discovery Channel.
The 3:40 a.m. local time (6:40 a.m. ET) crash happened on the site of the Polsa Rosa Movie Ranch in Acton, California, on the northwestern edge of the Angeles National Forest, about 30 miles north of Los Angeles. | Full Story
The world knows the famous Boy Meets World couple as ‘Cory and Topanga,’ but their family and friends know them as Ben Savage and Danielle Fishel. The real-life friends sat down with Entertainment Weekly to give their thoughts on the new Disney spin-off, Girl Meets World.
Savage and Fishel will recycle their old roles from Boy Meets World, playing a married couple, raising two children. The duo answered all Entertainment Weekly questions, and even explained why they really do feel like a married couple. | Full Story
Tonight, American Idol goes to Hollywood. The two-week “Hollywood Round” will see smiles and tears, but more disappointment than joy. “The minute we hit Hollywood, we go, ‘God, we’ve got 300 kids here,” executive producer Ken Warwick told Entertainment Weekly in the midst of shooting Hollywood Round footage. “So the whole mental thing changes to ‘Who can we cut, and why?”
In the beginning seasons of American Idol, Simon, Randy and Paula were fun, but they were also serious about their job, only letting through approximately 50 people. | Full Story
Michael Jacobs, the creative mind behind the beloved 90′s show, Boy Meets World, and now the Disney spin-off Girl Meets World, sat down with Entertainment Weekly to give insight into the new highly talked about coming-of-age show.
Months of speculation swirled around talk of a Boy Meets World reboot, but fans hoped to hear the confirmed news that Disney would be airing the show. Once the rumors were confirmed for the Girl Meets World spin-off, casting directors went to work, finding their perfect lead: Cory and Topanga’s daughter, Riley. | Full Story
The beloved Twilight film saga based on the best-selling books by Stephanie Meyer, will premiere the first film of the franchise, Twilight, on ABC Family beginning Saturday, February 9 at 7 PM. ET/PT. An encore showing will air directly following the premiere at 9:30 PM ET/PT and again on Sunday, February 10 at 7 PM and 9:30 PM ET/PT.
If you are not a “Twi-hard” fan and unfamiliar with the enthralling storyline, then read carefully: In the supernatural romantic drama Twilight the new girl in town, Bella (Kristen Stewart), falls for the hottest guy in school—not knowing the mysterious, elusive Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) is actually part of a vampire family, and sworn enemy of Bella’s childhood friend, Jacob (Taylor Lautner). | Full Story
The award-winning ABC Family drama, Switched at Birth, will air an episode produced entirely in American Sign Language (ASL). Although Switched at Birth already produces episodes with some sign language, there has not been an episode free of dialogue, yet. An all ASL episode will be the first of its kind for a scripted series on mainstream television.
According to the report, the all ASL episode will be told from the perspective of the deaf characters. | Full Story
Conrad Bain, the sweet and caring father on the 1978-1985 sitcom, Diff’rent Strokes, died of natural causes in his hometown of Livermore, California, on Monday. Bain was 89.
Bain’s daughter, Jennifer Bain, confirmed her father’s death to PEOPLE. She told the magazine of her father’s passing, saying “He’d been unconscious for a couple of days, but he was comfortable and it was very peaceful. I was able to be with him very close to the end [and] able to put my ear to his heart and sing him songs.”
Bain had success in such shows as Diff’rent Stokes, Maude (1972-1978) and Mr. | Full Story
Movies have enriched Dan Schindel's life so much that he decided
the best way to give back was to become a critic. In addition to Who Got the
Role?, he writes for ScreenPicks, We Are Movie Geeks, Off to
See the Elephant, and several other sites. He spent a year watching and
reviewing a documentary every day for his blog, Days of Docs, so now he
knows everything.
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