"The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes!," an all-new animated series featuring the best of the best in the Marvel Universe, premieres WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20 (8:30 p.m., ET/PT) on Disney XD. Produced by Marvel Animation, the series stars the world's greatest heroes -- Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, The Hulk, Ant-Man/Giant Man and Wasp -- who form the Avengers, a team assembled when the powers of a single hero are not enough to save the world.
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Sources tell TVGuide.com that MTV will introduce new Jersey Shore cast member Deena Nicole Cortese — a friend of Snooki's, natch — to the world Friday(today) during the network's Television Critics Association summer session.
Cortese will be on hand to take questions from reporters when the GTL group takes the stage.
The New Egypt, N.J., native, who has already caught flak for a racy McSpace page and letting loose with the N-word, steps in for exiting castmate Angelina Pivarnick, who will not be returning for Season 3. Cortese, 23, auditioned for the show in Season 1 but didn't make the cut, according to TMZ, which posted her F-bomb-laden audition tape on Thursday night.
Cortese's mother, Joann, told Radar Online that her daughter found her way into the fist-pumping crew through her friend Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi. "They've known each other for a couple of years," she said. "I'd say they're pretty close... Nicole lives all the way upstate and it's hard, but they keep in touch."
Cortese attended Brookdale Community College in Lyncroft, N.J., according to The New York Post, which first reported her casting.
While Cortese hails from the Garden State, it's doubtful New Jersey governor Chris Christie will be pleased with her addition. (She described herself on her now-defunct MySpace page as "ADDiCTiVE & ExPENiIV3 LiK3 COCAiNE!") Last month, Christie noted — with a bit of pride —that Jersey Shore had only one New Jersey native in its cast. He told ABC's This Week that the show gives his home state a bad rap. "What it does is it takes a bunch of New Yorkers... drops them at the Jersey Shore and tries to make America feel like this is New Jersey," he said.
What do you think about Jersey Shore's newest addition?
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Matthew Morrison To Shave Head For Glee's Britney Ep
Matthew Morrison, aka Mr. Schuester, will shave his head for the upcoming Britney Spears-themed episode of Glee, sources reveal exclusively to JustJared.com.
“The recreating of Brit shaving her head is going to be epic!” our source adds.
On Monday, Glee creator Ryan Murphy did admit during the TCA press tour, “We’re paying tribute to her in a sort of fun and unexpected way.” And having Schue shave his head like Britney is the perfect way to do it!
“I like Britney,” Matt told E! recently.”I got in trouble earlier for comments I made saying I’m anti-Britney, but I’m not. I think in this episode, they’re going to mirror those comments and I’m going to be very anti-Britney in the episode because I don’t like what she represents. … It’s gonna be a lot of fun and some crazy stuff is gonna happen.” So exciting!
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Mad Men star Alexa Alemanni has admitted that she was shocked by a recent storyline involving her character Allison.
The second episode of the AMC drama's fourth season saw the secretary sleep with her boss Don Draper (Jon Hamm).
"It was pretty shocking," she told the AMC blog. "I think it's so incredibly well-written and it makes sense how it happens. Those scenes are always strange and awkward and you wonder how it's gonna go, but I've been on the show since the beginning so it was really relaxed and comfortable."
Alemanni - who started on the series as an extra - revealed that she was happy that her role had grown over the show's previous three seasons.
"I started as the receptionist and I had a couple of scenes during the [first] season and then I would kind of keep popping up all over the office," she explained. "They just kept bringing me back, which was so exciting."
The actress confessed that she felt intimidated when she learnt that her character would play a more central role in the current fourth season.
"There's a long line of pretty fabulous women that have slept with Don Draper, so you certainly feel that pressure," she said.
Mad Men continues on Sundays at 10/9c on AMC.
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Ari's trying his best to keep a few of his clients from jumping ship. On 'Entourage' (Sun., 10:30PM on HBO), Mike Tyson tells him he wants to star in a "black 'Brady Bunch' ... I'm trying to rehab my image. I want to dispense some of this worldly wisdom that I picked up on my journey in life," explains Tyson.
"And then if [your son] Bobby doesn't listen to you -- you bite his ear off," jokes Ari. Mike isn't laughing.
Then Jessica Simpson calls. "Oh, she'd be a hot Carol Brady. Show me you're working for me!" says Tyson. Ari sets to work. Mentioning the death of her beloved dog doesn't go over very well, but how 'bout the chance to play Mike Tyson's wife?
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Airs Tuesday, August 3rd at 9/8c on USA Network! Mozzie fears that the object of his affection has been kidnapped, and turns to Neal and Peter for help.
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Several members of the "Glee" cast will pull double duty on FOX this fall when they lend their voices to "The Simpsons."
Lea Michele, Cory Monteith and Amber Riley will guest-star in the season premiere on Sunday, Sept. 26. The episode, "Elementary School Musical," has Lisa (Yeardley Smith) going to a performing arts camp where the New Directions kids are fellow campers. Even better: Two of the counselors will be voiced by Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement, aka Flight of the Conchords.
After returning home, Lisa becomes frustrated with her suburban lifestyle and heads to Sprooklyn where the cool kids live.
Other guest voices for the 22nd season of "The Simpsons" include "Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe and "House's" Hugh Laurie, both of whom will be in the annual "Treehouse of Horror" episode. Paul Rudd, Kristen Wiig, Alyson Hannigan, Rachel Weisz, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and baseball statistical guru Bill James will also guest, as well as the previously announced Jon Hamm.
Martha Stewart will also play herself in a Christmas episode that will feature live-action puppets in addition to the usual animation.
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In the season finale of Grey's Anatomy, Teddy (Kim Raver) finally conceded that Cristina and Owen share a strong bond. No, really, she did.
While some fans have worried that Teddy will continue meddling in their relationship, Raver tells TVGuide.com it ended in the Season 6 finale.
"Outside of the hospital, before he goes back in, I say, 'You have to choose.' That for me was the sad, sad ending," Raver says.
"I think it's going to be refreshing. I do love the Cristina and Owen relationship. The Teddy part of me is extremly sad, but I think it's an interesting place for her to go; to leave that triangle behind and see how she deals with relationships."
Teddy will be moving on quickly, Raver adds, with someone "very handsome and smart."
Are you glad the triangle has disbanded?
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NPH and CraigyFerg discuss Rent at The Hollywood Bowl, Danny Bonaduce, Harold and Kumar 3, NPH's road trip with David and their dog Fred, Albuquerque, Geoff Peterson pleasuring himself, Vegas, and silly bracelets
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We’ve all seen the episode, so let’s just get right down to it and address the green elephant in the room. I’m sure that many of you have strong opinions about Alex and the pea puree.
Here’s what I have to say about it:
Tom Colicchio weighs in on "Pea-gate."
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First of all, if there’s a single viewer who still wondered whether the judges know what goes on behind the scenes (and make decisions with any of that in mind), I would hope that this incident would have laid that to rest forevermore. This episode surely proves that we judges absolutely never have access to behind-the-scenes conversations or goings-on, as there is no way on earth that we would blithely have judged the dishes as we did this week without delving into the matter of the creator of that puree. We just judge the food on the plates in front of us. Not even I knew about the controversy, even though I spent some time in the kitchen, as I had arrived there after Ed had gone searching for his pea puree and there was no mention of the issue to me by any of the contestants while I was there. The other judges and I first learned about it just as you did, by watching the episode this week, and I was not happy to learn that there had been any question of impropriety. I’m surprised, frankly, that the producers didn’t choose to depart from normal protocol and say anything to us to clue us in about the matter.
I think, though, that the reason for that lay in Ed himself. Watching the episode, I expected Ed to call Alex out on the matter to his face, but he didn’t. Ed may have been concerned that to do so would make him look unsportsmanlike, but I think there’s more to it than that: I think that Ed himself may not have been wholly convinced that Alex took his puree.
Think about it: There are three possibilities, right? 1) Alex may indeed knowingly have stolen Ed’s pea puree and used it; 2) Alex may have made his own pea puree and been wrongly maligned by his co-contestants; or, 3) Alex unwittingly may have mistaken Ed’s pea puree for his own and taken Ed’s, but truly believing that he was using his own. In two of the three possibilities, Alex did not intentionally commit any wrongdoing.
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Yesterday I had the opportunity to participate in a press conference for FX’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, one of the funniest and most outrageous shows on television. The press conference featured all of the show’s main cast, including Glenn Howerton, Kaitlin Olson, Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day, Danny Devito and Mary Elizabeth Ellis. For those who don’t know, Howerton, McElhenney and Day also write the show. The panel was a lot of fun and the cast gave out some good information about the upcoming season. Continue reading to see what the cast had to say.
Rob McElhenney
-Admits that while a lot of episodes are purely fictional, many episodes are inspired by real life events. Stories are inspired by what’s happening in the news and events in the cast’s life.
-Promises that the resolution of Dee’s pregnancy will be something that no one has ever done on TV. (Dee is played by McElhenney’s real life wife, Kaitlin Olson. She is 9 months pregnant.)
-Every year the cast heads down to Philadelphia to shoot exterior shots on location but the rest of the filming of the show takes place in Los Angeles.
Glen Howerton
-The funniest taboo to tackle on the show in his opinion is transvestites.
-Says that the show is not heavily improvised and that he, McElhenney and Day strive to make the scripts feel natural and genuine so that improv is not necessary.
-Decided to write Kaitlin Olson’s pregnancy into the show for the character Dee because it was a fun new taboo for the show to tackle. Says that they worked very hard to put a new spin on sitcom pregnancy conventions.
-Joked that he would like to do a D.E.N.N.I.S. System seminar at next year’s Comic Con.
-Says his favorite aspect of the show is Charlie’s relationship with the waitress and everyone’s relationship to Rickety Cricket and the McPoyle twins.
Charlie Day
-Says that the writers have discussed making a feature film version of Sunny but are waiting for enough free time to make sure the script is perfect.
-Joked that some episodes will ignore Dee’s pregnancy altogether for comedic value.
-Says that Green Man will not appear in the upcoming season of Sunny but he would like to appear as Green man at next year’s Comic Con.
-He wouldn’t rule out the possibility of another musical episode and hopes to do one soon.
-Says FX has never told the writers that they are going too far with taboo topics. In fact, FX often encourages them to go further.
-Says Dave Foley, Tom Sizemore and Jason Sudeikis will guest star in the upcoming season.
Mary Elizabeth Ellis
-Says Day, McElhenney and Howerton try to write things that they find funny and just hope everyone else likes it.
-Says her character (The Waitress) will continue to have her life ruined by the gang and probably wont get a chance at vengeance in the foreseeable future.
-The show will never reveal her character’s first name.
-Her favorite aspect of the show is the characters’ relationship with their families.
Kaitlin Olson
-Says she didn’t want to hide her pregnancy on the show and was very gung ho about having her pregnancy weaved into the show’s storyline.
-Says the show is never intentionally offensive. Rather, the show aims to satirize intolerance and meanness.
-Says that the supporting actors (herself, DeVito, Ellis) only work a few months a year but the three writers/stars (McElhenney, Day, Howerton) work year round in the editing room and writing the show.
Danny DeVito
-Says a family has developed amongst the cast and it’s one of his favorite experiences of his career.
-The show is gaining popularity so quickly that many fans think the show just started this year when in fact its been on for five or six years.
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Last Sunday while watching the Season 4 premiere of Mad Men, we found ourselves wondering, who was that cutie playing new creative and Peggy’s number two Joey at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce? It took some digging and wracking of our brains to discover the actor was Matt Long, a 30-year-old actor who has been working in the biz in various parts since 2004 (the Mad Men part is so new it’s not even on his IMDb page yet). Right now, he may be that guy who makes you wonder, “How do I know him??” but after a role on Mad Men, you won’t be able to forget his name. So, it’s time to get to know him better. Here’s five things you need to know about Matt:
1. How you know him Matt got his start in 2004 on the underrated CW show Jack & Bobby. Matt starred as Jack, one of two McCallister brothers, one of which was going to be president in the future. The show only lasted one season, but was a great jumping off point not only for Matt but for his on-screen brother. You might recognize his name: Logan Lerman.
2. How you know him if you didn’t watch Jack & Bobby This spring, Matt starred as the lead character in the ABC mid-season replacement show The Deep End, which followed four first year associates at a big Los Angeles law firm. Matt was among an impressive roster of young actors, including True Blood’s Mehcad Brooks, Leah Pipes and Tina Majorino, not to mention Billy Zane, who played their boss. The show wasn’t picked up for a second season.
3. Missed The Deep End, too? Matt also starred in the Amanda Bynes movie Sydney White and Ghost Rider as a young Johnny Blaze. He was also in Homecoming with Mischa Barton.
4. He’s married Sorry girls, Matt’s married to college sweetheart Lora Chaffins, who he met at Western Kentucky University and married in 2005.
Weeds star Mary Louise Parker is here at Comic Con promoting the Showtime series, which returns for its sixth season on August 16th. We had the opportunity to speak with her about what’s to come for the series and her character Nancy Botwin.
Parker wasn’t shy in expressing her disappointment in the series’ fifth, but she did sound optimistic about Season 6, stating, “Last season, to me, was kind of boring, but this season to me is much more interesting and funnier.” She went on to say that the eighth episode of the upcoming season is a good one and that the second episode is one of her favorite episodes ever. So there’s that to look forward to!
As for that little incident with Shane in the final minute of last season’s finale, Parker didn’t offer any major spoilers there but she did confirm that we won’t have to wait long to find out what she does to handle the situation. “You discover that pretty early on,” She said. “That’s pretty clever, how the writers deal with that.”
And speaking of season finales, sure, it’s a bit early to be talking about how the sixth season’s going to end but apparently, something shocking is coming. “I just read the season finale yesterday, and I was like… Ok! Well, alright. So that’s good. I still, honestly am kind of recovering from it. It’s kind of intense. “
Given how scattered everyone seemed in the previous season, I asked her if we’d see the Botwins a bit more rooted in Season Six. Parker stated that there was no rooting going on for the family, so if you were hoping to see them return to suburbia and settle down in one of those little boxes, it doesn’t seem like it’s in the cards anytime soon.
Finally, Parker didn’t seem all that interested in having her character be more sympathetic. “I never really thought about sympathy when I play a character. I feel like when you do that, you kind of rob the character of their flaws and the flaws are what make someone human and that’s what makes someone interesting.”
Well, interesting is definitely a word to describe Nancy Botwin!
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First Wilhelmina Slater. Then David Silver. Now Annie O’Donnell!
A Desperate Housewives insider confirms to me exclusively that Men in Trees‘ delightfully daffy Emily Bergl (a.k.a. Annie) is a breath away from landing the recurring role of Beth, the fragile soul who married Paul (Mark Moses) while he was behind bars. In season 7, she joins him on Wisteria Lane with a juicy secret.
No one ever just comes to that block with pie, do they?
So what do you think of all the DH newbies? Are you excited to see what Vanessa Williams, Brian Austin Green, and, hopefully, Bergl bring to the table? Or are you thinking, “Well, there goes the neighborhood”?
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ACTRESS Billie Piper appears to blow smoke near her young son's face - in a photo that has outraged health campaigners. The ex-Doctor Who star, 27, seemed shockingly unaware of the dangers of second-hand smoke to children.
Little Winston, who turns two in October, was with his parents at a West London pub this week. Billie was puffing roll-ups made with what appeared to be black liquorice-flavoured papers as she enjoyed a drink and crisps. Actor hubby Laurence Fox, 32, also lit up, but away from their son.
The pictures come soon after the launch of a hard-hitting Department of Health campaign to stop parents from smoking around their children. Amanda Sandford, of anti-smoking charity ASH, said: "Passive smoking is a proven health hazard, particularly for children. "Breathing in smoke can cause asthma, pneumonia and bronchitis in children whose parents smoke."
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Ellen Page was on 'The Tonight Show' Thursday night to promote 'Inception,' but she spent part of her first segment talking about the trip she took to an eco village in Oregon.
While there, she peed in a bucket. The urine was then added to a compost as it's 'quite a prized commodity' and 'an incredible nitrogen source.'
Oregon talk starts 2 minutes in, urine talk starts 3:10 in.
