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Mar 2, 2009 9:59 AM CST

Budget Cuts Threaten Silverman Show

Exec producers, network in talks

(Newser) - Executive producers of Sarah Silverman’s Comedy Central series are threatening to can the third season due to budget cuts, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The network slashed the budget by more than 20%, and producers—including Silverman—aren’t sure the show’s integrity can be maintained at $850,...

Gossip Girl Spinoff Set for May

Jan 15, 2009 11:00 AM CST

Gossip Girl Spinoff Set for May

New show will flash back to the '80s

(Newser) - Gossip Girl fans, rejoice. After denying the rumors for months, the show’s producers now tell the Hollywood Reporter a spinoff is in the works. The new show will be set in the 1980s and tell the story Lily van der Woodsen—mom of Serena—and how fast times in...

Jack Black Lands Office Gig

Dec 16, 2008 10:22 AM CST

Jack Black Lands Office Gig

Comedian will star as himself

(Newser) - Not only did The Office score the sought-after post-Super Bowl slot, it will also feature Jack Black as a guest star. The comedian will play himself in a bootlegged movie the Dunder Mifflin workers try to watch, Entertainment Weekly reports. Black, who rarely appears in guest spots, is not the...

Boston Legal, Creator Bow Out, But Not Quietly

OPINION

Dec 8, 2008 12:28 PM CST

Boston Legal, Creator Bow Out, But Not Quietly

(Newser) - Tonight's final episode of Boston Legal marks a temporary end to creator David E. Kelley’s reign as “l'enfant terrible turned angry-older-guy of TV,” writes Lisa DeMoraes in the Washington Post. Kelley “has used his various prime-time series to prosecute cases against society's assorted ills—and sometimes,...

ABC Cancels Daisies, Eli Stone

Nov 21, 2008 8:57 AM CST

ABC Cancels Daisies, Eli Stone

ABC cancels three shows

(Newser) - In a sweep of pre-holiday cuts, ABC has decided to pull the plug on Pushing Daisies, Dirty Sexy Money, and Eli Stone after the current season, reports E! Online. Daisies executive producer Bryan Fuller says plans are in the works for a comic book and feature film to continue the...

How to Make
Heroes
Super Again

opinion

Oct 24, 2008 8:36 PM CDT

How to Make Heroes Super Again

(Newser) - The "zeitgeist-tapping, blockbuster event" that was Heroes has fallen in both ratings and creative zeal, Jeff Jensen writes in Entertainment Weekly. Here's his five-point plan to fix it:

Hang up some tights: Telepathic policeman Matt Parkman, last seen wandering the African desert, must go. So too Suresh

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New Season Turns
Heroes Into Victims

TV REVIEW

Sep 22, 2008 3:52 PM CDT

New Season Turns Heroes Into Victims

Generation Y's 'woe is us' attitude blindingly reflected in NBC's sci-fi drama

(Newser) - Beginning their third season tonight, the scrappy band of young world-savers of NBC’s Heroes is just in time, Alessandra Stanley writes in the New York Times. The dangers they have to face, from a sinister conglomerate started by their parents to deadly viruses, make a convenient parallel to the...

Friends Film Not Happening

Jul 4, 2008 5:20 PM CDT

Friends Film Not Happening

'No truth' to rumors sitcom cast, excited over Sex and the City success, would reunite

(Newser) - Media reports of a coming Friends movie are false, the BBC reports. Warner Brothers' publicity director said there was “no truth” to stories of a film project that have circulated since the Sex and the City film became a blockbuster. Publicists for stars Mathew Perry and Courteney Cox say...

Seinfeld Pitches New Series

Mar 7, 2008 11:15 AM CST

Seinfeld Pitches New Series

Another show about nothing could be in the works at NBC

(Newser) - A new Jerry Seinfeld series is in the works at NBC, says Page Six. The comedian, 53, is in talks with his former network about a show that’s being pitched as “just like Curb Your Enthusiasm, but with Jerry, instead of Larry.” Once again, Seinfeld will play...