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Punk’d For Criminals

Thursday
Dec 4,2008

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Inneresting show concept!

Fox has just wrapped up filming a show pilot called Smile, You’re Under Arrest (working title), which the network describes as a 'reverse' Punk'd that targets criminals who have warrants out for their arrest.

“Instead of the worst day of your life and then a joke at the end, this is the reverse. This is the best day of your life, and then we arrest you,” explains Fox's President of Alternative Entertainment, Mike Darnell.

For example, in one scenario a subject is invited to a fake fashion shoot and is made to believe that he's about to become a supermodel but then ends with cops coming in for an arrest.

And in another, a criminal offered an auto racer opportunity ends when a police car comes up behind him on a race track to pull him over.

According to Darnell, all of the subjects are non-violent criminals.

He also adds that set-ups are a common way for officers to nab people out with warrants. However, most stings tend to be much smaller scale, such as tricking them into thinking they won tickets to a major sporting event.

The Fox suit went on to say, “If it were a regular person you’d feel bad for them, but they are all wanted by the law. It’s Cops as comedy and no one’s ever tried it before.”

If the show makes it on air, will you watch?

We'll give it a shot!

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Spencer Tells Mama Montag Off

Thursday
Dec 4,2008

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Newly married Spencer Pratt is working on a nice healthy relationship with his mother-in-law.

Responding to Mama Montag's not-so-nice words, in which she says she believes Spencer drugged Heidi to the altar, Pratt responds by saying he can't wait to prove Mrs. Montag's shortlived wedding predictions wrong. He said that he and Heidi are going to be "married for the rest of our lives."

Talking to Ryan Seacrest's radio show, Pratt said, "I'm sure she's just hurt and reacting crazy because she wasn't there."

Because a mother wouldn't want to be present at one of the most important days of her daughter's life - duh!

And Spencer saw his mother-in-law yesterday, Wednesday, to tape a scene for The Hills.

And how was it?

He said it "was pretty much the most insane day of my entire life."

And will the happy couple be spending Christmas with the Montags?

Pratt said, "The Pratts - as in Heidi Pratt and Spencer Pratt - will probably have their own Christmas tree."

You can listen to the rest of the phone call here.

[Image via Apega/WENN.]

Record Breaker

Thursday
Dec 4,2008

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Leona Lewis' cover of the Snow Patrol song Run has become the UK's fastest-selling digital-only track in the United Kingdom, reports the BBC.

70,000 people downloaded the song in the first two days it was out!

She beat Estelle, who sold 51,857 downloads of American Boy in a week.

Leona beat her in only 2 days!!

The Beeb also mentions that Leona's Bleeding Love is iTunes' most popular downloaded track of 2008.

Leona rules!

[Image via WENN.]

Thursday
Dec 4,2008

Shenae Grimes's big break came when she was cast in Degrassi III: The Search for Joey Jeremiah, only the most recent incarnation of the long-running Canadian teen drama. She then went on to nab the central role on The CW's much-hoopla'd 90210, rendering the Canadian actress a full-fledged U.S. American celebrity—instantly sending her on a nerve-wracking crash quest to rid herself of telltale Torontoisms like pronouncing sorry "sore-y" and smiling a lot for no reason. Upon returning to her native land to attend this year's Gemini Awards ("Celebrating semi-outstanding achievement in Canadian television since the Mulroney administration™"), however, Grimes was reportedly less than magnanimous to the modest, beaver-rearing stock from which she came:

"Who is even here worth talking to anyway?" she was overheard saying in front of a lineup that included national bigwigs Entertainment Tonight Canada and eTalk.

She somehow managed to cram all of that ego backstage, where she waved off the media room. "I try to f—king avoid all that sh-t," she was heard saying. She must have been all blabbed out from that People magazine feature, where she denied being difficult to work with, partying too much, and having an eating disorder. She certainly put the latter rumour to rest. "She demanded to know where her dinner was," a source says.

One wave of a handler's hand and Grimes's dinner had almost magically appeared—but the nascent diva flipped over the plate of Tim Hortons Timbits smothered in brown gravy as if it were the most disgusting thing she had ever seen. There's no pleasing some girls.


Sexy Sarah Snubbed Oprah

Thursday
Dec 4,2008

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Sexy Sarah snubbed the Queen O!

Uh-oh!

Oprah tells TV's Extra that she "went and tried to talk to Sarah Palin and instead she talked to Greta [Van Susteren]. She talked to Matt [Lauer]. She talked to Larry [King]. But she didn't talk to me. But maybe she'll talk to me now that she has a [multi-million dollar] book deal."

If we ever incurred the calm wrath of Queen O, we'd flee the country!

No, we'd have to flee the universe! Because Oprah is the Queen of the Universe!

Whatever Oprah wants, Oprah gets. She already has her minions on the hunt for Sarah. They are going to drag her to the set and then Oprah is going to have her way with them.

Stay tuned for that one.

On the other hand, the Obamas have an "open invitation" to her show.

At last night's Alvin Ailey Dance Theater's 50th anniversary celebration, the Queen O told Extra!, "In my wildest, wildest, crazy, crazy dreams, I am a dancer…. When I've like had too many tequila shots and I go to sleep, I dream of being a dancer."

Tequila, eh? We'd always pegged Oprah as a martini lady.

Sounds like she'd already had a few!

Watch out Sexy Sarah!

[Image via WENN.]

Thursday
Dec 4,2008

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Russell Brand continues to take Hollywood by storm!

According to The Hollywood Reporter, he may star in the remake of the 1981 flick, Arthur, for Warner Brothers.

The original movie starred dearly departed English funny man Dudley Moore as a boozy playboy rascal who is set to inherit a fortune if he marries an heiress his family thinks will make something out of him. However, he falls in love with a working-class woman and turns to his valet for help when his family makes him choose between money and love.

Boozy, playboy, rascal.

This part has Russell written all over it!

Moore earned an Oscar nod for his role in the original Arthur.

Wouldn't it be a hoot if Russ was able to pull off the same?!

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Romancing The Stone Again

Thursday
Dec 4,2008

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1984's Romancing the Stone will be returning to the big screen in a remake, of course.

Instead of just letting films sit happily in people's homes as classics, Hollywood likes to pry them open, gut them, and then tack them up in theaters, banking on built-in audiences to fill seats.

The film is a romantic, action-packed adventure through the Colombian jungles as a mousy romance novelist finds herself romping with a hunky solider dude on a hunt for treasure.

The film was written by the late Diane Thomas, who wrote the screenplay while working as a waitress in Malibu, and then died in a car accident a year after the film's release.

Romancing turned out to be a career springboard for director Robert Zemeckis, and actors Kathleen Turner, Michael Douglas, and Danny DeVito.

Eagle Eye writer Daniel McDermott will be penning the new script for Fox.

No other players are yet attached to the project.

Thursday
Dec 4,2008

newVideoPlayer("/Ellen_Host_In_Lador.flv", 506, 423,"");No catastrophic cultural implosion is complete without a Doomsday Baby, and we think we might have gotten ours when pregnanter-than-pregnant Biggest Loser host Alison Sweeney went into labor during today's taping of Ellen. Even Defamer's office of Fact-Checking and Devil's Advocacy seems to stand by the veracity of the accompanying video, which features Ellen coming out of a break to greet the contorting, hyperventilating Sweeney with every expectant mother's favorite question, "Are you kidding?" To which Sweeney replies in the negative with all her searing underworld might. Uncanny!

Kudos to quick-thinking Ellen, who hops over her writhing guest to launch the next segment, and even heartier congrats to Sweeney, who we hope made it safely to a nearby delivery room in short order. We'll get our "It's an Apocalypse!" cigars at the ready as the story develops. [Ellen]


Still A Bitch

Thursday
Dec 4,2008

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Shenae Grimes is still the least liked cast mate on the new 90210!

The Shannen Doherty of the group, the native Canadian is known to reportedly act like a diva and major biyatch on set.

And, now, even the Canadians are getting fed up with her.

Grimes went back home last week for the 23rd Annual Gemini Awards, but she was disappointed with the media on the red carpet, which included Entertainment Tonight Canada and eTalk.

She was overheard saying, "Who is even here worth talking to anyway?"

And when she made it backstage, she didn't even bother with the media room. Instead she said, "I try to fucking avoid all that shit."

Ewwwwww!!!!!!

And, according to a source at the event, the diva was shouting her demands everywhere.

What a big change one year makes!

Just last January, she was playing Darcy on Degrassi. And, in an interview back then, she said, "A priority of mine is being a good role model and a good person all around. I don't hide things from fans."

Wait, she has fans?

Adding, "We've all got our bad habits and our vices and our flaws. You want to see the real person. At the same time, that real person should have good morals and should have good values and should teach good lessons."

Enjoy your time now ,Shenae. TV fame doesn't always last forever!

[Image via WENN.]

Thursday
Dec 4,2008

HOLLYWOOD, CA - In a suggestion that Pop Culture Doomsday shows no signs of abating, the Dark Lord Satan emerged from the charred remains of the Body Shop this afternoon to announce a brand-new reality project for TV Land.

"What, you thought I wouldn't put in a cameo at least?" Satan was reported to have said at the hastily put-together press conference.

"I'm excited to announce that I've helped engineer a pilot presentation for TV Land that would follow the vacuous lives of Hollywood couple Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin," he continued.

"Ever since I started here, I've been out in the marketplace looking for a celebrity couple with dynamic stories to tell, and when I met Lisa and Harry, it made sense," said Keith Cox, TV Land's executive VP of development and original programming.

Satan went on to say that TV Land executives were currently settling on a name for the still-untitled project, though "Lisa and Harry: Lips and Relationships" and "Kill Yourself Before Watching" were rumored to be contenders.

"Nehehehehe," he added.


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