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Stars on TV is the name of the game, as one movie star is going to Fox, two are going to ABC, and one (along with two infamous housewives) is coming to NBC. Michelle Obama, meanwhile, is going on Iron Chef. Keep her safe, Mark Dacascos. Keep her safe.
Michelle Trachtenberg, a prostitution whore? That may be among the epithets slung at her when her Mercy character goes to a New Jersey bar frequented by Real Housewives of New Jersey stars Teresa Giudice and Jacqueline Laurita. Hope she has her Iraq War-vet buddy to back her up and flip some tables.
Meanwhile, James Franco, he of General Hospital fame (oh, and the blockbuster movies he's been in), will appear as himself on 30 Rock, playing a love interest for Jenna. Yay, Jenna! Now she won't have to keep hurting people trying to find the sexy paramedic!
Colin Hanks has joined the cast of Fox's Jack & Dan, the buddy-cop show co-starring Bradley Whitford. Hanks is the by-the-book one who's at a dead end, professionally, and Whitford is the drunk who only has a job because he was a hero once. Described as an action comedy like Burn Notice, we expect this to be our new favorite show.
Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin have been chosen to co-host the Oscars on ABC. The Academy Awards ceremony will air in March, three months after they co-star in It's Complicated. They were the Academy's third choice, behind Tina Fey (who was too busy) and Ben Stiller and Robert Downey Jr. (who actually have a chance of winning awards).
Michelle Obama has done Sesame Street, so where next? Iron Chef America. The First Lady will unveil the secret ingredient -- anything that grows in the White House garden -- when the executive chef at the White House teams up with Bobby Flay to defeat the evil axis of Mario Batali and Emeril Lagasse. Expect a lot of rose-based dishes.
CBS has teamed up with a number of game developers to create new video games based on many of their top shows, including The Amazing Race, CSI, Criminal Minds, Ghost Whisperer, Survivor, Diagnosis Murder and Hollywood Squares. What, no Big Bang Theory video game? It could be like Halo, but with math.
While everybody was panicking that 30 Rock had premiered to low ratings in Germany, no one noticed that it was the digital cable premiere of the German-dubbed version. Meanwhile, the English-language versions have been airing on Germany's TNT for a while now, probably right after the German Raising the Bar. Mark-Paul Gosselaar ist wunderbar!
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"He of General Hospital fame"
Hee.
Wait. Ben Stiller and Robert Downey Jr. were first choices for the hosting duties? That would have been amazing. Why couldn't that have happened? :(
I don't think Tina Fey would have done a good job anyway. I love her but I don't think the Oscars would be a good fit for her.
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