Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Fox Cancels Human Target, Chicago Code and Breaking In, Picks Up 4 New Shows

Fox Cancels Human Target, Chicago Code and Breaking In, Picks Up 4 New Shows


Fox Cancels Human Target, Chicago Code and Breaking In, Picks Up 4 New Shows

Posted: 10 May 2011 08:42 PM PDT

Fox giveth and it taketh away. In the wake of picking up several new series to order, the network has axed three shows — the action-packed Human Target, crime drama The Chicago Code, and freshman comedy Breaking In, Deadline reports.

Human Target, starring Mark Valley, only averaged 6.33 million viewers in its second season, while The Chicago Code averaged 6.77 million viewers in the 11 episodes aired so far. According to HitFix, the remaining episodes will still air. As for the Bret Harrison workplace comedy Breaking In, it's averaged 7.83 million viewers over the five episodes that have aired.


Angelina Jolie Caught Cheating on Brad?

Posted: 10 May 2011 08:31 PM PDT

The buzz on the inner turmoil of this celebrity couple.


MTV's 'Worst. Prom. Ever.'

Posted: 10 May 2011 08:30 PM PDT

Stars of the new film recall their experiences making it.


Mega Buzz: An NCIS Face-Off, Smallville's Big Finish and a Bones Death

Posted: 10 May 2011 07:51 PM PDT

Every week, editors Adam Bryant and Natalie Abrams satisfy your need for TV scoop. Please send all questionsto mega_scoop@tvguide.com.

I am dying to know what happens in the NCIS finale. — Eric
ADAM: Expect even more bloodshed. But the Port-to-Port Killer case doesn't completely rule the hour. "The finale really hits a lot of the Vance-Gibbs tension," executive producer Gary Glasberg says. "It's going to provide a lot of answers to what Vance has been dealing with all season. Gibbs is going to become privy to a lot of it... and it's going to bring his relationship with Vance to another level." Does that signal an administrative shakeup? "There are definite changes that affect NCIS," Glasberg says. "The team is going to have to work together in a way they've never had to work together before next season."

Can you tell us anything about the Smallville finale? — Brad
NATALIE: Here's what we can tell you: As Darkseid's Apokolips speeds toward Earth, Clark and Lois will attempt to...


Warren Buffett to make cameo on "The Office" - Reuters

Posted: 10 May 2011 07:21 PM PDT


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Warren Buffett to make cameo on "The Office"
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Another celeb banished from 'Dancing' ballroom (AP)

Posted: 10 May 2011 07:45 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 24, 2010 file photo, former 'Dancing with the Stars' contestant Bristol Palin arrives for an appearance on ABC's 'Good Morning America' in New York. Palin, the daughter of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and a former contestant on 'Dancing With the Stars,' will star in the 10-episode series on the Bio Channel, the network announced Monday, May 9, 2011. The series follows Palin's move from Alaska to Los Angeles with her son, Tripp, to work at a small charity. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)AP - Romeo is saying goodbye to the "Dancing With the Stars" ballroom.



Warren Buffett to make cameo on "The Office" (Reuters)

Posted: 10 May 2011 07:18 PM PDT

Investor Warren Buffet arrives for the premiere of the film Reuters - Warren Buffett as branch manager at the Dunder Mifflin paper company?



Woody Allen heads to Cannes with Paris homage (Reuters)

Posted: 10 May 2011 07:35 PM PDT

Reuters - Nine years after Woody Allen's "Hollywood Ending" raised the curtain on the Cannes Film Festival, the director returns to the French resort for Wednesday's opening-night festivities with "Midnight in Paris," starring Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams.


Review: Though overdone, `Hesher' packs a punch (AP)

Posted: 10 May 2011 07:07 PM PDT

In this film publicity image released by Wrekin Hill Entertainment, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is shown in a scene from, 'Hesher.' (AP Photo/Wrekin Hill Entertainment)AP - The title character of "Hesher" enters the lives of a grieving family approximately like the rolling bolder that opens the film "Sexy Beast."



'Becoming Chaz': Your take?

Posted: 09 May 2011 09:00 PM PDT

Tim Stack: OWN documentary is difficult to watch at times, but is incredibly moving in the end


Another celeb banished from 'Dancing' ballroom

Posted: 10 May 2011 07:45 PM PDT

AP - Romeo is saying goodbye to the "Dancing With the Stars" ballroom.


Final Four Revealed As Another Pair Get The Boot On 'Dancing With The Stars'

Posted: 10 May 2011 07:38 PM PDT

"Dancing with the Stars" will enter its Season 12 semifinal round next week, but the show will do so with one less pair of contenders.


Spoiler! Who Went Home on DWTS?

Posted: 10 May 2011 07:38 PM PDT

Ralph Macchio got the lowest scores on Monday night, but is the Karate Kid the contestant who got the boot?


Modern Family's Lin-Manuel Miranda: I Get Between Gloria and Jay

Posted: 10 May 2011 07:25 PM PDT

The last time Broadway star Lin-Manuel Miranda visited prime time he played a friendly psych ward patient on House. On Wednesday's Modern Family, he'll play a different kind of crazy — the kind that drives Jay up the wall.

"My character is this pathetic loser who Gloria can't say no to," Miranda tells TVGuide.com "I'm in her house, I have no business being there, but it's fun being in the middle of ...


Vampire Diaries' Julie Plec: Profound Loss Is Part of Who Elena Is

Posted: 10 May 2011 07:00 PM PDT

Of all the deaths during two seasons of The Vampire Diaries, none were as tragic and personal as the loss of Jenna — and that was exactly the point, executive producer Julie Plec says.

"The loss of life in the sacrifice ritual needed to be as deeply personal as possible in order to show how big of a move it was that Klaus is making and how profound of an impact it would have on not only Elena's life, but on everybody," Plec tells TVGuide.com.


Why is 'Dancing With the Stars' beating 'American Idol' in the ratings? - Los Angeles Times

Posted: 10 May 2011 05:32 PM PDT


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Why is 'Dancing With the Stars' beating 'American Idol' in the ratings?
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‘Dancing With the Stars’: Eliminated contestant is…

Posted: 10 May 2011 06:59 PM PDT

Don't click through if you don't want to know! After a two-hour results show featuring a "best of Tuesdays" compilation, Kenny Mayne and Jerry Rice's Dance Center, and the one and only Adele, the contestant twirling off the planks and heading home tonight is…. Romeo and his professional partner Chelsie Hightower. Ralph Macchio joined Romeo


‘Becoming Chaz’: Did you watch the powerful documentary?

Posted: 10 May 2011 07:30 PM PDT

Oprah Winfrey's OWN aired the powerful documentary Becoming Chaz tonight, which focused on Chaz Bono, born Chastity to Cher and Sonny Bono, and his struggle to transition from female to male. It was a personal and, at times, difficult film to watch (I'm a little squeamish when it comes to surgical stuff). The cameras did


When Fox attacks! Network cancels ‘Human Target,’ ‘Chicago Code,’ ‘Breaking In,’ ‘Traffic Light’

Posted: 10 May 2011 07:25 PM PDT

UPDATED: Fox has cancelled four series in one swift stroke, while picking up several others: Human Target was shot down for a third season, Christian Slater is now 0 for 3 as a TV series lead, The Chicago Code was just taken out and Traffic Light was switched off. The action drama Human Target is


Fox picks up ‘Bones’ spin-off ‘The Finder,’ J.J. Abrams ‘Alcatraz’ to series

Posted: 10 May 2011 07:03 PM PDT

Fox just picked up two dramas to series: The Finder, a spin-off of its hit series Bones starring Geoff Stults, and Alcatraz, the J.J. Abrams mystery starring Lost co-star Jorge Garcia. Finder has Stults as a former military policeman whose brain damage from two tours in Iraq appear to have given him the ability to locate anything


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