‘Caprica’: Final five episodes to air back-to-back on Jan. 4

Image Credit: Joe Pugliese/SyFy

SyFy has confirmed to EW that the final five episodes of the Battlestar Galactica-spinoff series Caprica will air back-to-back on Tuesday, Jan. 4 starting at 6 p.m. ET. Last month, SyFy cancelled the show after the second half of its first season struggled in the ratings; exec producer David Eick told EW that it was a “surprise” that SyFy yanked the rest of the episodes off the air. ”I understand that these are rarely simple decisions and I know the current leadership at Syfy genuinely loved the show and were hell-bent on protecting it and seeing it succeed,” Eick said. “Caprica was an extremely smart, unique show and it’ll take quite some time for me to get used to the idea that it’s really gone.” A “Save Caprica” campaign attempted to resurrect the show by sending the network over 650 pounds of apples to the network; alas, that was not quite enough. But don’t despair too much; SyFy has already greenlit a two-hour pilot BSG spinoff tentatively titled Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome, this time set roughly ten years into the first Cylon war.

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'Idol': Change to believe in?

Tuesday, your “journey” has come to an end — at least with regard to American Idol.

Yes indeed, in a move that may have rival networks reexamining their own 2011 programming rosters, Fox revealed yesterday that Idol is shifting to a Wednesday-Thursday schedule, abandoning the Tuesday-Wednesday timetable around which the Idoloonie nation has built its entire life its TV viewing calendar for the last nine seasons. The late Friday announcement capped a week of carefully leaked tidbits about the remodeling that the long-running ratings juggernaut will undergo when it returns to the airwaves in January; that’s when new judges Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler will join “barnacle” Randy Jackson on a ship that, for the first time, won’t have Simon Cowell hurling insults from the lido deck. And while it’s pure speculation to say whether these tweaks big and small will translate into smooth sailing or sinking fortunes for Idol‘s tenth season, when has that ever stopped me in the past? Let’s take a critical look at each one of the recently revealed changes for season 10:

The move to Thursdays: “[Thursday] is a tough nut to crack, and if you want to crack it, you have to make a big move there,” Mike Darnell, Fox’s reality chief, told Deadline Hollywood. And indeed, with Glee becoming a ratings force on Tuesdays this fall (sans Idol lead-in), it makes sense for the network to try to position its ratings powerhouses over three nights, rather than just two. Bottom line, though, is that a timeslot switch shouldn’t mean much to Idol addicts. Think of it this way: Would Adam Lambert’s “Mad World” have sounded any less glorious on a Wednesday? Would Chris Daughtry’s ouster have been any less devastating on a Thursday? At the end of the day, we Idoloonies can bring the crazy any night of the week, any week of the year. So go ahead Fox, and do your thing.

The return of the one-hour results shows?: A wise philosopher once said, “Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.” Which is pretty much the stance I copped back in May, when Fox announced that it planned to cut Idol‘s results-show telecasts from 60 minutes to a half-hour (a promise it made and broke back a couple years ago as well). Yesterday’s Fox press release took a virtual Swiffer to that dusty idea of a truncated results telecast by announcing that starting Jan. 20, Idol would air from 8 to 9 p.m. every Thursday. Still, while we can all grumble at the network for another season of filler-laden elimination nights starring Ke$ha, Miley Cyrus, and Ryan Seacrest’s redundant questions for contestants, who can really blame Fox for choosing a scenario in which it’ll get 18-20 million viewers rather than, say, 5 million, in its 8:30-9 slot? At the end of the day, this is why God created the DVR fast-forward function.

The death of the semifinal rounds: Say farewell to the fun-yet-frustrating weeks when we grow attached to kids like Alex Lambert, Katelyn Epperly, Mishavonna Henson, and Aloha Mischeaux, only to watch them fall short of Top 12 glory. Returning co-executive producer Nigel Lythgoe told the New York Post this week that “the middle rounds” — in which viewers used to whittle down a pack of either 24 or 36 contestants down to 12 finalists — “will disappear.”

Lythgoe spun some ridiculous fiction in an effort to justify the show wrestling back a great deal of control from the voting public. “When you’re showing viewers 34 people and asking the country to judge 34 people, you don’t know who’s talented — you only know the ones who’ve had a bit of their stories shown in the auditions,” he said. “It’s much easier to say, ‘Here are the Final 12, now here are their stories, and start figuring out who you like.’” Sounds reasonable enough, until you remember that Idol fans have proven themselves completely capable of ignoring producer pimping and overwrought backstories and voting for contestants based solely on a single spectacular live performance. (See Allison Iraheta, Jason Castro, and perhaps most importantly, former champs like Kelly Clarkson and Kris Allen.)

I’d have more respect for Lythgoe if he’d just explain that the producers have been frustrated by their inability to use manipulative editing, talk-show campaigning, and occasionally biased judging to carry their pre-ordained “chosen ones” all the way to victory, and that by eliminating the semifinals, they feel they’ll have a better chance to pre-determine the season 10 outcome. Nigel’s honesty (or lack thereof) aside, even if you haven’t been thrilled with the last few Idol winners, it’s hard not to vehemently oppose any move that reduces the public’s power. Idol voters have Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, and David Cook on their roster; that beats most three-artist combinations you could pull off the latest edition of the Billboard Hot 100, no?

This won’t be just a singing competition anymore: Well, not that Idol has ever really been strictly about vocals, but Lythgoe told TV Guide this week that season 10 will require wannabes to compete “to make the best music video, to promote themselves, and to work with a band and dancers for an awards show-style performance.” Props to the producing team for these innovations, considering that all of the aforementioned skills can help make or break an Idol once he or she exits the protective cocoon of a reality TV competition and is asked to fly the sometimes unfriendly skies alongside fully formed butterflies like Beyoncé, Pink, and John Mayer.

The emergence of an anti-guitar invective: Lythgoe has repeatedly mentioned his intention to stop contestants from “hiding behind their guitars,” which seems like a direct dig at Lee DeWyze, Kris Allen, David Cook, and all the other contestants in the last three seasons who’ve strummed their way into the hearts of Idol watchers. I find Lythgoe’s stance here both troubling and wrong-minded. Rather than railing against the use of instruments by DeWyze and runner-up Crystal Bowersox as the reasons for a sleepy season 9, how about blaming the production itself for saddling last year’s contestants with extremely limited lists of sappy, saccharine ditties? Perpetuating the fiction that “singer-songwriter types” have killed the Idol machine is kind of like chaining a dog to a tree, setting the tree on fire, then complaining when it fails to go fetch the newspaper.

What do you think, Idol fans? Which of the announced changes to season 10 have you excited? Which have you crying ‘foul’? And what’s your excitement level to tune in to the new and (possibly) improved mothership? Sound off in the comments section, and for all my Idol news and views, follow me on Twitter @EWMichaelSlezak.

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Greatest syndie sitcom ever?

Image Credit: Greg Gayne/Warner Bros.Two and a Half Men will be on the air for at least another decade — in syndication. (Time to process, and… you’re back.) The show has been renewed through 2021 by Tribune Broadcasting and Sinclair Broadcast Group, whose markets represent nearly half of the country. The show has been the top-rated comedy in syndication in both adults 25-54 and households for more than three years. Is this the Greatest Syndie Sitcom of All Time? Let’s take nominations. To be clear: We’re not talking about naming the greatest sitcom, necessarily. We’re talking about which syndicated sitcom you could (and did) watch every day at, say, 7 p.m., and never get tired of it.

I’m never home at that hour now, but a few years ago, I took a three-month leave and lived with my parents while my father went through chemo and nested in the living room recliner. Having dinner while watching Everybody Loves Raymond reruns became our ritual. We’d watch one episode on one station, then I’d flip channels, and we’d watch another. It’s a sentimental pick, but Raymond‘s got my vote. What gets yours?

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Jane Lynch and Carol Burnett sing ‘Ohio’: Why, oh why doesn’t Sue sing more?

Why did Sue Sylvester’s mom leave Ohio? Well, based on this duet from Tuesday’s episode of Glee, it might not have everything to do with hunting Nazis, as Sue once claimed. And it’s too bad Sylvestor Senior (played by comedy legend Carol Burnett) skipped town — the duo seem to pair together in perfect harmony. No, really: The vaudeville-esque “Ohio” from the 1953 musical Wonderful Town showcases both their wonderful voices — and makes you wonder why Sue doesn’t ditch the tater tot talk for more singing. Click the jump to hear the wonderful duet!

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‘American Idol’: New night, music videos, no semifinals, one-hour results shows. Which changes will do us good?

Tuesday, your “journey” has come to an end — at least with regard to American Idol.

Yes indeed, in a move that may have rival networks reexamining their own 2011 programming rosters, Fox revealed yesterday that Idol is shifting to a Wednesday-Thursday schedule, abandoning the Tuesday-Wednesday timetable around which the Idoloonie nation has built its entire life its TV viewing calendar for the last nine seasons. The late Friday announcement capped a week of carefully leaked tidbits about the remodeling that the long-running ratings juggernaut will undergo when it returns to the airwaves in January; that’s when new judges Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler will join “barnacle” Randy Jackson on a ship that, for the first time, won’t have Simon Cowell hurling insults from the lido deck. And while it’s pure speculation to say whether these tweaks big and small will translate into smooth sailing or sinking fortunes for Idol‘s tenth season, when has that ever stopped me in the past? Let’s take a critical look at each one of the recently revealed changes for season 10:

The move to Thursdays: “[Thursday] is a tough nut to crack, and if you want to crack it, you have to make a big move there,” Mike Darnell, Fox’s reality chief, told Deadline Hollywood. And indeed, with Glee becoming a ratings force on Tuesdays this fall (sans Idol lead-in), it makes sense for the network to try to position its ratings powerhouses over three nights, rather than just two. Bottom line, though, is that a timeslot switch shouldn’t mean much to Idol addicts. Think of it this way: Would Adam Lambert’s “Mad World” have sounded any less glorious on a Wednesday? Would Chris Daughtry’s ouster have been any less devastating on a Thursday? At the end of the day, we Idoloonies can bring the crazy any night of the week, any week of the year. So go ahead Fox, and do your thing.

The return of the one-hour results shows?: A wise philosopher once said, “Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.” Which is pretty much the stance I copped back in May, when Fox announced that it planned to cut Idol‘s results-show telecasts from 60 minutes to a half-hour (a promise it made and broke back a couple years ago as well). Yesterday’s Fox press release took a virtual Swiffer to that dusty idea of a truncated results telecast by announcing that starting Jan. 20, Idol would air from 8 to 9 p.m. every Thursday. Still, while we can all grumble at the network for another season of filler-laden elimination nights starring Ke$ha, Miley Cyrus, and Ryan Seacrest’s redundant questions for contestants, who can really blame Fox for choosing a scenario in which it’ll get 18-20 million viewers rather than, say, 5 million, in its 8:30-9 slot? At the end of the day, this is why God created the DVR fast-forward function.

The death of the semifinal rounds: Say farewell to the fun-yet-frustrating weeks when we grow attached to kids like Alex Lambert, Katelyn Epperly, Mishavonna Henson, and Aloha Mischeaux, only to watch them fall short of Top 12 glory. Returning co-executive producer Nigel Lythgoe told the New York Post this week that “the middle rounds” — in which viewers used to whittle down a pack of either 24 or 36 contestants down to 12 finalists — “will disappear.”

Lythgoe spun some ridiculous fiction in an effort to justify the show wrestling back a great deal of control from the voting public. “When you’re showing viewers 34 people and asking the country to judge 34 people, you don’t know who’s talented — you only know the ones who’ve had a bit of their stories shown in the auditions,” he said. “It’s much easier to say, ‘Here are the Final 12, now here are their stories, and start figuring out who you like.’” Sounds reasonable enough, until you remember that Idol fans have proven themselves completely capable of ignoring producer pimping and overwrought backstories and voting for contestants based solely on a single spectacular live performance. (See Allison Iraheta, Jason Castro, and perhaps most importantly, former champs like Kelly Clarkson and Kris Allen.)

I’d have more respect for Lythgoe if he’d just explain that the producers have been frustrated by their inability to use manipulative editing, talk-show campaigning, and occasionally biased judging to carry their pre-ordained “chosen ones” all the way to victory, and that by eliminating the semifinals, they feel they’ll have a better chance to pre-determine the season 10 outcome. Nigel’s honesty (or lack thereof) aside, even if you haven’t been thrilled with the last few Idol winners, it’s hard not to vehemently oppose any move that reduces the public’s power. Idol voters have Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, and David Cook on their roster; that beats most three-artist combinations you could pull off the latest edition of the Billboard Hot 100, no?

This won’t be just a singing competition anymore: Well, not that Idol has ever really been strictly about vocals, but Lythgoe told TV Guide this week that season 10 will require wannabes to compete “to make the best music video, to promote themselves, and to work with a band and dancers for an awards show-style performance.” Props to the producing team for these innovations, considering that all of the aforementioned skills can help make or break an Idol once he or she exits the protective cocoon of a reality TV competition and is asked to fly the sometimes unfriendly skies alongside fully formed butterflies like Beyoncé, Pink, and John Mayer.

The emergence of an anti-guitar invective: Lythgoe has repeatedly mentioned his intention to stop contestants from “hiding behind their guitars,” which seems like a direct dig at Lee DeWyze, Kris Allen, David Cook, and all the other contestants in the last three seasons who’ve strummed their way into the hearts of Idol watchers. I find Lythgoe’s stance here both troubling and wrong-minded. Rather than railing against the use of instruments by DeWyze and runner-up Crystal Bowersox as the reasons for a sleepy season 9, how about blaming the production itself for saddling last year’s contestants with extremely limited lists of sappy, saccharine ditties? Perpetuating the fiction that “singer-songwriter types” have killed the Idol machine is kind of like chaining a dog to a tree, setting the tree on fire, then complaining when it fails to go fetch the newspaper.

What do you think, Idol fans? Which of the announced changes to season 10 have you excited? Which have you crying ‘foul’? And what’s your excitement level to tune in to the new and (possibly) improved mothership? Sound off in the comments section, and for all my Idol news and views, follow me on Twitter @EWMichaelSlezak.

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'Sorcerer's Stone': Your No. 1?

By the time the Harry Potter film series is all over and done with, it will have comprised ten years, eight films, and every single British actor ever to utter a letter of the Bard. But as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 1 apparates into theaters this weekend, it’s almost hard to remember how it all started: An American behind the camera, a color palette approximately 16 shades brighter, and a marketing team who, never mind “hallows,” was afraid the word “philosopher” would alienate all those American readers that find thinking to be elitist. So we flipped our Time-Turners and went back to the beginning to see how the greatest (by default?) septology of all time has changed over all these years. Of course, this all just a couple of Muggles’ opinions.

Darren Franich: I feel pretty confident saying Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is unquestionably the worst Harry Potter movie. Even Chamber of Secrets, which was based on the worst book, actually turned into a decent movie. You could argue that Chris Columbus had to introduce the whole world, so Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was always going to be a difficult movie to make. But the first Star Wars did a great job of introducing a complete universe in the context of a thrilling storyline. By comparison, Sorcerer’s Stone plays like Exposition!: The Movie.

Keith Staskiewicz: At a certain point you lose the wonder and gain the wondering when it’s going to end. A 2 1/2 hour running time is fine, but the first book is about 1/64 the size of the later ones. If they were able to condense Goblet of Fire into an acceptable running time, Sorcerer’s Stone didn’t have to be any more than 2 hours long. But, to be honest, I don’t dislike the movie that much. Saying that it’s the worst of the bunch really only means that the series got better over time, which is impressive in itself. Chris Columbus was a decent choice for this kind of movie. The first book is all about wide-eyed wonder and introductions, with very little dirt and grime and Cuaróniness. Columbus isn’t the director we deserve, he’s the director we need. Like his namesake, he’s discovering and mapping out new territory, but without all that killing-a-civilization-with-smallpox stuff.

DF: My problem with the movie is exactly that there isn’t that much wide-eyed wonder in this movie. All the magic is presented in such a clinical, rote fashion. Every scene is: Harry Potter walks into room. A talented British actor does something magical. Harry: “What’s that?!?!” Hermione: “That’s [random latin magic word].” Ron: “Blimey!” Harry then tries to perform the magic, succeeds on his first try, and everyone applauds.

KS: No, no, you misunderstand. I meant, literally, Harry Potter’s eyes are really wide throughout the whole movie. He looks amazed at everything.

"Wow! A stick! And over there…a staircase!"

DF: Goblet of Fire is actually a good comparison point. That movie is also a complete narrative mess, but it’s a lot of fun! Sorcerer’s Stone just looks like a preproduction cycle that someone turned into a movie.

KS: I think we’re not giving Columbus enough credit. He was building the foundation for the rest of the series. He had six more movies looming over him when he made this, which then changed to seven. He had to show enough, but not to much; get actors who would be willing to commit for that long; and actualize a ton of imagery in the book that they’d then be stuck with for a decade. Quick digression that has absolutely nothing to do with anything: one of the best moments in the movie is when Hedwig drops the package, and it’s clearly a broom wrapped in brown paper, but everyone around the table is like, “What is it?” and “I wonder what it could be?!” What do you think it is? A book? A bicycle?

"I hope it's a new computer!"

DF: Okay, but this scene connects perfectly with what you were just talking about. Because yes, we can give credit to Columbus for laying the groundwork. But that just seems like the job of a producer, really. Whereas every single directorial choice he makes in the movie — “Kids, act excited! ACT EXCITED! Okay, Rupert, do your wry smile!” — is so wrongheaded.

KS: With the exception of Half-Blood Prince, which is one minute longer than this, the first two Potter movies are the longest. Chamber of Secrets is the longest ever, at 2 hours 41 minutes. What I want to know is how did Columbus take the shortest books and make them into the longest movies? Maybe it was easier for the later directors because the audience was familiar with the material, but come on.

DF: It’s even more egregious when you consider that Order of the Phoenix is the longest book, and it became the shortest movie.

This is not a shot you will see in an Alfonso Cuarón movie.

DF: In the interest of not picking on Columbus, I will say that Sorcerer’s Stone is probably the best showcase of the supporting cast. The Harry Potter franchise has the most enjoyable overacting by the highest volume of great actors. Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman, brilliant one-offs like Kenneth Branagh and Imelda Staunton…

KS: Emma Thompson as Trelawney, Brendan Gleeson as Mad-Eye Moody…

DF: This is something I always wonder about when I watch the Star Wars prequels: Why are British actors so much better at playing claptrap than American actors?

KS: Because they’re actually trained. Many have experience in theater, playing Falstaffs and Iagos and whatnot. American actors go to the Actors Studio and play smoldering versions of themselves. But I think British actors are doing theatrical work less and less nowadays, though. Just look at Christian Bale. Imagine him playing a Harry Potter character. I guess I can see Colin Firth in a Potter role. But not Ewan, Jude, Orlando, Keira. Although Clive Owen was originally going to replace Richard Harris as Dumbledore , wasn’t he?

The floating head of Radcliffe shall visit you in your nightmares.

DF: Ha! Watching Sorcerer’s Stone now is interesting, because it reminds you of all the stuff you used to care about in the Harry Potter world. Like Hagrid. Remember when he was, like, one of the main characters?

KS: To me, the first two movies work better when taken with the later ones. Their superficial wonder and amusement-park-ride sets look almost purposefully cutesy and Britishly twee when compared to the horror that comes later. Even Harris dying, while clearly sad, is an interesting demarcation point. Harris’ Dumbledore was wise and kind and friendly. Gambon always played him as a little bit of an a–hole.

And he shaved this morning.

DF: One other thing I noticed watching Sorcerer’s Stone this time around is just how primitive it looks by comparison to the later movies. You can tell this was the one Harry Potter movie made before Fellowship of the Ring hit theaters.

KS: The broom-flying CGI is that same terrible featureless ragdoll look that was in the first Spider-man. It was 2000-2001, and they were still reaching beyond their grasp when it came to that kind of stuff.

DF: We should also talk about the hindsight weirdness of seeing Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson when they were young and kinda annoying. It’s remarkable to me how little Radcliffe has to do in this movie. Besides the scene with his parents in the mirror, which is quite moving, he’s literally just onscreen to open his eyes really wide, and then open them wider in the next scene.

KS: Emma Watson is the most successful here, in my eyes. She manages to hide any stiffness and awkwardness by overdoing Hermione’s annoyingness, which totally works, so she doesn’t have those same “What do I do?” looks that Harry and Ron have every once in a while.

Harry, having absolutely none of it.

DF: I think she’s fine, but I think Rupert Grint actually carries the (very) few scenes between the three or them. In a weird way, the franchise kind of abandoned Ron in the later movies, partially because his plotlines in the book were the most extraneous, and partially because Radcliffe and Watson just have way more actorly chemistry than Radcliffe and Grint. I haven’t read the first few books in awhile, so maybe there are more rules I’m forgetting. But is Quidditch, like, SUPPOSED to be the most pointless game ever? Because all that really matters is getting the Golden Snitch, right? What’s the point of the beaters and thuggers and cudgels and whatsits?

Quidditch: The most confusing British sport since cricket.

KS: You get 150 points and end the game if you get the Snitch. So I guess, technically, if you’re 16 Quaffle goals behind, you can still lose. But then, why would you even go after the snitch? (Looks up official rules online.) Okay, apparently the Quidditch Cup is based on points earned rather than games won. So, the Quaffle goals do make a small difference. Though that seems unfair, if a game goes really long and lots of goals are scored then both houses playing have an advantage over the other two. Man, there’s a lot of strategy going on here. I can see losing thousands of Galleons at the OQB (Off-Quidditch Betting).

DF: Then Gringotts repossesses your house.

KS: Can I just say how awesome Rowling is at naming her characters? Every name perfectly evokes exactly what the characters are. Harry Potter: Generic, strong, staid. Ron Weasley: Scruffy, lovable, none too bright, can’t even afford a good name. Hermione Granger: A fancy-pants first name, but her last name isn’t all that. (Maybe because her parents are Muggles?) Draco Malfoy: basically Dragon Badfaith. Even objects: Quaffle, Bludger, Golden Snitch. Dammit, J.K. Rowling! Even her name is awesome.

"Wait, what's going to happen to us over the next six years?"

Next Week: Burlesque is a story about a talented small-town girl who seeks fame and fortune in the big city. Showgirls is literally the same movie, except with more nudity, less talent, and did we mention more nudity? Check back here next week for a thoughtful discussion in which we attempt to answer the big questions: Is Showgirls purposefully bad? And does that make it good? Where are we?

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Excess Hollywood: ‘Lost’ exec producer goes back (Jack) to the Civil War

actually it was. think about it… all the things on the island… the leader to run it. The story of the island changes depending on the people that are there.

It was always about purgatory in fact its better that way.

Just try. Its not to hard.

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Lindsay Lohan: Just say 'InferNO'

Another day, another piece of seemingly bad news for Lindsay Lohan. After months of sticking by the actress throughout her legal troubles, director Matthew Wilder has confirmed that he will be recasting the actress’ role as porn star Linda Lovelace in the upcoming biopic Inferno. It might seem another signal that Lohan’s career has burnt out, but, then again, is this pink slip the best thing that could happen to the actress? (At least in a good long while.)

Though the role would have garnered plenty of press for Lohan (like she needs it) — and biopics are generally a good way to capture the critics’ attention — perhaps a post-rehab Lohan would be better served straying as far away as possible from sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Even if the debauchery is only on screen. It’s no secret that Deep Throat actress Lovelace was once involved with drugs, and though parallels between Lohan and Lovelace could bring out a compelling performance, it can’t possibly be wise for a newly reformed addict to jump knee-deep into the role of a fellow drug user.

Not to mention the fact that Lohan could use a break from the heat surrounding her in Hollywood. As much as we’d like to root for a Lohan comeback — or not — the actress is better served focusing on her recovery than her reemergence on the big screen. And though she might not ever stray away from paparazzi cameras — or worse, reality TV cameras — a certain Deep Throat actress famously turned around her life. So why can’t Lohan?

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Anne Hathaway Spoofs Katie Holmes on SNL's 'Miley Cyrus Show' - Just Jared

Anne Hathaway takes on the role of Katie Holmes in a Miley Cyrus Show sketch from last night’s Saturday Night Live!

The 28-year-old actress (as Katie) fielded a series of “complex” questions posed by Miley, including how she transitioned to more adult roles from Dawson’s Creek, why her daughter wears high heels and what others think of Scientology.

HOW DO YOU THINK Anne did as Katie Holmes?

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London, Nov 21 : Anne Hathaway has revealed that she's desperate to land a guest role on hit TV musical 'Glee'. The Devil Wears Prada star admits she's a huge fan of the Ryan Murphy creation and would jump at the chance to appear alongside its leading ...

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'SNL': Take it, Anne Hathaway

In a shocking move, Saturday Night Live began its Anne Hathaway-hosted show this week with an opening political sketch that was actually pretty funny. Abby Elliott did a Rachel Maddow impersonation that captured many of the MSNBC host’s verbal refrains and gestures, and kept the tired jokes about her haircut to a minimum. Kristen Wiig pared her Nancy Pelosi down to suitably sharp edges and death-ray eye gazes, while Kenan Thompson’s Charlie Rangel was an caricature of assiduous avarice.

Since Hathaway’s opening monologue involved a Love and Other Drugs nudity joke that featured the cover of the current Entertainment Weekly, I’ll recuse myself from judgment. Fortunately, Hathaway was extremely amusing in the first sketch of the night, dismantling Katie Holmes’ mannerisms opposite Vanessa Bayer’s Miley Cyrus impersonation. Bayer has proven her Miley bona fides before, but this was her best yet, with her Miley introducing Hathaway’s Holmes as having starred in Dawson’s Creek “back in the 1900s” and showing her audition tape for the new Batman movie.

You know how airline passengers are chafing about the new TSA pat-down policy? Boy, SNL certainly does: The show did a fake sex ad about the excessive fondling, and then Seth Meyers made no fewer than four jokes about the TSA at the start of “Weekend Update.” Total result: maybe a snicker-and-a-half. “Update” nearly capsized under the weight of Bobby Moynihan’s heavy-handed Guy Fieri impersonation, but was rescued at the end, as Jay Pharoah powered through a fine series of Thanksgiving songs as they might have been delivered by Jay-Z, Drake, and Biggie Smalls.

SNL fared particularly well with music this week. In addition to Pharoah’s work, there was a series of mostly-terrific vocal impressions for the soundtrack to a Disney-esque kiddie film called Horse Play. Wiig’s Dolores O’Riordan of the Cranberries, Andy Samberg’s Robert Smith of the Cure, and Hathaway’s Alanis Morissette were especially good.

Speaking of music, I was a pushover for the florid excessiveness of Florence and the Machine — this was melodic melodrama operating at a highly enjoyable level.

Hathaway proved to be a wonderfully essential supporting player numerous times. Her Judy Garland in a “lost scenes” from The Wizard of Oz sketch captured Garland’s tremulous voice impeccably. (Bonus points for her handling of that sweet dog playing Toto so well.) (Extra bonus points for the precision of Bill Hader’s Bert Lahr/Cowardly Lion.)

The host heroically threw herself into a Thanksgiving soup-kitchen sketch dominated by Kristen Wiig’s Penelope character; Hathaway’s parody of Penelope’s mannerisms were funnier than Wiig’s.

Hathaway even eked out the only laughs in a fake ad for “Mega-Mart” in just a few seconds on-screen as an excessively caffeinated customer. And Hathaway’s New Yawk accent was a solid complement to Bill Hader’s highlight this night: His embodiment of the sort of well-past-his-prime newsman that pops up on local news shows. Too bad Hader’s horn-rimmed Herb Welch supposedly died at the end of the sketch; I hope he’ll be resurrected.

Hathaway wasn’t the kind of first-rate SNL host who dominates the proceedings the way, say, Alec Baldwin or Steve Martin do. Instead of brawny power, she brought a brightly-lit wit, an avid enthusiasm tempered by sure skill. She was charming, sure — we expect Anne Hathaway to be charming. But she was also bold and adventurous.

What did you think of Anne Hathaway and this week’s SNL?

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King Kong fails to scare Chilean miners - CNN

Chilean miners visit Universal StudiosNEW: Miners enjoy ride at Universal StudiosWorkers and their relatives sing "We the miners of Chile" from double-decker busesA miner's wife feared the ordeal would be too much on her pregnant 17-year-old daughterBut the daughter gave birth to a girl this week, the first grandchildWatch "CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute" Thanksgiving night at 8 ET/5 PT on CNN/U.S. The show airs on CNN International on Thursday, November 25, at 8 p.m. ET and Friday, November 26, at 5 a.m. ET, 1100/2200 Berlin and 0900/1800 Hong Kong.

Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- One media outlet billed it as the miners versus King Kong.

The seemingly invincible 33 miners from Chile and five of their rescuers toured the Universal Studios theme park on Friday, and they were entertained with a tram ride through a tunnel featuring a lifelike 3-D clash with King Kong and Tyrannosaurus rex.

"One more time! One more time!" the miners, the rescuers and their relatives chanted after the short movie feature concluded. The earthshaking simulator -- rocking the tram as if it were under attack by the beasts of the "King Kong"' film -- didn't scare the miners, who were trapped 69 days after their gold and copper mine collapsed in August.

"Why not," the tram driver said. "Let's do it again."

So it went. The miners of Chile -- who survived the longest mine entrapment in history -- had their way again, along with their relatives and the five rescuers. Helicopters and other TV news crews continued to follow them.

The miners, rescuers and relatives are in Los Angeles this week for their first group tour to the United States since being freed last month.

The group is in the nation's second-largest city to attend "CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute," which will air worldwide on Thanksgiving evening, November 25. Organizers invited them as special guests.

On Thursday, the entourage visited Hollywood landmarks such as the Walk of Fame stars on Hollywood Boulevard, including one belonging to Elvis Presley.

It was an appropriate pilgrimage because miner Edison Pena had led sing-alongs to Elvis music to lift the spirits of fellow miners during the dark ordeal. In fact, he had asked for the music to be sent down into the mine as rescuers drilled a bigger hole to pull the miners out of the ground.

"He is the king, he is the best," Pena, 34, said, as he posed for photographs beside Elvis' star on Hollywood Boulevard. "The sweetest of dreams."

One passerby, Ron Prouty, 30, a writer, was surprised to happen upon the miners. He was returning home from a Starbucks.

"To me they're real heroes, and I think it's beautiful they're out in Hollywood," Prouty said. "I thought a celebrity was here but this is better than a celebrity."

For the majority of the visitors, the trip was their first time outside of Chile. At the top of their to-do list, besides resting after a 12-hour flight from Santiago, Chile, was shopping.

"I want to go to the mall and buy some shoes for my son and daughter," said Katty Valdivia, 40, the wife of Sepulveda.

For miner Juan Carlos Aguilar, 49, and wife Cristy Coronado, 40, the visit was a double celebration -- because they experienced the birth of their first grandchild, Emily Sofia Studer, born Wednesday.

When Aguilar was trapped in the mine, his wife was concerned whether the ordeal would be too much of a strain on her pregnant 17-year-old daughter, Damaris.

"We were really worried," Coronado said, speaking in Spanish as did his colleagues. "My daughter was far into her pregnancy and we were all consumed with what could happen. For those 69 days, we were a separated family."

The miner-poet Zamora said he overcame the gloom of entrapment by doing something he had never done before: write poetry.

He wrote 32 poems -- about his wife, mother, son, relatives, friends. He left copies of his verse at home and was unable to share his poetry.

"I never wrote before," Zamora said. "It was a way of keeping me from suffering inside the mine. I wrote about feelings and how people were suffering on the outside and how they would ever rescue us."

Like some other miners, he readily offered up his autographs to anyone wanting to meet him. "The Poet," he wrote in Spanish near his name.

Monica Araya, the wife of Florencio Avalos, the first miner who was pulled out of the ground last month, described the 69 days of waiting and wondering as one of her worst experiences.

"It was bad, really bad," said Araya. "I couldn't believe it. I was worried about his life, but I believed they would all survive because I had faith and hope."

She has since noticed a few different things about herself and husband.

"We have changed," Araya said. "We are more sentimental, and we enjoy more what moments we have together."

Before arriving in Los Angeles, the group made a brief stopover at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia, where the miners signed flags. One signed "Corazon de Minero," which means "heart of a miner."

When miner Richard Villarroell prepared to board the plane in Santiago, Chile, on Wednesday night, the 27-year-old said he has only traveled to Argentina.

"I want to see the world," he said, smiling. "I know all of Chile, but not the rest of the world."

Villarroell, a mechanic, worked at the San Jose mine for two years. His girlfriend was pregnant while he was trapped.

The miners captured the world's imagination when they survived the longest mine captivity in history, beginning August 5.

For more than two weeks, many officials thought they were dead. But crews made contact after a small borehole enabled communication with the men trapped 2,300 feet underground.

Rescue crews encountered repeated setbacks. Initially, authorities expected the miners to be trapped until Thanksgiving or Christmas because of the difficulty of drilling a new tunnel to extract them.

On their U.S. trip, the miners and rescuers will get a whirlwind tour of southern California. They'll see the sights and shop in Los Angeles and Hollywood through the weekend.

The visit is a world away from the miners' experience in the weeks after the mine collapse that trapped them. In the days before they made contact with the ground, some ate about a bottle cap's worth of canned fish per day and drank mine water that tasted like machine oil. They have said they were prepared to die, even as they awaited their rescue.

The miners and rescuers were invited by CNN to attend "Heroes," an annual program now in its fourth year that shines a light on "everyday people changing the world."

The Chileans were extended the invitation because their plight and rescue captured the world's attention and symbolized the resilience of the human spirit.

CNN Heroes received 10,000 nominations from more than 100 countries. That list was narrowed down to the Top 10 CNN Heroes.

The Hero of the Year will be revealed on the show; the public votes to select that winner.

"The heroic efforts of the rescue of these miners was one of the most unifying and inspirational events of the year," said Jim Walton, president of CNN Worldwide.

"CNN Heroes is a fitting way for CNN to honor these men and their rescuers," he said. "We hope viewers around the world will be heartened by the story of their rescue as well as the stories of this year's top 10 CNN Heroes."'

The miners' imprisonment began when a ramp into the San Jose mine -- located in the arid Atacama region of northern Chile -- collapsed.

Shift foreman Luis Urzua told the men that they had a shot of surviving the catastrophe, but there was a good chance they would never again see daylight.

The men occupied themselves by voting on everything, including how food should be distributed. Majority rule prevailed -- 17 votes plus one -- but the miners often managed to find common ground and most decisions were unanimous.

Everyone had a task. No one was left alone. And they became masters of compromise and patience, even as their rations quickly began running out.

CNN's Alec Miran and Lonzo Cook contributed to this report.

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‘Big Time Rush’ First Look: Snoop Dogg brings some holiday cheer to the Nickeloden show

Nickelodeon’s Big Time Rush — the comedy about a budding boy band that had the most-watched premiere with viewers (6.8 million) in the cable net’s history — hopes to ring in the holidays with a special visit from Snoop Dogg. EW obtained this first look  of the rapper, who performs the original song “Let’s Stay In Our PJs (All Christmas Long)”  in the one-hour movie ”Big Time Christmas” that’ll air Dec. 4. It will also feature guest appearances by Miranda Cosgrove (iCarly) and Fabio as himself.

Big Time Rush recorded a solo version of “All I Want for Christmas is You” that’ll be available exclusively on iTunes beginning Nov. 30. The group’s debut album recently entered the Billboard Top 200 at No. 2 and has sold more than 113,000 units. They’ve also sold more than one million combined digital tracks to date.

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20 movies we can't wait to see

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Why We Can't Wait: Do we really need to explain this? We're six movies committed and we're not going to quit now. Harry and his pals take on Voldemort in the final explosive battle for the future of Hogwarts, and if it's anything like the book, there will be plenty of camping. And everyone loves camping, right? —Keith Staskiewicz

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Christian Slater will be ‘Breaking In’ to his first comedy series on Fox

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Fox has ordered seven episodes of the half-hour comedy Breaking In, starring Christian Slater and Reaper‘s Bret Harrison, the network confirms. It will premiere Wednesday, April 6. The show, created by Adam F. Goldberg (Fanboys) and Seth Gordon (Four Christmases), is set at a high-tech security firm that takes extreme — and often questionable — measures to sell their protection services. As the logline explains, Contra Security, corporate America’s answer to The A-Team, gives clients a sense of security by first ripping it away. Hence the title, Breaking In. Slater stars as Oz, the mastermind described as a man of mystery and a master of manipulation. Oz’s hand-picked team includes: Bad girl Melanie (You Again‘s Odette Yustman), who is in charge of lock-picking, safe-cracking and heart-breaking; disguise expert Josh (The Whitest Kids U’Know’s Trevor Moore), who heads recon and intel; Cash (Chocolate News‘ Alphonso McAuley), a fanboy who specializes in strategy, logistics, and office pranks; and new recruit Cameron (Harrison), a lovable computer hacker straight out of college who’s still trying to meld with his colleagues. Though the pilot, written by Goldberg and directed by Gordon, tested well, Fox passed on a pick up last May. Fortunately, when the network resumed talks with Sony Pictures Television, the original creative team and cast remained intact. 

This will be the third series for Slater since 2008 (after NBC’s My Own Worst Enemy and ABC’s The Forgotten, which lasted one season each), but his first comedy. Slater spoke to EW last February about his recent comedic turn, which included guest spots on The Office and Curb Your Enthusiasm and the Funny or Die video Nine Lives. “I love comedy. I just feel blessed to have gotten those kind of opportunities,” he said. “Right now, it’s an open-door policy. Whoever gravitates toward me in that sort of humorous fashion, I’m up for.” He talked about Flip cam videos he’d taken to shooting, the latest being a Bourne Identity spoof. “I sometimes sit at home, and I’ll make little movies of myself. I did one called The Boring Identity the other day, which was quite fun,” he said. “Basically, I turned the camera on and just sat in my replica Kirk chair from the Starship Enterprise, which was a nice Christmas present, for a good 15 minutes in silence before I got bored out of my mind.” We did a PopWatch poll, and 96 percent of readers said they wanted to see The Boring Identity. Hopefully Breaking In gets as enthusiastic a response when it debuts.

Read more: Christian Slater: The stories behind his recent comedic turns (and what he did with those pillows Ellen DeGeneres gave him)

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Alex Trebek to cameo on ‘How I Met Your Mother’ (Cue: Sean Connery mom jokes now)

When it comes to the greatest cameo performances ever made by a game show host, the argument inevitably comes down to two men: Bob Barker and Alex Trebek. The two TV titans are the Ali-Frazier of their field. The Jeopardy! host set the bar high with his 1990 appearance on Cheers, in which Cliff Clavin lost “22,000 big ones” with the Final Jeopardy answer, “Who are three people who have never been in my kitchen?” But Barker rallied in 1996, treating Adam Sandler like a hyper SPCA puppy in Happy Gilmore. The price was most definitely right, Bob. (Watch both clips after the jump.)

Just before he retired from The Price is Right in 2007, Barker appeared as himself on How I Met Your Mother when Barney was certain that the Plinko-playing silver fox was his biological father. It’s taken three years, but Trebek is finally prepared to answer his rival. TV Guide has reported that Trebek will guest on the Dec. 13 episode of HIMYM that has A Christmas Carol-type storyline.

This is huge! So much is at stake! I expect nothing but perfection from Trebek, who has never not known the answer to a question in the past 26 years. I know I’ll be watching. And I suspect Battlin’ Bob Barker will be watching, too.

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TV Flashback! Hits of '80-'81

''Da belles of bottle-cappin','' Laverne De Fazio (Penny Marshall) and Shirley Feeney (Cindy Williams) always did it their way (yes, their way) — and in this, their sixth season, that was packing up and moving to California. Earthquake! It wasn't enough to return them to the top of the ratings chart, where they'd been for the 1977-78 and 1978-79 seasons, but it did tie them with Monday Night Football for No. 20, so they make our cut.
Seasons on DVD: 1-4

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Potter' Sets Franchise Record With $125.1 Million Opening - BusinessWeek

November 21, 2010, 11:28 AM EST By Michael White

Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 1” opened with $125.1 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales, a record for the Warner Bros. series about the boy wizard.

The opening was the sixth-best of all time, behind Warner Bros.’ “The Dark Knight,” which took in $158.4 million in 2008, researcher Hollywood.com Box-Office said today in an e- mailed statement.

The “Potter” films, Hollywood’s top-grossing franchise, will end in July with the release of “Deathly Hallows -- Part 2.” The first seven, based on the books by J.K. Rowling, all opened at No. 1, with 2005’s “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,” as the previous best debut with $102.7 million, according to researcher Box Office Mojo.

With the final installment, the “Potter” series is expected to generate $7.5 billion in worldwide ticket sales, Warner Bros. Chief Executive Officer Barry Meyer said on a September conference call.

The first six “Harry Potter” films generated $5.44 billion in worldwide sales, according to Box Office Mojo. The “Star Wars” films have grossed $4.48 billion, with the “James Bond” franchise producing $3.03 billion. The numbers aren’t adjusted for inflation.

In “Deathly Hallows,” Lord Voldemort, played by Ralph Fiennes, gains control of the magical world as Harry and his pals, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, go into hiding. They try to avoid capture while searching for artifacts that hold portions of the evil wizard’s soul. The returning cast includes Daniel Radcliffe in the title role, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson.

The series so far has produced a profit of about $1 billion when income from home-video, merchandise, games and other products is also tallied, according to Time Warner Inc. studio.

--Editors: Anthony Palazzo, Sylvia Wier

To contact the reporters on this story: Michael White in Los Angeles at mwhite8@bloomberg.net; Andrew Frye in New York at afrye@bloomberg.net.

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Anthony Palazzo at apalazzo@bloomberg.net.

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Adrianne Palicki on ‘Criminal Minds’: Tyra Collette is back — and ready to kill

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Of all the well-drawn characters from Friday Night Lights, Tyra Collette, played by Adrianne Palicki, is closest to my heart. She’s a girl who isn’t girly, a lover (and a fighter), and way taller and hotter and quicker than anyone should rightfully be. Consequently, I was one of the few tuning in when Fox’s Lone Star premiered, keyed up for a second coming of Palicki that, according to predictions, was going to be long-lasting. (Aaaaaaand we know how that turned out.)

But, now!: Palicki is back on the air! For her first gig since that beloved, but ill-fated, one, she’s guest-starring on an episode of Criminal Minds set to air in early 2011, according to Deadline. Her character is Syd, “a tough, irreverent, and sexually manipulative lunatic who sets out on a cross-country killing spree with her badass sociopathic husband Ray (The Black Donnellys’ Jonathan Tucker).” It’s an apparently conscious homage to the original lunatic couple — Mickey and Mallory of Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers, who shag and murder across the American Southwest.

SPOILER ALERT to my life: I’ve never watched Criminal Minds. Still, I’m excited. Adrianne is nothing if not tough and irreverent. As for sexually manipulative, I think there’s a Landry out there who can answer that. Now lets see if we can pull a reverse Lone Star and stir up so many views, this one-off turns into something regular — somewhere. Will you watch with me, PopWatchers?

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‘Harry Potter’ costume designer on Hermione’s red-hot ‘Deathly Hallows’ dress

Long before its release date, fans have been obsessing over the seventh iteration in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part I — but not just about the movie itself. Filmgoers who’ve watched Emma Watson’s Hermione bloom from a plain school girl to quite the lovely English rose have been clamoring for the standout red dress she wears in the film.

We spoke to Potter costume designer, Jany Temime, who gave us the scoop on the dress du jour. (After the jump!)

Unfortunately for Hermione wannabes, Temime revealed that this particular number was custom-made. In fact, they had eight copies of the same dress, a collaboration between the manufacturer and Temime, on hand. “I wanted a red dress because I wanted that color absolutely at that point of the story,” she said. “It had to be really strong. And [one] that you could see in Piccadilly Circus at night from very far away.”

Watson, who’s blossomed into a fashion plate in her own right, loved the chance to try something different for her character. “She thought it was a little daring for Hermione,” Temime says. “It was the start of [her character] being more adult. She was suddenly an object of desire for Ron. Suddenly Ron thinks, ‘Oh my god, it’s a woman in front of me!’ And it was the last time we could see her glamorous because after that, it’s the beginning of  jeans and thick sweaters for the runaway and all of the disasters that happen.”

For those who’ve already seen the flick, what did you think of the dress in the film? Were there any other sartorial stand-outs?

Read more:
Box office update: ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ grosses $24 mil from lively midnight shows
Box office preview: ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ would like your attention
‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part I’ at midnight: There’s an adorable little child in every inebriated college student
‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ countdown: Remembering ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’
‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 1' EW review

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Indignation, Confusion as Hollywood Prepares to Bury Ronni Chasen - TheWrap

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Indignation mixed with confusion tore through the Hollywood community Sunday as insiders prepared to gather for the funeral of Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen, gunned down last week on her way home from a movie premiere.

The ceremony was set to be held on Sunday, November 21 at the Hillside memorial park in Culver City. Members of the Hollywood publicity and entertainment journalism community, as well as Chasen’s many famous, Oscar-winning clients, were expected to be there in numbers.

So was the national media – though they were asked not to attend or to cover – as the story has taken on a sensational aura that has caught national attention.

Those who knew Chasen, and they numbered in the hundreds, struggled with squaring the image of the woman they knew for decades as a dedicated, old-school publicist, with the target of what appeared to be a well-planned murder hit.

The police continued to say they had no leads into the shooting death, which took place on a quiet residential street in Beverly HIlls early on November 16.

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