Archive for February, 2011

Harmon to star in USA’s ‘Prey’ movie

USA Network says it has acquired the rights to develop a 2-hour movie starring Mark Harmon based on the series of “Prey” novels by John Sandford. The announcement was made Thursday by Jeff Wachtel, president of USA original programming and co-head of original content at Universal Cable Productions. Michael Jaffe and Howard Braunstein of Jaffe-Braunstein [...]

Rocket scientist beats Jeopardy robot

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) – Turns out all it took to top Watson, the “Jeopardy”-winning computer, was a rocket scientist. U.S. Rep. Rush Holt of New Jersey is just such a scientist. The success of Holt — a five-time champion during the trivia show’s original run 35 years ago — topped the IBM computer Monday night [...]

30 Rock – The Women Who Hate Women or The Girl with the Lemon Tattoo

30 Rock. Jenna enters the writers’ room to tell all the “non-famouses” the good news that she’s hit the Internet, via the website JoanOfSnark.com. The writers look at Jenna’s write-up as Lemon explains that JoanOfSnark dishes on celebrity gossip and features listicles on things like which celebs have the worst beach bodies (Ruth Bader Ginsburg!). [...]

Sheen’s Two And A Half Men Rant

Sheen Rants At Lorre After Sitcom Shutdown Charlie Sheen has fired off an angry missive to Two And A Half Men writer Chuck Lorre after the hit sitcom was shut down for the rest of the season. Producers announced there will be no more Two and a Half Men this season after Sheen’s vicious rant [...]

More than 1.3 million see MKR

MORE than 1.3 million viewers tuned in to see the first team voted off the new series of My Kitchen Rules on Wednesday night. The episode was the most watched show of the evening, attracting 1.384 million viewers. Mother and daughter team, Kerry and Holly Zilko from Perth, were the first to be voted off [...]