Lady Gaga is taking her act to HBO. The quirky costume-lovin’ pop star, who scooped three prizes for her Fame Monster disc at Sunday’s 2011 Grammy Awards, has teamed up with the cable network in a deal that will see the station televise her upcoming homecoming concerts in New York. The “Love Game” star’s Monster [...] More
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Halle “One Drop” Berry’s ready for her closeup — on The Simpsons. The Academy Award-winning actress will portray herself on the show’s annual Pre-Oscars Special, airing Feb. 20, producers said Wednesday. An animated Halle will present an Oscar to Bart Simpson for a short film he makes about his father Homer, dubbed Angry Dad. To [...] More
Glee’s Super Bowl Sunday Special is on course to be a “Thriller” of a show, with the Gleeks set to cover Michael Jackson’s iconic smash and Katy Perry’s Grammy-nominated hit single “California Gurls.” Wet your whistle with this video of The Cheerios performing their opening dance number on this weekend’s big show! More
When Gautam Gambhir was dropped from the 2007 World Cup squad, he was so disappointed that he almost quit cricket. As he makes his World Cup debut at home, one of the world’s most exciting opening batsmen says he would like to do something “special” for the home crowd, “like my unbeaten 150 against Sri [...] More
QUENTIN TARANTINO will be the guest of honour at the Cesar Awards in France next month (Feb11) when he will be honoured for his career … More
Review in a Hurry: Veteran TV producer John Wells filters the economic disaster through the eyes of the laid-off, but not even Ben Affleck and Tommy Lee Jones can save this uneven…
Country supergroup Rascal Flatts are getting their own ABC special. The band will tape a live music special from the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota this Friday that will air as in the form of an ABC concert special — titled Rascal Flatts: Nothing Like This Presented by JCPenney — on March 12, [...] More
The executors of Michael Jackson’s estate are expressing outrage over an “insensitive” television special “in shockingly bad taste” that plans to … More
HBO will air a special presentation of comedian Paul Reubens’ Pee-Wee Herman Broadway stageplay next year. The Emmy-winning cable network will tape a performance of Reubens’ production next month for broadcast later this winter, Deadline Hollywood scooped this week. Reubens played Pee-Wee on the Saturday Morning smash Pee-Wee’s Playhouse and in two movies — Pee-Wee’s [...] More
Doing anything New Year’s Eve? ….Neither is Kathy Griffin. The off-color fat jibe the Emmy-winning comedienne made about teen abstinence advocate Bristol Palin at VH1′s Divas Special last weekend has left Kathy with more than just a red face and resounding boos from US troops: She’s out of a job. Griffin’s reportedly out of contention [...] More