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Variety has a few more details about the planned Beverly Hills 90210 spin-off. They have committed a sin by not including Brenda Walsh. They might bring back David Silver aka Brian Austin Green. I say this, because a character breakdown mentions two characters with the last name Silver. Producers also plan to add much more racial diversity than the original lily-white cast. And by "much more racial diversity" I mean two characters might not be white. They are so generous.

The spin-off revolves around The Mills family including their matriarch, Tabitha Mills. She's described as a 60-something actress/alchoholic who was a major star in the 1970. This is perfect for Gabrielle Carteris! She can finally play her age. Other characters include:

Harry Mills - A 1980s graduate of West Beverly High. He moves back to BH after years in St. Louis.
Celia - His Olympic athlete wife
Annie - Their 16-year-old daughter
Dixon - Their adopted son and resident bad boy (producers are open to casting a non-white ho)
Daphne Silver - A wannabe teen socialite
Max Silver - Her 24-year-old brother
Navid Shirazi - High School nerd
Ethan Ward - The likable jock
Naomi Bennett - His bitchy girlfriend

FUCK THIS SHIT! Scrap it all and remake Savannah instead. I miss Jamie Luner.

"Beverly Hills 90210" died a long ass time ago, but that isn't stopping The CW from exhuming its rotted corpse. Rob Thomas (not the Matchbox Twenty ho), creator of "Veronica Mars," is in talks to put together a spin-off of the 1990s Aaron Spelling show. The CW will decide by the end of the month if they will order a pilot. It's unclear what characters are coming back if any. This would be the second 90210 spin-off after "Melrose Place."

The only way I will get wet over this is if they bring back Brenda. I have felt empty inside ever since Kelly backstabbed Brenda. Brenda never got her true revenge against Kelly Taylor. Kelly must pay for this! I think I fucking cried when Dylan and Kelly told Brenda about their romantic summer together. What a fag!

Let's be real, all those motherfuckers would come back. They don't have careers and need the cash! They can change the name to 9021-OLD!

Here's this tearful moment that almost made me consider suicide. Brenda looks hot, but that bitch can't act worth shit! I think Lindsay Lohan went to the Brenda Walsh school of acting, because they are pretty much the same.

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Brit Brit Spears will follow-up her stomach-turning role as Amber-Louise on "Will & Grace" by appearing in an episode of "How I Met Your Mother." Pink is the New Blog first reported that Brit took part in a read-through this morning and a source said she was, "really funny." I think they meant she was really funny looking. Well, she is! She makes silly faces. Gosh. Most of her scenes are apparently with Josh Radnor and the role could become recurring.

TMZ reports it's just a small guest part and nothing lengthy. A source told them it's "a small legitimate project that will keep her busy doing something."

I will only approve of this if Dollhouse Dude plays her long lost daddy. He needs a National platform where he can show off his many talents.

CBS definitely lucked out with getting Brit. Not only are they getting an amazing actress who can do a variety of spot-on accents, but I'm sure they paid her in Frapps. You can't beat that.

She's totally going to lose it on set and bite off Neil Patrick Harris' head. Watch. It's going to take her a few bites, because his head is kind of long.

Last night was slut night on "Moment of Truth." Some chick that looked like Lindsay Lohan in 2 years was on and had to answer questions about being a slut. The woman's ex-boyfriend came out and asked her if she felt she should be married to him instead of her husband. She answered "yes" and the creepy robot voice (I think that robot voice is Katie Holmes) confirmed she was telling the truth. She was also asked if she had ever fucked another dude while married to her husband. She answered "yes" and the creepy robot voice again confirmed she was telling the truth.

This is the thing, I love a slut admitting she's a slut, but I'm also a skeptic. I have a hard time watching this show, because I have a hard time believing all of this is real. Homegirl is a bad actress. She's giving Lindsay Lohan a run for her Razzie Award. The husband also looked like any other gay actor plucked from central casting.

This is the other thing, the woman lost all her money when she answered the question "Do you think you are a good person?" incorrectly. I don't trust that lie detector shit! Producers could easily gather together and tell the creepy robot voice to say she's lying, so she doesn't win the money.

I know, I'm a total fun killer, but I just didn't believe that shit. I want to believe it. If my man told me he was cheating on me on National TV, that shit would have been like Jerry Springer. It would have gone from "Moment of Truth" to "Moment of Death."

The strike is soooooo close to being over. Good, because I need more "Dirty Sexy Money." WGA Presidents sent out an e-mail early this morning to members saying that a tentative deal has been reached with the AMPTP. The deal will be presented to members in meetings today in NYC and Los Angeles. Writers could go back to work by Monday!

The WGA President wrote, "It is an agreement that protects a future in which the Internet becomes the primary means of both content creation and delivery. It creates formulas for revenue-based residuals in new media, provides access to deals and financial data to help us evaluate and enforce those formulas, and establishes the principle that, ‘When they get paid, we get paid.’ “

Uh huh....smart people lingo. Just make everyone happy and give us more TV! I am so sick of watching "American Gladiators" and "The Biggest Loser Couples." I can't take it anymore. I need my scripted trash back!

Source: Variety

Billy Bush of Access Hollywood has gone after Mary Hart of Entertainment Tonight. Robot Entertainment TV host war! Billy is disgusted with ET for almost airing a 2-year-old video of Heath Ledger allegedly doing cocaine. Really shocking, because none of us have ever done cocaine before. Give me a break. ET has since announced they won't show the video out of respect for Heath's family. Here's what Billy wrote on Access Hollywood's site:

I don't often comment on our competition, but because we have so much of it in the "entertainment show" genre these days, we are often lumped in a group together. The fact is, we're very different, and that stems mostly from the difference in scruples of the respective Executive Producers.

”Entertainment Tonight” and “The Insider” ran a promo tonight for their Heath Ledger drug use video, which they "reportedly" (love that lawyer enforced word) bought for a couple hundred thousand dollars. A still frame of this video which shows Heath apparently doing cocaine ran on the east coast feed of “ET,” but on the west coast feed, the tasteless still shot was replaced with a shot of someone's feet (Heath’s, I guess). The voice over by Mary Hart had not changed, however. She still spoke of the incriminating scene and still promo'd the full video tomorrow.

Yes, the still shot was just a taste. Tomorrow is Day 1 of the sweeps ratings period.

Gross. Totally gross.

Billy goes on to post the statement ET issued saying they won't air the video. Billy goes on to say:

Heath Ledger's family has not even had the chance to bury their son. We know he had problems, but this kind of salacious opportunism is poisonous.

I struggle with every type of borderline exploitive material. I'm a constant pain to our Executive Producer as I worry too much that things go too far. Ask him.

I am shocked that Mary Hart would read this crap. I know her and she is a very nice lady, but its clear to me she's "checked out" of that place, basically taking whatever they put in her hand and reading it with the same excitable veneer you'd expect to hear at a 50's sock hop.

Mary gets paid a lot of money. She must have the clout to say 'no.' Their Executive producer used to run “Hard Copy.” She doesn't hit the brakes for anything. But Mary, you are the June Cleaver of entertainment news; this cannot be OK.

Let's see how long the outrage lasts.

Wow! Billy is so fucking catty. Who knew he had half a brain cell. I have to hand it to him. They probably put that statement on teleprompter and he read it to someone else who transcribed it on to the website. Those entertainment show people can only speak with the help of a teleprompter. It's Mary's turn to respond! The producers are putting her response on teleprompter right now for her to transcribe it to the webmaster.

Mary better watch her fake ass. You know who Billy is related to. He can't wait to send his army after her ass to confiscate her weapons of mass of destruction.

Thanks Judy

The FCC plan to slap ABC with a $1.4 million fine for showing bare ass on a NYPD Blue 5 years ago. The FCC said that the episode which first aired in 2003 "contains explicit and graphic depictions of sexual organs. The scene depicts multiple, close-range views of an adult woman’s naked buttocks. We find that the broadcast dwells on and repeats the sexual material. We have held that repetition and persistent focus on sexual or excretory material is a relevant factor in evaluating the potential offensiveness of broadcasts. Here, the scene revolves around the woman’s nudity and includes several shots of her naked buttocks. The material is thus dwelled upon and repeated." That turned me on, but I'm sure seeing the scene wouldn't have.

The FCC said, "Our action today should serve as a reminder to all broadcasters that Congress and American families continue to be concerned about protecting children from harmful material and that the FCC will enforce the laws of the land vigilantly."

ABC said that "the buttocks are not a sexual organ." They are fighting the allegations.

Oh ABC! My buttocks are definitely a sexual organ. Just ask them. They get more sex than I do. That being said, the FCC is stupid. Bare ass is not ok, but seeing sluts get blown up and shot at is ok?

Can the FCC also fine the Oxygen network for putting Tori Spelling's face on TV? Her face offends me much more than bare ass.

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It's no secret that NBC is planning to ruin one of my favorite TV shows of all-time, Kath & Kim. It was announced a while ago that Molly Shannon was going to play Kath, but I hoped that maybe things would fall through and it would never happen. I would wake up and it would be a distant memory. Unfortunately, this isn't happening. Selma Blair is in talks to play Kim. NO!!!!

Kath & Kim is a hilarious Australian comedy about the dysfunctional relationship between a mother (Kath) and daughter (Kim). The two actresses that play Kath & Kim are basically the same age. They also play other roles. You can catch it on the Sundance channel. This shit is genius.

I like Molly and I like Selma, but I don't like them fucking with Kath & Kim. Besides Selma has better things to do. Who the hell is going to play the "neurotic" supporting friend in romantic comedies? Selma is the only one that can do this, so she simply doesn't have time for TV.

I'm waiting for the American version of "Nighty Night." It's coming and it won't be pretty.

Source: Coming Soon

Even with all that Iggy drama last year, Ellen Degeneres managed to score the top spot as America's favorite TV star. The annual poll was released yesterday and Ellen managed to push Oprah off her pedestal. Oprah has been #1 on the Harris Poll for the past five years. Here's how the rest of the list looks and my thoughts:

1. Ellen Degeneres - NO! Iggy hates her and so do I!
2. Oprah - Who?
3. Jay Leno - Ok!
4. Hugh Laurie from House - Eh
5. Jon Stewart - Ok!
6. David Letterman - Ok!
7. Stephen Colbert - A-Ok!
8. Bill O'Reilly - BARF ALERT
9. Ray Romano - Who?
10. Homer Simpson - Yes!

Bill O'Fucking Reilly?! He's about as likable as puss-spewing anal growth. Martha Stewart is more likable than him. You know as long as there's no Rachael Ray on this list then I'm ok. Oprah however is not going to like this. It's war Ellen! Oprah war.

Source: Reuters