The Walking Dead beat Sunday Night Football's Colts versus Texans game last night (even though failing Texans quarterback Matt Schaub was benched!) 8.7 million viewers to 8.1 million. Which proves that the majority of America is still tuning in to see if this is the episode where someone finally just kills Carl.
In a speech delivered at Israel's Innovative TV conference, organized by Israeli mega-producers The Keshet Group, NBC's head-goatee Bob Greenblatt decided to shank his former NBC overlords, despite the fact that in his tenure at the trouble network, he hasn't delivered a single breakout new program.
Nick Offerman finds yet another way to reference sex; One Fine Day when she first came to Hollywood, Michelle Pfeiffer was in a cult; Anchorman 2 wants all your money; and Netflix just wants an oscar.
The Hollywood Reporter is currently under the impression that German chancellor Angela Merkel is named Andrea Merkel, despite Merkel's correct, Old Norse-deity given name being written in big letters on the Saturday Night Live video they embedded. I get this though, because if you're not repped by CAA or WME, do you even really exist?
Saturday Night Live, which has recently drawn much criticism from bloggers for its lack of diversity on its cast—namely, the dearth of black female comedians—has now come under fire from civil rights groups as well.
Looks like the Hannah-Marnie frenemies storyline really is art imitating life; Kerry Washington reminds us that being Olivia Pope isn't our aspirational dream, being Kerry Washington is; Connie Britton's hair is ready to play evil instead of good; and Time Warner Cable is even worse than it was before.
In the one-sided battle for agency superiority, Hollywood's best agencies made Halloween their bloody battleground yesterday. So whose Halloween-themed hallowed halls were the most frighteningly fantastic?
Vanity Fair has joined the Nikki Finke Watch with new-ish allegations: that investor Dan Loeb, who helped Deadline owner Jay Penske finance the purchase of Variety in 2012, was one of the driving forces who wanted Penske to muzzle Finke—particularly after she wrote two nasty missives about him this summer.
I've just been tipped off that 30 Rock producers Tina Fey and Robert Carlock have just received a straight-to-series episode order for a new comedy starring Ellie Kemper. The premise? Girls who've been abducted.
Batman may still be the hero that Gotham doesn't deserve, but his overlords at DC Comics will be packing up shop after 70 years in New York City, in search of honor, morality, and box office profits in Los Angeles.
It's hard being the child of a Hollywood dealmaker—on one hand you get to have all those cool celebrities pop in at your bat mitzvahs, but on the other, Ari Emanuel just made daddy get rid of his second assistant, so now who's going to make your scale model of the solar system for the Harvard-Westlake science fair? Luckily, the top talent agencies have all united in their quest to make the lives of poor little rich kids significantly more enriching, if only for this spookiest of days.
Aziz Ansari releases the second preview of his upcoming standup special and it's magical; The Flight of the Conchords isn't back, but Bret McKenzie is with a new animated show; Jonah Hill's jeans should win a best at supporting an actor's paunch Oscar; and Amy Poehler has really rubbed Rob Lowe the wrong way.
Guy Fieri brawls with his crying hairdresser and kicks him out of an SUV. What the fuck? Guy Fieri pays someone to make his hair look like that?
Weren't sure how to fill the Meerkat Manor shaped hole in your heart? Have no fear, Animal Planet will be brining Meet The Sloths to air this fall. It offers a rare peek into the sloth community, with "every charming second of their daily sloth soap opera...including sloth love triangles and young heartbreak."
Jerry Ferarra, rumored to be a major reason why the Entourage movie hit some very public snags and target of some serious Mark Wahlberg snark, is already chatting up with the press who he wants to stunt cast in the film. But the role he wants Kevin Durant to take on? Seems pretty similar to the roles a few pro basketball players just played in one of his last films, Think Like A Man.
Girls finds more ways to grate; Entourage is finally going to be turned into a movie; the latest Breaking Bad meme is hilarious; Jimmy Kimmel may have sparked an international incident.
Bummed that the giant inflatable Jabba the Hutt costume beat your Despicable Me minion at last weekend's Halloween party? Have no fear, your costume for Halloween night could really get tongues wagging, if you know what I mean: Kristen Schaal's sexy vagina.
