February 2009 News Archive

Katie Cassidy has been cast on the new Melrose Place.

The actress, who is the daughter of singer David Cassidy, has been tapped as the first female resident in The CW remake. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cassidy will play the sexy and stylish Ella Flynn, an up-and-coming publicist.

She joins Michael Rady, who was cast as the character of Jonah Miller earlier this week.

Eliza Dushku has a message for fans and critics that have been hard on the first few installments of Dollhouse:

Be patient.

In a new interview, the actress hypes the show's sixth episode, while explaining the different between the first half of Dollhouse's first season and the second half:

On growing the series: Every show needs time to grow, and it’s really difficult to set up a show, especially one with such a complicated, complex premise, that’s so multi-dimensional. We wanted—and Fox also wanted - the first six episodes to be episodes people could pick up and understand what was going on even if they were late getting to the party, which I agree with. So the first six episodes are more self-contained.

On the second half of season one: Episodes six through 13 are just extraordinary. I love one, two, three, four, and five, but Joss’ first script that he did after the pilot is number six, which is called “Man On The Street,” and it is just unbelievable. From that point on, the world unfolds in Joss’ way, with Joss’ speed, and it’s really remarkable.

On tomorrow night's two-hour Brothers & Sisters event, Robert (Rob Lowe) and Kitty (Calista Flockhart) welcome their highly-anticipated baby.

But will this new life be accompanied by a sigificant death?

We'll have to tune in and find out - but here's a clip of Robert and Kitty from "Troubled Waters."

Anyone that has watched ABC this week has been inundated with ads for this Sunday's major Brothers & Sisters episode.

According to commercials, the Walkers will be shaken to their roots. Is the two-hour event being overhyped?

Not if you ask Calista Flockhart, who told Entertainment Tonight:

"For me it's a very beautiful storyline. There are lots of kids in the world who need homes and who need families, and there are lots of grown-ups in the world who want families and need kids."

It's not a major spoiler to reveal that Kitty and Robert's baby is born on Sunday, but the actress confirms it may not be smooth sailing:

"I think we can expect the relationship with my husband to change quite dramatically," she says. "For better or for worse, I'm not quite sure exactly which way it's going to go, but I think there will be conflict. Having a child sort of disrupts."

The episode titled "Troubled Waters" airs on Sunday night.

While most of the recent Big Bang Theory spoilers have been about Summer Glau and Dr. Smoot, we finally have some fresh Big Bang Theory scoop for you.

According to KorbiTV's latest column (which gave us a shout out!), the boys are about to get a new neighbor of the female gender.  The new young lady is supposed to be quite good looking and quickly captures the attention of our favorite nerds.

The manipulative beauty will quickly make Penny jealous, but lucky enough for our original attractive female neighbor, this new neighbor won't stick around very long.  Don't worry Penny, you'll always be our first choice.

The most significant question hanging over this season of Damages was answered on Wednesday's all-new episode.

Who has Ellen been addressing - and who does she supposedly end up shooting - in the apartment scenes viewers have received various, brief glimpses of as the season has progressed?

Read our detailed recap of "They Had to Tweeze That Out of My Kidney" to find out!

From American Idol finalists to Top Chef champions, it was a busy week across the reality TV landscape...

• Adam Lambert, Kris Allen and Allison Iraheta were named to the season eight finals on American Idol.

• Hosea Rosenberg was named the season five winner on Top Chef.

• VH1 really is airing a second season of Real Chance of Love. Don't pretend you won't be tuning in for it.

One major soap opera stars fears for the future of his industry. Today's summary of soap news leads with his worries...

• Why does All My Children's Walt Willey (pictured) think daytime dramas are in trouble?

• David Canary's character on All My Children, Adam Chandler, will go on a three-week hiatus in March.

• Rachel Melvin did not leave Days of Our Lives because she was unhappy about airtime. So there!

Thanks to Korbi at Zap2It, we've learned a couple of major spoilers regarding the next few episodes of The United States of Tara:

• Tara's therapist will abandon her before the season ends;
• Patton Oswalt, as the character of Neil, won't be dating Tara's sister for much longer. Viewers will be seeing Charmaine with another man within the next month or so.

Yes, Scrubs is sadly leaving the air on May 6.

But at least executive producer Bill Lawrence is taking his comedic genius to another sitcom.

Lawrence and his team will be the driving forces behind Cougar Town, which stars Courtney Cox and - as reported by Korbi Ghosh of Zap2It - former Dawson's Creek actress Busy Philipps.

According to Ghosh, Philipps will play Laurie, best friend to Cox's character of Julia.