While You Were Sleeping: Slamming The Gates Of The Playboy Mansion

Brian Fairbanks — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:42:00 GMT

Maybe it's because of our sleep deprivation, but for some reason, this story is hilarious: a gay pirate radio station is disrupting Hong Kong's air traffic control.

Thanks a lot, Alec: the greatest Baldwin is writing in roles for the lesser-known Baldwins in his new movie about the family.

Believe it or not, video games, even Grand Theft Auto, save lives:

Karen Norris, of Streator, will say no such thing. Not after her quick-witted 11-year-old daughter, Audrey Plique, sprung to the rescue of their family because a popular video game showed a potential danger of a vehicle rollover.
"She just knew, from playing 'Grand Theft Auto.' She saw on there that when a car rolls over, it can blow up. She knew that could happen to us," Norris said.

Take that, Tipper Gore.

The man accused of ramming the Playboy mansion gates says he's innocent. Dude, the correct plea is "can ya blame me?"

It was already hard enough to tell these two guys apart without them both being on My Name Is Earl.

"Nicholas Cage encouraged to take acting overseas"-- please, and take Ghost Rider with you.

Hey, at least Tom Cruise thinks Tom Cruise is funny.

And the world's annoying political saga has come to an end: the Mayor of Detroit finally admits that he knew all along he had no chance in hell of surviving his recent scandals and has pleaded guilty. Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick who, as the McCain would love to pointlessly point out, is an Obama supporter, has now given up his office, and will proceed directly to jail. Eventually.

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TV Gets Back to What It Does Best: Canceling Shows

Bryan Christian — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:06:00 GMT

Now that the Writer's Strike is over, it's time to figure out what shows are coming back and when. We got a couple of links to pages here and here with hints, and heard something on NPR yesterday, and while we haven't done a case-by-case comparison, we'll summarize what we know:

-- Lots of shows -- particularly sitcoms -- are going back into production now, and will be burning off already shot episodes or shooting a handful more to be shown through May or beyond. Big names include: 30 Rock, Battlestar Galactica, The Office, My Name is Earl, Lost, and a few other shows you probably first saw on iTunes.

-- Gossip Girl -- which all of us Scanner bloggers just realized means nothing to us but has a fairly dedicated following, we hear -- will return with new episodes aired through the summer, so just like we did with 90210 and The OC, expect us to "get way more into it than we thought" around June.

-- No 24 and no more Heroes, Life, Pushing Daisies, Dirty Sexy Money, Moonlight, Private Practice or Chuck for the year; they will likely all be relaunched or continued next fall.

-- Cancelled or iffy: Bionic Woman, Cane, Life is Wild (which, like... huh?), Friday Night Lights, Prison Break, One Tree Hill, Reaper, Back to You, and ER, which we imagine NBC has been looking for an excuse like this to unload since Noah Wyle left.

-- Producer Bill Lawrence is negotiating for time to wrap up Scrubs. Bill: let it go.

Scanner : my name is earl

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