Just in time to cure those summertime rerun blues comes a new series from LOGO that should clear out the tv cobwebs.

Premiering TONIGHT!!! is SORDID LIVES: THE SERIES. Based on the hugely popular DEL SHORES play, this all-star show is about as outrageous as it gets:

Sordid Lives: The Series (created, written and directed by Del Shores) [...]

Over the past several decades, we’ve seen BARBIE take on roles from nurse to nanny, stewardess to stevedore but now comes word that America’s most iconic doll is going to be taking on some of America’s most iconic film roles.

Take a gander at this:

via BOING BOING

From our EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN Dept. comes this casting notice being posted today:

“Nickelodeon is casting a half-hour musical pilot.

Seeking—Male Singer/Actor: to play 16-29, any ethnicity, attractive, handsome, strong, charismatic, think Justin Timberlake at 16, must be able to sing and act, dance ability a plus, will play part of a foursome of friends [...]

 There’s probably no better way to get international face-time than to go on live tv and swear like a drunken sailor. Witness JOAN RIVERS who claims not to have known that the Brit chat show, LOOSE WOMEN, didn’t have a delay button when she went on to describe actor RUSSELL CROWE as a fornicating pound [...]

Are we the only people in the world unaware that MICHAEL BAY, SHIA LaBEOUF and ISABEL LUCAS are already hard at work and shooting scenes for TRANSFORMERS 2: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN?????

Latino Review is reporting that shooting is underway and picture caps are available on line.

Follow the leader after the jump…… 

Via Latino Review.com

Variety columnist, ANNE THOMPSON has sussed out why Warner Brothers’ SPEED RACER died such a quick death at the box office and layed it all out in a lengthy piece that makes a lot of sense.
While not quite an apologist for the film, she never comes out and calls it a steaming pile but actually [...]

A whole cult of pre-teen girls young women are anxiously looking forward to the 7/2 release of KIT KITTRIDGE: AN ALL-AMERICAN GIRL.Based on one of the dolls in the ridiculously popular ALL-AMERICAN GIRL series, KIT tells of a plucky young thing growing up during the Great Depression of the last century (not to be confused with the [...]

From a Sunday GAWKER POST:

The stress of playing one of the most legendary characters ever in one of the most hotly anticipated sequels ever didn’t contribute to Heath Ledger’s death in January, says the Dark Knight star. “Christian Bale has called rumours that Heath Ledger’s role as The Joker contributed to his death ‘ridiculous.’

As the [...]

Earlier this year, when producer/director/writer JUDD APATOW announced casting for his upcoming feature FUNNY PEOPLE, it sounded as though he’d struck the comedy mother lode with ADAM SANDLER, SETH ROGAN and LESLIE MANN.

Now comes the word that he’s added the considerable talents of ERIC BANA, JASON SCHWARTZMAN and JONAH HILL to the ensamble mix. For [...]

It’s just been reported that the WGA writers and writer-producers on Sony’s newly ordered TV animated series Sit Down, Shut Up! have walked off the show scheduled to air in primetime on Fox this fall. It’s a dispute over who has jurisdiction over the writing staff: the WGA or IATSE. The problem is that all the Fox [...]