E! Online is reporting that Jennifer Hudson is the first American Idol alum to take a judge’s seat. According to E! sources, Fox would like to bring Kelly Clarkson and either Clay Aiken or Adam Lambert back as judges too. They want to go back to a three-person panel, the number of judges Idol had more »

Jodi Arias’ murder trial was more over-the-top than the most improbable of Lifetime movies, yet all that really happened. It is now an actual Lifetime movie, Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret, airing June 22. Lifetime will air a two-hour documentary on the case after the movie. The channel is more concerned with striking while the more »

Virtually all entertainment news outlets have been in full on Arrested Development mode all week in anticipation of the debut of 15 new episodes on Netflix on Sunday, May 26 at 12:01 am Pacific Standard Time. Web sites have been filled with so many Arrested Development related interviews, listicles, aggregations of video clips from the original run of the more »

The inevitable has happened. Fox’s incredible winning streak has been broken and CBS is back on top in the adult 18-49 demo. You see what you get for canceling House M.D., Fox? And Terra Nova? And for renewing Glee way past its prime? And for picking up The Mindy Project? Having said all that, let’s more »

Even before it has aired, there are all sorts of reasons to be offended by Bravo’s upcoming reality series Princesses: Long Island. One politician has found one more. “JAP” is one of the few words in the English language that’s offensive to two different groups, for two completely different reasons- it’s an acronym for “Jewish more »

Quick show of hands, who here believed even for a second Steven Soderbergh was ever serious about retiring from the movie-making business or at least taking a longer than… six months hiatus? Oh, you are so naïve! The guy’s supposed “last” film, “Behind the Candelabra”, has only premiered at Cannes a couple of days ago, more »

Eager to watch the new Arrested Development episodes on Sunday, except… you never saw the old ones? You’ve got one last chance. IFC will air a marathon of the three original seasons of the series on Saturday, the day before the new installments go online on Netflix. The 26-and-a-half-hour marathon of the 53 episodes will more »

FX has high hopes for The Comedians, a pilot starring comedy vet Billy Crystal as an older star paired with a younger comic on a sketch show. The showrunners are a Hollywood dream team:  Seinfield and Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Larry Charles, Burn Notice creator Matt Nix and Ben Wexler of Community and Arrested Development fame. more »

In a move that may strike some as redundant, the good people of Hustler have made a porn version of the much argued about HBO series Girls. As Drew Grant of the New York Observer noticed an item in porn industry trade publication Xbiz.com announced that production of Hustler’s “This Ain’t Girls XXX” wrapped yesterday. Beginning with the title more »

It’s necessarily fair to compare a new show or movie to one that came before in a review. But since we are getting far more reboots, reimaginings and retreads these days, it’s inevitable to do so. Take for example, Spider-Man’s film trilogy starting over after just a decade. “Amazing Spider-Man” wasn’t a bad movie, but more »