Izzie Stevens has a death wish
It’s been too long since we’ve had decent “Grey’s Anatomy” backstage drama. (We need it to make up for the actual show’s lack of entertainment).
Apparently Katherine Heigl is getting tired of the show, and wants to leave so she can focus on her movie career. She allegedly asked producers to kill off her character, Izzie Stevens.
Sounds like a good idea — except “Grey’s” would probably just give us another terrible three-part episode that makes us wish we were the ones getting killed off. (That awful episode where Meredith drowned and ended up in limbo?) No one deserves to be put through that torture again.
A ‘Family Guy’ spin-off? Oh, this is the height of just too much-ery
And the TV news just keeps on coming!
According to The Hollywood Reporter, “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane is working on a spin-off centering around the Griffins’ sheep-haired (Stewie’s words, not mine) neighbor, Cleveland Brown. The show is tentatively/uncleverly titled “Cleveland.”
How is this even possible? Seth’s time is already divided between “Family Guy” and “American Dad” to the point where neither show is getting the attention they need. And now he’s going to add another show to his plate? Let’s hope all goes well, and “Cleveland” doesn’t end up in our next post about God-awful spin-offs.
‘According to Jim’ continues to live on borrowed (and unfunny) time
If rescuing “Scrubs” was ABC’s smartest move of the week, consider this one to be its most foolish.
It was announced earlier this week that “According to Jim” — you know, that show you already weren’t watching — might have somehow escaped cancellation yet again. I already hated “According to Jim,” but after sitting through the taping of an episode earlier this year, I can say with certainty: it is even less funny in person.
Every time a crappy sitcom gets picked up for another season, I just think about “Arrested Development” and I cry. There is no justice.
‘Scrubs’ might be scheduled for a network transplant
Just when “Scrubs” fans had fully prepared themselves for the end, it looks like the show may have at least one more season left.
The Hollywood Reporter writes that ABC is looking to pick up “Scrubs” from NBC for an additional 18 episodes. This makes sense considering the show is produced by ABC Studios, but apparently NBC isn’t too happy about the whole deal.
It’s actually pretty cool that it’ll be moving from one major network to another. When shows get mercy pick-ups like this, they usually get severely downgraded. “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” moved from ABC to The WB (obvious downgrade). And “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” moved from The WB to UPN (I didn’t even realize you could go lower than The WB, and yet they found a way).
Big Spoon EXCLUSIVE: At home with Phoebe Price
Ok, I’ve been promising this for a while and it’s finally here!
I sat down with international model and aspiring actress Phoebe Price at her home in L.A. last weekend, and I’m pretty sure we covered every base. She opened up about her thoughts on mean-spirited bloggers, her upcoming projects and her offer from Playboy. She also dispelled those nasty little rumors about her plastic surgery and her relationship with the paparazzi.
And as an added bonus, she let me check out her “cave!” Want to find out what that means? It’s all covered in our video below.
Enjoy!
(Oh, and Michael K and everyone at DListed will be happy to know: She does know it’s not “babe.”)
(Click here to check out more Big Spoon exclusive interviews)
The Big Spoon’s 5 worst TV spin-offs
You probably don’t realize it, but some of your favorite classic TV shows are actually spin-offs of other popular series. (Did you know “The Facts of Life” sprung from “Different Strokes,” or that “Family Matters” is actually a product of “Perfect Strangers?”) But not all spin-offs are popular… or good. In fact, for every good spin-off there’s probably about 5 others that the networks would rather you forget about. Here are 5 such spin-offs, each terrible in their own special way.
5. “The Bradys” (spun off from “The Brady Bunch”)
The original “Brady Bunch” series may never have technically been ‘funny,’ but at least it was light-hearted enough to become a family favorite. The same can’t be said for 1990’s CBS drama “The Bradys,” in which the whole bunch had to deal with real-world adult problems. And I’m not talking about typical problems like ‘trying to impress the boss.’ Here are just a few of the unbelievable hardships the Bradys had to endure:
- Marcia becomes an alcoholic and her husband loses his job.
- Jan learns she is unable to have children.
- Bobby gets in a race car accident and becomes a paraplegic.
Seriously? A paraplegic?! It’s no wonder this mess only lasted for six episodes. I’m almost surprised they didn’t write Robert Reed’s real-life battle with AIDS into the show.
German doggy shoes are so fetch
The city of Duesseldorf apparently has a serious problem with broken glass laying in the street. So serious in fact that their police dogs will soon be wearing little doggy shoes to keep their paws safe. The shoes come in a variety of sizes, but they all match the police uniforms.
Here’s what a police spokesman had to say about the new fashion statement:
Now we just have to teach the dogs how to tie their shoes.
Just imagine him saying that in a cartoonishly exaggerated German accent. … While he twirls his cartoonishly exaggerated mustache.
Geez… First they start saving polar bears and now this? Germany’s really working overtime to make up for the image blunder that was the 20th century.
Edit: Giving credit where credit is due, many of the thoughts on this post came from the brain of my camera-monkey, Jamie.
Oscars roundup: Renfro, ratings and crazy ol’ Gary Busey
I was originally thinking of liveblogging the 80th Annual Academy Awards… but I ended up having to go into work and help cover them for real. But from what I gathered, a bunch of people won a bunch of awards for movies I haven’t seen. Here are the only three things you really need to know about last night…
Tuning out: Roughly 32 million people watched the Oscars last night, but while that may sound like a lot, it’s actually 20% less than last year. Wait a second… you mean to tell me there were actually people out there who didn’t want to sit still for almost four hours watching a bunch of celebrities masturbating over their own achievements? Shocking!
No love for Renfro: Actor Brad Renfro, who died January 15 of a heroin and morphine overdose, was noticeably absent from this year’s memorial slideshow. The montage was supposed to include everyone in the industry who died between February 1, 2007 and January 31, 2008. Meanwhile Heath Ledger, who died two weeks after Renfro, made the cut and got a huge applause.
Attack of the 50-foot Busey: While most men on the red carpet were decked out in designer suits, Gary Busey apparently preferred a form-fitting suit of dimensia. Here’s a video of him going a little crazy around Ryan Seacrest, Jennifer Garner and whoever that other chick is.
Rosie O’Donnell and Fran Drescher… on the same screen?!
Rosie O’Donnell dropped a real bomb on her video blog Friday. She and Fran Drescher are in talks to do a “happy family” sitcom… together.
It isn’t technically official yet, but Rosie loves announcing projects on her blog (that eventually don’t end up happening).
Dear Rosie: There’s already a show on TV with a fat man and a woman with an obnoxious voice. It’s called “Family Guy.”
Wall Street Journal reveals possible ‘Toy Story 3′ plot
The article was too long — and I was far too lazy — to check the sources, but The Wall Street Journal has leaked a potential storyline for the upcoming threequel to “Toy Story 3.”
Woody the cowboy and his toy-box friends are dumped in a day-care center after their owner, Andy, leaves for college.
Honestly, I care very little about the actual plot. The important thing is that it’s going to be in 3-freakin-D! I’m in my mind, I’m already sitting in the audience completely spazzing out.
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