Nota Bene for Wednesday, March 28
The Latest, Greatest Entertainment News Bullets
Contrary to Monday’s Nota Bene bullet stating that ABC’s Men in Trees would return on April 12, two weeks earlier than previously announced, the original source is now reporting that ABC is singing an entirely different song. It looks like MIT fans will have to wait longer to get their fix while ABC airs back-to-back episodes of its long-delayed half-hour sitcom Notes From the Underbelly in the post-Grey’s Anatomy time slot instead. Oh well, the news was nice while it lasted.
Apparently I wasn’t the only one who thought ABC’s new reality series The Great American Dream Vote, which features an aging Donny Osmond as host, sucked mightily. It debuted Tuesday night in the coveted post-Dancing With the Stars time slot, and still managed to scare away more and more viewers as its boring competition continued. Thank you, TV gods, for this almost certainly guarantees that The Great American Dream Vote will live a mercifully short and uneventful life. The biggest winner in the Tuesday-night, primetime ratings game was American Idol-fueled Fox, of course.
Fox has two goodies in store for reality TV fans. First, Chef Gordon Ramsay’s invective-filled Hell’s Kitchen is coming back on June 4 for its third season. Second, the show will follow a new reality series about the art of filmmaking called On the Lot.
Daniel Craig’s flavor of James Bond helped lead the latest film in the spy franchise to a resounding victory at the Empire Awards. Craig received the honor for Best Actor and Casino Royale scored for Best Film.
In more United Kingdom-related news, publishers revealed the cover artwork for the forthcoming seventh and final volume in the Harry Potter saga. Let me be the first to remark that it’s very, very colorful.
According to series star Naveen Andrews in a recent interview, Lost fans may have to wait months longer for the fourth season to get underway. Andrews indicates that ABC execs are considering a January, winter start date for the series, instead of a conventional September or October fall premiere. The upside to the delayed debut is that all of the episodes would air consecutively with no momentum-draining breaks.
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip fans, take note: One report encourages you to keep the faith about the show’s fate since Aaron Sorkin’s NBC drama possibly (notice the hypothetical wording, please) isn’t dead and buried as of yet.
The projected Grey’s Anatomy spinoff starring the ex-Mrs. McDreamy (neonatal surgeon and OB-GYN Addison, played by Kate Walsh) has a working title, namely the boring but alliterative Private Practice.
If you were one of the weird people who wanted a strand of the late Marlon Brando’s hair (Ew!), you can just forget about it. The auction sponsored by Dallas’ Heritage Auction Galleries was recently snipped at the roots following questions about the hair’s authenticity.
And to close on a lascivious and puerile high point (somebody said both of those words in Tuesday’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and I vowed I would work them in wherever I could—looks like I got a twofer), Entertainment Wikia has put together a list of the Top 10 Child Actresses from 80s TV Shows Who Grew Up To Be Hotties. Check it out and then wash your eyes with soap for ruining those innocent images you used to have of the younger TV cutie pies.
Men in Trees photo courtesy of ABC
