The Coverage

Here's how the networks and cable will cover the Michael Jackson service, via TVNewser:

• ABC: Charlie Gibson will anchor live coverage "Remembering Michael Jackson" at 1pmET, joined by "Nightline" anchor Martin Bashir. Some updates: Diane Sawyer, in NY, and Barbara Walters, at the Staples Center, will co-anchor a special edition of "20/20" at 9pmET. Sawyer and Elizabeth Vargas will also co-anchor "Primetime: Family Secrets," a report on Michael Jackson's children at 10pmET. Cynthia McFadden will also anchor "Nightline" from the Staples Center.
• CBS: Maggie Rodriguez and Harry Smith will anchor the "Early Show" from the Staples Center tomorrow. Katie Couric will anchor special coverage of the memorial at 1pmET and the CBS "Evening News" from the Staples Center. Couric will also do "48 Hours" at 10pmET.
• NBC/MSNBC: NBC will televise the memorial service at 1pmET, anchored by Brian Williams. Chris Jansing will anchor MSNBC's live coverage. Meredith Vieira will broadcast live tomorrow at the Staples Center for "Today" and Williams will anchor "Nightly News" from LA Tuesday.
• CNN: Anderson Cooper, Larry King, Don Lemon and Soledad O'Brien will host coverage live from LA, with Campbell Brown and Roland Martin anchoring live from New York, starting at NoonET on CNN and simulcast on CNN International.
• HLN: Robin Meade, A.J. Hammer and Jane Velez-Mitchell will anchor live coverage for HLN.
• Fox: Shepard Smith will anchor live coverage of the memorial service on Fox News starting at 1pmET. Megyn Kelly will anchor live coverage of the memorial on FOX broadcast also beginning at 1pmET. Greta Van Susteren will also be in LA on Tuesday, and will host her show from there Tuesday night.

No word if the Home Shopping Network, the Disney Channel, QVC or Nickelodeon will be breaking from their regular broadcast schedules yet...

Basically it'll be the opposite of the Billy Mays coverage...

David Carradine : A Final Performance

Without excessive promotion or unnecessary postponement, Fox broadcast the scheduled episode of its medical drama “Mental” on Tuesday that featured one of the last screen performances of David Carradine.
more HERE

Shaming Marriage

Fox is developing a wedding reality series where brides-to-be don’t meet their husbands until they exchange vows.
In “I Married a Stranger,” a woman frustrated by the dating scene agrees to marry a man she’s never met. While she prepares for a blind wedding, friends and family are shown selecting a spouse from a pool of six eligible suitors offered by producers. The men are eliminated one by one until only two candidates remain. Both finalists walk down the aisle, but only one makes it to the altar to reveal himself to his new wife.
Fox has shot a pilot for "Stranger," which is said to be in strong contention for a series order. If Fox picks up the show, "Stranger" will have some conceptual competition: CBS has a similar series, "Arranged Marriage," planned for midseason.
more HERE

...it's funny...so many are up in arms about homosexuals and 'traditional marriage' ...but not one of those self imposed harbingers of upholding the sanctity of marriage are complaining about this...Marriage is apparently just a joke...so why the controversy?

Dollhouse Delights

With every assignment, special agent Echo (Eliza Dushku) gets a new identity — and a new wardrobe — customized for her mission. In March 27th's episode of Fox's 'Dollhouse', which took Echo to a college campus, Dushku worked the schoolgirl-chic look with over-the-knee socks by Free People. Her ivory ''snuggly pointelle'' thigh-highs can be found HERE

Related:
Eliza Dushku As A Dominatrix!

Kumar Goes to Washington

Popular television characters have been dying for years in stunning and unexpected ways, but few deaths have ever become the kind of instant communal experience that followed Monday night's suicide of Dr. Lawrence Kutner played by actor Kal Penn on Fox's "House."
more HERE
By the end of the show, viewers had been directed to an eerily authentic online memorial site which can be found HERE

You may be asking yourself...why? Well, as it turns out Penn, 31, will become associate director in the White House Office of Public Liaison, administration officials confirmed Tuesday. The Indian-American film star will be an emissary to the Asian-American and Pacific Islander communities, along with arts and entertainment groups.
More on that HERE

Sykes Out Late at Night

It looks like coming out of the closet during November's Prop. 8 protests hasn't hurt Wanda Sykes' career. The wickedly funny -- now out -- lesbian landed her own Fox show.
The hour-long talk show, modeled similarly to Bill Maher's HBO show, would air at 11 p.m. on Saturdays and fill the gap left by MadTV, which was recently canceled.
more HERE

Really BIG Love

Fox plans reality show for 'average-looking people' called 'More to Love' from the creators of 'The Bachelor'...
Producers are currently looking for a "Kevin James-type" who will date a handful of BBWs. The girls will also compete in various challenges.
The president of alternative programming at Fox, said, "For six years it's been skinny-minis and good-looking bachelors, and that's not what the dating world looks like. Why don't real women -- the women who watch these shows, for the most part -- have a chance to find love too?"
more HERE

Joanna Pacitti Kicked Off American Idol

Although 'American Idol' hopeful Joanna Pacitti was chosen to advance in Wednesday night's competition, FOX released a statement Thursday saying she is "ineligible to continue" and will be replaced with 26-year-old Felicia Barton, Entertainment Weekly reports.
For several weeks, Pacitti's eligibility came into question, after it was revealed that she had a former record deal with A&M Records and 19 Entertainment, which is the production company behind 'Idol.'
Although Barton was seen being booted on Wednesday night's competition, she's getting a second chance and replacing Pacitti. Fox's officials have not specified why Pacitti has been disqualified, but insiders say her previous music career has deemed her ineligible.

Bart Simpson Promotes Scientology

Everyone knows that Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson, is in with the Cruises and Travoltas. One year, she gave Scientology her entire year's salary: $10 million.
Nancy is robo-calling for Scientology using the voice of Bart. story is HERE

The creator and Fox need to fireup their lawyers so they can sue the fuck out of this crazy troll.

Not Only on Fox Television

Although Fox has not yet renewed the Sarah Connor Chronicles, the shows producers have been quietly hiring directors for the upcoming season.
The series will also begin to air on Sony's AXN in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Hong Kong.
more HERE

Fox v FCC

WASHINGTON D.C. -- The Fox Network refused to pay the federal government a $91,000 fine for indecent exposure during an episode of the defunct reality program "Married by America" in which possibly offending body parts were pixelated.
Hollywood Reporter article is HERE