Posts with tag QueenLatifah
Posted Aug 14th 2008 2:19PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Celebrities, Talk Show, Reality-Free
Queen Latifah couldn't make it work. Megan Mullally struck out, too. In fact, if you think about it, more stars fail in their attempts to become talk show hosts than succeed. For every Ellen DeGeneres and Tyra Banks, there's a Caroline Rhea and Magic Johnson.
So, will sitcom star Leah Remini go from the
King of Queens to the queen of daytime talk? CBS -- home of
King of Queens for a very successful run from 1998-2007 -- is developing
a daytime show for Leah Remini that's being called something different than a typical talk show.
If you tune in to
The Rachael Ray Show today, you might get an idea of what Leah could bring to daytime -- she's Rach's guest.
Continue reading Can she talk? Leah Remini in talks for a talk show
Posted Dec 21st 2007 9:23AM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Industry, Celebrities, Awards, WGA Strike
In a somewhat unprecedented move, Reuters details a shift in format for the People's Choice Awards. The January 8th broadcast was to be the typical awards show fare, people make bad jokes, struggle to read teleprompters with bad jokes written on them, accept awards by making bad jokes all interspersed with snippets of bad jokes from a host.
This year, in response to the ongoing writers strike, Queen Latifah will be "hosting" a magazine-style show (think Entertainment Tonight). She will introduce pre-recorded segments and clips from nominees to be followed by pre-recorded "I'd like to thank my mom"s from the winners. With waivers being denied to awards shows and celebrities admitting reluctance to attend awards show in the wake of the strike, this move makes sense though I'm not sure it will make for good television. I think the excitement of seeing celebrities live and interacting is the appeal of an awards show and this will just feel like a long episode of one of those celebrity newsmagazine shows like ET.
Posted Jul 19th 2007 5:55PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Late Night, TV Royalty, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show
Charlie Rose: Zeng Peiyan- The Daily Show: Adam Sandler
- The Colbert Report: Michael Moore
- The Late Show With David Letterman: Kevin James and White Rabbit
- Jay Leno: Don Cheadle, Miley Cyrus, and Puddle of Mudd
- Jimmy Kimmel Live: Sean Hayes, Chris Hansen, and Kalai
- Tavis Smiley: Mel Jones and James Gibson (repeat)
- Late Night With Conan O'Brien: Queen Latifah, Matt Groening, and Fountains of Wayne
- The Late, Late Show With Craig Ferguson: Rosie Perez, David Milch, and Patti Smith (repeat)
- Last Call With Carson Daly: Floyd Landis and The Bravery
Posted Mar 5th 2007 7:55AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, FOX, Family Guy, Animation
(S05E12) Looking back on this one, as an admitted Stewie fan, I'm surprised that I liked it as much as I did. For the most part, my favorite
Family Guy episodes are those where Stewie gets his own feature plot. He was relegated to Meg or Chris background status here, but the episode was still one of the best of the season.
Chalk a lot of that up to giving Quagmire a chance to shine. He's a great character, so it's nice to get to see him used a little more on occasion. If the experiment with Stewie and Brian's talk show,
Up Late, goes well, I wouldn't mind seeing Quagmire get his own show. Maybe something along the lines of
Midnight Q from "PTV." He did have the line of the night with his "...contents of your panties may have shifted..." bit after missing the flight.
Continue reading Family Guy: Airport '07
Posted Jan 13th 2007 11:03AM by Kevin Kelly
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, HBO, Premium Cable, TCA Press Tour
(As a brief aside to those of you who have been reading these all day - TCA is the Television Critics Association, a twice yearly event that brings TV critics together with networks, show creators, and actors to find out all about upcoming shows, films, specials, and what have you. I'm a newbie to it all as well, so now you know. And knowing is half the battle.)Life Support is somewhat based on a true story about a woman who contracts AIDS from her intravenous drug-using husband, and becomes an angry voice an activist in her community. She hands out condoms, doesn't pull punches, and is modeled after the sister of director Nelson George, who was even more outspoken than Queen Latifah, if you can believe it.
Continue reading HBO's Life Support (or Queen Latifah for Prez) - TCA Report
Posted May 25th 2006 5:59PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, HBO, Celebrities
Queen Latifah has signed on to play an AIDS activist and former crack addict in an upcoming HBO made-for-TV movie called
Life Support. The movie, based on the life and family of writer Nelson George's sister, will focus on the AIDS and HIV crisis within the black community. Nelson George, who worked as a producer on
The Chris Rock Show, penned the script and will also direct. Latifah, along with Jamie Foxx, will also serve as a producer on the film.
Posted Mar 30th 2006 9:19AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Cable, Late Night, OpEd, The Daily Show
Jack Abramoff has been sentenced to six years of prison...
That means instead of his black fedora and trench coat, he'll have to don an orange fedora and trench coat.
"Indecision 5766": Israel held their elections but, unfortunately, experienced their lowest
voter
turn-out ever... 63.2%. What?! "We shouldn't be bringing democracy to the Middle East... they should be
bringing it to
us!"
Continue reading The Daily Show: March 29, 2006
Giveaways reminder: Office, Eli Stone, Supernatural, South Park
Giveaway Thursday: Tickets to the New York Television Festival ... all of it!
I miss the media-friendly John McCain - VIDEOS
