dumped-related stories
Posted Apr 12th 2009 2:04PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Watercooler Talk, The Office, Reality-Free

I don't usually offer advice to television characters for a variety of reasons, number one being they (or the people who create them) don't listen to me, and number two being I don't want to be taken away by the authorities. However, I'm risking the latter and flying in the face of the former to serve up some counsel to Jim Halpert. Attention Jim: you are on the verge of being fired!
All the signs are there on
The Office. Jim has thrived in Dunder Mifflin under Michael Scott's leadership (such as it was), by doing just enough to satisfy corporate. He had a comfy niche in the Scranton branch. Well, the happy times are over.
The new boss, Charles Miner, does not like Jim.
Continue reading Watch out, Jim! You're about to be fired from Dunder Mifflin
Posted Oct 23rd 2008 5:23PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Casting, Reality-Free

Call it stunt casting gone bad...or a good idea on paper that failed to produce anything interesting on film. I'm speaking, of course, of La Diva Lohan's mini-arc on Ugly Betty as Kimmie, Betty's high school nemesis.
Lindsay Lohan's guest stint on Ugly Betty has come to an end. If you read some of the stories across the media today, things got very ugly indeed on the New York set. Whether it's true or not that LiLo was a walking disaster area, that she feuded with America Ferrara and irritated the crew, is all conjecture and rumor. The bottom line is that it's over.
E's Kristin Dos Santos confirmed today that all of Lindsay's remaining appearances -- four upcoming episodes, including tonight's -- will be shown. However, that's all there is and there will be no more.
Continue reading Lindsay Lohan's Ugly Betty stint cut short
Posted Mar 14th 2006 12:05PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: FOX, Talent, Industry

James Frey was going to have a TV show? Well, he was writing one
anyway, but Fox has decided not to go with Frey's show, which would have been about a surfing detective. Frey sold the
script to the network before
Oprah and the
rest of the world learned of the fabrications in his so-called memoir
A Million Little Pieces. Fox claims its
decision to pass on Frey's tale of a private dick named Donald "Insane" Tremaine had nothing to do with the
maelstrom surrounding Frey and his book. My guess is that the show just wouldn't have been very good.