September 27, 2002 |
AND THE WINNER IS...
Round four of the Friends/Survivor face-off got underway last night, and not surprisingly, America was there for NBC's Emmy-winning sitcom. According to preliminary Nielsen data, the ninth (and supposedly final) season premiere of Friends easily beat the debut of Survivor: Thailand (21.7 rating vs. 12.5 rating). In case you were watching the WB's Family Affair — hee hee — here's what you missed: On Friends, Rachel ultimately decided that it was Ross, not Joey, that she wanted to be with. Unfortunately, Ross — miffed that Rachel accepted Joey's faux proposal — was having none of Ms Pitt. And on Survivor, Tanya Vance, the 27-year-old social worker from Kingsport, Tenn., was the latest contestant ousted. But don't feel too sorry for her: On today's Early Show, Vance — who was battling a bad case of dehydration when she got the boot — confessed that she would have voted herself out if the rules permitted her to do so. |
IN RELATED NEWS...
Freddie Prinze Jr. will guest star on Friends later this fall playing a nanny that Ross and Rachel hire, Access Hollywood reports. |
CONSIDER YOURSELF WARNED
And you thought the stars on celebrity Fear Factor were D-list. For its upcoming reality series The Surreal Life — described as MTV's Real World but with a cast of has-beens — the WB has lined up rapper M.C. Hammer, Webster's Emmanuel Lewis, The Facts of Life's Mindy Cohn and former Baywatch babe Brande Roderick. What, no Ralph Macchio? All the excitement gets underway early next year. Meanwhile, Fox is doing a third edition of Celebrity Boxing in November. Casting execs are currently scraping the bottom of the barrel for participants. |
YOKO WINS!
Yoko Ono scored a major legal victory on Thursday against a former personal assistant who wrote a tell-all book about her late husband John Lennon. U.S. District Judge Leonard Sand ruled that Frederic Seaman was bound by a confidentiality agreement that he signed in 1979. Ono is demanding Seaman pay unspecified damages and surrender the rights to 374 photos he took of the Lennon family. |
THAT'S HOLLYWOOD FOR YOU
Freddy Got Fingered producer Lauren Lloyd is developing a sequel to Easy Rider, the 1969 classic that starred Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson. According to Variety, the follow-up begins with Captain America (Fonda) falsely imprisoned for murder of George Hanson (Nicholson). A new character sets out to prove him innocent. There's no word if the trio plan to reprise their roles. |
SHORT CUTS
TNT has tapped Charles Barkley to host his own half-hour talk show. Listen Up! Charles Barkley with Ernie Johnson debuts Oct. 31 live at 7 pm/ET... Queen Latifah has signed a deal with CBS to develop and star in the hour-long police drama Mali Anderson, a project based on Grace F. Edwards' Mali Anderson Mystery book series. |
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"I have not had a personality change. I don't think anything I've done recently is inconsistent with what I've done my whole life." — Former talk show host Rosie O'Donnell defending her recent behavior in the new issue of People. |
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