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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Jennifer Lopez and “American Idol” producers played a cat-and- mouse game on Friday over the singer’s future on the TV talent show that revived her career and sent her to the top of a global celebrity power list. “American Idol” producer Nigel Lythgoe said on Friday that Lopez must decide whether to sign up as a judge for a third year or go off in a new direction. …
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – TV show “The Vampire Diaries” earned a leading six nominations for the annual Teen Choice awards on Friday, with Justin Bieber and talent show “American Idol” coming a close second with five nods apiece. “Vampire Diaries, which airs on the CW network, pushed aside blockbuster movies like “The Avengers” and “The Hunger Games” to gain the most nominations in an awards show that ranges from film to music, fashion and favorites celebrities. …
NEW YORK (Reuters) – He brought the “American Idol” judges to their feet, but Joshua Ledet couldn’t win over fans and was sent home from the top-rated TV talent show on Thursday, leaving Jessica Sanchez and Phillip Phillips to battle for the crown on next week’s finale. The elimination of Ledet – through audience voting and not by the judges – sets up a final showdown between Sanchez and Phillips to determine who will be named the next “American Idol,” a distinction that has belonged to hitmakers such as Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood, among others. …
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – USA Network announced its slate of upcoming projects Thursday, including a comedy project from Kelsey Grammer and a drama from Dick Wolf that the network is developing. Grammer, who’s currently starring in the Starz drama series “Boss,” will executive-produce “The DiCicco Brothers,” about a dot-com entrepreneur whose brash style clashes with the politically correct environment of Silicon Valley. The story comes from Chirs Cannistraci and Ed Cannistraci, while the latter wrote the teleplay. …
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – MTV has canceled its romantic dramedy series “I Just Want My Pants Back” after one season. “We’re proud to have aired ‘I Just Want My Pants Back,’ with its impressive creative pedigree and talented group of actors,” MTV said in a statement. “Many factors go in to determining renewals, however, and ultimately, we decided not to move forward with an additional season of ‘Pants. …
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – No one’s what they seem to be on “Breaking Bad” – well, except maybe for the often hapless Jesse – and the show’s adding another mysterious character to the mix with “Friday Night Lights” alum Jesse Plemons. The man who played beloved “FNL”-er Landry Clarke will join the fifth and final season of AMC’s “Breaking Bad” as a guy named Todd, a network rep confirms to TheWrap. Todd is a nice gu… or so he appears, reports TVLine.com
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Time was when TV talent shows set out to turn wannabes into stars. These days? Not so much. It’s the celebrity judges who are raking in the cash and using TV contests not only as a way to re-launch a fading career, but to further boost a thriving one. For music stars in an era of weak record sales, the trend spells victory for their bank account, but for fans and the music industry always hungering for a new star, it’s a loss.
(Contains profanity in Paragraph 5) LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Judd Apatow, the modern master of human-scale comedy, sat down with TheWrap to review the Universal Studios archive in honor of the studio’s 100-year anniversary this year. The writer-director of “Knocked Up,” producer of “Bridesmaids” and director of the upcoming “This is 40″ was imprinted early and often by the comedies produced by the Universal machine, from Abbott and Costello to John Hughes’ “Sixteen Candles. …
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