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2 July 2008 3:04 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Britney Spears' acclaimed stint on U.S. sitcom How I Met Your Mother hasn't earned her an Emmy nod - she and Mary-Kate Olsen's guest TV spots won't be among those competing for gold.

Both stars have been left off the top 10 list of Emmy semifinalists in the Best Guest Actress in a Comedy Series category.

Instead, Sarah Silverman is a favourite for her part as an obsessed stalker in Monk, alongside Oscar nominee Amy Ryan for her star turn in The Office.

Others on the list include Carrie Fisher and Edie Falco for 30 Rock, and Polly Bergen and Shirley Knight for Desperate Housewives guest spots.

The awards will be handed out on 6 September.

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1 July 2008 12:02 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Desperate Housewives star Teri Hatcher has been snubbed by the Emmy Awards - with three of her castmates competing for the Best Comedy Actress Award without her.

Marcia Cross, Felicity Huffman and Eva Longoria Parker have all been shortlisted for the prestigious prize at this year's TV awards - but Hatcher's name was noticeably missing from the semi-finalists.

Website GoldDerby.com reveals that the other actresses vying to take home the award include America Ferrera, Tina Fey, Christina Applegate, Mary-Louise Parker, Sarah Silverman, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Pushing Daisies star Anna Friel.

Also announced were the top ten stars who will compete in the Best Supporting Drama Actor category. Last year's winner Lost star Terry O'Quinn was missing from the list, which was led by his castmates Naveen Andrews and Michael Emerson.

Other actors to be shortlisted include William Shatner, Ted Danson and T.R. Knight. Also competing in the category are Christian Clemenson, Bruce Dern, Zeljko Ivanek, John Slattery, Blair Underwood and Jake Weber.

The awards will be handed out on 6 September.

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30 June 2008 4:51 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Nicollette Sheridan is set to return to hit TV show Desperate Housewives - after being written out of the show at the end of the fourth series.

The actress left at the end of the fourth season, filmed last year, but is set to reappear on Wisteria Lane in the forthcoming series after being asked to reprise her role as maneater Edie Britt in the series.

And it has been revealed that Sheridan's character, who is notoriously unlucky in love, will be getting a new romantic interest, to be played by new cast member Neal McDonough.

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28 June 2008 7:19 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Actress Teri Hatcher has raised $35,000 (GBP18,000) for children and adults affected by poverty in Kenya.

The Desperate Housewives star and daughter Emerson Rose,10, presented the donation during a two-week trip to Nairobi.

During the trip, Hatcher took her daughter to a boarding school.

And the star reveals the schoolchildren were so embarrassed to talk to her, they used her daughter as a go-between.

She says, "They loved my daughter. We talked about math. We joked. They would say, 'What subjects do you like in school? What's your hardest subject? What do you like? What do you do? What's your favourite thing to do?'

"We talked about sports. We talked about who likes science - stuff like that."

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26 June 2008 6:36 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Desperate Housewives and Heroes have been snubbed for Emmy Awards a year after making the top 10 finalists lists for Best Comedy and Drama.

Instead, Emmy first timer Family Guy and critics' favourite Mad Men will take their place.

Announcing the finalist lists for the upcoming TV awards a day early, website GoldDerby.com reveals Entourage, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Family Guy, Flight of The Conchords, The Office, Pushing Daisies, 30 Rock, Ugly Betty, Two and a Half Men and Weeds will compete for Best Comedy Series.

Boston Legal, Damages, Dexter, Friday Night Lights, Grey's Anatomy, House, Lost, Mad Men, The Tudors and The Wire have been named the top 10 Drama Series finalists.

The awards will be handed out on 6 September.

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26 June 2008 11:21 AM, PDT | From screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news

Actress Marcia Cross, who’s been playing Bree Van De Kamp on TV’s “Desperate Housewives” for the past four years, will appear in Michael Nickles’ upcoming indie comedy “Peck,” according to Variety.

Although we don’t have that many details about the plot, the film centers on a high school kid who’s struggling with his parents’ incredible strictness and develops an unlikely friendship with the school’s most popular girl.

Keir Gilchrist, Adam Arkin and Brie Larson co-star. Cross jumps into the role of the high schooler’s mother.

Nickles is directing a script by Marc Arneson. Filming is already under way and should wrap this or next week.

Playing a strict mother is nothing new for Marcia Cross, and I’m she can pull this off without major difficulties. Let’s just hope she doesn’t have to play yet another desperate housewife.  

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18 June 2008 9:06 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Eva Longoria Parker and Mario Lopez missed out on romance because they were never single at the same time - and the former Saved By The Bell star is bitter.

Newly single after splitting from his Dancing with the Stars partner Karina Smirnoff, Lopez reveals he has reluctantly had to settle for being friends with Desperate Housewives beauty Longoria Parker

And he confesses he's jealous of the actress' basketball star husband Tony Parker.

Lopez says, "We never dated. Unfortunately. We met a long time ago, and she was always with somebody or I was with somebody. But we hit it off and I have the utmost respect for her.

"Tony Parker is a lucky guy. I was in (sic) her wedding. I walked her mum down the aisle."

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13 June 2008 1:17 PM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

The winners of this year's Golden Nymph awards were announced last night at the 48th Monte Carlo Television Festival. Desperate Housewives won the international TV audience award - for shows which have notched up the most viewers worldwide - in the comedy category. With 61.5m viewers, the series beat other global hits Monk and Ugly Betty. CSI: Las Vegas, apparently seen by 83.9m in 2007, triumphed over CSI: Miami and Ugly Betty. Representing (more)

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13 June 2008 4:20 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Eva Longoria's stylist has rubbished claims that the actress is pregnant. Robert Verdi said recent photographs of the Desperate Housewives star wearing a maternity-style dress had given the media the wrong impression. He told People: "I'm not her gynecologist, but I am her stylist. I see her naked. I see her boobs! That's the first place it would show, and it's not showing!" He also dismissed claims that a saleswoman (more)

By Beth Hilton

12 June 2008 6:31 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Desperate Housewives star Marcia Cross is recovering from a car crash after her Lexus collided with another vehicle in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

Initial reports suggest no one was hurt in the accident, but the vehicle Cross hit was severely damaged. Both cars were removed from the scene by a tow truck. No police report was filed.

Further details about the accident were not available as WENN went to press.

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12 June 2008 10:36 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Susan Lyne, who became CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia shortly after she was fired as president of ABC Entertainment in 2004 -- and at about the same time that Stewart herself was heading for prison -- has resigned from Mslo. Lyne, who was ousted by ABC's owners, the Walt Disney Co. in 2004, just weeks before two shows that she had championed, Desperate Housewives and Lost, became huge hits, gave no reason for her decision to step down, saying in a statement only that when she took the job, her "principal goal was to rebuild the company and return it to profitability. We have done that." Nevertheless any such remedies have not been reflected in the company's stock, which reached a high of about $37 in early 2005 but are now worth about $7.50.

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12 June 2008 9:03 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Eva Longoria Parker's stylist has laughed off fresh rumours the Desperate Housewives actress is pregnant - insisting if she was with child, it would show in the size of her breasts.

The Latina beauty married French basketball star Tony Parker last July and the couple has been plagued by reports they are expecting ever since.

The latest rumours were sparked on Monday after Longoria Parker, who was wearing a loose-fitting dress, was snapped shopping in New York City's Ferragamo boutique - with store employees appearing to point at her belly.

But stylist Robert Verdi, who had accompanied the actress on her shopping trip, is adamant the star is not about to become a first-time mum.

He tells People.com, "I'm not her gynaecologist, but I am her stylist. I see her naked. I see her boobs! That's the first place it would show, and it's not showing!"

And he admits the photos are hilarious because it couldn't be further from the truth: "Eva was holding a handbag that she bought in the crook of her arm.

"The manager came over and said to her, 'I love that bag.' But in the photos, it looks like the woman is gesturing to her midsection. It's too funny."

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12 June 2008 4:45 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

Eva Longoria-Parker just can't stop the baby talk! The most recent game of bumpwatch began Monday, after the Desperate Housewives star was photographed shopping at N.Y.C.'s Ferragamo boutique wearing a loose-fitting sundress – while salespeople seemingly pointed to her belly. So is she ready to start a family with husband Tony Parker? The answer, it seems, is an emphatic no. "Eva is not pregnant," her stylist Robert Verdi told People during a viewing party for his new show, She's Got the Look. And Verdi insists he has first-hand knowledge. "I'm not her gynecologist, but I am her stylist,

Stephanie Rygorsky

11 June 2008 3:40 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

He's played a CIA agent on Alias and now fights crime as a mind-reading police officer on Heroes. But Greg Grunberg says he's not the star in the family. "Jake is my hero, he really is," Grunberg, 41, tells People about his 12-year-old son, who has epilepsy. "He doesn't let anything stop him, and to deal with everything with your head up high, that to me is a true hero." His son has been the inspiration behind his involvement in raising awareness about the neurological disorder, which includes raising funds for pediatric epilepsy research. As drummer for Band From TV, Grunberg

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7 June 2008 7:28 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Kate Beckinsale has laughed off reports of a rivalry with Eva Longoria Parker - insisting her fellow actress is too "tiny" to be her competition.

Beckinsale has spent a lot of time with Desperate Housewives star Longoria Parker since moving to Los Angeles, sparking speculation the pair befriended one another to further their acting careers.

But the Underworld star insists she doesn't regard the Texan beauty as a rival - because their dissimilar physiques prevent them from competing for film roles.

She says, "How could Eva and I be up for the same parts? She's tiny and I'm fascinated by little people.

"Having said that, I feel like a giant. I've always felt a clunky girl. I could ski home on my feet."

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29 May 2008 4:57 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Heroes actor Greg Grunberg has been inundated with offers of work from Ricky Gervais - but he is more interested in enrolling the British funnyman in his celebrity band.

Grunberg has joined House star Hugh Laurie and Desperate Housewives actor James Denton in forming the celeb-studded group Band From TV.

And Grunberg admits he is willing to make a guest appearance in Gervais' hit TV show Extras, if the comic will return the favour.

He says, "Ricky's always asking me to do stuff. But I want him in my celeb band."

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28 May 2008 5:11 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria Parker returned to the fast food diner where she worked as a teenager to raise funds for charity.

The actress took over the till and the delivery window at a Wendy's restaurant in Corpus Christi in Texas on Tuesday.

She last worked there in 1994.

Her waitressing stint was part of a fundraiser for the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption.

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23 May 2008 6:55 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Nielsen closed the books on the 2007-08 broadcast season Wednesday by releasing a list showing how each of the major networks' regular programs fared. Not surprisingly, the top of the list was dominated by the two weekly American Idol telecasts on Fox and the weekly Dancing With the Stars telecasts on ABC that aired on four different nights during the season. Four scripted shows also made it into the top ten: Abc's Desperate Housewives at No. 6; Fox's House at No. 8; Cbs's Csi: Crime Scene Investigation at No. 9; and Grey's Anatomy at Number 10. Overall, Fox wound up as the top-rated network for the season, thanks mostly to its American Idol numbers, which averaged 28.75 million on Tuesday nights (No. 1) and 27.78 million on Wednesdays (No. 2). CBS slipped to second place after holding the top spot for the previous five years. Fox was also the only network to improve its ratings this year compared with last year. "What catapulted them is probably that they were the least harmed from the writers strike,'' Brad Adgate, research director at Horizon Media told Bloomberg News. "They had a lot of unscripted shows that were not as impacted, like American Idol.

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21 May 2008 8:56 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

The penultimate results episode of Fox's American Idol last Wednesday attracted 24.9 million viewers, making it the top-rated show of the week. But although Tuesday's performance episode of Idol came in second for the week and the Fox drama House landed at No. 10, Cbs's overall line-up performed more consistently, averaging a 6.7 rating and an 11 share. ABC placed second with a 6.2/12, while Fox settled for third in the overall ratings with a 5.6/9. (Nevertheless, it was No. 1 with the 18-49-year-old demographic that advertisers court.) NBC, which placed only one show, Law & Order, in the top 25, was far behind with an average 3.6/6. The top ten shows of the week according to Nielsen Research:1. American Idol (Wednesday), Fox, 14.6/22; 2. American Idol (Tuesday), Fox, 14.4/23; 3. Dancing With the Stars (Monday), ABC, 11.9/18; 4. Csi: Crime Scene Investigation, CBS, 11.2/17; 5. Dancing With the Stars (Tuesday), ABC, 11.1/17; 6. Desperate Housewives, ABC, 10.7/17; 7. Grey's Anatomy, ABC, 10.5/16; 8. Without a Trace, CBS, 9.6/16; 9. Ncis, CBS, 9.5/15; 10. Csi: Miami, CBS, 9.1/15; 10. House, Fox, 9.1/13.

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21 May 2008 2:40 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Ex-Desperate Housewives star Jesse Metcalfe has been accused of causing "major damage" to a hotel room.

According to Page Six, Metcalfe ruined a complementary suite at the Ivy Hotel in San Diego following a party he hosted.

A source said: "There was major damage. His suite had cigarette burns in the furniture. There was food all over the walls and a broken door.

"All of the . . .

Simon Reynolds

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