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Kung Fu Panda Coming to the Small Screen and Leno Preps to Say Good Bye

Go Po! “Kung Fu Panda” fans (and their parents) have reason to celebrate today. Nickelodeon is adding the high-flying, black-and-white bear to its afternoon line-up. The kids’ cable channel just announced that it plans to premiere “Kung Fu Panda: The Series” later this year. The show will be based on Po, the frisky martial arts panda, who starred in the hit 2008 animated film, “Kung Fu Panda.” Nickelodeon execs say the series’ 26 episodes will be animated in the same computer-generated process as the big-screen version. The decision to offer Po his own show was made following the success of … Continue reading →

Don’t Say ‘Goodbye’ to Jay Leno Just Yet

Jay Leno is slated to leave “The Tonight Show” next May after seventeen years. Conan O’Brien, who has been putting his time in at the late slot for fifteen years, will take over as the host of the show. But, Leno won’t be moving very far. NBC announced today that Leno will take over the 10 p.m. weeknight slot next fall, leaving him just the summer to relax before returning to work. Rumors had been circulating for a while that NBC didn’t want to lose Leno and the possibility of him hosting another show for NBC seemed like a good … Continue reading →

Jay Leno to Lose Rare Car?

If you know anything about late night host Jay Leno, you know he loves to collect cars. He purchased a rare 1931 Duesenberg roadster formerly owned by Macy’s heir John W. Straus – or so he thought. (This image is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License.) Today, a lawsuit was filed by Straus’ daughter Wendy Lubin saying that Leno was illegally sold the car in a sham auction that was held while Straus, who died in May of 2008, was suffering from dementia. The car, along with a 1930 Rolls Royce, was stored in a Manhattan garage. Straus had … Continue reading →

Jay Leno–The End of an Era

Mark your calendars for Friday, May 29, 2009. According to NBC, that will be the last time you will see Jay Leno host the “Tonight” show on the peacock network. Conan O’Brien will take over hosting duties the following Monday, June 1 – and what happens to late-night Leno is anybody’s guess. And so begins a war of words (of sorts) between NBC and Leno’s camp. According to insiders, NBC is angling to keep Leno with NBC Universal but the late-night king has shown signs he’s ready to jump ship to rival ABC or other networks. In the last few … Continue reading →

Star Updates: Brokeback the Musical and Leno Rescues McMahon

BROKEBACK THE MUSICAL Hey, if they can do it for “Little House on the Prairie” then why not “Brokeback Mountain?” The love story portrayed on the big screen will soon be revived and sung in one of the nation’s largest theaters thanks to the New York City Opera. The group just commissioned Charles Wuorinen to compose the music for the opera, which will be based on the Academy Award-winning film. Much like the popular movie, which starred Jake Gyllenhaal and the late Heath Ledger, the opera will follow the 20-year love affair of two cowboys who share a secret romance … Continue reading →

Leno on Kimmel, Kimmel on Leno

Ingenious move or simple desperation? I’m thinking it was a bit of both that encouraged producers at Jay Leno and Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk shows to have each comedian appear on the other’s show this week. It’s a one night swap that will make history and at the very least solve the problem of filling time on shows that have been hit hard by the ongoing Hollywood writers strike. Set your TiVos for Thursday night, that’s when the madness is scheduled to occur. According to show producers, Kimmel will travel to Leno’s studio in Burbank, California, and Leno will return … Continue reading →

Kimmel, Stewart and Colbert Returning with New Shows

Jimmy Kimmel, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert will join NBC’s late-night hosts in returning with new shows next month. ABC made the announcement regarding Kimmel’s show, which was later followed by a statement from the comedian who added that it was a difficult decision to resume work without writers, but he planned to do so to save the jobs of other staffers on the show. “Though it makes me sick to do so without my writers, there are more than a hundred people whose financial well-being depends on our show. It is time to go back to work,” Kimmel said … Continue reading →

Leno and O’Brien Returning to Late-Night TV

Fans of Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien will get to start 2008 with fresh laughs from their favorite late-night comedians after all. Executives at NBC just announced that both the “Tonight” show and “Late Night” will return to TV with new episodes beginning January 2nd, almost exactly two months to the day after the Hollywood writers strike sent them into repeats. According to NBC bigwigs, both late-night talk shows will not include jokes supplied by writers. They didn’t elaborate on who will be writing material, but you’d think that the life-long comedian/hosts could help come up with a few minutes … Continue reading →

Ed McMahon and “Screech” Find Ways to Make Money

Cancel the telethon… Ed McMahon got a job. Johnny Carson’s longtime “Tonight Show” sidekick, who recently made headlines when he went public about his financial woes, is off the unemployment line. The 85-year-old is heading back to the airwaves as a pitchman for Pontiac cars. McMahon reportedly shot a series of comical commercials for the car manufacturer, which will start airing Monday on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live.” “It felt very good to be out of the brace and working again,” McMahon, told reporters today, referring to the brace he has been forced to wear following a third neck operation. “I … Continue reading →

Splitting and Quitting in Hollywood

SPLITTING Don’t look at Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, the handsome duo say they aren’t responsible for the split between Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman. The late-night TV host and his funny gal ladylove of five years just confirmed that they are no longer a couple much to the chagrin of a few magazine publishers who had pegged the two as one of the most solid couples in Hollywood. Insiders say the parting of ways comes on the heels of 39-year-old Kimmel’s admission that he would like to be a father “some day soon.” Silverman, 37, has long joked that … Continue reading →