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Top Chef Producers to Create NBC Restaurateur Show
From Magical Elves, the producers of Bravo's Top Chef, Top Chef Masters, and the soon-to-air Top Chef: Just Desserts, comes yet another reality TV show, tentatively titled United Plates of America.
Unlike its sister productions, United Plates will air on NBC. The premise: aspiring restaurateurs compete in a number of challenges involving the restaurant's concept, cuisine, management, and marketability.
What to TiVo: Saturday
- ABC has College Football
- CBS has a repeat of The Mentalist and is new with 48 Hours Mystery
- FOX is new with Cops and America's Most Wanted
- NBC has repeats of Mercy, Law & Order, and Law & Order: SVU
- Bravo has Brokeback Mountain
- E! has The Wedding Singer
- MTV has repeats of South Park, Real World/Road Rules Challenge, Twilight: Love Bites, and MTV News: New Moon Revealed
- USA has Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
- VH1 has Trading Places
- Late-night highlights include Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Dave Matthews Band on Saturday Night Live on NBC
No News Is Good News: Companies Going Broke
Announcements from major media companies yesterday made it clear that the recession has hit those who report on it. Meanwhile, the Pulitzer Prizes announced plans to accept submissions from web-only news outlets, providing a redundant wake-up call to traditional news companies failing to get by. Here's a roundup of traditional media's most recent struggles:
- New York Times: Like many Americans, the New York Times Company will borrow against its house to keep the cash flowing.
NBC's Chopping Block Gets Axed
Only three weeks into the show, and NBC has chopped Chopping Block, its new food reality TV competition starring UK bad boy chef Marco Pierre White.
Chopping Block turned out meager viewership, drawing a mere 2.6 million viewers last week. NBC said it hopes to bring the show back at a later date — but for now it'll be replaced by reruns of Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
Robert Pattinson Talks Teeth and Love on Today Show
Robert Pattinson showed us lots of his many facial expressions during his visit to the NBC Studios in New York City yesterday for his appearance on The Today Show. He chatted about his teeth, Edward's love story, and joked that every rumour about him is true: check out a video of his interview after the jump, as well as his appearance on Regis and Kelly. Robert and his New Moon costars have been taking over the TV schedules in the US this week in the lead up to the film's release today, with their visit to Jimmy Kimmel showing tonight, but now the movie's finally out there the stars will get to enjoy a well-deserved rest.
Barack Obama Says Change Is About Owning Up to Mistakes
President Obama may have started yesterday with the intention of selling his stimulus plan to the American people with a full-court media press, but he ended it defending his stake on change. On the NBC Nightly News Obama handled ex-nominee Tom Daschle's tax problems by confessing to Brian Williams: "I screwed up." Check out how Obama maintained that he's ushering in the era of responsibility, and other highlights from last night.
SNL Coming to Thursdays for Presidential Election
So, Buzz just gave me the scoop on NBC's upcoming Fall schedule.
Saturday Night Live will be bringing a half hour of its "Weekend Update" to Thursday nights beginning Oct. 16.
What to TiVo: Monday
- ABC is new with Dancing With the Stars and Castle
- CBS is new with How I Met Your Mother, Accidentally on Purpose, Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, and CSI: Miami
- FOX is new with House and Lie to Me
- NBC is new with Heroes and Trauma
- The CW is new with One Tree Hill and Gossip Girl
- E! has E! Investigates: Last Days of Michael Jackson, and is new with The Soup Presents: Ladies, Ladies, Ladies and 10 Vampires We Love
- MTV is new with True Life, Twilight: Love Bites, and Twilight New Moon: An MTV Movie News Special
- TLC is new with Jon & Kate Plus 8
- Bravo is new with Million Dollar Listing and Chef Academy
- VH1 has repeats of Tough Love 2, For the Love of Ray Jay 2, and I Want to Work for Diddy 2
- Late-night highlights include Taylor Lautner and Heather Locklear on The Jay Leno Show on NBC; Sharon Stone, Seth Meyers, Wyclef Jean, and Cyndi Lauper on The Late Show With David Letterman on CBS; Kristen Stewart, Judd Apatow, and Carrie Underwood on The Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien on NBC; Ted Danson, Khloe Kardashian, and Lamar Odom on Jimmy Kimmel Live on ABC; LL Cool J and Mindy Kaling on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson on CBS; and Tim McGraw and Anna Torv on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon on NBC
The Office, "Murder": Best Lines of the Night and Video!
Well, I do declare! This week's The Office was silly good fun. Distraught over rumors of bankruptcy, Michael suggests that the employees engage in a murder mystery game called Belles, Bourbon and Bullets to keep their spirits up.
Halle Speaks Up About Her Effort to Stop Domestic Violence
Halle Berry flashed a smile as she ran errands in LA yesterday, but this evening we'll see her more serious side on the NBC Nightly News. In the segment, Halle shared her own experience with domestic violence while talking about her work with the Jenesse Center in LA, saying, "My mother was a battered woman and that was my childhood for a good chunk of it...Early on in my life, I made choices, and I chose men that were abusive because that was what I knew growing up." Halle has come a long way in speaking out about her own difficult past and recently finding happiness with Gabriel and Nahla.
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