Dance Your Ass Off will be back for a second season on Oxygen, but with a new host. Dancing with the Stars 6 contestant Marissa Jaret Winokur is being replaced by DWTS 5 semi-finalist Mel B. So why the change? Well even though Marissa did a good job on the show, she didn’t test well enough with their audience so they made the tough decision to replace her. According to EP Dan Cutforth Oxygen’s audience are Spice Girls’ fans, so Mel B was the perfect fit for the show. I have to admit I wanted to watch the first season of the show, but I opted not watch it because I personally find Marissa annoying. Now that Mel B is taking over for her, I will totally check it out.
Mel B told us that she lost her baby weight (60 pounds) by dancing and wishes they had this show on when she was trying to lost that weight because she totally would’ve done it. She told us that she will do more than just host, but she did not really explain how.
Now back to the show here are some updates. Season 1 winner Ruben Permel lost 90 pounds because of the show. If that is not good enough, four of the competitors are teaching dance now. Dance had become a big part of their lives now.
Now back to Scary Spice, she told us that there will be a Spice Girls announcement coming soon, but she didn’t tell us what but it sounds like it is going to be good. Melanie Brown also told us the secret to her abs and we can have them too if we get her workout DVD Totally Fit which actually sounded like a lot of fun when she was telling us about it.
Today was the day that the NBC execs faced the media for the first time since the Jay Leno cancellation rumors started and they came out prepared. As soon as it started Jeff Gaspin confirmed that officially on Feb 12th The Jay Leno Show is done at 10p. NBC wants to keep all three hosts, but as of now there is no done deal. The plan as of now is to have Jay Leno on 11:35p, Conan O’Brien at 12:05a and Jimmy Fallon at 1:05a.
Here are notes explaining the decision and some other notes.
The Leno decision was not because of the network but because of the affils
The affils said in November they lost viewers for the daily newscasts at 11p and some of them went from 1 to 3 in their markets and they started complaining and threatening preemption. Leno was doing OK for NBC, but not for the affils. The stressed this was not an issue for the NBC but the affils.
The goal is to keep Conan with NBC.
It was working financially for NBC because they were making money at 10p. Jeff Gaspin thought it was going to do better if it had more time.
There is a lot to choose from at 10p now. There was just so much to watch at 10p and because it was something that was easy viewing they opted not to watch.
Friday Night Lights is avail at March 1st and the have eps for Law & Order: CI from last season to possibly fill.
All three hosts handled the news like professionals.
NBC is going back to basics when it comes to programming.
NBC lost 30% of their audience with Leno. All three nets lost viewers this season.
Research said that it had a chance of making it, but it didn’t happen.
NBC says they weren’t wrong, but maybe too early and that is why
Heroes could be back and they are pitching what they could be doing next season if it gets picked up. Howie Madel is replacing David Hasselhoff on America’s Got Talent. When I asked Jerff Gasp about Heroes he said that David Hasselhoff is the latest Hero.
They loved Southland, but it just wasn’t for them and it will do better on cable.
They are working on a LA version of Law and Order nicknamed Lola! LOL!
There is not one person to blame for the mistake.
Carson Daly does not have a slot as of now because at 2:05a going back to the affils. He will remain with NBC but how we don’t know.
What a fun morning and I respect Jeff Gaspin for having the balls to face a room packed of hungry journalists on the biggest story of press tour.
As if we needed any more reason to watch White Collar, show creator Jeff Eastin has been Tweeting pictures of his star Matt Bomer topless on Twitter. Eastin has been promising if he got a certain amount of followers he would post pictures of Neal Caffrey topless on Twitter and he kept to his word. Boy am I happy that he did! Because seeing Bomer’s baby blues in a pool with water that matches the color of his eyes, I so can’t wait to see the season finale where will see that scene on a bigger screen. And that is scene is a whiles away because the winter season premiere is on USA on January 17th at 10p! Let me tell you I have seen the season premiere and yes they explain what happened in the season finale and it is good…
A few years ago there was a show called Jericho that the fans went nuts for, so much so when it got cancelled those fans bombarded CBS with tons of peanuts. CBS listened to them and brought the show back for another season. Ever since then the networks listen when the fans talk because do you know how much it costs to clean tons of peanut shells off of the floor?
So what was the show that fans rallied for last season? Well that show was Chuck and it is back with two episodes tonight at 9p and another one tomorrow when it returns to its regularly scheduled timeslot of 8p. I have to admit for some reason I never saw the show before the first five episodes of this upcoming season and now I know why all those fans fought so hard to save this show. Chuck is a fun spy show that people of both sexes and of all ages can enjoy. Zachary Levi is cute as the secret agent who gets flashes of knowledge that turn him into a super spy. Yvonne Strahovski is the sexy female spy for all the boys who watch the show to enjoy and the girls wish they could be. Adam Baldwin is perfect as the uptight spy who can’t stand Chuck. My favorite is Ryan McPartlin who plays Chuck’s brother-in-Law who wishes he could be a spy like him, just because I loved him Living with Fran. And when it comes to Chuck’s co-workers at Buy More, I have to admit I want to jump on that Nerd Herd!!!
Coming up this season, Chuck can do so much more thanks to Intersect 2.0. He will get his first solo mission and he will kill the guy (Brandon Routh) who will be managing over their team. Sarah and him will get closer, but just how close will they get. Casey will get a job where you will never expect him to. The guys from Buy More will become men until the smallest one of them all puts an end to that. One of the people Chuck knows will be mistaken for him and will be kidnapped, will they be able to save that person before it is too late. And finally Chuck will have a new lady in his life and her name is Kristin Kreuk.
Chuck is the show that fans believed enough in to save, so whether you were one of them or you are like me and a new fan check it out tonight at 9p and tomorrow and every Monday at 8p for a show that is just good fun! And who doesn’t need some good fun to start of the week!!!
Tonight there will be two milestones dedicated the longest running comedy on television, The Simpsons. First at 8p they will air their 450th episode, can you believe there have been that many? On this episode Krusty will meet the latest woman he will want to marry, an actress who plays a princess on the show and she is very much like the one in Enchanted. It is a cute episode with Krusty finding love and Bart and Lisa trying to crush it. Then at 8:30p, Fox hired Morgan Spurlock to do an hour long documentary on the show. In it he will talk to the cast about how they came up with their voices and some of the biggest fans of the show, he will look at some of the mania that has kept this show on the air for 450+ episodes. It was fun to watch and learn some things about the cartoon that we never knew about it. I promise you will learn something new and who doesn’t want to know more about America’s favorite yellow family!
