Gilbert Gottfried, Kimberly Caldwell, Traci Lords, Jeremiah Trotter and Evan Farmer investigate the paranormal in an all new episode of VH1’s “Celebrity Paranormal Project”airing tonight at 10 PM ET/PT.
This week we return to the asylum for the criminally insane with Traci Lords, Gilbert Gottfried, Evan Farmer, American Idol’s Kimberly Caldwell, and Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Jeremiah Trotter who search for the ghost of a violent paranoid schizophrenic known as “Mad Rayâ€Â. What begins as a light-hearted adventure for these fun-loving celebrities soon turns into a blood-curdling screamfest when Mad Ray’s ghost makes its presence heard. VH1
OMG! I love this show! It is original and scary and the celebs are always fun! Like tonight not only are they bringing ghosts back from they dead…they are bringing Gilbert Gottfried’s career back from the dead. And we can all agree both should stay dead!!!
A sitcom star is born: Fox is developing a half-hour comedy revolving around "American Idol" finalist Kellie Pickler. Pickler will play a naive small-town Southern girl — a character based on herself — who discovers that her biological father is the state’s well-respected governor. His presidential dreams are put in jeopardy, but the two form a father-daughter relationship that winds up helping his standing in the polls. Twentieth Century Fox TV is behind the project, along with Watson Pond and "Idol" producer 19 Entertainment. Watson Pond’s Brad Johnson and 19’s Simon Fuller and Malcolm Young will exec produce. Chris Peterson and Bryan Moore ("That ’70s Show") will write and create the project, which has landed a script order. Johnson said he was impressed by Pickler’s comedic timing on "Idol." The "Idol" finale even featured a running segment in which Wolfgang Puck tried to feed Pickler upscale cuisine — and drew laughs for the young singer’s reaction to the foreign fare. "She’s fresh and sparkling and sweet, and we decided it would be great to take some of that natural comedic ability and put her in a situation comedy, surrounded by an ensemble," Johnson said. Pickler drew an "Idol" following for her brash honesty and mispronunciation of words like "calamari" and "salmon." After finishing sixth in the competish, she signed with RCA’s country label BNA. Her debut album was released last month.
It’s almost that time again. USA TODAY’s never-idle Idol reporter, Bill Keveney, has the scheduling scoop for Idol’s Season 6: air dates for the audition rounds (which start with a pair of two-hour episodes Jan. 16 and 17) and the "Hollywood" (or wherever in L.A. they actually winnow the auditiion winners) episodes (Feb. 6, 7, 13, 14). Bill also chatted with Idol nabobs Nigel Lythgoe — who promises some of the worst singers ever but swears the producers can tell the difference between sincerely deluded bad singers and performance artists trying to contrive their way onto the show by being deliberately awful — and Simon Cowell, who hated the auditioners in Seattle and says so in no uncertain terms, no doubt hoping to foment at least a regional controversy. On the other hand, Simon says he loves Randy, Paula and Ryan (although Lythgoe counters, "They always get on each other’s nerves. They never behave well."), modestly calls Idol’s judge team "the best judging panel of (any) show in the world," and wryly observes about the auditions, "There was a lot of sucking up going on –- which we encourage." Simon is clearly in mid-season form already.
"American Idol" second season winner Ruben Studdard is back with "The Return" (J) at No. 8 with 71,000 units. His debut set, "Soulful," started at No. 1 in 2003 with 417,000, while the gospel-dominated follow-up "I Need An Angel" began at No. 20 in 2004.
