Seriously? OMG! WTF?

Memo to Hollywood powerbrokers: The trouble with having 20-year-old girlfriends is, like, they’re 20.Youthful Ashley Madison made the gossip pages in June when she parlayed her relationship with James Woods, 59, into a role on "Entourage."But the romance spectacularly soured when Madison showed up at Woods’ brother Michael’s July 31 funeral "in a 3-inch miniskirt and chain-smoking.""At the funeral she was concerned about the amount of magazines she was in," says Woods’ pal Scott Sandler. "Jimmy was on his knees with tears staining his shirt, and she was showing pictures of herself."The actor has known Madison, the pal of a golfing buddy, since she was 5. "She’s the anti-Christ," says Sandler. "She truly has the soul of a moth and the brain of a dead trout."Woods stars this fall in the new CBS legal drama "Shark," directed by Spike Lee. But he decided to end his May-December fling after stress sent him to the ER."Jimmy was so overcome by grief his blood pressure went through the roof early last week, and he had to go to the hospital," said Sandler. "When he came out, it was like he had seen the light."

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Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. BTW James Woods is known for having one of Hollywood’s biggest you know what, so probaly another reason why she dated him.

Laura Mackenzie, an 18-year-old woman missing for five months, was located yesterday in St. Augustine Beach, Fla. after she was seen by a man who said he recognized her from a Public Service Announcement featuring Mackenzie during the June 1 broadcast of the CBS Thursday night drama WITHOUT A TRACE.Mackenzie, who is from Goffstown, N.H., disappeared on March 8, the day she was scheduled to face shoplifting charges in Manchester, N.H. District Court.  Based on the tip that came into the Hillsborough County N.H. Sheriff’s Office on Monday, Aug. 7, which was forwarded to authorities in Florida, police were sent to an apartment building in St. Augustine Beach, Fla. where they found Mackenzie, who was arrested without incident. This marks the fourth time a missing person has been found (five people total) following a WITHOUT A TRACE PSA.  In May, 2006, Kristy Ormsby, a 26-year-old woman missing for two years, was located in Jackson County, North Carolina after she was featured in a PSA during the May 4th episode of WITHOUT A TRACE and on a news segment on CBS’s "The Early Show" on May 5^th; in April 2006, an 18-month-old girl was recovered in Tarrant, Ala. following profiles of the child in WITHOUT A TRACE and "The Early Show"; and in July 2005, 8-year-old Nicholas Antonio Candela and his 7-year-old sister Gio’ Annah were located in Tuckahoe, N.Y., after a WITHOUT A TRACE viewer provided information to the FBI. Prior to the September 2002 premiere of WITHOUT A TRACE, a fictional drama about the missing persons unit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, CBS joined forces with the FBI to profile a new missing person in a PSA each week, even during rebroadcasts.  Each broadcast since the series’ premiere has featured a PSA asking for the public’s help to find a real-life missing person.  The PSA includes a picture and descriptive information about a missing person with a message asking viewers to call their nearest FBI office if they have seen the person or have any information relevant to the case.  Starting this past season, CBS’s "The Early Show" features a story on each week’s missing person the day after their PSA runs.

Thursday, Sept. 14      

8:00-9:00 PM              SURVIVOR: COOK ISLANDS (Premiere)

Sunday, Sept. 17

8:30-10:00 PM            THE AMAZING RACE 10 (Premiere) 

Monday, Sept. 18

8:00-8:30 PM              THE CLASS (Series Premiere)

8:30-9:00 PM              HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER (2nd Season Premiere)

9:00-9:30 PM              TWO AND A HALF MEN (4th Season Premiere)

9:30-10:00 PM            THE NEW ADVENTURES OF OLD CHRISTINE (2nd Season Premiere)

10:00-11:00 PM          CSI: MIAMI (5th Season Premiere)

Tuesday, Sept. 19

8:00-9:00 PM              NCIS (4th Season Premiere)

9:00-10:00 PM            THE UNIT (2nd Season Premiere)

10:00-11:00 PM          SMITH (Series Premiere)

Wednesday, Sept. 20

8:00-9:00 PM              JERICHO (Series Premiere)

9:00-10:00 PM            CRIMINAL MINDS (2nd Season Premiere)

10:00-11:00 PM          CSI: NY (3rd Season Premiere)

Thursday, Sept. 21

9:00-10:00 PM            CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION (7th Season Premiere)

10:00-11:00 PM          SHARK (Series Premiere)

Friday, Sept. 22

8:00-9:00 PM              GHOST WHISPERER (2nd Season Premiere)

9:00-10:00 PM            CLOSE TO HOME (2nd Season Premiere)

10:00-11:00 PM          NUMB3RS (3rd Season Premiere)

Saturday, Sept. 23

8:00-9:00 PM              CRIMETIME SATURDAY

9:00-10:00 PM            CRIMETIME SATURDAY

10:00-11:00 PM          48 HOURS MYSTERY (Season Premiere)

Sunday, Sept. 24

7:00-8:00 PM              60 MINUTES  (39th Season Premiere)

8:00-9:00 PM              THE AMAZING RACE 10 (Time Period Premiere)

9:00-10:00 PM            COLD CASE (4th Season Premiere)

10:00-11:00 PM          WITHOUT A TRACE (5th Season Premiere)

CBS kicked off the first of the major network presentations today at the TCA press tour with an executive session and Q & A featuring network president Nina Tassler. More on that later, but for now I just have to relay one of the more bizarre announcements to come out of press tour so far. Today, CBS revealed a marketing strategy so odd that I had to check to date to make sure it wasn’t April 1st. Billboards, magazines, television, the internet, apparently these are all passé modes of advertising. The latest and hottest medium through which to convey a brand message is apparently… wait for it… eggs. Yes, farm-fresh, chicken-laid, white-on-the-outside-yellow-on-the-inside eggs from your neighborhood supermarket. I’m still wondering if this is all perhaps some kind of wacky hoax.

According to the press release: “Beginning this September, CBS will be the inaugural major corporation to advertise on over 35 million eggs marked by EggFusion, a company which specializes in delivering freshness and traceability coding to consumers by placing laser coded expiration dates on eggs sold by grocers.” I wish I were joking. The eggs will be stamped with logos from different CBS shows, along with a slogan and, helpfully, an expiration date (I’m assuming for the egg, not for the show).

Some of the slogans that will appear on the eggs:
CBS Mondays: Leave the Yolks to Us
CSI: Crack the Case on CBS
The Amazing Race: Scramble to Win on CBS
How I Met Your Mother: Find Your Chick on CBS

And for the new shows:
The Class: New Grade-A CBS Comedy
Smith: Professional Poachers
Shark: Hard-Boiled Drama
Jericho: Unbeatable Television

You get the idea. I’m still waiting for the punchline.

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Seriously? OMG! WTF? But I can tell you CBS is right traditional advertising is a dying trend, but not sure advertising on an egg is the way to go? But I have to admit the slogans are brilliant! 

"CSI" finished last season as the No. 1 drama on television, a position it’s held for several years running. Yet CBS chief Nina Tassler on Saturday said — with a straight face — that the show might not be the favorite in its timeslot in the fall. "Who would have thought ‘CSI’ would be the underdog?" she asked reporters at the Television Critics Association press tour.The cause of her angst is ABC’s "Grey’s Anatomy," which ABC has moved into the 9 p.m. Thursday timeslot that "CSI" has dominated for most of its time on the air. "Grey’s" is coming off a very strong second half of the season, which was fueled by a post-Super Bowl episode that grabbed better than 38 million viewers. While Tassler knows that two hit shows can co-exist — see "Survivor" and "Friends" or "American Idol" and "Lost" — "we expect to be dinged by ‘Grey’s’ a little bit," she says.

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