Ned the Piemaker

Ned, the piemaker, from Pushing Daisies is going to be in a 1930s-set movie with Amy Adams and Frances McDormand. The trailer is probably only intriguing for girls, and doesn't look horrendous, but it is kind of fun to see Lee Pace outside of the stylized world of Pushing Daisies.

MTV Plans a High School Mall-sical

Taylor Townsend from the OC (aka Autumn Reeser) is slated to be an MTV made for TV movie musical about a mall. Wow, that's a mouthful.

Book geo-caching

There a site that facilitates what seems basically like book geo-caching. You leave a book in a public place and someone eventually picks it up. It sounds like books left in places that are too obvious don't really get picked up by other book-geo-cachers, but the books hidden into more obscure places, like the peach bin at the grocery store or hidden on a drugstore shelf sound pretty funny.

No more ThinkSecret

Hmmm, Apple gets ThinkSecret.com shut down as part of the settlement against the site for revealing company secrets. The guy who ran the site is now at Harvard and started the site when he was 13.

Bruckheimer video games

Jerry Bruckheimer, who manages to turn everything to gold!, is going to start developing video games! I'm always instantly intrigued by anything by the guy who did Bad Boys, Treasure Hunters (the reality show!) and National Treasure (the Nic Cage movie, not the reality show), so I'm totally going to follow this.

In other news, I started playing Zelda on the Wii and my lantern burned out and I'm trapped in a cave. In other words, not going so well... Maybe I should start playing on the tomcat's profile...

DWTS, but back in time

BBC America is reairing the second season of Dancing with the Stars. Go back to when Cheryl Burke was the rising pro dancer star and Drew Lachey hadn't yet proven that he's a way better cohost than Samantha Harris.

Psych and Monk

Psych and Monk will air on NBC in March. Psych is really fun so I think this is great way to get it more exposure; Monk is enjoyable, but less fun for me than Psych...

Cool Battlestar Galactica posters

Via Pop Candy, I know the tomcat will love these old school Soviet inspired posters for Battlestar Galactica.

'Mamma Mia'

Colin Firth and Pierce Brosnan are going to be in the movie adaptation of 'Mamma Mia' seems pretty intriguing to me. Maybe High School Musical and Enchanted will help bring back the live action musical as a popular genre!

No more Blueprint

The Martha Stewart magazine 'Blueprint' is folding as a standalone magazine, although it will still surface as special sections in the Weddings magazine, or maybe as special issues, I think. I'm a bit sad since I enjoyed this magazine. However, the other interesting news in this release is that they are planning to expand the Martha Stewart Weddings franchise to include destination wedding issues and further developing their website.

Gob

Will Arnett aka Gob on Arrested Development, will be the voice of KITT on the remake of Knight Rider...

Madagascar Penguins Suit Up for New Kids' Series - Today's News: Our Take | TVGuide.com

The animated penguins from the movie Madagascar are going to become a Nickelodeon TV series. This seems pretty darn cute and fun.

Parking Wars!

There will be an A&E reality show about meter maids and parking enforcement people! I am strangely attracted to this show! When I walk to work, I go past the lot where all the little meter maid cars park for the night and it's pretty funny to see them peeling out in the morning. I think there is much stronger enforcement in that area, since they can just tag blatant infractions on their way in or out of the lot...

More Amazing Race!

Another season of the Amazing Race has been greenlit. Yay!

Singing and Dancing

Julianne Hough's first single will be out in May and will have a dancing related title. Heh. I wonder if there will be another DWTS season the spring and if this will prevent Julianne from being on it, or whether she'll just use the show to shill for her new album...

Flowers in the Attic

All the publicity about the Golden Compass, which this article's author enjoyed, but would not give to her kids, also brings up memories of "the preteen incest classic Flowers in the Attic", which the author was enthralled by and which remain very popular for female teen/preteen readers. This made me laugh because I think I've read two or three of these books and they are utterly appalling, yet mysteriously compelling, at least for a book or two. Not sure if any of you got sucked in by this, but I certainly was when I was younger.

FNL viewers

The Office and Friday Night Lights attract the highest number of affluent viewers (thost making more than $100,000/yr). The other shows that have wealthy viewers are: "“30 Rock;” “Scrubs;” “60 Minutes;” “Sunday Night Football;” “Amazing Race 12;” “Two and a Half Men;” “Dirty Sexy Money;” and “Grey’s Anatomy.”"

National Treasure: Book Of Secrets

Awesomely, the latest trailer for National Treasure II is basically an extended commercial for Mercedes and the backup camera. It's pretty awesome and I recommend you watch!

Show by Show WGA Strike Status

Here's a fairly easy to read Show by Show status of when new episodes will run out.

Filling the time

There are rumors that the TV networks will pull shows from their sister networks to find content to air - so CBS may show a Showtime series or NBC may show something from USA or Sci Fi. The interesting thing would be to see if this got more visibility and higher ratings for some great shows that are on the cable networks, like Burn Notice, Psych, and Battlestar Galactica. I think I may have gotten cc2 interested in Battlestar, so now I just have to get her to watch the miniseries that started it off!

‘Gossip Girl’ groupies

Here's a fairly humorous (not in the writing of the article, but on the content) article about young pre-teen girls in NYC who hang around the location shoots for Gossip Girl hoping to see the stars.

What I should watch this winter

Since the writer's strike doesn't appear to be ending anytime soon, it's going to be slim pickings on TV, which is probably good since I'll finally start reading more and watching my Netflix. But I think I will start watching How I Met Your Mother again, and may start watching Life, which the tomcat is a huge fan of. And maybe I'll watch some of Heroes... And happily, there are some new episodes of Monk and Psych that will air in January as well.

For Jane Austen fans, a new Masterpiece Theater will start on Jan 13th with an adaptation of Persuasion. I hope I remember to put that on my Tivo.

In other funny news, my mother tends to skim most of the newspaper every day which means she knows about almost all movies, and even weirder, about video games. We played the Wii at Christmas last year and ever since then, I think she's been reading about the games and recommended my favorite game (Elebits!) to me, even though she doesn't own a Wii and I never had any video games when I was a kid.

Past lives of House actors

The only relevant thing you need to know from this article is that Omar Epps was a backup dancer for Queen Latifah. Yep.

Julianne - Country Western singer!

Another detail about Julianne Hough's upcoming album - it's going to be country-western