As American Idol cuts singers from 71 to 24 last night, Simon Cowell regrets one decision and Jessica Furney channels Tonya Harding

By Robin Rowe

American Idol Judges, Ellen DeGeneres says she hadn't planned to be a judge

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 2/17/2010 – Tonight’s episode of American Idol will pick 17 more finalists. For seven American Idol contestants, last night’s episode was a joyful relief as they made the cut for the final 24 who will be voted for by the American public.

Ellen DeGeneres says she became an American Idol judge by accident. “I called a friend of mine who works at Fox to get tickets to come see the show,” says DeGeneres. “She said sure, would you like to be backstage, in the front row, or a judge? I said, oh, those are my options? It’s better seating to be a judge. I’d like to be a judge.”

The seven finalists chosen on the show last night had made sacrifices to be part of American Idol. They’d left jobs or were separated from their families to be in Hollywood. “Big Mike” Lynche missed the birth of his first child while singing in American Idol. As an overjoyed Lynche approached the judges to hug them, Ellen DeGereres said, “Don’t pick me up again, my back!” But it’s too late, as Big Mike picks her up again when he hugs her and all the Idol judges. Randy Jackson tells Lynche not to forget Ryan Seacrest.

One singer who didn’t make the cut was Jessica Furney, whose outburst before judges was a Tonya Harding-style beg for mercy that blamed others for her problems. After being (more…)

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Joel McHale the M.C. at 60th Annual ACE Eddie Awards recognizing television and film editors

By Robin Rowe

30 Rock wins Best Edited Half-Hour Series for Television at 2010 ACE Eddie Awards

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 2/14/2010 – Film and TV editors took home some special Valentines in the form of Eddie Awards trophies during the 60th Annual ACE Eddie Awards held tonight at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Lynne Willingham, A.C.E. won for Best Edited One-Hour Series for Commercial television for Breaking Bad: ABQ. Ken Eluto, A.C.E. won for Best Edited Half-Hour Series for Television with 30 Rock: Apollo Apollo. Louis Cioffi won for Best Edited One-Hour Series for Non-Commercial Television with Dexter: Remains to be Seen. Alan Heim, A.C.E. and Lee Percy, A.C.E. won for Best Edited Miniseries or Motion Picture for Television with Grey Gardens. Kelly Coskran and Josh Earl won for Best Edited Reality Series with The Deadliest Catch: Stay Focused or Die.

NBC Community star Joel McHale served as master of ceremonies at the (more…)

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Disney DVD Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Present Minnie’s Bow-Tique is great for entertaining and teaching young children *** 3 Stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse presents Minnies' Bow-tique

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 2/13/2010 – Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Presents Minnie’s Bow-Tique is all about Minnie Mouse. Not really. Many other Disney characters are here, too. From the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse series, these four episodes all feature Minnie Mouse. One episode has never been shown before, hasn’t broadcast on TV.

Minnie’s Bow-Tique is the grand opening of Minnie’s Bow-tique a store with every kind of bow imaginable. Everything is great until Pete, who’s embarrassed about buying a bow for his favorite aunt, has a few accidents in the shop. Can Minnie help him find a new bow for his Aunt Mabel? In the Big Bow Show the Clubhouse gang show off the latest in bow fashion under a big rainbow.

Minnie’s Picnic shows Minnie arranging a picnic in Mickey Park for twelve people. As your child watches he or she can help Minnie get everything she needs for the picnic. This is the one the younger ones will like the most as it’s the most (more…)

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TV series Seducing Cindy premieres on Fox Reality tonight at 9p/8c or catch the sneak peak online now *** 3 Stars

By Robin Rowe

Cindy Margolis, premiering in Seducing Cindy tonight

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 1/30/2010 – “I’m a hopeless romantic,” says Seducing Cindy star Cindy Margolis. “On the show I fall in love with more than one person, which I never would have thought possible. Every date was something out of a fairy tale. Everything was so beautiful…waterfalls and roses and chocolate fountains and candles, date after date. I never wanted to leave.”

In Seducing Cindy, 25 men are faced with a series of challenges to compete for Cindy’s heart. Margolis is the spokesperson for the charity Resolve, the national fertility association. “I did a challenge with the guys right off the bat,” says Margolis. “I had them give me their sperm samples. You want to see shock on a person’s face? ‘Hi. How are you? Here’s my Playboy and here’s a cup. I want your sperm sample.’ I had my (more…)

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Emily Blunt’s 2010 Golden Globes red carpet dress and other celebrity items raising money for charity

By Gabrielle Pantera

Emily Blunt Golden Globes dress on auction online, other celebrity gifts by Madison & Mulholland

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 1/25/2010 – Despite being caught in the rain, Emily Blunt looked fantastic in a Dolce & Gabbana gown on the red carpet at the 2010 Golden Globe Awards. The Clothes Off Our Back Foundation charity auction website is now offering that dress for sale and other celebrity items to raise money for charities including Haiti disaster relief.

Madison & Mulholland hosted a gift suite where Golden Globe nominees and celebrities were invited to create a gift bag for charity. Celebrities signed and personalized the items to be sold online at The Clothes Off Our Back. Let’s take a look at what’s in these gift bags (more…)

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Lifetime movie fails to address boys’ responsibilities in teen pregnancy ** Two Stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

Camryn Manheim in The Pregnancy Pact

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 1/23/2010 – “Almost one in three girls become pregnant before they’re twenty,” says Cameron Manheim. “One in six girls in the U.S. will become teen mothers.”

The Lifetime TV movie The Pregnancy Pact is inspired by a true story. Time Magazine created a media frenzy when it reported that the rise in the number of pregnancies at a high school was the result of a “pregnancy pact”, that unmarried teenage girls were trying to get pregnant.

Thora Birch stars at Sidney Bloom, an on-line journalist who returns to her hometown to investigate the sudden spike in teenage pregnancies at her old high school. The teen pregnancies in this small town rise to 18. Lorraine Dougan stars as Nancy Travis, the head of a local “conservative values” group and mother to one of the girls who’s under 16 and pregnant.

Camryn Manheim, as school nurse Kim Daly, tries to (more…)

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George Clooney asks a billion TV viewers to help, reaches worldwide and across all major U.S. networks to broadcast the benefit tonight at 8pm

By Robin Rowe

Beyonce to sing from London in Hope for Haiti, Madonna will sing from NY

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 1/22/2010 – George Clooney, who’d organized the widely televised benefit for victims of the 2004 Indonesian tsunami, was in New York when news reports came in of a devastating earthquake in Haiti. “The next morning I called Judy MacGrath at MTV,” says George Clooney. “She said, ‘We’re thinking about doing something, too. Let’s do it.’ By the time I flew back to L.A., the other networks had signed on. Every single network. At some point, it got to be you couldn’t be the network that didn’t.”

Clooney’s mission is to raise as much money as possible for the victims. “First and foremost, raise a lot of money,” says Clooney. “If we could pick up shovels and go, without being in the way, a lot of us would do that.”

“I think music a strong way to help people begin the healing process,” says Hope for Haiti producer Joel Gallen. “Artists have deep feelings that we all share. This is a way to express themselves through songs, many of which are doing songs they didn’t even (more…)

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Judy Dench returns to Cranford **** 4 Stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

Return to Cranford, Judi Dench saves the town

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 1/19/2010 – “Judi Dench is a close friend,” says Cranford co-creator Sue Birtwistle. “And once you’ve got her on board, then it’s much easier to get others on board. In fact, when we said we were doing the sequel, all the actors who we hadn’t killed off in the first series said yes. Actually, Imelda Staunton said, ‘Can we do this every year for ten weeks, please?’”

Cranford is a Victorian-era village. Judi Dench returns as Matty Jenkins, minus Eileen Atkins who played her sister in the first miniseries that premiered in 2008. The industrial revolution is already in full swing in England, but in Cranford they are trying to stop the railroad from coming to town. Change is inevitable and Dench’s character helps to herald in the change. Matty is a loving, caring yet strong character. Cranford is steeped in tradition, but as the young start to leave the village she realizes that they need to let the railway come to Cranford.

“As it happened, the first Cranford got a huge audience and [BBC controller of fiction] Jane Tranter said, ‘Will you do some more?” At the time I thought, ‘Yikes, no!’ because we (more…)

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The CW premieres surprise family dramady Life UneXpected tonight – watch January 18th, 2010, at 9pm/8c *** 3 Stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

Shiri Appleby, second chance at being a mom in Life UneXpected

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 1/18/2010 - You really want to love this show. The actors are great. The story concept is great. Unfortunately, the writing has so many monologues that it slows down an otherwise fast-paced show. Fortunately, Shiri Appleby, who starred as Dr. Daria Wade in the series ER, is fabulous in Life UneXpected as the marriage-averse radio personality Cate Cassidy.

Polar opposites, valedictorian brainy girl (Shiri Appleby) and the football jock (Kristoffer Polaha), who dated briefly in high school, are reunited sixteen years later by their daughter (Britt Robertson). She’s the product of a one-night stand during her parent’s winter formal and has lived in the foster care system all her life. Confronted by an almost grown up daughter, each of her parents face the decision of whether to give up their daughter, the same decision they faced as teenagers.

“I grew up thinking my mom was Nancy Reagan, because I never knew,” says executive producer Liz Tigelaar who created Life UneXpected based on her own feelings about having been adopted. “It’s an initial rejection that your (more…)

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MTV The Buried Life premieres tonight, about four young men on a road trip to fulfill a list of a hundred wishes – Monday, Jan. 18th, 10pm/9c

By Robin Rowe

MTV The Buried Life, checking off life's to-do list of wishes

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 1/18/2010 – “We were fed up racing through life without direction,” says The Buried Life producer Ben Nemtin. “We made a list of everything we wanted to do in life and decided to go after it. Our goal is simple: to complete our list and help others along the way.” For each item they complete on their list, they help others complete an item on their list.

The Buried Life follows four young men who fix up a bus and drive it across America to fulfill dreams. However, unlike The Bucket List or My Name is Earl, the MTV series is a documentary, not fiction. Ben Nemtin is the ringleader. Dave Lingwood is the funny guy, Duncan Penn the problem solver, and Jonnie Penn the brains of the operation.

Touring like a band in a big bus, the four travel to Beverly Hills for episode one. Their mission: to crash a party at the Playboy mansion. The Buried Life team gets help from (more…)

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