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Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Pop divas seek rehab on TV
Prime-time TV is becoming Rehab Central for Hollywood’s bad girls. Check it out:
First Britney Spears graced us with a guest starring role on the CBS sitcom “How I Met Your Mother.” Now Lindsay Lohan is heading for the May 22 season finale of ABC’s hit “Ugly Betty.”
Of course there’s a big difference between the two young women, both of whom have done stints in rehab and made multiple court appearances for various offenses.
Lindsay is an actor who can actually act, whereas Britney is a singer who (a) can barely sing and (b) has absolutely no acting chops. Go figure.
Still, both tabloid celebutantes draw viewers … perhaps folks longing to see yet another trainwreck. Whatever.
TV series apparently are fertile ground for reviving a scandal-plagued career. Britney will return for another spot on “Mother” before season’s end, and Lindsay will return to “Betty” in the fall for five more episodes.
NBC axes “Monk” and “Psych”
NBC programming wizards clearly don’t have a clue.
Apparently the Peacock poobahs thought viewers would crowd around USA hits “Monk” and “Psych” — even though the episodes on NBC were repeats of episodes originally seen on cable.
Note to NBC: We’ve seen these shows, years ago. We watch cable. All the time. We don’t want to see repeats of them on NBC.
Effective Sunday, NBC will replace the USA shows with four reruns of “The Office.” Talk about creative bankruptcy …
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