Show business knows no bounds and will pretty much pay the worst people in the world if it means getting the exclusive and that’s exactly what is happening with Case Anthony at the moment.
Casey’s attorney, Jose Baez, is currently sitting in the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York City negotiating with three of the biggest networks in the country trying to figure out which one will pay the most for the first exclusive interview with her.
Sources connected to Baez tell TMZ that NBC, ABC and CBS are all trying to outbid each other for the first interview with Casey, who was found not guilty over murdering her own daughter, and it looks like NBC is the frontrunner with ABC second and CBS “a distant third.”
The reason NBC are looking like they will get the exclusive is because they are apparently paying for Baez’ hotel room. All three networks, who are willing to shell out big money, say they don’t pay for interviews but they are willing to pay for photos and other material which they call S.O.P.
Meanwhile Extra report that Casey could soon be headed to stay in her attorney’s home in Mexico and if this money does come through for the interviews she might not see it all since she owes the IRS $70,00 in unpaid taxes.
Whether she did kill her daughter or not, cashing in on the murder is disgusting.
Last week it was announced that Ashton Kutcher will be replacing Charlie Sheen for the upcoming season of ‘Two and a Half Men’, but today it’s been announced that his contract is just for one year.
The reason behind this is because back in 2010 CBS renewed the show for season 8 and 9 before Charlie’s meltdown which sent the show into limbo, but now that they have replaced him they will be going ahead with season 9.
This means that if CBS decides to renew the show beyond Season 9 they can either offer Ashton a new contract or they can dump him and look for a replacement. But it also works in his favor because if he decides to quit then he can do so with no issues.
Apparently both CBS and Warner Bros do want to get at least two or three more years out of the show but obviously that will all depends on ratings for the upcoming season.
I’m gonna guess if it does get renewed Ashton will be praying they offer him a new contract because for just this one year he is set to earn around $20 million.
Katie Couric has confirmed what everyone pretty much knew – she’s leaving CBS’ Evening News even though she denied it just two weeks ago. She confirmed this in a statement to People:
“I have decided to step down from the CBS Evening News. “I’m really proud of the talented team on the CBS Evening News and the award-winning work we’ve been able to do in the past five years in addition to the reporting I’ve done for 60 Minutes and CBS Sunday Morning. In making the decision to move on, I know the Evening News will be in great hands, but I am excited about the future. I am looking at a format that will allow me to engage in more multi-dimensional storytelling. The bottom line is that I love doing all kinds of different stories. I have a lot of areas of interest and I want to be able to fulfill all of that.”
No word on what network or even what type of show she will move on to once her contract runs up in June but it’s rumored that ABC are hoping to make a bid for, there’s also rumors that she could end up with a slot on CBS’ 60 Minutes.
There has been frequent speculation lately that Katie Couric will be leaving ‘CBS Evening News‘ for another show, perhaps even for her old gig on ‘Today.’
Couric dodged most of Barbara Walters’ pointed questions today on ‘The View’ about her job status, saying there has been no announcement and her plans, whatever they may be, are not public.
“Will you finally confirm that you’re leaving already?” Walters said.
“I don’t think it’s my place to do that,” said Couric. “I haven’t made a decision. I’m in the middle of discussions.” Couric would say only that she is exploring different opportunities and “figuring things out,” while still enjoying her job at CBS.
Walters asked if anyone could have saved the ‘Evening News,’ a question which made Couric bristle a bit, insisting she was proud of the work, valuing quality over ratings.
Walters tried one last shot, telling Couric that she was doing the right thing. “Well, you don’t know what I’m doing but thank you for saying that,” Couric said. Walters still thinks she has a pretty good idea.
The other day it was reported that CBS were looking to take Charlie Sheen back and start shooting Two and a Half Men again but as I guessed this was a load of crap and there’s no chance in hell he is returning.
TMZ reports that since Warner Bros is the company who hired and then fired Charlie, they are the only ones who can bring him back but a source says there isn’t a chance in hell of this happening.
The future of the show is still in limbo but Chuck Lorre, the creator and executive producer of the show, has been in meetings over either re-casting Charlie or else moving it in a different direction.
In other Charlie Sheen news he has passed a recent drug test that both he and Brooke Mueller were made to take in their custody settlement. Her results haven’t come in yet.
Charlie Sheen is not making any friends now that he’s gone on the war path against Chuck Lorre, CBS and Warner Brothers. Even though the show has been officially canceled, he has said that he plans on returning to film it today!
Today, however, we’ve learned that the head honchos in charge of the show have banned Charlie from the lot!
A source said, “The top people in the studio’s security department were all called together Friday night, and the word was passed to all the guards: Charlie Sheen is officially banned. If he and his driver show up on Monday — as Charlie has said he would — they are to be turned away. Charlie is not allowed on the lot under any circumstances.”
Reportedly, the order is so strict that they’re not even allowing his car to make a U-turn in the lot, they just have to back up! The source went on to reveal, “Everyone was told not to even let him in far enough that he could make a U-turn and leave. If he approaches the gate, he’ll have to back up to leave, no matter how many cars we may have to move behind him. It’s that serious.”
Charlie responded in kind, saying, “Wow, that’s kind of strange given Peter Roth (WB TV President) always said it was my show that kept the lights on. Doesn’t matter too much because after Wednesday they’ll have to rename Warner Brothers as Charlie’s Brothers. I will fire those clowns and bring in my own team.”
On the “Today” show, he said that he’s underpaid and if he comes back for a new season, they’re going to have to give him three million per episode:
Charlie Sheen has unleashed an epic tirade on “Two And A Half Men” creator, Chuck Lorre. He referred to the show’s creator as “Chaim Levine”, which is the Hebrew translation of Chuck’s name.
Charlie went as far as challenging Chuck to a fight in his “Octagon” and that he “violently hates” him.
CBS and Warner Brothers did the only thing that they could do in that situation and promptly canceled the show. They’re probably still under the impression that Charlie’s rant was fueled by drugs.
Since, there have been reports suggesting that Charlie is an anti-Semite. Charlie wants us all to know that’s not true. Many felt that Charlie’s usage of the Hebrew name was just an attempt to put down Jewish people.
In a new statement, Charlie said, “I was referring to Chuck by his real name, because I wanted to address the man, not the bullsh*t TV persona. So you’re telling me, anytime someone calls me Carlos Estevez, I can claim they are anti-Latino?”
CBS reporter Lara Logan was surrounded, beaten and sexually assaulted after being separated from her team in the midst of Egyptian protests last Friday.
CBS News released a statement that on February 11th, shortly after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down from power,
“chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan was covering the jubilation in Tahrir Square for a ’60 Minutes’ story when she and her team and their security were surrounded by a dangerous element amidst the celebration. It was a mob of more than 200 people whipped into frenzy. In the crush of the mob, she was separated from her crew. She was surrounded and suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers.”
Logan was able to rejoin her team and return to the U.S. She was recovering in a hospital on Feb. 15.
CBS’ statement concludes by saying: “There will be no further comment from CBS News, and correspondent Logan and her family respectfully request privacy at this time.”
Esquire landed an interview with Logan just last week, on her way back to Cairo after being kicked out of the country the week before. “This is the Tiananmen Square of the cyber age,” she said. “There’s no question.”
Reporter Foster Kamer incredulously asked Logan if CBS was “insured for this s**t” and if she was crazy to go back to the thick of the protests. “You know,” Logan answered, smiling, “I don’t worry about things like that.”
CBS Los Angeles reporter Serene Branson has reportedly been taken to hospital for tests after stumbling incomprehensibly over her words during a Grammy’s broadcast.
After being introduced from the studio, Branson began “Well a very, very…”, before mispronouncing “heavily”. Trying again, she was still unable to get the word out and continued with a train of unintelligible sounds.
It is feared that she may have suffered a stroke on air. Strokes can cause speech problems in different ways, either by interfering with the brain’s ability to recognize and construct words, or by preventing the facial muscles from forming syllables correctly.
About a third of stroke sufferers develop problems with communicating, although it is often possible to reverse some of the damage.
Branson, twice nominated for an Emmy, was born and raised in the Los Angeles area. The CBS website lists her hobbies as reading and yoga.
Police arrested CBS News correspondent Howard Arenstein and his wife, along with reporter Orly Azoulay, Saturday for drug possession with intent to distribute.
Eleven marijuana plants each over eight feet tall were found in the backyard of the couple’s home, according to RadarOnline.com.
Each plant, police say, could produce up to one pound of pot.
An anonymous tip led to the arrests, Radar reports. Cops also found drug paraphernalia inside the house.
Arenstein is an award winning journalist for CBS News radio.
Despite going to rehab and maybe a trip to jail in his future because of his domestic abuse charges, it seems that Charlie Sheen is still one of the most bankable actors on television because he is going to receive nearly $2 million per episode of Two and a Half Men.
For the current season he was making $825,000 per episode but he wanted way more and he has finally gotten his way after he said he would quit the show if they didn’t cough up the money.
According to Variety, Sheen and CBS finally reached an agreement last night and he agreed to be paid nearly $2 million per episode for the next two seasons he signed on for. He then released a statement saying…
“To put a fitting end on the 2 1/2 months of whirlwind speculation, I’m looking forward to returning to my CBS home on Monday nights.”
What Charlie Sheen really meant to say is that he is looking forward to making a ridiculous $2 million a week for returning to his “CBS home”.
source: Charlie Sheen signs for for two more years of ‘Men’ [USA Today]
Oh man do we have another huge sex tape scandal on our hands?
When I seen this video and noticed the sex tape involves Chris Noth I almost had a heart attack, but no it is not a sex tape.
Instead it is one of the shows that based on the synopsis I will be adding to my dvr, because not only is it about a public sex and political scandal but it involves Chris Noth and Juliana Margulies.
The show is called The Good Wife and will be airing on CBS as of Tuesday, September 22 at 10 PM. It has also already been picked up by RTE in Ireland.
The show follows Alicia Florrick (Marguiles) who is the wife of Peter Florrick (Noth), he lands himself in jail after sex and corruption scandal hits the media, she decides to chase her original dream of being a defense attorny so she can build her reupation and provide for their two children.
Hmmm public sex and political scandal? How good is that, it could be based on nearly every single politician out there right now.
Legendary CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite, 92, long known as the “Most Trusted Man in America,” is gravely ill, according to multiple CBS News sources and published reports.
According to Mediabistro’s blog, TVNewser, the network began updating his obituary more than a week ago; a CBS News executive had no comment to TVNewser on the reports of Cronkite’s failing health.
One of the most recognized and honored journalists in America, Walter Cronkite anchored the “CBS Evening News” for 19 years, when he was replaced by Dan Rather.
Cronkite remained a special correspondent for the network through the years.
The St. Joseph, Mo., native got his start as a battlefield correspondent during World War II for the United Press. In 1950 he came to CBS radio as a Washington correspondent.
Cronkite jumped into the fledgling TV news world in 1962 when he was named anchor of the 15-minute “CBS Evening News,” which became the first 30-minute network newscast the following year with Cronkite at the anchor desk.
From the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. to publicly questioning U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War to the landing of the first man on the moon, Cronkite was known for a tell-it-like-it-is reporting style that was often tinged with genuine emotion.
Thought of as the dean of broadcast journalism, Cronkite’s style has long been the hallmark of television reporting. A journalism school at Arizona State University was named for him, and a number of industry awards are in his name, too.
In addition to leading the “Evening News” to perpetual first-place ratings, Cronkite gave the country one of the best-known catchphrases in TV history with his nightly sign-off, “And that’s the way it is…”
TVNewser quotes Cronkite speaking on his own mortality from a 2006 interview:
“When you get to be 89, you have to think about it a little bit. It doesn’t prey on me, and it doesn’t keep me awake nights. Occasionally, when I’m upset about something else, I think, ‘My gosh, I don’t know if I should do this or that because I’m not sure I’ll be here that long to enjoy it.’”
source: Legendary CBS journalist Walter Cronkite reportedly gravely ill [chicago sun times]
