Monday, March 30, 2009

News Round-up: FNL Decision, Spelling, Turner, Nuke

FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS: Show's fate expected to be settled Monday
One way or another, Monday should be a big day for FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS fanatics. A final decision is expected to come from NBC and DirecTV on a two-season, 26-episode pickup of the acclaimed drama series.

Earlier this month, all signs were pointing to the Peacock and the satcaster were closing in on a deal to save the Imagine TV/Universal Media Studios series, but then early last week there was a hiccup over money, specifically the fee that DirecTV would pay for the right to air the episodes first, commercial-free, as the marquee offering on its 101 Network channel.

Zach Gilford: "They kind of left it open"
On if he would be back for a fourth season of FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS: "I don't know. They kind of left it open. They told me, 'We're not sure what we're going to do if we come back, yadda, yadda, yadda.' So I have no clue. I can see it going either way. Matt can go off to college or he can stay and take care of grandma. They have options. It's just a matter of what they feel like doing."

Kathleen Turner heats up CALIFORNICATION
Former THE DOCTORS star Kathleen Turner is joining Showtime's CALIFORNICATION for a recurring arc during the dramedy's upcoming third season.

Tori Spelling: "It was never about money"
During her two back-to-back episodes, which she filmed on the show's Hermosa Beach set last month, you'll learn that Donna has returned to Beverly Hills from Japan, where she's living with hubby David Silver (Brian Austin Green) and their new baby and working as a fabulous fashion designer.

As for the rumors about her refusal to return to the series until she was offered the same salary as Garth and Doherty, Spelling says it's all hogwash.

"That was all a build up in the press, such hearsay," she says. "It was never about money -- I still, to this day, have no idea about what Jennie and Shannen made or make, so it clearly wasn't an issue."

ATWT's Hansis and Silbermann on their new storyline
Silbermann: "Something is coming that would normally test a relationship, but they both go over it really quickly."

Hansis: "There's a bunch of kisses — well, maybe not a bunch, but some — that involve either one or the other of Luke or Noah ... but not the two of them together."

Yvonne Perry cancer update
"I remember years ago, when I was still on the soap [AS THE WORLD TURNS], thinking that I just wanted a scene where I was in a hospital bed and had those little oxygen tubes up my nose. Don’t ask me why. . . I think I thought of those clear plastic tubes as a rite of passage into true daytime television. Like - I couldn’t ever claim to have been on a soap opera unless I had videotape of myself lying in a hospital bed to prove it. Oh, the drama!

Then came the storyline I’d been waiting for. My character got in a big car accident, and I was thrown from my vehicle. I was found unconscious and not breathing by the side of the road, and had to be resuscitated via mouth to mouth.
Then my car exploded. It was all very dramatic. Sure enough, the next scene found me lying in a hospital bed. I’d finally earned my little oxygen tubes! Give me my oxygen tubes, I wasn’t breathing! But I was denied. Denied! No little oxygen tubes up my nose. In fact, I had an instantaneous recovery and was bouncing around on screen by the next episode. God, I was pissed.

Now, it’s hard for me to imagine even the idea of romanticizing being prone in a hospital bed.

Yesterday I was admitted into the ambulatory center at around two pm to get prepped for my final (hopefully!) surgery. I peed into the cup for the mandatory pregnancy test. I changed into the well-worn gown. I got my IV plugged into a vein in my arm. I put on my little hair cap. And I waited."

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