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EXCLUSIVE!
First Look: Same Name Gets David Hasselhoff Mowing the Lawn
Did you know David Hasselhoff is a high-voltage power technician and landscaper from Texas?
Yeah, seriously!
But then there's also the other David Hasselhoff, who we all know from watching hit shows like Baywatch and Knight Rider.
Yup, two guys with the exact same name, who just so happen to be appearing in a new CBS show called...er...Same Name.
CBS Fall Preview Video: Kat Dennings and Michael Emerson Are People of Interest, Indeed
CBS upfront junkets are always orderly and spartan in the extreme, peopled by only the stars of their new shows, all of whom are on message and on their best behavior. So you gotta hope that the talent is sexy and fun, or you're plumb out of luck. Thankfully, this year, the talented included geek goddess Kat Dennings and one of our favorite interviewees evar, the great and terrible (terrible is a compliment in this case, people) Michael Emerson.
Press play above to see the electric chemistry between Dennings and her 2 Broke Girls costar Beth Behrs (cue slash fanfic...now) and then watch Emerson explain what his new CBS show Person of Interest means by that title:
Two and a Half Men Star Ashton Kutcher Thinks He "Won the Lottery" With New Gig
Who's winning today?
Charlie Sheen thought he was irreplaceable, but CBS took great pains at the 2011 upfront presentation to prove otherwise. He was absent from any and all promotional materials for Two and a Half Men (including a clip reel) and never mentioned by name. Instead, the network welcomed Ashton Kutcher to the stage in the company of the original one-and-a-half men, Jon Cryer and TV son Angus T. Jones.
So what did Ashton Kutcher and Jon Cryer say to the assembled advertisers when CBS "let them talk," as Kutcher put it?
CBS Video: 2 Broke Girls and the Return of Michael Emerson
Watch, judge, giggle and squee, TV fans, because these are your first looks at CBS' new fall series. We're exceedingly excited by the new Kat Dennings comedy 2 Broke Girls, but we're positively giddy about a show where Michael Emerson returns as a quasi-evil mastermind and where brooding alpha-male person Jim Caviezel wields a lot of semi-automatic weapons. Win-win!
Wanna see for yourself? Press play above to check out 2 Broke Girls, and then jump inside for more, including Emerson's Person of Interest (produced by Lost cocreator J.J. Abrams!) and the surprisingly poignant A Gifted Man (starring Patrick Wilson):
CBS Boss Reveals Post-Sheen Game Plan, Says "We Are So Excited to Have Ashton"
CBS nearly lost megahit comedy Two and a Half Men this year, thanks to living catastrophe Charlie Sheen, but Eye chief Nina Tassler just told reporters that despite the drama the network always counted on the continuation of the series, one way or another. (Still, CBS überboss Les Moonves noted about the recent Sheen-anigans, "I've been chased from every restaurant in Los Angeles in the last two months, avoiding questions.")
So why is CBS shaking up their Tuesday and Thursday schedules? What got canceled? And how exactly will Chuck Lorre kill off Charlie Harper so that he can be replaced by the new Ashton Kutcher character? Here's what we can tell you:
Katie Couric Confirms Worst-Kept Secret—She's Ditching CBS News
Well, this isn't exactly what you'd call breaking news.
Just weeks after a rep for Katie Couric informed the world that the anchor was more than ready to leave her post at the CBS Evening News, along comes Couric herself with a formal statement that she is indeed vacating the house Edward R. Murrow built.
What's Got the Cast of Happy Days So Damn Sad?
Sunday and Monday might be happy days, but turns out Tuesday is a sue-happy day.
Four members of the iconic Happy Days cast along with the estate of the late Tom Bosley are suing CBS, claiming their famous mugs have been slapped on everything from games to cards to T-shirts to, yes, slot machines without any of them seeing a dime.
"CBS has adopted a don't ask, don't pay policy," their lawyer, Jon Pfeiffer, tells E! News. "If you don't ask, we don't pay."
So which castmembers are ready to rumble?
Katie Couric Ready to Bail From CBS News, Rep Says...But Does She Want to Be Next Oprah?
Anchor's away...almost.
Katie Couric is likely leaving her chair at the CBS Evening News just shy of her five-year anniversary of becoming the first solo network evening news anchor, her rep confirms to E! News.
And Couric, who has not officially announced her intentions, apparently has an interesting future in the works.
Two and a Half Men Still 100 Percent Sheen-Free—but Is Charlie Crazy Like a Fox?
Charlie Sheen may be on a "winning" streak with his sold-out Violent Torpedo of Truth Tour. But as far as his old bosses are concerned, the idea of a Two and a Half Men reunion is still a losing proposition.
Reports started popping up Monday suggesting that CBS boss man Les Moonves is working the backchannels with producer Warner Bros. Television to find a way to bring the self-proclaimed Vatican Warlock Assassin back to his stomping grounds. But a source close to the production tell E! News...
How I Met Your Mother Renewed for Two More Seasons!
Two-more-years-of-Barney-Stinson-and-inappropriate-sexual-puns-five…nice!
In other words, How I Met Your Mother has been renewed for two more seasons, through 2013. This means two things.
For one thing, the slap remaining to be doled out by Marshall could be dragged out waaay longer than originally planned. And for another thing...




