Law & Order Rips David Letterman's Sexcapades From the Headlines
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What took so long?
After taking a shot at the Gosselins, the Law & Order brain trust has now set its sights on a certain late-night dog, plotting a ripped-from-the-headlines scenario based on David Letterman's personal life.
The casting call has just gone out for the episode, which per The Wrap will revolve around a "well-known celebrity talk-show host, married with children," who has engaged in "a series of short-lived affairs with some of the employees on the show and up until now has managed to keep them off the radar."
Until, that is, the host is approached by an email- and photo-equipped blackmailer who demands $3 million in hush money.
Sounds familiar enough. But it wouldn't be Law & Order without a twist, and this one's a doozy...
Benjamin Bratt Returns to Law & Order
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It turns out you can go home again.
After a couple of failed series (Jerry Bruckheimer's military drama E-Ring and A&E's rehab drama The Cleaner), the very delicious Benjamin Bratt is returning to the show that made him a star: Law & Order.
According to NBC, Bratt's gonna make a one-episode appearance later this season in an installment that "reunites him with his former boss Lt. Anita Van Buren (S. Epatha Merkerson)." The network hasn't announced a specific airdate for the ep.
Even if it is just a flyby, we'll be more than happy to have Benjamin back on TV. Rey Curtis was always a great character, and heck, he was Julia Roberts' best boyfriend ever.
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Law & Order Rips the Gosselins From the Headlines
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Just what Jon Gosselin needs: more screen time.
And this time, it's personal fictional.
From the It Was Only a Matter of Time Department comes word that the octodad and Kate Gosselin will be immortalized in an upcoming episode of Law & Order, with the Jon figure appearing as the prime suspect in the death of his wife.
Jim Gaffigan will play Jon-lite (admittedly, not that tall an order) in the Oct. 16 episode, fittingly entitled "Reality Bites." The show unravels as the father of 10 adopted special needs children discovers his wife's body and quickly becomes the person of most interest in the case. Previously hidden affairs and offers of reality TV shows (stop us if you've heard this before) are among the family secrets uncovered by detectives along the way.
Which, salacious as it sounds, still doesn't hold a candle to the drama that is Jon and Kate's real-life legal wranglings…
This Just In: Bonjour, Paris! Meet Supernatural's Fame Demon
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• Supernatural: Check out the promo photo the CW just released of heiress Paris Hilton, who guests on this Thursday's episode of Supernatural as a demon who feeds on the disorienting power of celebrity.
• Grey's Anatomy: Kim Raver checks in to Grey's Anatomy on Nov. 12 as a "possible love interest" for Kevin McKidd's Owen Hunt. Ugh. Shouldn't she be over on Fox toying with Jack Bauer instead?
• Parenthood: Gilmore Girl Lauren Graham might take over Maura Tierney's role on the NBC series Parenthood. Tierney departed the series to focus on her breast-cancer treatments.
• Bored to Death: Jason Schwartzman lives to solve another crime. HBO's slacker-noir detective comedy Bored to Death has been renewed for a second season.
• Melrose Place: The New York Post's PopWrap blog asserts that Ashlee Simpson can't act. Anyone care to challenge that thesis?
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