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My Name Is Earl Dead, Deal With TBS Won't Work Out
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Update, 3:21 p.m.: My Name Is Earl show runner Greg Garcia just emailed me directly, "Yeah, we're done. Couldn't make it work." Sad face.
All hope is lost for My Name Is Earl. The comedy series, which aired on NBC for four seasons, is now well and truly canceled.
20th Century Fox Studios just released a statement verifying that talks to take the show to TBS for 13 more episodes have fallen apart.
Why didn't it work out? Here's what we know:
Exclusive
Could My Name Is Earl Be Saved?
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NBC ignominiously canceled My Name Is Earl last month, but now there's hope yet for more episodes!
Star Jaime Pressly (who plays Joy, Earl's loopy ex-wife) tells E! News exclusively that another network is negotiating for more episodes of the series. Whoo!
What's the network? What are the realistic chances of more Earl? And when will we know for sure? Here's what we're hearing...
Jason Priestley on Brenda Walsh's Rumored Illness: "That's Awesome!"
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Oh, Brandon. Didn't your mama teach you not to sound too excited when someone mentions your sister might be sick?
Apparently not, because Jason Priestley said this when asked today about the unconfirmed (and possibly totally untrue!) rumors that his former onscreen sister Brenda Walsh (Shannen Doherty) might have a serious and possibly fatal health issue on the CW's 90210:
Exclusive! Jenna Elfman Hooks Up With Earl
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Hot cheerleader alert!
Inside sources confirm to me exclusively that Jenna Elfman (of Dharma and Greg and über-tall fame) is shooting a guest spot on My Name Is Earl this very minute over on the NBC comedy's set in Encino. She's playing a cheer-academy coach in the first episode being shot for the upcoming fourth season.
So what does the new glamazon in town mean for our boy Earl's love life? Read on to find out!
Exclusive! You Won't Believe What Earl's Boss Did During the Strike
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Did you want fries with that strike? 'Cause this just about the best strike story we've heard in the past 100+ days.
My Name Is Earl creator and head writer Greg Garcia told us the following, and it blew our minds:
I'll be completely honest with you, there's so much math involved in all of [the strike], I don't understand any of it. So, my whole thing during the strike was just stay out of the way...So, I just got a job at [a major fast food chain], and I was working there for a month. I'm serious. I was a cashier. I just checked out. It was great.
Ha ha. Very funny. Big-deal show runner works at McTuckyFriedTaco or Shmack in the Wienerschnitzel for a month. Sounds like a good plot for a TV comedy.
Except, dude, he was not kidding.
Two different amigos de Greg assure me he did in fact work the cashier at a well-known national fast-food chain during the strike. (He asked us not to name the chain for reasons we dare not imagine.) And though he couldn't understand the math of the WGA-AMPTP contracts, apparently he made change on Snappy Meals like nobody's business.
Tomorrow, we're talking to Greg again, and we'll ask probing follow-up questions like, "Wait, seriously seriously you worked at [major fast food chain that remains nameless]?!" and "Why?" and "How come you went for the fast food instead of like, the video store, or the gym?
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