This Just In: TNT May Save Southland
• Southland: According to the Hollywood Reporter, TNT is considering picking up the John Wells drama Southland. Do it! Southland would go brilliantly with the network's existing slate of grown-up crime dramas like The Closer. The deal's not done yet though. A TNT rep tells us, "We continually look at all programming opportunities that fit our portfolio of brands." Keep your fingers and toes crossed!
• Dollhouse: Despite Dollhouse's seemingly shaky future, Fox has revealed that it will produce and air all 13 ordered episodes of season two. Good network manners such as these must be rewarded and encouraged. Someone send these people cookies!
• Chuck: The latest rumors about an early return for Chuck say that it all depends on the demise of Trauma. And now we're torn: Chuck is awesome, but Trauma is ER with exteriors, and it's not half bad. What say you?
South Park Sees Dead Celebrities, Then Mocks Them
Where do famous people go when they die?
South Park.
With a large cast of recently deceased celebrities, including Michael Jackson, DJ AM, Patrick Swayze, Farrah Fawcett, David Carradine, Walter Cronkite, Natasha Richardson, Dom DeLuise, Ed McMahon and TV pitchman Billy Mays, the Comedy Central cartoon stuck it to the dead in a Sixth Sense-style episode.
With something to offend just about everyone, the star hazing included Jackson taking possession of little Ike, Mays continuing to pitch products from the beyond and a final destination that should get fans, well, heated up.
What did you think: Too soon? Too funny? Sound off.
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South Park Proves It: Susan Boyle Is a Star
You know you've made it when South Park mocks you.
The controversial cartoon—which recently dubbed Kanye West a "gay fish" and laid a Mickey Mouse smackdown on the Jonas Brothers—name-checked Britain's Got Talent breakout star Susan Boyle in Wednesday night's episode.
The clip, centered around a spoof on the Somalian pirate story, features Cartman running away to Somalia and leaving a note.
"Dear Mommy and Daddy," Kyle reads, "I am running away. I am sorry, but I can no longer handle the monotony of middle-class life. Everyone at school is a f--king idiot, and if one more person talked to me about that Susan Boyle performance of Les Misérables, I was going to puke my balls up through my mouth…"
At least we already know the Scottish instant star and YouTube sensation has a sense of humor.
South Park's No. 1 Fan: Saddam Hussein?
Before "gay fish" Kanye West, there was...Saddam Hussein?!
South Park masterminds Matt Stone and Trey Parker have revealed members of the U.S. military sent them a photograph autographed by the Iraqi dictator before he was executed in December 2006.
The South Park duo told Britain's Telegraph that members of the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division repeatedly screened the 1999 film South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut for Saddam while he was in custody.
Stone and Parker relished poking fun at the bellicose leader over the years. Their 'toon version of Hussein made his debut in an early episode "Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus," when he mounted a failed invasion of Canada. In the big-screen South Park, he is the major villain, having a torrid affair with Satan and eventually impaled on a spike.
"We're very proud of our signed Saddam picture and what it means," Stone told the Telegraph. "I have it on pretty good information from the Marines on detail in Iraq that they showed Saddam the movie. Over and over again—which is a pretty funny thought.
"That's really adding insult to injury."
Video: Kanye West Is a Gay Fish
Always one to take things to the next level, Kanye West comes out as a gay...fish. With the help of comedy controversy-mongers at South Park, that is, on this week's episode. Check out Kanye's music video above, which features the revolutionary underwater AutoTune vocal effect. Glub-glub on that, T-Pain!
Meanwhile, the fish, er, man himself, has taken to his blog to offer up one of his all-caps rants about being poked fun at on the show:
"SOUTH PARK MURDERED ME LAST NIGHT AND IT'S PRETTY FUNNY. IT HURTS MY FEELINGS BUT WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT FROM SOUTH PARK! I GOT A LONG ROAD AHEAD OF ME TO MAKE PEOPLE BELIEVE I'M NOT ACTUALLY A HUGE DOUCHE BUT I'M UP FOR THE CHALLENGE."
As for the clip, we're sure some conservatives are going to scream "Unholy mackerel!" But we say different strokes for different folks!
Smacked Down on South Park, Jonas Bros Turn to Wal-Mart
The Jonas Brothers don't "want to be selling sex to little girls anymore," at least according to Wednesday night's episode of South Park. Instead, they're going to sell polo shirts with ruffle accents.
The JoBros rocked the cartoon stage and then received a lengthy mocking for their purity rings on the episode of the animated Comedy Central series. "The Boss," Mickey Mouse, even came to make sure by way of total beatdown that the squeaky-clean Disney bandmates keep their symbolic chastity belts on their fingers.
In real life, however, the exploding trio announced the launch of their clothing line inspired by their new Disney Channel series, Jonas.
The tween line—featuring said polos and other woven tops, shorts, leggings, skirts, jeans and argyle sweater vests, natch—will be available in the fall, just in time for back-to-school shoppers. The pieces will retail from $9.99 to $36.99 and will be found at Wal-Mart, Kmart, Sears and JC Penney stores nationwide.
Jonas Brothers: South Park & Real Concert Experiences
The Jonas Brothers have something for fans and haters alike today.
Detractors can check out Kevin, Nick and Joe as they get the Trey Parker and Matt Stone treatment tonight on Comedy Central's South Park. Cartman will take his new girlfriend to a JoBros concert in the hopes of reaching second base. But those plans are foiled when the boys give the characters purity rings just like theirs.
As for the fans, the group used their MySpace page to announce they're following up their film flop, Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience, with a hopefully more successful actual concert experience. (The girls were just saving the $10 that would have gone toward a movie ticket to put toward more expensive concert seats, right?)
The purity-ring-clad family is heading on a globe-trotting tour through August, hitting more than 50 cities. American Idol winner Jordin Sparks and Honor Society will be joining the adventure. Will you?
South Park: The Obama-McCain Master Plan
No wonder John McCain's concession speech Tuesday night was so gracious.
It turns out he's been in cahoots with Barack Obama for the last 10 years, and the pair have been devising a way to get either one of them into the White House as part of their plan to steal the precious Hope diamond from the Smithsonian.
Well, at least according to the folks over at South Park, who, on last night's episode, showed Obama and McCain attending a postelection meeting with other members of the "greatest thief club in the world" to explain it all.
Hey, if in some weird way it helps the economy, we say, screw it—take all the diamonds you want.









