Jessica Simpson is at boot camp in Louisiana this week to prepare for her role in the Private Benjamin-esque Major Movie Star.... Also per the New York Daily News, Kim Cattrall is off to London to lens the Sex and the City film.... Per the Reporter, Idol runner-up Katharine McPhee is a pregnant hippie in a feature comedy starring Anna Faris as a Playboy Playmate turned sorority house mom.... Now in production: American Pie: Beta House, starring some Band Camp returnees as well as Bradford Anderson (General Hospital) and Meghan Heffern (Flight 93).... Don Cheadle is a CIA operative working undercover with a terrorist group and Guy Pearce is an FBI agent in the thriller Traitor.
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Premiering today on DVD, American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile upholds the franchise's legacy for overdoing outrageousness by following Erik Stifler, a younger cousin of the original films' Steve (Seann William Scott), and a virgin above all else — unheard of within the clan of bad boys. As Erik braves college and an annual event called the Naked Mile (in which the student body's collective bare body streaks 'cross campus), he draws the interest of comely coed Brandy, played by Candace Kroslak. TVGuide.com quizzed Kroslak about the Pie series' juiciest (and unrated) entry.
TVGuide.com: So how are you summing up Brandy for prospective American Pie 5 viewers?Candace Kroslak: She's pretty much the college sorority girl t
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent will become the first drama series since 2001 to air weekday reruns in broadcast syndication when it unspools reruns on Fox-owned stations starting next fall.... Ryan Seacrest confirmed on Thursday's Extra that he and Dick Clark will again cohost ABC's New Year's Eve special this Dec. 31.... A Dec. 19 street date has been announced for the straight-to-DVD sequel American Pie: The Naked Mile, featuring what is undoubtedly another blink-and-you-miss-it cameo by franchise vet Eugene Levy.... Disney Channel presents a Halloween-themed Mickey Mouse Clubhouse on Saturday, Oct. 28, at 9 am/ET.
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Television's new fall lineups won't be unveiled until May, but Hollywood is already making predictions about which pilots will become full-fledged shows. Here are some projects that are generating heat.
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip NBC has penciled in this drama from West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin about the backstage doings of a famous sketch-comedy show à la Saturday Night Live. Sorkin's mighty pen, and a cast that
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Did you hear the one about Brad Garrett and the sitcom about a married couple living adjacent to a jaded and argumentative duo? The Everybody Loves Raymond alum, who at one time was eyeing a Robert-centered spin-off of the hit CBS comedy, now is in talks to join Fox's 'Til Death, a laffer about newlyweds (the groom is played by American Pie's Eddie Kaye Thomas) who move in next door to a long-married couple, of which Garrett would play half.
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