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NBC has something nice up its sleeve tonight for TV viewers seeking a little medieval entertainment mixed with familiar faces. Who wouldn’t want some of that?
Mira Sorvino, a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award winner for Mighty Aphrodite, will headline the network’s four-hour, two-part miniseries The Last Templar when it takes off tonight, January 25, at 9pm EST.
Sorvino plays lead character Tess Chaykin in the drama, which is based on the best-selling debut novel of the same name by author Raymond Khoury. Equal parts mystery, history, and action-adventure, the plot revolves around Tess, a Manhattan-based archaeologist, and her reluctant …read more

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Most of us know Sigourney Weaver as invincible, no-nonsense alien butt-kicker Ripley, but the actress’ newest project couldn’t be more different in tone. This weekend, she headlines Lifetime’s latest original made-for-TV movie, Prayers for Bobby, a real tearjerker with a real message based on a real story that originally took place in the 1970s.
Weaver plays religious mother and housewife Mary Griffith, who learns some important lessons about herself and life as she struggles first to deal with her son Bobby’s homosexuality and then his suicide when her attempts to “cure” him don’t work. Following the second tragic event, …read more

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Like film actresses Scarlett Johansson, Penelope Cruz, Rebecca Hall, and/or Patricia Clarkson? If so, you’ll have the chance to spend some time with the talented women when their well-received romantic comedy Vicky Cristina Barcelona, the latest Golden Globe winner for Best Comedy or Musical Movie, comes out on DVD this Tuesday, January 27.
Directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Woody Allen, the movie takes place in Barcelona, Spain, where two young American women go on vacation together and end up falling for the same bohemian painter, played by No Country for Old Men Oscar winner Javier Bardem. The love triangle …read more

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Gigi Levangie Grazer, the author who penned the hugely popular novel that The Starter Wife is based upon, has another best-seller heading to the tube. Next year, Lifetime will present a four-hour mini-series adapted from Grazer’s 2006 success Maneater.
Cast in the lead role of self-involved 31-year-old socialite Clarissa Alpert is former Roseanne and current Scrubs star Sarah Chalke. The plot revolves around her character’s attempts to gain the attention of a famous Hollywood producer named Aaron Mason and convince him to marry her, a complicated plan that requires the help of her entire family and circle of friends.
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The title is simply her name, and the tagline is the pithy observation "She conquered with style." You bet.
Tonight at 8pm EST, Lifetime will present the network’s latest original movie, Coco Chanel. The three-hour rags-to-riches biopic chronicles the life of legendary French haute-couturier pioneer Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, creator of the ubiquitous fragrance Chanel No. 5, not to mention an immediately recognizable signature fashion style.
According to the official synopsis, the story begins in 1954, when France’s Chanel attempts to put personal upheaval behind her and stage a comeback, which utterly fails. From there, we learn about other crises and accomplishments in …read more

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Don’t read after the jump if you don’t want to know who won what in advance of tonight’s Teen Choice 2008 special. It airs on Fox from 8pm to 10pm EST, with Hannah Montana star and teen icon Miley Cyrus hosting.
Now for those craving spoilers, let’s get to business…

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It’s been over a year since actress Rachel Bilson starred on the Fox drama The O.C., but that’s all right because her 2008 Teen Choice Awards nomination is in the film category Choice Movie Actress: Action Adventure, thanks to her work in this year’s sci-fi action thriller Jumper.
Bilson was one of many nominees and entertainers who attended the awards event held at Gibson Amphitheater in Los Angeles, California, on August 3. Tune in to the Fox special Teen Choice 2008 on August 4 from 8pm to 10pm EST to learn if she wins, and follow the jump for some …read more

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Lifetime has another original movie premiering on Saturday, August 2, at 9pm EST. This one is a based-on-fact drama called Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal about real-life Mean Girls.
Set in sports-loving Texas, the movie recounts the unbelievable story of five little cheerleaders who somehow managed to rule their high school. I swear, looking at the scrawny girls involved, I don’t know how they accomplished that. Either the grown-ups at their school must have been really helpless and/or blind, or the cheerleaders involved had some kind of supernatural powers, like the women on Charmed or in The …read more

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Native New Yorker Cynthia Nixon was the fourth and final star from Sex and the City: The Movie to stop by Live with Regis and Kelly. Her appearance was on the Friday the movie opened, so by that time, the grand premiere to-do was over, prompting Kelly Ripa to ask how the actresses managed to look so beautiful during the event after getting dressed around their children.
Guest co-host Pat Sajak was back for another day, and he, Nixon, and Ripa also discussed the actress’ ability to lead a normal life in New York, her brush with breast cancer, the …read more

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The third Sex and the City: The Movie actress to make her way to Live with Regis and Kelly before the film’s premiere was the one most people consider the star of the television series, Sarah Jessica Parker. Dressed in a pretty brown-colored dress that somehow managed to avoid being too drab, Parker sat down to chat with Kelly Ripa and the guest co-host for the day, Pat Sajak.
The actress talks about how proud she is of what she does and how much she adores her husband, fellow actor Matthew Broderick. Of course all of the talk about …read more

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