Golden Celebrity

In a move that would further reinforce perfectly storming NBC co-chairman Ben Silverman’s programming philosophy that it’s much easier to clone a proven hit than waste a lot of time generating untested “new ideas,” TVGuide.com reports that the network is planning a spin-off of The Office, a show the Peacock has already supersized to within [...]

Did you somehow arrive to work too late this morning to be handed your very own copy of the WGA Negotiations Update literature being handed out by the union’s friendly, red-shirted flyer-distribution team at the entrances to every studio lot in town, or just generally feel left out of all the pre-contract-expiration fun?
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PrivacyWatch celebrity sightings are submitted by our readers, and are posted several times a week, so send them in often. Submit yours to tips[AT]defamer.com (please put “sighting” or “PrivacyWatch” in the subject line so we don’t lose them) and tell everyone about the time you spotted the guy whose voice was the last Tony Soprano [...]

Accused of raping a woman he lured to the Bahamas, other women are now coming forward to tell of their own experiences being cherry-picked from David Copperfield’s audiences for backstage Q & A and photographing sessions, with one sharing a (completely innocuous yet entirely creepy) voice mail left by the magician, proposing a “very interesting [...]

· Universal and New Line join the list of those who strenuously object to the WGA’s strike rules, warning writers in their employ that complying with their union’s demands to validate the scripts they’re trying to turn in before tomorrow’s deadline will put them in breach of contract. [Variety]
· Writers and studio executives alike [...]