News Roundup: Gossip Girl, 90210, One Tree Hill and The O.C.

19 03 2010
  • The Chuck/Elizabeth storyline from this week’s Gossip Girl is one of TVGuide.com’s Top Moments of the Week.
  • PEOPLE.com has an article on the friendship between Matthew Settle (Rufus, Gossip Girl) and Kelly Rutherford (Lily, Gossip Girl).
  • Kristin has a post praising 90210 and dishing tons of spoilers, the majority of which I’m pretty sure we knew already.
  • WPIX has a video interview with Tristan Wilds (Dixon, 90210).
  • Apparently Shenae Grimes (Annie, 90210) is preparing a photography exhibit somewhere. News to me. Strange it wasn’t mentioned during her recent TV interviews.
  • Jennie Garth (Kelly, Beverly Hills 90210) participated in The KIND Movement.
  • The new season of Dancing With The Stars, featuring Shannen Doherty (Brenda, Beverly Hills 90210), premieres Monday night.
  • A postcard will be sent on your behalf–for free–to The CW in support of One Tree Hill if you fill out this form.
  • USA Today has an interview with Bryan Greenberg (Jake, One Tree Hill).
  • Nylon has a video interview with Greenberg.
  • Thanks to Sara for sharing this fun video of a guy performing a bunch of TV theme songs, including The O.C.
  • A TV critic believes Southland is a breakout role for Benjamin McKenzie (Ryan, The O.C.).




News Roundup: Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill and 90210

12 03 2010
  • The TV Addict has a graphic demonstrating the question many have been asking: why was Gossip Girl renewed and why is One Tree Hill on the bubble when OTH outperforms GG?
  • Kelly Rutherford (Lily, Gossip Girl) is on the cover of the April issue of Working Mother magazine. Looks like they posted the full interview online.
  • OneTreeHillBlog.com posted a wonderful picture of the cast in Utah.
  • The Park Record has another article about OTH filming in Utah.
  • Danneel Harris (Rachel, One Tree Hill) got one of the lead roles in Friends With Benefits, an NBC pilot.
  • Jennie Garth (Kelly, Beverly Hills 90210) was on the WPIX Morning News today and made some interesting comments about 90210.
  • PopEater has an interview with Garth.
  • TVGuide.com says new episodes of 90210 + Gabrielle Carteris (Andrea, Beverly Hills 90210) on Criminal Minds + Ian Ziering (Steve, Beverly Hills 90210) on CSI: NY all on the same night = Best Nostalgia Trip of the week.
  • Jason Priestley (Brandon, Beverly Hills 90210) will guest co-host the fourth hour of TODAY on Monday.
  • PEOPLE.com has an article on Jason Lewis (Rob, Beverly Hills 90210).




News Roundup: Gossip Girl, 90210, One Tree Hill and More

3 03 2010
  • Have you taken the TDW Survey yet?
  • Zap2it has an article on Gossip Girl, 90210 (and Melrose Place) returning, with some quotes from Chace Crawford (Nate, Gossip Girl).
  • Korbi has a spoiler-filled interview with Stephanie Savage (executive producer, Gossip Girl).
  • New York Magazine has a few Gossip Girl spoilers, as does Kristin.
  • PEOPLE.com has an exclusive sneak peek at the first new Gossip Girl episode while Kristin has an exclusive sneak peek at the following episode.
  • An EW.com writer says Rufus Humphrey (Matthew Settle, Gossip Girl) would be her choice real-life dad from TV. I saw some commenters picking Sandy (Peter Gallagher, The O.C.) and Kirsten (Kelly Rowan, The O.C.)
  • Jessica Szohr (Vanessa, Gossip Girl) is on the cover of the April issue of Lucky.
  • Matt Lanter (Liam, 90210) will participate in a live chat with TV.com.
  • The new issue of TV Guide Magazine has an interview with Rumer Willis (Gia, 90210).
  • In the April 2010 issue of Harper’s Bazaar, Megan Fox apparently talks about Brian Austin Green (David, Beverly Hills 90210) and Kassius, the son he has with Vanessa Marcil (Gina, Beverly Hills 90210).
  • A Dancing With The Stars producer jokes that he’d like to have a Beverly Hills 90210 all-star cast on the show inĀ  a future season.
  • Radar Online (ugh) has a video interview with Jana Kramer (Alex, One Tree Hill) about her fashion style.
  • In an MTV interview, Benjamin McKenzie (Ryan, The O.C.) says, “I don’t know that we’d really ever do an ‘O.C.’ movie. I think most people have moved on.”
  • TV.com has an interview with McKenzie about Southland.
  • Zap2it has an article on James Van Der Beek (Dawson, Dawson’s Creek).
  • John Wesley Shipp (Mitch, Dawson’s Creek) will star in a movie called Daddy’s Girl.
  • EW.com has a fun interview with Carolyn Hennesy (Mrs. Valentine, Dawson’s Creek).




News Roundup: 90210, Gossip Girl and The O.C.

2 03 2010
  • Have you taken the TDW Survey yet?
  • Be sure to check out The CW’s site for all the new video content this week.
  • PEOPLE.com has 90210 spoilers.
  • SF Weekly has a great feature called Ten Bands That Have Rocked 90210, highlighting memorable music moments from Beverly Hills 90210 and 90210.
  • ABC’s Dancing With The Stars bio for Shannen Doherty (Brenda, Beverly Hills 90210) mentions she’ll be paired with Mark Ballas and she has a book called Bad Ass coming out.
  • Kristin and PopWrap have very spoilish interviews with Stephanie Savage (executive producer, Gossip Girl). She also makes a comparison to The O.C., which she also EPed.
  • Kellan Lutz (George, 9021o), Ed Westwick (Chuck, Gossip Girl), Josh Schwartz (creator, Gossip Girl; The O.C.), and Paul Wesley (Donnie, The O.C.) were named Fun Fearless Males for 2010 by Cosmopolitan.
  • Don’t believe this Hollywood Life “exclusive” that Westwick is buying a house for Jessica Szohr (Vanessa, Gossip Girl). Gossip Cop (full disclosure: my current employer) says it’s not true.
  • EW.com has an interview with Benjamin McKenzie (Ryan, The O.C.) about Southland with a subtle dig at The O.C.
  • TVGuideMagazine.com posted a feature article on McKenzie. This may be the one in the magazine. This one has a nicer comment about The O.C.




News Roundup: Gossip Girl, 90210 and The O.C.

26 02 2010
  • EW.com has a post asking if Gossip Girl and 90210 are better than Supernatural and Smallville.
  • Digital Spy has an interview with AnnaLynne McCord (Naomi, 90210). Some of it is outdated since we’re ahead of them in episodes but there’s some other good stuff.
  • Found random pictures of a store somewhere that is using Beverly Hills 90210 characters as inspiration for the fashion in their window displays.
  • PEOPLE.com has an article on Tiffani Amber Thiessen (Valerie, Beverly Hills 90210) and her pregnancy.
  • OK! Magazine has an article on Shannen Doherty (Brenda, Beverly Hills 90210).
  • Billy Campbell (Carter, The O.C.) will be in the March 9 episode of Melrose Place.




News Roundup: One Tree Hill, 90210, Gossip Girl and More

19 02 2010
  • I have confirmed that Antwon Tanner (Skills, One Tree Hill) will appear in at least one episode of OTH later this season, despite being sentenced last month to three months in prison. As I reported then, Tanner hadn’t been fired from the show and he has until the end of April to begin serving his sentence, so this news makes perfect sense. I will have a spoiler on Tanner’s appearance on Sunday.
  • Change of plans again: Robert Buckley (Clay, One Tree Hill) will indeed be at the Wilmington police fundraiser tomorrow.
  • Michael Grubbs (Grubbs, One Tree Hill) chose Tobias’ poem as the winner of our contest.
  • TVGuide.com and ScreenStar.com have interviews with Bryan Greenberg (Jake, One Tree Hill) about his new movie The Good Guy.
  • Variety has an article on Glee, which mentions One Tree Hill, Beverly Hills 90210 and Gossip Girl.
  • Monday is the start of the showbizzle Hollywood Challenge, where college improv teams and sketch comedy groups can compete fo the chance to work with Charles Rosin (executive producer, Beverly Hills 90210), among other prizes.
  • Caroline McWilliams (LuAnn Pruit, Beverly Hills 90210) died last week. She was 64.
  • MTV.com has an article on the AnnaLynne McCord (Naomi, 90210) Shape cover story.
  • Tristan Wilds (Dixon, 90210) and Matt Lanter (Liam, 90210) are participating in GameStop’s Bad Company 2 Celebrity Tournament.
  • Lanter spoke with E! Online about working with Leighton Meester (Blair, Gossip Girl) on The Roommate and gave some 90210 spoilers.
  • Brian Austin Green (David, Beverly Hills 90210), Meester and Ed Westwick (Chuck, Gossip Girl) are included in a PopEater list of Actors Who (Sort of) Secretly Rock.
  • Hilary Duff (Olivia, Gossip Girl) is engaged to hockey player Mike Comrie.
  • Aaron Tveit (Tripp, Gossip Girl) will appear on an episode of Ugly Betty in March.
  • PEOPLE.com has Gossip Girl spoilers.
  • PopMatters has an interesting article they say is about Chuck vs. Gossip Girl but there’s a whole lotta O.C. in there.
  • Olivia Wilde (Alex, The O.C.) will be among the presenters at the Film Independent Spirit Awards next month.
  • This is an interesting article on the connection the band Mumford & Sogs has to Orange County and The O.C.
  • The Boston Herald has an article on James Van Der Beek (Dawson, Dawson’s Creek) and his new movie Formosa Betrayed.




News Roundup: One Tree Hill, 90210, The O.C. and Dawson’s Creek

18 02 2010
  • Korbi is asking readers if One Tree Hill should return for an 8th season.
  • Hollywood Life (::cringe::) has an article in support of an 8th season (which really stems from an unfair poll they ran last week).
  • The TV Addict also has piece supporting One Tree Hill (and Life Unexpected).
  • Us Weekly (::shudder::) has a short interview with Shantel VanSanten (Quinn, One Tree Hill).
  • AnnaLynne McCord (Naomi, 90210) is on the cover of Shape Magazine, which Crushable.com thinks was photo-shopped.
  • John Schneider (Liam’s step-dad, 90210) will star in a pilot for Spike called Back Nine.
  • Shannen Doherty (Brenda, Beverly Hills 90210) spoke to PEOPLE.com about her fashion style and her admiration of Lady Gaga.
  • ShelterPop has an article on the Beverly Hills 90210 beach apartment being for sale. In addition to saying that it is indeed separate apartments (the listing I posted earlier this month said it was one house), there’s a picture of the inside–and it looks nothing like what we saw on the show. The intro also describes it as “Donna and David’s beachfront pad”–an odd choice considering David lived there for just one season while Donna and Kelly lived there, albeit off-and-on, for six.
  • The Wall Street Journal has an interview with Benjamin McKenzie (Ryan, The O.C.) about Southland.
  • Shutter Island, starring Michelle Williams (Jen, Dawson’s Creek) will be released in theaters tomorrow.




News Roundup: Gossip Girl, 90210, One Tree Hill and Dawson’s Creek

14 02 2010
  • Ausiello gave his renewal/cancellation predictions, saying Gossip Girl and 90210 (along with Smallville, Supernatural, The Vampire Diaries and America’s Next Top Model) are a “sure thing” while One Tree Hill (and Life Unexpected) “could go either way.” He says Melrose Place, however, is “a long shot.”
  • North By Northwestern has an interview with Eric Daman (costume designer, Gossip Girl).
  • OneTreeHillBlog.com has a great roundup of photos of Sophia Bush (Brooke, One Tree Hill), Austin Nichols (Julian, One Tree Hill) and Shantel VanSanten (Quinn, One Tree Hill) from New York Fashion Week events. There’s also reports, mostly in the tabloids, that Jessica Szohr (Vanessa, Gossip Girl), Chace Crawford (Nate, Gossip Girl), Shenae Grimes (Annie, 90210) and Kellan Lutz (George, 90210) attended some events.
  • Fug Girls has a two columns on NYFW mentioning some of the above stars, including Grimes, Bush, Nichols and VanSanten.
  • Examiner.com has an article on Bush and Nichols attending various NYFW events.
  • On the official site for Bush (Brooke, One Tree Hill), you can watch the episode she directed this season, 7.09: Now You Lift Your Eyes To The Sun, with commentary from her and Nichols.
  • A fan has organized a petition to show support for an 8th season of One Tree Hill.
  • Hilarie Burton (Peyton, One Tree Hill) has two vlogs on the SoGoPro site.
  • BuzzSugar has an interview with Bryan Greenberg (Jake, One Tree Hill).
  • PEOPLE.com has a short video interview with Greenberg and his How To Make It In America co-star.
  • NBC news anchor Lester Holt toured Vancouver with native Jason Priestley (Brandon, Beverly Hills 90210). See if you can figure the error Holt says in the beginning of the video.
  • James Van Der Beek (Dawson, Dawson’s Creek) posted a pretty funny video of him and his Mercy co-star Michelle Trachtenberg (Georgina, Gossip Girl).




News Roundup: One Tree Hill, 90210, Gossip Girl and More

26 01 2010
  • Last night’s One Tree Hill (2.2 million viewers rounded up) stayed the same in the ratings compared to last week. (Life Unexpected dropped quite a bit from 2.8 to 2.2.)
  • Be sure to check out The CW’s site for all the new One Tree Hill video content this week.
  • The PopEater interview with Robert Buckley (Clay, One Tree Hill) mentioned yesterday is now posted.
  • Star News has an interview with Mike Grubbs (Grubbs, One Tree Hill).
  • The new One Tree Hill Connection podcast has an interview with Scott Holroyd (David, One Tree Hill).
  • PEOPLE.com has a short article on the new season of Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood, starring Tori Spelling (Donna, Beverly Hills 90210)
  • John Eisendrath (executive producer, Beverly Hills 90210) wrote the script for a pilot called Justice, which was just picked up by NBC. Eisendrath will executive produce the show.
  • Jacksonville.com has an article suggesting Beverly Hills 90210 fashion (aka 90s fashion) will become big again this decade just as 80s fashion was big the last 10 years.
  • Kristin is hoping for a Gossip Girl-Vampire Diaries cross-over, with Leighton Meester (Blair) appearing on TVD and TVD star Nina Dobrev appearing on GG.
  • The Wrap has an exclusive clip from Twelve, starring Chace Crawford (Nate, Gossip Girl).
  • The comedy pilot Josh Schwartz (creator, Gossip Girl; creator, The O.C.) is doing, called Hitched, was picked up by CBS.
  • Wonderland, the production company responsible for The O.C., which is run by McG (executive producer, The O.C.), is making a web-based spin-off for Supernatural called Ghostfacers. McG will also executive produce.
  • PopEater has an interview with Kerr Smith (Jack, Dawson’s Creek).
  • EW.com has an article about the film Blue Valentine, which stars Michelle Williams (Jen, Dawson’s Creek) and premiered at Sundance.
  • MTV has a short interview with Williams about the film.
  • Jensen Ackles (C.J., Dawson’s Creek) confirmed he isn’t on Twitter. Thanks to Vida for the info!




News Roundup: Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill and 90210

15 01 2010
  • PEOPLE.com has a poll asking who should play the new Spider-Man and Penn Badgley (Dan, Gossip Girl) is one of the choices.
  • Taylor Momsen (Jenny, Gossip Girl) helped Victoria’s Secret launch their new fragrance.
  • MTV has a spoilish interview with Robert Buckley (Clay, One Tree Hill).
  • According to Access Hollywood, Jennie Garth (Kelly, Beverly Hills 90210) is done with 90210. There’s been pictures showing her in new episodes with Greg Vaughan (Cliff, Beverly Hills 90210; TBA, 90210), so perhaps they mean she won’t be filming any more episodes. Or perhaps they’re just wrong. We’ll see!