Wednesday, December 12, 2007

TV Hodgepodge

MTV's The Hills was scheduled to wrap up its third season this past Monday night, but it now has a new lease on life. The popular series -- you may have heard about star LAUREN CONRAD's very-public feud with ex-friend HEIDI MONTAG -- will return in the spring with eight bonus episodes. The show will follow Lauren as she goes to Paris on behalf of Teen Vogue magazine...






The wife of thirtysomething star TIMOTHY BUSFIELD has filed for divorce after 19 years of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences. JENNIFER BUSFIELD seeks joint legal custody of their 16-year-old son, SAMUEL, among other things. Busfield's credits also include The West Wing and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip...







NBC is in a giving mood this holiday season. The network has announced that it's reimbursed some advertisers for commercial time they'd purchased in advance for primetime shows that fell short of projected ratings levels -- a rare move in the TV business. Most ad time for fall TV is sold the previous spring






Time is up for the new NBC drama Journeyman. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the network all but cancelled the show, about a time-traveling reporter, when it failed to pick up the KEVIN MCKIDD series for a full season by yesterday's deadline. The two remaining unaired episodes of Journeyman will still air on NBC...

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