TV Potpourri

According to the Hollywood Reporter, CBS has ordered a trio of reality shows. The first, Game Show in My Head, features people whose ordinary lives are thrown out of whack when they're ordered to complete outrageous stunts. The second show is called Secret Talents of the Stars and features celebrities trying to outdo each other in a variety of contests, with one person being eliminated each week. The final series is America's Top Dog, in which dogs and their owners live together while trying to win a cash prize. What they have to do to win is unclear...

Steroids may be tainting the sports world, but NBC is making sure it doesn't do the same to TV. According to Broadcasting & Cable magazine, the peacock network has been testing the dozen cast members of American Gladiators to make sure they don't use any performance-enhancing drugs. The gladiators, all of whom are bodybuilders, took the tests during their initial physicals and must agree to random tests while the show is on the air...

Baby, Baby

NICOLE RICHIE and CHRISTINA AGUILERA aren't the only stars who welcomed little bundles of joy over the weekend. Forty-year-old According to Jim star COURTNEY THORNE-SMITH and husband ROGER FISHMAN became the parents of a boy named JACOB EMERSON FISHMAN Friday in Los Angeles. It's the first child for the couple.

Meanwhile, People magazine reportsformer 52-year-old In Living Color star DAVID ALAN GRIER became a father last Thursday when wife CHRISTINE KIM gave birth to a girl they named LUISA DANBI-KIM.

Thorne-Smith and Grier each welcomed the addition to their broods at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the same hospital where Nicole Richie became a mommy on Friday.

Are those Gloden Globes in your pocket....

The Golden Globe Awards were presented with much less fanfare than usual last night in Beverly Hills. Since the ongoing Writers Guild strike forced the cancellation of the annual awards show, the winners were announced by entertainment news personalities at a news conference. The president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which presents the awards, vowed that the glitzy ceremony would return next year.

Cable ruled the top TV awards. AMC's Mad Men was named best drama, while RICKY GERVAIS' HBO series Extras was the winner in the musical/comedy series category.

TELEVISION

Best Drama

Mad Men

Best Actor, Drama

Jon Hamm, Mad Men

Best Actress, Drama

Glenn Close, Damages

Best TV Series, Musical Or Comedy

Extras

Best Actress, Musical Or Comedy

Tina Fey, 30 Rock

Best Actor, Musical Or Comedy

David Duchovny, Californication

Best Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made For TV

Longford

Best Actress In A Mini-Series Or A Movie Made For TV

Queen Latifah, Life Support

Best Actor In A Mini-Series Or A Movie Made For TV

Jim Broadbent, Longford

Best Supporting Actress, TV Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made For TV

Samantha Morton, Longford

Best Supporting Actor, TV Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made For TV

Jeremy Piven, Entourage

TV This Weekend

Friday

ABC: Grey's Anatomy, Cashmere Mafia, 20/20 (NEW)

CBS: Ghost Whisperer (NEW), Moonlight (NEW), Numbers (NEW)

NBC: 1 vs. 100 (NEW), Friday Night Lights (NEW), Las Vegas (NEW)

FOX: Bones, House

CW: WWE Friday Night Smackdown

Saturday

ABC: Pearl Harbor (2001)

CBS: Football: Jacksonville vs. New England

NBC: Dateline (NEW)

FOX: Cops (1hr), America's Most Wanted

Sunday

ABC: Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (repeat), Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (NEW), Brothers & Sisters (NEW)

CBS: The Amazing Race 12 (NEW), Comanche Moon (NEW)

NBC: Dateline (NEW), Golden Globe (press conference style), American Gladiators

FOX: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (NEW), Family Guy (NEW), American Dad (NEW)

CW: Life is Wild (NEW), Crowned: The Mother of All Pageants

Courtesy Dave Kent @ The New 93.9 KISS FM, Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill NC!

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TV FunHouse

Sopranos star JAMES GANDOLFINI is now engaged. An HBO spokesman says the actor and his longtime girlfriend, former model DEBORAH LIN, got engaged during the holidays. No wedding date was announced...

Actor/director MARIO VAN PEEBLES is joining the cast of ABC's daytime drama All My Children. Van Peebles will play Samuel Woods, a U.S. District Attorney who's running for the Senate. Van Pebbles film credits include New Jack City and Baadasssss. His first air date in January 29th...

Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve attracted an average audience of 18.05 million total viewers -- 29 percent more viewers than NBC's New Year's Eve with Carson Daly and Fox's New Year's Eve: Times Square 07 combined. Dick Clark's audience saw an increase of ten thousand viewers over New Year's Eve 2006...







ABC is recommitting itself to The Bachelorette. According to Variety, the dating show could return to television as soon as this summer. The Bachelorette, which reverses the premise of The Bachelor by having a female choose a new love from a group of several men, hasn't aired since 2005...

Lost....

Former Lost star MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ was released from jail Wednesday in Los Angeles after serving 18 days of a six-month sentence for violating probation related to a drunken driving case.The 29-year-old actress was set free under a jail overcrowding program that allows nonviolent female inmates to serve as little as ten percent of their sentence. Rodriguez benefited from the same program two years ago when she served just one day of a two-month sentence for another probation violation.Rodriguez pleaded no contest to drunken driving and hit-and-run in L.A. in 2003 and pleaded guilty to drunken driving in Hawaii in 2005. Her most recent probation violation occurred when she failed to perform community service and was caught drinking while wearing an alcohol monitoring device. The actress appeared in season two of Lost.

Is Paula Back?

Has her years on American Idol inspired PAULA ABDUL to make a super-sized comeback? TVGuide.com's MICHAEL AUSIELLO reports that Abdul is in talks to perform during Fox's Super Bowl telecast next month. She may reportedly use the same choreography that she's currently rehearsing for a video to an upcoming duet with fellow Idol judge RANDY JACKSON.

Ausiello says Abdul would bring some intrigue to the February 3rd broadcast, saying, quote, "Paula is, let's just say an unpredictable personality. You never know what she's gonna be like in any given day." TOM PETTY is already slated to perform during the Super Bowl halftime show.

Even if Abdul doesn't participate, American Idol will still leave its mark on the Super Bowl telecast, with RYAN SEACREST serving as an entertainment host on the pregame show