‘Life’ trailer and sneak peeks: Yikes! Ew! and Whoa!

If you loved the Discovery Channel’s Emmy-winning “Planet Earth,” then mark your calendars for “Life.”

“Life” is the eye-popping 11-part follow-up series that gets more intimate with the plants and animals across all seven continents and will premiere Sunday, March 21 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Oh, and Oprah Winfrey narrates.
Zap2it got a sneak preview of [...]

Jay Leno: Letterman ‘found me on Facebook’

Jay Leno says that despite any lingering bad blood between himself and his soon-to-be (again) late-night rival David Letterman, “a good joke is a good joke.”
And that, in a nutshell, is why he agreed to tape the now-famous Super Bowl promo for “The Late Show” with Letterman and Oprah Winfrey.
“Letterman and I hadn’t seen each [...]

Dave, Oprah and Jay: Wait — NBC agreed to this?

Amid all the multimillion-dollar ads during the Super Bowl, a quickly assembled and shot CBS promo spot nearly upstaged them all.
David Letterman pulled off a great stunt by secretly taping a 15-second spot reprising his promo from CBS’ last Super Bowl broadcast in 2007, where he sat and watched the game with Oprah Winfrey. This [...]

David Letterman, Jay Leno and Oprah’s secret Super Bowl party

Late-night rivals David Letterman and Jay Leno came together for a Super Bowl truce of sorts, but it wasn’t easy.
According to the LA Times, the logistics of shooting the commercial played out like an espionage flick.
Leno secretly boarded a flight to New York on Tuesday (Feb. 2), sneaked into the Ed Sullivan Theater and [...]

Oprah’s new Oprah show on ‘Oprah’ on the Oprah network

If you thought Oprah Winfrey appearing on every cover of “O” magazine was overkill, how about an Oprah show about another Oprah show?
When the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) debuts in January 2011, it faces a particular conundrum: How to create a show about Oprah that isn’t the same as her syndicated talk show, which will [...]

‘The Oprah Show’: What’s Oprah’s big birthday surprise?

Oprah Winfrey is 56 today (Fri. Jan. 29) and “The Oprah Show” will have more than 100 people born on the same day in the audience, as well as “Up in the Air” director (and the only guy George Clooney sees fit to kiss up to), Jason Reitman.
What’s cooler than sharing your birthday with Oprah [...]

‘American Idol’: Wish Adam Lambert a happy birthday, give to charity

Adam Lambert may be celebrating his 28th birthday Friday (Jan. 29), but he doesn’t want your gifts … for himself.
The “American Idol” runner-up has requested that fans donate money or supplies to support music and arts programs in public schools.
At DonorsChoose.org, Lambert has selected some of the neediest programs from around the country. Among the [...]

Jay Leno on ‘Oprah’: I haven’t talked to Conan

Jay Leno will offer up his perspective on NBC’s late-night debacle on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” Thursday — and judging by a snippet of the interview, he didn’t walk away completely unscathed.
In the interview, Winfrey asks Leno if he thought any of the things Conan O’Brien — the former “Tonight Show” host whose ouster last [...]

‘American Idol’: Happy Birthday, Ellen DeGeneres!

Ellen DeGeneres, talk show host extraordinaire and “American Idol” judge, turns 52 Tuesday (Jan. 26).
Happy Birthday!
DeGeneres is such a spry 52, and if her lumbago doesn’t flare up, we hope to see her boogie-ing up and down the aisles of her talk show for many more years to come.
In her 52 years on [...]

Oprah Winfrey to interview Jay Leno

Oprah Winfrey will take the late-night discussion to daytime.
The media mogul will feature Jay Leno on her talk show on Thursday, Jan. 28, reports the New York Times.
No doubt they’ll have plenty to discuss, like NBC’s timeslot experimentation, the ratings/affiliates, Conan O’Brien’s payout and Leno’s return to “The Tonight Show” on March 1.
For the one-on-one [...]

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