TV Buzz Critics pounced on Rosie O'Donnell after her poorly-rated variety show proved to be a bizarre mess from a bygone genre. In case you missed it, let me fill you in: Rosie's endless warbling, Liza Minelli's walking corpse, Gloria Estefan's one-liners, Alec Baldwin whispering into Rosie's cleavage, and a gay joke from Clay Aiken.
TV Buzz If Rosie O'Donnell's variety show (airing tonight) is a success, word is that the format could make a healthy return to television, what with others down the pipeline from John Mayer and The Osbournes. Many have sworn off its viability, but considering the voracious appetite Americans have to see Cloris Leachman's boobs, anything is possible.
TV Buzz Brooke Smith — better known to Grey’s Anatomy fans as Dr. Hahn — has been suddenly canned from the show, and some are claiming that it’s directly related to the fact that her character is gay. With Dr. Hahn being one half of what was the only lesbian couple on prime time television, should we expect Rosie O’Donnell to make an appearance sometime soon? (Note to Rosie: Please reprise the role of Riding The Bus With My Sister’s Beth Simon, in which your choice of playing “mentally retarded” meant doing a 90-minute impression of Cookie Monster).
Celebrity Buzz Between the granny hooker look, Danity Kane’s strippers in space, and the fact that Jodie Marsh is someone that people apparently know, the skank revolution only seems to be growing (much like Jodie Marsh). In the wake of the Pussycat Dolls’ world domination, Britney Spears in a wet tee shirt now sounds about as vulgur as Whoopi Goldberg in a burka.
TV Buzz HBO is hoping to do with British import Little Britain what it did with New Zealand’s Flight of the Conchords: make the weird, niche-y smash in its native homeland a stateside success. You know a character-driven sketch show is on HBO when it includes two ‘roid-happy, totally-not-gay gym buddies with eensy weensy pencil d*cks.
Movie Buzz Funny Or Die has picked the movie at random and called together an Internet campaign to turn the 1993 flop into a cult favorite. Now we know what Buzzfeed would have looked like in 1993! And who said irony was dead?