Jane Lynch: I Can Sleep Now That Emmy Show Is Near

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Jane Lynch is no longer losing sleep over her Emmy hosting duties. Im OK, the Glee star affirmed with a smile on Wednesday morning after rolling out the red carpet in front of the Nokia Theatre in downtown Los Angeles. I actually slept OK last night for the first time in about a week. Ive been having some anxiety issues. Lynch has been hard at work backstage on the show with longtime pals Jill and Faith Soloway from Chicago. The trio previously worked together on Annoyance Theatres The Real Live Brady Bunch in the 1990s. (Lynch played matriarch Carol Brady.) The first-time host promised that the Chi-Town ladies would bring kind of a Chicago feel to Sundays 63rd annual Primetime Emmy Awards. Jane is certainly going to be central to our experience, said Academy of Television Arts and Sciences chairman John Shaffner. I think the host of a program like this is the best friend who sits on the sofa and tells you great stories as the evening goes on and comments on the work. Shes here to keep us engaged in that way as a best friend. Lynch has won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for her performance as Sue Sylvester on Glee and is up for another Emmy this year. She was the first choice of executive producer Mark Burnett to host this years show. The Apprentice and Survivor mastermind said he voted for the 50-year-old actress to lead the show even before clearing it with his alliance. My only choice I wanted was Jane Lynch, said Burnett. I had not yet gotten permission to ask her from the Academy or Fox. I ran into Jane on a plane. We were both coming back from the upfronts in NY. I just went over to her and said, I have no permission right now, but if I can get permission, would you host the Emmys for me? Copyright 2011 by Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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'Jersey Shore's' Snooki and Deena Get Literally Trashed at the office (Exclusive Video)

Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi and Deena Nicole Cortese are in it again on Thursday's episode of MTV's Jersey Shoreline. They have been hanging out way too hard and now you have to cover their mischief. Well, not whether they can help it to. PHOTOS: 'Jersey Shoreline' Italia In Production The Hollywood Reporter comes with an exclusive clip from Thursday's episode. Inside it, the guidettes partied too much and they are too hungover the following morning to cope with work on the pizza place.Watch Team Meatball's unique way of attempting to skip out at work above. And MTV just launched one more clip below and well, it's known as "Processing One Another's Tongues." So, continue but be careful. PHOTOS: 'Jersey Shoreline' Hits Italia Jersey Shoreline airs Thursdays at 10 p.m. on MTV. Have More: Jersey Shoreline, MTV Shows Email: Jethro.Nededog@thr.com Twitter: @TheRealJethro RELATED: 'Jersey Shoreline's' Vinny Guadagnino Goes Las vegas about the CW's �' 'Jersey Shoreline' Recap: Who Needs Self-help? 'Jersey Shoreline's' Snooki Requires a Spin Behind this news Anchor Desk (Video) Nicole Polizzi MTV Jersey Shoreline Deena Nicole Cortese

Lionsgate Moves Safe To March 2

Lionsgate has moved its thriller Safe around March 2 in the March. 28 release. The film, whichstarsJason Statham, notifies the story from the former elite agent fighting in order to save a 12-year-old girl. The move provides some space between Safe and Statham’s Killer Elite, which Open Road has searching for a September 23 release. Boaz Yakin (Can remember the Leaders) directed Safe for producersIM Global, Automatik Entertainment, Lawrence Bender Prods. and Trigger Street Prods. Already slotted into that weekend are essential’s Hansel and Gretel: Witch Potential predators, the WB comedy Project X and Universal’s Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax.

TiVo Sheds Customers Again, But Wall Street Is Impressed With Quarterly Results

TiVo reported a wider quarterly loss and shed more customers who cast off their brand-title boxes in support of generic models, but financial results capped anticipation and also the stock rose around 8 percent following the closing bell Wednesday. TiVo lost 456,000 customers, ending its fiscal second quarter with 1.9 million, but the very first time in lots of quarters the organization added customers through its close ties with cable companies. The Digital recording device pioneer continues to be losing customers since rapport with DirecTV went south in the past. It's since struck a brand new cope with DirecTV and added Comcast like a partner, but individuals close ties happen to be stuck in neutral for a long time. Handles more compact cable companies within the U.S and foreign marketplaces, though, have started to deal with fruit. Boss Tom Rogers stated Wednesday in TiVo's earnings release that DirecTV is "advancing towards launch" but he earned no reference to Comcast. A speaker stated there is "just absolutely nothing to report." The organization reported a loss of revenue of $20 million in comparison having a lack of $15 million around-ago quarter, though revenue advanced 19 percent to $61.two million. TiVo ended the quarter with $628 million in cash, thanks to a $300 million payment from Dish Network that settled a patent dispute within the prior quarter, as well as on Wednesday Rogers stated TiVo will put a number of that cash to make use of using a $100 million stock repurchase plan. Rogers stated the stock -- which sunk 2 percent to $8.12 Wednesday -- is "buying and selling at abnormally depressed levels." Like the way it went after Dish, Tivo is suing AT&T and Verizon for patent violation. Related Subjects

Darren Star No Longer On Set Of ABCs New Good Christian Belles (But Remains On The Show)

EXCLUSIVE: There has been some behind-the-scenes drama on ABC’s upcoming dramedy Good Christian Belles. A fallout between writer/executive producer Robert Harling and executive producers/showrunners Aaron Harberts and Gretchen Berg on one hand and executive producer Darren Star on the other has led to a decision by producing studio ABC Studios to no longer have Star talk to Harling, Harberts or Berg, go to the set of the show, or to his GCB office. He continues to give notes on scripts and cuts but to the studio, not to the series’ writing EPs, at least not for the time being. Star also oversees marketing and publicity for the series. Star was never expected to be full-time on GCB for the long run because he is under an exclusive deal at HBO where he has the Goldie Hawn-starring comedy project The Viagra Diaries awaiting pilot green light. (He will go and run that show if/when that happens.) That’s why ABC Studios hired experienced showrunners Harberts and Berg after the pilot to help feature writer Harling. (For the duo, the assignment was part of their overall deal at the studio.) Still, the events of the past couple of months hastened that process, creating behind-the-scene tension along the way. As one observer put it, on GCB “the comedy is on the show, the drama is behind the scenes”. I hear at heart of the problem was the fractured long-time friendship between Star and Harling. It was Star who originally optioned Kim Gatlin’s book Good Christian Bitches and brought in Harling to write the TV adaptation. Star also shepherded the pilot from development through post-production. Some say there were signs of friction between the two as early as the pilot stage but the cracks became very visible after the ABC upfront presentation and subsequent international screenings where GCB was heavily marketed as a Darren Star series with no mention of Harling, something that I hear upset Harling. Tension started building as Harling, Harberts and Berg convened the show’s writing staff to work on storylines and scripts, with Star chiming in from afar. (Star reportedly didn’t do much to defuse the situation). In the end, I hear the work environment became intolerable, prompting ABC Studios to come up with the new arrangement, which is deemed temporary, at least for now, until things get smoothed out. As for the show, ABC has been happy with its creative direction so far (GCB is now in production on Episode 4), though it is unclear what impact Star’s scaled-down involvement would have.

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D23: Exclusive Avengers footage revealed

"And knowning that, The Avengers were put together," stated Kevin Feige, Leader of Production at Marvel Galleries because he introduced exclusive footage from the new super hero movie at Disney's D23 conference.OK, so our story tagline "Iron Guy and Nick Fury spar with Loki" indicates some fisticuffs however the verbal jousting they participate in really designed for an entertaining watch.Before that, Marvel demonstrated a awesome backstory montage that introduced together all the Avengers components from the Iron Guy movies, The Incredible Hulk, Thor and Captain America - telling everybody precisely what an enormous undertaking it has been to get at The Avengers movie.Then the time had come for Nick Fury to put lower what the law states for an jailed Loki in the manner only Samuel L. Jackson can.As Fury outlines the issues of attempting to flee (the glass cell sits on the hole having a deadly drop 30,000 ft lower), Loki cusses him for selecting to affiliate with the superheroes. Even while another Avengers watch from the control room. Loki promises he'll show Fury what "real energy is". Fury quips back: "Tell me if real energy wants the sunday paper or something like that."To not be surpassed, Downey Junior. also offers a run along with the demi-God, although Loki is not revealed before the finish from the footage.Naming from the Avengers team people Stark states, "Allows perform a mind count." This really is then footage of Hawkeye and Black Widow ("Two first class assassins"), a go of Thor ("A demigod"), footage of Captain America ("A full time income legend that really lives as much as the legend"), with Stark adding: "And also you large guy, you've handled to piss all of them off." Loki counters using the words, "I've an military." Tony replies, "You will find there's Hulk."Several cast people also turned up very, very briefly following the footage was revealed the very first time, including Tom Hiddleston (Loki), Cobie Smulders (Shield agent Maria Hill), Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye), Scarlet Johansson (Black Widow), Chris Hemsworth (Thor) and Robert Downey Junior. (Iron Guy)."We are pleased to be lower here going to our parents in Anaheim," Downey wisecracked, before asking the fans when they desired to watch the footage again after which exiting happens pretty sharpish.