Archive: March 2010 (241-250 of 463)

Mar 16 2010 12:14 PM ET

Tiger Woods will return for Masters

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Categories: Tiger Woods

Tiger Woods announced that he will make his return to professional golf at the Masters Tournament in Augusta, Ga. on April 8. In a statement posted on his website, Woods explained that, “After a long and necessary time away from the game, I feel like I’m ready to start my season at Augusta. The major championships have always been a special focus in my career and, as a professional, I think Augusta is where I need to be.”

Woods hasn’t played competitive golf since last November, and his career and image suffered a considerable setback after a Nov. 27 car accident and the subsequent revelation of several extramarital affairs. In the statement, Woods also says he’s undergone inpatient therapy. “I am continuing my treatment,” he said. “Although I’m returning to competition, I still have a lot of work to do in my personal life.”

Mar 16 2010 12:06 PM ET

GQ on Rielle Hunter's complaints: 'She knows what she...was doing.'

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Categories: Celebrity Babies!, Politics, Television

According to Good Morning America, GQ is in disbelief regarding Rielle Hunter’s complaints about her “repulsive” photo shoot in the magazine. Hunter — better known as John Edwards’ mistress — had told Barbara Walters that she thought all but one photo in the magazine spread would be headshots. (The pics that ran featured the videographer in only a shirt, pearls and underwear.) “Rielle is a smart woman,” GQ reporter Lisa DePaulo — who wrote the article on Hunter — told Good Morning America. “She knows what she wore and what she was doing in the photo shoot.”

GQ‘s footage seems to support that: On the morning show, the magazine released a video of the photo shoot that showed the photographer asking Hunter, “You want to take a look at this?” following a shot.

Mar 16 2010 11:00 AM ET

FCC releases plan to expand broadband

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Categories: Tech

The Federal Communications Commission unveiled its National Broadband Plan today. The 10-year plan, which includes recommendations for Congress as well as local government and the FCC itself, seeks to expand high-speed broadband Internet access to an additional 100 million homes by 2020, create affordable access at “anchor institutions” like schools and hospitals, bring broadband to rural communities, and promote greater agency transparency, among other goals. The report calls broadband “the great infrastructure challenge of the early 21st century,” and compares its development and expansion to those of the transcontinental railroad and electricity.

Mar 16 2010 10:15 AM ET

Monday ratings: 'House' dips, 'Life Unexpected' holds

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Categories: Television, TV Biz, TV Ratings

ABC’s Bachelor behind-the-scenes 20/20 wasn’t quite up to rose ceremony standards, but it wasn’t the only dip: House, Chuck, Rules of Engagement, and Gossip Girl were all down slightly from last week. Life Unexpected continued to out-perform Gossip Girl, and thanks to repeats from other 10 p.m. shows, Law and Order picked up 1.7 million viewers over last week.

Time Show Viewers (in millions)
8:00 p.m. House (Fox)
20/20 (ABC)
How I Met Your Mother (CBS)
Chuck (NBC)
Life Unexpected (The CW)		 11.2
8.0
6.2 (repeat)
5.8
2.1
8:30 p.m. The Rules of Engagement (CBS) 7.8
9:00 p.m. Two and a Half Men (CBS)
24 (Fox)
Mercy (NBC)
Gossip Girl (The CW)		 12.5 (repeat)
9.0
5.2
1.7
9:30 p.m. The Big Bang Theory (CBS) 11.5 (repeat)
10:00 p.m. CSI: Miami (CBS)
Law and Order (NBC)
Castle (ABC)		 9.0 (repeat)
6.9
6.6 (repeat)

Source: Nielsen

Mar 16 2010 06:00 AM ET

Syfy greenlights 'Three Inches' pilot

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Categories: Television

Syfy has ordered a 90-minute pilot for the offbeat semi-superhero dramedy Three Inches. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the script “centers on an underachiever who gains the power to move any object using his mind, but only for a distance of three inches. He recruits a team of fellow heroes, each with their own less-than-spectacular abilities.” It’s from writer Harley Peyton (Twin Peaks) and executive producer Bob Cooper.

Syfy also tells the trade it’s hoping to spin off Battlestar Galactica beyond Caprica.

Mar 16 2010 05:58 AM ET

Jason Segel to star as the human lead in new Muppet movie

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Categories: Movie Biz, Movies

Jason Segel will star in Disney’s upcoming Muppets movie as the human lead, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Although details of the plot are being kept secret, Segel will play a man looking to find and reunite the Muppets in a script he wrote himself.

Mar 16 2010 05:48 AM ET

Steven Spielberg selling Jackie Kennedy Onassis script

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Categories: Movies, Television, TV Biz

Steven Spielberg is behind a script about Jackie Kennedy Onassis that’s currently circulating in Hollywood, the L.A. Times reports. Jackie, which follows the days after the assassination of John F. Kennedy from the late First Lady’s point of view, was written by Noah Oppenheim, a journalist, author, and producer on the Today show. Spielberg is producing, and HBO is a likely bet to buy and produce the film to air on the network.

Mar 16 2010 05:45 AM ET

Amanda Seyfried, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Orlando Bloom to costar in 'Albert Nobbs'

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Categories: Movie Biz, Movies

Amanda Seyfried, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and Orlando Bloom are joining Glenn Close in Albert Nobbs, Mike Fleming reports at Deadline.com. Close is making her producing debut on the film, which she co-wrote with Man Booker prize-winning author John Banville, based on a short story by Irish author George Moore. Close stars as a woman who dresses as a man to find work in 19th Century England and subsequently gets involved in a love triangle. Production begins in June in Dublin.

Mar 16 2010 05:38 AM ET

Paul Bettany, Rufus Sewell join Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie in 'The Tourist'

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Categories: Movie Biz, Movies

Paul Bettany and Rufus Sewell have joined the cast of the Johnny Depp-Angelina Jolie thriller The Tourist, according to Variety. The film, which tells the story of an American tourist who is visiting Italy to get over a breakup but crosses into a dangerous path when he takes up with a woman there, is currently shooting on location in Venice.

Mar 16 2010 05:37 AM ET

Erin Andrews stalker sentenced to 30 months in prison

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Categories: Television

ESPN reporter Erin Andrews’ video stalker has been sentenced to 30 months in prison, the Associated Press reports. Andrews was recorded while changing in hotel rooms by hidden cameras placed there by Illinois insurance executive Michael David Barrett, 48. He pleaded guilty to following her to at least three states and then posting his recordings of her online. “I’m at the angry stage. I’m mad,” Andrews told reporters outside the Los Angeles court after the sentencing. “Thirty months isn’t enough.”

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