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J.J. Abrams to TCA Tour Reporters on Lost's End Date, Fringe, and ...

... I wish he would have turned to these people surrounding him in the clip and suggest they back off. Man, I could never be famous, the crowds would freak me out to no end.

(BTW, if you want some paparazzi run over with a car, just make me famous and put them in front of my Ford Ranger, which I will still be driving when I'm famous though I will have it converted to full electric.)

Clip after the jump, but first ... some initial reactions to Fringe from the web.

Walt Belcher at the Tampa Tribune:

The first impression of “Fringe,” the buzz-generating sci-fi thriller coming to Fox this fall, is “it’s good but not knock-your-socks off great.”

Second impression: “Thank God, it’s not as complicated as ‘Lost’.”

Fox screened the pilot for TV critics and The People Who Blog About Television via closed-circuit TV to our rooms. I watched it twice.

There’s an inferior rough cut version that’s available on the Internet and producer J.J. Abrams hates that.

Hey, if J.J. doesn't like that, how was it leaked? Seriously, is he trying to tell us here that he didn't know or didn't act or ask someone to act? Please.

Alan Sepinwall from the Newark Star-Ledger (writing at his own blog):

J.J. and company know what they're doing. It's a slick pilot with interesting characters, a plot that moves and some good action sequences. Noble and Jackson are very strong as genius father and son (I always liked Jackson as Pacey and am glad to see him in a good adult role), and supporting players like Reddick (as Torv's hard-line boss, not much of a stretch from his work on "The Wire") and Brown (as an executive of a cutting-edge science company) do the expected lot with a little, in terms of screen time. J.J. admitted at the session that "Alias" got too incoherent too quickly and promised stronger episodic elements each week, in addition to whatever ongoing story arcs he has planned.

Clip after the jump.

Dark Knight's Gary Oldman Tells Carrie Keegan: "It's F**king Awesome!"

Talking about The Dark Knight.

Sure, sure. Yeah, okay. Oh, and by the way, Gary, the proper construction of that sentence is "They're f**king awesome."

Oh, he really was talking about The Dark Knight.

"Well, That's very different.

"Never mind"

(Miss you, Gilda.)

BTW, Carrie's on E! on Wednesday night the 23rd with some drunk slut at 11:30 pm.

And of course, Carrie's feature in Playboy is at this link.

And now, boys and girls, but mostly boys (and the gays that love her), the clip.

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And, because you're thinking about him right now, too, after the jump, Carrie's Heath Ledger Interview from the I'm Not There press tour.

(Miss you too, Heath.)

Carrie Keegan, Playboy's Babe of the Month (But, she's the babe of every month!)

She's the most beautiful woman I know, and now she's at this link at Playboy.com. I know the pic is small, but I don't wanna tread on Hef's (Mr. Hef? Mr. Hefner? Hugh? Whatever ...) turf here, there are plenty of images of the lovely Carrie when you click over.

From their pages:

The curvaceous host's cleavage has been known to stop celebrities in their tracks. On nerdy comedian types, the Keagan effect is particularly acute: A supertight red top rendered Semi-Pro's Will Arnett a sputtering idiot. And if the melons don't get you, the mouth will. Carrie can make anyone drop F-bombs and innuendos. She whipped Tim Meadows, Matt Besser and Chris Parnell of Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Storyinto such a frenzy of graphic penis talk that Parnell looked as though he might lose his lunch. "I think I have the same sense of humor as a lot of these comedians," Carrie says. "But when it's coming from a girl with big boobs, it seems a little wrong."

No way! To me, it seems so so right!!! But then I love subversive, especially subversive and funny at the same time.

After the jump, Carrie talks to the cast of The Wackness, which of course is the stoner comedy that features Ben Kingsley making out with one of the Olsen twins (I don't know which one, does it matter?).

Do not watch the clip at work. And you kiddies, just move along, nothing for you to see here.

The official word from my 71-year-old Dad? "She's Magnificent!"

THR.com Video -- Showrunners Discuss the State of the Medium

Though the video is mostly Lost's Damon Lindelof -- seen here during the strike with Marc Cherry, Wisteria Lane's own -- with a little Matthew Weiner (Mad Men) and David Shore (House) thrown in, the interview by James Hibberd also includes Craig Thomas from How I Met Your Mother (the only traditional comedy represented) and Bryan Fuller (Pushing Daisies).

Here's a taste, clip is after the jump:

THR: Ratings in general have been down post-strike. Is that having an impact?

Lindelof: I can't process the fact that people used to, at 9 o'clock on Thursday night, watch (ABC's) "Grey's Anatomy," and now those people have decided, because it was off the air for 100 days, to play chess instead. They're still watching it -- I just think they're watching it on their TiVos.

Weiner: "The Sopranos" was off for 18 months. And I know, because I wasn't paid during that period. (Laughter.) It comes back, and people want to watch it. But I have to say that part of our leverage during the strike was that in the strike of '88, people changed their viewing habits. I don't think they're playing chess. They're watching other things. They're playing video games.

Click below, watch the clip.

THR.com Video -- Neil Patrick (Wait for It) Harris Candidly Looks Back On Coming Out

My favorite line?

"I made out with Cobie Smulders last week on the show, and when I watched it I got an erection."

Man, I could get all creepy older gay guy and say something like, "Me too, Neil, and I still have it on my DVR and I play it over and over in slo-mo with a little cutout of a photo of my face that I place on the HD screen itself so that ..."

... but that would be sooooo creepy.

And, you know, I love him to death, but to me he'll always be a kid genius who went into medicine and has that nice girl Wanda hanging around.

Clip after the jump, because I like it like that.

THR.com Video -- ABC's Two New Series, Just Two

You can just watch Marc Berman from Mediaweek and James Hibberd from the Reporter talks. They were there, after all.

I'll have comments after the jump.

And yes, either Marc Berman is a giant or James Hibberd would fit in your pocket. I'm not really sure.

UPDATE: Sorry, I had to put the clip after the jump, I'm pretty sure it's the thing that's slowing down the loading of my homepage.

Video -- The Alec Baldwin Pilot -- My Casting Suggestions

I gotta give you the clip first or it makes no sense. I've had to put the clip after the jump, but if you're clicking to this particular post, of course this makes no never mind to you.

I never know what needs to be explained and what doesn't.

The picture above of former Lost cast member Ian Somerhalder is there because he's mentioned later. And because he has very engaging eyes.

Two clips and my casting notes after the jump.

Video -- Britney's Sitcom Return and Plans for Next Season (?!?)

Craig Thomas, who with Carter Bays created How I Met Your Mother and is it's executive producer, talked to the Hollywood Reporter in the last couple of days about (no last name required) Britney's return to the show and ... yuck ... plans for next season.

I have two clips, one from CBS and the Hollywood Reporter video, and they are both after the jump.

THR.com:

Spears first visit resulted in "Mother" hitting its highest rating ever. The show has since maintained an elevated audience level compared to last year. Once considered on the bubble for a fall renewal, the critically acclaimed comedy is now considered a lock to return next season.

I have problems with this on a number of levels (of course, when do I not?) which I have expressed in the past, but the most important one is this ... there is some young woman in Hollywood that would have played the part of the receptionist on the show had there not been a whacked-out pop star looking for some career rehab.

With the producers just breaking off talks with SAG, I think a lot about actors and actors who would like to make a decent middle-class income from acting, and every time Britney or Nicole Richie or even worse, someone from the Spencer Pratt section of the showbiz world gets that gig, the trained actor who doesn't loses.

So, Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, if you can managed to not do this in the future, I'm sure those actors and some of us viewers would be much happier. Why us? Because you can't think for a second that I can stay involved in the storyline when one of your characters looks like that stupid chick that became this year's American Trainwreck.

Video -- Secret Diary ... Star Billie Piper Talks About Meeting the Real "Belle"

C'mon, you know if it's Billie Piper, it's gonna be posted here. I have only a moment so no comments from me except this:

WATCH THIS SHOW!

Secret Diary of a Call Girl debuts June 16 on Showtime. Visit the official site. Visit Billie's Facebook page (I'm an Admin there).

And, that clip is after the jump.

Hollywood Reporter Video --Felicity Huffman Nails It Re: Actors & TV Series

"It's hard for people to see you not as that character because you've been on their TV set for five years, six years, seven years. I don't know if it's a problem, it's just the way it is."

Her plan? Tugboat maintenance! Watch.

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