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Video -- Hayden Panettiere on Catty Schoolgirls, Waning Heroes, Her New Movie, Raccoons

With the gang from the KTLA Morning Show here in Los Angeles.

The Heroes stuff comes toward the end. She claims that the bar was set so high the first season that it's been hard to rise back to that level. I say Tim Kring shot his load early and has failed to keep a staff stable (Bryan Fuller just left, AGAIN!) or learn to innovate.

I beginning to believe that he got lucky with a great pitch and then "lost his abilities" and became a producer only worthy of Crossing Jordan-type stuff once again.

Hayden clip after the jump. She's with Sam Rubin, Mark Krisky and that skinny blonde woman they have in the AM that's kind of shrill.

Video -- Carrie Keegan Gets Up Close With Hayden Panettiere

I'm not feeling really cheeky right now so can you write your own naughty li'l Carrie meets Hayden thing? Put it in the comments section and I'll replace this lame paragraph with the winner and absolutely no compensation whatsoever except my thanks.

Before you start, two things ...

a) Chris Columbus, director, AND ... No Good Television virgin I believe. Check the 1:12 mark in the clip for the typical "can you say that" moment.

b) If you think about it, this movie is Can't Hardly Wait only from the Jennifer Love Hewitt character's point of view, kind of, almost.

One more thing, it opens Friday. I would bet it'll open in the $18-25 million range and cool considerably in the second week. Should open well in countries where Heroes is being shown.

Clip after the jump.

Hey, what ever happened to her recording career?

You, get writing!

Quelle Surprise! Heroes' Hayden -- Star Makes Boilerplate Nice Nice With Press, Ex, Fans

You know I rarely say anything about this celebrity stuff but since Heroes is on tonight and I can whore it up with the best of them if need be, though OK! Magazine should not consider this an audition at all even if I am linking to them.

Former cheerleader now comic geek bait Hayden has been covering her tracks publicity-wise after a couple of bad hits. First, there was a dust-up with a reporter in Hawaii that had the words "Don't you ever touch me" attached.

(Requisite cat wail)

Then, reports that she was trying to get inappropriately aged ex Milo canned from the show. That made me laugh 'cause I realized she might actually have the juice to do that.

So, she went to the very reputable news and information leader OK! Magazine with ...

"Milo and I are very close," the 19-year-old beauty explains to OK!. "We have enjoyed and continue to enjoy working together."

(snip)

"I have tremendous respect for the media and reporters – particularly the press who treat the people they are interviewing with dignity," she says. "I am appreciative that the press has supported me, my career, and especially the causes I feel passionately about. While in Hawaii, one reporter grabbed me suddenly from behind and frightened me. It happens. Typically, the press has treated me with great respect."

And check this, Tim Kring gets involved too. Also in OK! Mag:

OK! also heard from Heroes honcho Tim Kring, who said that his stars' relationship status has nothing to do with how he and his staff plot the NBC hit. "The final decision about which characters live and die on Heroes rests with me," he tells OK!. "I've made no announcement yet as to who will return and who won't."

Very rarely do I see writer/creator/executive producers getting involved in a celeb story on this level, unless it's Shonda Rhimes and I blame her cast for that. They're even more unruly.

When I read these celeb statements I always think about that series with Courteney Cox on FX a couple years back called Dirt.

Why OK! Magazine? Did they have something even more alarming on her? Was this a trade a la Lucy Skinner's method of finding cover-worthy stories?

How does a girl who got her GED after homeschooling and working all through her teens sit down to write a statement like either of them, anyway? Some reasonably sophisticated sentence construction for a 19-year-old, I think.

How about we don't really buy all this official statement crap or exclusive to this fish wrap with color photos garbage because we're not stupid.

Kids, here's a lesson for you ... Don't have sex with the much older guy at work and expect it will work out. It doesn't ever work out.

It was HaLo from the get-go, it was bound to end in a shootout.

2 Clips -- Sebastian Stan is Prince Jack, Man With a Secret on Kings

That secret? That he was in the Hayden Panettiere music video for her song ... uh, hey, wait a minute. This song was released last October and this is the first I'm hearing it, does that mean it didn't get airplay?

Well, this isn't about Hayden ... though tomorrow I'll be following up on those rumors that she's trying to get ex-BF Milo fired from his job on her show. Honey, you don't stick your ... well, you don't do this (click it).

Back to Kings, though Prince Jack is not what he seems. Many of you know what the spoiler is already but I'm still not elaborating because I just hate that.

And by the way, he's not an alien (or the Moxx of Balhoon, Ty. Not everyone can be the Moxx).

Sebastian Stan is a guy you might have seen in the film version of Tony and Tina's Wedding or in the movie The Covenant, but most recently he's been playing Carter Baizen on The CW's Gossip Girl, which I can't watch because of the foolishness I feel when I sit in front of it.

After the jump, watch him in that Hayden music vid and then a clip where he discusses his character from NBC.com.

From WPIX in NY's website:

Sebastian Stan is everywhere these days. Along with having starred in two episodes of Gossip Girl as Carter Baizen, he is also on the new show Kings and the movie The Education of Charlie Banks.

From executive producer Michael Green, NBC's new series, Kings is a contemporary re-telling of the timeless tale of David and Goliath. This series is an epic story of greed and power, war and romance, forbidden loves and secret alliances--and a young hero who rises to power in a modern-day kingdom. Stan stars as Jack Benjamin, the arrogant son of King Silas. Catch the two-hour series premiere this Sunday at 8 pm.

The Education of Charlie Banks features Jesse Eisenberg in the title role as a young man whose sheltered world at his Ivy League campus is shaken when Mick (Jason Ritter), an old acquaintance with a violent past, unexpectedly reappears in his life. Mick uses his easy charm to win over Charlie's friends and his crush, and soon integrates himself fully in his life. Stan stars as Leo.

Clips after the jump.

Heroes' Hunter Straps Suicide Vest to Parkman -- Over the Top or Comic Book-ish

I don't know what to think about the end of this week's Heroes episode. Is it in this Hunter guy's makeup to strap a suicide vest on Matt and push him out of the SUV on the Capitol Mall?

Isn't there just loads of CCTV cameras on the mall these days? And heightened security, even with the Hunter's various clearances? Wouldn't someone figure this out?

Does the guy who wrote this think you're stupid?

Now that's something to think about, because the name on the episode was Aron Eli Coleite and when you look at his IMDB page and see the eps that are "his" (of course, everything on this show is written by committee), he seems responsible for all the crap this show has attempted to foist on its very very forgiving fan base in the past.

I hate to harp on one guy, especially when the US TV industry is such a group effort (especially the writing), but the evidence is telling.

I just can't buy this. Apparently, per the preview for next show, he either doesn't get away with it or he gets away with branding not only our hunted heroes but also Senator Nathan Petrelli a clear and present danger to the American people and then things really turn around.

And eventually the Sylar story should merged with this one, and I would guess that will take till the end of the season to happen, but that could be a great confrontation.

I just hope that's an episode the Verheiden or Fresco write.

Sorry, Aron.

Though if you were responsible for the moment when Justin Baldoni (kissing Claire above left) took off his shirt I take some of that back. But just some of it.

And not just because it was fun to see. I seem to have been one of the few blogs that had a shirtless pic of the guy posted. Many new readers because of that.

And next week it seem's Claire gets a job at a comic book store because the geeks love to look at her. Don't you love when art imitates life?

Preview clip at this link.

Heroes' Hayden, Hot Enough That She Knows She Has Your Attention (for a few moments) With an Election Message

Oops, sorry I didn't say this previously, but this clip is NSFW and not for the kids. F-bombs abound.

I know, sweet li'l Hayden can swear like a, well, like a Republican really faltering in the polls.

LINK

Smokes? Yep.

Seatbelt? What's a seatbelt?

McCain? Just as safe as smoking without your seatbelt on!

Video -- Hot Mother - Daughter Action (Seriously)

And, images, too!

 

 

And, it was a very good episode to boot. I'll say more during the week.

But the beginning of the clip, when they were walking into the shipping container (always a shipping container, were they in Ireland, too?) was reminiscent of a women in prison movie. You know, one where the older, hardened con takes on the young spitfire upstart with the breasts that defy gravity and all that sexy manic hotheadedness. Dontcha think?

If you watch the whole clip, you can then click a link on the screen and rewatch (or watch for the first time) last night's Heroes episode.

You Are Not As Interested in Heroes as You Once Were, Say Overnights

James Hibberd at the Reporter:

The two-hour premiere of NBC's top drama "Heroes" was down 25% compared with last year's one-hour opener, taking an expected hit following a creatively middling second season and an extended nine-month hiatus prompted by the writers strike.

The "Heroes" debut (9.9 million viewers, 4.9 preliminary adults 18-49 rating and a 12 share) ranked second in the 9 p.m. hour after ABC's "Dancing With the Stars' " return, and second at 10 p.m. following CBS' "CSI: Miami" debut. ("Heroes" was actually down even more, 33%, if you include NBC's heavily protested move to push Nielsen last fall to roll its Saturday repeat rating into its premiere). Clip show lead-in "Heroes: Countdown to the Premiere" (6 million, 2.6/7) placed third in the hour.

Ouch!

Robert Seidman at TVByTheNumbers.com (which is back online after a server issue):

Still, NBC will likely declare it a hit, and rightly so because it performed well int he 18-49 demo, and crushed the field among 18-34 year olds. Among that youthful demo, Heroes was the most-viewed show last night.  Even with less than half the total viewers that DWTS had, it outperformed DWTS by over 40% in the demo.

DWTS = Dancing With the Stars.

About the countdown show, was that wise? Should one be celebrating, dressing up, boasting about the great season ahead, before the ratings and reviews come in?

Because I thought it was all pretty lame.

But I understand the desire to separate the Chuck and Heroes premieres by a week. It gives each show its due.

Heroes' Milo Ventimiglia: "The New Season's Gonna Melt Your Head"

Oh, the young (Milo's 31 this July, huh?), they sometimes forget not to play the game of diminished expectations, which after last season might just be a good idea.

Video from Access Hollywood from the red carpet at the NBC-Uni Upfront-type-but-not-quite event in New York. Sit through the Masi stuff at the beginning which is him just obviously pitching the show like he did the same thing 800 times that day (it's the tone, Masi, the tone!).

Milo's always worth at least a glance, and then Adrian, who tells us he returns and isn't dead, gives you some meat, followed by Quinto, Hayden (suitably distanced from that older guy she dates,

as usual -- even in this clip) and Jack Coleman.

(By the way, no one so far has offered to send me to the Edinburgh TV Fest to see Tim Kring and Russell Davies. What's up with that?)

And, I have news from HeroesTheSeries.com that Bruce Boxleitner will be added to the cast in a role that was originally based on John McCain, but has now been changed, I'm guessing because McCain is the presumptive Republican nominee.

And, they're gonna have some web content starting in July, but I gotta tell you right now that they better step it up and use some actual cast members (not one's that just exist online) and there better be something to it -- meaning no standalone worlds that don't impact the story we see on TV, or I'm not gonna waste my time.

And this season, please, no bombs and no viruses. I'm so sick of bombs and viruses.

Clip after the jump.

Video -- Heroes' Hayden on Sexual Harassment

From FunnyOrDie.com today ...

Yeah, remember that show Heroes that NBC used to run -- UPDATE: Oh, it's still on the air, just no new eps till next year -- well, anyway, here's the lovely Hayden P. with a short lesson about things that you shouldn't say at the office or on set to, apparently, women who look like her.

Women? Okay, she's 18, but just. That's right, Milo, she's 18!!!

Interesting choice for this Judd Apatow comedy clip, dontcha think? The network TV star that more than likely was secretly dating a much older man while she was underage?

Eww.

Clip after the jump, the homepage here's gettin' kind of busy.

BTW, remember Heroes: Origins? Well, forget it, you'll never see a frame of it, it'll never get made and you'll never hear about it again, as far as I can tell.

Kevin Smith said his segment might feature two gay Heroes. I will miss seeing that.

Smittie, send me your outline, I would love to read it.