Romany Malco’s new show is coming to YouTube
Former Weeds co-star Romany Malco is developing his own series and testing it out on YouTube viewers. Malco decided to create his own character after his Weeds role was written out of the show. He’s leaving Conrad Shepard behind and moving on to the role of Tijuana “T.J.” Jackson.
Malco described Tijuana Jackson as an ex-convict living under house arrest. Under a strange, “only on TV” legal arrangement, T.J. stays out of jail by supporting the three women that live with him. The women also happen to be prostitutes and T.J.’s employees.
Malco will release new episodes of the show each week, exclusively on YouTube. I can’t say that I love this concept. It reminds me of Seinfeld’s “so the judge decrees that he become my butler” idea. Romany Malco was fantastic on Weeds, though, and I’d like to see him do well. He didn’t mention the possibility of a Weeds spin-off in his interview, so perhaps that project’s on the back burner or still in the the very early stages of development.
Would you rather see Romany Malco do a Weeds spin-off or play Tijuana Jackson on YouTube?
[via PopWatch/Entertainment Weekly]
U.K. on Martha: Not a Good Thing
House of Stuart? Yes. House for Stewart? Not a chance.
Connecticut blue blood Martha Stewart has been refused entry to Britiain, with the U.K. Border Agency reportedly denying her a visa as a result of her insider-trading conviction four years ago.
According to the Daily Telegraph, which first reported the rebuff, Stewart was due to touch down across the pond this weekend, and was booked to speak at the Royal Academy as well as meet with several fashion and leader industry heavyweights.
“It is a bit silly given some of the other people allowed into the country,” an official told the paper.
You think?
“She has engagements with English companies and business leaders and hopes this can be resolved so that she will be able to visit soon,” Charles Koppelman, chairman of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, said in a statement.
Britain’s Home Office, which runs the U.K. Border Agency and has in the past prevented Snoop Dogg from entering the country, said it does not comment on individual cases but acknowledged they do their best to keep certain undesirables off their shores.
“We continue to oppose the entry to the U.K. of individuals where we believe their presence in the United Kingdom is not conducive to the public good or where they have been found guilty of serious criminal offenses abroad.”
Stewart was found guilty of conspiracy, making false statements and obstruction of agency proceedings on Dec. 27, 2001, as a result of her everything-must-go sale of ImClone stock. She was sentenced to five months in prison and five months of house arrest.
Those Brits deny Stewart yet embrace Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty? Guess they are the masters of irony after all.
Nick Hogan Gives Up Solitaire
Nick Hogan’s got himself some company.
Two days after a judge denied his request to be transferred out of solitary confinement, Hulk Hogan’s son, who’s serving time for a DUI crash that seriously injured his friend, was moved into a communal cell after a routine assessment of the ever-in-flux jail population, according to a spokeswoman for the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office.
Hogan, whose real last name is Bollea, was cooling his heels in an isolated maximum-security cell because, at 17 years of age, he was considered too young to live among the jail’s general population.
Attorney Kevin Hayslett argued in a motion filed Friday that his client was undergoing “cruel and unusual punishment” that didn’t fit the crime by being housed in those conditions. He requested Hogan either be granted house arrest until his 18th birthday or at least moved out of the concrete block he’d been calling home to be with other nonviolent inmates.
A judge refused a transfer but, according to the jail rep, a spot for Hogan opened up following a review of current housing assignments. The teen is now sharing space with three other juvenile offenders.
Hogan, who will turn 18 on July 27, was sentenced in an adult court to eight months behind bars after pleading no contest to reckless driving involving serious bodily injury.
Nick Hogan Requests Change of Scene
Hulk Hogan’s son has had about enough of himself for now.
Nick Hogan, who, after being sentenced to eight months in jail, has been cooling his heels in solitary confinement because he’s too young to join the general population, filed a motion asking that he be placed on house arrest until July 27, his 18th birthday, or moved into the minimum-security lockup.
Because Hogan, whose real last name is Bollea, is a minor, he has been isolated in a maximum-security cell at Pinellas County Jail, according to his attorney, Kevin Hayslett, who says the teen has lost at least 10 pounds and has no access to a telephone or TV, privileges enjoyed by inmates serving time for similar offenses.
“Understandably, this situation creates an unbearable anxiety for a minor in solitary confinement,” Hayslett wrote in court documents filed Friday. “This sort of confinement “substantially amounts to cruel and unusual punishment for a juvenile and is not warranted for a non-violent first offender serving a probation sentence.”
Hayslett also groused about Bollea’s telephone calls being recorded and disseminated to the press. The 26 hours of taped conversations included “deeply personal communications” and their release “caused unspeakable harm,” wrote Hayslett.
In a letter filed last week, counsel for the Pinella County Sheriff’s Office wrote that Hogan’s “current classification, housing and treatment…are proper.”
Hogan was sentenced May 9 after pleading no contest to one count of reckless driving involving serious bodily injury, punishment for a DUI crash that left his passenger severely injured.
The son of wrestling royalty also received five years’ probation (starting when he reported to jail), 500 hours of community service and a strict order to steer clear of alcohol throughout. He also had his license revoked for three years and was ordered to attend DUI school.