Chris Kattan Green With Matrimony
It turns out Chris Kattan would rather drape himself in green than gold lamé.
The former Saturday Night Live star swapped vows Saturday with model Sunshine Tutt in what was described to News as an environmentally friendly affair.
“Married in beautiful Yosemite Valley, Calif., today,” Kattan, 37, writes on his website.
The couple, who enjoyed an uncharacteristically long Hollywood engagement of 18 months, walked the aisle in front of a small group. Invitees included Kattan’s onetime SNL castmates Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Jimmy Fallon.
Nature played a big part in the wedding theme, starting with biodegradable invitations printed on flower seed paper that could be replanted in the guests’ own gardens.
Kattan popped the question Christmas Eve, 2006, at Tutt’s grandmother’s house in Gainesville, Texas.
Tutt, 31, has appeared on E!’s Sunset Tan and in the feature film Monkeybone, in addition to print work.
Kattan left SNL in 2003 and has kept busy doing voice workhe had roles in Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters and will be heard in the upcoming Foodfight!and various other film and TV spots, including the Night at the Roxbury-spoofing Super Bowl commercial for Diet Pepsi Max.
More recently, Kattan has been working on the big-screen comedy Hollywood and Wine with Pamela Anderson and David Spade and may be back on the small screen soon.
Serving as host, Kattan shot the pilot in April for CBS’ Game Show in My Head, another wacky sounding offering from Ashton Kutcher’s production company, Katalyst TV, in which contestants do embarrassing things in public for money. So far, it’s unclear whether CBS will be carving out a spot on its schedule for the Candid Camera-style series.
But that’s OK, Kattan has a honeymoon to get to.
Jimmy Kimmel Lives On
Matt Damon’s gonna have to keep watching his back for a few more years.
ABC has reupped Jimmy Kimmel, opting to keep the viral video churner that is Jimmy Kimmel Live! on air through at least 2010.
Barring any Jay Leno network-jumping developments, the new deal means Kimmel will head up the battle of the late-night Jimmys when Jimmy Fallon takes over Conan O’Brien’s Late Show spot next year.
According to Variety, ABC’s decision for the early extension was due in part to the success of Jimmy Kimmel Live Game Night, a series of six half-hour specials running in conjunction with the NBA Finals in which only the crème de la crème of guests are featuredmost recently, Barack Obama and David Cook.
The specials averaged roughly 3 million viewers, almost double that of his late-night audience.
Someone better break the news to Uncle Frank that retirement just got a little further away.
Officially Official: Late Night Falls for Fallon
Jimmy Fallon will be the new Conan O'Brien, who will be the new Jay Leno.
As for the old Jay Leno? That's for another press conference.
Today it was NBC announcing what had been long suspected, and outright leaked: that Fallon will assume O'Brien's Late Night hosting chair once O'Brien assumes Leno's Tonight Show hosting chair next year.
"It's a comedian's dream to get this job, to work with writers and try to be funny every night," Fallon said from NBC's fabled "30 Rock" headquarters, where he used to star on Saturday Night Live, and where he'll star on Late Night.
Late Night executive producer Lorne Michaels said the Fallon era "probably" will begin in the first six months of 2009.
"I think when the transition happens it'll be as seamless as possible," Michaels said.
Leno was the 800-pound gorilla at 30 Rock, there but not there.
The longtime late-night ratings champ, who set his exit date for Tonight back in 2005, has been rumored to be rethinking retirement, and maybe even taking his act to another network. NBC execs had nothing to say today about Leno's future at their network, other than to say the diplomatically correct thing: "Everyone wants Jay Leno to be part of the NBC family."
Fallon, voted most likely to succeed David Letterman in kindergarten, comes to Late Night by way of SNL, where he starred for eight years, and the movies (Taxi, Fever Pitch).
At 33, he is already three years older and infinitely more well-known than O'Brien was when he took over for Letterman in 1993. Fallon said he'd recently returned to stand-up to get in shape for his new gig.
"I'm very excited about this…It's going to be grind, from all the advice I've heard from everybody," Fallon said. "I'm ready to work really hard."
Today's press conference was batting practice for Fallon, who responded to nearly every question with a quip.
- How much was he getting paid? "They're paying me enough," he said. "I just want to live comfortably. In Dubai."
- How long was his contract? "150 years," he said, adding that he had the Willard Scott Today Show deal.
- How was he planning to follow O'Brien? "I'm going to dye my hair red," he said, "and get lifts in my shoes."
But seriously, folks, Fallon said he wasn't planning to reinvent the talk-show format. Late Night will continue to tape in O'Brien's old studio and will continue to be called Late Night, "changing the With Conan O'Brien part," he added.
Today's NBC press conference took the place of what would normally be the presentation of the network's fall schedule. Breaking with tradition, NBC announced its 2008-09 plans last month. Not that the Peacock was without other, non-Fallon news. The network announced a new matrimonial-minded reality series, Momma's Boys, to be executive produced by Ryan Seacrest and reality veteran Andrew Glassman.
Elsewhere, Leno's still-kicking Tonight Show announced that country singer Dwight Yoakam's scheduled appearance on Thursday will make him the franchise's most-booked musical guest ever, with 24 appearances.
Upfront Buzz: Live From NYC
Hey, all! Welcome to upfront week. Today, here in New York City, we start with the NBC “Experience,” which, to my understanding, is a carnival-like soiree with a few of our Peacock favorites. That goes down later this afternoon, followed by ABC and the CW tomorrow, CBS on Wednesday and Fox on Thursday.
So what’s expected to be picked up or canceled this week? We’ll have the news in this column as the official announcements break, but for now, here’s what I’m hearing:
NBC: Most of the major announcements were made at Ben Silverman’s early bird quasi upfront last month, but today we’ll also learn that:
- Jimmy Fallon is taking over for Conan O’Brien.
- Ryan Seacrest is launching a new reality dating series called Momma’s Boys, in which overprotective mothers find a bride-to-be for their son.
ABC (announcements to be made Tuesday):
- Boston Legal will return, but with a significantly scaled down cast. (Reminiscent of The Practice’s cleaning and firing of six castmembers in 2003, which led to spinoff Boston Legal.)
- Women’s Murder Club is gone, as we reported last week.
- Eli Stone will get picked up and may possibly move into Boston Legal’s spot on Tuesday.
- Miss/Guided is likely to be picked up.
CW (announcements to be made Tuesday):
- Jury’s still out on Reaper. It may return midseason. I may go insane waiting for the official word.
- Aliens in America is gone.
- 90210 has been picked up, with special guest appearances by Jennie Garth and likely Tori Spelling.
- How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls has become Surviving the Filthy Rich and has been picked up.
- Stylista, a new reality series from Tyra Banks and Ken Mok, has been picked up. Contestants compete for an editorial job at Elle magazine.
- Returning series: Gossip Girl, Smallville, Supernatural, One Tree Hill, Everybody Hates Chris, The Game, America’s Next Top Model.
- Pussycat Dolls and Beauty and the Geek have been canceled.
CBS (announcements to be made Wednesday):
- No official word yet on How I Met Your Mother, but sources connected to the series say they are expecting a fourth-season pickup, thanks in part to the recent ratings uptick and media attention over Britney’s guest spot.
- The Unit is very likely to receive a pickup.
- Moonlight is likely to receive a pickup.
- The Mentalist (Simon Baker), Eleventh Hour (Jerry Bruckheimer) and Game Show in My Head (reality competition from Ashton Kutcher) all picked up.
- Geena Davis’ drama pilot Exit 19 has not been picked up.
FOX (announcements to be made Thursday):
- J.J. Abrams’ pilot Fringe, starring Joshua Jackson and which reportedly cost $10 million to produce, has been picked up to series. In the vein of The X-Files, the series will feature weekly freaky-deaky investigations.
- Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse will premiere midseason, perhaps in a Monday time slot.
- Arrested Development reunion! This fall look for a new animated series, Sit Down, Shut Up, from AD creator Mitch Hurwitz. Based on a live-action Australian sitcom, the U.S. version is centered around the lives of seven high school teachers in the Northeast and will be voiced by the likes of Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Henry Winkler.
- Peter Berg—you know, the guy behind Friday Night Lights—has been asked to direct the two-hour backdoor pilot for Ronald D. Moore’s new space-exploration drama, Virtuality.
- According to Deadline Hollywood Daily, the network is said to be enthusiastic about the Bernie Mac drama Starting Under, but it needs a new show runner.
- Back to You has been canceled, but rumor has it that CBS, which produces the show, is looking at it for a pickup.
- New Amsterdam will also not be returning, as we previously reported.
- ‘Til Death will be back
That’s it for now! Check back later for more scoop from the network soirees in NYC…And if you have any questions for the stars, producers or network mucky-mucks, post them below and I’ll do my best to get you some answers.