Carell Turns Tables/Desk on Kimmel
We hope Get Smart isn’t as bad as the reviews, but we doubt it’ll be as good as Steve Carell’s bit last night swapping places with the host last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Jimmy treads water painfully/hilariously while pretending to be Carell, who in turn fakes sincerity so well while playing host Jimmy that we wouldn’t be surprised to see Steve behind a talk-show desk some day.
Jennifer Garner is a Doting Mother
Jennifer Garner is a Doting Mother
A far cry from the overbearing, borderline-psychotic adoptive-mother-to-be she played in Juno, Jennifer Garner looked happy and relaxed to be spending time with her little girl yesterday.
The “Alias” hottie was spotted doing a little mother-daughter bonding with 2 ½-year-old Violet Affleck at the Brentwood Country Mart in Brentwood, California.
And she looked blissfully domestic in a white top underneath a beige cardigan with a black knee-length skirt and a pair of black flats, while Violet rocked a red and white summery dress with a pair of tiny white sneakers.
As for Jen’s hubby Ben Affleck, he was scheduled to film a segment along with his buddy Matt Damon for an ongoing Jimmy Kimmel Live lampooning at Game 4 of the NBA Finals last night.
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.
ABC to woo Leno, move Kimmel to 12:30?
Bloomberg News (via the Chicago Tribune) has a story that, according to a media analyst, ABC is poised to go after Jay Leno and sign him to a contract after his NBC contract expires in 2009.
The analyst, David Miller from the Sanders Morris Harris Group, writes in a report that ABC would put Leno at 11:30, cancelling Nightline in the process. They will then push Jimmy Kimmel Live to 12:30. Both ABC and NBC spokespeople denied that there is any merit to this report, but you never know what’s going on in the background.
If I’m Jimmy Kimmel, I’d be pretty pissed about being pushed to 12:30 after what would be six years of dutiful service at midnight, especially for the comedy black hole that Leno has become. But Leno gets the ratings, doesn’t he? For ABC, it might be worth pissing people off.