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*SPOILER ALERT Wednesday’s Chris Brown/Rihanna inspired episode of “Law & Order: SVU” ended rather poorly for the Rihanna character. The real lovebirds just this week admitted that they were back together after a breaking up in the wake of his beating of her in 2009. The “SVU” pair are also superstars rising to fame through [...]
*Turns out Phylicia Rashad’s return to NBC prime time lasted just two episodes. NBC has decided to pull the plug on “Do No Harm,” effective immediately, reports Deadline.com. The show posted the lowest ratings ever for an in-season scripted series premiere on a Big 4 network on Jan. 30, with an underwhelming 0.9 18-49 rating. [...]
*In his first TV acting role, former boxer Mike Tyson will guest star as a death row prisoner on NBC’s “Law & Order: SVU.” He will play Reggie Rhodes, a condemned murderer whose violent actions may in part be the byproduct of a horrible childhood. His case attracts the attention of Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and [...]
*Andre Braugher is returning to NBC for his first appearance on “Law & Order: SVU” tonight (airing at 10/9c), and will just so happen to reunite with an actor – and character he has worked with before. “It’s kind of funny because Munch has been in both of these worlds, and here I am basically [...]
*“Law & Order: SVU” star Tamara Tunie will trade her medical scrubs for a flight attendant uniform opposite Denzel Washington in Paramount’s upcoming film “Flight.” As previously reported, ”Flight” centers on an airline pilot with substance abuse issues who steers an endangered flight to a crash-landing, saving nearly all of the passengers. Tunie plays the lead [...]
“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” star Tamara Tunie is returning to daytime. The actress, who got her big break on “As the World Turns” in 1986 as Jessica Griffin, will appear in a recurring role on “Days of Our Lives,” reports TVLine. She’ll play Weston, a tough judge who will make a decision that [...]
*One month after TNT cancelled “Men of a Certain Age,” co-star Andre Braugher is returning to NBC. The actor, who starred in NBC’s “Homicide: Life on the Street” from 1993 to 1999, is in talks for a recurring role on the network’s “ Law & Order: SVU,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. He’ll play an attorney for [...]
*NBA stars Carmelo Anthony and Chris Bosh will join rapper/actor Heavy D and Mechad Brooks for a basketball-themed episode of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” this fall titled “Personal Fouls,” reports TVGuide.com. Anthony and Bosh will each appear as themselves in the opening scene and climax of the episode, which focuses on a [...]
*Rosie Perez is in a physical mess and she wants people to pay for the state that she is in. Specifically, Perez wants the production company behind Law & Order: SVU to pay. The veteran dancer and actress is taking legal action against Northern Entertainment Productions and DDF Films are accused of “recklessly and [...]
*Ice-T will soon pull double duty on television. E! has signed up the star of NBC’s “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and his wife Nicole “Coco” Austin for a new reality series that will follow their life together as a “very traditional couple, wrapped in a very non-traditional package,” says E! The show, titled “Ice [...]
*“Law & Order: SVU” star Mariska Hargitay and her husband, actor Peter Hermann, are showing off their new adopted baby girl, Amaya Josephine, born just last week in the U.S. “I’m deliriously happy,” Hargitay, 47, tells People. “From the minute she was born, she was just surprisingly alert and so full of love.” “We were [...]
*Last night’s “Law & Order: SVU/LA” crossover episode “Reparations,” with Terrence Howard’s Los Angeles-based character popping up in New York, got a big “cheers” in TV Guide’s popular “Cheers and Jeers” blog. The episode hinged on the attempted rape of a white woman by a black man (Vondie Curtis-Hall) who, as a young child, [...]
*”Law & Order: SVU” star Tamara Tunie is looking for a little justice of her own. The actress is claiming her former business manager has bamboozled her. Joe Cilibrasi, who is not a CPA, is being accused of stealing $1.48 million from the actress and classical music conductor Michael Stern to produce a Broadway musical. [...]
*Ice T was too happy to hear that Hungary’s media authority was investigating a radio station for playing two of his songs with explicit lyrics. The tracks “Warning” and “It’s On” played in September of last year should have been broadcast only after 9 p.m., the National Media and Infocommications Authority said in a statement [...]
*Ice-T has become the latest hip hop star to launch his own alcoholic brand. The “Law & Order: SVU” star has signed a deal with Aiko Importers and Pay Up Management to promote a new beverage, named Original Gangster XO Brandy. The 52-year-old entertainer, born Tracy Morrow, will not receive a fee to promote the [...]
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