New Ninja Turtles series comes to YTV, Best Week Ever headed back to VH1 and more

Posted on August 4, 2012 by Jeevan Brar

— Nickelodeon’s new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will air on YTV this fall beginning Saturday, September 29th at 11 a.m. The update features the voices of Jason Biggs (as Leonardo) and Sean Astin (as Raphael).

— VH1 is bringing back Best Week Ever, which is a surprise because they just killed the blog about a month ago. Hopefully it’ll air in Canada this time around.

— This is neat, Vulture lists the 239 issues tackled by Degrassi.

— HBO has announced that the second season of Girls will premiere in January.

— Sean Hayes will guest star on Up All Night.

— Dan Harmon has signed a deal to develop a new comedy for CBS.

— Remember when I told you that Breaker High was coming to MuchMusic in the fall? Well, look out for Saved by the Bell as well!

— Nelson Franklin (Traffic Light) has been cast as Cece’s (Hannah Simone) new boyfriend on New Girl.

— Natasha Lyonne will appear as a character named “Tiffani” during the hourlong Weeds series finale on September 16th.

— Uh oh, Roy (David Denman) will return to The Office.

Weekend Ketchup: BET Awards, TomKat, The Killers and more

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Jeevan Brar

The holy quad was at the BET Awards last night…I’m sure you were all too busy celebrating Canada Day. Among the highlights: D’Angelo returned to national television, Jay Z pulled a Kanye on Kanye West, Brandy, Monica, Rob Houston, Chaka Khan and Cissy Houston teamed up for the Whitney Houston tribute. Beyonce also defended Lauryn Hill. Anyway, Vulture’s got your highlights.

Here are two new songs from Blur: Under the Westway and The Puritan.

Alec Baldwin, 54,married Hilaria Thomas, 28, at St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral in New York City on Saturday. Guests included Tina Fey, Mariska Hargitay, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Stephen Baldwin and Woody Allen.

Anderson Cooper came out.

HBO has renewed The Newsroom and True Blood.

I love how Oh No They Didn’t has labelled the TomKat split as “Marriage Impossible (3).” Here’s basically what you need to know about MI:3 — the marriage was pretty much over last year. Sure, Scientology played a big role in the split, but it might have had more to do with Suri’s involvement in the cult as opposed to Katie’s (Katie is filing for sole custody). Apparently, Tom wanted to send Sui to some compound called the Sea Org, but Katie put a stop to it after she saw how Tom’s other (adopted) kids were, mainlyIsabella. Katie is also firing those under Tom’s payroll (including her publicist) and she’s hired her own security team. I’m so happy that Katie isfree. So happy, that I almost went looking for that bristol board of Katie Holmes/Dawson’s Creek photos I used for my Grade 7 biography project on Katie.

Could the new Killers track be called “Runaways”? They posted what appears to be new cover art on Facebook earlier today. The new album, Battle Born, will be released this fall.