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Close to six months of speculation later…. Preity Zinta flashes a dimpled confirming smile. Zinta has confessed to the media that she will be gracing the telly in her new avatar as anchor. One big hitch, though. The perky actress doesn't really know.. when! Her involvement with the Indian Premier League put films and television on the backburner. The trade buzz is that Zinta has been offered three shows, of which two are talk shows. 'Beyond The Seam' with cricketers and the other one with her colleagues from cinedom called 'The Preity Zinta Show.' However, Zinta is swift to refute that she's consented to a chat show in the US. "That was news to me too!" says Preity, pretty exasperated. 'Beyond the Seam' has been stalled close to a year, thanks to Zinta's IPL commitments, but the show will now take shape… An insider reveals that Zinta has been reportedly roped in for a super fee ranging between Rs 10 to Rs 12 crore for a 20 episode series, f

All the girls are gossiping about her. All the women want to be like her. And all men want a piece of her. Welcome the Obsession the Year: Vidya Balan . At the moment, she's like a meat ready to be snatched by anybody. But for the moment, it's a fight between the mean men, Arshad Warsi and Naseeruddin Shah, as to who will take the first bite. So let's call her 'A beauty with a bite'. Next in line are the directors and the producers. She's got the whole nation after her. Thanks to her successful spree with Paa and her current most talked about boldness in her upcoming release, Ishqiya , Vidya is feeling those January highs already. Me too! After sending Balan a text which read: "Let me enjoy my hot jalebi's and think about the even hotter Vidya". And then I question myself: "Am I a ch****m sulphate? UK's Harrow Observer columnist and Bollywood Hungama 's London correspondent Devansh Patel falls in love with Vidya Balan....and the Ishqi

Veer is one of those intended epics that go wrong. Horribly wrong. Director Anil Sharma had combined history and kitsch with compelling consequences on Gadar - Ek Prem Katha . In Veer , the khichdi of fact and fiction runs amok, creating a blend of babble and bloodshed that is more hysterical than historical. Veer wallows in primitive valour. Father Mithun Chakraborty (the only tolerable performance in the litany of the unbearable) and son Salman Khan often mock-fight, as the burly members of their tribe urge them on like animals in zestful zoo. Even Neena Gupta who plays Mithun's wife (and has apparently forgotten she was once a good actress) joins in the macho revelry, taking a swig or two from the men's smoking room where Veer is situated, in a manner of speaking. There are no smoking guns. Only shining swords slicing across the epic canvas with fashionable bravura. Costume dramas are very tricky cinematic efforts. How do the makers know if the clothes and props sug

If I leave here tomorrow, will you still remember me… The show ends with Conan and guests singing “Free Bird.” Here are the opening and closing monologues: Ladies and Gentleman, we have exactly one hour to steal every single item in this studio. We’ve a had a lot of fun being here these last 7 months, but like everything in life, the fun has to come to an end a decade too early. The terms of my settlement say that I can’t host another show for 7 months. So next week look forward to the “Andy Richter show” with his sidekick, me! As I set off for exciting new career opportunities, I just want to make one thing clear to everyone listening out there: I will do nudity. Now that this mess is almost behind me – I just have one last request: HBO, when you make the movie about this whole NBC late night fiasco, I’d like to be played by Academy-Award winning actress Tilda Swinton. People have been asking me what’s going to happen to our studio after we’re gone. There are actually a few p

FOX has decided to move up the premiere of Past Life . Originally it was scheduled to debut on Thursday February 11 as a two hour premiere. Now it will air a one hour premiere on Tuesday February 9 at 9pm after American Idol . It will then make its 9pm Thursday time slot debut on February 11 following a Bones rerun. It will also get more boosting from Idol when Idol airs special Thursday 8pm editions in late February and early March. Here’s the description of Past Life from FOX: PAST LIFE (Thursdays, 9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) Have you ever experienced déjà vu or met someone you thought seemed familiar? Do you believe in karma, fate or love at first sight? Have you ever had an out-of-body experience? From writer David Hudgins (“Friday Night Lights”), and inspired by the book “The Reincarnationist” by M.J. Rose, comes PAST LIFE, a new drama series that investigates the world of the unexplained through the eyes of a doctor and a former detective who must work together to solve dec