'Whale Wars' back for additional

Animal Planet's "Whale Wars" continues to be restored for any fifth season after several weeks of back-and-forth over if the show's protags, a militant animal-privileges group known as the Ocean Shepherds, would have the ability to find any whalers to chase away after apparently frightening away Japanese whaling concern the Institute of Cetacean Research in the finish of season four. The Ocean Shepherd campaign chronicled in season five will go back to the waters around Antarctica, where whaling through the ICR continues. Even just in a clip for that coming season, Animal Planet prexy and g.m. Marjorie Kaplan teases this might be the final season for that show the Ocean Shepherds have produced lots of worldwide tension using the ICR, that is backed through the Japanese government. Japanese whalers contend the ICR's activities are legal and above board the Ocean Shepherds the company's mentioned agenda is really a smokescreen which its harpooning and processing of whales violates the moratorium on whaling in worldwide waters. Contact Mike Thielman at mike.thielman@variety.com

Stars Respond To Screen Stars Guild Honours Nominations

First Released: December 14, 2011 4:22 PM EST Credit: Getty Images La, Calif. -- Caption Betty Whitened attends her 89th birthday celebration at Le Cirque in NY City on The month of january 18, 2011 The 18th annual Screen Stars Guild Honours nominations were introduced on Wednesday morning, which years nominees are gone the moon readily! This really is incredible to become identified by my fellow people from the Screen Stars Guild for 2 of my personal favorite projects. I couldnt perform the work I actually do on television Lands Hot in Cleveland with no support and passion for my fellow cast mates Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves, Wendie Malick, the astonishing authors, not to mention the shows creator, Suzanne Martin. Also, I've always aspired to perform a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie and also the Lost Valentine was an incredible experience due mostly to Jennifer Love Hewitt, Darnell Martin(the director), the producers and also the wonderful folks at Hallmark Hall of Fame. Thanks from the foot of my heart. - Betty Whitened, nominated for Outstanding Performance with a Female Actor inside a Television Movie or Miniseries for Hallmark Hall of Fame: The Lost Valentine, and Outstanding Performance with a Female Actor inside a Comedy Series for warm In Cleveland ** I'm incredibly moved and thus grateful to my fellow stars for realizing my role in Moneyball with this particular nomination. Personally i think so lucky to become an actress today when i do everyday. I owe an enormous thanks and far credit to the entire cast and crew, our authors, and particularly to the courageous leader and director Bennett Burns and also to Kaira Pitt, probably the most generous onscreen partner anybody could expect. Getting my work honored today by my peers pushes me to operate even harder. - Jonah Hill, nominated for Outstanding Performance with a Male Actor inside a Supporting Role, Moneyball ** Its an recognition to become identified by your peers and that i thank my fellow SAG people with this nomination and am proud to possess been part of this kind of incredible ensemble, in addition to Woodsy Allens vision. - Owen Wilson, nominated for Outstanding Performance with a Cast inside a Film, Night time in Paris ** I'm enormously touched with this nomination in the SAG membership. Ive been only at that for any very long time, which is always satisfying to become famous for a performance. Warrior would be a little film but it features a large heart, also it would be a real labor of affection for Gavin OConnor who directed the film. Above all else Hopefully this nomination produces some restored curiosity about the image. - Nick Nolte, Outstanding Performance with a Male Actor inside a Supporting Role, Warrior ** Were so grateful for that nominations in the Screen Stars Guild. Our cast would be a close-knit group lead by George Clooney and Alexander Payne. Apart from work best performance, George would be a generous actor who permitted everybody an chance to shine. We're so happy and happy with this sensational ensemble. - Jim Burke, Producer from the Descendants, nominated for Outstanding Performance with a Cast inside a Film Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All privileges reserved. These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Keck's Exclusives: Lucy and Desi's Children Celebrate Their Parents' Long lasting Musical Legacy

Desi Arnaz Junior. Lucie Arnaz Closing the centennial celebration of Lucille Ball's birthday and also the 60th Anniversary of I Really Like Lucy, Lucie and Desi Arnaz Junior. - the only real kids of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz Sr., made among their rare public looks together Friday evening in the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hillsides. The big event, Tropicana Nights: A Salute towards the Music of I Really Like Lucy, featured a panel discussion focused mainly around the siblings' father, then musical performance with Desi, 58, on bongos and Lucie, 60, singing two amounts her father carried out around the 50's sitcom. Just before the big event, I sitting lower using the pair to go over the way they both recognition and safeguard their parents' legacy.Desi, we do not help you at many Lucy-related occasions. Why was this something you thought about being a part of?Desi: Well, My home is Boulder City, Nevada. But this can be a large deal. It is the 60th anniversary from the show and it is Mother's 100 birthday if she remained as around. And also the music is actually why I am here. Lucie and I've been focusing on a reveal that tributes Dad's music. We made it happen like a benefit after which carried out it as being a concert show known as Babalu. We are moved very deeply through the music, therefore we enjoy speaking to individuals about this side of I Really Like Lucy. Dad's contribution and also the music.What were the roots from the music of I Really Like Lucy?Desi: I Really Like Lucy was really produced from Dad's orchestral show. Mother and Father wanted to ascertain if people would accept them live, because CBS wasn't too sure it might work or otherwise. In individuals days they were not sure a redhead American should be also married to some Cuban. It had been very questionable. But the pair of them went along with dad's band and also the people loved it.Lucie: After Father died I discovered each one of these plans and tapes. Stuff we'd never heard before that inspired me to operate more about Latin music.What's the way forward for your Babalu show?Lucie: He does not wish to travel, so there's no future.Desi: [Laughs] Maybe we'll perform a run in Las vegas.Have you got a favorite song from I Really Like Lucy?Lucie: I actually do. It's in the Lucy/Desi Comedy Hour once they visited Havana for that flashback showing how Lucy and Ough met. The song is "Which Means I Really Like You" where he plays the Conga and she or he plays the table before her formed just like a Conga.Desi: That's a high quality one. I love the main one about me being born. "We are Getting an infant My Baby and Me."I imagine lots of marketing people want to turn your folks into Mickey and Minnie Mouse - with every imaginable type of retailing. How can you safeguard their legacy?Desi: You will find there's company known as Desilu Too where Lucie and that i police any merchandise. We have been doing the work given that they died. We make use of a company from Chicago known as Memorable Corporation. We required to have assistance to police and license the item. [Desi Sr. died in 1986 at 69 while Lucy died in 1989 at 77.]Lucie: Once someone famous dies, someone needs to run that estate forever.Any strange marketing pitches you heard that you simply declined?Desi: No images of Mother on toilet tissue.Lucie: Nobody would request for your!Desi: Somebody really did, and that we needed to say "no!"Lucie: It did not mean to become our life's work. We have got separate careers and families, but this factor has overtaken us such as the giant Godzilla monster. But you will find some perks into it to. We made the decision as we would spend X quantity of 100s of 1000's of dollars each year regulating what we should were not permitting, we may as well hire people to get it done right and transform it into a real business. Make real estate worth of Lucy and Desi stay as valuable because it was once they left us.Desi: It comes down to quality, not quantity. Let's say you sell everything out immediately then you do not have anything remaining. You do not sell the farm you let.Do both of you approve the I Really Like Lucy: Survive Stage show which has been playing to offered out audiences in La?Lucie: The I Really Like Lucy express is possessed by CBS. Anything that's in line with the scripts is controlled by CBS. The things they don't totally own may be the picture of Lucille Ball as Lucy Ricardo or Desi Aranz as Ough Ricardo. In some cases, as with the situation of dolls, you need to get permission from CBS as well as the estate of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.Desi: Like father was future thinking and stored their image and likeness privileges. Younger crowd set up half money for that pilot, so CBS wheeled and dealed with him within the discussions when it comes to who possessed what.What's next for you personally?Lucie: I come up with a hybrid version from the Babalu show having a 12-piece band in line with the Latin Roots Compact disc I launched. I discovered a method to do Babalu so that as a lot of Dad's plans that the lady can perform. It is extremely fun. And you will find there's wonderful one-lady show out I directed that people own a bit of known as A Night Time With Lucille Ball. Suzanne LaRusch may be the wonderful impressionist. There's nobody that can compare with her.Desi: I built the sets and that we released it inside my theater. It's Mother in her own late 50's, early 60's speaking to a lot of college kids about her existence.You've without doubt heard that William Frawley and Vivian Vance are now being awarded with a TV Academy Hall of Fame in a March 1 ceremony in Beverly Hillsides.Desi: I did not realize that!Lucie: Yes, finally! I recorded just a little video on their behalf today where I stated, "With respect to my mom and dad and also the I Really Like Lucy show, I wish to congratulate Vivian Vance and William Frawley for finally be awarded with a Hall of Fame like everybody else. Buddies and neighbors ought to be together. Now it's time."They didn't have children that belongs to them?Lucie: No, Vivian and Bill never did.Other things you want to tell TV Guide Magazine visitors?Desi: It is simply fun to become here with Lucie in La. I am feeling very nostalgic about our childhood. I passed mother's old house today and stated Lucy's room to my daughter.Lucie: And what's excellent is the fact that we are together honoring this music.Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!

Station Buy Give CBS Duopoly In NY Market

CBS Television Stations said today that it has inked a deal to acquire independent NY station WLNY-TV, giving CBS two stations in the nation’s largest media market. When the deal is approved, it will mark the 10th duopoly in 10 U.S. cities for CBS, joining Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Dallas, San Francisco, Boston, Detroit, Miami, Sacramento and Pittsburgh. The combined strengths of CBS 2 and WLNY-TV will give us a terrific platform for serving the entire NY area,” CBS TV Stations president Peter Dunn said in the release announcing the deal. “Our plans for the station include adding people and resources to fuel a significant expansion of local news programming well beyond the nightly half-hour that currently airs.” WLNY is distributed in the NY-New Jersey-Connecticut tri-state area and on Long Island, where an expanded news bureau is expected. The station generated $3.8M in revenue last year, a tiny amount in the huge market, according to research firm BIA/Kelsey. But Wells Fargo analyst Marci Ryvicker calls the agreement “a smart, tuck-in acquisition that should provide some significant upside opportunities” for CBS.Duopolies typically generate more profit than stand-alone stations, she says, and WLNY has a lot of room to grow — especially if CBS makes it a player in local news.

WATCH: George Takei Brokers Star Peace By Naming Twilight the Enemy

Using the nasty backwards and forwards between William Shatner and Barbara Fisher quarrelling the eternal question — The Exorcist or Star Wars? — it appeared peace was basically an illusion on the planet of sci-fi. Enter George Takei, the erstwhile Mr. Sulu and also the voice of reason within this universe-splitting debate, to unite both fandoms within the hate of the “ominous, mutual enemy” — Twilight. “And it really is, really bad.” “Gone is sense at all of gallantry, camaraderie or epic fight,” Takei laments. “In its place, we've vampires of the underworld that sparkle, and moan, and… visit senior high school.” Watch his video plea now, brainiacs! Shirtless fencing Sulu FTW! [via E! Online]

Ashton Kutcher, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sofia Vegara: 'New Year's Eve' Stars Before These Were Famous (PHOTOS)

Should you haven't heard (virtually impossible because the marketing is pervasive), there is a film out now known as 'New Year's Eve,' featuring every superstar ever. (Well, not necessarily -- however it certainly feels this way the heavens not present here apparently registered for 'What to anticipate When You are Expecting' rather.) Before getting in to the 2012 spirit, the great folks at Snakkle have come up with an incredible before-they-were famous gallery for that sprawling cast of 'New Year's Eve,' from Halle Berry to Nicole Kidman to to Sofia Vegara, Hilary Swank, Zac Efron, Jessica Biel, Robert P Niro and -- deep inhale -- a lot more. A couple of Moviefone faves are below make certain to mind to Snakkle to determine all of the stars' before-they-were-famous photos. Sofia Vegara from an earlier Pepsi commercial Michelle Pfeiffer like a senior high school newcomer like a senior high school junior [Tickets and Showtimes for 'New Year's Eve'] [via Snakkle] [Photos: Seth Poppel/Yearbook Library, Andrew Schwartz/Warner Bros.] A Lot Of Stars: Hits and Misses Just how much is simply too much if this involves jamming large names into one movie? It seems to become a delicate formula that may go in either case... Miss: 'New Year's Eve'Hit: 'Love, Really'Miss: 'He's Simply Not That Into You'Hit: 'Crash'Miss: 'Nine'Hit: 'Ocean's Eleven'Miss: 'Ocean's Twelve'Hit: 'Contagion'Miss: 'Valentine's Day' See All Moviefone Art galleries » Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

Sienna Miller to Star as Tippi Hedren in BBC2 Movie About The Birds

This is far too intriguing not to think about for hours: The BBC2 just announced a project called The Girl, starring Sienna Miller as model-turned-actress Tippi Hedren and Toby Jones as Alfred Hitchcock, who obsessed over Hedren as they filmed the The Birds in northern California’s Bodega Bay. The extreme relationship between Hitch and Hedren, which included some violent bird-throwing sessions during one climactic scene, is well-documented and ready for re-inspection (as is any film starring the dashing Rod Taylor). But is this the most fascinating Hitchcock story to examine? We offer one other possible Hitchcock era that might be intriguing to revisit. But first, good news about The Girl: Looooongtime Hitchcock biographer Donald Spoto is signed on as a consultant, and Tippi Hedren has agreed to do interviews with screenwriter Gwyneth Hughes for the project. It appears this project has the potential to be — at the very least — accurate. And yet, The Birds would’ve been my second choice for a BBC chronicle. I’m partial to the endless disagreements behind Rebecca, Hitch’s 1940 Best Picture winner that marked his debut in America and a stormy partnership with David O. Selznick. Plus, maybe Judith Anderson can linger in the backdrop and cast frightening glances upon everything. Anyway, here’s Tippi Hedren’s amazing screen test for The Birds. Strut, turn, and pose, Melanie Daniels. Sienna Miller Is Tippi Hedren, Toby Jones Is Hitchcock In BBC2 Drama About ‘The Birds’ [Deadline]