Lyon developing puppet series

If getting skewered by "Roastmaster General" Jeffrey Ross wasn't hurtful enough for some celebrities, how about if the skewering was done by a puppet? That is the premise "Avenue Q" puppeteer Rick Lyon is developing with "Roasters." Lyon is teaming with Thinkfactory Media on the new series in which celebrities and iconic figures -- either dead of alive, fictional or real -- get roasted by puppets. No network is currently attached. "I've always sought out projects that allow me to push the boundaries of entertainment in one way or another," said Lyon. "The premise allows for endless fun and creativity. Everyone is fair game." Lyon will exec produce with Leslie Greif, Adam Freeman and Adam Reed.Celebrity roasts have been a hit for Comedy Central over the last few years, with Charlie Sheen being the most recent roastee. Thinkfactory produces "Gene Simmons Family Jewels" and is working with History on the miniseries "The Hatfields and McCoys." Contact Stuart Levine at stuart.levine@variety.com

Ivy Bethune Tri-Union Diversity Awards sets honorees

Bill Cosby, actor J.R. Martinez, San Diego's Mo`olelo Performing Arts Company and disability advocate and dancer Zina Bethune have been tapped as honorees for the 9th Annual Ivy Bethune Tri-Union Diversity Awards.The awards were announced Wednesday by the affirmative action committees of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, Screen Actors Guild and Actors' Equity Assn. The awards will be presented Nov. 7 at the Nate Holden Theatre Center in Los Angeles and hosted by Kim Coles.Cosby was chosen by SAG "for his groundbreaking work as a performer and for his dedication to educating future generations."AFTRA tapped Martinez, a disabled vet who has appeared on "Dancing with the Stars" and "All My Children" and has supported burn victims and disabled vets.AEA's honoree is the Mo`olelo Performing Arts Co. while the Tri-Union honoree is Bethune, founder of BethuneDanse, the first professional dance theatre in America to create a participatory program for persons with disabilities. Contact Dave McNary at dave.mcnary@variety.com

Exclusive: Thomas Lennon, Bruce Davison Likely to Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23

Thomas Lennon, Bruce Davison Thomas Lennon and Bruce Davison have signed on for ABC's midseason comedy Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively. The series stars Dreama Master just like a small-town girl who moves to NY which is hustled by her nightmare from the roommate, carried out by Krysten Ritter. Upon her arrival inside the the the big apple, June (Master) will face the Wall Street crisis mind-on, losing her job. Dean Cain, Kevin Sorbo mind to Apartment 23 As June attempts to go into the area of finance, Ritter's Chloe will suggest networking within the Wall Street happy several hours, where she'll meet a stockbroker (referred to by Reno 911!'s Lennon) who might be her ticket in the sport. Clearly, Chloe must ruin it by sleeping with him, but June might get an in through his father (X-Men's Davison). Classy! Apartment 23, which co-stars James Van Der Beek just like a fictionalized version of themselves, is slated to premiere midseason on ABC.

New on DVD & Blu-ray, Week of October 18: 'Pirates from the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,' 'Bad Teacher' and 'Willy Wonka' 40th Anniversary Set

.publish-content img Should you did not always believe the glowing first reviews of 'The Adventures of Tintin' from across water-feature -- particularly the various components about how exactly the Steven Spielberg-directed film owes a sizable debt towards the director's operate in the Indiana Johnson franchise -- start thinking. The 2nd trailer for that film has showed up, also it essentially appears like 'Raiders from the Lost Ark' and 'Indiana Johnson and also the Last Crusade' stuffed right into a motion capture leotard. Don’t worry concerning the uncanny valley here! Robert Zemeckis, begin taking notes. Featuring Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis and Difficulties, and compiled by Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish ('Attack the Block'), 'The Adventures of Tintin' hits theaters on 12 ,. 23. If you cannot hold back until then, book a ticket towards the United kingdom 'Tintin' debuts overseas later this month. Watch a clip in HD at Apple. [Photo: Vital] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook RELATED

Full Marvel short seems online

Agent Coulson comes off like a badass but exactly how tough is he really? Well, because of An Interesting Factor Happened In Order To Thor's Hammer we see the Iron Guy, Thor and Avengers star in another light.A teaser for that Marvel Comics One-Shot movie formerly made an appearance online thanks to the short's cinematographer David Myrick.The full factor could be performed over around the MovieWeb site. Benefit from the embedded video below... An Interesting Factor Happened In Order To Thor's Hammer is going to be on the Captain America: The Very First Avenger Blu-ray and DVD.

Disney in tune with facet of celebrity DJ

ConnorEXCLUSIVE: Disney has acquired the existence rights to Casey Connor for Mandeville Films ("The Muppet Movie") to evolve becoming an inspiring biopic in regards to the female celebrity DJ.The project will essentially be an "8 Mile"-type undertake Connor and the way, at 17, the promising singer-dancer put her aspirations aside to enhance her 12-year-old sister after their parents die. Connor wound up accelerating her secondary school courses to graduate early and run their mother's child care center using their Brooklyn where you can pay lower the household's $80,000 obligations. Her dream will require off carrying out a chance encounter getting a talent manager lands her spinning gigs at NY City nightclubs and moves her to La, where she DJ'd parties for Madonna, Britney Warrior warrior spears, Kanye and Jennifer Lopez, fashion shows, film premieres and club parties, among others, which allowed her to pay for her sister's studies at Loyola Marymount. Her sister graduated with honors this season.Job matches well while using lower-allotted inspiring tales Disney is famous to make, like sports photos "The Rookie," "Incredible," "Miracle" and "Secretariat," as well as the "Step-upInch dance franchise, which Summit co-produces.Mandeville's partners David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman will produce the project while using shingle's senior V . p . David Manpearl. Kristin Burr and Tonia Davis will oversee at Disney.CAA reps Connor. Mandeville, having a start searching deal at Disney, is putting the finishing touches on "The Muppet Movie," out over Thanksgiving, and contains a bigscreen version in the "Jungle Cruise" theme park ride in development with Tom Hanks and Tim Allen installed on star. It produced last year's "The Fighter," with Relativity Media, and "The Proposal" and "Surrogates," both for Disney. Contact Marc Graser at marc.graser@variety.com

Live+7 Ratings For Premiere Week: Modern Family, Supernatural & CBS Lead Gains

The Live+7 ratings for premiere week were released today, and they confirm what we already know: that people are time-shifting their TV viewing more than ever. For instance, an unprecedented three programs added at least 4 million viewers between Live+Same Day and Live+7, led by ABC’s Modern Family, which added 4.7 million and 4.6 million viewers, respectively, to the tally of its two-episode season premiere. CBS’ Two And A Half Men followed with 4.1 million. Modern Family was the champ in net gain both in total viewers and adults 18-49 (a 2.4 demo rating lift), where it also was followed by Two And A Half Men (2.3). The CW’s Supernatural topped the chart of the shows with the largest percentage gain with 63%, followed by CW’s America’s Next Top Model (57%) and Fox’s Fringe (53%). NBC’s struggling Harry’s Law got a much needed boost, up 42% in the demo, while the 38% lift for NBC’s canceled The Playboy Club came too late. The CW, whose target demo is on average the most digitally savvy, dominated the top of the percentage-gain rankings with six of the top 10 shows. That translated into a big lift for the CW in the network standings for premiere week, doubling the closest network in percentage gains. Among the Big 4, CBS posted the largest net and percentage gain in both 18-49 and total viewers. Here are the network rankings as well as lists of the Top 10 Programs in adults 18-49/total viewer net increase and 18-49 percentage growth for premiere week: Adults 18-49 (rating) Total Viewers (in 000) L+SD L+7 %Gain L+SD L+7 %Gain Fox 3.4 4.0 18% CBS 12,122 14,223 17% CBS 3.1 3.8 23% ABC 9,871 11,383 15% ABC 2.8 3.4 21% Fox 8,365 9,677 16% NBC 2.6 3.0 15% NBC 7,495 8,419 12% CW 0.7 1.0 43% CW 1,642 2,169 32% Top 20 Series By Net Ratings Increase In 18-49 L+SD L+7 Net Gain % Gain 1 Modern Family SP ABC 6.2 8.6 2.4 39% 2 Modern Family ABC 6.0 8.3 2.3 38% 3 Two and a Half Men CBS 10.7 12.5 1.8 17% 4 Grey’s Anatomy ABC 4.1 5.8 1.7 41% 5 The Office NBC 3.9 5.41.5 38% 6 New Girl FOX4.8 6.3 1.5 31% 7 Big Bang Theory SP CBS 5.1 6.5 1.4 27% 8 Big Bang Theory CBS 4.9 6.3 1.4 29% 9 CSI CBS 3.2 4.5 1.3 41% 10 Glee FOX 4.0 5.3 1.3 33% 11 NCIS CBS 4.3 5.5 1.2 28% 12 Hawaii Five-0 CBS 3.4 4.61.2 35% 13 Criminal MindsCBS 4.1 5.2 1.1 27% 14 Up All Night NBC 2.4 3.5 1.1 46% 15 HIMYM SP CBS 5.2 6.3 1.1 21% 16 2 Broke Girls CBS 7.1 8.1 1.0 14% 17 Family Guy FOX 4.1 5.11.0 24% 18 Law And Order:SVU NBC 2.4 3.4 1.0 42% 19 The Mentalist CBS 2.8 3.8 1.0 36% 20 Pan Am ABC 3.1 4.1 1.0 32% Top 20 Series By % Ratings Increase In 18-49 L+SD L+7 Net Gain % Gain 1 Supernatural CW 0.8 1.3 0.5 63% 2 America’s Top Model CW 0.7 1.1 0.4 57% 3 Fringe FOX 1.5 2.3 0.8 53% 4 Nikita CW 0.6 0.9 0.3 50% 5 Up All Night NBC 2.4 3.5 1.1 46% 6 Ringer CW 0.9 1.3 0.4 44% 7 Secret Circle CW 0.9 1.3 0.4 44% 8 90210 CW 0.7 1.0 0.3 43% 9 Law And Order:SVU NBC 2.4 3.4 1.0 42% 10 Harry’s Law NBC 1.2 1.7 0.5 42% 11 Vampire Diaries CW 1.2 1.7 0.5 42% 12 Grey’s Anatomy ABC 4.1 5.8 1.7 41% 13 Community NBC 1.7 2.4 0.7 41% 14 CSI CBS 3.2 4.5 1.3 41% 15 Modern Family SP ABC 6.2 8.6 2.4 39% 16 The Office NBC 3.9 5.4 1.5 38% 17 Modern Family ABC 6.0 8.3 2.3 38% 18 Parenthood NBC 2.1 2.9 0.8 38% 19 The Playboy Club NBC 1.6 2.2 0.6 38% 20 Body Of Proof ABC 2.2 3.0 0.8 36% Top 20 Series By Net Viewership Increase (in 000) L+SD L+7 Net Gain % Gain 1 Modern Family SP ABC 14,524 19,226 4,702 32% 2 Modern Family ABC 14,542 19,173 4,631 32% 3 Two and a Half Men CBS 28,743 32,833 4,090 14% 4 Hawaii Five-0 CBS 12,188 15,789 3,601 30% 5 Grey’s Anatomy ABC 10,378 13,921 3,543 34% 6 CSI CBS 12,737 16,237 3,500 27% 7 The Mentalist CBS 13,555 16,993 3,438 25% 8 NCIS CBS 19,958 23,303 3,345 17% 9 Criminal Minds CBS 14,137 17,186 3,049 22% 10 Glee FOX 9,210 12,213 3,003 33% 11 Body Of Proof ABC 9,462 12,335 2,873 30% 12 Blue Bloods CBS 12,058 14,912 2,854 24% 13 Big Bang Theory SP CBS 14,939 17,770 2,831 19% 14 New Girl FOX 10,280 13,089 2,809 27% 15 Unforgettable CBS 14,113 16,908 2,795 20% 16 Castle ABC 13,278 16,053 2,775 21% 17 Person Of Interest CBS 13,333 16,087 2,754 21% 18 Pan Am ABC 11,063 13,769 2,706 24% 19 Big Bang Theory CBS 14,298 16,977 2,679 19% 20 The Office NBC 7,641 10,095 2,454 32%

Evangeline Lilly talks Peter Jackson's The Hobbit

Evangeline Lilly flew back from filming The Hobbit in New Zealand to attend the US premiere of Real Steel and was happy to chat about her new fantasy role.The Lost actress has now spent a month playing the Wood Elf Tauriel on The Hobbit set and says "working with Pete Jackson is super inspiring."She also praised the huge amount of support she gets in New Zealand."I have a dialogue coach, an emotion coach, a language coach, a stunts coach. So I should by rights be great in this film but if I fuck up it's my fault," Lilly told Access Hollywood.Hear her drop that F-bomb and speak a little Elvish in the trailer by clicking this link.The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey opens 14 December 2012, while the sequel The Hobbit: There and Back Again opens a year later on 13 December 2013.

Keck's Exclusives: First Look at 90210's Teddy Getting Married

90210 A marriage to boyfriend Shane (Ryan Rottman) in early November is the beginning of the end for 90210's Teddy, played by outgoing cast member Trevor Donovan. But what a way to go. I was on set for the colorful nuptials, which take place in a cheesy Vegas chapel with an Elvis impersonator officiating. Silver captures the whole affair on a video that will go viral, and Navid playfully asks the grooms, "Which one of you is pregnant?"The occasion is bittersweet for Trevor, who appears in only two more episodes after the wedding. He says he was told that Teddy's coming out story was handled so well that "they didn't want to take anything away from it by just having me there in the background. I'm in the meat of every episode I'm in, and it's good that it's ending with a hero moment.It's a testament to the times that Trevor may go from playing gay to starring on the big screen as America's most wholesome hetero beau Ken in an in-the-works Barbie movie. "I've had a few meetings with the producer who's working with Mattel to get this thing off the ground," confirms Trevor, who already has his eye on Glee's Dianna Agron to play his Barbie. "I worked with her on a clothing campaign last year and she is just a doll." Perhaps literally.Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

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