Archive for August 12th, 2009

The latest television news and rumors, courtesy Entertainment Weekly. – A big aspect of the fifth “How I Met Your Mother” season will be the potential Barney and Robin relationship. According to Carter Bays, the idea of a Barney-Robin relationship is interesting not simply because the two components are not “relationship people” but also... »

With Christian’s appearance on the “Abraham Washington Show” as the only promoted ECW segment, this week’s edition of the weekly WWE series dropped in the ratings. PWInsider reports that the show posted a 1.14 rating, a decrease from last week’s 1.25. Moreover, it is the worst performing Tuesday night ECW since the implementation of... »

– As was noted in a recent press release, NBC has scheduled a one-hour special on this past spring’s WrestleMania 25 event for August 29. Set to air at 9PM EST, the event was likely one of the motivations for booking Triple H on last night’s “Jimmy Fallon.” While Triple H did... »

– Highly-touted WWE developmental talent Dos Caras, Jr. is now known as Alberto Banderas in the FCW territory. – Despite rumors, the latest word is that Robert “Freddy Krueger” Englund will not be guest hosting an upcoming edition of WWE RAW. – Rey Mysterio, Jr. missed a recent round of television tapings and house shows to... »

According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, there was no specific incident motivating Ricky Ortiz’s WWE release. Rather, the feeling was simply that Ortiz was not going to become a top performer for the company and thus was not worth keeping on the roster. At age 34, Ortiz simply did not strike WWE as someone... »

The Wrestling Observer Newsletter reports that Jeff Jarrett could very well be losing his front office power in TNA Wrestling. Though nothing is confirmed, the speculation that Jarrett’s influence would be minimized could end panning out. The Observer report says that Jarrett’s return will be almost purely in a wrestling capacity. With TNA’s next pay-per-view... »

There is no question about which record will lead the album sales chart for this week–George Strait’s “Twang” will land in first thanks to debut week sales of about 150,000, according to Hits Daily Double projections. “Twang” will remove Michael Jackson’s “Number Ones” album from the top sales spot, although Jackson records will still have... »

– In an interesting update on the potential Shaq vs. Big Show match, it should be noted that UFC play-by-play announcer Mike Goldberg serves as a host on the new ABC series “Shaq Vs.” WWE very publicly failed to draw Goldberg away from the UFC as it prepared for its return to the... »

– UFC formally announced Wednesday that it will air numerous fights from UFC 100–including some of the non-televised preliminary bouts–Saturday night. The UFC 100 feature, set to air from 10PM to 12:30AM, counters the Strikeforce “Carano vs. Cyborg” event. Set to air on the special are Brock Lesnar vs. Frank Mir 2, Dan Henderson... »

– Disney is developing a new film adaptation of “The Diary of Anne Frank.” Acclaimed playwright David Mamet, who is writing and directing the feature, will rely on the diary–and the original play based on Frank’s story–as source material. Variety, which reported the development, added that Mamet, “brings his own original take on the... »

Results from this week’s WWE SmackDown! tapings; a final spoiler for Thursday’s WWE Superstars episode is also included. Advertised for this week’s episode was a match between CM Punk and rising star John Morrison. Report courtesy Adam D of PWTorch.com: There were no dark matches before ECW and after ECW we went right into the... »

– ECW Superstar Abraham Washington announced on Tuesday’s show that William Regal is the number one contender for Christian’s ECW Championship. As with Gail Kim’s guaranteed title shot against Mickie James, WWE only confirmed that the match will happen at some point–not that it is specifically booked for Summerslam. – WWE Diva Maria appears... »

Last week, rumors broke that Kevin Nash’s name had come up in speculation regarding the supposed search for new forces on TNA’s creative team. In an interview with Newsday, Nash says that he has no desire to take on such a role. “I have a 13-year-old son who needs a father way more than... »