Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow are not friends on new US TV show ‘Cougar Town’.
Lisa – who played Pheobe Buffay in ‘Friends’ alongside Courteney’s Monica Geller – stars as a mean dermatologist in the series who treats Courteney’s character Jules.
‘Cougar Town’ executive producer Bill Lawrence said: “They didn’t want to play friends.
“Lisa plays a dermatologist [...]

Nicole Richie is plotting a return to primetime, this time as the star of a scripted comedy.
The one-time “Simple Life” celeb is headlining a single-camera half-hour sitcom in development at ABC.
The script, which is being produced through Sony Pictures TV, would feature Richie as a professional woman with complicated family relationships and struggling to figure [...]

Rap mogul Sean Combs is eager to test his comedy credentials with a cameo role on hit U.S. TV series 30 Rock.
The hip-hop star loves the Tina Fey-created show and has become pals with 30 Rock funnymen Tracy Morgan and Jack MCBrayer.
And he’s been lobbying the stars for a guest spot on the programme.
MCBrayer says, [...]

KELLY OSBOURNE was left red-faced after she fell to the floor during her final performance on DANCING WITH THE STARS on Monday (23Nov09).
Ozzy Osbourne’s daughter has managed to rumba her way into the final three on the hit TV talent show – but her last bid for the trophy took a turn for the worst [...]

NIP/TUCK star KELLY CARLSON had to endure seven hours in make-up to pile on the pounds for the hit show – and her prosthetic fat suit was so stifling it made her pass out.
The actress gains 300 pounds in a dream sequence, during which her character’s boyfriend, played by Julian MCMahon, imagines her obese.
Making her [...]

COURTENEY COX has halted production on her new TV series COUGAR TOWN while she tends to a “family matter.”
Cox, who is married to actor David Arquette, stars in and serves as executive producer on the comedy, which has been temporarily put on hold as she sees to the undisclosed issue.
A spokesperson for TV network ABC [...]

The 19-year-old singer, who is rumored to be dating Twilight hunk Taylor Lautner, 17, is terrified about hosting this weekend but can’t wait for her stint in front of the camera.
She wrote on her Twitter page: “Starting the SNL process I kinda feel like I might have a heart attack or pass out in the [...]

Susan Sarandon was so relaxed about her actress daughter stripping off for a role in raunchy TV drama Californication, she actually encouraged her to take the part.
Eva Amurri, Sarandon’s daughter with Italian director Franco Amurri, played Jackie, a woman who studied during the day and worked as a stripper by night, on a recent episode [...]

The actor is teaming up with ‘Friends’ creator David Crane and ‘Mad About You’ producer Jeffrey Klarik to star in ‘Episodes’, which will revolve around a British couple whose hit UK comedy is turned into an American sitcom starring Matt.
The former ‘Friends’ star said of the show – which will be created by US network [...]

The “American Idol” judge who fans love to hate has signed a deal worth more than $100 million a year to bring “X Factor” — his “Idol”-like show in Britain — to the United States, the Daily Mirror newspaper in London reported.
Cowell will produce, but not appear on, his American version of the show.
The deal [...]