Friday, March 2, 2012

TV Roundup: Watch Taylor Swift Get 'Punk'd'

TV Roundup: Watch Taylor Swift Get 'Punk'd'
Musician Taylor Swift accepts the award for Album of the Year with producer Nathan Chapman during the 43rd Annual CMA Awards at the Sommet Center on November 11, 2009 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Getty Images)

Taylor Swift's shocked face is known, however it's just like the country cutie are using it properly within the March twenty nine premiere of Punk'd.

MTV has released a brand new preview of the Punk'd reboot, which is able to feature a special celebrity wreaking havoc on different stars each week. The premiere episode has Justin Bieber making some prank magic when he makes Taylor suppose that she's ruined a marriage by accidentally setting a ship on fireplace.





Punk’d can air Thursdays at ten pm on MTV. Miley Cyrus, Kellan Lutz, Hayden Panettiere, Bam Margera, and Dax Shepard are ready to host totally different episodes, whereas Khloe Kardashian, Teen Wolf star Tyler Posey, and Demi Lovato are simply some of the unfortunate celebs who are going to wool pulled over their eyes.


• Contrary to the rumors, Janet Jackson won't be one in every of the new X issue judges. The pop star told TheInsider.com that she is, "very flattered that X issue let me understand that i used to be being thought of for next season, however it simply would not be attainable." Jackson cited previous commitments to to her range Ones Up shut and private Tour (which kicks off once more this summer) and different upcoming feature films that she has within the works. that the X issue decide hunt still continues...


• Jessica Lange is officially returning for yankee Horror Story's second season, however she will not be enjoying an equivalent role. Lange, who won a Golden Globe for her delightfully macabre performance as Constance Langdon, are enjoying a completely new character that may be at the middle of the season 2 action.

“We have designed the second season of yank Horror Story utterly round her character,” AHS creator Ryan Murphy told Entertainment Weekly. “...This will extremely be the Jessica Lange show therefore I’m terribly excited regarding it. we tend to are coming up with this superb new opposite of the Constance character for her. She and that i have spoken regarding various things. She encompasses a heap of concepts, and encompasses a heap of input into her character...She’s a good collaborator and a good friend.”

Murphy additionally revealed that 3 a lot of actors from season one have additionally signed on, though he will not reveal their identities till later on. We're crossing our fingers and toes that Evan Peters, who played the creepy nevertheless touching Tate, are back for one more horror-filled go-around.

• throughout the promotional tour for her dreadful new movie, One for the cash, Katherine Heigl hinted that she would be open to returning to Grey's Anatomy if the producers would have her back. "I’ve told them i would like to [return]. I really, really, actually need to ascertain where [Izzie] is. I simply need to grasp what happened to her and where she went and what she’s doing currently," Heigl told E! in December.


Well per Grey's star Ellen Pompeo, there is a fat likelihood of that. “I don’t suppose therefore,” Pompeo told Chelsea Handler throughout an interview. “No, I don’t suppose that’s happening,” the reiterated with a knowing chuckle.

Heigl said that she left the show in 2010 to specialize in her family, however there have been additionally rumors that the actress had been at odds with Grey's producers for a moment. She slammed the show's writers in 2007 when she selected to not enter herself into the Emmy race as a result of she "did not feel i used to be given the fabric ... to warrant a nomination." She additionally complained publicly on Letterman regarding the show's 17-hour work days. So yeah, in all probability not happening.

• The promising new drama Awake premieres tonight on NBC at 10pm. Awake tells the story of Detective Michael Britten (Harry Potter's Jason Isaacs), who is in an exceedingly tragic automobile accident together with his wife and son. The accident splits his life into 2 alternate realities — in one reality his wife has died and left him one father to his son Rex (Dylan Minnette) and within the different reality, his son is dead and he and his wife Hannah (Laura Allen) are managing the loss of their kid. The series additionally stars Cherry Jones, B.D. Wong, Michaela McManus, and Wilmer Valderrama.

The Awake pilot could be a well-written, taut piece of tv that seamlessly weaves along Michael's competing realities. he is got a special partner and a special therapist in every reality, however the unhappiness of losing a loved one haunts him in each worlds. The pilot implies that the 2 realities are somehow interconnected, however it additionally leaves abundant of the show's central premise a mystery. How did the automobile accident happen? Was Michael drinking the night it happened? Is one member of his family extremely still alive or might he presumably have lost them each on that fateful night? Watch the primary seven minutes here, then tune in tonight at 10pm on NBC.

• DVR Watch: yankee Idol names its prime thirteen (Fox, 8pm), Frank fakes a romance with Liz on thirty Rock (NBC, 8pm), Kathryn Hahn guest stars on Parks and Recreation as a high-powered campaign manager for Leslie's opponent (NBC, 8:30pm), Project Runway All Stars has the designers making avant garde appearance using lightweight technology (Lifetime, 9pm), and Awake premieres (NBC, 10pm).