Party Down

Starz channel owns Friday night for comedy. Their bright spot original comedy series are "Head Case" and "Party Down." Starz has sent over some clips for tonight's episodes. "Case" stars improv comedian Alexandra Wentworth as Dr. Elizabeth Goode, a narcissistic $450-an-hour therapist whose own issues trump her famous clients she treats in Beverly Hills. Unscripted and improvised episodes feature Goode (and her office-mate Dr. Myron Finklstein, played by Steve Landesberg) violating every ethical Doctor-patient rule. Goode entertains her "patients" Macy Gray, Jerry Seinfeld, Janeane Garofalo, James Denton, Paulina Porizkova, Kevin Nealon, designer Isaac Mizrahi and magician Lance Burton this season. On this week's "Head Case," Kevin Nealon realizes he might need to see a real doctor, not a
April MacIntyre

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There’s usually a fair amount of angst this time of year in the TV world, as word of cancellations starts to leak out. Here’s one bit of good news: “Party Down” (9:30 p.m. Friday, Starz; three and a half stars) is probably coming back next year. (Clips and full episodes from the show can be found here; previous stories on the show can be found here.) Rob Thomas, one of the show’s co-creators, said he’d been hearing good things from Starz, the pay cable network that commissioned the show about Los Angeles creative types who moonlight as catering waiters. “All...
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She'll play a local hottie in a lakeside town terrorized by man-eating fish during spring break.
By Jocelyn Vena

Jessica Szohr
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"Gossip Girl" actress Jessica Szohr has signed on for next year's 3-D remake of the 1978 horror film "Piranha," E! Online reports.
The flick — to be directed by Alexandre Aja, who also helmed the 2006 remake of 1977's "The Hills Have Eyes" — maintains the original plot of razor-toothed fish terrorizing a lakeside town.
In addition to Szohr, who will play a local hottie caught up in the excitement of spring break, "Piranha 3D" will also feature Elisabeth Shue, Adam Scott ("Party Down"), Ving Rhames and Richard Dreyfuss. Shue and Rhames will play police officers, and Scott will play a Navy diver.
The film begins shooting later this month in Lake Havasu, Arizona, and is due in theaters March 19, 2010. It will be the latest in a string of 3-D horror films,

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