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American Idol runner-up Katharine McPhee will make her acting debut in an untitled Anna Faris project for Columbia Pictures and Happy Madison. According to The Hollywood Reporter, McPhee, along with Emma Stone, Rumer Willis, Kat Dennings and comedian Dana Goodman, have signed on to co-star the comedy - directed by Fred Wolf.

The script has been written by Legally Blonde screenwriters Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith and centers on a Playboy bunny (Anna Faris) who gets kicked out of the Playboy Mansion and becomes the house mother to the lamest sorority on campus.

McPhee will play a pregnant hippy, Stone will be president of the sorority and Willis will play an insecure young woman.

The filming is scheduled to begin later this month in los Angeles.

Danay Garcia has signed up for a regular role in the third season of Fox show Prison Break. In season 3 the drama will be set in a Panama prison.

According to The Hollywood Reporter she will play Sofia, a beautiful Latin woman living in Panama whose boyfriend Whistler (Chris Vance) is incarcerated with Michael Scofield (played by Wentworth Miller).

Garcia and Vance are two of four major new additions to the cast of Prison Break. The other two are Robert Wisdom, who will play Luchero, and Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, who will play Betty Crocker - an operative for the Company.

Garcia's next role will be in the movie From Mexico with Love.

Paramount Home Entertainment plans to release The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles on DVD this Fall. Volume 1 is scheduled for release October 23 - with two more volumes to follow. The 1992-1993 series, executive produced by George Lucas, had Sean Patrick Flanery in the main role as Indiana Jones and George Hall played Dr. Henry 'Indiana' Jones, Jr.

This comes only five years after it was first said that the series would be released on DVD. Get ready for the release now, as said above October 23.

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles was based on the Indiana Jones series of films. The series follows the Indiana Jones character (as a young boy and as a young man) as he was growing up and experiencing his early adventures, where he gets into trouble, learns life lessons and encounters various historical figures along the way.

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles was filmed on location all over the world ~ including England, Russia, Spain, Czechoslovakia, Kenya, France, India, China, Austria, Egypt, the United States, Morocco, Ireland, Italy, Africa, Turkey, Greece and Thailand.

Seven cities have been chosen this year to hold auditions for the seventh season of American Idol. The auditions for this year's competition begin in San Diego, CA, on Monday, July 30, at Qualcomm Stadium and will end in Philadelphia, PA, on Monday, August 27, at Wachovia Center.

Once again, talented singers will have the opportunity to perform before millions of TV viewers with the chance of becoming America's next Idol and get a major recording contract.

Auditions will take place in the following cities:

• San Diego, CA - Monday, July 30, Qualcomm Stadium
• Dallas, TX - Monday, August 6, Texas Stadium
• Omaha, NE - Friday, August 10, Qwest Center
• Atlanta, GA - Tuesday, August 14, TBA
• Charleston, SC - Saturday, August 18, North Charleston Coliseum
• Miami, FL - Wednesday, August 22, AmericanAirlines Arena
• Philadelphia, PA - Monday, August 27, Wachovia Center

American Idol Season 7 premieres in January 2008 on Fox. American Idol is created and executive-produced by Simon Fuller.

Dannii Minogue may seem to be a beautiful and kind sister to famous Kylie Minogue. But according to Brian Friedman, who is new judge alongside Dannii for the fourth season of the show X Factor, she can be compared to mean American Idol judge Simon Cowell.

Friedman says that Dannii reacted in fury when she was compared to her sister Kylie by one of the hopeful contestants - and even left some of them in tears with her mean comments.

Friedman explains:

"One girl came in for auditions and said 'I used to love Kylie'. Dannii didn't like being compared to sis Kylie and voted her out on the spot. She has left several contestants in tears - she's the meanest judge."

Well, to be honest I personally can't wait to see the new season of the show. I actually enjoy watching Simon Cowell make a crowd go 'buuuuh'!

Adele Silva, the 26-year-old star from Emmerdale, has signed a contract bringing her on board of the new series of Hell's Kitchen.

The actress plays Kelly Windsor in the ITV1 soap Emmerdale and according to Digital Spy she has told pals that she can't wait to battle against her rivals on the programme, where the contestants really need their cooking skills.

A friend says:

"She'll be in it to win it. She loves cooking and has made no secret of the fact she is a domestic goddess. Her friends often tease her because she loves staying at home baking rather than partying. She will certainly give the other celebs a run for their money."

Chef Marco Pierre-White will coach the contestants.

Warning! Possible spoilers, you were warned!

Well, that was a dissapointment. As noted by Lars earlier this month we should have been in for a great finale, but no, this entire season has been well, the same ol' cracker, no true originality, and what a god damn letdown the finale was. The sixth season was like mediocre sex and in the end no orgasm. Sad to say the least.

And what's with the lame 10 minutes boohoo boring ending, could it be more not exciting?

Final rant, why didn't Jack just push his father in the boat that he had planned to leave in (with Jacks nephew), but I guess Jacks big bad dad will be back in one of the last two seasons

Next year I don't want no damn cracker, I want a chocolate chip cookie!

I didn't think Carlton Cuse meant it literally when he said that "these characters have a past, a present, and a FUTURE" in the special episode, Lost: The Answers. But now I think everything can happen on the show. The end of season three marks the midway point of the series.

This is the first time we see a flash forward in the series - but it isn't revealed to be a flash forward until the last minute of the finale. Now we're up for three more seasons discovering everyone's future. This is brilliant story-telling!

This is a great way to bring back Walt - and his growth will appear totally natural in the flash forwards. Is Ben one of the good guys after all? Naomi and her crew could be part of the real Dharma operatives from the outside world. And of course we're going to miss Charlie, though he did help Jack with the escape it seems. An escape he will later regret.

Now we'll have to wait more than six months for the fourth season. Sigh.

I saw it. I knew the outcome - at least I had my fingers crossed and hoped it would happen. It did happen. 29.5 million viewers saw teenager Jordin Sparks win in this season's American Idol final last night. She grew up on American Idol and has watched the show since she was 12 years old. Every time she told her mom how much she wanted to participate in the talent show. "Now I'm actually doing it," the 17-year-old told the press backstage after winning the singing competition.

Her competitor was Blake Lewis, 25, who is a good beat-boxer - but not a very good singer. Sparks deserved to win with her fantastic vocal.

Blake Lewis said backstage that he didn't mind coming in second. "I was actually going to try to wear a 'Vote for Jordin Sparks' T-shirt last night but they wouldn't let me do it," he said. Well, a very smart move but then there wouldn't be any competition, right?

I'll be looking forward to the upcoming record from miss Jordin Sparks.

The latest we've seen from the crazy people on MTV's Jackass is the feature movie entitled Number Two, which can be bought on DVD. My advise is of course that you buy it. There's both painful and very funny stunts involved this time around. Entertainment at its best.

The show is also made into a video game for DS, PS2 and PSP - with Empire Interactive as the publisher and Sidhe developing. The game is said to have 35 insane mini-games with some of the show's biggest stars, including Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Bam Margera, Wee-Man etc.

Some of the mini-games are based on stunts from the TV show while others are based on ideas that the crew has had but hasn't made it happen in real life. Knoxville is quoted this week for saying: "We just hope that our video game is as crappy as our movies."

Well, the chances for that are high!