Posts Tagged ‘In the MotherHood’

ABC to Bench Ugly Betty?

January 26th, 2009

ABC has just announced that it is taking Ugly Betty off its Thursday night lineup beginning March 26 and replacing it instead with episodes of Samantha Who? and Megan Mullally and Cheryl Hines‘ comedy In the Motherhood, according to EW.com.

"Ugly Betty will return to Thursday nights at 8 p.m. following the run of In the Motherhood and Samantha Who?," the network release said on Monday.

While Betty has slipped somewhat in the ratings, it still remains one of ABC’s signature shows.

"The Thursday night block is a good opportunity to launch these comedies," an ABC spokesman says. "Betty is a solid performer and there is no question that it will definitely be back to complete its season, just without repeats."

The network is not saying when the show will return.

Jenny & Jim: Happily Unhitched

March 20th, 2008 / Author: cwillett

Don’t bother asking when Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey are going to walk down the aisle — it’s never going to happen, the actress asserts. Expounding on earlier statements that she and her beau of nearly two and a half years have no plans to get married, Jenny explains that she doesn’t see the "need" for marriage.

“I don’t really see the need to get married," she tells Extra. "We are living together. We’re very happy."

And, the 35-year-old adds, eschewing marriage would also help the environment.

"We don’t know what that would do, other than give us a piece of paper so we say, ‘Save a tree. Keep your piece of paper and let us just live the rest of our lives as happy as we already are.’”

Jenny, who has a 5-year-old son, Evan, from her first marriage, also maintains that she and Jim, dad to daughter Jane, 20, with his ex-wife, don’t plan on having children either. She already has her hands full enough with Evan and her Web series In the Motherhood, in which she plays herself as a teenager. But would she ever want to revisit her youth for real?

“High school was pretty much the worst time of my life. It was really hard. I went to an all-girls Catholic school and when you have great hair in an all-girls Catholic school, you’re not liked very well. High school is a lot like Hollywood just with money where there are popularity contests, cliques. I try to avoid that as best as I can.”

For more on Jenny, tune in to Extra tonight!

OK! Interview: Jenny McCarthy

February 27th, 2008 / Author: cwillett

Jenny McCarthy wants to set the record straight — she and Jim Carrey have not broken up and she is not pregnant. Mom to Evan, 5, who was diagnosed with autism, the 35-year-old actress-turned-author (of Louder Than Words: A Mother’s Journey in Healing Autism) is merely enjoying life as it is. "We couldn’t be happier," she tells OK!. Currently starring on In the MotherHood with Leah Remini and Chelsea Handler, a Web series inspired by real-life stories submitted by moms, Jenny opens up to OK! about her career, boyfriend and, what else, motherhood.

What’s the key to balancing motherhood and a career?
There isn’t a balance. You have to make the best of it because it’s always lopsided. I drag [Evan] around with me. That’s how I make the best of it.

How is Evan doing?
Awesome. He’s doing really great. I’m really proud of that kid.

How are things with Jim?
It couldn’t be better. I think there was a rumor going around that we broke up, but we couldn’t be happier.

How do you keep the relationship exciting?
One of our favorite pastimes is reading books. I read out loud, and he listens and lights a fire — it’s sweet.

How is the on-set chemistry between the stars of In The MotherHood?
Amazing. I kind of had a feeling it would be. I can’t believe out of the three of us that I’m the cleanest and nicest and purest of the group. People think that I might be boisterous and loud but with those two, I’m the quiet one in the group. But I love them, truly. I hope to continue doing comedic things with them because we are really good together.

What from your real-life job as a mother have you taken into this new part?
I’ve written so many books about Evan — about the funny things and not so funny things that have taken place — so I bring the depth of it in the character that I play, but I don’t have any of my own situations that I play out in the webisodes.

In your current film, Witless Protection, you play Larry The Cable Guy’s girlfriend. Were there a lot of laughs on set?
Larry is one of the nicest guys I’ve ever worked with, for real. It was weird that the lead of the movies was as nice as he was. I couldn’t believe that he wasn’t being a bastard at all. He would sit and sign autographs. It was fun. I have a very deep Southern accent. I play Larry the Cable Guy’s girlfriend who he leaves to go on an adventure with another blonde, but he comes back to me because he gets smart and we live happily every after in a trailer. [In Southern drawl] And we had critters on the set.

For more on Jenny, pick up the latest issue of OK!, on newsstands Thursday!

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