LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Two breakout freshman series have found homes in cable syndication beginning in 2013: USA has acquired exclusive rights to ABC's comedy "Modern Family," while Oxygen has picked up Fox's "Glee."
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Eric Stonestreet had a novel idea for his "Modern Family" audition.
The pilot script merely described the character Cameron as the more "passionate" and "expressive" of the show's gay couple. So a few nights before the audition, Stonestreet, who is not gay but prides himself on his ability to mimic almost anyone, decided he would do an impression of his mother.
"I wanted there to be a maternal quality to Cameron," he recalls. "That, coupled with how I look physically -- I'm tall and pretty big -- using a soft voice and dainty hands, that contrast would be funny."
(Reuters) - Crystal Bowersox and Lee DeWyze face off on Tuesday in a tighter-than expected battle for the 2010 "American Idol" title that pitches the Season 9 front-runner against a dark horse who peaked at just the right time.
Bowersox, 24, a dreadlocked single mom from Ohio, and DeWyze, also 24, who a year ago was working in a Chicago paint store, are expected to sing three songs apiece in Tuesday's live finale from Los Angeles.
Abrasive British judge Simon Cowell said he thinks DeWyze is poised to win the TV competition and a guaranteed recording contract.
"If you'd asked me five or six weeks ago, 100 percent I would have said Crystal. But now I've changed my mind. I think Lee is going to win," Cowell told fellow "Idol" judge Ellen DeGeneres in an interview on her talk show, airing on Tuesday.