Midweek Entertainment report

Zoey is back in class, Crash is coming to Starz and Deion really is in Prime Time now: The Entertainment report for 1/30/08

Nickelodeon has decided to go ahead with season 4, the final season, of Zoey 101 featuring a pre-preggers Jamie Lynn Spears. The season premire aired earlier this week and apparently all of this season was shot before Jamie Lynn Spears stopped have safe sex. (Seriously, she was wondering how in the world she could have gotten knocked up? Maybe it was when you boyfriend Casey Aldridge STOPPED using a condom and/or pulling out in the back of your white trash trailer home) So Nick has decided to go ahead and go WITH all of the ratings that will come with having a pregger Spears on its network. The finale of season 3 aired Jan 4 and had 7.3 M viewers, beating every other cable show for that night. OF COURSE Nick was going to air this season....what does Nick still show, besides SpongeBob Square Pants. They had this series in the can and with the writers' strike, this was like found money. I wouldn't be surprised if Nick didn't set up Spears getting preggers, just to help boost the sagging ratings. Well maybe not, but these days, it wouldn't SHOCK me.

Deion Sanders and his wife are getting a new show to air on the Oxygen networks called "Deion & Pilar: Prime Time Love" Really? Did you ever SEE Deion on CBS's pregame show? Have you seen him on NFL Network (NO! No one has! No one GETS NFLN! bada CHIIIIING! that's a joke, people) They guy is a loon, so naturally give him a TV show? Well, they gave Flava Flav one, so I guess Deion can get one too. That is just going to be BORING TV. Maybe that's why Oxygen picked it up.

I saw where they are making the movie Crash into a TV show. Don Cheadle (spelling?) is going to be a co ex-prod and he will star in the first few episodes to get the show started. He said he is also trying to recruit some of the original cast to reprise their roles for an episode or two. I am sorry, but I just can't see this working. Just can't. Unless you bring EVERYONE back to transition the show to new characters, but that would take more than 1 or 2 episodes. And PS, Brenden Frasier, Terrence Howard, Matt Dillon and Sandra Bullock aren't coming back. Ryan Phillippe may need the work and Michael Pena might sign on, but not the rest. Come on. I guess the fact it is on Starz, they can curse and use the racist themes more so than CBS, but I just don't think this will have the legs. They will need some of the big names to stay on as regular characters, not just an appearance here or there.