Poppedy Popped Culture

Ok, it’s look like the “Cavemen” show is not just some vicious rumor:
The producers of ABC’s new “Cavemen” said Wednesday the comedy is much more than the insurance company commercials that inspired it, but isn’t designed to be an ambitious allegory about race.
Geico’s TV spots show highly evolved but shaggy-looking cavemen chafing at misconceptions about […]

The list breaks down star salaries by category — prime-time TV, daytime, cable and news:
TOP FIVE (all salaries are per year)
Oprah Winfrey (”The Oprah Winfrey Show”): $260 million
Simon Cowell (”American Idol”): $45 million
Judge Sheindlin (”Judge Judy”): $30 million
Katie Couric (”CBS Evening News Anchor”): $15 million
Zach Braff (”Scrubs”): $6.3 million
NETWORK PRIME TIME (all salaries are per […]

Be still my heart…
Cleveland comic Drew Carey was tapped Monday to replace silver-haired legend Bob Barker on the CBS daytime game show “The Price is Right.” Carey confirmed the deal during a taping of the “Late Show” with David Letterman.

The United States will have a female president next year — on the Fox TV series “24.”Tony Award-winning actress Cherry Jones will play President Allison Taylor when the show about the exploits of counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) returns in January for its seventh season, the network announced Sunday.

Marge Simpson’s gravity-defying blue beehive is a hybrid creation, Matt Groening has revealed.The “Simpsons” matriarch’s impressive hair was inspired by “The Bride of Frankenstein” [not too surprising] and by his own mother’s hairdo from the 1960s, the series’ creator told The New York Times Magazine in an interview published Sunday.

Who wants to be a millionaire? Hard-charging business school students, who are being pitted against each other next month in CNBC’s first-ever game show.”Fast Money MBA Challenge,” which premieres August 1 and runs for four hour-long episodes once a week, is both a summertime diversion and an attempt to attract young viewers to a network […]

Cavaliers All-Star forward LeBron James, fresh off co-hosting the ESPY Awards earlier this month, will host the season premiere of “Saturday Night Live” in September, an NBC spokesman confirmed on Wednesday.  The 22-year-old James will be the latest prominent athlete to host “SNL,” following his boyhood idol, NBA superstar Michael Jordan, who hosted in 1991. […]

Star Jones Reynolds says she will address speculation about her dramatic weight loss in a story for Glamour magazine.”I wrote an article because I really wanted to go as in-depth as possible about the way I’ve changed physically over the last 10 years on the air,” Reynolds, 45, said recently while promoting her new Court […]

This might actually be interesting:
Check your publicist at the boardroom door — NBC is inviting celebrities to try to wow Donald Trump in the next version of “The Apprentice.”
And while it would make for a marquee matchup, don’t expect Rosie O’Donnell to be among them.
“It will never happen in this lifetime or beyond,” said Cindi […]