- from Variety

Scrubs is done. The show moguls decided that without Zach Braff the show couldn’t continue – as some fans and cast members had suggested. Remember ‘After MASH’. ‘Nuff said.

BSG stars Edward James Olmos and Mary McConnell dish on their characters growing relationship.

Yahoo is looking to extend its brand to television by developing a half-hour news mag thingee – Yahoo Buzz – with Twentieth Television.

Tina Fey says “I Might Accidentally Roofie Jon Hamm” with regard to the appearance of the Mad Man hunk on 30 Rock. It’s all good fun!

Former Gilmore Girl Lauren Graham has a new show set- Let it Go. Graham will play a self-help talk show host whose advice to woman winds up falling on her own deaf ears when her “perfect” beau gives her the boot. Hmmm…. not particularly orginal. Alex Herschlag of Will & Grace fame will write the pilot.

Watch Chris’ Nolan accept Ledger’s award:

The late Heath Ledger was honored Sunday night with a Screen Actors Guild award for his no-holds-barred turn as the Joker in “The Dark Knight.” Gary Oldman, who co-starred in the Batman film, accepted the supporting actor award on behalf of Ledger, who died last January at age 28 of a prescription drug overdose. “I’m quite emotional,” said Oldman, who seemed to be holding back tears. “It is a great honor to be asked to accept this on behalf of Heath. He was an extraordinary young man with an extraordinary talent. … On behalf of Heath, his family and his family on ‘The Dark Knight,’ I thank you.” – From LA Times

British actress Kate Winslet and comedian Tina Fey were early winners on Sunday at the Screen Actors Guild awards, which could produce surprises in a season dominated by “Slumdog Millionaire” and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” Winslet won the best supporting actress SAG award for her role as a German woman with a hidden Nazi past in “The Reader.” Winslet won a Golden Globe earlier this month for her performance. – From Reuters

Josh Brolin compared the 15th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards to “a big campfire we’re all showing up for,” but Hollywood’s A list showed up in their finest. “It’s not a competition,” the actor said of the awards show, which is being aired Sunday night. “We’re just happy to party together.” Still, those who carry home SAG Actor trophies also walk away with a boost to their careers, shows and movies. – From CNN

Full list of winners:

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Sean Penn, “Milk”

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Meryl Streep, “Doubt” (Winner)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Heath Ledger, “The Dark Knight” (Winner)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Kate Winslet, “The Reader” (Winner)

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
“Slumdog Millionaire” (Winner)

Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture
“The Dark Knight” (Winner)

TELEVISION

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
Hugh Laurie, “House M.D.” (Winner)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
Sally Field, “Brothers & Sisters” (Winner)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
Alec Baldwin, “30 Rock” (Winner)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
Tina Fey, “30 Rock” (Winner)

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
“Mad Men” (Winner)

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
“30 Rock” (Winner)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
Paul Giamatti, “John Adams” (Winner)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
Laura Linney, “John Adams” (Winner)

Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series
“Heroes” (Winner)

“I did just want to take a moment to thank everybody. This is my last show,” Poehler announced. “And it has been an amazing experience to be here. To be able to do over 140 shows with my friends and my family has been a dream come true.” As she became visibly choked up, in typical “SNL” fashion, Poehler’s emotional moment was interrupted by a gag, as Fred Armisen, who had played New York Governor David Patterson earlier in the sketch, purposely wandered into the shot, largely obstructing Poehler from the camera.

It is the final Saturday Night Live of 2008 — and it is also Amy Poehler’s final appearance before she moves on to her own tv show. So, expect SNL to be very Amy focused tonight; of course there will be a Hillary Clinton skit, but we hope they bring back her “farting, one-legged hypoglycemic” Amber…

Yeah, I farted. Jealous?
…and I’m rockin’ one leg!
So which one of you bitches is comin’ in second?

or the “rick rick Rick!” character Caitlin…

Or heck, I’ll just take Amy and Tina Fey playing sexy tennis….

“House” star Hugh Laurie hosts the final SNL show of 2008. Laurie will be joined by three-time SNL musical guest Kanye West.

Here we thought you were the type of girl who would reassure us that being skinny wasn’t important and then you go and tell Maureen Dowd that to make the leap from the “Saturday Night Live” writers’ room to “Weekend Update” co-anchor, you lost 30 pounds.

Now you’re fit, famous and fabulous and no one can stop talking about your chunky-to-chic Cinderella story featured in next month’s Vanity Fair.

The Doritos lobby is going to be livid.

Fey, whose spot-on impersonations of Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin vaulted her into serious celebrity this year, graces the VF cover in a short, strapless Uncle Sam costume. In the article, she comes across as you’d expect – sharp, funny, thoughtful. The kind of person you wouldn’t mind shopping with at, say, Target.

But Dowd, she of the Pulitzer Prize and all, can’t seem to get past the fact that Fey, despite her enormous talent, had a chubalicious past.

“Elizabeth Stamatina Fey started as a writer and performer with a bad short haircut in Chicago improv,” Dowd writes. “Then she retreated backstage at S.N.L., wore a ski hat, and gained weight writing sharp, funny jokes and eating junk food. Then she lost 30 pounds, fixed her hair, put on a pair of hot-teacher glasses” and – hello, gorgeous.

It’s “42nd Street” meets “30 Rock” – “Tina, you’re gonna go out there with this rice cake, but you’re gonna come back a star!”

- from Boston Herald

Jon Hamm is temporarily trading the offices of Sterling Cooper for “30 Rock.”
The actor, who plays advertising executive Don Draper on AMC’s “Mad Men,” will portray the love interest of Tina Fey character Liz Lemon — a doctor who lives in her apartment.
Could it last?
“I just finished a couple of episodes, and I’ll go back in the new year and do another one of those, and then we’ll see what happens,” Hamm said Tuesday at a benefit for the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

- from AP

Upper Darby police have no further light to shed on Tina Fey’s scar.
For a small, hardly noticeable mark, it has led to more than its share of recent headlines.

Not that Fey’s hurting for publicity. Tomorrow night at 10 on ABC, she’ll be interviewed as one of Barbara Walter’s “10 Most Fascinating People of 2008.”

The scar buzz began when Jeff Richmond, husband of the 30 Rock star and Sarah Palin imitator, told Vanity Fair magazine the disturbing story of the incident that caused it.

In the mid 70s, when she 5, Fey was playing outside her Upper Darby home, when a stranger came up and somehow cut her.

“It was in, like, the front yard of her house, and somebody who just came up, and she just thought somebody marked her with a pen,” Richmond is quoted as saying in Maureen Dowd’s story for the January issue.

- from Philly

A faint scar runs across Tina Fey’s left cheek, the result of a violent cutting attack by a stranger when Fey was five. Her husband says, “It was in, like, the front yard of her house, and somebody who just came up, and she just thought somebody marked her with a pen.” You can hardly see the scar in person. But I agree with Richmond that it makes Fey more lovely, like a hint of Marlene Dietrich noir glamour in a Preston Sturges heroine.

“That scar was fascinating to me,” Richmond recalls. “This is somebody who, no matter what it was, has gone through something. And I think it really informs the way she thinks about her life. When you have that kind of thing happen to you, that makes you scared of certain things, that makes you frightened of different things, your comedy comes out in a different kind of way, and it also makes you feel for people.”

I wonder how the scar affected Fey in high school. “She wasn’t Rocky Dennis developing a sense of humor because of her looks, like in Mask,” says Damian Holbrook, laughing. Liz Lemon’s blustery Republican boss, Jack Donaghy, played with comic genius by Alec Baldwin, tells Lemon, “I don’t know what happened in your life that caused you to develop a sense of humor as a coping mechanism. Maybe it was some sort of brace or corrective boot you wore during childhood, but in any case I’m glad you’re on my team.”

- from Vanity Fair