MTV's 'Jersey Shore' Boss SallyAnn Salsano Introduces 'FriendZone' (Exclusive Video)

Do buddies really get the best enthusiasts?our editor recommends'Jersey Shore' Boss Sells Tanisha Thomas Wedding Vehicle to Oxygen'Jersey Shore' Italia: 72 Hours within the Existence of the Drama Full PHOTOS: MTV's Jersey Shoreline Italia In Production MTV will endeavour to reply to that question using its new series FriendZone, from Jersey Shoreline boss SallyAnn Salsano and Joel Zimmer of 495 Productions. FriendZone follows real-existence youthful people trying to show their associations from those of close friends to some thing. View a unique first consider the series, premiering Tuesday, November. 1 at 7:00 pm ET/PT, within the clip above. Each individual will request their closest friend to become a wingman with an approaching blind date, assisting to plan an ideal rendezvous. When the large date arrives, the dater will confess their feelings for his or her naive partner and risk the potential of losing their friend forever -- or attaining a brand new mate. James DeSimas may be the developing the series for MTV and Jennifer Russakoff may be the executive responsible for production for that network. SallyAnn Salsano MTV Jersey Shoreline

Octavia Spencer formally looking for Diablo Cody pic

Octavia Spencer has became a member of the cast of Diablo Cody's untitled pic for Mandate Pictures starring Russell Logo and Julianne Hough. Variety first reported earlier this year that Spencer is at discussions and Mandate has managed to get official. Cody is making her directorial debut from the script she composed. The pic focuses on a protected youthful lady who manages to lose her belief following a plane crash and would go to Vegas, where she meets an unlikely companion. Spencer would play card dealer in a casino around the strip where Brand's character works. Mason Novick will produce with Mandate Prexy Nathan Kahane will professional produce with Cody. Spencer was most lately observed in DreamWorks' "The Assistance.Inch She's repped by WME. Contact Justin Kroll at justin.kroll@variety.com

Football triumphs in primetime

Despite another National football league blowout in primetime, NBC obtained its typical victory with "Sunday Evening Football," while favorite anecdotes and treehouses of horror brought scripted programming.The Philadelphia Eagles' 34-7 romp within the Dallas Cowboys came a really preliminary 8.2 rating and 19 share among audiences 18-49 and 19.3 million audiences overall. This figure, which figures to revise upward once the mid-day amounts are available in, came even though TV viewing in Philadelphia was restricted through the weekend snow storm within the northeast. "Sunday Evening Football" lost simply to an overrun of CBS' mid-day National football league coverage (9.1/26, 27.9 million) that bled in to the first halfhour of primetime. That consequently assisted raise the overall audience of "an hourInch (4.2/11, 18.3 million), which featured interviews with charged Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff's wife Ruth and boy Andrew.CBS adopted with "The Astonishing Race" (2.9/7, 10.9 million), "The Great Wife" (2./5, 10.two million) and "CSI: Miami" (2./6, 9.5 million).At 8 p.m., ABC's "Not so long ago" (3.9/9, 11.six million) virtually matched up its week-ago premiere amounts and was capped in scripted efforts among audiences 18-49 only through the 22nd "Treehouse of Horror" episode of "The Simpsons" (4./10, 8. million). Roughly 40% of fans from the latter left before looking at the series premiere of Jonah Hill animated project "Allen Gregory" (2.4/6, 4.7 million). Leading the 9 p.m. timeslot within the demo among non-sports programming was Fox's "Family Guy" (3.2/7, 6. million) and ABC's "Desperate Average women" (3.1/7, 9.3 million). At 10 p.m., ABC's "Pan Am" (1.9/5, 5.six million) continued to be relatively consistent.Preliminary 18-49 earnings for that evening: NBC 6.7/16, CBS 3.7/9, Fox 2.7/7, ABC 2.5/6.As a whole audiences: NBC 16.8 million, CBS 14.5 million, ABC 7.9 million, Fox 5.six million. Contact Jon Weisman at jon.weisman@variety.com

Doctor Who Alum Billie Piper Expecting Baby No. 2

Billie Piper, Laurence Fox Billie Piper's first child will soon have a new companion. The former Doctor Who star is pregnant again, the Daily Mail reports. This will be the second child for Piper, 29, and her husband, actor Laurence Fox. They also have a 3-year-old son, Winston. She is 15 weeks pregnant. Is Matt Smith leaving Doctor Who? The joyful news initially made Piper emotional because she thought she'd have to withdraw from starring in Neil LaBute's upcoming play Reasons to Be Pretty at the Almeida Theatre in London. Previews were scheduled for Nov. 10 with the first official night on Nov. 17. Carly, the character Piper is playing, is supposed to be pregnant, although it's not something we're supposed to be aware of early on in the play. LaBute rewrote the play in order to make it apparent that Carly is clearly expecting. Besides playing former Doctor Who companion Rose Tyler, Piper is also known for playing Hannah in Secret Diary of a Callgirl.

'Silver Linings' for John Ortiz

"Fast and Furious" star John Oritz has joined the cast of David O. Russell's "The Silver Linings Playbook," which the Weinstein Co. will distribute. Bradley Cooper stars as a former high school teacher who's institutionalized for depression and then released into the care of his mother, played by Jacki Weaver of "Animal Kingdom" fame. He tries to win back his ex-wife but becomes involved with an eccentric neighbor with problems of her own. Jennifer Lawrence is set to play the neighbor, while Robert De Niro will play Cooper's father. Chris Tucker and Julia Stiles co-star as Cooper's spirited friend and Lawrence's older sister, respectively. Ortiz will play Cooper's childhood best friend, who still lives near his parents' home. Harvey Weinstein is producing Russell's adaptation of Matthew Quick's novel. Ortiz, who's coming off an Indie Spirit Award nomination for his perf in Philip Seymour Hoffman's "Jack Goes Boating," will soon be seen alongside Dustin Hoffman and Nick Nolte in Michael Mann and David Milch's upcoming HBO series "Luck." Thesp previously appeared in Mann's "Public Enemies" and "Miami Vice." Ortiz is repped by Gersh, Sanders Armstrong Caserta Management and attorney Ira Schreck. Contact Jeff Sneider at jeff.sneider@variety.com

With 'Stronger,' Clarkson Finally at Ease

LOS ANGELES (AP) It may have taken some time, but Kelly Clarkson seems to finally be releasing an album without any drama on the side."Everything is good, everything is happy," she said, laughing brightly during a recent interview to promote "Stronger," released this week.It's a different scenario than her last two albums: She went through public disputes with legendary executive and mogul Clive Davis over her third album and with OneRepublic singer-songwriter Ryan Tedder after her last album was released.They were typical of the bold stances she's taken that proved her to be more than the passive, malleable product of a hit TV competition, establishing her as an artist instead of just a voice."I've been a fighter since I started walking," she said, adding casually and genuinely a line that could be lifted from one of her inspirational songs: "We get one life. You want to make sure that you're living it how you want to live it."Since Clarkson became the first "American Idol" a decade ago, she's established herself as one of pop's most formidable, and successful singers. She's sold over 20 million albums worldwide and landed seven singles in the Billboard Hot 100 top 10, including "Breakaway," ''My Life Would Suck Without You," "Miss Independent," and perhaps her biggest hit, "Since U Been Gone."Clarkson has maintained creative control of her music and career since her "Idol" days, and has written on all of her albums. But her determination to chart her own course has not come without a few battles. In 2007, Davis became concerned over the less commercial sound of Clarkson's third album, "My December," which Clarkson revealed publicly after rumors of a rift; Clarkson later mended fences and called the tension overblown. Then in 2009, Clarkson called out Tedder for musical similarities between "Already Gone," which he wrote for Clarkson, and Beyonce's "Halo," which he also wrote.Clarkson calls her new collection of 13 songs "the easiest record that I've made with my label." But she makes clear that's because the suits bent to her will not the other way around."I think people project on you like the formula that has worked in the past. And then they get to know you," she said. "(Now) they know me better as an artist, they know me better as a person. They know what I'm going to do and what I don't like, and it just really works."Sonically, "Stronger" doesn't tinker much with the formula that has helped Clarkson become the top-selling "Idol" artist ever, blending clean pop-guitar riffs with contemporary dance synths. But there is an undertone of loneliness and sadness coursing throughout, including some downbeat lyrics co-written by Clarkson herself."Hello, is anybody listening? Won't somebody show me that I'm not alone," she sings on "Hello.""If you look at my whole catalogue, there are far more sadder songs than happy," the Texan acknowledges in her Southern drawl. "But that's only because writing is a form of therapy. So obviously the things that you're getting out are the things that you've been going through and struggling with. You want to keep all the happy inside. If I'm going through a hard time, I write it out."In person, Clarkson is bubbly and quick to laugh, sharing that in her time off, she picked up the violin and started learning Italian with Rosetta Stone. "I'm horrible at it so far," she laments lightly.But she never comes close to revealing the subject of "Stronger's" multiple scornful breakup and kiss-off songs. "You don't know a thing about me," she sings on the first single, "Mr. Know It All." And it's true that the 29-year-old retains an enigmatic air, despite her down-to-Earth image.Toby Gad, who co-wrote and produced two songs on "Stronger," had planned on a 10-minute meeting with Clarkson when the two first met, but ended up at a two-hour dinner."She's a very strong survivor, and very organic and very real," he said. "You can connect with her on a very human level."Still, after the dinner and several days of revising lyrics alongside the pop star, he said he doesn't remember if she ever mentioned her own relationships to him.While Clarkson seems to sing almost exclusively about the ups and downs of love, her songs are often deceptively universal. Clarkson says "Mr. Know It All" could apply to her own record label or to the media, and Gad's "The War Is Over" functions as a coda to a romance or to an actual war."That's the underlying theme for her, to vent emotions that we all feel in our relationships," Gad said.And Clarkson will continue to vent as she sees fit."I'm always vocal," she said. "People ask me and I tell them. If I have a problem, I say it. I'm never malicious about it, I just say what happened. And I think a lot of people don't do that. So I think it maybe catches people off guard. But I don't know any other way to be but honest musically or personally. So I guess that just comes through."Copyright 2011 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. By Ryan Pearson October 26, 2011 Kelly Clarkson PHOTO CREDIT AP Photo/Matt Sayles LOS ANGELES (AP) It may have taken some time, but Kelly Clarkson seems to finally be releasing an album without any drama on the side."Everything is good, everything is happy," she said, laughing brightly during a recent interview to promote "Stronger," released this week.It's a different scenario than her last two albums: She went through public disputes with legendary executive and mogul Clive Davis over her third album and with OneRepublic singer-songwriter Ryan Tedder after her last album was released.They were typical of the bold stances she's taken that proved her to be more than the passive, malleable product of a hit TV competition, establishing her as an artist instead of just a voice."I've been a fighter since I started walking," she said, adding casually and genuinely a line that could be lifted from one of her inspirational songs: "We get one life. You want to make sure that you're living it how you want to live it."Since Clarkson became the first "American Idol" a decade ago, she's established herself as one of pop's most formidable, and successful singers. She's sold over 20 million albums worldwide and landed seven singles in the Billboard Hot 100 top 10, including "Breakaway," ''My Life Would Suck Without You," "Miss Independent," and perhaps her biggest hit, "Since U Been Gone."Clarkson has maintained creative control of her music and career since her "Idol" days, and has written on all of her albums. But her determination to chart her own course has not come without a few battles. In 2007, Davis became concerned over the less commercial sound of Clarkson's third album, "My December," which Clarkson revealed publicly after rumors of a rift; Clarkson later mended fences and called the tension overblown. Then in 2009, Clarkson called out Tedder for musical similarities between "Already Gone," which he wrote for Clarkson, and Beyonce's "Halo," which he also wrote.Clarkson calls her new collection of 13 songs "the easiest record that I've made with my label." But she makes clear that's because the suits bent to her will not the other way around."I think people project on you like the formula that has worked in the past. And then they get to know you," she said. "(Now) they know me better as an artist, they know me better as a person. They know what I'm going to do and what I don't like, and it just really works."Sonically, "Stronger" doesn't tinker much with the formula that has helped Clarkson become the top-selling "Idol" artist ever, blending clean pop-guitar riffs with contemporary dance synths. But there is an undertone of loneliness and sadness coursing throughout, including some downbeat lyrics co-written by Clarkson herself."Hello, is anybody listening? Won't somebody show me that I'm not alone," she sings on "Hello.""If you look at my whole catalogue, there are far more sadder songs than happy," the Texan acknowledges in her Southern drawl. "But that's only because writing is a form of therapy. So obviously the things that you're getting out are the things that you've been going through and struggling with. You want to keep all the happy inside. If I'm going through a hard time, I write it out."In person, Clarkson is bubbly and quick to laugh, sharing that in her time off, she picked up the violin and started learning Italian with Rosetta Stone. "I'm horrible at it so far," she laments lightly.But she never comes close to revealing the subject of "Stronger's" multiple scornful breakup and kiss-off songs. "You don't know a thing about me," she sings on the first single, "Mr. Know It All." And it's true that the 29-year-old retains an enigmatic air, despite her down-to-Earth image.Toby Gad, who co-wrote and produced two songs on "Stronger," had planned on a 10-minute meeting with Clarkson when the two first met, but ended up at a two-hour dinner."She's a very strong survivor, and very organic and very real," he said. "You can connect with her on a very human level."Still, after the dinner and several days of revising lyrics alongside the pop star, he said he doesn't remember if she ever mentioned her own relationships to him.While Clarkson seems to sing almost exclusively about the ups and downs of love, her songs are often deceptively universal. Clarkson says "Mr. Know It All" could apply to her own record label or to the media, and Gad's "The War Is Over" functions as a coda to a romance or to an actual war."That's the underlying theme for her, to vent emotions that we all feel in our relationships," Gad said.And Clarkson will continue to vent as she sees fit."I'm always vocal," she said. "People ask me and I tell them. If I have a problem, I say it. I'm never malicious about it, I just say what happened. And I think a lot of people don't do that. So I think it maybe catches people off guard. But I don't know any other way to be but honest musically or personally. So I guess that just comes through."Copyright 2011 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

Moviefone Open Thread: Have You Really Like 'Paranormal Activity 3'?

Probably the most surprising story from the weekend wasn't the record-breaking box office of 'Paranormal Activity 3,' nor the idea the horror prequel-follow up is really a "game-changer" since it was more effective than its predecessor. (As Deadline's Nikki Finke appeared to forget in her own 'Parnormal Activity 3' analysis, 'Jackass three dimensional, 'Scary Movie 3' and 'Austin Forces 3' are third franchise films that exceeded the outlet grosses of individuals series' second records.) That which was surprising? That 'Parnormal Activity 3' gained only "C+" rating in the mostly hard to rely on-but-not-totally-useless Cinemascore. Translation: you actually did not love that one! Which boosts the question: why don't you? As evidenced by 'Drive,' poor Cinemascore rankings usually signify some type of marketing tomfoolery audiences expect one factor, they get another, after which react angrily towards the bait-and-switch throughout exit polling. When 'Drive' gained a "C-" grade from Cinemascore, it had been understandable (though not understandable enough to warrant a suit): the film was a workout in genre artsploitation rather than the raucous action audiences may have expected. Within the situation of 'Parnormal Activity 3,' however, the reduced score is surprising. In the end, the trailers and marketing demonstrated a movie which was similar in tone and elegance towards the previous two, and audiences were fine using the 'PA' mythology before. The somewhat-criticized second film ranked like a "B" on Cinemascore was 'Parnormal Activity 3' much worse? Are audiences really over this series regardless of the record-setting opening weekend amounts? Vital certainly hopes not. The studio is apparently already considering a 4th film. "I can not suppose we wouldn't create a # 4, and that i imagine [Vital Film Group leader] Adam Goodman today is taking into consideration the challenge," Vital mind of domestic distribution Don Harris told TheWrap on Sunday. "I am sure he's thinking, 'Now exactly what do I actually do?AInch Well, make a different one. The combined plan for the 3 'Paranormal Activity' films is simply over $8 million total. That's without marketing costs, but nonetheless: with almost $450 million in worldwide grosses these films are essentially a license to print money. As lengthy because the audiences are turning up in certain capacity -- even when the returns diminish for entry four and beyond -- the film's make sense financially. Obviously, whether future 'Paranormal Activity' sequels seem sensible for the pocketbook remains to appear. The ground is yours, dear Moviefone visitors: have you enjoy 'Paranormal Activity 3' and can you purchase a different one? [Photo: Vital] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook RELATED