Lauren Graham signs massive NBC deal!

My number one gal, Lauren Graham, just signed a seven-figure development deal with NBC.

Whammy!

You can read the Variety report right here.

This is very exciting news.

And with typical Lauren Graham brilliance and wit, she said this about her new Peacock contract:

“After having spent so many years representing the frog on the WB, I am especially comforted to be part of the only other network with an animal mascot.”

Ha!

I’m in love.

Even more.

Because I already was.

Anyway, I hope this means she’ll be popping up on TV soon.

Or in my kitchen, where I’ll cook her a romantic dinner and make her laugh and listen to her stories about being awesome and hilarious and beautiful.

Wes Anderson's AT&T commercials!

My favorite movie of all time is Rushmore, from writer/director Wes Anderson (with a co-scripting assist by Owen Wilson).

It’s brilliant and basically perfect.

Anderson’s other films are Bottle Rocket, The Royal Tenenbaums and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. Those are pretty brilliant, too.

I love his American Express commercial …

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… and now he’s back on the small screen with some new commercials for AT&T.

You can watch them right here.

And.

They’re amazing.

And just in case you think he’s not making movies anymore, The Darjeeling Limited — starring Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman and Adrien Brody — is out later this year!

More on that here.


Brody, Anderson and Schwartzman

Highlander: The Source on Sci Fi Saturday

Highlander: The Source, starring my main man Adrian Paul, debuts Saturday night at 9 on Sci Fi.

Since the dawn of time, the Immortals have battled down through the centuries, taking each other’s heads and living by the code that in the end, there can be only One.

But what if they were wrong?

The world has fallen into chaos and ruin, and Duncan MacLeod (Adrian Paul) has lost all hope. But ancient wheels are once again in motion. Something is coming. And the Guardian, an unstoppable force whose existence holds the key to the origins of the Immortals, has awakened to protect it. MacLeod reluctantly joins a band of seekers — including Methos (Peter Wingfield), Joe Dawson (Jim Byrnes) and Anna Teshemka (Thekla Reuten), the woman he loved and lost — on a quest for the Source. Will it bring death, or life? To find out, the Highlander must finally make peace with what — and more importantly, who — he truly is.

You can check out the Sci Fi Channel’s official Source site by clicking the graphic; there’s a short clip at the bottom of the page.

I used to work for Adrian Paul and his charity, the PEACE Fund, which he created to Protect, Educate and Aid Children Everywhere. If you’ve got a few dollars to spare, I promise they’ll put it to good use. All donations help kids in a variety of places and ways, from tsunami survivors to children here in the United States whose families can’t afford life-saving organ transplants.

Adrian is a hero both on-screen and off, and he’s certainly been a hero and an inspiration to me. He’s a good, kind man and a dedicated performer. Well done, sir.

So check out Highlander: The Source on Sci Fi tomorrow night!